lore-ish [OOC]
yes I stole this from a rp sever im in but its good enough for now - Phoenix / Bones
General Info
Fear: the stranger
Name: Zugzwang or Zug (og name: Vincent “Vinnie” Huxley)
Species: Human consciousness trapped within a wooden marionette
Age: physically confusing mentally around her 20s
Birthday: they don't remember and don't care nor remember how old they are
Gender: Wood /j (Non-binary)
Pronouns: They/Them It/Its
Sexuality: Pan
Relationships: no romantic relationships but has a weird relationship with nikola being one of her right hands, being thats what zug is :3 (zugzwang meaning all options are shitty but you have to move) and well other circus entities don't talk to her much
Personality: Zug is quite intelligent but they don't often act with their ideas, they have been in the circus long enough that they listen to others more than their own thoughts. Though if pushed they will push back, they have their own thoughts but they don't use them, they are stuck in a losing game. Nothing they will do will fix anything so they let others tell them what to do. Yes they don't often have their own thoughts but they hate the idea of them actually not putting up a fight before agreeing with whatever the person said or asked. They will try to help or warn people about the circus but it never really helps so sometimes they'll just let them fall deep into the circus. They cope mostly through jokes, dry commentary, and self-deprecation comments to help her stay sane, while they're in the circus.
Hobbies: watching people, collecting random information, listening to stories, performing pieces she likes not what Nikola wants her too, writing letters, drawing,
Fears: when they can't tell that they were ever their own person, being forgotten, not caring for others, being trapped in the circus forever, or being under Nikola's control for the rest of their eternal life, getting home to notice nobody will know it's them and or their already dead
Likes:people that play chess not checkers (smart people), stories, when they were younger they actually loved the circus, being treated like a person, people actually listening to their ideas, old sitcoms, pastries, writing letters they won't send.
Dislikes: being called "just a puppet", rotting flesh, the smell of epoxy, feeling helpless, remembering how it feels to have hunger and to breath when they can't do that anymore, being treated like their fragile,
Voice: Entrapta + Peridot + Fizzarolli (?) Likes a mix of the voices? Idk
Alignment: lawful neutral
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Appearance
Stature: Around 4.5 feet tall. Wooden puppet made of red wood.
Eye Color: Large painted blue eyes with unnatural movement.
Hair: Real hair put into her wooden head, dyed blue and red
Scars/Tattoos/Piercings: Hairline cracks throughout the wood and just little holes.
Style: jesters, lots of Symbolism of pawns and queens in their outfit,
Extra: Painted white face with a permanent smile, her jaw works like a Nutcracker, when speaking it does not move to and down it's just down so kinda detached jaw looking everything she speaks.
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Life
Current Job: Officially: One of Nikola henchmen in a way
Unofficially: fucking up bad situations because she just can't help shit.
Skills: pattern recognition, reading people, predicting likely outcomes improvisation, remaining calm under pressure, spotting lies, writing, performing, improvisation
Weaknesses: small also made of wood, identity issues, guilty conscious controlled by others, every fucking choice carries unintended consequences
Internal Reputation: because Zug still cares for humans in small ways other stranger entities dislike them purely because they still have some ‘humanity’ when they're supposed to be uncanny.
External Reputation: statement givers who have seen Zug feel though confused that Zug was trying to help them in some way, but it never works. They make them too uncomfortable to think of what they would even be speaking about.
Pets: None.
Family: human family unknown. Zug remembers they existed but their faces are becoming harder to recall.
Related Characters: Their wife and kids (I'll make them later)
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Backstory
Zug was once human.They lived a perfect life, had a wife and kids. And thought taking them to a circus would be a lovely gift, but life didn't care. That was the day they were taken. The circus Creatures took them and ripped them of their human looks, their body, their flesh, and they were put into a puppet. Now they're stuck, they remember everything, the sensation of their hands when they touch their child's face, the feeling of being hungry, the need to breathe everything. But she can't do any of that. They barely remember life before the circus. And they try their best but good decisions create consequences elsewhere. Harm avoided in one place appears in another. There were moments they saw them, or thought they did before the hallucination disappeared. And they were still there, stuck in a wooden puppet in a circus for the rest of their life.
