Character Info: Character Name: Faolan Series: The Bridei Chronicles Personality: Faolan is a Gaelic assassin/spy/bodyguard. He is mostly surly and forbidding but he can also be witty and caring. He is a good guy under there somewhere! Emotions make him uncomfortable and he's always been best at plotting and thinking. Lancelot's been a good influence on him, however, and as such he's not nearly as growly and surly as he used to be. Court: Shardless; sworn to Lancelot however so he's currently mostly Seelie Current location: He can generally be found somewhere between Caer Glaem and the White Citadel as well as their new mansion/house/thing, but basically wherever Lancelot is, he's in his shadow. Open Posts: He had a training/spy log here, which you are never too late to tag into, if you want CR with him! Current or future plans: Faolan is the Spymaster of Caer Glaem. While this means that he is theoretically being paid to spy for the Seelie cause, his interests lie EVERYWHERE, basically. Especially surrounding the godswar. He's done a lot of spying and researching in that direction already, and has some really interesting information at his fingertips that I'm thinking I should really get him to do something with on the Seelie/Shardless side of things, since Clarke has started to use it to her advantage on the Unseelie Side. Catch-up: Oh gosh, Faolan's history is super long and complicated but I'll try to summarize it as best I can. He needs to belong to someone to feel like he's worth anything, basically. So when he first came into the drabwurld he swore himself to Celegorm. Celegorm contracted him to steal the Silmaril from Clarisse for him, so he went under cover into the Seelie court, sneaking around spying and trying to figure out where she might have hid it as Celegorm created a distraction via battle. But Clarisse had taken it with her, so there was nothing to find, and then Celegorm went and got himself killed. So Faolan tried to capture himself a monster (Ariadne) that had attacked the castle to earn the monarch's favor and perhaps work for them instead, as a double-crossing spy. But they basically fed him his ass on a plate and all but kicked him out -- their one condition was that he could stay if he swore himself to someone in their court and proved his worth. Faolan struggled for a while but finally found someone who needed him -- Sigrid, a young woman with an important future and little life experience to back that up. Things were going pretty good for them, him being her bodyguard and adviser, Faolan took a mission to rescue an important dog from a certain Reynard the Fox, and while he was doing this investigating Sigrid up and disappeared from the drabwurld. So he turned to the first person he could think of who might need someone to look out for them, given the amount of trouble he'd already gotten himself into, and the fact that he was working on a job for him in the first place -- the Seelie Marshall himself, Lancelot du Lac. Rescuing Lady for Lancelot was the easy part of the mission, but Faolan made a promise to Solais to help see the Fox dead, which was a lot harder than they made it look.
Faolan swore himself to Lancelot and after swearing himself to him in front of the Queen herself he was finally welcome in the Seelie court. But shortly thereafter, Lancelot being Lancelot, he ended up on a journey to visit the Pyrii with John Grimm and the Brucolac, intent on finding an answer to stopping the unstoppable jabberwock. Lancelot trusted too easily, and it ended up being Faolan's doom, as the Brucolac was actually attempting to sacrifice him to the fire maidens in exchange for a pact. They ended up getting the answer they sought, but Faolan lost his life there at Mt. Verla as well. Because he had sworn himself to Lancelot before the Queen, however, he was allowed to return as his sworn hand, where he remains to this day. Later on Faolan would use the secret gained from the Pyrii to put an end to the jabberwhelp, not knowing that there is still a much larger, much more terrifying jabberwock still around until after the fact.
Faolan has since been struggling with coming to terms with who he is now. Getting back in touch with the bardic talents he had once given up. Getting back in touch with emotions that he had sworn to himself he would never touch again, that he never deserved -- such as friendship and love. And gaining himself a place within the court not only as Lancelot's shadow but also through his own talents, as Spymaster, with a collection of agents at his beck and call. Also he has a lot of emotions about playing the harp and about Lancelot, but they are secret (unless of course you want your character to notice/touch on them haha).
MOST RECENTLY he too a spy mission himself that had him going to Leathann to gain information about the void for Dorian. While he was there he made a bargain with the Water Guardian -- and in exchange for leaving with the document and his life, he had to make an oath to break into the Lucky Penny. Which, if you don't know what that is, is a scary scary casino in Mair that deals in things like nightmares and firstborn rather than money. Needless to say, he was scared to go in, since he'd been there once before and barely gotten out with his life and was fairly certain Management, the scary crocodile-like creature that owns it, remembers his break-in. Needless to say, he was relieved when Dorian found a way to transfer the oath to someone else that needed punishing by the Midnight Court, and though he felt bad for her, he felt lucky to be alive. Until he woke up with her reanimated corpse in his bedroom, with a message from Management that he better not set foot in Mair or he'll suffer worse. SO HE'S DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO BE DOING THAT EVER. Desired CR: Faolan could always use friends/confidants, but he is a hard person to gain the trust of. He also really needs spies, and people to add to his little information network. ESPECIALLY UNSEELIE WHO MIGHT WANT TO SIDE WITH HIM DESPITE HIS POSITION LOOKING AT YOU GUYS. ALSO I really love having him butt heads with people, and I really love negative CR and fight scenes. I WOULD LOVE CR WITH YOU IS THE BOTTOM LINE! Shipping: Faolan has all the shipping he can handle rn; he will take flirting but that's as open as his book is these days Things to avoid: Nothing that I can think of! Other: Obligatory smouldering:
Faolan
Character Name: Faolan
Series: The Bridei Chronicles
Personality: Faolan is a Gaelic assassin/spy/bodyguard. He is mostly surly and forbidding but he can also be witty and caring. He is a good guy under there somewhere! Emotions make him uncomfortable and he's always been best at plotting and thinking. Lancelot's been a good influence on him, however, and as such he's not nearly as growly and surly as he used to be.
Court: Shardless; sworn to Lancelot however so he's currently mostly Seelie
Current location: He can generally be found somewhere between Caer Glaem and the White Citadel as well as their new mansion/house/thing, but basically wherever Lancelot is, he's in his shadow.
Open Posts: He had a training/spy log here, which you are never too late to tag into, if you want CR with him!
Current or future plans: Faolan is the Spymaster of Caer Glaem. While this means that he is theoretically being paid to spy for the Seelie cause, his interests lie EVERYWHERE, basically. Especially surrounding the godswar. He's done a lot of spying and researching in that direction already, and has some really interesting information at his fingertips that I'm thinking I should really get him to do something with on the Seelie/Shardless side of things, since Clarke has started to use it to her advantage on the Unseelie Side.
Catch-up: Oh gosh, Faolan's history is super long and complicated but I'll try to summarize it as best I can. He needs to belong to someone to feel like he's worth anything, basically. So when he first came into the drabwurld he swore himself to Celegorm. Celegorm contracted him to steal the Silmaril from Clarisse for him, so he went under cover into the Seelie court, sneaking around spying and trying to figure out where she might have hid it as Celegorm created a distraction via battle. But Clarisse had taken it with her, so there was nothing to find, and then Celegorm went and got himself killed. So Faolan tried to capture himself a monster (Ariadne) that had attacked the castle to earn the monarch's favor and perhaps work for them instead, as a double-crossing spy. But they basically fed him his ass on a plate and all but kicked him out -- their one condition was that he could stay if he swore himself to someone in their court and proved his worth. Faolan struggled for a while but finally found someone who needed him -- Sigrid, a young woman with an important future and little life experience to back that up. Things were going pretty good for them, him being her bodyguard and adviser, Faolan took a mission to rescue an important dog from a certain Reynard the Fox, and while he was doing this investigating Sigrid up and disappeared from the drabwurld. So he turned to the first person he could think of who might need someone to look out for them, given the amount of trouble he'd already gotten himself into, and the fact that he was working on a job for him in the first place -- the Seelie Marshall himself, Lancelot du Lac. Rescuing Lady for Lancelot was the easy part of the mission, but Faolan made a promise to Solais to help see the Fox dead, which was a lot harder than they made it look.
Faolan swore himself to Lancelot and after swearing himself to him in front of the Queen herself he was finally welcome in the Seelie court. But shortly thereafter, Lancelot being Lancelot, he ended up on a journey to visit the Pyrii with John Grimm and the Brucolac, intent on finding an answer to stopping the unstoppable jabberwock. Lancelot trusted too easily, and it ended up being Faolan's doom, as the Brucolac was actually attempting to sacrifice him to the fire maidens in exchange for a pact. They ended up getting the answer they sought, but Faolan lost his life there at Mt. Verla as well. Because he had sworn himself to Lancelot before the Queen, however, he was allowed to return as his sworn hand, where he remains to this day. Later on Faolan would use the secret gained from the Pyrii to put an end to the jabberwhelp, not knowing that there is still a much larger, much more terrifying jabberwock still around until after the fact.
Faolan has since been struggling with coming to terms with who he is now. Getting back in touch with the bardic talents he had once given up. Getting back in touch with emotions that he had sworn to himself he would never touch again, that he never deserved -- such as friendship and love. And gaining himself a place within the court not only as Lancelot's shadow but also through his own talents, as Spymaster, with a collection of agents at his beck and call. Also he has a lot of emotions about playing the harp and about Lancelot, but they are secret (unless of course you want your character to notice/touch on them haha).
MOST RECENTLY he too a spy mission himself that had him going to Leathann to gain information about the void for Dorian. While he was there he made a bargain with the Water Guardian -- and in exchange for leaving with the document and his life, he had to make an oath to break into the Lucky Penny. Which, if you don't know what that is, is a scary scary casino in Mair that deals in things like nightmares and firstborn rather than money. Needless to say, he was scared to go in, since he'd been there once before and barely gotten out with his life and was fairly certain Management, the scary crocodile-like creature that owns it, remembers his break-in. Needless to say, he was relieved when Dorian found a way to transfer the oath to someone else that needed punishing by the Midnight Court, and though he felt bad for her, he felt lucky to be alive. Until he woke up with her reanimated corpse in his bedroom, with a message from Management that he better not set foot in Mair or he'll suffer worse. SO HE'S DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO BE DOING THAT EVER.
Desired CR: Faolan could always use friends/confidants, but he is a hard person to gain the trust of. He also really needs spies, and people to add to his little information network. ESPECIALLY UNSEELIE WHO MIGHT WANT TO SIDE WITH HIM DESPITE HIS POSITION LOOKING AT YOU GUYS. ALSO I really love having him butt heads with people, and I really love negative CR and fight scenes. I WOULD LOVE CR WITH YOU IS THE BOTTOM LINE!
Shipping: Faolan has all the shipping he can handle rn; he will take flirting but that's as open as his book is these days
Things to avoid: Nothing that I can think of!
Other: Obligatory smouldering: