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[greggs]

PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Lee
ARE YOU AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD?: y!
CONTACT: pm / dingus
CHARACTERS PLAYED: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Greg Hirsch
CANON: Succession
CANON REFERENCE: Wiki link
CANON POINT: End of S3 finale
CRAU HISTORY: N/A
AGE: Between 25-30. I tend to say late 20's.
APPEARANCE: Pale, dark hair, blue eyes, 6'7"
CONTRACT PAYMENT: Here's the deal, demon crew...

Firstly: Return Gregory Hirsch unharmed to the exact same place and the exact same position he was in before joining up with the underworld. The unharmed part is very important! Don't skimp on that.

Secondly: Once returned home, all he wants is for everything to go smoothly for himself and his partner-in-crime Tom Wambsgans -- they were in the middle of moving to top ranks at Waystar Royco (or whatever's about to become of it) before Greg was unceremoniously displaced by your hell gangs. We can define "go smoothly" by:

* Securing the futures of both parties (i.e. they can't be fired, removed or outplayed, no matter who takes over or how much circumstances change, including mergers, restructuring, dissolutions and etc.)
* Exorbitant salaries that would allow them to retire on a private island
* Get out of jail free passes forever till the end of time
* If the afterlife is real, a consequence-free existence on earth is not enough - the next time death or this wacky soul-displacement situation happens, give them a consequence-free afterlife, all comfortable and peaceful no matter their track records!

QUESTIONNAIRE:

What does family mean to you and who do you consider a part of your family? (OOC)

There are only two people in Greg's life that are part of his immediate family, his mother and his grandfather. Both are emotionally unavailable in their own ways. His father left a long time ago and he has no siblings. Part of the appeal in hanging out with his rich uncle and cousins is this sense of belonging to a larger and more cohesive family tribe, no matter how fucked up and vindictively they behave. Family doesn't have to include affection -- basic acceptance is good enough. Acceptance anchors security. Family is about about survival, deal-making, hierarchy and codependency in place of closeness at best.

A little affection would be nice, though. Greg spent 3 seasons waiting for someone to reciprocate one of his awkward hugs.

How important is loyalty to you? What does it take to earn your loyalty? What extents are you willing to go through to maintain loyalty, and respect the loyalty others might have invested in you? (OOC)

Expect nothing, give nothing. Underneath Greg's bumbling, sweet-seeming innocent demeanor lurks a strangely distrustful person. He looks out for himself first and foremost, which makes loyalty a difficult and inconvenient concept, both to give and to accept from others. The person who earns his loyalty is someone who shows they will make sacrifices or stick by him with nothing to gain. Preferably through a pattern of this behavior to account for outliers.

On the flipside, anyone who breaks this cycle of distrust is a special person. He'll take risks for this person, make big leaps of faith for them. He'll trust them at their word. He'll go a little farther past the transactional way he tends to views relationships, always calculating what he has to give and what he has to gain. Even then, unconditional loyalty is such a strange concept that he'll probably revert sometimes. He may remain a little untrustworthy no matter what until he can grow past this mindset.

Your Faction leader, not just your boss but the leader, has asked you to carry out a hit. The target is a non-affiliated public leader, well-liked by the people of the city. Do you carry it out? Why or why not? (OOC)

How terrible. What can he get for this dubious act of service? There'll be a bunch of hemming and hawing about it, because he sure won't want to, and the nightmares and stuff are gonna suck? Probably? Taking a human life is a new one! Greg will try to respectfully bargain with the leader before he agrees to the mission. Got anything to make this super duper worth it? Maybe a luxury condo and an advance on contract payment? Will he be protected from the ensuing outcome? How? Bottom line: if he thinks it's worth it and the price is right, he'll do it. He'll puke next to the sniper rifle before and after maybe but he'll do it. If not, he'll pass.

An enemy of your faction has asked for a meeting, proposing a truce of sorts to deal with a greater threat. On one hand, there is indeed a threat at hand, but on the other, this person double-crossing you is just as likely an outcome. Do you agree to the meeting? Do you trust them? (OOC)

The chance of being double-crossed will definitely occur to him. He'll obsess over that, in fact. It'll be difficult for him to decide what to do. If he goes, it's important that he feels safe walking into that meeting, so he'd probably want to ask someone strong from his faction to go with him. His +1 or +2 or +3, however many someones he needs and/or can get. Even then, he'll be worried about their enemy anticipating this and bringing a back-up gang of their own. Agh! So much to consider.

At the end of the day, I don't think Greg can handle the responsibility of saying yes or no. Ideally this is one he can pass up the chain. Let someone else make the decision, there's too much riding on it.

POWERS & ABILITIES: No special powers or abilities to speak of. :') Normal human from modern times on earth.

SUITABILITY: As a newcomer and outsider to rich society, Greg is arguably one of the more naive characters in Succession, if not the most naive. Ever since integrating with the Roys, however, he's been made very familiar with upper crust level corruption. To date this exposure includes: bizarre orgies, hard drugs of every kind, being sent on drug runs, corporate scandals involving sexual assault/murder, and playing an active role in the coverup of said scandals. Although uncomfortable in these situations, he can compartmentalize well enough that the change in environment doesn't seem to truly bother him. With the right motivation, Greg's moral compass can cease to exist. He may not have physical strength or special skills, but he'll do anything for his assigned faction just to get out of hell and back on track.

FACTION SUITABILITY:

Shuten: Probably the least fitting option. Not much of a fighter, definitely a potential liar! Shuten might have trouble tolerating such a conflict-avoidant, shifty, noncommittal noodle of a man. Almost nothing to bring to the table here even when I squint... even partying hard is not super his thing? Too much noise/commotion and he gets stressed out. More of a get high on the weekends and get mimosas for brunch type of guy.
Tamamo: Pleasure as a priority sounds very nice. Anyone who is willing to pamper him is someone who will find Greg stuck to their side. Minimize stress, live fancy, indulge in luxuries: A+ lifestyle. More importantly, he's a huge people-pleaser by nature, which gives him an aptitude for hospitality jobs or any of the service-oriented roles available in Tamamo. As much as he enjoys being taken care of, and boy does he ever, getting approval/praise for making someone else happy is an equally motivating factor.
Sutoku: Leveraging information! More fun than getting into real fights. For all his outward ineptitude, Greg keeps pretty careful tabs on people -- who they are, where they go, what they know or don't know, what he knows that they might like to know and how to benefit from that... or even how he may threaten someone with what he knows, in the most polite and indirect way possible. If he has to. This information banking habit (and how far he's willing to go with it) makes him a decent fit for Sutoku.
Enma: Not very cop-like. Not the most authoritarian figure. What he does have for this group is a willingness to mold himself into whatever type of person best matches their collective ideology, so long as the rewards are good. Sure he'll prop up a system of laws he doesn't believe in, but since he doesn't really care about justice or order, only a somewhat lavish position would motivate him to want to fit in. Sadly, I'm not sure if he has the right Enma skillset to justify those demands.

SAMPLES
- TDM ft. Geto, Himeno & Kim
- TDM ft. Kamui
- TDM ft. Gojo