I’ve put off writing about Su-Cheol for long enough. It’s true that Myra’s place in my life is far greater, but Su-Cheol is in the same familia caelestis as she - and, thus, I am well familiar with him and his works. He speaks with the voice of the truth. He carries a staff topped with a gleaming-bright brass whistle. He wears the robes of a Korean emperor.
He himself has spoken miracles to keep particularly vulnerable whistleblowers out of prison and in the public eye.
Last week, Myra and Su-Cheol met for tea. He’d called the meeting three days earlier than they’d planned; he was being jumpy even by the standards of Familia Vitex, and ran his fingers over Myra’s face before he would believe it was really her. Even I am not privy to everything that happens at these meetings, but I was told the gist of the situation, afterwards: Ustinya’s been messing with him again. Specifically, the Power of Politics mistakenly fingered him as the perpetrator of a particularly vicious “leak” before he managed to straighten things out.
He can’t give up his openness, since that would cut to the core of who he is - but what’s the alternative? To watch his reputation get thrown around by partisans? I cannot answer the question. I don't think anyone can.
Su-Cheol Kim was enNobled in late 2006, from a mortal systems administrator who’d once organized a campaign to publicize the fact that one of his high school teachers was attempting to seduce students. (This landed him a spot on a list maintained by the previous Noble of Whistleblowing, listing possible successors that shared his idea of the Estate. The Wildlord Vitex accommodated this request.) He spent the first few years of his reign quietly cultivating a handful of whistleblowers, before shocking the world with new revelations --
Ever since then, he has been deep in the War. Excrucians take sporadic potshots at his Estate. He despises the Camorra; he forcibly shakes up organizations that have become corrupt; he attempts to formulate his own Song, one drawn from the virtues and morals of human life.
He lives in a glass house in Locus Vitex, with only woven tapestries cleverly staggered on the walls to provide privacy for his inner sanctum; as you peer past one, you will see another further in and - sometimes - Su-Cheol himself lounging in his outrooms. Few are invited to his more intimate entertaining-rooms in the middle layer, for from there you can see snatches of his personal quarters in the center. None are invited to his quarters.
(It is a rumor of the children of Locus Vitex that, if you find the right viewing angle, you can see all the way through to his quarters. No such viewing angle exists, because he has covered that final gap with a tapestry depicting genitalia. According to him, he did this because it was funny.)
He could be a very interesting PC, if he was one.
Whistleblowing
unearths buried injustices
kills secrets
endangers oneself for the greater good
broadcasts itself far and wide
forces change from the outside in
destabilizes the corrupt and the unworthy
Mortal Skills
Computers 3
Transgressive Humor 3
Finding Hidden Truth 2
Making Every Problem More Complicated 0 (Just because he can make every problem more complicated does not mean that it is ever a worthwhile pursuit.)
Bondflictions (15)
Bond (4): [If I know the truth, I must speak of it.]
Affliction (2): [I will see oppression and injustice, regardless of any attempts to deny, ignore, disguise, and/or minimize it.]
Bond (2): [I despise Kaya Astela with every fiber of my being.] (When Su-Cheol was mortal, Kaya was an abusive boss who ground his spirit down. He anchored her with hatred, and she only barely tolerates him.)
Bond (2): [The whistleblowers of the United States’ secrets are particularly dear to me.] (You probably already know who these people are. They’ve been in the headlines.)
Bond (2): [I believe in an objective morality of the human race.] (He believes no Song has the best interests of humanity in mind, and has set out to codify his own morality in hopes that future Nobles will be able to use it too. Everyone else I’ve asked believes this is a fool’s errand.)
Bond (1): [Lies by omission are still lies, and I will react accordingly.]
Bond (1): [I maintain relations with Toby Houston’s Digital Cleave, despite not being a core member myself.]
Bond (1): [I want to bring North and South Korea back together again.] (Unfortunately, there are Powers who prefer that they be kept separate.)
Attributes
Aspect 0
Domain 3
Persona 3
Treasure 2
Gifts
A Thousand Digital Eyes
Su-Cheol told me to plug this donation campaign for Courage, a nonprofit set up to provide legal assistance to whistleblowers. He would appreciate it if you supported them. I would, too.
Some back catalog - epinephrineElectrified and octagonalPhanes have what I might call an establishing character moment. Or is it an establishing relationship moment? Eh, whatever.
...Epi is my brother. Why are you asking me how attractive my brother is?No, never mind, I know the answer and I’m kinkshaming you for it.
Aelf was...cute, I guess? I dunno, I never really looked at her that way, because she really wouldn’t have been comfortable with it. Like - she deliberately had the bits that would let her even feel sexual or romantic attraction yanked out of her Shiny, which should really tell you something about her level of interest in either of those things.
...wait, you meant the meme thing, didn’t you? Okay, I’ll do that. Still kinkshaming you for asking me how attractive Ri is, though.
Riley:
VISUAL ATTRACTIVENESS: 💗💗💗💗(purely aesthetic appreciation of looks) I don’t really know what you want me to say, he’s my brother. He looks better when he’s not rocking the neckbeard? But he doesn’t listen when I say that.
FRIENDSHIP LEVEL: 💗💗💗💗💗(how close a friend they consider them) Good friend, best brother.
SEXUAL DESIRE: 💔(wanting to have sex with them) He’s my brother. No. Kinkshaming you, kinkshaming your lusus, kinkshaming your ancestor.
ROMANTIC INTENT: 💗💗💗💗💗 💔(hoping for a romantic relationship) Oh wow, look, five whole seconds and yes, he’s still my brother. The only kind of romance that would work between us would be pale, okay?
💔 Non-existent💗 Very low💗💗 A little💗💗💗 Hopeful💗💗💗💗 High💗💗💗💗💗 Maximum
Aelf:
VISUAL ATTRACTIVENESS: 💗💗💗(purely aesthetic appreciation of looks)
FRIENDSHIP LEVEL: 💗💗💗(how close a friend they consider them) We were pretty decent friends, I think?
SEXUAL DESIRE: 💔(wanting to have sex with them) She was asexual. No.
ROMANTIC INTENT: 💔(hoping for a romantic relationship) She was also aromantic. No.
... --cogitativeMistake Don't take it personally. I assume they're using epinephrineElectrified as their example, in which case they are entirely correct. Except for literally all the parts that matter. --eternityBraid
<epinephrineElectrified> Vitt, you haven't talked much about yourself. How have /you/ been doing?
<genesisArtificer> on the wagon
<epinephrineElectrified> I'm asking about your feelings, dumbass, because I'm Heart.
<genesisArtificer> fuck feelings
<genesisArtificer> thats all i have to say on the matter
Setting: Stopover, ring voyage during Cataclysm session
Word count: 2,299
<epinephrineElectrified> [Usually you meet Cyma in places that are important enough to have names. This one doesn't even have a name - just a coordinate designation, a backwater, a lab taken out of commission before the Players ever arrived/caused the retroactive creation of this place.]
<epinephrineElectrified> [It feels appropriate, for something that's so far turned out to be much less of a big deal than you'd assumed it to be.]
