Rowe, Tsubine

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CASE FILE: Cretan Militant {2ND LIEUTENANT}

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FULL NAME:
→ Tsubine Odtsarva Rowe

AGE:
→ 34

SEX:
→ Male

BIRTH PLACE:
→ Creta, near the Creta-Aerugo border's coastline

RACE:
→ Cretan

DEPARTMENT:
→ Navy

DATE OF BIRTH:
→ October 21, 1978

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HEIGHT:
→ 182.88 centimeters.

WEIGHT:
→ 76 kilograms

PICTURE:
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DESCRIPTION:
→ The first thing people notice about Tsubine would obviously either be his lighter hair and skin. His hair started to gray when he was 14, and his skin has always been slightly more pale than usual. This isn't to say he gets no sun. If you take off his eye patch, there is a very visible tan line. In fact, Tsubine has a slight tan line from his uniform. His hair is a greyish-white, which can give him a slightly older appearance coupled with the small bags under his eye and eye socket. Tsubine's eye is a slight complement to his skin and hair, since it is a greyish-blue. His eye patch is the second thing people normally notice about him, and it is his defining trait. Made of black leather with stainless steel decorations, the eye patch is obviously not supplied by the military. It is a memento of his grandfather, who was blind in his right eye. Tsubine had the eye patch flipped to properly fit. The center of the patch, where the pupil would normally be in a neutral front stare, has a large circular ring with a coin-shaped button in the center. The button is quite detailed to the point that there are tiny holes around the edge. The center of the button is more intrinsically done. A fleur-de-lis is hand-carved onto it with two olive branches underneath connecting the bottom and the two arms. Tsubine is normally seen in his Cretan Navy uniform, though he did include a trio of custom additions to the standard uniform. The main one is a pair of gloves. They are waterproof and made of Kevlar layered, giving him a bit of extra protection. The gloves are both button-able, though he keeps his right glove unbuttoned most of the time to allow for him to shake hands at a moment's notice. The second add-on is his sword, which is going to be described in its own application. He carries the sword on his left side. The final add on is a single earring on his right ear. It is disguised as a hearing aid and ID system, though it is actually a container that carries a single cyanide pill in case he is captured by a hostile nation. Tsubine moves around in an orderly, soldier-like fashion. This is taken to the extreme to the point he'll conduct small drills on lower-ranking soldiers to "get them in top presentable condition" as he says. You will never find a shoelace too long, a button unbuttoned, or a medal out of order (if he had any) on Tsubine's uniform. This isn't an obsessive-compulsive trait, he is just extremely--and as others put it too--orderly. Tsubine does not speak brashly like many people nowadays. He speaks almost as if he were from the late 1950s, though with modern vocabulary. This vocabulary of his does not include much of today's slang, as he finds it distasteful. In fact, the only time he'd use modern slang would be road-rage and its naval equivalent.

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PERSONALITY:
→ Let us begin with what a stranger experiences when approaching Tsubine. This man may not even acknowledge that person's existence by simply either continuing what he was doing or even leaving the immediate area. If that person continued to pester him, he would definitely acknowledge that person's presence, but not in the way one would be expecting. Tsubine would draw his blade and have it stop right before their neck. If he doesn't have his sword on him, which is rarer than Bigfoot, he will simply respond with a very angry and most likely sarcastic comment. If the person still continues, Tsubine will most likely grab and squeeze the moron's throat just to shut them up. Now, this doesn't come from a higher-than-thou attitude, but instead he has a loathing for distractions and he views most people as distractions.

Towards his allies, he has no true hatred or loathing. In fact, his closer allies he almost treats as if they were family. He respects all those who follow the Cretan Government. Tsubine respects will greet his allies only if they greet him first, likewise with carrying on casual conversation. Tsubine actually only speaks when spoken to or when he deems a response is necessary. Even with his allies, Tsubine is blunt. He won't beat around the bush and despises when people do. Tsubine follows the Code of Chivalry to an extent. Tsubine isn't hesitant to strike a woman down with his blade nor grab her throat to shut her trap. However, he does view them as a bit more useless in battle, so he'd give a slight bit more support to his female allies.

Tsubine absolutely loathes betrayal. If there is any level of hatred above loathing, then that is what he feels about betrayal. If you betray Creta, you best be watching your neck. Tsubine views traitors as so much lower than dirt. To him, those that betray him are the lowest possible form of life and need to be exterminated as soon as possible. Even if someone swears allegiance back with whomever they betrayed, Tsubine will not act as backup support to them personally. If anything, that action enrages Tsubine more than the betrayal for one simple reason: That person is technically an ally and he can't behead them. Tsubine has a grudge problem. This problem is that he holds grudges forever. Literally. Until he dies, Tsubine will hold a grudge against someone. The only person Tsubine has a grudge with is a man who took away an honorable duel with an intervention. When Tsubine holds a grudge, it is almost as bad as someone betraying him.
LOVE:
→ Épée-style fencing
→ Owning old (pre-1930) books
→ Reading said books
→ Cold weather
→ Deep-sea fishing
→ Seafood
→ Model-building

HATE:
→ Overcast
→ Loud music
→ Young children
→ Acronyms
→ Spicy foods

DEEPEST SECRET:
→ Truth about how he lost his eye

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HISTORY:
→ Tsubine's town was just west of the Creta-Aerugo border. They were so close, Aerugese fishing boats could be seen in the distance. It was a quiet, quaint little town in the shadow of a mountain. Tsubine's father was the helmsman for a large fishing boat named the Lili Marleen while his mother worked at a bakery near the docks. His grandfather worked on the docks as a weighman. This small family lived in a small house built by his grandfather back in the days where the threat of a battleship bombarding the coast was not uncommon and the threat for it was real. The house was actually two-part. His grandfather hand-built the house to be a simple hiding spot for the actual house. Beneath that facade, there was an underground bunker that served as the actual house. Of course, it wasn't anything fancy. In fact, the most expensive thing in that bunker was the mortar keeping the stone slabs together. The beds were not lifted off of the ground and were wood-framed with uncomfortable matresses. There was no electricity within the bunker and everything that was kept cold was done so by a freezer in the house above.
Tsubine was born on a stormy Saturday evening. His father's boat had already been returned to the docks, his mother's bakery was closed because of her pregnancy, and the only person out on the docks was his grandfather. His grandfather was helping the last of the large fishing boats into port and tying them off. An Aerugese fishing ship soon entered the port. Because of the rough seas, the ship could not return to Aerugo's nearest port. The ship would either have to weigh it out at sea or dock in the Cretan port. Tsubine's grandfather was the closest thing to the harbormaster there. In his best judgement, he allowed for the Aerugese ship to dock. It wasn't like allowing that ship to dock was a tabboo or anything. In fact, smaller Aerugese trading ships were constantly docking. However, those ships were not fishing vessels. The Aerugese aboard their ship were forced to stay there and not get off because there was a slight chance the local fishermen could get angry and harm the foreign fishermen.

Tsubine's grandfather rushed home to see his first grandchild only a few minutes after coming into the world. The next morning, the town was awakened by artillery fire. The Aerugese ship had attempted to leave port, but it was fired upon by a Cretan patrol. The ship was considered a threat because it was in Cretan waters and did not stop when ordered to. As the fishing boat neared the border's exclusion zone, a volley from the lead patrol ship struck the hull of the Aerugese ship and it soon capsized. The Cretan patrol sent out a small boat with two officers aboard to question the nearby town since that Aerugese ship seemed to be coming from the direction of the town.

Tsubine's father and grandfather both were fixing some minor storm damage to the docks and ships when the boat from the patrol motored up. Tsubine's grandfather pretty much knew what was going on and explained it to the best of his knowledge and ability. The officers took what he said as the truth, which it was, and returned to their cruiser. That was not the last incident with the border there. Tsubine's father was not home much during the fishing seasons, so Tsubine's grandfather helped out with raising Tsubine during those months. Of course, he was old and not in the best of health so what he could do was limited. Tsubine was three when the second incident with the border happened. A couple of animal smugglers tried to sneak through the forest that entered both Aerugo and Creta. They made the mistake of trying to break into Tsubine's home and his grandfather came out with an old military rifle pointed at their heads. The two were then sent on their way back to Aerugo by gunpoint.

Tsubine spent most of his free time reading the books his grandfather had collected over the years. Some were newer books and reprints and some were old with their title faded. Tsubine mainly read those about fishing and the navies of far-away lands. One of the most interesting books he read—and still reads—is one about a pair of ships-of-the-line hunting each other down to collect a bounty on the other captain's head. It actually was not well-written and was that author's only book. However, Tsubine adored it for some reason. On his fourth birthday, his grandfather gave him his own copy of the book. That same birthday, Tsubine had his first experience with fishing.

Since his father was a fisherman, he had borrowed another fisherman's boat (whose permission he had) which was much smaller than his own Lili Marleen. Tsubine's father took him out towards a pair of sunken freighters, where smaller fish would gather. Tsubine's father cast out the first line to show Tsubine how it was done. The skilled fisherman caught a small fish and threw it back after showing his son what it looked like. Grabbing a smaller fishing rod, Tsubine hurried beside his father. The two cast out their lines multiple times. The only other thing caught was a can of tuna from the sunken freighters.

Every other Saturday after that, Tsubine's father took him fishing. On the other Saturdays, his grandfather would. Those days were his favorite. He'd either go out into the deeper water with his father or stay closer to shore with his grandfather. He was taught to swim on some of those trips, but only when it was a bad day for fishing. When Tsubine was eight, that's when the accident happened.

It was a Saturday after a week of heavy storms. The fish were stirred up but so was the seafloor. As Tsubine and his father went to their usual spot, they didn't immediately notice anything awry. The two cast their lines out as usual, but Tsubine's snagged. He tried to pull on it, thinking he had a large fish on it. However, the line snapped. The thin piece of fishing line lashed back. Like a small knife, it cut into his left eye. Tsubine's father turned the boat around as fast as he could, leaving his rod floating in the middle of the sea.

Tsubine's father rushed his only child to the local doctor. The doctor did not have the materials to help the eye, so he phoned the nearest hospital, which was twelve miles away across the mountain.There were few motorized vehicles in the town, since it was so cut off from everywhere and most everything needed was either farmed or shipped by boat. In fact, there was only one road leaving the town.

Tsubine's father borrowed an old delivery truck and drove out of town. About halfway there, he discovered that there was storm damage in the form of three large trees blocking the road. Abandoning the old truck, Tsubine was placed on his father's back. Tsubine's father crossed the trees and followed the road as fast as he could with his son on his back. Six miles and an hour later, the duo arrived in the small city.

Luckily, the hospital was rather close to the road they were on. Tsubine spent a few days in the hospital. However, due to an infection caused by both the sea air and the forest, there was no saving his eye. Tsubine spent two full weeks in the hospital. When he got out, it was on his birthday. The road had been cleared the week before, so his family was able to take him home by delivery truck.

Once home, Tsubine's grandfather, who was now bedridden, gave Tsubine his own eyepatch. He had lost his right eye in a hunting accident with a man in high power, who thought he was a deer. Tsubine accepted it and gave his eyepatch to his grandfather. A few weeks later, his grandfather was sent to an assisted living center. Tsubine was called “useless” and “pitiful” because of his eye. He wrote to his grandfather about these things, and he replied back with words of encouragement. And then told Tsubine that he had lost his eye before joining in a hunting accident with his father.

Tsubine realized that he could do the same as his grandfather. Using that as encouraging words, he began to train his body to meet the Cretan Navy's requirements. Then the time came. When he was seventeen, he could join the Cretan Navy with parental consent. His father and mother both signed off on it and so he entered the academy.

Tsubine took all the knowledge he gained from reading his grandfather's books and put it to good use. The knowledge he gained from helping his father out at the docks didn't hurt either. Tsubine was not the top of his class, but he wasn't at the bottom either. At graduation, out of 250 students, he was number 21 in the overall rankings.

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TRIVIA:
→ Lost his left eye due to infection
→ Claims he lost his eye in a duel
→ Is slightly deaf in his right ear
→ Has never been seasick
→ Right-handed
→ Fluent in Cretan and broken Aerugese

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ALIAS:
→ Tsubine

OTHER CHARACTERS:
→ First character

CREATOR'S COMMENTS:
→ I have nothing else to really say except that the site is one of the most, if not the most, organized sites I've seen.

FACE CLAIM:

Code:

[b]LAST EXILE[/b]/[i]Luscinia Hafez[/i]

CUSTOM RANK:
→ INTERDICTOR

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Older than 20, non-alchemist, scarred... you really are out of the mold, at least your character doesn't follow the other conformity of character age and occupation standard. Congrats!

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