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NAME: Stareyes
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ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: US Central Time
BRACKETS/PROSE: Will match; more likely to use prose.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: None known.
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ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: US Central Time
BRACKETS/PROSE: Will match; more likely to use prose.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: None known.
IN CHARACTER
PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Platonic only, also check first. Simon has issues.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure.
RELATIONSHIPS: Platonic only.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Simon has about a hundred years of trauma that would cause most fae to just go wander in a semi-fugue state in the Summerlands while their brains sorted themselves out. But he has things to do and people to be there for.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: Simon is a fae. He is unaging, and his body will not even rot if he dies. His magical signature is smoke and cider when not corrupted. Fae from his world (even those with mixed heritage) can produce a weird 'my eyes see what you look like, but my brain is rejecting it' effect in humans not using fairy ointment, so Simon has gotten in the habit of using illusions. (Humans in his setting have no magic not derived from a fae ancestor; feel free to handwave that your character is not affected, even if they are not magic themselves.)
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Simon has a number of scars on him, largely invisible when he is clothed.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Whoo, boy. You can pack so much PTSD in my boy here.
Let's start with Simon's triggers. He doesn't like being touched by strangers, or people watching him from concealment. Confinement will cause him to have a panic attack, even if it was as simple as 'his wife moved in her sleep and her tail ended up on top of Simon's body'. Even mentioning his former patron (and abuser) can panic him, as she is powerful enough that saying her name might invoke her.
Now, for the content warnings in Simon's backstory. I'll include these in any app/bio I write. Simon spent over a century serving Eira Rosynhwyr, Firstborn of the Daoine Sidhe. Eira used her own grasp of illusion and enchantment to twist Simon into her tool. So picture physical, emotional and sexual abuse, including:
-- Heavy degrees of illusion and enchantment magic that made it difficult for Simon to want anything other than serving her, even as she used him for crimes she could not commit.
-- Manipulating him into permitting her magic to affect him fully, by promising to find his daughter. (For added heft, Eira was the reason Simon's daughter was missing.)
-- Ordering him into the bed of her pet assassin, Oleander, both to reward Oleander with a new toy and to hurt Simon's first wife[1].
-- FYI, Oleander is the kind of sexual sadist who gets kicked out of BDSM clubs for abuse.
-- Ordering Simon to 'handle' Simon's sister-in-law, niece and stepdaughter; Simon reflects that he had to fight the spells on him not to kill them, and it largely came down to both twisting the language that Eira used (so she could claim she didn't order Simon to kill them) and thinking of situations that would please Eira for their cruelty.
-- Generally using her magic to make Simon worship the ground she walked on.
In addition, Simon's first wife, Amandine (technically Eira's much younger half-sister) generally has a problem with understanding that other people have feelings, and treated Simon more like a beloved pet than a partner. And then Titania (Eira's mother) showed up and created an illusion (complete with mind fuckery) where Simon had an idealized form of his life with Amandine and a far less traumatizing version of his work with Eira, and he gets all the traumatic memories dumped back on him when his daughter breaks the spell.
[1] Simon canonically reflects that his brain latched onto 'of course I consented to sex with Oleander', but that was largely as some desperate attempt to find some feeling of agency when he had little.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure.
RELATIONSHIPS: Platonic only.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Simon has about a hundred years of trauma that would cause most fae to just go wander in a semi-fugue state in the Summerlands while their brains sorted themselves out. But he has things to do and people to be there for.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: Simon is a fae. He is unaging, and his body will not even rot if he dies. His magical signature is smoke and cider when not corrupted. Fae from his world (even those with mixed heritage) can produce a weird 'my eyes see what you look like, but my brain is rejecting it' effect in humans not using fairy ointment, so Simon has gotten in the habit of using illusions. (Humans in his setting have no magic not derived from a fae ancestor; feel free to handwave that your character is not affected, even if they are not magic themselves.)
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Simon has a number of scars on him, largely invisible when he is clothed.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Whoo, boy. You can pack so much PTSD in my boy here.
Let's start with Simon's triggers. He doesn't like being touched by strangers, or people watching him from concealment. Confinement will cause him to have a panic attack, even if it was as simple as 'his wife moved in her sleep and her tail ended up on top of Simon's body'. Even mentioning his former patron (and abuser) can panic him, as she is powerful enough that saying her name might invoke her.
Now, for the content warnings in Simon's backstory. I'll include these in any app/bio I write. Simon spent over a century serving Eira Rosynhwyr, Firstborn of the Daoine Sidhe. Eira used her own grasp of illusion and enchantment to twist Simon into her tool. So picture physical, emotional and sexual abuse, including:
-- Heavy degrees of illusion and enchantment magic that made it difficult for Simon to want anything other than serving her, even as she used him for crimes she could not commit.
-- Manipulating him into permitting her magic to affect him fully, by promising to find his daughter. (For added heft, Eira was the reason Simon's daughter was missing.)
-- Ordering him into the bed of her pet assassin, Oleander, both to reward Oleander with a new toy and to hurt Simon's first wife[1].
-- FYI, Oleander is the kind of sexual sadist who gets kicked out of BDSM clubs for abuse.
-- Ordering Simon to 'handle' Simon's sister-in-law, niece and stepdaughter; Simon reflects that he had to fight the spells on him not to kill them, and it largely came down to both twisting the language that Eira used (so she could claim she didn't order Simon to kill them) and thinking of situations that would please Eira for their cruelty.
-- Generally using her magic to make Simon worship the ground she walked on.
In addition, Simon's first wife, Amandine (technically Eira's much younger half-sister) generally has a problem with understanding that other people have feelings, and treated Simon more like a beloved pet than a partner. And then Titania (Eira's mother) showed up and created an illusion (complete with mind fuckery) where Simon had an idealized form of his life with Amandine and a far less traumatizing version of his work with Eira, and he gets all the traumatic memories dumped back on him when his daughter breaks the spell.
[1] Simon canonically reflects that his brain latched onto 'of course I consented to sex with Oleander', but that was largely as some desperate attempt to find some feeling of agency when he had little.
OUT OF CHARACTER
BACKTAGGING: Sure.
THREADHOPPING: Sure.
FOURTHWALLING: Sure.
NOT INTERESTED IN: Romance plots. Simon is happy with his wife and husband, and would like to go back to them please.
THREADHOPPING: Sure.
FOURTHWALLING: Sure.
NOT INTERESTED IN: Romance plots. Simon is happy with his wife and husband, and would like to go back to them please.
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