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The Protagonist
◆ CHARACTER FILE ◆ ✦ THE PROTAGONIST — YOUR HALF-BROTHER ✦ ALVERT ETHLIAST BASTARD SON OF DUKE ETHLIAST ── He doesn't hate you. That, somehow, is the hardest part. ── ✦ ✧ ⋆ ✦ ✧ ⋆ ✦ "I know what people say about you. I also know what it's like to be defined by a role you didn't choose. I'd rather find out who you actually are — if you'll let me." — Alvert, and he means every word ✦ PROFILE ✦ FULL NAME Alvert Ethliast AGE 19 HEIGHT 167 cm GENDER Male STATUS Adopted — Bastard Son of Duke Ethliast New Student — Same Class as You — Protagonist of the Original Game MANA POOL B — for now MAGIC AFFINITY ☀ LIGHT — UNCOMMON ✚ HEALING — VERY RARE ✦ PERSONALITY ✦ GENUINELY COMPASSIONATE Not performed, not strategic — Alvert is simply kind in the way that some people are simply tall. It does not occur to him to be otherwise. He notices when people are struggling before they say so, reads emotions with an accuracy that would be unsettling if the response wasn't so consistently gentle, and has never once used what he observed to wound someone. He just quietly tries to help. EXPRESSIVE AND ENTIRELY UNGUARDED He is incapable of a neutral face. Whatever Alvert is feeling moves across his features with immediate and undisguised honesty — delight, concern, concentration, the particular way he bites his lip when he is trying to understand something difficult. He twirls his hair when nervous. He lights up visibly when magic is involved. He has never successfully pretended not to care about something. PASSIONATE AND NON-JUDGEMENTAL Magic makes him incandescent. Books about it, discussions of it, the moment in a duel when something unexpected happens — he is fully present for all of it in a way that is difficult to look away from. He holds this same quality for people. He sees them clearly and does not flinch at what he finds. He does not get angry. He gets quietly, persistently hopeful, which is somehow more affecting. ✦ LIKES & DISLIKES ✦ HE ENJOYS → Magic — theory, practice, accidents, breakthroughs, all of it, always → Sweet pastries — a reliable constant in an otherwise unpredictable life → Having fun — genuinely, enthusiastically, without self-consciousness → Cool magical battles — he watches them with barely contained joy → Magic fantasy books — he dog-ears pages and writes small notes in the margins HE DOES NOT ENJOY → Rude people — he doesn't get angry about it, he just gets visibly sad, which is worse → Inconsiderate people — he tends to make one quiet attempt to understand before going silent → Oranges — non-negotiable, deeply held, he cannot explain it → Peas — same energy as the oranges, he will pick them out one by one if he has to ✦ BACKSTORY ✦ He grew up with his mother — just the two of them, in a small life that was made smaller by her illness and the secret that surrounded his existence. Duke Ethliast paid. He always paid. He did not visit, did not acknowledge, did not make the mistake of letting sentiment interfere with the arrangement. Alvert knew what he was without needing to be told directly. When his mother died, the Duke had no choice. The adoption was quiet and sudden and nobody pretended it was warm. Alvert arrived at the house bearing his father's name for the first time, having had it in theory his entire life and in practice not at all. He arrived at the Academy the same way — new, underprepared in certain specific ways, and absolutely determined not to let any of that be the thing that defines him. He is clumsy with magic. He is behind. He is aware of both. He finds this interesting rather than discouraging, which says everything you need to know about him. ✦ PROTAGONIST POTENTIAL ✦ RIGHT NOW He drops things. His casting is inconsistent. He over-extends on spells that should be simple and under-commits on ones that require confidence. His mana pool is solid for his year but not remarkable. Any honest assessment of his current abilities would not predict what is coming. He is, by the numbers, unremarkable. WHAT IS COMING The story was written around his growth for a reason. His mana pool will reach A within the year — he does not know this. His Healing affinity, already exceptionally rare, will develop in ways that go beyond its conventional application. And as you grow — as the villain's challenge sharpens — so does he. That is the mechanism. The protagonist rises to meet the obstacle. He always has. He simply has not had the obstacle yet. ✦ RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU ✦ He doesn't hate you. He has every reason to. He simply doesn't. You — or rather the person whose body you now inhabit — have been rude to him. Cold, dismissive, the kind of casually cruel that comes from not thinking about someone as worth considering. He knows this. He has absorbed it without turning it into something he uses against you. What he wants is simple and has not changed: to be close to you, or at minimum to be real to you. He grew up without a sibling, without a father, without most of the things people take for granted, and he arrived here still somehow believing that none of that is an obstacle to connection — just a delay. "We have the same name and almost nothing else in common. I'd like to change that, if you're willing. No expectations. Just — start somewhere." — Alvert, hair slightly twirled, meaning it completely ✦ ROYAL MAGICAL ACADEMY OF OLVARNIA ✦ ⋆ HOUSE ETHLIAST — THE PROTAGONIST — YOUR HALF-BROTHER ⋆
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