GENERAL
Name: Flint Vandergrift
Gender: Male
Age: 44
Birthday: October 9th
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Lineage: Musashi's Descent
PERSONALITY
Focused and generally earnest, Flint possesses a deep sense of humanity and principle based primarily on a need to maintain stability, survival, and inner peace. As an ex-convict and a former mercenary for hire, Flint's life has been shaped around the idea of war and battle, and he struggles often with the difficulty of adjusting back into normal life. Despite this, Flint has a genuine desire to settle back into a 'simple life', despite having no clue what exactly that means.
Flint is careful, methodical, and leaves nothing to chance, and is quick to anger or defend whenever one of these subjects are broached. His large physical appearance and his past greatly mar first impressions of him, as many find him both intimidating and thoroughly unapproachable. Though his exterior is often hard and seemingly implacable, Flint is genuinely a decent man who possesses a great deal of insecurity in regards to both being able to hold regular conversations and maintain a connection with others, not for lack of trying. This in turn, causes the world to generally misunderstand Flint as a hard, uncompromising man as he closes his heart to the outer world.
More often than not, Flint does not understand his own personal emotions, nor how to handle them in a constructive manner. A lifetime of horrible experienced, both lived in and second hand, has jaded the man to become a survivalist cynic. His inability to handle his own emotions forces him to run away from his problems, to attempt to escape his past by ignoring it. The paradox of this is that by attemptinh to neglect his past and forge a better future for himself, he inevitably remakes the same mistakes as he does previously, causing him no need of grief as he does not examine why it occurs in the same way.
Likes:
- Work: Flint is a natural workhorse, it is how he handles himself and composes his identity. Without work Flint is uncomfortable. He often sets his own targets, finds his own hobbies, anything to keep him on the busy unless he's on rest. This urgency is developed also primarily for a need to recoup the time he lost in prison.
- Depended On: Flint's natural sense of self-worth is also tied primarily on his ability to help others. He likes being the person that others fall to when things don't go their way, he is stable and hard, and in most situations he is able to handle himself. As a result, being depended on grants him a degree of comfort and humanity he is otherwise unable to obtain.
- Connecting: While a true connection is hard, and rare for the giant. Flint nevertheless seeks one. He has a great deal that is placed on his shoulders, and having the ability to share a space of safety and trust with another person is something he values. He is deeply loyal to those who he manages to broach the distance with.
Dislikes:
- Sloppiness: Flint is impossibly meticulous and thorough. He dislikes any kind of mistake made that was made without any kind of forethought.
- Small talk: When speaking, Flint speaks with direct intention, as are his actions, and as such, he quickly grows tired of vapid conversation that goes around in circles.
- The Past: Flint is definitively, and ultimately defined by his fear of repeated mistakes. Any mention of his past is a quick way to immediately get Flint to raise his barriers.
Motivations:
- Absolution: Above all else, Flint desires redemption and a second chance in life, and to be able to forget or forgive his prior actions.
- Stability: Flint wants peace, and a place to secure his own shelter. Having spent an entire life in turmoil, and having internalized that conflict, he wants to break apart the destructive behaviours that set him and be able to re-integrate into society in a practical way.
- Respect: Flint does not want to die as a criminal, forgotten and despised. A part of his motivation stems from the fear of being remembered for his worst sins, and he desires to change the narrative for people to remember him as a good, well-respected individual.
Fears:
- Failure: Flint above all, despises the idea of being seen as helpless or unable to live up to a task. He views himself as highly successful and thoroughly capable, irresistible and competent, as a means to hide his inability to view or accept who he is.
- Reliance: Similar to how he dislikes the idea of being seen as weak or helpless, he also dislikes the idea of being unable to perform something by himself, and instead rely on those who may or may not be willing to help.
- Catastrophe: Having experienced the chaos of having everything he had once known to be thrown into question, Flint dreads the feeling of not knowing what the future holds. As a result, he is incredibly meticulous and thorough when it comes to his life and progression. Everything needs to be in their place, and a slight deviation often makes Flint uncomfortable.
APPEARANCE
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 230 lbs
Hair: Raven Black
Eyes: Dark Brown.
Skin Tone: Tanned
Appearance: Flint is a large, muscular man with has dense, black hair and steel blue eyes. He has a handsome face of masculine features, often decked with a dense, coarse beard that is barely shaved. Though he is getting on in his years, age has not dulled his physical body nor flecked his hair with grey. Flint's body is scattered with scars and injuries, indicating a lifetime that knew little of comfort as bit and pieces were slowly taken from him over time. Of not, a single gouge in the hip area which has made a dent in the bone, indicting a deep and most likely fatal cut had he not received immediate medical attention.
Guild: Fairy Tail
Tattoo: Right Forearm, Deep Red
FLINT VANDERGRIFT
WHEN THE HOPE OF NEW BEGINNINGS BURNED OUR FEET.
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