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[The Arbiter]

Full Name: The Arbiter Hamm
Fandom: POTO, original, other (specify)? Chess
Age: 34.
Height: 6'6
Weight: 159 lbs.
Build: Well built
Hair:black.
Eyes: Light brown
Nationality: British.
Job: He's The Arbiter. That's what he do. . . And is the president of some National Chess League, but who cares about that?
Personality:

He practically rules the chess world. Well, he likes to think he does. It takes people a while to convince him that he's not necessarily the biggest bad ass this side of the hemisphere. Even then, he's pretty sure that he is, in fact, God's gift to everything. He's also extremely fond of gloves. White ones, if you want to get specific. Also: extremely controlling with detachment issues and heavy duty moral values. His closest friends call him David regardless of the fact that he's the Arbiter, though he tends to let others introduce him else he do so as 'David Hamm, President of the National Chess League'

Life Story (as much as you want us to know):

The bastard son of a sheep herder named Steve and a British heiress he fondly called Polly, Arbiter ( born David Ham Hamm ) spent his childhood going back and forth from luxury to the ramshackle home of his father. He became fond of growing up and did so at a normal rate.

Then he found chess. The rest, as they say, is history. (( It's also history because certain people are lazy and wish to work more on the history later. ))

[Adrian Veidt]

((Apparently his name is actually Jean-Jacques van Boren, but your version is funnier.

Also, it's moviecanon that the president of the world chess league moderated a special match in which Adrian Veidt played 197 opponents simultaneously in 1982. Presumably this involved walking up and down a line of them and making one move at each stop. The point is, he beat all of them. I don't know if you ever want a scene together that alludes to this, but there you go.))

[The Arbiter]

(( I did not know that! Though I sort-of hoped that during one of the editions, he was given a name. I went off the '08 concert because I, though a deep fan of the Chess musical, cannot sit through and interpret most of the plot without a bit of assistance. Viewing it tends to help, but I've only seen the rather pimptastical Arbiter who takes 7 minutes simply to put on his pimp gloves.

And yes! I would be glad to. I remember having Ska mention something along those lines but I've yet to see the movie myself. Nor read the comic, which should be awaiting me this afternoon. ))

[Adrian Veidt]

((Movie!Veidt and comic!Veidt are two fairly different creatures. Comic!Veidt is a grinning, burly, unperturbable fellow you'd like to hang out with and who appears on the surface to be just the nicest guy ever, and who even when you find out who he actually is has this very calm, paternal quality about him. Movie!Veidt is condescending, easily pushed into the realm of sulking, and switches from being a smug smiling bastard and into mess with me and I will END YOU mode as soon as you disagree with him, but ends up looking a lot more guilty and unsettled by his own actions in the end. I play the latter version, with some extrapolations out of that interpretation, if that helps you decide at all. The chess thing was only revealed in an online copy of the letter of congratulations as part of the viral advertising they did for the film and is never mentioned in either version. I think it was just their way of going SEE YOU GUYS HE'S REALLY SMART. SO SMART IT'S UNNERVING.

There seems to be something rather sadistic about inviting 197 world-class chess players to get simultaneously whooped by an ultragenius amateur who's also an exceptionally gifted athlete and multi-billionaire businessman, in my opinion.

But back to the Arbiter. I'm still familiarizing myself with Chess, and on TV Tropes it says that in the Swedish production his name was given as Jean-Jacques van Boren. I'm not sure when they might have said this in the show, but I figure they must have added in some dialogue or something, which wouldn't surprise me. That name suggests he was Belgian in that production, or at least that's how it seems to me.))

[The Arbiter]

(( And the little '

I personally would be a bit questioning as to whether or not this guy just needed a self esteem boost or was an all-out asshole if I were one of said players.

I've regretfully not even had a chance to learn much about the Swedish production save that it has been described as the best of them all, compared to Les Miserables in that the show needed to be translated to another language in order to become robust and better. They probably added it in as a minor tidbit ( Like in introducing him to the chess players or to Global, ect. ) or something. ))

[Adrian Veidt]

((I only have the 08 recording and the concept album myself, so I can't judge. I know that there've been productions where the character was made female (and apparently my college did it once where the KGB agent was a woman named Nathalia Molokova, in order to change the balance so that there was a kind of asshole woman in there too instead of just the comparatively nice Florence and Svetlana), but I seriously don't know much more about the show than that.

As for Veidt trouncing all these players, the worst part is that I imagine he was totally nice about it too. Shaking hands, smiling pleasantly, congratulating the others even though he practically curbstomped them (though the letter's comment that the game against Garry Kasparov will be studied for years to come seems to indicate that Kasparov put up a really good game and probably only just barely lost.)))

[Sarah]

((It's a shame The Emcee is dead, or I'd suggest these two meet...and then we'd need an Engineer...))

[Megan]

((The Pavi doesn't count.))

[The Arbiter]

(( But the Pavi -always- counts! ))

[Kirk Lazarus]

((Oh god I thought that someone had made The Arbiter from Halo. The Arbiter being the monster looking guy holding the fellow.))

[Johan Liebert]

(( That would be mega-epic but also kind of terrifying. MUCH LIKE THE ARBITER HIMSELF. ))

[Kirk Lazarus]

((Oh my.))

[Adrian Veidt]

((Oh god filk fuel.))

[Adrien Baillon]

((You are all dorks.))

[Adrian Veidt]

((HOSHIT DR FACIULIER IS THE HALO!ARBITER))