NAME: Jami
AGE: 20
JOURNAL:
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E-MAIL: saiyanqueen14[at]yahoo[dot]com
RETURNING: I'M COMING BACK. I was Ling several months ago. So technically my first still. HI GUYS
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Greed, Ling Yao, depending on who's in control. Greed will be the dominant soul in this case.
FANDOM: Fullmetal Alchemist
CHRONOLOGY: Chapter 85ish
CLASS:
SUPERHERO NAME: Greed
BACKGROUND:
Greed is one of the seven homunculi created by an all powerful being known simply as "Father". Like the others he represents the sins Father dispelled from his body in order to keep himself pure. The Homunculi are loyal children to Father, serving his every need and plan regardless of the orders. Things like starting a war and assassinating a nosy military officer are just two of the things that fall under this category.
All of them were obedient except Greed. Greed was a special snowflake who, two hundred years ago, gave his family of ne'er do wells the finger and walked off to go do whatever the hell he wanted to. See, because Greed couldn't deal with taking orders and following rules. He was Greed. he had needs. Needs to own everything ever in the whole fucking world.
Playing errand boy in a dark sinister lair under Central was just not going to cut it.
There's not much explanation as for what Greed did in the gap between then and the present. He kept out of sight because he went a good long time without his siblings finding him. Somewhere in there he got interested in the idea of Immortality. What would be cooler than having everything? Having it forever, of course. So he poked around in places he probably shouldn't.
Which is what probably led him to find the laboratory that held all the experimented chimeras run by the military. Greed, being a
Somewhere, somehow, Greed heard a rumor about a soul attached to a suit of armor. He figured that not needing to sleep, or eat, and not needing to worry about getting stabbed to death sounded pretty sweet so he went out to set up a meeting (See: Kidnap) Alphonse Elric and have a nice chat (See: Near violent interrogation.)
Well. Ed would have none of that and a fight broke out. Greed almost kicked Ed's ass before the fucker started cheating by transmuting Greed's goddamn skin off. Things got even worse when the military stormed the bar and pretty much slaughtered everything.
Bradley, now revealed to be Wrath, dragged Greed's sorry ass back to the lair where he was chained to a cross (because Greed is obvsly Jesus) and suspended like fifty feet off the ground for the purpose Father giving him the "I am very disappointed in you Son" lecture. Father then gave him an option. Come back and serve him again or die. Greed gave them the finger again and he was thus boiled alive in a giant vat of oil, laughing all the way down.
Father ate the stone that was left and that was the end of Greed for the time being.
Enter Ling. Some pitiful human beaten to near death, pinned down by Gluttony, bleeding all over his lair's floor. Father figured it would be a waste to just let him die there so he took Greed's stone (He was probably tired of the jerk giving him diarrhea like Greed promised he would) and introduced it to Ling's bloodstream.
In most cases, when the Stone is put into the body of a human, the soul of the human and the soul inside the stone battle it out until one's left. Ling didn't fight and instead told Greed he could have his body. This let the two souls more or less coexist with Greed pretty much running the show.
And this was okay for a while. Father, with good reason, had wiped all of Greed's previous memories clean and Greed was obedient to him just like he had been before he ran off.
That worked great until one of the survivors of the Devil's Nest found their way into the lair. Greed, having not remembered him, killed Bido for intruding. The act kickstarted his memories and Greed then proceeded to freak the hell out. In an act of rage, Greed attacked Bradley in his home, pissed about what had happened to his men.
After half of the house was torn to pieces, Ling, with SOME self-preservation, took Greed's half crazy state to take over and get the hell out of there before Bradley really did kill them both. Running blind, Ling headed for the closest, familiar place once leaving Central. In the rundown hideout he miraculously bumped into Ed, ate all his food, and then told him all of the homunculi's plans. once greed was stable again he yanked back control of the body and left.
Ed's persistent ass chased him down. He wanted Greed to join their side since he'd cut all ties with the homunculi (again). Greed said only if he agreed to work for him. Ed took the deal much to Greed's surprise. So thus Greed, Ed and two chimeras (Heinkel and Darius) set off on an adventure together filled with short jokes, sneaking into people's houses, and not getting shanked by butthurt homunculus siblings.
PERSONALITY:
Greed isn’t just called Greed because it sounds cool. He embodies the very essence of the word. Greed is selfish and self serving. He’s out for himself and is on an ongoing quest to attain everything (The guy boasts about wanting to take over the world of all things). He’s confident and cocky, and is definitely able to back himself up to a point. And though he's confrontational, he isn't really that uptight of a guy. He's usually pretty laid back until a situation gets dire or you piss him off.
That doesn't mean he's not an asshole though. Greed is often terribly crude in the way he speaks, caring little how others perceive him. He cares very little for authority and respect often calling elders things like 'old geezer'. When it comes to getting what he wants, he doesn't hesitate. If he sets his sights on something or someone, labeling it a possession, he'll fight to the end to keep it. His self preservation is a very finicky thing. As in, it almost doesn't exist if you fuck with his shit.
Even though he's a jerk that doesn’t mean he’s unnecessarily cruel, however. He does have principles and as long as you don’t cross him, you’ll be treated fairly by him. In addition, he follows two guidelines that he never breaks (Unless under extreme circumstances). He doesn’t lie, and he doesn’t hurt women. The reasoning behind these are unknown; you won’t get an answer out of him. He is also a deal maker through and through. He is not above bargaining and compromise if its to get something he wants or needs. He's not always violent about it either!
Greed is also someone who seems to really not like the idea of being alone. He can deal with it, but its apparent in canon that he would rather not. He likes to keep himself surrounded with possessions, people who work under him. To him, they are his family, not the homunculi who he shares a common soul with.
POWER:
Greed has a philosopher's stone lodged in his chest. This basically means he has an almost infinite pool of tortured souls stored in his body that he can use as an energy source. Like a battery. It let's him do two things:
One, he has an almost instantaneous regeneration. As long as the stone is intact it doesn't matter if you totally disintegrate him, he'll just reform around the stone.
And two, it lets him use the power he calls the Ultimate Shield. Basically he's able to cover his skin in a dense carbon material that's damn near unbreakable unless you're an Elric or you can somehow alchemically break down the carbon in his skin.
Note: Healing and Shielding cannot work at the same time. If Greed wants to heal, he has to drop the Shield. If he wants to use the Shield he's gonna have to deal with bleeding if he gets hurt.
Also, since this will probably count as the third power. Ling is able to sense and actually see the flow of qi ('ki', life force, you get it) as if it were a physical object. Greed can't use this ability, its only available when Ling has full control of the body.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: [Voice]
So I'm told we're in this place to fight crime and save the day or some shit like that. "Welcome to the City, Hero" was what they said to me.
Ha.
Runnin' around saving people isn't really my thing unless there's something damn good in it for me. Sorry, but I'm not interested. Maybe you should go call an Elric.
Now, what I am interested in is information. About this place. I ain't got all day, so let's make this easy, alright? Besides, I hear some nasty things like to go bump in the night here.
Oh, and someone tell me where the fuck I can find something good to drink.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
For standing on the sidewalk out side of Stark Tower for all of two minutes, Greed was hitting a record for rising anger and frustration. First kidnapped and now dropped into some ...city that made absolutely no sense. It smelled, the buildings were fucking huge, the cars were weird looking and all over the place. Even the people looked different.
He noted that especially as one clad in some skintight bodysuit went rushing past him, flying. In the air.
"What in the flying fuck is wrong with this place." He breathed. He didn't need this right now. He had shit to get back to and this playing hero crap was not going to get in his way. He had plans to carry out and if he left Ed by himself for too long, who knows what kind of trouble the retarded shrimp would get into.
No, he knew, and he didn't want to think about it.
He looked around again, his feet oddly glued in place on the sidewalk. People were walking and speeding by him like he wasn't even there. That is until someone bumped into him, in which case Greed growled and shoved the skinny suitcase holding business man into the light pole next to him. He made a nice CLUNK sound and scurried off yelling something about domestic violence and dirty metahumans. He didn't get it, but somehow that helped simmer is anger down a bit.
He found Yao to be strikingly quiet through all this. Yao was never quiet.
"What is it?" He asked, not seeming to really care that he was talking to himself.
A pause, and then he heard Yao begin to laugh. "Blasted Porter has a cruel sense of humor," He heard the Xingese prince say, continuing his strange fit of laughter.
"What!?" This time louder, a few people on the sidewalk turned to stare at him. They went unnoticed, Greed was more concerned about his now hysterical other half.
"Ah ...Greed." Yao said once he'd managed to contain himself, for what ever reason he was laughing in the first place. "Welcome to the City. This ...will be a long story, yes?"
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
WELL. One thing is Greed has another inhabitant in his body, Ling, who I played in this game previously. Greed is going to be the dominant personality with maybe a hint of Ling every once in a while like it is in canon. This has all of Ling's info from last time if you wanted more on him.
Anyways I wanted to know if it would be fine to play Ling like he remembers being in The City before, since I took greed a few chapters after I took Ling last time he was here.
THIS IS UP FOR BOTH GREED AND LING. Ling's interacted with a few of you at least 8D
...Ah ...was that the on button? Hm, I know I saw the filtering function... [typing] I'm no good with these sorts of things...
[4423: Voice//Hackable]
...Did that do it? Ah, I think so! [Ahem]
Hello? I apologize for such a strange post, I've only used one of these things once before and it happens that the one I'm using now is borrowed.
My name is Ling Yao, and I am new to your ship. I'm an old friend of the previous First-Mate, Winry Rockbell --She gave me this journal for my own use while she is away-- as well as a ...relative to Greed. So, do not be alarmed if we somewhat resemble each other.
I've yet to be assigned a particular job, but until then, should anyone need help, I'm available. I hope that we can get along well!
[ooc: Yes, he is actually using Winry's journal, so, the ID would appear as hers. She gave it to him to use and to keep herself from coming back too soon from what she set off to do.]
Hint? It ain't mine.
[ooc: Greed is now stomping down the halls of the 4423 with, that's right, an injured Isako in his arms. Captain Loli went and broke her leg. B|]
They're making a hell of a deal out of the guy dyin'. S'just the way things work, you know.
To get higher, you have to climb, even if it means dragging down who ever the fuck's in your way. It's how greed makes the world go round.
[There's a sigh, it's almost like he's not completely convinced, himself.]
[PRIVATE: Unhackable]
What the fuck am I doing?
[Further away from the journal.]
What the fuck is wrong with our luck!?
[Journal clicks off.]
... Fuck it.
[Journal clicks off.]
I got something for you.
I've got a ship to catch that isn't gonna wait on me so I'm out of here.
S'been real fun and all, but I ain't a mercenary. It's time I headed back to my calling or whatever.
M'name's Greed, not Roa, and I'm a quartermaster on the 4423. That's right, I'm a fucking pirate. For pretty obvious reasons I did some lying. Sorry. S'not really my thing but it was lie out of my teeth or get my ship in even more trouble. Some asshole on our ship has been setting us up this whole time.
So for the rest of the people on this ship that said what you did about my crew. Yeah, I didn't forget. Specially not what your dear old captain said.
By the way, there's something for you in your cabin. A little good-bye present.
See you all around.
[ooc: SO THIS IS GREED'S GOOD BYE TO THE FIERTIA. 83 your booze is gone and Yuri, you might have some mild explosives planted in your cabin. Greed likes to go out with a bang.]
--So, what did they look like again?
[There is some faint mumbling in the background. Probably from some terrified shop owner. Roa speaks again]
Red haired girl, silver haired guy, both in black suits. Red and black top hats, look to be in roughly their twenties give or take.
That wasn't so hard, was it? No? Good. This would have gone smoother if you'd just answered the girl the first time.
[To the journal now]
That's a slightly better description to go by. Couldn't get a sketch out of him, sorry. We're making our way around town now.
The rumors here in Kropmork are useless and pretty deadended.
Most of what I have to say was already covered by Hans so, if any of you have questions or whatever, shoot.
That done, any of you know where I can find something to drink? I'm aching for some goddamn whiskey.
Me and a friend are looking for jobs.
[OOC note: This is a new journal, therefore no one can recognize his ID as Greed. Only if he gives it to you.]
I can't fucking believe this. Me and Pip will do what we can here in Kropmork.
Good Luck.
[/Filter]
[Filter: Winry//unhackable]
Rockbell. Look. Before you get rid of the records and shit.
....
Trash everything from my room but the sword. Keep it safe for the love of anything fucking holy. Don't trash the sword.
[/filter]
[Filter: PUBLIC minus the 4423]
You've all got to be pretty fucking stupid not to see what sheer bullshit this whole accusation is.
[Filter]
All right! You assholes got lucky. Me and Bernadette got stranded for a little while but we'll be back whenever we can.
Until then:
NONE OF YOU HAD BETTER TOUCH MY ROOM.
Because if one thing is out of place, I'll know.
Don't fucking wreck the ship while I'm gone or I'll string you all over the side's without rope.
[Closer now]
I hope the rest of you are excited, I know I sure as hell am.
Just remember: Finders fucking keepers.
[ooc: ....um. Hi? :3?]
