The Radio Star
Taking charge of one's own fate is worth any damnation that awaits.
[Heavy Endwalker Spoilers Ahead]
Name: Alcides cen Dominus
Aliases: 'Al'
Age: 40
Race: Mixed Pureblood/Elezen/Hyur
Appearance: 7'0 and lithe, brown hair, brown eyes. Rounded ears and lacking a third eye, but never lacking a smile!
Voice: Higher pitched with the equivalent of a transatlantic accent.
Gender: Cisgender Male [He/Him/His]
A radio show host from a city in the southern part of the Republic of Garlemald who has been on the air ten years and counting, gathering a following for his black comedy and satirical focused program with the usual music and live performances.After a drop in popularity following the ascension of Emperor Varis and eventually being knocked off air by the civil war, the Radio Star miraculously survived the chaos of the fall of the Empire and now returns to the air and society as well as several new projects to make his grand comeback.What happened in all that time between doesn't matter. It's time for a spectacular new era of entertainment!
Name: Alcides cen Dominus
Aliases: 'Al'
Age: 40
Race: Mixed Pureblood/Elezen/Hyur
Appearance: 7'0 and lithe, brown hair, brown eyes. Rounded ears and lacking a third eye, but never lacking a smile!
Voice: Higher pitched with the equivalent of a transatlantic accent.
Gender: Cisgender Male [He/Him/His]
Orientation: Just waiting for the right woman!
Relationship Status: Hah! No.
Profession: Radio Show Host, Entertainer, Patron of various establishments
Discipline: Machinist, Culinarian (Primary)
Languages: Garlean, Common, some Old Elezen
Hobbies: Cooking, dancing, singing, hunting, attending theatre performances, playing instruments (violin, saxophone, organ, piano, trumpet), strolling around and exploring
Residences: Nova Aurelia, Garlemald (Birthplace/Hometown, Former), Southern Ilsabard Hunting Lodge (Hideout, Current), Silvertear Towers, Mor Dhona (Base of Operations, Current)
Affiliations: Silvertear Towers (Facility Manager), N.E.W. Wrestling (Color Commentator), Etheirys Blitzball League (Announcer), The Populares (Celebrity Affiliate)Traits: Comedian (especially black humor), charming, polite, cheerful, energetic, gentlemanly, eccentric, playful, patron of the arts, snob, judgemental, big eater and foodie, mysterious, morbid
Likes: Jazz, a good party, cooking, the arts, cats, hunting, exploration, gambling, whiskey
Dislikes: Rude and disrespectful people, advanced technology, tea, sweets, dogs, being touched, processed foods, weakness, being hit on, people not knowing of him, prying sorts, the Lopporit's radio station and music
Fears: Ahaha, nothing!
Potential Interaction HooksYou might've heard of me from my Radio Broadcast! For fellow Garleans, the simplest way to know of him is through hearing or knowing of his broadcast program. While most popular in its city of broadcast, it has a following in the rest of Garlemald for its bold and unconventional, black comedy style of satire. He is always happy to meet fans, or accept a deal in exchange for a request from the program! Yet he also made plenty of enemies on the air for being controversial...
You're gonna be Populare! Speaking of controversial, the nature of his broadcast and the affiliation of its sponsor made the otherwise politically unaffiliated Radio Host invited into the lesser-known political party of Garlemald as one of its various celebrity appearances. Now that most of them have been wiped out, where does that leave him and his affiliation?
Just out on a little stroll! Al has become something of a wanderer now that the Empire has fallen and the whole world is out there to explore. He can appear anywhere and is heavily subject to his own whims.
For the Entertainment! He may very well involve himself in flights of fancy when it comes to opportunities to perform, broadcast, commentate, cook, or dance across the various kinds of entertainment companies and beyond in both Eorzea and Garlemald.
The world is a stage! Al stops to watch or listen any form of music or live performance he comes across. He may leave you a tip, tell you how impressed he was, or even join in!
Ooh, tasty! He will try new butcher shops, cafés, or other types of food venues he comes across- just please no sweets or tea.
When you gamble, the house will always win! He's often be found in gambling halls, enjoying a night of raised stakes and making conversation with game partners.
I just took a well-earned Sabbatical, nothing serious! There was a long stretch of time in which The Radio Star wasn't around the public eye, and in that period many stranger things could have happened. Maybe he had a stint as a pirate- sky or regular- maybe he disguised himself as a nun, maybe he got involved with this or that person or group or escapade. Inquire for the possibilities!
Name: Alastor Dominique
Aliases: 'Al', 'THE RADIO DEMON'
Race: Slowly becoming more and more VOIDSENT
Appearance: YOU KNOW HIS TRUE FORM IF YOU'VE SEEN IT. 7'0, UNTIL IT GETS BIGGER. Various stitches all across the body with a gunshot wound to the forehead.
Voice: THAT'S NOT YOUR REAL VOICE. AS ALWAYS, YOU'RE HIDING.
Profession: YOU USED TO BE NOTHING, Radio Show Host, SERIAL KILLER DON'T LET HIM IN, YOU DON'T ACTUALLY GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THAT TACKY PLACE, DO YOU?
Discipline: REAPER (Primary), Machinist (Secondary), Marauder (Tertiary), Culinarian (Primary)
Traits: SADIST, NARCISSIST, PSYCHOPATHIC, CREEPY, MANIPULATIVE, MISANDRIST, MISANTHROPIC, EGOTISTICAL, SHALLOW, APATHETIC, TYRANNICAL, POWER-HUNGRY, EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE
Likes: MURDER, TORTURE, VOID HUNTING, DEAL-MAKING, HUMAN FLESH
Fears: Showing vulnerability or WEAKNESS, anyone being too close to the TRUTH, HOLY magic, being TRAPPED forever in his deal
Alignment: CHAOTIC EVILAn only child raised exclusively by his mother from humble origins in a backwater Garlean city who made his way into radio and found status, success, and security in the art form. Slotted into his place in the golden decade to follow, he had almost everything a person could ever want.But it was not enough. The world was a loathsome hell full of scum that dared to cross him, and he would have the last laugh. People began to go missing. No one looked closely enough behind a smile to find them. Life was good, even when the local economy crashed a few years back.It was Emperor Varis' increased censorship that truly began to ruin everything he had worked for. The disrespectful wretch had no place interfering with his program, but there was little the Radio Star could do.Until the Republic fell to chaos. It wasn't long before bombs began to go off in the city, one destroying his beloved radio tower in the process.
HOW DARE THEY.
While reluctant before, The Radio Star knew he needed more to dance with the chaos on his doorstep. Fortunately, he had just the means to accomplish this. He'd belonged to the well-hidden shadows of the city since they caught on to his true nature, and the time had finally come to make a deal.As everything burned around him, he burned everyone and everything in turn. Someone soon finally saw him for what he was, and tried to shoot him in the head. Yet as the body laid there in a pool of its own blood, a red aura enshrouded it, horns sprouted from its head...AND IT GOT BACK UP.Occasionally, the endless loop on the radio would cut out in certain areas of the fallout, instead broadcasting endless screaming for a while before returning to the looping. Perhaps a demon was in the radio. Or perhaps it was simply another side effect of the hell on Etheirys Garlemald had become.Soon there was nothing left of his home, smoking ruin as it had been reduced to in the civil war. And so he moved on, to other war-torn and soon enough tempered providences to continue his carnage.Of course, pride and overambition plague the sorts like the Radio Demon, and eventually, he was bound to make a wrong move, one that sent him out of commission in the ongoing chaos for quite a while. Order began to crawl its way back into the land of Ilsabard.With old strings cut away, all he once had lost, and it being unwise to face down the Contingency and remaining government, The Radio Star instead took to wandering all around Etheirys and place his interests in whatever suits his whims.After all, without a government or Empire left to stop him,
now is the time to become the one who pulls all the strings.
DON'T WORRY, I AM STILL THE ONE IN CONTROL.
BEWARE:WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT MAKE A DEAL WITH HIM. But will you be able to resist the Radio Demon offering you everything you could ever want with a smile after listening to you down on your luck? Don't worry! Sign the contract, and all he needs from you is favors to call upon! Forever.BUT THEN, THEY STARTED GOING MISSING... For over a decade, missing people have plagued the Radio Star- previously mostly contained to Nova Aurelia, more are bound to disappear all across Etheirys now that he is UNBOUND.
Those in particular danger include the warmongers, aggressors, and high command of the legions during and after the civil war, higher-ranked officials who tried to censor or cross him, fellow entertainers and radio hosts who had any sort of rivalry, legions and officials who abused their power around his hometown (though sometimes beyond as well), and run of the mill SCUM and NUISANCES who can't show respect to those around them. Perhaps someone knows a victim, or has a reason to suspect the TRUTH...HE BROADCAST HIS CARNAGE... During the Fall of the Empire, the endless loop of Home on the Horizon sometimes abruptly interrupted itself to play AGONIZING, HORRIBLE SCREAMING of what must have once been people. But there was no one left to intercept the radio signal- it must have been the endless ghosts of the conflict crossing over. After all, where do Garleans go when they die?INSIDE OF EVERY DEMON IS A LOST CAUSE. The Radio Demon has become one with both realms, terrorizing, dealing with, and consuming Voidsent and Nightkin in the same manners as he does those on the Source, even traversing the void itself, having gained a reputation as a fearsome voidsent within it after taking down a series of powerful ones. If he sees another of the void, conflict is sure to follow.THE CONSTRAINTS OF MY DEAL... Yet in dealing with the void as he has, the Radio Demon is also forced to play along with the orders of his pact's source, a powerful memoriate and former Queen before the flood who wishes to directly contend with those in power to bring a thriving order to the Void. Whatever she commands for her own agenda, he must obey.WELCOME, NOVA AURELIA'S SOVEREIGN REAPERS. While most of those of his hometown are DEAD, among the few to survive are fellow members of Nova Aurelia's Reaper clan. From the shadows he continues to fulfill their own objectives as well as his own. Perhaps this means killing those who hold too much power, or perhaps someone seeks them out for reasons negative or positive.THEY DON'T NEED TO KNOW! AND DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT IT. If your character spent any time in Nova Aurelia before ten years ago, there's a chance they knew or saw the Radio Star when he was anything but- and he is never happy to be reminded of that which he has tried so hard to erase.
Hi, I'm Plat!I'm most well-known in the XIV RP community for my main, Esredes Rosemond. This is my most unconventional, experimental alt.First of all: yes, this is Alastor, adapted to the setting of XIV. No 'inspired by' or half-measures, this is complete, unapologetic commitment to the bit. This alt is an exercise in branching out into adaptation for myself, as I usually stick to original characters. I'm trying something outside of my usual character types to help expand my capacity to write.Therefore, due to the status of being an alt, an existing media character, high-powered, and potentially antagonistic in nature, Al is available per demand for individual scenes or plotlines. Much like the source material, he remains a supporting character, mostly a way for me to assist others with their stories and arcs. I will not bring him into contained plotlines and the like without explicit consent.Here are the ground rules:Please don't try to romance/ERP. Alastor's status as one of the few asexual characters in media means a lot to me as an ace individual, and I am sticking to it. I'm not shipping and ERPing someone else's edgy deviantart oc, that's a bit weird for me, and sexualizing Alastor squicks me out.Because of this, I reserve the right to avoid interaction if a character is too outwardly sexual in nature. This isn't the character for that.Lore is subject to changes and rewrites due to the nebulously evolving nature of the source material. Blanks are filled in where plausible, but I do not know everything about the character.This is not an isekai, and will not operate as such. He has not died, and the story framework works according to this.In general, don't expect this to heavily touch certain elements of Imperial themes. They're not fitting given the characters' real world translation, and I reserve the right to avoid certain subjects or types of roleplay for it.When it comes to what themes to expect, I try to mimic the same tone of black comedy- expect cartoon shenanigans and logic, spontaneous musical numbers, violence and cannibalism and torture, but sometimes this exercise will get more serious and touch on the horrors of Garlemald or mental health themes.It's okay if you hate the source material! No worries, I have other characters! I love being my more iconic evil red piece of shit man too! That being said, there are some popular headcanons I disagree with and went against, so keep that in mind.Simultaneously, the source material is not required viewing. No need to know it, the character functions by himself.Check out my main if this sort of writing exercise isn't your cup of tea! He is a fully original concept and I put a lot into him.
previously belonging to a small startup trying to beef with two other stations to be the first to something, his talk show made it stand out and windixieland jazz, talk show with making fun of everyone as he reports news and has on guests for interviews or skits, cooking segment, singing or instrument coversNow it's The Smile! Broadcast after a musical that came out not long before the fall but also to symbolize morale and coping!