Basic Information
----Basic Stats----
--General--
Name: Enoch
Gender: Male
Species: Human (He might sense as slightly angelic to people who can sense such things)
Age: 35 physically, 335~400 chronologically (he's lost track)
--Canon--
Current Chapter: 7
Current Weapon: Arch
--Abilities--
Double-Jump: Enoch can jump off the air as if it was solid ground once. After that, his feet must touch solid ground again before he can repeat it.
Rapid-Fire Recovery: In the game, when Enoch is about to die, the player can quickly press the input buttons to revive him with a few pieces of his armor (his health being measured by the state of his armor). This becomes more and more difficult to pull off the more it's used. In most games, this will be limited to once per thread/other system of measurement if kept at all.
Arch Glide (Weapon-based): As long as he has his Arch with him, he can use it like a parachute of sorts to slow his descent in the air.
--Game--
Community: meridian_rpg
Special Conditions:
Inherent: Mark of Opportunity - enhanced luck
Environmental: None
Injuries/Illness: None
Event/Other: N/A
----Character----
--Overview: Personality and Culture--
Enoch is a quiet man, often speaking no more than one or two sentences at a time, if he needs to speak. Needless to say, this leads to communication issues easily enough. He's an optimist, a patient listener, and an adept learner. He tends to hyper-focus under pressure, enabling him to very quickly pick up new ideas in intense situations. However, on the flip side of this, Enoch may also miss details of his surroundings that he might need, focused entirely on something else until he needs to focus elsewhere (he's missed several opportunities to steal weapons this way, not to mention wound up attacked from behind).
Enoch comes from an age long dead, and though his views have been altered slightly from living in Heaven for several years, to many he will come across as somewhat odd. Even to those of his culture, he may seem different in that he has a tendency to treat a woman as near his equal - as there is at least one female member of the Council of Elders and one female archangel, and these are treated no differently than their male counterparts, Enoch was obviously taught to do the same while he lived there.
There are several cultural conventions that Enoch will not recognize at first, the most immediately obvious being the greeting gestures of bowing or shaking hands. He will likely pick these up eventually, though may not immediately recognize who expects which gesture.
As far as language goes, Enoch is of course not actually speaking English. Or Japanese, or...likely not any language your character might speak. The translation convention in whatever environment he winds up in will help him understand unfamiliar words, but this can only go so far. Words that embody concepts that don't exist yet for him (the word "computer", for example) will mean nothing to him. He may also miss certain colloquialisms, of course.
Perhaps one of the most difficult things to talk about here is his view of homosexuality. He's not "homophobic" so much as "heterosexist" by point of view. And this only as the outcome of the culture he was raised in. That is, having children is an inherent duty of being human and living on earth (his culture being an agrarian, largely desert-dwelling society without the reliance on modern technology we have today. Lots of work to do and a high death rate demand a high birth rate.) There is no hatred for or fear of homosexuality, just the thought that it's a waste if one isn't also passing on one's blood. (He would think the same of birth control.) If someone were to explain to him the condition of Earth and its population, he would likely understand, if he could manage to wrap his head around a population of seven billion.
Another sensitive subject is slavery, simply because it has gained a connotation today that it did not have back then. In Enoch's time, a slave sold their services (or their family's) to someone out of a lack of money, or a desire to be provided for. Sometimes, slaves were prisoners of war, as well, but this was a special occurrence, and the "everyday" notion of the slave or servant would be the former. Slavery as we commonly think of it today, especially as a tool of discrimination, would probably horrify Enoch as much as it does us.
--Enoch's Canons and How They Interact--
The links on the sidebar of this journal include information about his game canon and the mythological canon it draws from. However, how are these mingled? The basic plot of El Shaddai draws from the first part of the Book of Enoch - the angels known as Watchers becoming infatuated with humanity and deliberately descending from Heaven to live among them, unions between the two races producing creatures called Nephilim.
In El Shaddai, Enoch searches for the tower the fallen Watchers hide in for three hundred and sixty five years, having been granted immortality for the task. This figure came from the verse in Genesis (sorry, biblical quotes are kind of a must here): "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:" Many of the alternate names for Metatron are used instead as aliases during this time, to avoid interference from the Watchers' leader, Azazel, as he searched.
After three hundred and sixty five years (which Lucifel calls the written "three hundred", both of them probably stopped counting), Enoch finally finds the tower - it's in a dimensional rift of sorts, away from Earth and Heaven alike. He enters the rift, leaving no trace of himself but footprints that would fade, tying into the phrase two verses after the quote, "and he was not".
For those of you reading the chapter itself, you may have noticed something: Enoch is supposed to be 365, not 335. Well...let's ignore the verse for now and go for realism instead: for one, Methuselah was probably born when Enoch was around 16 or 17, rather than 65. And then, Enoch's appearance in the game closer resembles 35 than 65. This makes the timeline a bit less cramped.
This writeup is always a work in progress. If you find anything wrong with it or anything you'd like me to add, feel free to comment.
--General--
Name: Enoch
Gender: Male
Species: Human (He might sense as slightly angelic to people who can sense such things)
Age: 35 physically, 335~400 chronologically (he's lost track)
--Canon--
Current Chapter: 7
Current Weapon: Arch
--Abilities--
Double-Jump: Enoch can jump off the air as if it was solid ground once. After that, his feet must touch solid ground again before he can repeat it.
- Attack Suspension: Related, when Enoch is in the motion of attacking while in midair, he is suspended until the attack ends, at which point he resumes falling as normal.
Rapid-Fire Recovery: In the game, when Enoch is about to die, the player can quickly press the input buttons to revive him with a few pieces of his armor (his health being measured by the state of his armor). This becomes more and more difficult to pull off the more it's used. In most games, this will be limited to once per thread/other system of measurement if kept at all.
Arch Glide (Weapon-based): As long as he has his Arch with him, he can use it like a parachute of sorts to slow his descent in the air.
--Game--
Community: meridian_rpg
Special Conditions:
Inherent: Mark of Opportunity - enhanced luck
Environmental: None
Injuries/Illness: None
Event/Other: N/A
----Character----
--Overview: Personality and Culture--
Enoch is a quiet man, often speaking no more than one or two sentences at a time, if he needs to speak. Needless to say, this leads to communication issues easily enough. He's an optimist, a patient listener, and an adept learner. He tends to hyper-focus under pressure, enabling him to very quickly pick up new ideas in intense situations. However, on the flip side of this, Enoch may also miss details of his surroundings that he might need, focused entirely on something else until he needs to focus elsewhere (he's missed several opportunities to steal weapons this way, not to mention wound up attacked from behind).
Enoch comes from an age long dead, and though his views have been altered slightly from living in Heaven for several years, to many he will come across as somewhat odd. Even to those of his culture, he may seem different in that he has a tendency to treat a woman as near his equal - as there is at least one female member of the Council of Elders and one female archangel, and these are treated no differently than their male counterparts, Enoch was obviously taught to do the same while he lived there.
There are several cultural conventions that Enoch will not recognize at first, the most immediately obvious being the greeting gestures of bowing or shaking hands. He will likely pick these up eventually, though may not immediately recognize who expects which gesture.
As far as language goes, Enoch is of course not actually speaking English. Or Japanese, or...likely not any language your character might speak. The translation convention in whatever environment he winds up in will help him understand unfamiliar words, but this can only go so far. Words that embody concepts that don't exist yet for him (the word "computer", for example) will mean nothing to him. He may also miss certain colloquialisms, of course.
Perhaps one of the most difficult things to talk about here is his view of homosexuality. He's not "homophobic" so much as "heterosexist" by point of view. And this only as the outcome of the culture he was raised in. That is, having children is an inherent duty of being human and living on earth (his culture being an agrarian, largely desert-dwelling society without the reliance on modern technology we have today. Lots of work to do and a high death rate demand a high birth rate.) There is no hatred for or fear of homosexuality, just the thought that it's a waste if one isn't also passing on one's blood. (He would think the same of birth control.) If someone were to explain to him the condition of Earth and its population, he would likely understand, if he could manage to wrap his head around a population of seven billion.
Another sensitive subject is slavery, simply because it has gained a connotation today that it did not have back then. In Enoch's time, a slave sold their services (or their family's) to someone out of a lack of money, or a desire to be provided for. Sometimes, slaves were prisoners of war, as well, but this was a special occurrence, and the "everyday" notion of the slave or servant would be the former. Slavery as we commonly think of it today, especially as a tool of discrimination, would probably horrify Enoch as much as it does us.
--Enoch's Canons and How They Interact--
The links on the sidebar of this journal include information about his game canon and the mythological canon it draws from. However, how are these mingled? The basic plot of El Shaddai draws from the first part of the Book of Enoch - the angels known as Watchers becoming infatuated with humanity and deliberately descending from Heaven to live among them, unions between the two races producing creatures called Nephilim.
In El Shaddai, Enoch searches for the tower the fallen Watchers hide in for three hundred and sixty five years, having been granted immortality for the task. This figure came from the verse in Genesis (sorry, biblical quotes are kind of a must here): "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:" Many of the alternate names for Metatron are used instead as aliases during this time, to avoid interference from the Watchers' leader, Azazel, as he searched.
After three hundred and sixty five years (which Lucifel calls the written "three hundred", both of them probably stopped counting), Enoch finally finds the tower - it's in a dimensional rift of sorts, away from Earth and Heaven alike. He enters the rift, leaving no trace of himself but footprints that would fade, tying into the phrase two verses after the quote, "and he was not".
For those of you reading the chapter itself, you may have noticed something: Enoch is supposed to be 365, not 335. Well...let's ignore the verse for now and go for realism instead: for one, Methuselah was probably born when Enoch was around 16 or 17, rather than 65. And then, Enoch's appearance in the game closer resembles 35 than 65. This makes the timeline a bit less cramped.
This writeup is always a work in progress. If you find anything wrong with it or anything you'd like me to add, feel free to comment.