Montgomery Rizal

Details

Montgomery is a tall, slender man with pale skin. He has dark curly hair that never seems to fully be under his control. His eyes can appear to be silver, blue or even green depending on the light.  

Impressions & Attitude

Montgomery is a man clouded in cold logic. Beneath all this, he does possess a genuine caring heart and can seem very reassuring if he wishes to be —even though this doesn’t often show. He speaks the same as he acts, albeit with a very posh sounding accent. He can be haughty, even arrogant, especially when observing those he thinks beneath his own intellect. Montgomery is a true introvert at heart and will often restrain from engaging in conversation.

Clothing

He has quite the varying wardrobe, however, it is made up of the same pieces. He travels a lot, meaning he’ll have an outfit at the ready for what part of Odiria he is in. He prefers wearing suits, mostly in black, that are well-tailored. He usually wears a type of cloak when he is in Ravaryn. He is almost always seen wearing a blue scarf. His wardrobe in Ashmoor switches out the cloak for a long coat that he wears with the collar spiked up. During mornings in the manor, he will sometimes skip the suit and wear a dressing gown in camel, crimson, blue or tartan instead.  

Introduction
Montgomery prides himself on his unique perspectives and vigorous intellect. From the outside, he may seem detached and reserved. He often loses himself in thought and has a reputation for being pensive. However, his unusual and somewhat antisocial personality has led to many disliking him. One of his most noticeable traits is his proneness to boredom. He also has a blatant disregard for rules and etiquette.

Outside
He cannot be considered a man with many friends; his attitude and cutting words often ward people away. Although he puts forth a cold-hearted and rough exterior, Montgomery does have a kind, caring side. It would be a mistake to think that Montgomery is unfriendly or uptight. When he connects with someone who can match his mental energy he absolutely lights up. Unfortunately for him, no one ever seems to match his own intellect. He seems to have a sense of humour, though it is very sarcastic and can be quite dark sometimes. Montgomery is amused, most notably, by the stupidity of others in comparison to himself.

Inside
He could spend all day musing about ideas and possibilities – and often does so. A thinker and an observer; he has a high intellect and masterful observational skills. He has many well-developed abilities that aid him with his work, including a profound aptitude for deductive reasoning from seemingly trivial details. One quality that Montgormery lacks entirely, however, is tact. He often doesn't notice when his accurate deductions about other people's personal lives offend them. He loves to analyse patterns and has a knack for spotting discrepancies and irregularities. In other words, lying to him would be a bad idea. Ironically, he shouldn’t always be held at his word. He can easily change his mind and is often happy to play devil’s advocate in order to keep an interesting discussion humming along.

Downfalls
He wants nothing more than to understand everything in the universe, but one area in particular tends to mystify him: human nature. He feels most at home in the realm of logic and rationality. As a result he can be baffled by illogical and irrational ways  that feelings and emotions influence people’s behaviour – including his own. This doesn’t mean that Monty is unfeeling. He generally wants to offer emotional support to his friends and loved ones, but doesn’t necessarily know how. Monty was always the emotional child growing up, and this still shows in his deep care for the few friends he has.

Montgomery is Odiria’s first and only consulting detective, a profession he has created for himself. He collects information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching in records. He works privately, meaning anyone can hire him. He will sometimes be asked to advise the law enforcement of a country. Emergency calls can occur at any hour of the day to start working on a case, meaning he often has to leave home suddenly. His office is based in Ishgard.

His incredible ability to notice and draw deductions from seemingly trivial details is his primary tool for solving crimes he investigates. A skilled forensic investigator, he is able to put that to good use at grave crimes like murder, when he has to determine the cause of death. There are  multiple people keeping eyes out for him on the streets as a form of intel. Many also owe him favours, which he will come to collect at random times. He also tends to use his divination to determine what a criminal might do next, though this tends to be unreliable

Even if a case is offered to him, he won't take it unless he finds it sufficiently attractive (though it is worth noting that he seems to lower his standards as he gets more desperate). He has a strong interest in unusual or bizarre crimes, without which he becomes rapidly bored. He could be asked to locate someone, yet will also be asked to consult on crimes ranging from arson, theft and fraud to treason and murder.

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While he does show, at times, childlike frustration with his elder brother, Montgomery never dismisses him as he does with those he finds truly annoying or tedious. Because of his family, Montgomery substantially changed in personality from the emotional child he was to the cold, a deductive and logical man that he is now.

Montgomery is blessed with the gift of divination, like many in his family. He also uses his own method of practising his gift. He is able to see the future through Elementomancy. This means that he can employ a method of reading the future by using elements as a focus. He uses this a lot in his casework. As with all divination, it can not tell the future with full accuracy. There are also many ways in which the future can play out, meaning that one vision is not necessarily the only truth.

There are different types of Elementomancy, and some work better for Montgomery than others. With some he can willingly trigger a vision by looking at it aside from the accidental flashes in front of his eyes. He is most prone to receiving visions through the following:

• Aeromancy - Divination via air/wind currents. If a wind pattern should change, it could trigger a prophecy before his eyes.
  
• Typhomancy - Divination via smoke.
  
• Pyromancy- Divination via fire. (Not mastered, doesn’t happen a lot either).
  

Then there are those forms that he knows exist, but have never happened to him yet. These include: Electromancy (divination via electricity/lightning) and Hydromancy (divination via water).

EARLY YEARS

Montgomery —Monty— Edmund Rizal was born as the third child of Bartholomew and Eurus Rizal. He has two elder siblings. Out of all the three siblings, Monty had always proven to be the most emotional one. Both his father and mother had the gift of divination, finding it most important that their children would practise their gifts from a young age under their watchful eye.

CHILDHOOD YEARS & TEENAGE YEARS

Montgomery was born with a great intellect, which his parents cherished. He excelled at subjects such as science, physics, history and divination. When he was seven years old, he was no longer allowed to see his best friend. There would be no more games of ‘pirates’, and Monty would need to spend time with children of his own standing. He was rather distraught by this. Because he lived such a sheltered life, and because his parents clearly found their kind more ‘important’ than regular humans, Monty grew up to be quite distant. At around age 15, many note that he wasn’t the emotional child he had once been. Instead he became someone with little friends and a certain arrogance towards those of lesser intellect.

ADULTHOOD

Monty decided to study both science with a particular interest in forensics, as well as physics. However, he wasn’t very popular with the other maesters or students as he had the tendency to make deductions -albeit accurate ones- about their lives. He dabbled in law, but quickly decided that law enforcement wasn’t for him. When he was twenty-six, he created his own profession: a consulting detective. He’d work for himself and no one else, taking on strange cases that sent him all over Odiria.

NOW

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