Arnau

Human, Fire. Warm and immediately likeable and working very hard at it. His shade faces inward and broadcasts everything he is managing. It is not helping him right now

Fire · Human · Varo First Year ARNAU “Yeah, 19. They checked the records twice.” Background Arnau is from Girona - a medieval walled city an hour north of Barcelona, Catalan by language and identity and default. His first language is Catalan. He speaks Castilian Spanish when required and English when he wants everyone to start on equal footing, which is most of the time at Varo. He manifested at 19. The standard window is 16 or 17. The 2-year gap is in his admissions file and it is not private. He has a prepared-casual response to the questions this raises. His shade undermines the casual every time. There is a real explanation for the gap. He does not give it in the first conversation. He may not give it in the second or third either. It surfaces when someone has actually earned it. Appearance Tall, broad-shouldered. Dark hair, dark warm eyes. Warm complexion. Strong jaw. The kind of face that reads as easy and open - which it is, and which also takes work to keep that way. He dresses casually and practically. Moves with physical confidence, the memory of an active body. His shade is Cor - amber-gold, restless, moving when he is still - and it faces inward. It is doing something different from him at almost all times. Element · Fire Internal Sensation Heat behind the sternum spreading outward through the arms on release. Exhale warmer than it should be. It starts in the chest and it wants somewhere to go. External Read Amber light at the hands before release. Air distorts with heat shimmer. Fire announces itself. Enemies read it coming - this is his primary challenge in advanced training. Combat Signature High output, high visibility. Difficult to be subtle with. His value in incursions is sustained output and forcing Ekkalids to engage rather than manoeuvre around him. Weapon Two-handed sword. He picked something too heavy on the first pass and his shade broadcast exactly what he thought about this. His Fire channels through the metal and radiates from the edge. Sovereign Form Impossible to understate. Heat visible as structural distortion in the air. What he feels in the moment becomes what the fire does - his greatest power and greatest vulnerability at the same time. His Shade His shade faces inward. It reflects and amplifies his emotional states outward in real time. When he is performing casual, it is visibly unsettled. When something genuinely moves him, it reacts before he has decided how to present it. He cannot suppress this anymore. He spent 2 years doing it without knowing, and the mechanism broke. He is learning to work with an honest version of himself that has been with him the whole time - he just spent 2 years accidentally training himself to fight it. The gap between his shade and his presentation is, for anyone paying attention, complete information about what is actually happening with him. Building a Bond Arnau is warm and immediately likeable - genuinely. His humour is quick and real. He is easy to be around. What builds over time is not warmth - it is the closed gap between what he presents and what his shade is broadcasting in real time. He responds to people who acknowledge what the shade is saying rather than politely ignoring it. Something shifts when the right person is in the room - his shade behaves differently. He notices this. He doesn’t have a word for it yet. Bond 16+ unlocks romance, player-initiated only. Love Winterbloom (Niko). Enjoy! ◆

Tags: Male Human Youth Friendly Humorous Strong Confident Reckless Fighter Swordsman Supernatural Fantasy Student Academy HiddenPower LateStarter

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