Daybreak Academy App
PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Eric
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OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: Kohaku Yuhara, Prince Zagreus
CANON INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
CANON: Girl Genius
HISTORY: For full history please follow this elegant, handcrafted link to the Girl Genius wikia. Also, Gil's page on that same Wikia.
STRENGTHS: Brilliant - Gil is fucking smart. Even without the spark, he absorbs information like a sponge. Even in areas he's NOT the best in (he is incredibly socially oblivious at times, for example) he is good at figuring out what he did wrong after the fact and learning from his blunders. He rarely makes the same mistake twice. His spark is powerful, too. He broke through when he was eight and built a robot buddy named Zoing, making him the second earliest spark in the series.
Ruthless - Gil's father has rubbed off on him. He's still a good person, ish? Morally speaking, at least. But once he's decided on what the right thing to do in any given situation, he will not let anything get in his way, whether that means hurting people or even hurting himself. Once you've determined waht needs to happen, you get it done dammit. The Wulfenbachs don't half-ass ANYTHING.
Motivational - Gil has been trained to be a leader by a man who wrote a monograph on how to motivate people that was "ordered burned by all seven popes" (which tells you something about the state of religion in Girl Genius). He's good at getting people organized and working towards a common goal, whether that's through shouting and threats, negotation, explicit bribery, trickery, or even actually honestly trying to appeal to people's better nature.
FLAWS: Awkward - Gil is kind of socially cursed. He has an amazing talent for unintentionally stumbling upon the perfect thing to say or do that will either piss off everyone he's talking to or make him look like an idiot. This "talent" is at its worst when he's talking to girls he's attracted to. It's not that he has bad opinions, just that he's bad at expressing them. SOMEHOW, he managed to build a reputation of being a lecherous bastard despite this, but that may have to do with only really being attracted to girls who are just as smart as he is.
Short tempered - Like most sparks, Gil has an explosive temper. He's got a lot of anger bubbling in him, and when it breaks through it tends to do so in the most dramatic and grandiose way possible. He knows this about himself, and tries to do his best to keep a lid on his temper and think things through rationally and calmly, but this often just makes the inevitable explosion all the worse when it does happen. A lot of the time, Gil feels like trying to stay calm and keep a level head just tends to make people think they can walk all over you.
Easily distracted - Gil tends to let any kind of interesting problem or puzzle fill his mind immediately, shoving out anything else he was dealing with before. He'll brainstorm ways to improve an invention instead of just fixing it, even if the invention in question is necessary to keep him alive. Figuring out how the world works and how to bend it to his will is just more interesting than the humdrum necessities of day to day life.
CANON ABILITIES: The Spark - Gilgamesh has a superhuman ability to intuit and understand scientific principles, the practical upshot of which is that he can look at just about any machine, bubbling potion, or horrible monster and understand how it works. Give him an hour or two and he can build machines that warp the laws of physics. If he's REALLY inspired, he can do it in minutes. It comes with personality...quirks, though. While the Spark is active, Gil is in the "Madness Place." which is to say, he will lose sight of traditional morality and sense of personal safety and gain a tendency to laugh maniacally while shouting things like "THEY CALLED ME MAD! BUT I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!"
Most sparks tend to specilize in one or two fields, but powerful sparks like Gil tend to be able to work in just about anything. He's built robots and death rays, stitched people back together who had been ripped to pieces, pioneered new medical techniques that were needed to heal HIMSELF (with help on that one, at least), and more.
Minion domination - While in the Madness Place, Gilgamesh's voice has strange harmonics in it that make it hard to resist any orders he gives. Naturally, anyone with decent willpower can resist it, but it is a good way to trick the unsuspecting bystander into becoming a lab assistant.
Resistant - Gil's father repeatedly exposed him to most poisons and diseases as he grew up, which wasn't very pleasant, but also left him HIGHLY resistant to all of them. He is difficult to poison and rarely gets sick unless he catches something really exotic.
Sleepless - Through a series of mental exercises, Gil is able to stay awake for days at a time with no ill effects. He can in theory stay awake endlessly, though this DOES have ill effects. After about a week he starts getting more and more intense and also starts looking REALLY sick and unwell.
AU INFORMATION
AU CHARACTER NAME: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
AGE: 18
GRADE: Grad-Student (He skipped a few grades)
AU BACKSTORY: We start not with Gil's story but with the story of his father, Klaus Wulfenbach.
Klaus was a relatively minor player in the German supernatural scene. He was ambitious, but most of the power in Europe was in the hands of mages, vampires, daemons, and the like. A candle like him was a newcomer with little support. He spent much of his youth as an adventurer, righting wrong and defeating villains alongside a group of other do-gooders who were the bane of evil across mostly Europe but also big swathes of the Outlands. He never quite fit in with the truly heroic types, favoring more ruthless and practical solutions, but was willing to put up with their quirks as they tended to get things accomplished even so. Helen Arany was one of his allies (backstory linkup agreed upon with Rex's player).
Until a particularly grim battle against a mysterious force called The Other (generally believed to be a particularly powerful Mage who specialized in mind control, but no one has ever been sure. All they were every able to conclusively find were more and more layers of puppets. If Klaus ever found out who she was, he isn't telling.). Overnight, Klaus and many of his friends vanished. Klaus did not reappear until several years later, in 2002, with a young child in tow that was, apparently his son. He never explained where he had been or where the kid came from. Klaus saw that in the absence of him and his friends, various forces of evil had taken root again and it was as if he had never accomplished anything. So Klaus decided he was going to deal with this HIS way. No more mercy. No more second chances. He built himself an army, sometimes literally (His flame is more or less the same as his son's.), and carved out a large chunk of France and Germany that he declared under his protection. Any vampmires that prey on the innocent, mages that start trying to summon elder gods, daemons that try to tempt mortals, or other supernatural evils that show their face in his territory tend to face swift and brutal reprisal. He is a man that commands a lot of respect. His power even reaches into the Outlands, based on a giant heavily armed airship called "Castle Wulfenbach" that contains a portal to his HQ on Earth.
Klaus' son, however, is something of an unknown. Wanting to make sure that Gilgamesh was tough and capable enough to survive without relying on the honestly fairly impressive amount of power he had accumulated, Klaus raised Gil in ignorance of his lineage. Thus, Gilgamesh Holzfäller was admitted to Daybreak Academy as an orphan at a very young age. He stayed there until he was ten, when he broke into the private records and found out his true identity.
He vanished the next day, taken home by his father for more personal tutoring, and didn't reappear for several years. When he did, he appeared in Paris, still under the name Holzfäller. There he continued his education, in theory. In practice, he spent most of his time in Paris split between hanging out with girls at disreputable parties and getting caught up in various small scale adventurers against cultists, sorcerers, and other relatively small scale troublemakers. He got something of a reputation for being a very capable but still kind of scandalous fellow.
Finally, on his 18th birthday, Klaus publicly acknowledged his son, and Gilgamesh Holzfäller became Gilgamesh Wulfenbach. He has returned to Daybreak Academy to continue his education somewhere safe from the Wulfenbach family's MANY enemies. He has, so far, mainly spent his time in a private workshop within the Anvil of Hadur working on his own projects. But as Nightfall approaches he may be called upon to stop playing with toys and actually do something to help protect not just his family's power but also the entire world!
AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION: In canon, the Wulfenbach Empire is possibly the single greatest power in the world, able to bring overwhelming amounts of military force against its foes. Its enemies are forced to slink about in the shadows and rely on elaborate schemes and conspiracies. In this world, obviously, they have a lot less power at their disposal. Gil is still under a lot of pressure, as Klaus has been pushing him with tests and training to be ready for Nightfall, but he is under LESS pressure, as the Wulfenbachs are merely one of many forces fighting to defend the Earth against the forces of evil. As a result, he may be a bit more given to goofing off and partying than his OU counterpart.
RACE: Human
SECRET SOCIETY: Wulfenbach family. Known in the mundane world for the Wulfenbach Incorporated, a largish German manufacturing/research company, and in the supernatural world for having a small private army of mages, candles, daemons, and anything else they could get their hands on which they use to brutally subjugate anyone who would disturb the peace. The Wulfenbachs are also patrons of Daybreak Academy.
Gilgamesh has a superhuman ability to intuit and understand scientific principles, the practical upshot of which is that he can look at just about any machine, bubbling potion, or horrible monster and understand how it works. Give him an hour or two and he can build machines that warp the laws of physics. If he's REALLY inspired, he can do it in minutes. It comes with personality...quirks, though. While the Spark is active, Gil is in the "Madness Place." which is to say, he will lose sight of traditional morality and sense of personal safety and gain a tendency to laugh maniacally while shouting things like "THEY CALLED ME MAD! BUT I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!"
Most sparks tend to specilize in one or two fields, but powerful sparks like Gil tend to be able to work in just about anything. He's built robots and death rays, stitched people back together who had been ripped to pieces, pioneered new medical techniques that were needed to heal HIMSELF (with help on that one, at least), and more.
As Girl Genius is a "Gaslamp Fantasy" while Daybreak Academy is more of a Urban Fantasy, Gil's inventions will generally take a bit more of a flavor of modern tech and also magitek. Expect less dials and gears and more touch screens and runes.
Minion domination - While in the Madness Place, Gilgamesh's voice has strange harmonics in it that make it hard to resist any orders he gives. Naturally, anyone with decent willpower can resist it, but it is a good way to trick the unsuspecting bystander into becoming a lab assistant.
Resistant - Gil's father repeatedly exposed him to most poisons and diseases as he grew up, which wasn't very pleasant, but also left him HIGHLY resistant to all of them. He is difficult to poison and rarely gets sick unless he catches something really exotic.
Sleepless - Through a series of mental exercises, Gil is able to stay awake for days at a time with no ill effects. He can in theory stay awake endlessly, though this DOES have ill effects. After about a week he starts getting more and more intense and also starts looking REALLY sick and unwell.
Radiance - The source of Gil's powers are his flame, and anyone with a flame can create a holy light that banishes the blight and the undead. Gil can't channel it through himself like most candles can, but he can build machines that can generate it for him, though he'll be damned if he can explain how they work.
HOUSING: Gil can be officially roomed wherever. In practice he spends most nights sleeping on a futon in his workshop.
RP SAMPLE
INTERVIEW SAMPLE PROMPT
1. TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES SINCE GRADUATING.
I don't think I actually graduated? I got pulled out for family reasons. Honestly nothing THAT interesting happened since then. I finished my schooling in Paris, and then came back.
[LIE-ish? He had a bunch of wacky adventures in Paris, but doesn't feel like they're worth bringing up just now.]
2. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO RETURN TO DAYBREAK ACADEMY?
I liked it here! It's not as complicated as Paris, but the accomodations are top notch and I don't have to pretend to be normal.
3. WHAT KIND OF TASKS DO YOU WANT OR EXPECT TO DO HERE?
Honestly I'd like to mainly focus on continuing my own projects. Plus the end of human civilization against a supernatural plague of eternal darkness feels like something that needs to be addressed at some point.
5. WOULD YOU BE COMFORTABLE WITH MENTORING CURRENT STUDENTS OR ACTING IN AN ADVISORY ROLE?
Does mentoring allow me to use them as research subjects or lab assistants? If so then yes.
7. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE STUDENTS WHO ARE DEFIANT, ACTING OUT, OR OTHERWISE AT ODDS WITH PARTS OF SCHOOL LIFE?
They're probably bored. Find out what they actually are interested in and get them doing that and they'll calm down a lot. It's all about directing your energy in a direction it actually wants to go.
10. WHAT, IN YOUR OPINION, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WERE TAUGHT BEFORE YOU GRADUATED?
How to tell that something is about to explode. The difference between an alive mad scientist and a dead mad scientist is often a matter of how quickly you can get behind cover.
11. IF YOU COULD TELL CURRENT STUDENTS ONE THING ON GRADUATING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?.
You're probably going to learn things you don't like and didn't want to know here. Things about the world and how it works, things about yourself that you wish weren't true, things about your classmates they didn't want anyone to know...
So, you know. Be ready for that.
13. DESCRIBE ONE OF THE NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES YOU HAD AFTER GRADUATION.
Well, there was the time with the cult of the dread lord of the deep Dagon in the Parisian sewers. Or the time that the bone terror got out of the catacombs. Or the time Zola almost got dragged into the outlands by sapient leeches. Or the time the Lady of Fog tried to steal all of the city's electricity. Or- [And so on and so on and so on. Gil got in a LOT of trouble in Paris]
16. ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF ACADEMY FACULTY IS PROTECTING STUDENTS FROM THAT WHICH MIGHT DO THEM HARM. THIS APPLIES TO GRADUATES AND ASSISTANTS AS WELL. TELL US HOW EQUIPPED YOU ARE TO DO THIS.
I guess I can actually talk about this now, can't I? Aside from my inventions, my entire LIFE has been a series of tests by my father to make sure I was good enough. I'm not bragging when I say that I'm smart, I'm tough, and I'm extremely dangerous when I choose to be.
17. WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE TO PROTECT CURRENT STUDENTS?
Tough call. Hmm.
Sleep. Maybe some of my more expendable research projects. I'd probably accept a few injuries, if necessary.
NAME: Eric
CONTACT:
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: Kohaku Yuhara, Prince Zagreus
CANON INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
CANON: Girl Genius
HISTORY: For full history please follow this elegant, handcrafted link to the Girl Genius wikia. Also, Gil's page on that same Wikia.
STRENGTHS: Brilliant - Gil is fucking smart. Even without the spark, he absorbs information like a sponge. Even in areas he's NOT the best in (he is incredibly socially oblivious at times, for example) he is good at figuring out what he did wrong after the fact and learning from his blunders. He rarely makes the same mistake twice. His spark is powerful, too. He broke through when he was eight and built a robot buddy named Zoing, making him the second earliest spark in the series.
Ruthless - Gil's father has rubbed off on him. He's still a good person, ish? Morally speaking, at least. But once he's decided on what the right thing to do in any given situation, he will not let anything get in his way, whether that means hurting people or even hurting himself. Once you've determined waht needs to happen, you get it done dammit. The Wulfenbachs don't half-ass ANYTHING.
Motivational - Gil has been trained to be a leader by a man who wrote a monograph on how to motivate people that was "ordered burned by all seven popes" (which tells you something about the state of religion in Girl Genius). He's good at getting people organized and working towards a common goal, whether that's through shouting and threats, negotation, explicit bribery, trickery, or even actually honestly trying to appeal to people's better nature.
FLAWS: Awkward - Gil is kind of socially cursed. He has an amazing talent for unintentionally stumbling upon the perfect thing to say or do that will either piss off everyone he's talking to or make him look like an idiot. This "talent" is at its worst when he's talking to girls he's attracted to. It's not that he has bad opinions, just that he's bad at expressing them. SOMEHOW, he managed to build a reputation of being a lecherous bastard despite this, but that may have to do with only really being attracted to girls who are just as smart as he is.
Short tempered - Like most sparks, Gil has an explosive temper. He's got a lot of anger bubbling in him, and when it breaks through it tends to do so in the most dramatic and grandiose way possible. He knows this about himself, and tries to do his best to keep a lid on his temper and think things through rationally and calmly, but this often just makes the inevitable explosion all the worse when it does happen. A lot of the time, Gil feels like trying to stay calm and keep a level head just tends to make people think they can walk all over you.
Easily distracted - Gil tends to let any kind of interesting problem or puzzle fill his mind immediately, shoving out anything else he was dealing with before. He'll brainstorm ways to improve an invention instead of just fixing it, even if the invention in question is necessary to keep him alive. Figuring out how the world works and how to bend it to his will is just more interesting than the humdrum necessities of day to day life.
CANON ABILITIES: The Spark - Gilgamesh has a superhuman ability to intuit and understand scientific principles, the practical upshot of which is that he can look at just about any machine, bubbling potion, or horrible monster and understand how it works. Give him an hour or two and he can build machines that warp the laws of physics. If he's REALLY inspired, he can do it in minutes. It comes with personality...quirks, though. While the Spark is active, Gil is in the "Madness Place." which is to say, he will lose sight of traditional morality and sense of personal safety and gain a tendency to laugh maniacally while shouting things like "THEY CALLED ME MAD! BUT I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!"
Most sparks tend to specilize in one or two fields, but powerful sparks like Gil tend to be able to work in just about anything. He's built robots and death rays, stitched people back together who had been ripped to pieces, pioneered new medical techniques that were needed to heal HIMSELF (with help on that one, at least), and more.
Minion domination - While in the Madness Place, Gilgamesh's voice has strange harmonics in it that make it hard to resist any orders he gives. Naturally, anyone with decent willpower can resist it, but it is a good way to trick the unsuspecting bystander into becoming a lab assistant.
Resistant - Gil's father repeatedly exposed him to most poisons and diseases as he grew up, which wasn't very pleasant, but also left him HIGHLY resistant to all of them. He is difficult to poison and rarely gets sick unless he catches something really exotic.
Sleepless - Through a series of mental exercises, Gil is able to stay awake for days at a time with no ill effects. He can in theory stay awake endlessly, though this DOES have ill effects. After about a week he starts getting more and more intense and also starts looking REALLY sick and unwell.
AU INFORMATION
AU CHARACTER NAME: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach
AGE: 18
GRADE: Grad-Student (He skipped a few grades)
AU BACKSTORY: We start not with Gil's story but with the story of his father, Klaus Wulfenbach.
Klaus was a relatively minor player in the German supernatural scene. He was ambitious, but most of the power in Europe was in the hands of mages, vampires, daemons, and the like. A candle like him was a newcomer with little support. He spent much of his youth as an adventurer, righting wrong and defeating villains alongside a group of other do-gooders who were the bane of evil across mostly Europe but also big swathes of the Outlands. He never quite fit in with the truly heroic types, favoring more ruthless and practical solutions, but was willing to put up with their quirks as they tended to get things accomplished even so. Helen Arany was one of his allies (backstory linkup agreed upon with Rex's player).
Until a particularly grim battle against a mysterious force called The Other (generally believed to be a particularly powerful Mage who specialized in mind control, but no one has ever been sure. All they were every able to conclusively find were more and more layers of puppets. If Klaus ever found out who she was, he isn't telling.). Overnight, Klaus and many of his friends vanished. Klaus did not reappear until several years later, in 2002, with a young child in tow that was, apparently his son. He never explained where he had been or where the kid came from. Klaus saw that in the absence of him and his friends, various forces of evil had taken root again and it was as if he had never accomplished anything. So Klaus decided he was going to deal with this HIS way. No more mercy. No more second chances. He built himself an army, sometimes literally (His flame is more or less the same as his son's.), and carved out a large chunk of France and Germany that he declared under his protection. Any vampmires that prey on the innocent, mages that start trying to summon elder gods, daemons that try to tempt mortals, or other supernatural evils that show their face in his territory tend to face swift and brutal reprisal. He is a man that commands a lot of respect. His power even reaches into the Outlands, based on a giant heavily armed airship called "Castle Wulfenbach" that contains a portal to his HQ on Earth.
Klaus' son, however, is something of an unknown. Wanting to make sure that Gilgamesh was tough and capable enough to survive without relying on the honestly fairly impressive amount of power he had accumulated, Klaus raised Gil in ignorance of his lineage. Thus, Gilgamesh Holzfäller was admitted to Daybreak Academy as an orphan at a very young age. He stayed there until he was ten, when he broke into the private records and found out his true identity.
He vanished the next day, taken home by his father for more personal tutoring, and didn't reappear for several years. When he did, he appeared in Paris, still under the name Holzfäller. There he continued his education, in theory. In practice, he spent most of his time in Paris split between hanging out with girls at disreputable parties and getting caught up in various small scale adventurers against cultists, sorcerers, and other relatively small scale troublemakers. He got something of a reputation for being a very capable but still kind of scandalous fellow.
Finally, on his 18th birthday, Klaus publicly acknowledged his son, and Gilgamesh Holzfäller became Gilgamesh Wulfenbach. He has returned to Daybreak Academy to continue his education somewhere safe from the Wulfenbach family's MANY enemies. He has, so far, mainly spent his time in a private workshop within the Anvil of Hadur working on his own projects. But as Nightfall approaches he may be called upon to stop playing with toys and actually do something to help protect not just his family's power but also the entire world!
AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION: In canon, the Wulfenbach Empire is possibly the single greatest power in the world, able to bring overwhelming amounts of military force against its foes. Its enemies are forced to slink about in the shadows and rely on elaborate schemes and conspiracies. In this world, obviously, they have a lot less power at their disposal. Gil is still under a lot of pressure, as Klaus has been pushing him with tests and training to be ready for Nightfall, but he is under LESS pressure, as the Wulfenbachs are merely one of many forces fighting to defend the Earth against the forces of evil. As a result, he may be a bit more given to goofing off and partying than his OU counterpart.
RACE: Human
SECRET SOCIETY: Wulfenbach family. Known in the mundane world for the Wulfenbach Incorporated, a largish German manufacturing/research company, and in the supernatural world for having a small private army of mages, candles, daemons, and anything else they could get their hands on which they use to brutally subjugate anyone who would disturb the peace. The Wulfenbachs are also patrons of Daybreak Academy.
Gilgamesh has a superhuman ability to intuit and understand scientific principles, the practical upshot of which is that he can look at just about any machine, bubbling potion, or horrible monster and understand how it works. Give him an hour or two and he can build machines that warp the laws of physics. If he's REALLY inspired, he can do it in minutes. It comes with personality...quirks, though. While the Spark is active, Gil is in the "Madness Place." which is to say, he will lose sight of traditional morality and sense of personal safety and gain a tendency to laugh maniacally while shouting things like "THEY CALLED ME MAD! BUT I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM ALL!"
Most sparks tend to specilize in one or two fields, but powerful sparks like Gil tend to be able to work in just about anything. He's built robots and death rays, stitched people back together who had been ripped to pieces, pioneered new medical techniques that were needed to heal HIMSELF (with help on that one, at least), and more.
As Girl Genius is a "Gaslamp Fantasy" while Daybreak Academy is more of a Urban Fantasy, Gil's inventions will generally take a bit more of a flavor of modern tech and also magitek. Expect less dials and gears and more touch screens and runes.
Minion domination - While in the Madness Place, Gilgamesh's voice has strange harmonics in it that make it hard to resist any orders he gives. Naturally, anyone with decent willpower can resist it, but it is a good way to trick the unsuspecting bystander into becoming a lab assistant.
Resistant - Gil's father repeatedly exposed him to most poisons and diseases as he grew up, which wasn't very pleasant, but also left him HIGHLY resistant to all of them. He is difficult to poison and rarely gets sick unless he catches something really exotic.
Sleepless - Through a series of mental exercises, Gil is able to stay awake for days at a time with no ill effects. He can in theory stay awake endlessly, though this DOES have ill effects. After about a week he starts getting more and more intense and also starts looking REALLY sick and unwell.
Radiance - The source of Gil's powers are his flame, and anyone with a flame can create a holy light that banishes the blight and the undead. Gil can't channel it through himself like most candles can, but he can build machines that can generate it for him, though he'll be damned if he can explain how they work.
HOUSING: Gil can be officially roomed wherever. In practice he spends most nights sleeping on a futon in his workshop.
RP SAMPLE
INTERVIEW SAMPLE PROMPT
1. TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES SINCE GRADUATING.
I don't think I actually graduated? I got pulled out for family reasons. Honestly nothing THAT interesting happened since then. I finished my schooling in Paris, and then came back.
[LIE-ish? He had a bunch of wacky adventures in Paris, but doesn't feel like they're worth bringing up just now.]
2. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO RETURN TO DAYBREAK ACADEMY?
I liked it here! It's not as complicated as Paris, but the accomodations are top notch and I don't have to pretend to be normal.
3. WHAT KIND OF TASKS DO YOU WANT OR EXPECT TO DO HERE?
Honestly I'd like to mainly focus on continuing my own projects. Plus the end of human civilization against a supernatural plague of eternal darkness feels like something that needs to be addressed at some point.
5. WOULD YOU BE COMFORTABLE WITH MENTORING CURRENT STUDENTS OR ACTING IN AN ADVISORY ROLE?
Does mentoring allow me to use them as research subjects or lab assistants? If so then yes.
7. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE STUDENTS WHO ARE DEFIANT, ACTING OUT, OR OTHERWISE AT ODDS WITH PARTS OF SCHOOL LIFE?
They're probably bored. Find out what they actually are interested in and get them doing that and they'll calm down a lot. It's all about directing your energy in a direction it actually wants to go.
10. WHAT, IN YOUR OPINION, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WERE TAUGHT BEFORE YOU GRADUATED?
How to tell that something is about to explode. The difference between an alive mad scientist and a dead mad scientist is often a matter of how quickly you can get behind cover.
11. IF YOU COULD TELL CURRENT STUDENTS ONE THING ON GRADUATING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?.
You're probably going to learn things you don't like and didn't want to know here. Things about the world and how it works, things about yourself that you wish weren't true, things about your classmates they didn't want anyone to know...
So, you know. Be ready for that.
13. DESCRIBE ONE OF THE NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES YOU HAD AFTER GRADUATION.
Well, there was the time with the cult of the dread lord of the deep Dagon in the Parisian sewers. Or the time that the bone terror got out of the catacombs. Or the time Zola almost got dragged into the outlands by sapient leeches. Or the time the Lady of Fog tried to steal all of the city's electricity. Or- [And so on and so on and so on. Gil got in a LOT of trouble in Paris]
16. ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF ACADEMY FACULTY IS PROTECTING STUDENTS FROM THAT WHICH MIGHT DO THEM HARM. THIS APPLIES TO GRADUATES AND ASSISTANTS AS WELL. TELL US HOW EQUIPPED YOU ARE TO DO THIS.
I guess I can actually talk about this now, can't I? Aside from my inventions, my entire LIFE has been a series of tests by my father to make sure I was good enough. I'm not bragging when I say that I'm smart, I'm tough, and I'm extremely dangerous when I choose to be.
17. WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE TO PROTECT CURRENT STUDENTS?
Tough call. Hmm.
Sleep. Maybe some of my more expendable research projects. I'd probably accept a few injuries, if necessary.
Gilgamesh Wulfenbach