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Name: Levateinn (or Lev, which he dislikes but will answer to).
Age: 22
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 132 lbs.
Hair: Dark blue, almost black.
Eyes: Light blue; he wears glasses, but more because he likes the look than because he actually needs them.
Skin: Fair. He doesn't get out much and tends to sunburn easily.
Likes: Rainy/cold weather, tea, books, chess/Go, peace and quiet.
Dislikes: Disruptions (especially fighting in his store), being told to 'go out and have fun', dog-eared books.
Personality:Disciplined (Positive)Levateinn values self-discipline very strongly. He started by controlling everything about himself, from his morals to his expressions, and over time that control became natural. He rarely needs to push himself or struggle to avoid temptation, as he’s tried to train himself to be above all of that. The idea of doing anything unethical, lazy, or inconsiderate simply because it’s easier barely even crosses his mind. Once he commits to a course of action, or gives his loyalty to a person or cause, he will not lightly abandon it.
He tries to avoid hasty decisions unless he has no other choice, and he much prefers to take his time, analyzing a situation from as many angles as he can and creating a solid plan of action before he gets to work. As a result, whenever he takes on a task, he can be counted on to complete it to the best of his ability, and to allocate enough time and effort to finish it promptly, with as little waste and mess as possible. He's frighteningly efficient and well-organized.
Intelligent (Positive)Levateinn is highly intelligent, quick to learn and able to recall information for a very long time. He’s also curious, constantly seeking out and absorbing new information from books, news, or even gossip. It doesn’t seem to matter what he learns, as long as it’s something interesting. He dabbles in fields from geology to politics, though his eternal favorite is history, especially military history. He's not creative in the usual artistic sense, but he can get creative with tactics, and he plays chess, Go, and even RTS video games in his spare time. He also prefers the company of intelligent people, or people who are knowledgeable and passionate about their field.
Deadpan (Neutral-Positive)Levateinn’s sense of humor is dry and ironic, rather than overtly comedic or slapstick. Rather than make puns or obvious jokes, he’ll make wry comments about the situation. He maintains his usual unflappable calm and matter-of-fact voice even when he’s making a joke. His humor can be difficult to recognize or understand, as it’s usually possible to take his words seriously and at face value. As such, it’s easy to mistake him for being humorless and dull.
Perfectionist (Neutral-Negative)The devil’s in the details, and the smallest things can have the biggest impacts. Levateinn is meticulous, and he pays close attention to those little details, double- and triple-checking his work whenever he can. He enjoys the feeling of accomplishment and achievement that he gets when he achieves his goals. He also believes that if he remains vigilant and works hard, he should be able to foresee problems, or at least weather unexpected problems, and that he will never disappoint others.
While striving for perfection is admirable, Levateinn often takes this trait to more negative extremes. He hates feeling like he has no control, whether it’s over himself, his environment, or even other people -- and even more than that, he hates
failure. Because he works so hard to remain in control of every situation, failing means that he wasn’t good enough or didn’t work hard enough, and failure immediately saps any enjoyment he derived from his work. To him, mistakes are signs of personal defects, rather than unavoidable stumbling blocks or opportunities to learn, and he has great difficulty recovering from failure. In that respect, he’s extremely self-critical.
He also tends to judge people based on his own standards. Although he won’t dismiss someone just for giving in to temptation, he is easily aggravated by people who lack self-discipline,
especially lazy, flippant, or messy people. Given a choice, he’d rather associate with people who are as disciplined as he is.
Aloof (Negative)Levateinn’s drive for perfection includes control over his expressions and emotions. Although he’s far from unfeeling, he regards obvious displays of emotion, especially in public, as embarrassing and unprofessional. If others show emotion, he doesn’t mind much, unless it’s loud or obnoxious, but if he displays any strong emotion, he feels very embarrassed. His emotions usually only show through in small ways -- a twitch of his lips or a slightly raised brow, rather than a full smile or disbelieving frown. The one exception is embarrassment, the only emotion he has yet to fully master. When he's flustered or finds himself the center of unwanted attention, he flushes and finds it difficult to maintain his usual calm.
Just as his initial self-control became innate discipline, his expression of controlled calm became natural. His ability to show emotion, even when he feels them very strongly, has essentially atrophied, and he has trouble expressing sympathy even if he would like to. Thus, he comes across as very distant and difficult to approach, even unemotional.
Strengths: Levateinn is an excellent learner, as he's intelligent, quick to learn, and a diligent, meticulous worker. He's a strong swimmer, though that has not been a necessary skill for a while.
Weakness: His cold nature and high standards mean that he has very few friends, and he is simply not one for socializing or politics of any kind. As such, he runs the bookstore alone. He also tends to be rather possessive of his physical space, and anyone getting too close to him, or even to a place he considers his (most likely his desk in the bookstore), makes him extremely uncomfortable. He's also terrible at fighting.
History: Levateinn was raised by a breeder, and his life was plain and average. Too plain and average, in fact; he was always restless in the breeding center, as he craved something more challenging than sitting around and looking pretty. There was nothing new for him to learn, neither information nor skills, and it quickly grew stale. Whenever trainers came by with stories of their adventures, he would always be nearby, listening intently while putting on a great show of not caring. As years went by, he grew more and more dissatisfied, but there was no way he could leave on his own, and no way for him to communicate how stifled he felt.
That was when he dreamed of Musharna -- a being he'd only heard rumors and secondhand stories of. He was offered the chance to create his own path, to see the world and explore for himself, and he didn't think twice about accepting.
With a new human form and nothing else, he started traveling. He saw a large chunk of Unova, making a living off temporary jobs and moving from place to place when he had the funds to do so. But he soon realized that constant travel was too chaotic and uncertain for him, and started looking for a stable job. He decided to settle in Nimbasa City when he met an elderly bookstore owner, Jennifer Alsace, who was willing to give him a job and a room above her store. Despite having no prior experience, he learned quickly and made himself an invaluable assistant, helping her with both the Grounds for Thought store and her daily life. The many books available provided him plenty of room to think and learn without having to leave the comfort of a stable life, and he felt comfortable talking with the regular patrons, many of whom were intelligent and curious.
But Alsace was old, and one day he woke up to the sound of ambulance sirens. She'd had a heart attack, and there was nothing anyone could do for her. He took the news a lot harder than he was willing to let anyone see, so he closed the bookstore's doors for a while. Alsace's lawyer told him that she'd left everything, including the store, to him. Unwilling to let her beloved bookstore go, even though she was no longer there, he reopened it within the month. He still manages it to this day.
As the store's owner and only worker, he manages all of the business, from sales to finances to restocking. Even so, he usually manages to find time to sit and read a book, or to play chess with a patron. He is also, behind the scenes, a canny businessman; Alsace had borrowed quite a bit of money to finance the store, and he inherited her problems with everything else. He has since singlehandedly handled, paid off, and driven away various lenders and loan sharks, and though his store still faces the occasional visitor who's overly concerned about the threat of fire to his store, it's still standing and he's still in one piece.
Since the gijinka population appears to be swelling, he's also opened up the fourth floor of the building; as the bookstore was built from the first three floors of an old apartment complex, the rooms on the fourth floor were never destroyed. He rents them out to other gijinka, on the condition that they be nondisruptive.
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