Bagoas Marbot

COMMON CHARACTER
Bagoas Marbot
LEVEL 0

**Bagoas Marbot** is a young Kusyar Drodo living on the Aratacian capital-world of New Aratacia. Coming from an financially deprived family living in New Aratacia's bad areas, Marbot joined a gang of *Hidalei*; who are robohorse-riding gangs of young men and youths who emulate the culture, practices, and training of cavalrymen. He is notorious among his peers for being an eccentric and an antiquarian; a true believer in the old warrior virtues which the Hidalei self-consciously emulate.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Bagoas maintains a naturalistic and unpretentious approach to personal maintenance. He has a freckled face and a little bit of acne. His eyes have large bags from a lack of sleep, but he stands tall and straight. His resting expression is stern. His hair is jet-black and left undyed. It is thick, slightly wavy, and unruly, left barely-styled in a kind of “Brutus” hairdo. He has a pair of small sideburns, but no facial hair besides. His eyes are naturally a striking copper-brown.

Bagoas wears a brown scarf around his neck, as well as an embroidered, reinforced cavalry jacket with fur lining. He also wears tight grey pants with black riding boots. He typically doesn’t deviate from this outfit.

### Personality

Emotional, intense, and hot-tempered, Bagoas is a passionate idealist who lives by his own credo and tries simultaneously to emulate the heroic and mythologised past and live in the moment. He is impulsive, decisive in his action, and unapologetic.

In public and around strangers, Bagoas typically affects a stern and manly disposition. He stands straight with his shoulders back. He walks at all times with a deliberate, fast pace. He maintains an intense gaze. He has a habit of reflexively whipping his hair out of his eyes with the turn of his head, and tends to gnaw on the second knuckle of his index finger when deep in thought. He almost never stumbles over his words, and his verbiage is cuttingly precise at all times.

Around friends and close confidantes, Bagoas is warm, understanding, and inviting. He is fiercely loyal to his friends and loved ones. Bagoas has a soft spot for the needy and vulnerable, with whom he is generous with his possessions. He remembers those who help him as well as those who harm him and makes good on repaying both.

On the other hand, Bagoas is stubborn, arrogant, and a bit of a windbag. He has a talent for alienating people with his aloof attitude and has relatively few strong bonds as a consequence. He has almost no regard for the standards of wider, modern society or those of other people, believing that his own personal set of principles are those that actually matter. Despite his stubborn arrogance, Bagoas is not very confident. He is plagued with self-doubt and obsessive introspection that makes his principles and beliefs, though passionately-held, volatile and prone to change as he re-examines them. A sharp criticism or cutting insult can send him into a tailspin.

### Beliefs

Bagoas does not vote nor does he pay attention to the day-to-day affairs of Aratacian politics. Instead, he takes a dismissive attitude to Aratacian society at-large, expressing a degree of frustration and despair at its current state, and its perceived inadequacy compared to the past. Bagoas sees a distinct failure in Aratacia's modern culture and institutions to reflect the virtues represented in the great poetry and histories from the ancient past. He also expresses frustration at the negligence with which the Kingdom deals with the urban poor, himself a victim of that negligence.

### Capabilities

Bagoas is a skilled rider, and is trained to use his lance both on and off his robohorse. He also has lesser talent in using a sword. He is an amateur poet, and loves writing.

## Character Sheet

* PROFILE
* COGENT

 Hidalei

*See Bagoas Marbot/Cogent*