User Name/Nick: jo
User DW: calamityjo
AIM/IM: jocalamansi
E-mail: jocalamansi@gmail.com
Other Characters: none.

WARNING: INCEST AND MATRICIDE

Character Name: Ahmad
Series: Netflix's Marco Polo
Age: 25-35 apx
From When?: His death at the end of Season 2

Inmate/Warden: Inmate. While Ahmad believes his actions are justified, he is responsible and remorseless over thousands of deaths. Including innocent men he used to take the fall for his own misdeeds. He is utterly ruthless when it comes to obtaining his goals. The only death he feels something for at all is his mother's, but he refuses to blame himself and instead shifts the blame to Kublai Khan.
Item: N/A
Arrival: Willing. Ahmad thinks he can twist this to his advantage and somehow fake his way to graduation. Regardless, he does want another chance at life.

Abilities/Powers:
Ahmad just your average human but he has a few outstanding abilities. He has a swift mind and a talent for numbers and accounting. Along the same lines he has a talent for misdirection and lies. He's spent a good portion of his adult life pretending to be something other than he is. He can artfully hide his true emotions and opinions from all but the most observant minds.

He's never shown outright fighting in the series but he was trained by One Hundred Eyes(the blind warrior monk) as all of the Khan's inner circle were. All trained in sword, knife and hand-to-hand fighting. However, Ahmad's more interested in others doing the fighting for him, rather than doing so himself. That being said, I'd say his level of fighting skill in the competent range but hardly a Kung Fu Fighting Master. His Kung Fu is numbers.

Personality: [Please write at least 5 solid paragraphs. The more depth and detail, the better! Keep in mind that other players will use this section to determine if your character is a good match for potential Warden/Inmate pairings, and this may be their first exposure to your character.

Barge Reactions: Ahmad is very skilled at hiding how he truly feels and will take a calm approach to anything new or strange. There will be things that go against his sensibilities but he will pretend otherwise if it is considered 'normal' by other residents.

That said, the more outlandish residents will get his attention. Any one with super powers will come as a shock and likely make him gravitate toward them. He'll want to understand how their powers work and, of course, attempt to manipulate them if he can.

Most importantly, he'll take time to understand the social norms of the Barge before acting outside them.

As for the Barge itself, Ahmad will be coming in as a willing inmate. So, he'll have a basic understanding of it being between worlds and realities.


Path to Redemption: [(INMATES ONLY) Please outline possible ways a Warden can get through to them, possible triggers, methods, motives for them to change. This section can serve to give Warden players some idea of which route to take in working with your Inmate. While we don't expect every Inmate to become redeemed, they have to AT LEAST have potential for it. Irredeemable Inmates are not acceptable.]
Ahmad is absolutely redeemable but the first step is getting him to understand he needs to. He doesn't see himself as the problem and sees all his actions as justified. He will always point to Kublai Khan as the source of all his pain.

Deal: N/A

History: WARNING: INCEST AND MATRICIDE wiki

Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 sentences (of spoken/written monologue, not including narration) 1st Person POV. This sample should reflect the character's day-to-day behavior and a distinctive voice and must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in journal style.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in 3rd person/logs style.]

Special Notes:

Name: Ahmad
Canon: Netflix's Marco Polo

History:
Born into the Fanākatī people. His village was destroyed by the mongols when he was a child. He thought himself the only survivor of his village but later learned that was not entirely true. He was too young to truly understand what was happening when he was brought to Camulac and raised in the court of Kublai Khan as an adoptive son. His only clear memory of his birth parents was the lullaby his mother wrote for and sang to him.

Always having a talent for numbers, Ahmad became the Khan's Minister of Finance for the majority of his adult life. Following the execution of Yusuf, Kublai's former Vice Regnant, Ahmad rose to the position and remained there until his death.

SPOILERS TIME :D WARNING: INCEST
In his early twenties, Ahmad wanted to travel the Empire's trade routes before accepting the title of Minister of Finance. During his travels, he unknowingly slept with his own mother. Upon realizing this, in a rage he killed her. The storm of emotions of that event made him fundamentally change. He no longer viewed Kublai as a father and benefactor but as a tyrant and hated him for not telling him his mother lived. He hated him for treating him as a son, but never as an heir. He hated him for giving him ambition for something he could never have.

Ahmad's view of his situation changed to feeling like a caged animal, feeling more like prisoner doomed to treat his captor's with reverence they did not deserve. So Ahmad did what he does best, he calculated. He very precisely calculated a way he believed he could surpass and ruin Kublai Khan. It took years of planning and he very nearly succeed.

In the end, Ahmad was killed by Mei Lin. A woman who he had grown somewhat attached too and had wanted to be apart of his plans. In his final moments, he said exactly the thing that would ensure Mei Lin would kill him.