GW2: Peacemaker Xarxes

Name: Xarxes

Basic Description: Science cop, science paladin, science Batman.

Nicknames/Aliases/Titles: Peacemaker (Job title)

Gender/Pronouns: Cis Female, she/her

Orientation: Bisexual

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Species: Asura

Occupation: Guardian (Firebrand), Peacemaker, Golemancer, Scholar of the Durmand Priory

Alignment: Lawful Good

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Personality: Xarxes will never waver from what she thinks is right, and what she needs to do to protect Rata Sum. The exact particulars, though, are flexible. She will lay the hammer down hard on those who break the law, but if she receives an order from the Council that she thinks violates the spirit of the law and puts people at risk, she's not above some “extracurricular” vigilante justice. In particular, her patience for the Inquest’s shenanigans is very low, and while she’d rather have solid evidence of the exact laws they broke, sometimes they just get pardons from their friends on the Council and she has to bring them to justice despite of it.

When she gets into something, whether a case or a project, she gets intensely focused and meticulous. No detail is too small to overlook, no anomaly too minor to go untested. While some would say she misses the forest for the trees, she would say that that's better than missing the forest because you aren't even paying enough attention to the trees to realize that you're in a forest at all.

Xarxes has a dry and sarcastic sense of humor that ranges from self-deprecating and arrogant, depending on which she thinks is funnier. She states ridiculous things with a straight face and loves seeing if she can get jokes past people without anyone noticing. She can be a little harsh with her joking, which can make her seem pretty rude, though hey, as long as justice gets served in some way, shape or form, who cares if people think she’s a jerk?

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Skills and Abilities: Xarxes is rarely seen on duty without her assistant investigation golem, MM-01, or casually, Captain Mew-Mew. Captain Mew-Mew is an experimental prototype of her own design created to record, process and store data related to crime scenes and criminal activities. It has holoprojecting and holoscanning abilities, as well as subroutines for plotting points of data against previous reports. She's hoping to implement the technology more broadly among the Peacemaker golem force, though the Arcane Council is more interested in its pure research applications. This is okay, she guesses, since research work and detective work are basically the same, but she'd appreciate it if they acknowledged that for at least a minute or two without talking about forensics as if it's some lesser use.

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Their past:Xarxes’s parents were Peacemakers and proud of it. Many in Asuran society see the Peacemakers as a place where failed golemancers go when they can’t find a krewe that does real research, but Xarxes’ parents always let her know that maintaining a stable society was important work on its own, and that social status and “genius” had little to do with the value of a person. While following them on their patrols she got to see all sorts of labs, krewes and experiments and more than that, she saw all the ways that greed, shortsightedness and arrogance could lead to catastrophe. She also had a chance to work with the Peacemakers’ golem force and was practically her parents’ krewe mascot.

But eventually little progeny need to get out from under their parents’ golems’ feet and get themselves an education. Xarxes gravitated towards the College of Dynamics because she wanted to make better golems, and not just golems with more firepower and better shielding, though those are great too, but golems that have their own code of ethics as a fail safe against future uprisings. That way you could put the best and coolest guns on them without worrying that they'd be used against you! Yaaaaaayyy!

She knew from experience that just programming them to follow the law was unacceptable. Only an idiot who never had to walk a beat would think that was enough. No, they needed better programming that could process the moral implications of their actions, not some wind-up toy that'll just break down and break things the second it comes across something it can't compute. If they couldn't recruit more Peacemakers, then at least their golems should be able to do the work of at least half a real Peacemaker, or at the very least, not decide to overthrow their meatbag oppressors again.

Her mentors urged her to stay in golemancy and to not waste her talents the way her parents did. Her work had much broader applications than mere law enforcement. She would say that she was “thinking about it,” because for a while, she was. It’s hard to have so many people tell you that you’re wasting your talents without thinking that you are.

This changed when she attended a lecture by Steward Gixx of the Durmond Priory. He was delivering a lecture on the Golem Uprising of 1284, a subject of great interest to her and of great importance to her research. She caught his notice with her constant questions during the Q&A portion, so when the session broke, she was the most persistent in trying to catch his attention, and he considered it refreshing that she seemed less interested in him as a powerful figure in the research community and more interested in the actual topic. She explained her work to him and how she knew firsthand that there was a problem and how she intended to solve it. He was amazed that someone as young as her was taking it seriously and even more amazed that the Peacemakers seemed to be her first choice and he offered her a scholarship to study with the Durmund Priory as part of her Dynamics degree.

In the Priory she gained confidence in herself as well as friendship with members of other races. She noticed that there were more similarities between Asura and the rest of the world than was widely thought. She’d joke that the difference between a stupid Asura and a stupid human is merely in the ratio of destructiveness per individual. A single Asura could rip a hole in the space-time continuum and bring forth a flood of nightmare beasts, but get together a cult of humans and they’ll all do the exact same thing, but this time intentionally summoning horrors from beyond because they think they’re some super cool new gods they should totally worship.

After graduating, she remained with the Priory for a time, but went to join the Peacemakers in something of a hurry. There’s gossip in the Priory that the staying and the leaving had something to do with some relationship issues, but she’s lax to talk about it. She came in knowing that this was where she was headed, and she had to stay to finish up some loose ends.

She’s served on the force for about four years now, with only some mark-downs for sassing her superiors and being lax with procedures she deems “unnecessary” while also insisting on procedures that aren’t even official because they are “very necessary”.

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