Gideon Nav @ polymythos

[necrosavior]

PLAYER INFO

Name: Silyara & they/them
Age: 30's
Contact: silyara#7604 on Discord
Current Characters: N/A

CHARACTER INFO

Name: Gideon Nav
Journal: necrosavior
Age: 19
Appearance: Character sheet linked with permission. Face details.

The Ninth House knows no colors besides black. Black everything, including shades. She needs sunglasses due to light sensitivity.

Canon: The Locked Tomb
Canon Point: Just post-Harrow the Ninth

History: Detailed Wiki Content warning for child neglect

Abilities: Gideon has devoted herself to fighting with the sword, with her two-hander being her preferred weapon. She's extremely good with it and not as good with a rapier and knuckle knives. She's used to fighting until someone cannot get off the floor and thus also experienced with fighting injured. Beyond that, being the literal child of God, Gideon is bad at dying. She survived being poisoned as a child, was not eaten properly as a cavalier for Harrow's lyctorhood, and was brought back from dying in the River.

Questionnaire:

1. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?

Gideon is loyal to people she cares about, whether she's known them all her life or with a few shared moments of kindness. She lives by her sense of right/wrong and honoring people's autonomy, including her own. Her reaction to a request and an order are vastly different for the same desired action. Give her decent food, ask for her help, and give her someone or something to fight (for funsies acceptable), and she's happy. On the flip side, make demands of her, attempt to control her life, and restrict her options, and she will resist, try to run away, and try again and again until she lives on her terms.

2. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take: best, worst, most likely?

Gideon never got a chance to simply be herself. The Ninth House was a living tomb, burying her under demands, obligations, and guilt tripping for the bare minimum of keeping her alive/finding a use for her. Due to murder mystery and a death sentence for success, she didn't get to see the other side of the deal she made. The Cohort was the only option she knew of, the grass on the other side. Without those obligations, Gideon could learn who she is, what she wants, and how to do it. With a found family along the way.

With something or someone trying to control her life and force her hand? The worst case is contrarian rebellion out of the need for her autonomy and refusing to let that go, no matter what it does to hers or others. It's a spiraling feedback loop that only gets worse and worse.

Most likely, Gideon will chafe at attempts to control her and bond with people to form a group she cares about. With people and a loose enough chain, she can make the most of Rat Park her environment and learn how to thrive. People being people, all having their issues (Gideon is no exception), it'll have the bumps and bruises of any human interaction.

3. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?

Gideon has been in exceedingly few groups (spoiler alert: everyone else dies (that's not Gideon's fault)). That said, she's glue. Liking people, she joins and encourages others to interact, be social, etc. She bonds. Years of little to no company developed her observation skills, and she watches and picks up on dynamics between other people. That is what she cares about, rather than any higher mission or goal (other than staying alive). When she learns or picks up incriminating information, she does raise it with the people she believes best able to judge, even when it's someone she loves and knows intimately.

4. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?

Need: physical touch/connection; autonomy; acts of service (her --> someone); mutual respect; quality time

Want: physical touch/connection; recognition; being cared for/taken care of; bad puns; something to fight

Either one party or the other makes the decision to be a part of their life, and that's that. Gideon is near impossible to get rid of once she's imprinted on someone. If they are someone who doesn't take care of themselves/their needs, Gideon will do so for them or force them to do so. The rest follows. She's a physical person (who grew up touch-starved) who makes friends easily and generally upbeat and punny. The Real Shit™ that always happens catalyzes it further.

5. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?

Gideon grew up in a geriatric religious society in a small hole drilled into an asteroid in a secret location. Her world was small, religious, neglectful, and isolated. The people nominally responsible for her held her at a distance. She learned all the bones in the human body against her will through pure osmosis and threw herself into her training with the sword as the only damn outlet for her that she liked. The world, however, was the world outside the Ninth House. The world she read about in what news reached them and the magazines of varying quality Gideon collected. The world out there was other houses she couldn't break the tether to reach and the Cohort fighting the war in the dark of space. The clusterfuck at Canaan House and what came after made for a grander scale but still a small stage with a limited number of actors.

The rest of the world, the world that has people instead of ten thousand year old drama, is something she doesn't know. Nor does she truly understand the people from it. They live different lives and have different relationships that she was only just figuring out. People watching, live on the Discovery Channel. The rest is like sword fighting—throwing herself in and trusting she'll figure it out.

6. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions?

As presents itself upon looking on her, Gideon leans strong on her instincts and emotions. Her observations are based off using reason, but it filters through her instinctual side. Her vibe checks are usually solid (with the occasional nat 0). She's reads as a dumb jock. That's half-right. Gideon does keep track of information (such as what people know about her) and catch clues that give stuff away. No one would accuse her of being a genius, but she knows her shit.

Religion is a huge prank played on the universe. She thinks anyone who saw what God and his saints were like in private for fifteen minutes would agree with her.

7. What is something others might find intolerable about them?

A) The puns?
B) The urge to fight anything that looks like a sword?
C) Her irreverence toward religion?
D) The body (& mind) that will not quit?
E) Her stubborn devotion to responding to questions not orders?
F) All of the above.

The Ninth House is the Addams family of the Nine Houses, so Gideon often comes off creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, altogether ooky.