Editing User:Reversedragon/Ironblood/PAX/Flowingcoat

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== Core characteristics ==

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{{HueRoster|EP=PPPA/L|lang=en| {{E:ẞ01-100}} | [[E:ẞ01-100]] }}
{{HueRoster|EP=PPPA|lang=en| {{TTS|tts=we're|W.E.R.}} LaFarge <strong class{{=}}"caps">{{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}}</strong> (Ironblood setting) }}
{{HueRoster|EP=P42| -- }}  <!-- en: QID references -->
{{HueRoster|EP=P34| Ironblood card game }}  <!-- en: field -->
{{HueRoster|EP=P4| historical figure (Ironblood) | [[E:Party of Peace and Crossover|{{TTS|tts=Pax|PAX}} member (Ironblood)]] | expert card (Aurora) }}  <!-- en: case of -->
{{HueRoster|P=home region| New York | United Socialist States (Ironblood) }}
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=== Aurora card mechanics ===

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{{HueRoster|P=card title| {{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}}, River Protector }}
{{HueRoster|P=play cost| 5 }}
{{HueRoster|P=productivity| 1 }}
{{HueRoster|P=class| expert / expert card (Aurora) | unique expert card (Aurora) }}  <!-- card tier / class (Aurora) -->
{{HueRoster|P=field| national parks | theater }}  <!-- career or skill tree (role-playing games) / field (Aurora) / industry (Aurora) -->
{{HueRoster|P=Bloc| Water / Water bloc }}  <!-- card suit / Bloc (Aurora) -->
{{HueRoster|P=form| Wolf - river bank palette, blue / white / green }}
{{HueRoster|P=ability| <strong>Be Yourself</strong> — when I am part of a Mass and a character of another Bloc is in the Vanguard Position, you may dispatch me to change that character to Water bloc. }}
{{HueRoster|P=ability| <strong>In Element</strong> — when I am part of a Mass and it is hit by reversion-type damage, you may dispatch me to block all damage it would take on this turn. }}
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=== Aurora card mechanics (prototype / rejected) ===

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{{HueRoster|P=ability| <strong>Fountainhead</strong> — when played into a Firm with productivity between 5 and 10 I assume the Manager position. }}
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== Wavebuilder combinations ==

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{{WaveBuildNone| -- | -- | -- }}  <!-- en: WITH  ??  PRODUCES  ?? -->
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=== Wavebuilder characterizations ===

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{{WaveRoute| <cite>Nim Chimpsky</cite> | Wolf form (Ironblood) | {{E:ẞ01-100}} }}  <!-- en: FROM  ??  ?? -->
{{WaveRoute| <cite>Nim Chimpsky</cite> | Ironblood setting     | {{E:ẞ01-100}} }}
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== Background ==

W. E. R. "{{TTS|tts=we're|Wer}}" LaFarge was born into a wealthy family in Boston, coming from three generations of accomplished experts. After graduating from Harvard he came back to New York with dreams of being a novelist like his father or his uncle.<ref name="eh"/> Within five or so years the counterculture movements of the 1960s kicked up, and {{TTS|tts=we're|WER}} became tormented by his role in perpetuating Liberal capitalism. This drove him to begin participating in scenes of progressive people, to divorce his politically-neutral wife, and to try his best to separate all his assets from the Vietnam War.<ref name="eh"/> Eventually he would put significant stretches of watershed land along the Narrow River into a trust for the benefit of the environment.<ref name="nr"/> {{TTS|tts=we're|WER}} transformed himself from a suit-and-tie aristocrat to a ponytail-wearing playwright, but the one thing he was not ready for was the day his new researcher wife was assigned [[E:Nim Chimpsky|a chimpanzee]];<ref name="eh"/><ref name="cu"/> one of the few things he was not willing to do was pack up all his books into his office before the chimp regularly knocked them onto the floor. Although he never pulled his money out on grounds the study wasn't worth it, he eventually had to pull himself out of his second marriage and retreat to a farm he owned in Rhode Island.<ref name="eh2"/>

In the 196X era, {{TTS|tts=we're|WER}} is mostly busy with his attempts at poetry, philosophical questions, and plays, as well as his occasional family troubles. He doodles his best guess at what he might look like after transformation in his notebooks. Into 197X, when he goes into retreat and finally gets some peace and quiet, he finally becomes his Advance form.<ref name="ib"/> He is largely disconnected from any greater workers' movement, but becomes a member of the hippie-founded [[E:Party of Peace and Crossover|Party of Peace and Crossover]] ({{TTS|tts=Pax|PAX}}), gladly donating money to aid the arts or the environment.<ref name="ib"/> As {{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}}, he possesses [[:Category:Existentialist-Structuralist tradition ontology|Existentialist]] abilities centering around self-expression and freedom. He can act together with the surrounding environment to counter alchemical [[redlink|reversion actions]], although to be perfectly accurate his life is mostly uneventful and he hardly ever actually has to use these abilities.

== Usage notes ==

{{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}} is mainly just a card-game character, and probably does not appear in the main series.

He was assigned the strawberry {{TTS|html=code|tts=West|W}} swatch ([[E:Western Marxism|Western Marxism]]) due to his broad resemblances to the central themes of [[E:Gramscianism|Gramscianism]] — progressive "culture" or "mentality", the arts, and in case of [[E:Cold War|cold war]] acting as a Communist ally as opposed to an anarchist objector to both Liberal-republicanism and Communism.

=== Card mechanics ===

Flowingcoat's abilities are archetypically more similar to the Earth bloc than the Water bloc, but this is thematically appropriate to his character given that he sits in the kind of class position where he is almost required to side with a slightly revisionist faction. The Water bloc is a good compromise in that it it does not have a primarily negative meaning, but it can represent varying degrees of [[E:early Maoism|progress]] or [[E:Deng Xiaoping Thought|revisionism]]. Also, the Water bloc feeds into the gimmick of the card being all about wetlands and watersheds.

=== Card ability names ===

"[https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+element In element]" is an English idiom for fitting into a particular situation. It references the concept of {{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}}'s form being themed around riverbanks, and protecting riverbanks.

The ability "Fountainhead" is an ironic reference to the titular metaphor of <cite>The Fountainhead</cite>. In Rand's work a fountainhead is meant to represent a flowing source of wealth or social structures. Here the metaphor is ironically turned around to simply represent "the bourgeoisie are the group of people who call themselves fountainheads" or "{{TTS|tts=Flowing-coat|Flowingcoat}} came from generational wealth, which flowed down like a fountainhead". (This was the reason for giving him the ability.) The pun does require a considerable amount of context to be funny.

== References ==

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<ref name="eh"><cite>Nim Chimpsky: The chimp who would be human</cite>. Hess, E. (2008). pp. 65-69. Bantam Dell; Random House. [[E:All citations should include cost information|[used; discarded from library]]].</ref> <!-- printed: United States -->
<ref name="eh2"><cite>Nim Chimpsky</cite> (Hess 2008). pp. 81-82,110-111.</ref>  <!-- WER's dilemma -->
<ref name="cu"><cite class="article">Hanging from the language tree</cite>. Rodriguez, C. (2008). <cite>Columbia Magazine</cite>, 2008(3). [https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/hanging-language-tree]</ref>

<ref name="nr"><cite class="article">Friend of the River Award: W.E.R. La Farge</cite>. (29 June 2017). [https://narrowriver.org/friend-of-the-river-award/]</ref>
<ref name="ib">Fictional fact in Ironblood setting — not a fact in real life.</ref>
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