Edgar Von Gandervalt:
- Edgar has a pseudo-animated doll by the name of Shan-Shan. The name was given to it by Ed himself when he first got the doll as a child; as he puts it, "I was barely forming words at the time." The doll's interior is not stuffed, but rather contains a multitude of gears, servos, and other salvaged devices cleansed of impurities and engraved with runes. Shan-Shan has a sleep mode and an awake mode, activated by a windup key, and her "brain" is actually powered by the very same Topaz and Emerald that Edgar used to summon Carbuncle before moving on to his array of Egi. Shan-Shan believes she is as alive as anyone else, exuding an intelligence that is capable of learning. When she is about to have the windup key removed, Edgar tells her it is time for bed; Shan-Shan has associated this deactivation with sleeping, and sees no disparity between it and normal states of sleep that actual living beings go through. Like a computer, she recalls information despite being turned off periodically. Secretly, Edgar is dead-set on finding a way to give her an actual soul, as without one, he says, she cannot technically be considered living.
- Jajara Jara, a Dunesfolk and good friend, went through the process of having Edgar adopted into her family. Edgar being only 23 while Jara is 29, she is essentially his older sister, now. Explaining this is never easy for him.
- Despite his name, Edgar is not Garlean, nor is he attempting to reference Garlemad. Although it is true Garlean names use Preposition, it's merely coincidental that his name has a Garlean ring to it.
- Edgar Von Gandervalt is also NOT Edgar's actual name. Edgar's true birth name uses naming conventions from both Seekers and Keepers, as his mother was a Keeper and his father a Seeker. It is Z'sira'a Tordone. Broken down, it means he is the first born child of Z'Tal Tia and Sira Tordone.
- Ed has a partly-metal lower jaw. A devastating punch from S'honji shattered it, and when healing magic could not fix it entirely, Ed used his knowledge of alchemy to synthesize a form of liquid titanium that would "set" in place when exposed to Physick. He injected this substance into 4 locations in his lower jaw. The plan worked, but it can be a bit uncomfortable at times.Â
- Kopo has an amazing sense of balance and excellent climbing skills. When he still lived in the caravan Great Berimu, he would often climb the sides of the enormous beast that the Clan had affixed their homes to, get on its back, and balance his way onto the creature's head, where he would lay back and stare at the sky.Â
- Kopo's name, at first, appears to use Plainsfolk naming conventions. This is because Kopo found that non-Lalafells had a tough time pronouncing his full name, Koporopo Aporopo, without stammering. In an attempt to make it easier to pronounce, he removed the "po's" from the ends of his first and last name. Unsurprisingly, this solved nothing, and so Koporo simply insists that people just call him Kopo.
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