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lestercraft) wrote2024-09-03 01:35 pm
lestercraft) wrote2024-09-03 01:35 pm
SING: Info / Tracking
FULL NAME
Arthur Lester
BIRTH DATE
30 March, 1900
AGE
34
CANON
Malevolent (Podcast)
ALIAS
Artie / Dies Irae
PRONOUNS
He/him
APPEARANCE
Arthur tries his best to maintain appearances; given the setting that's going to be difficult, so in that case he'll prioritise being warm and mobile no matter what he's wearing.
Will tend to default to multiple layers; plain t-shirt under button-up shirt under knitwear under jacket under a topcoat, and similarly at least three pairs of pants.
An approximate guide to his scars, which he will adamantly refuse to let people see where possible.
Will tend to default to multiple layers; plain t-shirt under button-up shirt under knitwear under jacket under a topcoat, and similarly at least three pairs of pants.
An approximate guide to his scars, which he will adamantly refuse to let people see where possible.
HEIGHT
5'8-9"
HAIR
Chestnut brown, with distinct whites. Initially cut quite short. (Beard will be patchy and also white-streaked.
BUILD
Lean muscles, endurance build. Harmfully underweight.
EYES
Brown; streaked with unnatural golden-yellow.
PERSONALITY
Arthur presents rather immediately as a stuffy, tightly-wound Englishman, which is at least partly true (he's an American immigrant). Off the bat, however, he also comes across as extremely curious and conversational, always willing to lend a hand - but equally willing to stoke a grudge, and can come across as irrationally defensive when he decides he's picked a hill to die on.
He's extremely reactive, and in a panic situation will typically bolt, unless someone else needs defending in which case he will throw himself headfirst into danger to protect them, regardless of his own well-being. He's a private investigator, and so has a healthy, borderline insatiable curiosity, and does best when he's got something to engage with, either physically or mentally, to keep him from falling into a depressive lethargy. That being said, he will always try and keep up appearances, and will typically keep his pain to himself unless he can directly benefit someone by their knowing it.
He's extremely reactive, and in a panic situation will typically bolt, unless someone else needs defending in which case he will throw himself headfirst into danger to protect them, regardless of his own well-being. He's a private investigator, and so has a healthy, borderline insatiable curiosity, and does best when he's got something to engage with, either physically or mentally, to keep him from falling into a depressive lethargy. That being said, he will always try and keep up appearances, and will typically keep his pain to himself unless he can directly benefit someone by their knowing it.
CURIOUS
— Positive Trait: Curious
Arthur is endlessly investigative, and always wants to know what's going on around him. He views everything as a puzzle that it has to be possible to solve, and he's actually quite good at finding the logic and reason behind seemingly disparate pieces of a puzzle. He's remarkably intelligent with a classical education, extremely analytical and able to make reasonable leaps to logical conclusions with limited information, and is willing to allow new information into his equations and completely change his mind on a theory with that in mind. As a private investigator he's also familiar with the more unsavoury side of humanity: he and his partner were primarily hired to recover missing persons, and Arthur's been shown to be able to anticipate other people's intelligence, and use it against them.EMPATHETIC
— Positive Trait: Empathetic
Arthur is a deeply compassionate person, and uses this to great effect over the course of his career. While he knows he has a history of being self-absorbed, he's also the kind of person who will treat baby babbles like a dialogue, who gives children his utmost attention and respect, who can relate on a deep and personal level to loss and make it a sincere dialogue. While he is a deeply private person, and won't share his own pain willingly or easily, he will use this pain with reckless abandon to connect with others and help them through their own. He'll also use his pain to try and offer compassion to others - he refuses to kill a wraith, instead making a bargain to release her, because she only existed because she was mourning the loss of her own baby when she stole a living one, and he will always try to engage with dialogue with someone that wants to kill him, rather than escalate to violence first.PHILOSOPHICAL
— Positive Trait: Curious
Before Arthur was a private investigator, he was a pianist of prodigious capability. Music and poetry have always been his way of coping with the world, to express himself and his emotions and ground himself in the moment, and he's always eager to share poetry with people to help them as well; with empathy, with coping, with expressing themselves and finding ways to describe things through it. He's also a deeply philosophical person, and while he actively and aggressively eschews Catholicism, seeing it and its followers as something more akin to a sanctioned cult, he's not shown to have any major aversion to other religions, and even then still uses some of its teachings in his philosophies, where he can find a place to fit them that he doesn't utterly loathe (like as an example of how not to do religion).CONTRARIAN
— Negative Trait: Contrarian
In the face of being told what to do, Arthur is relentless in pursuing the exact opposite path to take. He is resistant to authority of all kinds, to the point that even being actively manipulated by an Elder God who is trying to get him to do something means said god is constantly required to rework their plan because Arthur's not having a bar of playing along. This happens with multiple gods. If he's forced to go along with something he doesn't want to do, he certainly won't directly undermine it, but he'll be furious and look for the first chance to escape it as soon as possible.STUBBORN
— Negative Trait: Stubborn
When Arthur sets himself on a course of action, he will see it through, come hell or high water. While he can be reasoned with, and is more than happy to negotiate if he knows he requires more information, when he's decided on a path he will commit to it no matter what happens - including to his own detriment. While this is a boon to some extent, in that it was what let him continue living after the losses of his wife and daughter - and even prevented him from being killed by the King in Yellow, since he was so determined to never forget the harm he caused his daughter - it's also a problem in that even he can't really defy his own stubbornness.HYPOCRITICAL
— Negative Trait: Hypocritical
As much as Arthur tries to be philosophical and objective about cases, his interpersonal relationships tend to suffer at the hands of some pretty intense hypocrisy. He'll endlessly spout the virtues of planning ahead, of thinking things through before you commit to an action: and then immediately ignore his own advice by jumping on the first impulse that catches his attention. He demands honesty from others but is violently private about his own life.ABILITIES
🌕 When he touches a dead human body, will involuntarily witness the few minutes preceding the person's death. Nerfed
🌕 Exceptional eye for detail
🌕 Human private investigator and all the general skills that entails: research & investigation, proposing theories, following hunches, psychological analysis.
🌕 Petty crime (lockpicking, pickpocketry, larceny, B&E)
🌕 Intermediate knowledge of supernatural bullshit (eldritch flavour, particularly the King in Yellow)
🌕 Exceptional eye for detail
🌕 Human private investigator and all the general skills that entails: research & investigation, proposing theories, following hunches, psychological analysis.
🌕 Petty crime (lockpicking, pickpocketry, larceny, B&E)
🌕 Intermediate knowledge of supernatural bullshit (eldritch flavour, particularly the King in Yellow)
INVENTORY
RESIDENCY
Description
A silver Dunhill lighter, made circa 1920s. One face is engraved: This too shall pass. Always on Arthur's person.— Dagger; on arrival:
Description
A slick, straight-edged dagger with a black blade and leather grip on the hilt. Uncomfortably sacrificial-looking. Fits in Arthur's hand, like it's made specifically for him. The edges are wickedly sharp, but irreparably stained with blood. Always on Arthur's person.— Music box; on arrival:
Description
A small, ornate metal box. The lid has a painting of a small girl, still a toddler, in a bonnet and holding a red rose. The song. Kept hidden in Arthur's cabin.— A breastplate; September 2024 Event:
Description
A thick piece of metal that covers Arthur's torso, with leather straps. It fits Arthur well; not custom-made, but appropriately sized for his height. It bears a heraldic mark for the kingdom of Aravel, though this hasn't been described in canon yet. Currently worn beneath his outer layers.— Item; acquisition:
Description
Description hereAURORA FEATS
FEAT #1
write a brief description about your ability/talent/magic/whatever here! it'll scale.
FEAT #2
yeehaw
FEAT #3
maybe ur character is a parseltongue but for bears idk you do you
THREAD TRACKING
August 2024
September 2024