Faulkner / BlossomingTide

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PLAYER

NAME: Ilya/James
CONTACT: badgirlcoven, strixoid on discord
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: I’m in PST, but active times are all over the place. Pace also varies wildly due to health stuff, apologies in advance.
BRACKETS/PROSE: Either!
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Please warn for pet death, eye injury/gore, cancer.

IN CHARACTER

CHARACTER NAME: Faulkner, previous chosen name Richard
CHARACTER CANON: The Silt Verses
CHARACTER AGE: Canon is intentionally vague, but I'm rolling with 22
CHARACTER SPECIES: Human

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: He craves it but will probably be extremely wary about it with new people.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: He has bouts of extreme violence himself, so it could go badly. But you’re free to try and I’m fine with injuries! I’d prefer to discuss deaths.
RELATIONSHIPS: He desperately craves relationships (friends, family, adoring followers, and it’s at least implied he’s interested in romance) but he’s not good at maintaining them.

He tends to end up betraying people for his own safety, or for power and attention, and despite being wracked with guilt over it he’s terrible at learning from his mistakes.

He’s also prone to murdering people close to him, especially when he feels cornered or betrayed by them, but also out of misguided religious fervor.

Add to the mix general trust issues from bad experiences, and a deep fear of abandonment.

I’d like for him to form relationships, but he’d need a lot of patience. I’m open to basically anything!
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: He is, overall, a vanilla human. However if anyone wants to sense that he used to be connected to a powerful, vicious river deity called the Trawler-Man, be my guest.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: See above! He also has a (healed, inert) magical injury.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: He’s a trans man. He’s specifically stated to be on HRT, I headcanon him as having had top surgery as well, with the scars tattooed over with fishhooks, stitches, and scripture.

He has another chest scar: this one from an injury. While it's fairly faded, the skin around it is still hardened and calcified, with faint round marks that almost imply there could have been barnacles growing. The wound was caused by a deity, but later neutralised.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: His canon history includes:

Religious trauma and abuse–with him varying between victim and perpetrator. This includes themes of cults and high control tactics. The religion/cult in question is fictional, and based on a deity that is real in universe; sometimes the trauma is god tries to kill you himself. (Also, themes around a dystopian society shaped largely by religion and gods, with a lot of classism.)

Human sacrifice, both via actual death and via body horror transformations.

Murder (by drowning and by brutal violence) including murder of a teenage sibling (though that one was at least fairly accidental).

Mass murder/large scale destruction/acts of terrorism, including floods/natural disaster imagery and body horror.

Parental neglect, and parental death.

Mental health: I’d prefer not to diagnose him with anything specific, but he’s certainly got untreated issues. The obvious one is a messiah complex, however, again, it's in the context of a world where god did speak to him. He’s prone to attempting manipulation, violent rage, severe nightmares, suicidal ideation (including more drowning imagery), guilt spirals and occasionally paranoid delusions. He also has an overall desperate desire to control the narrative of his life.

Please let me know if you’d prefer to opt out of anything specific or interacting at all!

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING: Always!
THREADHOPPING: Ask!
FOURTHWALLING: I’d prefer not.
NOT INTERESTED IN: Tbh I’m pretty much up for anything, but ask before incredibly dark content.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL: He’s small and fairly young looking overall, with features that might read as afab or just as a bit baby-faced; either way he's on the pretty side, with large pale blue eyes.

He has curly blond hair, in a cut that was roughly a mullet, before he grew it out to something he feels is more befitting a prophet of the River. He also has a heavy amount of freckles, a tan and a mild tooth gap.

He wears fishhook shaped earrings.
AURAL: He’s played by B Narr, and has a notable rural American accent; though anyone from a realistic setting might notice his grammar and slang sound more British.

He tends to be soft-spoken, casual, and chipper, but he can also veer into sounding extremely intense, pretentious, or both. Clip!
OLFACTORY: Probably nothing of note.
DEMEANOUR: At first glance, he generally comes off as a charming small-town boy. A little over-eager maybe, a little naive–an earnest prating pest, in his own words.

While this isn’t exactly a facade, it’s a persona he leans into intentionally; he likes to think he’s making people underestimate him.

Depending on canon point, he may be more visibly unstable from the get-go.

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