Name: Mici Age: sehr alt (well over 18) Contact: synanthrope (discord) chelicerae (plurk) Other Characters: None Interests: Politics, love, and exploring what it means to be a freed slave, how a man with a single brain cell can manage his life, etc.
CHARACTER
Name: Panulus Quantulius, better known as Gannicus Canon/OC: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena Journal:panulus Race: Human Nationality: Seharon, originally, spent most of his life in Tevinter Occupation: Former Gladiator Division: None yet Mage or Not: No Age: Roughly 34-35
-Kidnapped as a child, enslaved, sold to a training facility run by a human named Batiatus who was desperate to use his slaves as a way to rise to Altus -Became really fucking good at fighting. Like insanely fucking good. Became a champion in the arena, indulged himself in wine and women as his rewards for winning. Had exactly two (2) close friends; Oenomaeus and his wife, Melitta. Because of Fuckery, he falls in love with Melitta. Because of more Fuckery, she dies in his arms after drinking poisoned wine. Shortly after he wins his freedom by being really fucking good at fighting. -Leaves Tevinter behind to wander the world, drink, and try and forget that he fucked his best friend’s girl and then watched her die in his arms. -Generally fails at not thinking about it, but does succeed in avoiding the war by basically fucking off by himself. -Starts to run out of money; through a network of freed and runaway slaves he learns about Riftwatch, gets curious. Hears the name Flint as a Vint who might be some kind of potential ally.
Personality
The two most important things to Gannicus appears, on the surface, to be women and wine. He does not seem to be too serious on the outside, and is an adrenaline junkie who lives to fight. He’s often smiling, laughing, and joking, and refuses to take anything too seriously even when he probably should. However, this hides the fact that he’s actually intensely lonely and has a hole inside of himself that he seeks to fill. When he can’t quite fill that with the above - wine women and violence - he often turns self-destructive, and slightly suicidal.
When he feels, though, he feels quite deeply, and he shies away from it. He doesn’t fall in love easy and so when it happens it’s kind of encompassing (this is a theme in Spartacus). Following the trope of macho macho men who have used violence to get them through life, he has a gooey middle of tender feelings (this relates to his loneliness), and breaking through his laughing persona will lead to that gooey middle. He’s intensely pragmatic about his interpersonal relationships and generally does not waste time with people who he views as arrogant or condescending. Outside of that, he is generally willing to give anyone a chance, and is comfortable in almost any setting. He has a lot of feelings, in particular, for the enslaved (although he will pretend that this is not true) and finds random cruelty to the enslaved to be abhorrent to the point of protectiveness.
He is not motivated to be a leader, preferring to be as independent as possible from responsibility, but he functions well taking orders and generally does as he’s told as long as he respects the person who is ordering him. He has a pretty and shockingly well-developed sense of honor, when it comes to the people who he chooses to follow.
While no one in their right mind would call him a "problem solver" as much as he's a "problem maker" the truth is most of his problem making is...in fact, his attempts to problem solve. His solutions to most things are either a: getting as drunk as possible and then getting laid, or b: includes brutal violence, usually ill considered, and potentially without consulting anyone. Luckily, for a man who spent most of his life killing people for sport, he doesn't actually have that much of a temper.
Opinions & Affiliations
His biggest thing is that he spent most of his life as a slave and generally regards most Vint nobility as abusive, cruel, and without mercy, and most Vints as willing to sacrifice people for entertainment. While he had a “relatively” easy life (you know, for a slave) because he was good at fighting, he also used to kill people, and has had his sexual agency taken from him. As a result, he has a very low opinion of most Vints, no matter their race, except for the very poor.
Adaptation Notes
I am not particularly DA fluent so please feel free to correct me and ask for corrections! From what I understand Tevinter is a Rome expy with slaves and an arena so it made sense to make Gannicus a former gladiator slave. I made him from Seheron because from what Abby told me “we don’t know much about it” and it’s a colony of Tevinter, which works because in canon Gannicus is originally Celtic, but this is when Rome controlled the Celtic lands, so it isn’t a precise one-to-one correlation (I know he would technically be Ferelden but culturally he’s…not? And I didn’t know if slaves were regularly taken from there). I figured it wouldn’t take much fudging for him to keep most of his backstory. I am futzing a little with the language - I say he speaks in an old-fashioned and intentionally archaic way because that’s what his enslaver wanted his slaves to speak, to explain the ABSOLUTELY BONKERS way that they use language in Spartacus.
Strengths & Weaknesses
He is - and I cannot stress this enough - VERY GOOD at fighting. He specializes in a style of swordfighting involving two swords, and he considered (in his canon) the best warrior to come out of the arena. Otherwise: no magic, no special abilities, just very good at fighting with excellent stamina.
Also for “reasons” the gladiators don’t seem content to wear a lot of clothes and don’t seem to feel cold. I don’t like to think this is supernatural, rather, this is a skill learned from habit - he was never allowed cold so he just ignores it now.
Weaknesses: again, just a dude, so no magic, no fancy skills. He’s exceptionally bad at looking ahead more than a few days. If he gets angry, any critical thinking goes out the window immediately. He is relatively plainspoken and doesn’t know how to play politics.
Inventory
He travels with his wineskin, a very very limited amount of money, and his swords (two of them).
Motivation
He’s broke, he’s in Kirkwall, he needs money, and he is Good At Violence so he figures he could you know. Get a job or something until he can leave, etc.
Gannicus | Spartacus | native au
Name: Mici
Age: sehr alt (well over 18)
Contact: synanthrope (discord) chelicerae (plurk)
Other Characters: None
Interests: Politics, love, and exploring what it means to be a freed slave, how a man with a single brain cell can manage his life, etc.
Name: Panulus Quantulius, better known as Gannicus
Canon/OC: Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
Journal:
Race: Human
Nationality: Seharon, originally, spent most of his life in Tevinter
Occupation: Former Gladiator
Division: None yet
Mage or Not: No
Age: Roughly 34-35
History Canon link
-Kidnapped as a child, enslaved, sold to a training facility run by a human named Batiatus who was desperate to use his slaves as a way to rise to Altus
-Became really fucking good at fighting. Like insanely fucking good. Became a champion in the arena, indulged himself in wine and women as his rewards for winning. Had exactly two (2) close friends; Oenomaeus and his wife, Melitta. Because of Fuckery, he falls in love with Melitta. Because of more Fuckery, she dies in his arms after drinking poisoned wine. Shortly after he wins his freedom by being really fucking good at fighting.
-Leaves Tevinter behind to wander the world, drink, and try and forget that he fucked his best friend’s girl and then watched her die in his arms.
-Generally fails at not thinking about it, but does succeed in avoiding the war by basically fucking off by himself.
-Starts to run out of money; through a network of freed and runaway slaves he learns about Riftwatch, gets curious. Hears the name Flint as a Vint who might be some kind of potential ally.
Personality
The two most important things to Gannicus appears, on the surface, to be women and wine. He does not seem to be too serious on the outside, and is an adrenaline junkie who lives to fight. He’s often smiling, laughing, and joking, and refuses to take anything too seriously even when he probably should. However, this hides the fact that he’s actually intensely lonely and has a hole inside of himself that he seeks to fill. When he can’t quite fill that with the above - wine women and violence - he often turns self-destructive, and slightly suicidal.
When he feels, though, he feels quite deeply, and he shies away from it. He doesn’t fall in love easy and so when it happens it’s kind of encompassing (this is a theme in Spartacus). Following the trope of macho macho men who have used violence to get them through life, he has a gooey middle of tender feelings (this relates to his loneliness), and breaking through his laughing persona will lead to that gooey middle. He’s intensely pragmatic about his interpersonal relationships and generally does not waste time with people who he views as arrogant or condescending. Outside of that, he is generally willing to give anyone a chance, and is comfortable in almost any setting. He has a lot of feelings, in particular, for the enslaved (although he will pretend that this is not true) and finds random cruelty to the enslaved to be abhorrent to the point of protectiveness.
He is not motivated to be a leader, preferring to be as independent as possible from responsibility, but he functions well taking orders and generally does as he’s told as long as he respects the person who is ordering him. He has a pretty and shockingly well-developed sense of honor, when it comes to the people who he chooses to follow.
While no one in their right mind would call him a "problem solver" as much as he's a "problem maker" the truth is most of his problem making is...in fact, his attempts to problem solve. His solutions to most things are either a: getting as drunk as possible and then getting laid, or b: includes brutal violence, usually ill considered, and potentially without consulting anyone. Luckily, for a man who spent most of his life killing people for sport, he doesn't actually have that much of a temper.
Opinions & Affiliations
His biggest thing is that he spent most of his life as a slave and generally regards most Vint nobility as abusive, cruel, and without mercy, and most Vints as willing to sacrifice people for entertainment. While he had a “relatively” easy life (you know, for a slave) because he was good at fighting, he also used to kill people, and has had his sexual agency taken from him. As a result, he has a very low opinion of most Vints, no matter their race, except for the very poor.
Adaptation Notes
I am not particularly DA fluent so please feel free to correct me and ask for corrections! From what I understand Tevinter is a Rome expy with slaves and an arena so it made sense to make Gannicus a former gladiator slave. I made him from Seheron because from what Abby told me “we don’t know much about it” and it’s a colony of Tevinter, which works because in canon Gannicus is originally Celtic, but this is when Rome controlled the Celtic lands, so it isn’t a precise one-to-one correlation (I know he would technically be Ferelden but culturally he’s…not? And I didn’t know if slaves were regularly taken from there). I figured it wouldn’t take much fudging for him to keep most of his backstory. I am futzing a little with the language - I say he speaks in an old-fashioned and intentionally archaic way because that’s what his enslaver wanted his slaves to speak, to explain the ABSOLUTELY BONKERS way that they use language in Spartacus.
Strengths & Weaknesses
He is - and I cannot stress this enough - VERY GOOD at fighting. He specializes in a style of swordfighting involving two swords, and he considered (in his canon) the best warrior to come out of the arena. Otherwise: no magic, no special abilities, just very good at fighting with excellent stamina.
Also for “reasons” the gladiators don’t seem content to wear a lot of clothes and don’t seem to feel cold. I don’t like to think this is supernatural, rather, this is a skill learned from habit - he was never allowed cold so he just ignores it now.
Weaknesses: again, just a dude, so no magic, no fancy skills. He’s exceptionally bad at looking ahead more than a few days. If he gets angry, any critical thinking goes out the window immediately. He is relatively plainspoken and doesn’t know how to play politics.
Inventory
He travels with his wineskin, a very very limited amount of money, and his swords (two of them).
Motivation
He’s broke, he’s in Kirkwall, he needs money, and he is Good At Violence so he figures he could you know. Get a job or something until he can leave, etc.
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