Gabi
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| Gabi is a fan-made character, and although the related story is set in the DMFA universe, she is not actually an official part of the DMFA comic strip by Amber Williams. |
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[edit] Personality
Gabi's curious, open-minded and rather optimistic: not the kind of blind optimism that makes someone think everything's perfect, but the kind that doesn't give up hope until all options have been exhausted; where others see a problem, she sees a need for a solution. She tends to treat others as equals, values wisdom and intelligence, and hates prejudice and injustice. She'll stand up for herself and those she cares for when necessary (and she gets to care for others quite easily), but prefers to avoid violence whenever it's possible.
Gabi cares greatly for her friends and family, even though she rarely speaks about the latter, and tends to show concern for strangers as well. She usually finds herself helping others just because they need it. Given the choice, she will only refuse to help those she perceives as cruel and unjust, and only if she considers they have no chance of redemption.
Gabi's mind is quite analytical, as she tends to think about everything very carefully. This is often useful, but has also brought her some problems, as more than a few times it has caused her to react too late when an immediate action was needed.
[edit] History
Gabi grew up in Brish, a city populated mostly by beings, from whom she learnt two valuable lessons: 1. Beings and creatures are not essentially different beyond the physical aspect, and 2. Not everyone is willing to accept that. She made some good friends among beings, but she also suffered the discrimination of others, and learned to keep quiet about her heritage unless those around her could be trusted, or her special abilities were needed (or unless someone made a nasty racial comment that angered her enough for her to slap the truth on their face).
She learnt some magic at home (mostly healing magic, along with guidelines to know when to use it and when not to), and some from a school teacher who was more than she appeared to be. Learning new things always attracted her, and as she grew up she felt an increasing urge to leave her hometown and find out what else was out there. She had second thoughts about it for a while, as she didn't want to leave everyone she knew and cared for, but eventually an argument with her parents helped her make up her mind and leave. Her brother decided to go with her, and they traveled together for a while, until they came to Ha'Khun, a town that had been suffering attacks by an incubus who used the name of Johan Cross and needed a healer. Gabi decided to stay and help, while her brother, having met the taste of the road, couldn't get enough of it and chose to leave after a few days.
Gabi stayed in Ha'Khun and helped as much as she could, but the attacks continued and her frustration at being unable to stop everyone's suffering kept growing. It was then that she met a group of adventurers who were planning to take down this so-called 'Johan Cross', and Gabi jumped at the opportunity to help them. The rest is history... or will be.
[edit] Appears In
Gabi appears in Gareeku's Furrae Chronicles story and Roleplaying game, as well as an anachronic cameo on page 51 of Project Future.
[edit] Trivia
- Gabi still loves her parents, even though she doesn't agree with them on the kind of life she should lead and doesn't want to see them again until she feels she's done something important with her life.
- Gabi hasn't received any news of William for months, which has her quite worried.
- Gabi can be quite fierce when she gets angry, though very few have seen that side of her.
- However, she's not very good at physical combat, which is one of the reasons why she never goes adventuring alone.
- Gabi knows what her friends smell like...
- ...but not what they did last summer, except for the obvious things like breathing and the likes.
[edit] Author's Notes
Gabi was the result of a combination of factors. She started out as a simple avatar for the old DMFA forum, which is why she shares her nickname and many personality traits with her author. A few other aspects of her were taken from a character from another RPG, named Gliynn Starseed. Both characters have the same initials as her author as a way of admitting they're partially self-inserts, although Gabi/Gabriela (author) has tried to give both Gliynn and Gabrielle some distinctive traits to make them unique.
Gabi/Gabrielle started her slow developement as a character in different topics of the old forum, but only gained a full identity after Gareeku offered to feature her in his story, Furrae Chronicles.
