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Character —
Character Name: Huvrye Tirvio
Character Canon: Broken
Character Age: Early 30s
Canon Point: After Yin gets patched up in Sestrinn
Link to History: [Obscure canon means no wiki or links, and a lot of it is left intentionally vague by canon, so this is as good as it gets. Also, CWs for body horror, war, war crimes, genocide, and torture, because this canon is A Lot sometimes.]
Huvrye was made for war. Quite literally - he's a homunculus, created to be a weapon in the long and sporadic conflict between his home city-state of Lashardi and opposing city-state Isor. He played a large part in salvaging a pivotal battle for Lashardi, which catapulted him up the ranks and left Isor a smoking rubble. Lasardhi was at peace for a while, and then decided that a full-scale genocide of the rest of the continent's inhabitants was a fantastic plan and started a war against literally everyone else.
Huvrye, having ascended the ranks to general by this point by continuing his streak of victories and general competence in battle, was one of the main figures in these attacks - because attacks on civilian populations can't be considered battles - giving the order to drop the bombs and clean up the survivors. Not exactly the high point of his life.
It was in the middle of these attacks that corruption started, a pathogen spread via blood that, when it entered a fairy's bloodstream, would mutate them beyond recognition or recovery. The mutated monsters would then be driven to attack the uncorrupted so as to spread the corruption. It was, in all, a terrible development that shifted the world from "war" to "zombie apocalypse," with Lasardhi being one of the few remaining safe places: a walled city free from corruption, led by the only person who'd survived corruption with their form and sanity intact, self-styled god and genocidal maniac Effiom.
As the battles with the corrupted wore on and refugees who came to Lasardhi never made it inside its doors, one of Huvrye's fellow homunculi and soldiers, Joba, started telling him rebellious things: that Lasardhi was the enemy; that things didn't need to be this way; that what was happening was wrong. It was only when Huvrye was sent out himself to kill approaching refugees under orders of "protecting the city" that the situation crystallized in Huvrye's mind. He sent the refugees on their way unharmed, told Joba she was right, and joined the resistance against Lasardhi's rule known as the Interground. He never had direct contact with most of its members; instead, he covered for Joba's work, helping smuggle people (including fellow homunculi) out of Lasardhi.
It couldn't last forever. At some point, Huvrye's coverage fell short, and the members of the Interground inside the city were caught, including Huvrye. They were imprisoned and tortured for information on the whereabouts of deserters and refugees. At the end of a few months, with everyone else - including Joba - tortured to death in front of him, Huvrye finally broke and gave the location they'd been sending refugees. He was given a short time to heal, and then pressed back into service. (Homunculi are expensive and difficult to make, after all, and he'd been effective fighting the corrupted, even if he was supposed to stay in his office and insisted on heading to the front lines instead.)
Less than a year later, Huvrye and several of his fellow senior officers were assigned constructs - undead, corrupted fairies that had kept their shape and could be controlled by their assigned handlers. Using corruption to fight corruption, something that could never turn out badly, right?
Two years later - two years of defending Lasardhi from corrupted - in what should've been a routine field mission, Huvrye's construct was tapped by the Controller, a corrupted that was able to control other corrupted, and started showing signs of awareness. As corrupted were supposedly completely mindless, it was a big deal - the only other person to survive corruption intact was Effiom, but if others were able to do it, then maybe the corrupted could be saved instead of simply killed. Effiom, however, gave the order for the construct to be destroyed. Huvrye had a little time to bond with it - enough to really cement that his construct was alive - before Effiom's wife, the same woman who had tortured Huvrye for months, arrived to collect it.
So he grabbed his construct and ran.
What followed was a mad dash out of the city - including Huvrye getting shot and pushing through - and through the plains, heading to the previous location of the refugees, with the controller and a small army of corrupted in hot pursuit. Huvrye and his construct did manage to find a place to hole up, figure out how to communicate with each other (the construct's name is Yin, and he liked to read when he was alive), and bond more before the arrival of the controller forced them to keep moving on. They managed to make it to Sestrinn, a city further out that had been thought destroyed, and meet up with the remaining members of Interground, who gave them a place to rest and get patched up.
And the next thing Huvrye knew, he was falling through a portal to Michigan. Oops.
Inventory: Only the clothes on his back.
Character Canon: Broken
Character Age: Early 30s
Canon Point: After Yin gets patched up in Sestrinn
Link to History: [Obscure canon means no wiki or links, and a lot of it is left intentionally vague by canon, so this is as good as it gets. Also, CWs for body horror, war, war crimes, genocide, and torture, because this canon is A Lot sometimes.]
Huvrye was made for war. Quite literally - he's a homunculus, created to be a weapon in the long and sporadic conflict between his home city-state of Lashardi and opposing city-state Isor. He played a large part in salvaging a pivotal battle for Lashardi, which catapulted him up the ranks and left Isor a smoking rubble. Lasardhi was at peace for a while, and then decided that a full-scale genocide of the rest of the continent's inhabitants was a fantastic plan and started a war against literally everyone else.
Huvrye, having ascended the ranks to general by this point by continuing his streak of victories and general competence in battle, was one of the main figures in these attacks - because attacks on civilian populations can't be considered battles - giving the order to drop the bombs and clean up the survivors. Not exactly the high point of his life.
It was in the middle of these attacks that corruption started, a pathogen spread via blood that, when it entered a fairy's bloodstream, would mutate them beyond recognition or recovery. The mutated monsters would then be driven to attack the uncorrupted so as to spread the corruption. It was, in all, a terrible development that shifted the world from "war" to "zombie apocalypse," with Lasardhi being one of the few remaining safe places: a walled city free from corruption, led by the only person who'd survived corruption with their form and sanity intact, self-styled god and genocidal maniac Effiom.
As the battles with the corrupted wore on and refugees who came to Lasardhi never made it inside its doors, one of Huvrye's fellow homunculi and soldiers, Joba, started telling him rebellious things: that Lasardhi was the enemy; that things didn't need to be this way; that what was happening was wrong. It was only when Huvrye was sent out himself to kill approaching refugees under orders of "protecting the city" that the situation crystallized in Huvrye's mind. He sent the refugees on their way unharmed, told Joba she was right, and joined the resistance against Lasardhi's rule known as the Interground. He never had direct contact with most of its members; instead, he covered for Joba's work, helping smuggle people (including fellow homunculi) out of Lasardhi.
It couldn't last forever. At some point, Huvrye's coverage fell short, and the members of the Interground inside the city were caught, including Huvrye. They were imprisoned and tortured for information on the whereabouts of deserters and refugees. At the end of a few months, with everyone else - including Joba - tortured to death in front of him, Huvrye finally broke and gave the location they'd been sending refugees. He was given a short time to heal, and then pressed back into service. (Homunculi are expensive and difficult to make, after all, and he'd been effective fighting the corrupted, even if he was supposed to stay in his office and insisted on heading to the front lines instead.)
Less than a year later, Huvrye and several of his fellow senior officers were assigned constructs - undead, corrupted fairies that had kept their shape and could be controlled by their assigned handlers. Using corruption to fight corruption, something that could never turn out badly, right?
Two years later - two years of defending Lasardhi from corrupted - in what should've been a routine field mission, Huvrye's construct was tapped by the Controller, a corrupted that was able to control other corrupted, and started showing signs of awareness. As corrupted were supposedly completely mindless, it was a big deal - the only other person to survive corruption intact was Effiom, but if others were able to do it, then maybe the corrupted could be saved instead of simply killed. Effiom, however, gave the order for the construct to be destroyed. Huvrye had a little time to bond with it - enough to really cement that his construct was alive - before Effiom's wife, the same woman who had tortured Huvrye for months, arrived to collect it.
So he grabbed his construct and ran.
What followed was a mad dash out of the city - including Huvrye getting shot and pushing through - and through the plains, heading to the previous location of the refugees, with the controller and a small army of corrupted in hot pursuit. Huvrye and his construct did manage to find a place to hole up, figure out how to communicate with each other (the construct's name is Yin, and he liked to read when he was alive), and bond more before the arrival of the controller forced them to keep moving on. They managed to make it to Sestrinn, a city further out that had been thought destroyed, and meet up with the remaining members of Interground, who gave them a place to rest and get patched up.
And the next thing Huvrye knew, he was falling through a portal to Michigan. Oops.
Inventory: Only the clothes on his back.
Powers —
Skills: Huvrye has had extensive combat training, including hand to hand and armed, and is an excellent shot, especially with a sniper rifle. He also has a solid understanding of war tactics and command - he's a general for a reason.
Superpowers: 1. Aura - All fairies have aura; Huvrye, as a homunculus, was built to have quite a bit of it. Because aura fusion is now a thing (thanks, science!) he has two different colors, where most fairies only have one: red, which is the most powerful type and can pull aura from the surrounding area and earth, and blue, which allows for minor body modifications (in Huvrye's case, he can mod for increased strength and speed).
2. Alchemy - Alchemy is aura channeled through arrays, constructed of concentric circles, lines, and sigils. It can be used for a number of things (medical, communication, violence), but the arrays Huvrye has memorized are what would be useful in war: communications (because who needs walkie-talkies when you can just connect sigils?) and violence (usually in the form of a single powerful projectile or beam). He'd be able to learn more, but he's never had the time or space to do so (or, honestly, the inclination). Lasardhi wasn't inclined to let their soldiers be anything but.
3. Flight - All fairies have wings, formed of their aura. Huvrye is able to use his frankly ridiculously big wings to fly, and in wide open spaces (and with a little aura use) is able to reach subsonic speeds and travel very quickly. It's an aura expenditure and can leave him pretty depleted afterwards, but it's doable.
4. Homunculus Physiology - Huvrye is a homunculus - in this case, built out of corpse parts and held together with very specific, very technical alchemy. Homunculi are engineered to be extremely hardy and efficient; if he's not expending aura, Huvrye doesn't need to eat very often (maybe several times per month) and will be fine as long as he has occasional access to clean water. (That's the ideal scenario; given that he's often in combat, it tends to be once or twice a week in practice.) His body will also heal itself over time, with larger injuries taking more time - it's a subroutine of the alchemy built into him. He can also tank quite a bit of damage before going down, partially because of the healing and partially because he's just Built Like That.
Limitations: Huvrye has quite a bit of aura, but it's still a finite amount. If he overexpends it on one thing, he can't use it for others - for example, using too much on flying too fast will leave him unable to use much alchemy. If he runs low, he's weakened; if he runs out, he's dead; so he needs to be smart about how he uses it in high-stress situations (and let's be real, he isn't always). If he expends too much aura too quickly, he's also at risk of developing aura poisoning, where his aura will eat away at his body in an attempt to replenish and stabilize. Aura poisoning isn't too much of a risk for normal fairies, and can generally be fought off with a little food and rest; however, because homunculi are held together with alchemy and their bodies are made to self-repair, a bad case of aura poisoning can cause a chain reaction that ends in catastrophic system failure and death. Advanced cases of aura poisoning can be removed with specific alchemy, but Huvrye sure doesn't know it, so if he gets a case of aura poisoning again that he can't mitigate, he's done. He's also far from invulnerable: he can take quite a bit of punishment, and he can augment his strength if need be, but he definitely won't win every fight and can be injured to an extent he won't recover from.
Personality —
[CWs for torture mentions, genocide, suicide ideation]
At his core, Huvrye cares about other people. He connects easily with people, bonds quickly (and very hard, once he gets to know someone), is loyal to a fault as long as he's not given reason not to be, and he gives a damn about others' well-being - it's all part of what made him such a good commanding officer. He's also hopeful in spite of himself - the escape from Lasardhi with Yin is very much rooted in the hope that things can get better - can be fixed - as long as Yin is alive.
At his core, Huvrye is a good person. Unfortunately, everything outside of his core is extremely fucked up.
Huvrye knows that the state of the world - the genocide, at least - is in large part his fault. His loyalty was to Lasardhi, and even though the order to drop the bombs and hunt down survivors came from above him, he still carried it out time and time again. He knows he's guilty - that Following Orders is not an excuse - and he hates himself for it. He fully believes things would've been better for everyone had he died early in the war; given how persistently competent he is at his job, he definitely has reason to believe it. (It also doesn't help that Effiom keeps rubbing his guilt in his face as a means to control him.)
He's also lonely. The flip side of bonding hard is taking it hard when losing someone, and Joba was tortured to death in front of him because, he believes, of him. His job was to cover for them, and his failure resulted in their capture and her murder. It's hard for him to bond too deeply with anyone else after that - not when they can be taken so easily and horribly by the powers that be. That said, when he doesn't have meaningful connections with people, he tends to crave them - he spent years talking to Yin like a person when Yin was, as far as anyone knew, essentially an inanimate object; he'd also wanted to be a communications officer or a civilian radio DJ, because at least then he'd know someone was listening to him.
On top of that, he also has personhood issues that go hand in hand with his being a homunculus. Homunculi treat each other like people, as do the scientists who created them, but to everyone else - civilians, top brass, the powers that be - homunculi are just things, weapons created for war, and how could a thing ever understand the nuances of being a person? That sort of thinking has been hammered into Huvrye's head for years, to the point where between that and the guilt, he sees himself as fully expendable. He's just a piece of government property, after all. That expendability makes him self-sacrificial if the occasion calls for it - who cares if he dies as long as the person he's trying to protect lives? Not him, that's for sure.
All of this has culminated in him high key wanting to die, and the only reason he hasn't removed himself from this mortal coil - aside from that deep-down hopefulness - is spite. When everything is awful and he hates himself, that's what he falls back on. He started working with the Interground specifically because he knows it would piss Effiom off (even though no one was ever supposed to find them out). His CO wants him to stay in his office? Nope, he's going out in the field for missions (and not wearing protective gear, because if he does actually get killed, well, who cares?). It's a hell of a motivator, and sometimes the only one he's got.
All in all, Huvrye is a caring person who's also deeply traumatized, has very little sense of personhood or self-worth and is self-sacrificing as a result of it, is only still alive because of an oscillating combination of hope and spite, and desperately needs a friend.
At his core, Huvrye cares about other people. He connects easily with people, bonds quickly (and very hard, once he gets to know someone), is loyal to a fault as long as he's not given reason not to be, and he gives a damn about others' well-being - it's all part of what made him such a good commanding officer. He's also hopeful in spite of himself - the escape from Lasardhi with Yin is very much rooted in the hope that things can get better - can be fixed - as long as Yin is alive.
At his core, Huvrye is a good person. Unfortunately, everything outside of his core is extremely fucked up.
Huvrye knows that the state of the world - the genocide, at least - is in large part his fault. His loyalty was to Lasardhi, and even though the order to drop the bombs and hunt down survivors came from above him, he still carried it out time and time again. He knows he's guilty - that Following Orders is not an excuse - and he hates himself for it. He fully believes things would've been better for everyone had he died early in the war; given how persistently competent he is at his job, he definitely has reason to believe it. (It also doesn't help that Effiom keeps rubbing his guilt in his face as a means to control him.)
He's also lonely. The flip side of bonding hard is taking it hard when losing someone, and Joba was tortured to death in front of him because, he believes, of him. His job was to cover for them, and his failure resulted in their capture and her murder. It's hard for him to bond too deeply with anyone else after that - not when they can be taken so easily and horribly by the powers that be. That said, when he doesn't have meaningful connections with people, he tends to crave them - he spent years talking to Yin like a person when Yin was, as far as anyone knew, essentially an inanimate object; he'd also wanted to be a communications officer or a civilian radio DJ, because at least then he'd know someone was listening to him.
On top of that, he also has personhood issues that go hand in hand with his being a homunculus. Homunculi treat each other like people, as do the scientists who created them, but to everyone else - civilians, top brass, the powers that be - homunculi are just things, weapons created for war, and how could a thing ever understand the nuances of being a person? That sort of thinking has been hammered into Huvrye's head for years, to the point where between that and the guilt, he sees himself as fully expendable. He's just a piece of government property, after all. That expendability makes him self-sacrificial if the occasion calls for it - who cares if he dies as long as the person he's trying to protect lives? Not him, that's for sure.
All of this has culminated in him high key wanting to die, and the only reason he hasn't removed himself from this mortal coil - aside from that deep-down hopefulness - is spite. When everything is awful and he hates himself, that's what he falls back on. He started working with the Interground specifically because he knows it would piss Effiom off (even though no one was ever supposed to find them out). His CO wants him to stay in his office? Nope, he's going out in the field for missions (and not wearing protective gear, because if he does actually get killed, well, who cares?). It's a hell of a motivator, and sometimes the only one he's got.
All in all, Huvrye is a caring person who's also deeply traumatized, has very little sense of personhood or self-worth and is self-sacrificing as a result of it, is only still alive because of an oscillating combination of hope and spite, and desperately needs a friend.
Gameplay —
Areas of Interest / Brainstorming: What happens when you take someone with a lot of guilt who's never been treated like a person by society at large and turn them loose, with all the anonymity and mercy of a blank slate, on a world that doesn't immediately hate or dismiss them? Let's find out!
I honestly have no idea what the trajectory for Huvrye's development is going to be here. A lot of it is going to involve him getting used to not having a reputation, or a war to fight, or anything pressing that needs doing (beyond the occasional immediate crisis), and also being allowed to actually have nice things (like an apartment that isn't the size of a shoebox, or food that isn't mess hall food, or, y'know, personhood). What he thinks of guilds and whether he gets involved there is largely going to depend on other people's testimonies on the matter and what he witnesses; he doesn't necessarily trust the command structure, but he'd like to hope they're not all bad. That said, it's such a huge change for him that I'm mostly just playing fast and loose and seeing what happens.
(Also, he's torn between liking being in a better world and knowing that Yin is stuck back home, so that may be a decision he needs to make down the line. If Yin ever gets pulled in via a confluence, however, he's set - he's not going back.)
Samples: Test drive fun
I honestly have no idea what the trajectory for Huvrye's development is going to be here. A lot of it is going to involve him getting used to not having a reputation, or a war to fight, or anything pressing that needs doing (beyond the occasional immediate crisis), and also being allowed to actually have nice things (like an apartment that isn't the size of a shoebox, or food that isn't mess hall food, or, y'know, personhood). What he thinks of guilds and whether he gets involved there is largely going to depend on other people's testimonies on the matter and what he witnesses; he doesn't necessarily trust the command structure, but he'd like to hope they're not all bad. That said, it's such a huge change for him that I'm mostly just playing fast and loose and seeing what happens.
(Also, he's torn between liking being in a better world and knowing that Yin is stuck back home, so that may be a decision he needs to make down the line. If Yin ever gets pulled in via a confluence, however, he's set - he's not going back.)
Samples: Test drive fun