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breakaleginhalf) wrote2023-03-01 10:29 pm
breakaleginhalf) wrote2023-03-01 10:29 pm
Come Sail App
PLAYER
Name: Maniette
Age: 29
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maniette, also Maniette on Discord!
Permission Post:Here!
Reserve: NA
CHARACTER
Name: Gil Ryanson
True Name: Gil Ryanson
Canon: Changeling: The Lost
Age: 28
History: Gil's life before his Durance was perfectly mundane. He was an only child to a doctor and politician, went to a renowned Melbourne university to study Aerospace Engineering, and joined the local theatre club, ending up in a tight-knit group of seven. It was towards the tail end of his Masters that he and his friends were Taken by a True Fae: it had been stalking the club for a while, and took the opportunity to steal them away after they got their parts for their latest performance: Into The Woods.
In the potential list of Narrator, Hero, Heroine, Villain, Crone and Innocent, Gil was saddled with Beast: his fate was to be the embodiment of bestial, monstrous violence. With every unique play their Keeper forced the Narrator to write, Gil was killed, violently, viscerally, in a new and exciting way every single time, because to do otherwise was to risk their Keeper getting bored and doing something worse.
He doesn't know how long it was on the inside before he was finally able to escape - but a large part of how was thanks to the Crone (the one who had to sew him back together after every play he was in). Together they tried to hatch a plan to free everyone, but when they put it in motion something went wrong (perhaps their Keeper was just too powerful, or everyone else was too far gone) and their Keeper tried to kill the Crone permanently - and Gil snapped. He attacked their Keeper himself, ripping the True Fae's leg off before he grabbed the Crone and fled. And while he didn't escape with them, losing the Crone to the ever-changing forces of the Hedge, escape Gil did.
But his time in Arcadia had changed him - he had been forced to play the part of a monstrous and violent beast for so many years inside Arcadia, that Gil had become the part. Not a Beast (a distinct Changeling Seeming), but an Ogre, a distinctly ugly creature made for massive, mindless damage. And specifically a Gristlegrinder - a hulking, brutish Kith with teeth that can cut through bone, and always, hungry for human flesh.
When he escaped, the realisation that his old life was gone was too much, and with nothing else to keep him grounded he spent nearly two months in a heavy depression where he rarely left his room in the local Autumn Freehold. It took a chance encounter with a pre-teen Changeling doing his homework for Gil to finally break out of the darkness, and things moved quickly after that - some cursory testing done to check how functional he was, papers were forged to allow him to be a teacher's aide and private tutor, and he was sent to work in the neighbouring Spring Freehold, located over a prominent Melbourne high school.
Powers/Abilities: As a Changeling, Gil has access to the following Contracts (magical bargains made with concepts of nature and society):
Shared Burden: Bleed on someone to heal their wounds.
Chrysalis: Gil can turn into a Kodiak bear and a collosal, blood-red bull.
Might of the Terrible Brute: Magically steal the strength of an opponent so as to immobilise them during combat.
Primal Glory: Touch an element and gain full protection from all mundane and supernatural sources.
Red Revenge; Mindless murder berserker mode. Allies beware.
He also has heightened senses, always knows which way is north, is obscenely fast for his bulk and has a supernaturally fortified endurance to match.
Inventory: A satchel with miscellany including his cell phone, a thin laptop, assorted stationary and a highschool science textbook.
Job History: University student, part-time barista, full time teacher's aide in a private secondary school (ages 13-18), apprentice Fool of First Frost
Suppressions: The fact he is an obligate cannibal and his multitude of dietary issues surrounding it, his PTSD and survivor's guilt, his Ogre-ish impulses and tendency towards violence as a first response
Greatest Fear: Being recaptured by his Keeper, also being manipulated or killed/forced to kill by a Fairest.
Greatest Desire: His friends and old life back.
Greatest Regret: That he wasn't able to save any of his friends when he was escaping their Keeper.
Sample: TDM thread!
Name: Maniette
Age: 29
Contact:
Permission Post:Here!
Reserve: NA
CHARACTER
Name: Gil Ryanson
True Name: Gil Ryanson
Canon: Changeling: The Lost
Age: 28
History: Gil's life before his Durance was perfectly mundane. He was an only child to a doctor and politician, went to a renowned Melbourne university to study Aerospace Engineering, and joined the local theatre club, ending up in a tight-knit group of seven. It was towards the tail end of his Masters that he and his friends were Taken by a True Fae: it had been stalking the club for a while, and took the opportunity to steal them away after they got their parts for their latest performance: Into The Woods.
In the potential list of Narrator, Hero, Heroine, Villain, Crone and Innocent, Gil was saddled with Beast: his fate was to be the embodiment of bestial, monstrous violence. With every unique play their Keeper forced the Narrator to write, Gil was killed, violently, viscerally, in a new and exciting way every single time, because to do otherwise was to risk their Keeper getting bored and doing something worse.
He doesn't know how long it was on the inside before he was finally able to escape - but a large part of how was thanks to the Crone (the one who had to sew him back together after every play he was in). Together they tried to hatch a plan to free everyone, but when they put it in motion something went wrong (perhaps their Keeper was just too powerful, or everyone else was too far gone) and their Keeper tried to kill the Crone permanently - and Gil snapped. He attacked their Keeper himself, ripping the True Fae's leg off before he grabbed the Crone and fled. And while he didn't escape with them, losing the Crone to the ever-changing forces of the Hedge, escape Gil did.
But his time in Arcadia had changed him - he had been forced to play the part of a monstrous and violent beast for so many years inside Arcadia, that Gil had become the part. Not a Beast (a distinct Changeling Seeming), but an Ogre, a distinctly ugly creature made for massive, mindless damage. And specifically a Gristlegrinder - a hulking, brutish Kith with teeth that can cut through bone, and always, hungry for human flesh.
When he escaped, the realisation that his old life was gone was too much, and with nothing else to keep him grounded he spent nearly two months in a heavy depression where he rarely left his room in the local Autumn Freehold. It took a chance encounter with a pre-teen Changeling doing his homework for Gil to finally break out of the darkness, and things moved quickly after that - some cursory testing done to check how functional he was, papers were forged to allow him to be a teacher's aide and private tutor, and he was sent to work in the neighbouring Spring Freehold, located over a prominent Melbourne high school.
Powers/Abilities: As a Changeling, Gil has access to the following Contracts (magical bargains made with concepts of nature and society):
Shared Burden: Bleed on someone to heal their wounds.
Chrysalis: Gil can turn into a Kodiak bear and a collosal, blood-red bull.
Might of the Terrible Brute: Magically steal the strength of an opponent so as to immobilise them during combat.
Primal Glory: Touch an element and gain full protection from all mundane and supernatural sources.
Red Revenge; Mindless murder berserker mode. Allies beware.
He also has heightened senses, always knows which way is north, is obscenely fast for his bulk and has a supernaturally fortified endurance to match.
Inventory: A satchel with miscellany including his cell phone, a thin laptop, assorted stationary and a highschool science textbook.
Job History: University student, part-time barista, full time teacher's aide in a private secondary school (ages 13-18), apprentice Fool of First Frost
Suppressions: The fact he is an obligate cannibal and his multitude of dietary issues surrounding it, his PTSD and survivor's guilt, his Ogre-ish impulses and tendency towards violence as a first response
Greatest Fear: Being recaptured by his Keeper, also being manipulated or killed/forced to kill by a Fairest.
Greatest Desire: His friends and old life back.
Greatest Regret: That he wasn't able to save any of his friends when he was escaping their Keeper.
Sample: TDM thread!