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dauntless_son) wrote2019-11-01 12:08 am
dauntless_son) wrote2019-11-01 12:08 am
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〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Kate
AGE: 25+
JOURNAL:koalopus
IM / EMAIL: gkn001@gmail.com
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RETURNING: Yes! Play Kaz Brekkerroughworkdone
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Declan Lynch
CHARACTER AGE: 21
SERIES: The Raven Cycle, Call Down the Hawk
CHRONOLOGY: the end of Call Down the Hawk
CLASS: ambiguous; he would not classify himself as a hero
HOUSING: somewhere in De Chima, please! But he would prefer no roommates.
BACKGROUND: Here
Supplement: Declan Lynch is, quite possibly, the only true-born son of Niall Lynch, and he is neither a dream nor a dreamer in a family full of both. From a young age, he's been his brother Ronan's keeper, as his brother Ronan is a dreamer and can pull things from his dreams back into the waking world. Except, as a child and for a good part of his teen years, Ronan did not have much finesse or control. This meant a young Declan would often stay awake in his little brother's room to wake him up if he seemed like he was dreaming something too violent or frightening. He didn't always manage: sometimes Ronan would bring back a fire or a flood, sometimes a weird animal that never existed in the world before. Sometimes a song that just wouldn't stop playing and was impossible to catch. Miraculous things, impossible things. Declan loves his brother. Delcan has had his entire life shaped by other people's dreams.
When he was old enough - maybe eight, maybe ten - Delcan started accompanying his father on trips around the world to all manner of black markets, where Niall sold dream-things passed off as rare finds. Declan already knew how important secrets were and he already knew how to lie, and he became the perfect assistant to his father's business. Niall was brash and charming; Declan was demure and forgettable. After Niall was brutally murdered, Declan became the executor of his will and the guardian of his brothers, Ronan and Matthew. Ronan hated him for that. Matthew hated nothing and no one. Throughout his four years at Aglionby Academy, a private school in southwest Virginia, Declan tried to make sure that Ronan would survive until 18, despite what he saw as Ronan's numerous attempts to do anything but that. Declan's firm boundaries and standards and boringness grew the tension between he and Ronan. When it reached boiling points, they fought, trading sharp blows or sharp words. Though they eventually achieved an understanding, the tension between them has never fully dissipated. Ronan resents Declan's penchant for hiding information; Declan will not apologize for it.
After graduating, Declan began attending a university in Washington, D.C. and also began an internship in a congressional office. He moved into the boring, perfectly normal townhouse his father left to them and he built a life that continued to be utterly unremarkable, until he decided to hunt down one of his father's artifacts: a painting. Declan slipped back into the black market underworld he left to find it, and by doing so exposed Ronan to an entire new world of danger.
Major Points from Call Down the Hawk:
+ Declan breaks his own protocol to go searching for a portrait his father painted of his real mother, and by doing so exposes his brother Ronan to the shady world of the Fairy Market.
+ Contacts made at the Fairy Market haunt both Declan and Ronan; Ronan chases after another dreamer, named Bryde, and Declan begins dating-but-not-dating Jordan Hennessy. While Declan and Jordan are on their first date, Jordan's associates steal the painting of Declan's mother from his townhouse.
+ Their brother, Matthew, figures out that he is a dream-thing, brought into the world by Ronan. Declan has to deal with the initial fallout of this alone and is deeply shaken by the change in his youngest brother. He questions how he's conducted himself for the last... decade or so. Declan reveals to Matthew that he and Ronan don't have the same mother.
+ He decides to try to find his mother and takes Jordan with him. Instead, he runs into a dream copy of his father and is told to stop looking for his mother. He makes the impulsive decision to bring Jordan back to his house and shows her the art he has hidden in his attic, allowing her a glimpse at who he really is. Declan learns that Jordan is a dream-copy.
+ Rescues Jordan from an attempted murder and realizes that Matthew is also in danger. They race to get to him and are attacked at the townhouse. Declan gets them all into the attic to hide there as Ronan's scheme to rescue them manifests.
+ As Ronan goes off to find Bryde with the real Hennessy; Declan, Matthew, and Jordan retreat back to the Barns, the Lynch family farmhouse in southwest Virginia.
PERSONALITY: There are two Declan Lynches. There is the Declan Lynch that lives a quiet life in Alexandria, Virginia, in a townhouse that could really be anyone's townhouse for all the personality it has. This Declan goes to school, goes to work at his internship, and does just well enough to get by but never so well that he stands out for advancement or special recognition. He wears staid, gray suits, he wears subtle cologne, he's charming when you meet him and forgettable as soon as you walk away. There is nothing extreme about him: not his feelings, not his passions, not his interests. He parcels his life out in little moments that he allows himself: a flash of happiness here, brief satisfaction there, a bit of excitement just once. Every minute of every day, he is prepared to consider worst-case scenarios, possibilities, and consequences for every action. He has been protecting his brothers and his family's secrets for his entire life.
The other Declan wears stylish shoes, keeps an attic full of abstract art that he's lovingly curated, who impulsively chases down a painting that is personal to him, even though it might expose him. This Declan gives his business card to art forgers in a place called the Fairy Market, he impulsively agrees to meet that forger again and uses all his connections to produce a very expensive, very personalized gift for their first date. This Declan's smiles and laughs are bright and whole. This Declan chases the specter of his mother, is brother to a dreamer and son of a dreamer and brother to a dream and son of a dream. This Declan has been dying quietly, slowly, beneath gray suits and quiet desperation for years.
No matter which face he's showing, Declan is protective, sharply intelligent, shrewd, and, ultimately, loving. The boring facade he exists behind is the result of that protective instinct: being boring means going unnoticed, which he thinks is exactly what people like his brother and father need to do. Otherwise they're targets, and that ended with his father being brutally murdered in their driveway. Declan's drive to protect his family surpasses most of his other survival instincts: even after being brutally beaten in his high school dorm, he never gives up his brother's secret. He evades, deflects, buys time. His entire goal is to keep his brothers alive, to at least get them to eighteen so that his official duties as their guardian will end.
Declan has survived for years in a community of black market, magic artifact dealers - a world that got his father killed - and he still navigates it with finesse and purpose.
POWER:
Power nullification: Declan will be able to cancel out the powers of others or weaken their effects, making them unable to utilize their powers as long as they are under his focus/within his range of influence - roughly a 20 yard radius. At first, this will only manifest when he's afraid, a passive zone of power nullification/disruption; as he settles in, he will learn to use it more at will and in a more directed fashion.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[There's a rustling sound by the microphone as Declan adjusts his phone to get himself in frame. He sits back, looking at himself on the screen and the little red record button.]
I appreciate the very warm welcome that I've been offered, but I would like to request that people stop showing up at my house unannounced. And please don't come to my place of employment unless you actually have a reason to be there. Your enthusiasm is--flattering, but I have always preferred to keep my private life private, and I don't anticipate that changing now that I live here.
[His eyes flick away from the camera, looking at something behind the phone. He sighs, rolls his eyes, and looks back into the lens.]
That being said, I suppose if you'd like to politely and quietly approach me while I'm in public, that might be alright. I don't mind talking to people, I'd just rather not make a thing out of it. I'm not who you think I am. I'm not--a hero, like the other people here.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. I'll be leaving this public on the network and open for replies for about a week. Thanks for your time.
[Declan leans forward to end the recording and flips his phone face-down onto his desk. Then he looks up at the blond young woman that was standing on the other side, giving him a thumbs-up the whole time.]
I don't know if that made me fee much better, but. At least now it's recorded if I ever decide to send it out. Are you ready to go to dinner?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: here, recent TDM
FINAL NOTES:
NAME: Kate
AGE: 25+
JOURNAL:
koalopusIM / EMAIL: gkn001@gmail.com
PLURK:
RETURNING: Yes! Play Kaz Brekker
roughworkdone〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Declan Lynch
CHARACTER AGE: 21
SERIES: The Raven Cycle, Call Down the Hawk
CHRONOLOGY: the end of Call Down the Hawk
CLASS: ambiguous; he would not classify himself as a hero
HOUSING: somewhere in De Chima, please! But he would prefer no roommates.
BACKGROUND: Here
Supplement: Declan Lynch is, quite possibly, the only true-born son of Niall Lynch, and he is neither a dream nor a dreamer in a family full of both. From a young age, he's been his brother Ronan's keeper, as his brother Ronan is a dreamer and can pull things from his dreams back into the waking world. Except, as a child and for a good part of his teen years, Ronan did not have much finesse or control. This meant a young Declan would often stay awake in his little brother's room to wake him up if he seemed like he was dreaming something too violent or frightening. He didn't always manage: sometimes Ronan would bring back a fire or a flood, sometimes a weird animal that never existed in the world before. Sometimes a song that just wouldn't stop playing and was impossible to catch. Miraculous things, impossible things. Declan loves his brother. Delcan has had his entire life shaped by other people's dreams.
When he was old enough - maybe eight, maybe ten - Delcan started accompanying his father on trips around the world to all manner of black markets, where Niall sold dream-things passed off as rare finds. Declan already knew how important secrets were and he already knew how to lie, and he became the perfect assistant to his father's business. Niall was brash and charming; Declan was demure and forgettable. After Niall was brutally murdered, Declan became the executor of his will and the guardian of his brothers, Ronan and Matthew. Ronan hated him for that. Matthew hated nothing and no one. Throughout his four years at Aglionby Academy, a private school in southwest Virginia, Declan tried to make sure that Ronan would survive until 18, despite what he saw as Ronan's numerous attempts to do anything but that. Declan's firm boundaries and standards and boringness grew the tension between he and Ronan. When it reached boiling points, they fought, trading sharp blows or sharp words. Though they eventually achieved an understanding, the tension between them has never fully dissipated. Ronan resents Declan's penchant for hiding information; Declan will not apologize for it.
After graduating, Declan began attending a university in Washington, D.C. and also began an internship in a congressional office. He moved into the boring, perfectly normal townhouse his father left to them and he built a life that continued to be utterly unremarkable, until he decided to hunt down one of his father's artifacts: a painting. Declan slipped back into the black market underworld he left to find it, and by doing so exposed Ronan to an entire new world of danger.
Major Points from Call Down the Hawk:
+ Declan breaks his own protocol to go searching for a portrait his father painted of his real mother, and by doing so exposes his brother Ronan to the shady world of the Fairy Market.
+ Contacts made at the Fairy Market haunt both Declan and Ronan; Ronan chases after another dreamer, named Bryde, and Declan begins dating-but-not-dating Jordan Hennessy. While Declan and Jordan are on their first date, Jordan's associates steal the painting of Declan's mother from his townhouse.
+ Their brother, Matthew, figures out that he is a dream-thing, brought into the world by Ronan. Declan has to deal with the initial fallout of this alone and is deeply shaken by the change in his youngest brother. He questions how he's conducted himself for the last... decade or so. Declan reveals to Matthew that he and Ronan don't have the same mother.
+ He decides to try to find his mother and takes Jordan with him. Instead, he runs into a dream copy of his father and is told to stop looking for his mother. He makes the impulsive decision to bring Jordan back to his house and shows her the art he has hidden in his attic, allowing her a glimpse at who he really is. Declan learns that Jordan is a dream-copy.
+ Rescues Jordan from an attempted murder and realizes that Matthew is also in danger. They race to get to him and are attacked at the townhouse. Declan gets them all into the attic to hide there as Ronan's scheme to rescue them manifests.
+ As Ronan goes off to find Bryde with the real Hennessy; Declan, Matthew, and Jordan retreat back to the Barns, the Lynch family farmhouse in southwest Virginia.
PERSONALITY: There are two Declan Lynches. There is the Declan Lynch that lives a quiet life in Alexandria, Virginia, in a townhouse that could really be anyone's townhouse for all the personality it has. This Declan goes to school, goes to work at his internship, and does just well enough to get by but never so well that he stands out for advancement or special recognition. He wears staid, gray suits, he wears subtle cologne, he's charming when you meet him and forgettable as soon as you walk away. There is nothing extreme about him: not his feelings, not his passions, not his interests. He parcels his life out in little moments that he allows himself: a flash of happiness here, brief satisfaction there, a bit of excitement just once. Every minute of every day, he is prepared to consider worst-case scenarios, possibilities, and consequences for every action. He has been protecting his brothers and his family's secrets for his entire life.
The other Declan wears stylish shoes, keeps an attic full of abstract art that he's lovingly curated, who impulsively chases down a painting that is personal to him, even though it might expose him. This Declan gives his business card to art forgers in a place called the Fairy Market, he impulsively agrees to meet that forger again and uses all his connections to produce a very expensive, very personalized gift for their first date. This Declan's smiles and laughs are bright and whole. This Declan chases the specter of his mother, is brother to a dreamer and son of a dreamer and brother to a dream and son of a dream. This Declan has been dying quietly, slowly, beneath gray suits and quiet desperation for years.
No matter which face he's showing, Declan is protective, sharply intelligent, shrewd, and, ultimately, loving. The boring facade he exists behind is the result of that protective instinct: being boring means going unnoticed, which he thinks is exactly what people like his brother and father need to do. Otherwise they're targets, and that ended with his father being brutally murdered in their driveway. Declan's drive to protect his family surpasses most of his other survival instincts: even after being brutally beaten in his high school dorm, he never gives up his brother's secret. He evades, deflects, buys time. His entire goal is to keep his brothers alive, to at least get them to eighteen so that his official duties as their guardian will end.
Declan has survived for years in a community of black market, magic artifact dealers - a world that got his father killed - and he still navigates it with finesse and purpose.
POWER:
Power nullification: Declan will be able to cancel out the powers of others or weaken their effects, making them unable to utilize their powers as long as they are under his focus/within his range of influence - roughly a 20 yard radius. At first, this will only manifest when he's afraid, a passive zone of power nullification/disruption; as he settles in, he will learn to use it more at will and in a more directed fashion.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[There's a rustling sound by the microphone as Declan adjusts his phone to get himself in frame. He sits back, looking at himself on the screen and the little red record button.]
I appreciate the very warm welcome that I've been offered, but I would like to request that people stop showing up at my house unannounced. And please don't come to my place of employment unless you actually have a reason to be there. Your enthusiasm is--flattering, but I have always preferred to keep my private life private, and I don't anticipate that changing now that I live here.
[His eyes flick away from the camera, looking at something behind the phone. He sighs, rolls his eyes, and looks back into the lens.]
That being said, I suppose if you'd like to politely and quietly approach me while I'm in public, that might be alright. I don't mind talking to people, I'd just rather not make a thing out of it. I'm not who you think I am. I'm not--a hero, like the other people here.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. I'll be leaving this public on the network and open for replies for about a week. Thanks for your time.
[Declan leans forward to end the recording and flips his phone face-down onto his desk. Then he looks up at the blond young woman that was standing on the other side, giving him a thumbs-up the whole time.]
I don't know if that made me fee much better, but. At least now it's recorded if I ever decide to send it out. Are you ready to go to dinner?
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE: here, recent TDM
FINAL NOTES: