This is a little outside my usuals but I reckon this'd be fun. None of the things I've been a fan of which I could think on right now gave an immediate 'Yes, that's such a clear Fandom char!', but I figured this'd work quite well for a chilled character. Hopefully this sheet's not got any big gaffes as I'm quite tired-out right now. Yeah I read everything but if there was some codeword smuggled in there then I didn't catch it, I didn't see one.
Name: LaTale
Gender: Female
Appearance: ((Can't really draw rn and I was never as much cop at drawing women)) LaTale's just slightly above-average in height, but there's something tightly-wound about her way of standing. She's trimly-muscled and always seems ready to spring into action, something she sorely needs. She's pale-skinned and unblemished with big, guileless violet eyes set astride a little button-nose. Her hair's an extremely light platinum blonde, almost to the point that the sunlight could catch off it and hurt your eyes if you were to look at her from the wrong direction, left long and free to run down her back aside from a magenta ribbon headband she wears. As for her outfit, she changes it from time-to-time when she's going out, but her most common manner of dress is what she calls her 'head waiter uniform', but seems more like
preppy (and armoured) schoolwear than anything. Finally, she tends to wear a cravat and monocle, especially when she's trying to look serious (generally it just seems incongruous if not ridiculous).
Personality: LaTale's a ball of energy, albeit one in large-part spent by her taking care of her fandomena, something she takes very seriously. On the basic level, she is a good person, perhaps top good. She's vivacious, but not to the point it takes the spotlight off others, often it's the opposite. She genuinely cares for the welfare of others and loves to make them happy, whether or not she's thanked for it. However, her intentions aren't always put well into practice by her. She tends to say or do the wrong thing when it comes to complex situations, she's scatterbrained and very forgetful (apart from her elephantine memory for useless facts). Her disorganised nature and questionable decision-making leads many to grow exasperated with her. She's by no means disliked, but nor does she have many if any fandoms she can enjoy a deep friendship with. This does upset her, and she can get quite down about how difficult she seems to make everything. But she doesn't show it, and chooses instead to throw herself into her work. Even her downtime hobbies; developing new recipes and keeping her sword-skills sharp, these're really just an extension of her work too.
Abilities and Equipment: LaTale's a great chef. The food she's capable of cooking doesn't merely tantalise the palate, but can also augment others' potential, whether it's as simple as firming their muscles or clearing their thoughts for awhile, or something quite a lot more specific. Unfortunately, the mileage of her dishes varies greatly depending on who she's serving, with LaTale herself having almost no clue as to which dish does what by this point.
Apart from that, she owns a magical map which displays the layout of almost any area if she thinks of it, and has access to an arsenal of personal weapons - blades, spears, scythes, pistols, magical orbs, a miniature fighting mecha, weird cards - yet she almost never tends to use anything besides a pair of beautiful slim curved blades with a captivating rainbow sheen to the edges. LaTale mostly uses them as upmarket kitchen appliances, but if she's forced to fight then she is extremely proficient.
Home: The Starry Cats Restaurant. LaTale serves as both chef de cuisine and maitre d'hotel. The restaurant itself takes the appearance of an upmarket joint, the large dining-room tastefully lit by clear crystal chandeliers and by the gently-flickering candle lamps upon each and every table. The place does seem oddly uniform, with the layout throughout being the same golden tablecloths astride comfortable salmon-brocaded chairs going on in straight lines almost as far as the eye could see. LaTale's only personal touches are the paintings on the far wall, which include landscapes from her home continents; one of a group of smiling, attractive young people standing before a blossom tree... for whatever reason, some of their eyes appear to have been gouged out. Additionally, over each window (which would otherwise look out onto the street) are hung curtains always-drawn which have printed upon them pictures of a stylish night-time cityscape, perhaps New York, maybe London.
Starry Cats isn't a particularly successful restaurant with the denizens of Fandom Square, which would seem strange given the romantic settings and LaTale's excellent cooking. Most don't visit often however for two main reasons; firstly that you have to share the hall with a great many fandomena from her universe. They're fairly well-mannered in spite of their generally monstrous appearances, and certainly no threat (thanks to LaTale pacifying them with her dishes), but nor are they known for their table manners. Some guests such as the
Humbaba do have a tendency to put visitors off their dinner. Apart from that, while LaTale's dishes are almost all delicious, telling her what you want is basically pointless as; with so many others to serve and her own rather scatter-brained nature, she forgets almost immediately and just cooks whatever she'd hope you'd like. If anything, you should count yourself lucky if your dish didn't come spiked with a dose of her passivity draught (makes those that consume it feel full-up, satisfied, in good-humour and... heavy) as she uses to keep her fandomena calm and inactive.
Quirks: Although LaTale's generally known as a jovial host, but a woman of relatively few words besides the pleasantries, one thing that most know is supremely unwise to do around her would be demonstrating a polite interest in her background. This is a sure-fire way for LaTale to enthusiastically erupt into a massively long explanation/rant on the (apparently extremely complicated) origin of 'Jiendia', 'Preios' (the two major inhabited continents of her realm), interplanetary travel... something about pocket realities with 'one or two crucial alterations made to them'... time travel within a soul... as it goes on; and it
keeps on going, it makes less-and-less sense. To date a not insignificant number have been unlucky enough to be subjected to this verbose explanation, and still none have managed to get the first idea about her past.
On the other hand, LaTale's an avid reader and also demonstrates a high level of understanding of some other worlds that interest her, as well as some high-level technical topics. She's not purely self-obsessed at all, but unfortunately her explanations of them tend to be similarly incoherent.
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