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Gustave | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[demainvient]

GustaveEiffel

NAME ▷  Gustave

AGE ▷  32

RESIDENCE ▷  Apartment 303

TRICK OR TREAT? ▷  Treat?

Getting to know you!

Q: What important lesson have you learned during your time here?
A: To be grateful for extra time with people I love.

Q: Pumpkin spice season: yes or no? Try a latte at Corinne's Café!
A: Sure.

Q: Do you have any personal traditions or hobbies that help you feel more at home?
A: Listening to music, fiddling with projects, writing in my journal.

Q: Could you describe the most challenging mission you’ve faced, and how you handled it?
A: Adopting Maelle. I handled it by settling most disputes with a duel, which worked just fine until she got to be a teenager. I'm less likely to win, these days.

🎃  💀

text | un: ScielCandide

[cache_coeur]

Ladies and gentlemen, this man is too humble to properly introduce himself, so the task falls to me.

This is Gustave, an educated and creative man of 32 years with a penchant for kindness, passion and curiosity. While you’ll often find him bent over his workstation, putting together his latest invention, he’s hardly tethered to the indoors! He is also a capable traveller who never tires of new sights and experiences. He stands at 183cm and sports a head of beautiful, dark curls, and eyes you can get lost in. He is fond of children and is quick with a blade, and has a true romantic heart. To know him is to adore him.

Sound too good to be true? Of course it does. Be forewarned that he is completely blind to any and all attempts at flirting or innuendo, and will attempt to talk to you about bascule bridges or Ferris wheels motors instead. Do not give up! Your perseverance comes with great reward. I have it on good authority that he is an excellent kisser.

If you’d love to take a crack at this devoted family man looking for his last first date, please send him a message immediately.

[demainvient]

Sciel!

[ Stop trying to check that off your bucket list!!! ]

Don't you think this is a little excessive? That isn't even my real height.

[cache_coeur]

Ladies and gentlemen, I may be including his hair and nice shoes in my estimation of his height, but you'll notice he isn't denying that he's an excellent kisser.

[demainvient]

[ She's stacking damage. ]

That hardly seems gentlemanly to bring up.

[cache_coeur]

See? So humble.

un: lune | text

[trebuchim]

Are you sure you didn't go too subtle on this?

[cache_coeur]

Now that you mention it, I should have included that beautiful portrait that the Academy had commissioned. The one the paper published with that glowing article about him.

[trebuchim]

Oh, I remember the article. He flushed for weeks afterward when someone brought it up.

[maellum]

Nice honesty.

[demainvient]

It's the best policy, so they say.

[maellum]

People should know you take joy in defeating a teenager. Balance out all this praise you're getting.

[demainvient]

The people would understand if they heard the teenager goading me into a fight despite my aging joints.

[restingstitchface]

A journal? Well, writing is therapeutic. I think more people could stand to learn from your example.

[demainvient]

I thought it was important to try and pass as much information on to the ones who would come after as possible. And then I guess the habit stuck.

I do find it useful for helping me sort through my thoughts.

[restingstitchface]

Well, journalling offers practice and processing. You can separate your thoughts from each other, but more importantly gain control when you feel like the world is stealing it away.

There are similar exercises that provide a direction and structure that is easy to follow, should writing prove difficult.

[demainvient]

It helps to get outside my own head, sometimes. To think about someone else reading my words, what they might need to know, what they might want to learn about.

What other exercises? Sometimes it's... not so easy, putting pen to paper.

🎃

[herofhopeless]

That's an important lesson I've learned as well. Etraya is many things, but it has given me the chance not only to see people I never thought I would see again, but also to grow closer to others from my home and meet many new people.

It sounds as though you have some rather supportive friends here, too.

[demainvient]

[ It's been a long while since he's seen this face, long enough that he can't quite remember the name that goes with it. Still, it's a welcome reintroduction. ]

Yeah. Things may be complicated here, but I'll always appreciate the second chance it's given me.

And yes... supportive.

[ Is that the word he'd choose, looking at Sciel's public service announcement. ]

Sciel means well, but I'm not sure her message is going to have the desire outcome.

[ That is, getting him a date. ]

[herofhopeless]

[Clive's steel trap for names and faces do him well in situations like these, but he knows that not everyone has that same skill so he tries not to make others uncomfortable with it.]

As will I. I never could have imagined a place like this or what it could bring.

She certainly seems to be trying her best, and she seems tenacious. Everyone needs a hobby. You could take mercy on her and grant her bucket list wish, assuming you find someone you would like to go on a date with.

Have you picked up any new hobbies since coming here?

[demainvient]

I'd do a lot to make Sciel happy, so if there's someone out there that would have me, I'd happily enjoy an evening of good company that might also please my friend.

You know, I haven't, really? I've been enjoying learning about all the technological advances people have made in worlds older than mine, and I like getting to hear new kinds of music. But most of my hobbies are the same as they always were... working on a model here and there, trying to optimize some of the equipment we have.

...I'm realizing that looks a lot like my only hobby is also work. What about you? Has anything new caught your interest since you've been here?

🎃

[twin_blade]

Not related I guess, but thanks for what you did for me in the fog. I'm sorry to have put you in danger.

[demainvient]

[ Vax. It's good to hear from him, after...

Well, Gustave imagines that wasn't the only terrible thing the fog made him relive. ]

I'm just glad I was there to help. It would have been far riskier for you to try and deal with it on your own.

How are you doing, now?

[twin_blade]

[ Vax knows everyone must have seen some things they would have preferred not to. Including Gustave. ]

I'm glad, too. It was a bit of a shock, at first.

[ Had Gustave not arrived, Vax may not have snapped out of his stupor. ]

I'm alright, I guess. I'm sure everyone's a little shaken.

[demainvient]

Yeah. I'm just glad no one seemed to get seriously hurt.

[ Physically, anyway. He hasn't had a good night's sleep since the fog dissipated, himself, even if his injuries were minimal. ]

And I'm glad to see you're in better spirits. That's much better for going out dancing.

[ Yes, he saw that! ]