Post by aeneas on May 13, 2010 12:30:20 GMT -5
Judah Gabriel Troy
Urbane, Strategery, Familial
Urbane, Strategery, Familial
BACK TO BASICS ' '
Full Name: Judah Gabriel Troy
Significance of Name: Both Aeneas and Judah mean “Praised”. I just like the name Gabriel and Troy was where Aeneas lived and grew up.
Nickname(s): Jude.
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Grade: Senior (held back because Amish school stops at 8th grade)
Celeb you're using: Sam Worthington
Deity: Aeneas - Greek
Title of your deity: Trojan Prince who founded Rome
STRIKE A POSE ' '
Physical Appearance: He’s 5’10” and has aged very quickly and then stopped at what looks like his late twenties. He hasn’t aged since. He keeps his hair very short if he can help it, since his “head gets hot.” His hair is a kind of dark sandy brown-blonde. He doesn’t know what to call it, so he doesn’t call it anything but “his hair.” His skin is tanned form being in the sun a lot as a kid and his hobby of surfing. He has a strong jaw and occasionally has a pissed off look etched into his face. He’s not pissed off. That’s just how he looks. His eyes are blue and his breath is minty.
Judah hates dressing up and would rather go casual. He hates ties and never wears them, he does this childish thing where he ties a tie very badly just to spite whoever’s making him wear it. He usually dressed in jeans, boots, a basic shirt and a beat up jacket of some sort. He wears boxers or sweats to bed and will occasionally wear the odd beanie in the mood strikes him. He shaves but, because of his ability, he has stubble very soon afterwards.
Judah walks with a swagger, sort of. It’s really just how he walks, but people take it mean cockiness. When he’s pissed, he looks a little like a cheesed-off bull. He has an athletic build from various martial arts and surfing and from the fact that too much fat makes a person unhealthy and his ability just can’t abide by that. Damn that fast metabolism…
LET'S GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER ' '
Personality Description:
Overconfident- Judah is one cocky sonofabitch. Since he can’t die, he tends to be a little reckless and doesn’t mind bragging because of it. Occasionally, he needs to be taken down a peg. Bring up the one time he fainted and needed to be saved by Mommy and he’ll instantly shut-up, but otherwise he doesn’t mind talking a lot of crap.
Family-Oriented – Judah has a very keen sense of family honor and duty. For him, family always comes first even if he wants to rip the throat out of his great-uncle who denied him his land and then expected favors for nothing. To him, there is nothing more important than family and he will literally risk his life (sort of) in order to ensure his family is well and taken care of.
Urbane- Judah has this dashing aura about him. The cockiness only adds to it. He tends to be that guy who may as well be the poster child for “hero.” He’s generally well dress and groomed because of it. As a result, he has this “rescuing damsels in distress” thing, like a nervous tic. If a woman is in trouble and needs saving, he’s all over that like flies on… well you know the expression.
Attitude towards his ability- Judah knows he can’t die. He knows the implications of this. He knows full well everyone he loves around him is going to die and he’s going to remain alive. However, he’s not emo about it. He’s died so many times he just doesn’t really care anymore. He takes it in stride and has come to terms with it. He’s not going to become an emotionless husk that wants to kill everything and slowly take over the world with an army of undead reincarnated Trojans. After all, what else can he do? He has the ability and might as well make the best of it and help others if he can. That doesn’t mean people are allowed to shoot him for fun. He’s still a person, a bit reckless, but still a person.
Love- Judah wants a family one day. He had a girlfriend, who died. He had another girlfriend who committed suicide. For once, he’d just like a steady girlfriend who doesn’t die of unnatural causes or off herself. He’s family-oriented and therefore loyal to the women he loves. He’s yet to meet that special someone, but he remains confident that she’s out there.
Feisty- This guy is super feisty. As a reincarnated fighter who took out a bunch of indigenous Italian natives, he’s extremely aggressive and cannot abide by rudeness. He’ll call people out on it if he needs too. And he’ll kick their asses too, if he needs too.
Strategic- He can be very quiet, lost in thought. He likes to calculate all his moves before he acts on them, like a chess-player that can’t turn off. Thus, sometimes, he’ll have bouts of quiet and calm, with a slightly angsty look on his face. He’s not being angsty. He’s thinking so quit bugging him about it.
Likes:
- Family
- Mixed Martial Arts
- The Females
- His nephew
- His cousin Helen
- Being outside
Dislikes:
- Fire
- Girl-hitters
- Guilt
- Whiners
- Fainting
- Being cooped up inside a wall for ten years. OK, that's never happened to him but he imagines it would suck if it did.
Strength:
- Loyal
- Heroic
- Dashing
- Smart
- Family-Oriented
Weaknesses:
- Reckless
- Feisty
- Overconfident
- Devil-may-care
- His family
Fears: Loosing more family.
Goal: Have a family and home of his own.
Power/Ability: Regeneration- Aeneas was made immortal by his mother, Aphrodite. As a result, his reincarnate can’t die. He just bounced back and his wounds seal up like Wolverine or Captain Jack Harkness or something. It’s a little freaky to see.
WELCOME TO MY LIFE ' '
Origin: Pennsylvania to all over.
History: Judah’s father was Amos Troy, the cousin of Naomi and Leda Troy. Though he was technically in line to inherit some of the family’s land, he was shunned early on because of his relationship with a woman from the outside. A young man at the time, he’d gone into town for some supplies and saw a beautiful young woman. Though he had a wife and an infant daughter, he couldn’t help but stray. She was about the same age and too beautiful to describe. He remembered she wore a silk red scarf that accented her beautiful unblemished skin. He was instantly caught in her spell and ended up spending two weeks with her in her hotel. She told him not to tell anyone of this encounter and he didn’t, lest he risk shunning in the community. It was the most wonderful two weeks of his life. If anyone could convince him to leave the community, it was her. After the two weeks, she needed to leave. She left in a limo.
Amos went about his life, making up a story about visiting relatives in another community, trying to hide his guilt and shame. However, nine months later, a baby boy was left at his doorstep, wrapped in a silk red scarf. Immediately, the community knew something was up. Amos was shunned shortly after and he took the baby, who he named Judah, with him. The two went to a nearby Mennonite community. It took a little getting useful, since they allowed electric appliances, but all the other morals were the same. Amos raised his son as close to Amish values as possible, but the boy had a wandering imagination. When his father told him stories from the Bible, his favorites were the ones about battles and smiting and large rocks being thrown at the foreheads of giants. He loved being outside and loved swimming. Since they moved closer to the coast, Judah would take long treks to the ocean in order to surf and swim. He took the corporal punishment for disobeying his father, but it was worth it in his eight year old opinion.
Eventually, Amos got tired of his son’s willfulness and missed his wife and daughter. He returned to the community, renounced his sins and was allowed back in, as long as he gave up his position as the oldest son and gave whatever farmland he had to a younger brother of his. He agreed to this. Both he and Judah were baptized and allowed to return. Amos eventually told his wife the whole story in repentance, asking for her forgiveness. She forgave him and he soon afterwards had a stroke that left him slightly crippled. From then on Judah felt a need to protect and watch over his father.
On a lighter note, Judah was able to meet his half-sister for the first time and a few of his second cousins, one who was a very pretty younger girl named Helen. Finding that he had more than just his father, Judah became fully immersed in his new family, his step-mother, his cousins, his sister and all his extended relatives. He loved family and was dedicated to them in every possible way. He was bitter though at the elders in the community. He was angry that they denied his father his right as the oldest and thus entitlement to land, but only brought it up to father in moments of rage. He never said it outside to the rest of the community, remaining loyal to the lot of them.
Judah was four years older than Helen. Most people seemed to be madly in love with her, but Judah had better morals on the subject and merely saw her as his younger cousin that everyone seemed to think was hot despite the fact that she was just a child. She was kidnapped several times, the final time resulting in her running away. Unfortunately, the whole sordid affair brought attention back to Judah, the child of such an illegitimate act. People began looking at him strange again, but he stayed out of loyalty to his family. Even though Helen had inadvertently brought this all on them, he still saw her as his cousin and remained of the staunch opinion that everyone makes mistakes. She was young and these were her mistakes.
Nonetheless, the community was unwilling to help the family, in small ways that eventually grew huge. First, it was lies about not having any sugar to lend. Then it was a denial to let the family borrow some eggs. Judah just barely managed to court a young woman named Katie, her family disapproving of the potential union. Judah tried his hardest to ignore these facts and just go on with his life. His nephew, John, had to move in with them because they had no help with the farm.
Then the house caught fire. Judah grabbed his infirm father to save him from the wreck, John on his heels. Judah wanted to evacuate Katie first, but she insisted on his getting his father out. Judah ran in to save his wife, but the building collapsed on the two of them. Katie was burned to death whereas Judah didn’t have a scratch on him. Not even a blister. He did, however, faint almost immediately when he came too. Pantheon later said it was due to his ability kicking in so suddenly. He attributes it to being a loser.
Judah was surprised to wake up in the midst of a hotel room with a beautiful woman, about his father’s age, watching over him. She had many of his features. His blue eyes, his smile and she looked lovely in red. When the woman said she was his mother, he was a little shocked. The woman, a woman named Alexandra, who had fallen in love with his father, had come back to find her son, suddenly feeling maternal. Arriving in time to see that the house was on fire, his mother sent her brother Andrew to save the lot of them. Judah’s father was taken to a hospital where he died on arrival from smoke inhalation. John was sent back to his family and Judah, who had no wounds, was taken back to his mother’s hotel room. She gave him a choice. Either, he could come with her or return to his relatives. He was literally torn by the choice. Despite the fact that the people had ignored his family’s burning home, treated him like an outsider and shunned him as a baby, his father as a young man and his cousin Helen because she was different, he still felt a weird sense of loyalty to them. Not to mention, his girlfriend’s grave was there. After thinking it over for a day or so, he decided to go with his mother.
Alexandra was a model and lived a lavish lifestyle. Judah couldn’t for the life of him figure out what the hell she saw in his plain and simple father, but wasn’t about to question it. At first it was a bit of a culture shock, but it didn’t take long for Judah to become a wild overconfident kid. Judah traveled a lot, was suited up with nice clothes and given all sorts of luxuries. He loved surfing and tended to travel along the coast. While surfing along the North African coast line in the Mediterranean, he met a young woman named Chaya. She was an immigrant from Israel and she was beautiful. Judah thought she was a nice girl and liked being around her. The relationship eventually turned into much more. Judah and Chaya would frequently sneak into caves together, doing the things that hormonal teenagers do. However, it came to Judah’s attention that Chaya was severely mentally imbalanced. She would fall into deep depressions, threaten to kill herself if he ever left her and apparently thought they would marry soon (despite never talking about it and knowing each other only a month). Judah tried to gently explain that things were moving too fast, she shouldn’t kill herself and maybe she should see a psychiatrist, but the girl instead insisted that she needed only love to set her straight.
Freaked out, he had to end it. And he did. She freaked out and kept coming around his temporary home, saying she needed him and that she would kill herself if he didn’t come back to her. He tried to ignore her and even phoned the police a few times only for her to show back up a week later, like Glen Close in fatal attraction. Only she didn’t boil a bunny on his behalf. No, instead, she boiled herself. Sort of. As he was leaving the hotel to move on to the next destination, Chaya was outside, waiting for him. The moment she saw him, she screamed that this was all his fault, poured gasoline on herself and lit herself on fire. Judah ran to put it out, tackling her to the ground and trying to stop the flames, only burning his own flesh. She was died from her burns and Judah was traumatized. The outside world was crazy.
Right as he was about to find a small cave to curl up in and become a hermit, Pantheon called, told him he was Aeneas reborn and would he like to come and stay at their boarding school. The moment he heard “isolation” and “boarding school” he agreed. He couldn't get there soon enough.
CONNECTION TO THE MYTH ' '
1. Anchises, Aeneas’ father, spent two weeks with Aphrodite and she got pregnant and dropped a baby off with him nine months later. Judah’s father Amos fell in love with a woman who had a thing for Amish guys, apparently, and ended up spending two weeks with her and later had a baby dumped on his doorstep too. Anchises was also married with a daughter, as was Judah’s father.
2. Anchises, as the cousin of Priam, was entitled to ruling should Priam and all of his sons die. He was also entitled to royal land and all that comes with. He wasn’t given these. Aeneas was bitter about this, which Achilles brought up in battle, but his loyalty to his family outweighed his own anger on the issue.
3. Aeneas was given eternal life by Aphrodite. Judah can’t die.
4. Anchises, when he admitted that he slept with Aphrodite and Aeneas was the result of that union, was struck by Zeus’ lightning bolt. He didn’t die but was crippled. Amos, when he told the truth of the matter to his wife, had a stroke that somewhat crippled him.
5. Aeneas is related to Helen of Troy by marriage. Judah is related to Helen Troy by blood (second cousins).
6. Priam originally didn’t want to give Creusa to Aeneas for marriage. Katie’s family didn’t want her to get engaged to Aeneas.
7. Aeneas was married to Priam’s daughter Creusa (yes, his second cousin) who died during the siege of Troy. Judah was married to a young girl named Katie who died when the house burnt down.
8. Aeneas carried his father out of the burning down city with his son in tow, unable to go back for his wife. Judah wanted his wife to leave first, but she insisted on his getting his father out, so he did with his nephew in tow. He went back for her but the house collapsed on the two of them, causing his power to trigger and his wife to die.
9. Aeneas once fainted in battle due to wounds he sustained from Diomedes and was rescued by Aphrodite and then teleported out of there by Apollo. Judah, who passed out from his ability kicking in so suddenly, woke up and found out his mother sent her brother to find the family and rescue them.
10. Aeneas’ mother was Aphrodite. Judah’s mother was a model with a fetish for Amish guys.
11. Aeneas is probably the only guy who didn’t hit on Helen. Judah is related to Helen so I’m going to go ahead and say that, because they’re related, it has no effect on him. Because that would be gross.
12. Dido was a queen of Carthage who emigrated from Phoenicia. Chaya was an immigrant from Israel who Judah met in North Africa.
13. Dido had issues. Chaya had issues.
14. Dido burned herself to death as Aeneas and company were leaving by boat, all so he could see. Chaya burned herself to death the moment Judah left the hotel room.
ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE ' '
I play Brianna and Daphne.
BEHIND THE SCENE ' '
Your name: Chris
Age:
How long have you been RPing? Long enough.
Where/How did you find us?Friend of a friend of a friend of a cousin of a friend.
