Vespasian
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Judge, jury, and executioner, Vespasian Judge runs the Prison-Court where captured pieces are sent and processed. They’re typically pretty stressed, overworked, and all-round crotchety, putting a little too much effort into ensuring the letter of the law is followed.
Likes
- candied fruits
- violin
- floral perfumes
- sunbathing
Dislikes
- vinegar
- birds
- winter
- reptiles
STORY
Mentioned early on but not seen until the Game is in full-swing, they complete a hated behind-the-scenes job with all the energy of a main character, to the disdain of just about everyone. Incredibly antagonistic to everyone, they unfortunately are one of the characters providing the most critical insight about the operations of Looking-Glass Land. Those who fail to navigate the ins-and-outs of this world are destined to have a run-in with them eventually. Keep your wits about you, lest you find yourself in their court. Not a full character route.
PERSONALITY & HABITS
No one is entirely sure how old they are, but the crotchety attitude is a little too similar to some old man who yells at kids to get off the lawn. They are a fan of work, success, rules, and luxury goods, leading them to be a notorious workaholic, fulfilling their role with gusto… A little too much gusto, especially since they take their work personally, and handle their personal affairs professionally. Pretty much any problems another person is working through can be made all about themself instead. As a judge, their ability to manipulate words is unparalleled, and they’ll use this to eek out every greedy gain as possible.
DEVELOPMENT
A little late to the cast, they came about after findng a surprising unused character from the original drafts of Through the Looking Glass. The Wasp-In-A-Wig was scrapped for not being distinct enough to John Tenniel, but I'm here to disagree. A lot of habits are taken directly from the behaviors of wasps and related insects (ants, bees, etc). Similarly, design elements are taken from the insect’s physical appearance. Their two servants are a reference to the play The Wasps. Doesn’t exist in most older iterations of the story until the idea of a prison realm was fleshed out. May or may not make a crap-ton of Ace Attorney references, and on occasion from The Good Place.
Trivia
- They’re pretty self-absorbed in their own problems to the point of sociopathy.
- Buzzes when annoyed and frustrated. This also causes whatever cravat they’re wearing to flutter, though they deny it.
- Chews on pencils.
- Surprisingly well-versed in the arts, having picked up the violin and pottery (particularly loves paper-mache).
- Others note they constantly smell of violin resin.
- Prefers to be warm rather than cold, so if they do have to be out and about in the world it’ll be during the warmth of the day, which is why they have such a vendetta against the concept of siestas.
- Keeps their own version of the Social Register specific for players of the Game.
- Easily distracted by flashing lights.
- Also snacks a lot, especially sweet junk foods. It is common belief that they can be bribed with sweets, and it often looks that way until they pass judgement as if the bribe attempt never happened at all.
- Always assumes the worst of butlers, due to reading way too many whodunits.
- Recieved pronunciation.
Design Notes
- Main colors are black & yellow.
- Actual hair is blond with black roots, and they care an awful lot about keeping split ends at bay.
- Enjoys decorative gloves & dislikes dirty hands.
- Many elements end in triangular points, or at least right angles (even his eyebrows are triangles).
- The three dots are ocelli.
- Prefers stripes to other patterns.
- Wears corsets.
- Prefers oversized glasses.
- Always has cravat capable of fluttering.
- Pointy little incisors.
- Slasher smile.
Attitude
Expression
Quests
Despite all their distinct inability to seperate work from personal matters, they're excellent at enforcing the most harsh of the Game's rules, much to the misery of all around them. And there are several players that are practically begging for the swing of that gavel.
TIP: Measure your moves carefully, you never know what useless detail is uselessly illegal.Tokens
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Elise
annoyance
Quickly becoming an infamous otherworlder, her involvement in the Game sends Vespaian tearing through bookshelves of rules and preceedent. Needless to say, they don't like her. They haven't found a reason to imprison her quite yet but just the idea of some stranger waltzing into a Game already in progress--? No, no, no, this simply won't do.
Roland
occasional workmates
One of the few people that can at least act like they're capable of dealing with the Judge's attitude, the Arbiter is the person closest to Vespasian's neutral ranking. A rarity, to be sure, and most likely a result that Roland is too antisocial to have even had opportunity to annoy them too much.
Sosias & Xanthias
servants
Two shadowy servants, they may be the only two shadows to even have enough of themselves to be named at all. The two of them rarely do much work, however, due to their boss's hands-on attitude when it comes to work. More often than not they are stuck doing menial tasks, but shadows don't really complain anyway.
Elain
criminal
They reocgnize that deerish face! That's the face of a convicted criminal, they're sure of it--but somehow there's no records of anything that can put him behind bars, and that Red King is insistant that Elain has been playing properly all along. TTheyll find something to end this little jaunt beyond the prison.
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