We tend to build our lives around what we love. The glutton has built his life around food.
Description
Food is one of the most important ingredients to staying alive. We need it, but we can also enjoy it. Anyone who has ever opened a bag of chips instead of making a proper snack knows what it is to choose flavor over substance.
Well the glutton has built his life around his love of food. He loves it’s flavor, he loves it’s texture and he loves the way it makes him feel to be eating. He only stops eating to do what must be done before he can continue again.
This is not to say that the glutton sees all food as being equal. The glutton knows the difference between fine foods and shit. He prefers finer foods, but if only shit is available, it will have to do… for now.
What you’ve heard
You see on TV, in the news, and as you walk down the street that there are lots of incredibly fat fucks. You hear that some of them have found a way to turn their passion for eating and overeating into power.
You hear that someone has figured out how to violate the law of conservation of mass while eating. Maybe it is a ritual… god I hope so.
Symbols:
The greasy turkey leg, a dinner plate, knife and fork, most examples of unhealthy foods, cook books, the chef’s hat.
Expected avatars:
Go to any fine restaurant with a 500lb+ cook. Chances are he might be a glutton.
Taboos: Going without food for more than a few hours, not tasty (matters not if it is healthy, only the taste matters), going on a diet, being overly concerned with appearance and health. All of these will weaken the link with the godhead
Channels
1-50% The glutton’s connection with the essence of foods allows him to commune with the food he is preparing or eating. With a successful Avatar (The Glutton) check the character may flip flop any skill or stat checks involving critiquing, preparing, eating or holding down foods.
51 – 70%- The glutton is so in love with eating that his appetite no longer obeys the laws of physics. With a successful Avatar (the glutton) check the character is able to eat any amount of food before him. (One check per meal) He is unhindered by physical limitations on food consumption, but is still limited on how fast he can force it down his neck.
71-90%- At this level the glutton is able to change the essence of a food. With a successful avatar (The glutton) check the glutton is able to change anything resembling food into a tasty meal for himself or another to eat. This allows him to turn sub-par foods into fabulous meals or rotten food into tolerable (if still not healthy) foods. In most cases the food is appears to undergo only a subtle change which makes it look and smell slightly better. The flavor and substance is dramatically changed to be tolerable and even tasty. While the “food” is not made healthy it is considered food and as such is capable of nourishing and not making someone sick.
91-99% – The glutton’s love for food is so great that it radiates into others. While the glutton is eating anyone near him (within a number of feet equal to his avatar skill) finds anything they eat is amazingly flavorful. Anyone preparing food inside of this area is considered to automatically make a matched success. Any food consumed in this area tastes as if it was made by a talented chef and made out of only the finest ingredients.
The glutton is not merely a fatt-ass who cannot stop eating. He is in love with food. The glutton has the deepest respect and understanding of foods. To him cooking and eating are art forms and to be treated as such. He thinks he is cultured and elite (and when it comes to foods he is) At the same time, the glutton is constantly craving food. If kept from eating for more than a few minutes he will be bugging to get food, even fast food or junk food, but then he will complain about how poorly made it is. If allowed to, he will eat only the finest foods, but will likely stop by and grab a bucket of chicken and some tacos on the way home.
The glutton’s worst enemy is his health. He is prohibited from going out of his way to eat healthy or take care of himself. This combined with his constant eating means that you can expect him to be a fat, slow, and unhealthy guy. His best friends are those who can restart his heart, unclog his veins and ease his indigestion.
I like the theme of the Glutton but he’s way too narrow. Why not include everything about Gluttony as related to consumerism-by-excess?
He could have replaced the obsolete hunter-gatherer archetype in the sixties.
C.
I think a Consumer Whore avatar is something else entirely…
I think it could work as the consumer vampire.
C.
Is there already an Adept skill based on eating? ’cause this would be a great start for something like that.
Did Morgan Spurlock unwittingly channel something while making Supersize Me?