Paulean

Paulean's profile picture as of March 16th 2021

> **"Play Terraria, you fucking c\*sual"**
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Paulean used to be the second most elitist person in the subreddit, losing in this category only to Sea Salt Boy. His elitism state started being questioned, however, when user mayoness joined the server and Don Polentone stepped up his elitist game.

While he could spend his time earning elitist points, he's too occupied going to the gym and stealing all of Rio de Janeiro's stock of Whey Protein. Another contributing factor for this loss is the fact that he likes Fates (which also makes him a very based individual). If you ask Paulean what is the best example of something bad, he'll 100% of the time show his copy of Fire Emblem Awakening, which he considered burning for quite a while now.

Paulean is also known for being a professional (unofficial) Terraria player, and has been known to carry others in basically every playthrough of the server. Another thing Paulean really enjoys is doing draft races and challenge runs for Pokemon, two notable of these runs being the Pokemon Sapphire SOYO run (Screw Over Your Opponent) and Pokemon FireRed Poison Monotype.

Paulean also officially has a harem in Memesemblem, with A Loptyrian Mage being the 7th girl in it.

## Memesemblem Echoes: Da Genshin

After Samael Helel left Memesemblem for the first time in 2021, Paulean invited A Loptyrian mage to help him with creating a rom hack, called Memesemblem Echoes: Da Genshin. The hack is a one chapter long mini-project that covers the events of the Echoes vs Genshin debate, where you control an army composed of The Jammed, Coconut, Tommy, Gator, Don Polentone, A Loptyrian Mage, and the man himself, Paulean.

The hack was developed during the period of 2-3 months and used some assets already present in the Memesemblem Hack, with some new ones like Kiphub Shapiro and cowmom's whitney portrait. It ended up being released in the 1st year anniversary of Memesemblem, as a love letter to the subreddit and server.

## In game

### **Samael Helel's Memesemblem hack**

Growths

Gameplay-wise, Paulean is a pretty good unit. Although as an NPC he'll rarely be aggresive towards other units, he really won't care about morals when he's under your command. Paulean is able to dish some serious damage during player phase, due to his great base strength and good base speed, but since he lacks 1-2 range, you better not rely on him enemy phasing cowards (I mean, ranged units), specially if those units are mages, since they target his pitiful Resistance stat. His resistance might be a reference to the fact that he's one of the first people to leave an the chats of the server when he notices there's drama or political talk going on in the chat.

His movement growth is also 0%, which might be the lowest in the game. It is believed that this is a reference to the fact that he has to carry his huge balls of steel around, as shown in the Sex arc (Not archived), where he deleted a post from Flouxni due to it violating Rule 7 of Memes Emblem.

### Memesemblem Echoes: Da Genshin

Growths

Paulean receives a huge buff in this hack, compared to Sam's hack. Although he suffer from the lack of Tsunami bow, he can still dish out a lot of damage in player phase, and is decently bulky, losing in that department to Tommy only. He is a bit on the slow side, and will be doubled by most of Cowmom's and Kip's army, but he's a great addition to the team to deal with the spooks on the southern part of the map. Speaking of which, Paulean is the only character who can survive Dry Bowser at base, making him the ideal killer of the foe. What really hurts Paulean is his E rank bows, though, since he's limited to the iron bow for a big portion of the game, and bows are specially powerful in this hack, and they're one of the few ranged options.

In terms of story, Paulean is the last member to join the group, as he needs to be rescued from his crippling Terraria addiction on the east side of the map, but he's also the highest levelled character out of the main cast and features some really good bases. His growths are focused on Strength, Skill, HP and defense, with the rest of them being pretty mediocre. This is something pretty common in the Echoes hack, since growths are meant to help the units achieve their cap in the stats they're focused on (with the biggest example of this being Gator, who features a 110% speed growth, even though he has the highest speed of the whole cast).

With secret events, Paulean becomes the best player phase unit in the whole hack, tied with Gator. The difference between Gator and Paulean with their respective PRFs is the fact that Gator can safely target an enemy and run away, while Paulean has to deal with his massive Con, being unrescueable by any unit. While Gator's PRF is much safer, Paulean's can be obtained earlier and is more powerful, specially when combined with his huge strength stat, and is able to one round pretty much any unit on the map except Cowmom and the Secret boss.

Overall, Paulean is a unit that is really good at base and worth investing into if you want to profit from his strength stat. A cap of 25 being the highest in the game is specially powerful when combined with Bows that can attack enemies from range. However, if the player decides not to invest into Paulean, he's still a very good unit that can be used to dish huge amounts of damage in one hit and still tank physical foes.

## Trivia

* Paulean is part of the Brasil gang, together with DefinitelyNotALoli, TheJammed and Don Polentone.
* Paulean has been a mod ever since Memesemblem was 1 day old. Only dropping the role briefly before the coup happened in January.
* It is said that Paulean is the character with the most canonical power difference between his real self and his hack self. Samael Helel confirmed that the reason he did that for balancing reasons, as Paulean in his canonical full power would turn the hack into Birthright Phoenix Mode.
* Paulean rarely changed his profile picture ever since he made the Duke Leifron edit. The only other moments were when he turned to his canonical form (used in the hack), the Loptyrian coup and when he got addicted to Bloodborne, which resulted in his current form: Hoonter Paulean.
* Paulean hasn't beaten a single Fire Emblem game in 2021.
* Paulean has beaten Terraria three times in 2021.
* His weapon of choice, the Tsunami, is a weapon so overpowered in Terraria that it can carry the player all the way from early hardmode to the Final Boss. Although it is not Paulean's favorite weapon in the game, the incredible power of the weapon made Paulean turn into the biggest Duke Fishron stan in our reality.
* He has confirmed that if he ever does a Fire Emblem hack, it's going to have at least three magical weapons based on Terraria, those being the Water Bolt, the Golden Shower and the Flamelash.