Application to Wellstone

[lord_daigonis]

Character info

Character name: Lord Ademnet Daigonis
Canon: OC from my unpublished novels
Canon point & release date: OC (halfway through the second novel, age 18)
CRAU (if applicable): None
Powers (no more than 150 words): He has no magic or superhuman abilities.

Personality

What is your character most afraid of? How are they defined by this fear? (100-300 words)
Ademnet lives in perpetual fear that everything he has and the people close to him could be snatched away from him at any moment. He lost his parents and nearly all of his siblings when he was thirteen, and he was arrested, tortured, and exiled from his home and friends two years after that. Even now that he’s been pardoned, given a noble title, and effectively adopted into the royal family, most of the nobility reject him and he no longer fits in with the common folk, either. He never feels secure, and that franticness resonates through his interactions with other people and the ferocity with which he defends the people he’s close to. It also makes him reckless with his own safety. What’s the point of planning for the long term when he’s already on borrowed time? Better to die on his own terms than go back on a scaffold again.

What is your character's greatest desire? How are they defined by this desire? (100-300 words)
Ademnet would say his greatest desire is justice for the common folk and for his loved ones to be safe and happy, but the real answer is that he wants a normal, quiet life. He’s a family-minded homebody at heart, though he understands that accepting a lordship for the security the title would give him–and consequently becoming famous throughout his homeland–has severely limited how quiet and normal his life will ever be. In general, he prioritizes the needs of the people he cares about above his own (partly out of love, partly out of an overdeveloped sense of duty and the fear that he won’t be loved if he isn’t useful) and is driven by a strong personal sense of right and wrong, even if that sense runs counter to society or existing law.

How will not having memories change your character? What core personality traits, if any, will change? How? (200-300 words)
Ademnet will be joining Well without any memories of either his loved ones or of his biggest traumas, which will make him less frantic and more trusting. Until he remembers he has people waiting/counting on him, he’ll be more interested in living it up and getting to know the people of Wellstone than in trying to leave it. He’ll finally have the community he craves, a never-ending supply of free food, and reassurance that nobody around him (including himself) can permanently die. To him, that’s a pretty effective sales pitch.

Although he doesn’t remember having been made a lord, those experiences will still leave visible imprints on him. Aside from the literacy and sword skills he inexplicably (to him) has, he’s gotten used to being much more assertive with people he perceives as “above” him in status than he ever would have dared to be before leaving home. He will gravitate toward the knight/cavalier cadre of Wellstone, despite having no conscious reason to expect he’d fit in there. He’s going to be deeply concerned about the welfare of the NPCs and ghosts, who he’ll assume are victims in need of rescue or justice. He’ll also be slower to warm up to anyone who identifies as or behaves like nobility–he may befriend them anyway, but those people will start out with a serious mark against them in Ademnet’s book.

Memories

You have 10 memory points. How will you use them?

Skill: 1 point.
He can read, but he doesn’t remember learning how to.

Skill 2 points.
Weapons proficiency. He’s self-taught with knives, and has been formally trained with swords, so he’s skilled with both. (He has no memory of having been trained on the latter, however. He just has the skill.)

Minor memory: 1 point.
He remembers the tenets of the Daltohist religion he was raised with. He doesn’t believe any of it, but he remembers! (Bonus: this also means he remembers how to blaspheme. It’s the little joys.)

Minor memory: 1 point.
He remembers how the “bark” system for branding condemned criminals in his world works. He knows what the brand on his arm means in that context, but doesn’t remember getting it or how he earned it.

Minor memory: 1 point.
He remembers skinny-dipping with other boys in a pond and feeling some kind of way (read: very gay) about it.

Minor memory: 1 point.
He remembers every word of his favorite off-color drinking song.

Relationship: 2 points.
He remembers that he was a serf owing fealty to Lord Pelyar. The feelings he associates with that name are disgust, hatred, and fear, but he doesn’t remember specifics.

Points remaining: 1

Player info

Name: Tzvia
Pronouns: she/her
Age: 30+
Contact: tzviaariella
Permissions: Permissions

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