Sovereign Application

PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Eri
AGE: 25
CONTACT: subjuggul8ion
CONTENT WARNING CHECK: Bring it on.
CONSEQUENCES CHECK: Do your worst!
COLLABORATION CHECK: Absolutely.

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CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Souza Samonji
AGE: 46
ETHNICITY: Dornish
HOMETOWN: Kingsgrave
CURRENT RESIDENCE: King's Landing
OCCUPATION: Prostitute, Information broker
SKILLS:
❀ Education: Souza grew up in a relatively well-off house and moved to the house of a minor lord on his betrothal, so he's somewhat educated. He can read and write, and knows the basics of courtly manners.
❀ Swordsmanship: As the son of a skilled blacksmith, and a promised husband of the daughter of a lord, Souza has been trained in how to use a sword. He had a knack for it, at the time, and could likely pick it up again, if necessary, but is severely out of practice.
❀ Flattery: Souza seems to know just what to say, and to who, to keep people around him in a generally good mood. It's a self-defense mechanism, certainly, but it also is useful for gleaning information from people with looser tongues who are prone to brag.
❀ Whoring: He's survived for upwards of thirty years entirely on the ability and willingness to let people have their way with him - whatever that entails - and has definitely picked up some tricks of the trade along the way.
HISTORY: Here

PERSONALITY: Souza is, primarily, very jaded. He's jaded towards life, having been through many, many horrible things, and he's jaded towards other people, because at times the kindest-seeming people have proven to be the worst, and the strangest have proven to be the best, so it's safer and easier to keep everyone at an arm's length at least. He's also grown used to being a possession, and assumes that most interact with him to that end, so he is highly suspicious of anyone's motivations, though he'll hide his disdain for others under a pleasant smile and carefully chosen words. Still, it shows through from time to time, in passive aggressive commentary.

He doesn't believe anyone could - or would - genuinely care about him as a person, anymore, and doesn't want to let himself believe in the possibility for that, but the hope is still there, buried deep down inside. He'll cover up the hopes in odd questions from time to time, and cutting remarks, but anyone who knows him for very long and who does actually care somewhat, would probably be able to take notice of the insecurity it stems from.

Somewhat paradoxically, for someone who is willingly in his line of work, he longs for freedom, and thinks of himself akin to a caged bird. But, while he wants it, he doesn't believe he deserves freedom, and is accustomed to being owned, so he allows that pattern to continue. If he were to actually find himself free of everything, with the means to take care of himself, he wouldn't know what to do with himself anyway, which is something he is all too aware of, so he doesn't bother trying to build up the self-esteem needed to strike out on his own. He also doesn't trust the world in general, believing that if he turned his back on a relatively okay situation, he'd only be forced into something worse against his will.

Death - and dying - is something he thinks about often and, in a way, is another sort of freedom that he longs for. He would embrace death readily, because only in death is there freedom from everything that, to his view, causes him pain in the world - the desires of people, his reputation for passive acceptance, the ordeal of being passed around and possessed, never cared for past what he can do for whoever has him for the moment. There's no such pressures in death, and he'd be relieved to finally find the freedom he's longed for for so long - yet at the same time, he would never go ahead and kill himself. There's a resilience there, whether he'll admit it or not, to have gone on for so long, even if he'd be relieved to finally be able to fly away.

MOTIVATION: Very little motivates Souza, and his motivations tend to shift on a day to day basis. He wants to die, but he doesn't want to commit suicide, so he has a tendency to do dangerous things - like sharing the secrets of dangerous people with their enemies, when the chance allows for it. But he's also endeared to the establishment he lives and works at, whether he'll admit it or not, so he does genuinely wish to see it do well, and will look after the other employees when they're hurt or need a shoulder to lean on.

TEST DRIVE LINKS: Open ❀