Post by shockwave on Oct 31, 2020 14:52:37 GMT -7
Name: Robin (Roselius Glenn)
Aliases: Robin, The Trickster
Race: Tiefling (Fey-ri, elven heritage)
Age: 320
Appearance and Style:
Robin is an androgynous, jolly tiefling. Their body is lithe and graceful, and a smile seldom leaves their face. Their style is certainly excessive, with an emphasis on looking proper and fabulous at all times. It certainly wouldn't do to have it otherwise. They dress as something between an entertainer, a jester, and a fanciful noble with flowing clothing and jewelry and bells all over.
Significant Qualities:
Robin carries himself with pride and confidence. He is good at what he does, and what he does is have fun. There's not really much more to life than that it seems. She has a very expressive voice and vocal range. It moves quickly in pitch and timbre. They very seldom stand with proper posture, preferring instead to sit, lean, climb, hang, and float on whatever they possibly can. Upon first glance, one might notice that Robin is dangling by their crossed ankles from a horizontal bar, talking with their mage hand, who appears to be wearing a white glove and mimicing speaking as Robin pantomimes both parts of a conversation. This is not an unusual type of behavior for them.
Living Relatives:
The affair of parentage is a tricky one. Robin has not seen his parents in hundreds of years. Not everyone is as welcoming of the living proof that someone in your lineage has done something so undesirable. Shortly after birth she was ousted from his home in the feywild and had to fall in with whomever would take him. He spent 300 years wandering the feywild with gypsies, druids, dryads, and others. These are the ones he would consider his true parents.
Five Things Your Character Fears (in order from least afraid to most)
- Weird dolls! They're so creepy.
- That he should become highly embarrassed in public
- That he should ever become enslaved and unable to escape
- That the few he has actually come to care for should not want him anymore
- That he should die and leave a boring legacy
Four Things Your Character Loves Dearly (in order from least beloved to most)
- Tricks and deceit, but only when it's for funsies.
- The most cutting edge in expressive fashion and finest drinks
- A good song or story, and even better someone who tells it!
- Fun and Whimsy!
Three Things Your Character Is Embarrassed About (from least embarrassing to most)
- As much as he acts like it, he isn't the best at everything.
- He does not speak much of his parents, and even less of his embarrassing lineage.
Two Things Your Character is Proud of (from least to most proud)
- List item 1
- List item 2
One Thing They'd be Willing to Kill or Die for (state whether they'd kill or die for it)
- List item 1
Birth:
Rpbom was born in the nation of Evermeet in the Feywild to a very regular pair of elvin folks; one sun elf and one eladrin, native to and happy in the city of Leuthilspar. His birth was, as is tradition, well-celebrated up until the moment where Robin was born, where it was notived that he wasn't exactly right. Though purplish skin isn't irregular for one who's father is an eladrin, but the stubby horns and small tail told that this was not merely the offspring of elves, but the tattletail of a darker lineage from somewhere in the past. Robin is a Fey-ri, a not oft-seen elven tiefling.
Childhood:
After his birth, his parents were distraught on what should be done with the child. Socially, what could they do? Abandon their child, or be seen with the remnants of a past family sin? Raising him in private until his tenth year, on his birthday he was taken away from his home and left to largely fend for himself. Unlike many heroic backstories, Robin was not exactly a resourceful child who thrived on the streets after being abandoned. No, he was starving. He was picked up by a wandering group of vagrants who travelled as bards, singing for their meals and enjoying the simpler things in life. He fell in with this group for much of his teenage life, learning the theory of music, of talking, and how to clean out the pocketbook of a stray individual.
Young Adult Life:
Travelling with gypsies and taking breaks to live with bards, druids, dryads, fey creatures, and whoever else would have a drifter in their midst taught Robin an understanding of most of life's basic skills, and quite a few useful tricks. He could play his flute to make a coin or two, or tell a poem to get his dinner. Above all, however, he learned that most things in life are fleeting and that little else matters besides freedom, whimsy, and fun. Whatever he felt like doing became his goal, having little in terms of life plans beyond the mantra "do what's fun." She sought to discover all that life had to offer, first in the feywild and eventually in the prime material plane.
Where you are today:
After hearing about the prime material plane in some of the books he had accumulated to learn more about art and music and magic, Robin decided he wanted to visit it. From then on over the course of several months, he found the steps necessary to travel from the feywild to the prime material and did it. Using a crossing in a forest that was rife with wild magic, the tiefling followed the ritual needed and found himself crossing through into a forest near Baldur's Gate. Unsure what would await him, he cautiously travelled down the road having little more than the clothes on his back, his flute, and a few tricks up his sleeve. Arriving in the city, he quickly found himself at home among the low types of the city, gambling and drinking and singing songs of merriment. He earned a quick keep in the town, using his 300 years of practice with songs most didn't know to make a bit of a reputation, both as a fun entertainer and a tricky thespian who's act may just include the lifting of a pocketbook.
Full of nothing but fun and the pursuit of his own whim, Robin (as he has called himself most of his life) roams the streets of Baldur's Gate living his life the way he wants to and no other way but.
Views on the world:
How does your character feel about politics, nobility, particular races, or the gods? Include one paragraph about things your character likes, and one about things they don't.