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Created on 2008-02-11 18:05:27 (#14922433), never updated

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Name:	duplicitous_rex
Birthdate:	1987-04-02

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Player Name: Kex
Email Address: hexisea[at]gmail[dot]com
AIM Screen Name: scientifLc
Character Name: Zant
Series: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Age: 53

Brief description: Zant is a rather odd thing to look at. Physically, he's rather spidery, with a thin face ad slender features that almost seem somehow worn down externally. Typical of Twili eyes, his are a bright gold, but very UNtypically he seems to have no pupils or irises for reasons no one has really been able to figure out. The tattoos of his people wrap around his skin, and his hair is an odd, deep violet, though he keeps it harshly pulled back and hidden beneath a hood most of the time. Typically, however, he keeps his body hidden with bulky robes that make him look much larger than he is and an elaborate headpiece with an insectoid mouth covering that can be retracted at will.

Brief personality/strengths/weaknesses: Zant likes to think of himself as intelligent and cunning, with an eye for opportunity and the resourcefulness to get him just what he wants. While it's not quite far-fetched enough to be called untrue, the extent of the exaggeration lends itsef well to an inspection of his personality. He is intelligent as far as the situation is simple, resourceful as far as the actual tools at his disposal, and opportunistic as... well, that part is rather true. In short, Zant is the sort of person who reinforces the observation that just because people don't understand you doesn't mean you're a genius.

To his credit, he can be a vaguely decent fighter when he absolutely needs to be. He uses a pair of blades that he doesn't quite seem to have mastered, swinging them wildly and hoping to the gods that he hits something vital -- on the other person, that is. His biggest strength is surprise; due to his flailing, it can be rather difficult to predict where his next blows will land, and his bulky robes help protect him in that they mask where exactly the cloth stops and his body begins.

Unfortunately that isn't enough to cast the rest of him in a particularly positive light. Zant displays absolutely no tolerence for things not going his way, and has been known to throw screaming tantrums when he can't have what he wants. He isn't much use in a serious fight against a trained opponent, and his gloating before a fight or challenge usually makes it all the more amusing when he fails. He has a flair for the dramatic that keeps him from utilizing the most obvious solution to a problem, instead favoring the flashy and 'intimidating' and landing himself in trouble that could easily have been avoided.

Brief history: Zant was born on one of the mysterious Twili ships, in particular the largest one that housed the royal family and served as the capitol of the motorized archipelago. He himself had never had much love for said royal family; he envied their position, and did his very best to throw a wrench in their well-structured succession traditions by attempting to push the young princess out of favor with her father. To put it plainly, it didn't work, and for the next few years he was stuck walking on eggshells for fear of being relocated to one of the further ships. However, when the king died he found himself with a potential new opportunity to gain power; the princess was of marrying age, and maybe she had somehow forgotten his conspiring against her.

When that also didn't work, Zant worked himself into a tantrum and locked himself in his quarters for a week to sulk and plot. When he finally did come out, he publicly apologised for his conduct and devoted himself to serving the young princess, even if she wouldn't take him as a husband, and he managed to gain enough trust over the next couple years to become her confidante. It was at this point that he again started actively working towards acquiring the throne. He started slipping a chemical into her food; it was something he'd acquired during a trip to the islands to resupply, and was allegedly designed to reverse the aging process. He was also taking it himself, but he fed the princess much higher amounts, and within four months she'd been reduced to a deformed little impish thing. With his position as the princess's vizier, he had the authority to declare her to be cursed by the gods and cast her off the ships with nothing but a rowboat and a small trunk full of belongings, and once she was gone he established himself as the Twilit King in the absence of any heir to the true royal family.

Purpose: Troublemaker

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