random.
Like I mentioned in the permissions/stats meme, Dist loves any type of machinery and/or new technology! It fascinates him, and he takes any chance he can get to study new things even if it has consequences on the other person. super sorry. If you need a mechanic for whatever reason, Dist should do in a pinch.
And again, as mentioned, consider this a blanket permission to hurt Dist as long as it's comical. You don't even need to ask! Especially if you're Jade. It happens to him all the time, and he rebounds quickly.
Dist is obsessive, to say the least. This means he will probably be stalking Jade to no end, even when he gets horribly tortured or something. It's canon!
THIS IS. only slightly spoilery, but cutting anyway because people care. Dist's real name is Saphir Wyon Neis. This will probably come up in camp since I know that at least Peony usually refers to him as Saphir (and then switches to Dist sometimes, wtf game). He will go by Dist for the most part, but if you call him Saphir, he won't fuss ... much. He really doesn't care in-game when people switch between the two, but he does care when they call him "Dist the Reaper," not "Dist the Rose."
Speaking of, and this is a little more spoilery! He will not actively be attaching his God-General moniker to his name since the God-Generals are no more as of where I'm pulling him from (some point at the end of the game, post-Nebilim sidequest). He may as a whim, but it's not like he actually has any real attachment to the group.
His main goal in the game is to resurrect Professor Nebilim, who ... well, I'll let Jade cover that. He's tried it two different ways in canon already, first by attempting to get her replica data so he can replicate her (and sort of forgetting that when he messes up the guy that promises him the data, he can't get the data), and then by freeing her original replica. I will probably attempt to find a way to scale this back in camp and keep it light and cracky.
Random crap:
- in charge of the labs at Belkend, which means that despite the fact that he's SOMEWHAT UNHINGED, he's good enough that they let him be in charge of stuff like that.
- rank of Locrian Colonel in the Order of Lorelai, although they usually just refer to him as one of the God-Generals.
- helped Jade create fomicry by building the machines.
- . . . c-calls the party "the Jade gang."
- referred to by the people of Keterburg as "Dr. Neis."
... now for the handy link round-up/skit transcription dump.
This has tidbits from the novel.
All the skits are from Kestal's skit FAQ:
162: Dist? A Genius?!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEAR: The two geniuses from Keterburg, Dr. Balfour and Dr. Neis... Jade
and...?
ION: Dist.
ANISE: Huh?! Dist is a genius?!
ION: What are you so surprised about, Anise? After all, Dist is the one who
modified your Tokunaga to change in size in response to your fonon
frequency.
TEAR: Dist did...that?
ION: He seems to be rather a lonely man most of the time. Anise, you felt bad
for him, always eating by himself. You went and talked to him, didn't
you?
ANISE: ...Yeah, and then he made Tokunaga for me. He's not all bad...but he's
not all that good, either. He was always talking about the Colonel.
JADE: ...That's quite a distasteful thought.
LUKE: Sounds like both of the geniuses here are, well...
GUY: ...Yeah.
JADE: Oh, shall I turn you two into Tokunagas as well? I'm no expert, but I
think I can manage it.
TEAR: ...Tokunagas?[musical note] How wonderful...
GUY: I think I'll pass, thanks!
246: Dist's True Identity?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LUKE: So we have to get the flightstone back from Dist, huh... I hope he has
it in Daath.
JADE: Indeed. We may have to face him in person to retrieve it.
NATALIA: I do not like him at all. That arrogant manner, that tone of voice...
ANISE: Yeah, almost like a lizard.
NATALIA: A lizard... Yes, he does seem like a lizard, doesn't he?
ANISE: I bet that chair he sits on is like a lizard's tail, and when he gets
in trouble, he just snaps it off and runs away!
NATALIA: Oh my! Then that chair is attached to him?
ANISE: Yeah! I bet if he loses it, he grows another one!
NATALIA: Then he truly is a monster...
LUKE: I can't believe I'm hearing this...
JADE: Hah hah hah. Well, why not? It seems plausible enough to me.
LUKE: Hey...
283: Jade and Dist
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GUY: Jade really is nasty to Dist, isn't he?
ANISE: I don't know. I think they like each other.
GUY: They've known each other since they were kids, right?
ANISE: Yeah, it looks like it. Nephry was nice to Dist, too, and everyone
here seems to think well of him. He must've been a cute kid.
TEAR: Maybe Jade has that attitude toward Dist in order to hide his real
feelings.
GUY: Hah hah hah! Maybe so... Kind of like getting angry at someone you've
fallen in love with.
** TEAR LEAVES **
ANISE: Heh heh heh. Jade sure is cute, himself.
JADE: Hmm, a fascinating conversation. Cute, is it?
** GUY LEAVES **
ANISE: Whoa!
291: Nostalgic Memories
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LUKE: Are you sure you didn't overdo things with Dist?
JADE: Enough about that already.
GUY: You hate him so much, one might think you actually kind of loved him.
JADE: How disgusting. He's always tagged along after me. It's quite annoying.
ANISE: Annoying? How?
JADE: There was once a time when I went skating with Nephry and the Emperor...
GUY: Huh. So you used to play around just like everybody else.
JADE: Of course. Anyway, that idiot came along like always, but he couldn't
skate. He followed along right behind me, until he fell down and came
sliding toward my legs.
ANISE: Whoa... With the blades pointed at you?
JADE: Yes. So before he hit me, I used a fonic arte to open a hole in the ice
and drop him into the lake. Then search teams came, and there was quite
a ruckus.
LUKE: ...Wait a minute. Isn't that your fault, then?
JADE: My fault?
** JADE LEAVES **
GUY: If anything, I'd like to know why Dist kept on following such a demented
beast.
ANISE: Hmm... Maybe he's a masochist? Poor guy...
368: Farewell, Dist
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LUKE: So Dist is dead now...
JADE: ...He was a fool, chasing an impossible dream to the end.
LUKE: A dream...?
JADE: A promise made by two foolish children long ago. A foolish dream of
overcoming death.
LUKE: Jade...you mean--
JADE: Luke, I believe you promised not to talk about that.
LUKE: Are you okay with that?
JADE: Yes. I will accept Dist's--Saphir's--death.
LUKE: As an old friend?
JADE: No, as his owner. He was a charming pet.
LUKE: ......
Tales of Fandom vol. 2, in which Jade and Dist's illustrious plan to sneak in and meet Peony as children is recounted. And by "plan," I mean "here Saphir, be the bait."
Random quote dump from the game:
"All I care about is achieving my goal. That takes priority over my loyalty to Van."
-- Dist
"Damnit, why the hell does Dist have the flightstone?"
"He has a freakish obsession with fontech and fon machines. Just like Guy!"
"Excuse me?"
"Luke! It's not nice to compare Guy to Dist!"
-- Luke, Jade, Guy j-jade
"Keterburg produced two geniuses: the fontech expert Dr. Neis and the fonic arte master, Dr Jade Balfour. Dr. Neis is one of the six God-Generals now."
"But you invented fomicry."
"I just developed the theory. It was Dist who built the fon machinery."
-- Luke and Jade on fomicry
"Dist hated His Majesty, too."
-- Jade remarking on Luke's hesitance towards Peony
"Personally, I'm satisfied to perform experiments, regardless of the subject."
-- Dist
"Saphir collapsed in town square and hasn't woken up since."
"Saphir?"
"Dist's real name."
"He keeps mumbling, 'Is Jade here yet?'"
"Why, he waited so dutifuly for Jade."
"Well, he is an idiot after all."
[...]
"You're going to arrest him. ... Fine, but don't let them do anything violent to him."
"I wouldn't dream of it."
-- Nephry, Luke, Jade, Natalia, GENERAL ABUSE
And again, as mentioned, consider this a blanket permission to hurt Dist as long as it's comical. You don't even need to ask! Especially if you're Jade. It happens to him all the time, and he rebounds quickly.
Dist is obsessive, to say the least. This means he will probably be stalking Jade to no end, even when he gets horribly tortured or something. It's canon!
THIS IS. only slightly spoilery, but cutting anyway because people care. Dist's real name is Saphir Wyon Neis. This will probably come up in camp since I know that at least Peony usually refers to him as Saphir (and then switches to Dist sometimes, wtf game). He will go by Dist for the most part, but if you call him Saphir, he won't fuss ... much. He really doesn't care in-game when people switch between the two, but he does care when they call him "Dist the Reaper," not "Dist the Rose."
Speaking of, and this is a little more spoilery! He will not actively be attaching his God-General moniker to his name since the God-Generals are no more as of where I'm pulling him from (some point at the end of the game, post-Nebilim sidequest). He may as a whim, but it's not like he actually has any real attachment to the group.
His main goal in the game is to resurrect Professor Nebilim, who ... well, I'll let Jade cover that. He's tried it two different ways in canon already, first by attempting to get her replica data so he can replicate her (and sort of forgetting that when he messes up the guy that promises him the data, he can't get the data), and then by freeing her original replica. I will probably attempt to find a way to scale this back in camp and keep it light and cracky.
Random crap:
- in charge of the labs at Belkend, which means that despite the fact that he's SOMEWHAT UNHINGED, he's good enough that they let him be in charge of stuff like that.
- rank of Locrian Colonel in the Order of Lorelai, although they usually just refer to him as one of the God-Generals.
- helped Jade create fomicry by building the machines.
- . . . c-calls the party "the Jade gang."
- referred to by the people of Keterburg as "Dr. Neis."
... now for the handy link round-up/skit transcription dump.
This has tidbits from the novel.
All the skits are from Kestal's skit FAQ:
162: Dist? A Genius?!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEAR: The two geniuses from Keterburg, Dr. Balfour and Dr. Neis... Jade
and...?
ION: Dist.
ANISE: Huh?! Dist is a genius?!
ION: What are you so surprised about, Anise? After all, Dist is the one who
modified your Tokunaga to change in size in response to your fonon
frequency.
TEAR: Dist did...that?
ION: He seems to be rather a lonely man most of the time. Anise, you felt bad
for him, always eating by himself. You went and talked to him, didn't
you?
ANISE: ...Yeah, and then he made Tokunaga for me. He's not all bad...but he's
not all that good, either. He was always talking about the Colonel.
JADE: ...That's quite a distasteful thought.
LUKE: Sounds like both of the geniuses here are, well...
GUY: ...Yeah.
JADE: Oh, shall I turn you two into Tokunagas as well? I'm no expert, but I
think I can manage it.
TEAR: ...Tokunagas?[musical note] How wonderful...
GUY: I think I'll pass, thanks!
246: Dist's True Identity?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LUKE: So we have to get the flightstone back from Dist, huh... I hope he has
it in Daath.
JADE: Indeed. We may have to face him in person to retrieve it.
NATALIA: I do not like him at all. That arrogant manner, that tone of voice...
ANISE: Yeah, almost like a lizard.
NATALIA: A lizard... Yes, he does seem like a lizard, doesn't he?
ANISE: I bet that chair he sits on is like a lizard's tail, and when he gets
in trouble, he just snaps it off and runs away!
NATALIA: Oh my! Then that chair is attached to him?
ANISE: Yeah! I bet if he loses it, he grows another one!
NATALIA: Then he truly is a monster...
LUKE: I can't believe I'm hearing this...
JADE: Hah hah hah. Well, why not? It seems plausible enough to me.
LUKE: Hey...
283: Jade and Dist
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GUY: Jade really is nasty to Dist, isn't he?
ANISE: I don't know. I think they like each other.
GUY: They've known each other since they were kids, right?
ANISE: Yeah, it looks like it. Nephry was nice to Dist, too, and everyone
here seems to think well of him. He must've been a cute kid.
TEAR: Maybe Jade has that attitude toward Dist in order to hide his real
feelings.
GUY: Hah hah hah! Maybe so... Kind of like getting angry at someone you've
fallen in love with.
** TEAR LEAVES **
ANISE: Heh heh heh. Jade sure is cute, himself.
JADE: Hmm, a fascinating conversation. Cute, is it?
** GUY LEAVES **
ANISE: Whoa!
291: Nostalgic Memories
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LUKE: Are you sure you didn't overdo things with Dist?
JADE: Enough about that already.
GUY: You hate him so much, one might think you actually kind of loved him.
JADE: How disgusting. He's always tagged along after me. It's quite annoying.
ANISE: Annoying? How?
JADE: There was once a time when I went skating with Nephry and the Emperor...
GUY: Huh. So you used to play around just like everybody else.
JADE: Of course. Anyway, that idiot came along like always, but he couldn't
skate. He followed along right behind me, until he fell down and came
sliding toward my legs.
ANISE: Whoa... With the blades pointed at you?
JADE: Yes. So before he hit me, I used a fonic arte to open a hole in the ice
and drop him into the lake. Then search teams came, and there was quite
a ruckus.
LUKE: ...Wait a minute. Isn't that your fault, then?
JADE: My fault?
** JADE LEAVES **
GUY: If anything, I'd like to know why Dist kept on following such a demented
beast.
ANISE: Hmm... Maybe he's a masochist? Poor guy...
368: Farewell, Dist
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LUKE: So Dist is dead now...
JADE: ...He was a fool, chasing an impossible dream to the end.
LUKE: A dream...?
JADE: A promise made by two foolish children long ago. A foolish dream of
overcoming death.
LUKE: Jade...you mean--
JADE: Luke, I believe you promised not to talk about that.
LUKE: Are you okay with that?
JADE: Yes. I will accept Dist's--Saphir's--death.
LUKE: As an old friend?
JADE: No, as his owner. He was a charming pet.
LUKE: ......
Tales of Fandom vol. 2, in which Jade and Dist's illustrious plan to sneak in and meet Peony as children is recounted. And by "plan," I mean "here Saphir, be the bait."
Random quote dump from the game:
"All I care about is achieving my goal. That takes priority over my loyalty to Van."
-- Dist
"Damnit, why the hell does Dist have the flightstone?"
"He has a freakish obsession with fontech and fon machines. Just like Guy!"
"Excuse me?"
"Luke! It's not nice to compare Guy to Dist!"
-- Luke, Jade, Guy j-jade
"Keterburg produced two geniuses: the fontech expert Dr. Neis and the fonic arte master, Dr Jade Balfour. Dr. Neis is one of the six God-Generals now."
"But you invented fomicry."
"I just developed the theory. It was Dist who built the fon machinery."
-- Luke and Jade on fomicry
"Dist hated His Majesty, too."
-- Jade remarking on Luke's hesitance towards Peony
"Personally, I'm satisfied to perform experiments, regardless of the subject."
-- Dist
"Saphir collapsed in town square and hasn't woken up since."
"Saphir?"
"Dist's real name."
"He keeps mumbling, 'Is Jade here yet?'"
"Why, he waited so dutifuly for Jade."
"Well, he is an idiot after all."
[...]
"You're going to arrest him. ... Fine, but don't let them do anything violent to him."
"I wouldn't dream of it."
-- Nephry, Luke, Jade, Natalia, GENERAL ABUSE