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Name: Gregor
Canon: Limbus Company
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Species: Genetically modified human
Appearance: image link!
Canon point: After Canto 8, The Surrendered Witnessing.

History: Here- his page has a story tab as well.

Personality answers:

Explain which event in canon is most pivotal to your character's development, and who they are today.

Two events sort of go hand in hand, for this answer: his genetic modification at the hands of his mother, and the Smoke War he was modified to participate in. Just before age fifteen, he became his mother Hermann's key subject for her experiments; she operated on him personally, replacing his arm with a new insect limb and altering his genes along with it. While most who received this procedure mutated horrifically, he was left looking human save for his arm, and while this garnered him attention as the face of her company's capabilities... it earned him resentment from his fellow soldiers, envious that he seemed to have suffered far less. Not that he's been completely free from mutation-- without his tie to Dante, he tended to sprout more insect-like parts under duress or when emotional-- but he's far from being as disfigured as the rest.

After being modified, he was forced into war, largely treated as the poster boy for corporate propaganda by the company he served. 'Corporate warfare' is extremely literal in this world, and he rarely speaks in detail about the things he saw and did in parts of the city that were turned into battlefields; what he will say is that he supposes that level of darkness made him reach for something lighter, turning to humor to cope. He resorted to shoving it all down and being as far from the expected military man as possible: easygoing, friendly, faster to try to stop conflict than engage in it.

What would be your character's lowest, darkest moment they've lived through? How did they respond to their troubles and face their demons?

Expanding on the above a bit... his modification surgery was very much his lowest moment. It was an unasked-for, unwanted procedure that irrevocably changed the rest of his life when he was still a young teen, and from his perspective: suddenly, he had changed. He had no real ability to handle this save for shutting down and treating it as a nightmare he might one day wake from, and for some time afterward, remained unresponsive to the researchers working with him. Eventually, though, he realized doing what they wanted was the only option he had, and began to go along with the training they insisted on in order to learn how to use his 'gift'. With time he resigned himself to living with it, but he has always resented it, and bears lingering trauma from the incident. (He particularly can't stand apples, the first thing they used to teach him how to slice through things with his arm.)

As for how he's faced his demons-- well, the short answer is that he just doesn't. Never has. His assigned sin in canon is Sloth, which in his case is represented not in laziness or refusal to act but in deep resignation that started manifesting after his procedure. He's never felt like he had control over his life, and any time he nearly did, it slipped from his grasp. Why bother, then? Why try to forge a path when he knows he can't leave the one others made for him? He's sure that if he tried, he would just be forced back onto it anyway. He's sure that Hermann will always win. It'd be a lot of pain for nothing, in the end, and he's already had plenty of that.

What is justice to your character? How important is it to them?

If there's real 'justice' in the City, he thinks it's working at a disadvantage. One of his fellow Sinners is intent on pursuing justice for the evils she sees in the world, but she's been somewhat naive and overzealous about it; her flavor of justice isn't really his, much as he often agrees with her attempts to help those who need it. If justice is fairness, it barely exists anywhere in the City. If it's punishment, it often falls on people who just don't deserve it.

So if he really had to try to define it, justice is closest to doing what you can, where you can. Helping people who desperately need it even if it causes you trouble. Getting in the way of unfair things happening to others... within reason, because otherwise you'll just get yourself killed or worse, and then what good are you ever going to do? Unfortunate as it is, justice isn't always an option in real-world situations... so while it's great conceptually, he has enough pragmatism and survival instinct (with a helping of resignation to The Way Things Are) to know that sometimes, you just have to let justice go. It isn't something you can cling to all the time, so while he can often be seen in canon expressing his dissatisfaction with unfair situations, he is not the type to always take action.

What does your character think about physical appearances? Are they the sort to meticulously primp themselves, or could they not care less?

Oh, he one hundred percent couldn't care less. He's already at a big disadvantage thanks to his horrible arm, so like... what's the point, anyway? Gregor wears comfortable clothes outside of uniform, leaning towards hoodies and sweatpants or other baggy, unassuming articles; it's likely also another way to distance himself from his military days, along with not cutting his hair and letting his facial hair stay scruffy. He's also slightly slouchy even in his company uniform, carrying his coat in his normal hand rather than wearing it, and the most effort he puts into his hairdo is pulling it back and out of the way.

...which isn't to say that he's not perceptive when it comes to the way people look at him. It's just so frequently dominated by whatever assumptions they'll make about his arm that he assumes grooming and fashion wouldn't make up for it. Gregor could dress himself up nicely, shave, do something with his hair, but it would all be overshadowed by his worst feature-- and when that's the case, it's all doomed from the start. Chalk one more thing in his life up to the ol' "I know how it's going to go so let's not bother" kind of outlook.

Inventory:
-A plain lighter
-A pack of cigarettes
-A bloodstained gas mask
-Limbus Company uniform

Powers/Abilities:
Insect Arm- Gregor's right arm has been replaced with a scythelike insectoid limb. Any time it's cut off, the arm will regenerate itself, and can repair damage done to it; his arm also has some degree of shapeshifting ability, capable of forming itself into a spiky shape resembling a sword or concentrating mass at the end like a wrecking ball. Before joining Limbus Company and becoming tied to Dante, Gregor didn't have full control over it when he was too stressed or emotional, but their connection stifles his arm's tendency to act out on its own.

Gene Code G-0- Gregor's genetic alterations don't just apply to his arm. He has a limited self-healing capacity, less intense than his arm's regeneration but still enough to help him survive in a pinch.

Identities- Dante's able to essentially overwrite each Sinner with alternate versions of themselves, so he has experienced being several different Gregors; this requires a specific item in canon to use.

E.G.O.- Manifestations either developed from the Sinner themselves, or from Abnormalities that have been studied; when used, they replace the Sinner's usual look with their own aesthetic and lend them some of an Abnormality's power. However, if a Sinner is mentally unstable when manifesting E.G.O. or becomes less stable while using it, they can lose themselves to the Abnormality's influence and corrode, transforming into a warped form and lashing out.

Gregor's E.G.O. are all listed here for reference. He can only manifest one every so often, since it requires mental stability and is taxing on the psyche.

Soul Choice: Terra!