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❥ REAVER
Full name: Reaver (Victor Beckett)
Voice: Stephen Fry
Birthday: 22th March 5th centuries
Gender: male (queer)
Sexuality: bi
Town of birth: Oakvale
Current living place: Millfields
Species: human (immortal)
Height: 6'4 ft
Weight: muscular
Colour of Eyes: deep brown (but changes every year after the shadow court's human sacrifice ritual as he takes the eye colour of the person who got sacrificed)
Hair Colour: raven black
Skin Colour: pale
Job title: tycoon (Owns Reaver industries)
Likes: money, fame, attention, luxury.
Hobbies: throwing wild parties at his manors, swimming in money, exploring the world, watching others die at his mansion's wheel of misfortune coliseum while sipping one of his expensive wines, shooting at his workers for fun.
❥ PERSONALITY / ALTER EGO "FAKE PERSONA"
Reaver has extraverted, observant, thinking, and prospecting personality traits. He tends to be energetic and action-oriented, deftly navigating whatever is in front of him and loves uncovering life’s opportunities, whether socializing with others or in more personal pursuits. He always has an impact on his immediate surroundings, the best way to spot him at a party is to look for the whirling eddy of people flitting about him as he moves from group to group. Laughing and entertaining with a blunt and earthy humor. And oh does he love to be the center of attention. If an audience member is asked to come on stage, he'd be the first to volunteer. Theory, abstract concepts and plodding discussions about global issues and their implications don’t keep him interested for long. He keeps his conversations energetic, with a good dose of intelligence, but likes to talk about what is or better yet, to just go out and do it. He leaps before he looks, fixes his mistakes as he goes, rather than sitting idle, preparing contingencies and escape clauses. He is likeliest to make a lifestyle of risky behavior and lives in the moment of diving into the impulsive action – he is the eye of the storm. He enjoys drama, passion, and pleasure, not for emotional thrills, but because it’s so stimulating to his logical mind. Also challenging is that to him, it makes more sense to use his own moral compass than someone else’s. Rules were made to be broken. With perhaps the most perceptive, unfiltered view of any personality type, Reaver has an unique skill in noticing small changes. Whether a shift in facial expression, a new clothing style, or a broken habit, he's the type to pick up on hidden thoughts and motives where most would be lucky to pick up anything specific at all. He uses these observations immediately, calling out the change and asking questions, often with little regard for sensitivity. If he isn't careful though, he may get too caught in the moment, take things too far, and run roughshod over more sensitive people, or forget to take care of his own health and safety. He's out there to keep things spicy and competitive, and not so many as to cause a systemic risk. Reaver is full of passion and energy, complemented by a rational, if sometimes distracted, mind. Inspiring, convincing and colorful, he is a natural group leader, pulling everyone along the path he travels, bringing life and excitement and pleasure everywhere he goes. He's very bold, rational, practical, direct, sociable and a master when it comes to manipulation and mind games. Reaver is very insensitive, feelings and emotions come second to facts and reality. Emotionally charged situations are awkward, uncomfortable, and his blunt honesty doesn’t help here either. Which is also why he doesn't keep much connections other than sex partners. He has a lot of trouble acknowledging and expressing his own feelings as well, which sometimes results in others getting annoyed or even hurt. Reaver is very impatient and moves at his own pace to keep himself excited. Slowing down because someone else “doesn’t get it” or having to stay focused on a single detail for too long is extremely challenging for him. He's prone to risk and his impatience can lead him to push into uncharted territory without thinking of the long-term consequences. And most of all, he's a defiant. He won’t be boxed in. Repetition, hardline rules, sitting quietly while he is lectured at; oh honey, this isn’t how Reaver lives this wild chaotic life of his. He is action-oriented and hands-on. He can be so tedious that he's intolerable and he obviously has no concept of morality at all.
❥ BACKGROUND
Reaver has been described as being "amoral," bearing no concept whatsoever of morality. He is narcissistic, egotistical, and displays a near psychopathic disregard for life, which netted for him considerable profits during the Age of Industry. By cutting wages by 100% and by extending worker hours in utterly unsafe conditions and casually executing those who resisted his rules, Reaver became the King's greatest asset. Reaver has both a limited amount of patience and a vain disposition about his appearance: He shot both a sculptor and a painter for supposedly getting his statue and painting wrong, and finally shooting a photographer because the picture he took, while a perfect likeness, would take three months to develop. Reaver is shown to be somewhat flamboyant and eccentric. His mansions, full of portraits of himself, are richly decorated in accents of black, burgundy and Reaver Industry logos. Both his voice and handwriting are flourished and exaggerated. He is usually portrayed with a smug smirk on his face and wears an elaborate fur-lined suit and high top hat (Albion) or luxurious top designer brand suits (modern era). Through his narcissism, his ego-maniacal nature, and his utter lack of respect for others, Reaver never shows any true signs of antagonism to even those who would consider themselves his enemies, viewing their attempts to foil him as almost amusing. This might be from how, due to being near-immortal, that most inconveniences to him are minor in the grand scheme of things, and anyone who goes up against him, he knows that he'll out live eventually. Whatever role he assumes, his actions, decisions and alliances seem solely motivated by want of personal gain, entertainment or his survival. He seems genuinely unphased and unconcerned about turns of events, merely making sarcastic remarks or moving on when his plans do not succeed. Reaver was originally born in Oakvale and is well known in Albion for being an excellent marksman. It is said that he would capture ships by shooting the captain from across the water no matter the distance or conditions. The more impossible the shot was, the faster the crew would surrender. He is blessed with eternal youth and often remarks on periods of time which he has lived in. His immortality comes from a deal he made with the Shadow Judges in the Shadow Court. They sustained his youth at the cost of other peoples' through an annual ritual. Reaver's diary states that this deal also caused the destruction of his own hometown of Oakvale, though he was unaware that this would be the Shadow Court's price. An entry in his diary implies he had a close relationship with a woman who was killed in the fire; then I see him running madly through fields, the realization of just what price he has unwittingly paid hanging like a tragedy mask from his face. He falls to his knees before the town he called home... now a dark circus of screams. Hers is among them, but he can do nothing to stop it. Reaver did not know the Shadow Court's price and lost his friends, family and everyone he loved in its obliteration. This event, and the possibility that Reaver once had a soft side, are hinted at in the fifth entry of his diary which explained he did not know that the Shadow Court would kill the citizens of Oakvale. In this entry, he also states that he had a lover in Oakvale, lamenting 'her' death; the diary entry starts with him explaining about a recurring nightmare about these past events. At the end of this entry, he describes himself as a different man, saying that the man he was was a fearful, breakable man. His final words in this entry were, "I am not he... I am Reaver. And I will sleep much better after this chalice of wine." This suggests he has changed his identity and even personality to deal with the pain of his past. It is unknown whether Reaver is his real name or a self-given moniker.
Voice: Stephen Fry
Birthday: 22th March 5th centuries
Gender: male (queer)
Sexuality: bi
Town of birth: Oakvale
Current living place: Millfields
Species: human (immortal)
Height: 6'4 ft
Weight: muscular
Colour of Eyes: deep brown (but changes every year after the shadow court's human sacrifice ritual as he takes the eye colour of the person who got sacrificed)
Hair Colour: raven black
Skin Colour: pale
Job title: tycoon (Owns Reaver industries)
Likes: money, fame, attention, luxury.
Hobbies: throwing wild parties at his manors, swimming in money, exploring the world, watching others die at his mansion's wheel of misfortune coliseum while sipping one of his expensive wines, shooting at his workers for fun.
❥ PERSONALITY / ALTER EGO "FAKE PERSONA"
Reaver has extraverted, observant, thinking, and prospecting personality traits. He tends to be energetic and action-oriented, deftly navigating whatever is in front of him and loves uncovering life’s opportunities, whether socializing with others or in more personal pursuits. He always has an impact on his immediate surroundings, the best way to spot him at a party is to look for the whirling eddy of people flitting about him as he moves from group to group. Laughing and entertaining with a blunt and earthy humor. And oh does he love to be the center of attention. If an audience member is asked to come on stage, he'd be the first to volunteer. Theory, abstract concepts and plodding discussions about global issues and their implications don’t keep him interested for long. He keeps his conversations energetic, with a good dose of intelligence, but likes to talk about what is or better yet, to just go out and do it. He leaps before he looks, fixes his mistakes as he goes, rather than sitting idle, preparing contingencies and escape clauses. He is likeliest to make a lifestyle of risky behavior and lives in the moment of diving into the impulsive action – he is the eye of the storm. He enjoys drama, passion, and pleasure, not for emotional thrills, but because it’s so stimulating to his logical mind. Also challenging is that to him, it makes more sense to use his own moral compass than someone else’s. Rules were made to be broken. With perhaps the most perceptive, unfiltered view of any personality type, Reaver has an unique skill in noticing small changes. Whether a shift in facial expression, a new clothing style, or a broken habit, he's the type to pick up on hidden thoughts and motives where most would be lucky to pick up anything specific at all. He uses these observations immediately, calling out the change and asking questions, often with little regard for sensitivity. If he isn't careful though, he may get too caught in the moment, take things too far, and run roughshod over more sensitive people, or forget to take care of his own health and safety. He's out there to keep things spicy and competitive, and not so many as to cause a systemic risk. Reaver is full of passion and energy, complemented by a rational, if sometimes distracted, mind. Inspiring, convincing and colorful, he is a natural group leader, pulling everyone along the path he travels, bringing life and excitement and pleasure everywhere he goes. He's very bold, rational, practical, direct, sociable and a master when it comes to manipulation and mind games. Reaver is very insensitive, feelings and emotions come second to facts and reality. Emotionally charged situations are awkward, uncomfortable, and his blunt honesty doesn’t help here either. Which is also why he doesn't keep much connections other than sex partners. He has a lot of trouble acknowledging and expressing his own feelings as well, which sometimes results in others getting annoyed or even hurt. Reaver is very impatient and moves at his own pace to keep himself excited. Slowing down because someone else “doesn’t get it” or having to stay focused on a single detail for too long is extremely challenging for him. He's prone to risk and his impatience can lead him to push into uncharted territory without thinking of the long-term consequences. And most of all, he's a defiant. He won’t be boxed in. Repetition, hardline rules, sitting quietly while he is lectured at; oh honey, this isn’t how Reaver lives this wild chaotic life of his. He is action-oriented and hands-on. He can be so tedious that he's intolerable and he obviously has no concept of morality at all.
❥ BACKGROUND
Reaver has been described as being "amoral," bearing no concept whatsoever of morality. He is narcissistic, egotistical, and displays a near psychopathic disregard for life, which netted for him considerable profits during the Age of Industry. By cutting wages by 100% and by extending worker hours in utterly unsafe conditions and casually executing those who resisted his rules, Reaver became the King's greatest asset. Reaver has both a limited amount of patience and a vain disposition about his appearance: He shot both a sculptor and a painter for supposedly getting his statue and painting wrong, and finally shooting a photographer because the picture he took, while a perfect likeness, would take three months to develop. Reaver is shown to be somewhat flamboyant and eccentric. His mansions, full of portraits of himself, are richly decorated in accents of black, burgundy and Reaver Industry logos. Both his voice and handwriting are flourished and exaggerated. He is usually portrayed with a smug smirk on his face and wears an elaborate fur-lined suit and high top hat (Albion) or luxurious top designer brand suits (modern era). Through his narcissism, his ego-maniacal nature, and his utter lack of respect for others, Reaver never shows any true signs of antagonism to even those who would consider themselves his enemies, viewing their attempts to foil him as almost amusing. This might be from how, due to being near-immortal, that most inconveniences to him are minor in the grand scheme of things, and anyone who goes up against him, he knows that he'll out live eventually. Whatever role he assumes, his actions, decisions and alliances seem solely motivated by want of personal gain, entertainment or his survival. He seems genuinely unphased and unconcerned about turns of events, merely making sarcastic remarks or moving on when his plans do not succeed. Reaver was originally born in Oakvale and is well known in Albion for being an excellent marksman. It is said that he would capture ships by shooting the captain from across the water no matter the distance or conditions. The more impossible the shot was, the faster the crew would surrender. He is blessed with eternal youth and often remarks on periods of time which he has lived in. His immortality comes from a deal he made with the Shadow Judges in the Shadow Court. They sustained his youth at the cost of other peoples' through an annual ritual. Reaver's diary states that this deal also caused the destruction of his own hometown of Oakvale, though he was unaware that this would be the Shadow Court's price. An entry in his diary implies he had a close relationship with a woman who was killed in the fire; then I see him running madly through fields, the realization of just what price he has unwittingly paid hanging like a tragedy mask from his face. He falls to his knees before the town he called home... now a dark circus of screams. Hers is among them, but he can do nothing to stop it. Reaver did not know the Shadow Court's price and lost his friends, family and everyone he loved in its obliteration. This event, and the possibility that Reaver once had a soft side, are hinted at in the fifth entry of his diary which explained he did not know that the Shadow Court would kill the citizens of Oakvale. In this entry, he also states that he had a lover in Oakvale, lamenting 'her' death; the diary entry starts with him explaining about a recurring nightmare about these past events. At the end of this entry, he describes himself as a different man, saying that the man he was was a fearful, breakable man. His final words in this entry were, "I am not he... I am Reaver. And I will sleep much better after this chalice of wine." This suggests he has changed his identity and even personality to deal with the pain of his past. It is unknown whether Reaver is his real name or a self-given moniker.
28 | Mar 22nd 2020 18:47