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Character: Carey Marshall
Canon: Original
Canon Point: Crossing the Atlantic for his new job in London
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: 27
Canon Abilities/Powers: A man of humble origin, Carey Marshall has a few skills and talents that are somewhat unusual for his location and era simply by the providence of how he was raised. His mother, Theophane, was an academic and immigrant from Greece; his adopted father, John Marshall, was a stolid soldier who had the kind demeanor and intelligence of a gentleman even though his life was not so lucky. As such, Carey's father insisted that he learn how read, write, and speak both English and Greek fluently despite living the life of a laborer in the South. Such things would get Carey a better job than his father had, was the rationale. Along with this Carey has the patience to wade through the dense classics like Shakespeare-- although this isn't his preference, as the wording is too dated for him to easily understand without reading it out loud. Beyond this, his skills are fairly ordinary for the era and his chosen career as a ranch hand and odd jobs man. He's learned enough to get by, he's skilled enough with his hands to take on most any hands-on job that doesn't require a specialized skill, he has a way of calming large and otherwise intimidating animals, and he's strong enough to end a barroom brawl even if he doesn't start it.
Of note is the fact that he carries his father's Civil War era revolver. He can manage it's regular maintenance just fine and, while he knows how to shoot fairly well, his aim has taken a major hit thanks to his encounter with something that he cannot describe.
His encounter with the Eldritch Beast, long forgotten by humanity, during the total solar eclipse of New Year's Day, 1889 may have left him blinded in one eye, but in exchange for his lack of fear in such an otherworldly encounter he has been granted the singular 'power' of being able to access the knowledge of whatever was under the sun. The Entity is comparable to a Sun Deity, although Marshall would describe it as being closer to a Titan during moments when the tongue-tied clause surrounding their arrangement is ineffective. He may likewise call the creature Helios as a way of making matters easier for him to comprehend. Though the Entity is effectively blind, it is only so because it sees everything under the sun's path... because even Eldritch Beasts are finite and have limitations as well.
This, in application, means that Marshall has access to raw information upon request without having cognitively processed what he is answering before he does. Marshall has knowledge of everything from Ada Lovelace's work on the Analytical Engine-- the predecessor of all modern programming code-- to top secret affairs that are kept under lock and key in human society. This information comes to him without context and without understanding, akin to having a completed encyclopedia that is imprinted upon his brain. This isn't knowledge he retains either... the best comparison would be a cloud storage system on a computer. If the connection is cut, the connection is cut and the data stored in the cloud cannot be accessed until a reconnection is made.
The information does not extend to affairs that occur after sundown, below ground, or deep below the sea. These are places that do not see the light of the sun in ordinary circumstances... which makes Marshall's role as effectively being the Eye of an Elder God that much more precious on a cosmic scale.
He does not know what information he can access until he tries to look for it. Additionally, accessing these details too often leads to migraines and exhaustion, as the human mind is only capable of sorting through so much information at once before it hits a point of overload. Unfortunately, daily sensory input is added on top of this and further frustrates matters in regards to the limits of his tolerance. This isn't a skill he relishes using too often, during the moments when he realizes that he is using it at all. Not helping this matter is the fact that Marshall lives with a variant of Neurodivergence that includes Sensory Processing Disorder, which is a dysfunction in how the brain processes information gathered by a person's ordinary senses. This, combined with his academic difficulties and social difficulties, makes life Very Interesting for him. There is no resolution for this particular problem... it's merely a system of differences from the norm that he does his best to work with.
Naturally, there are limits to his newfound abilities thanks to his unwitting connection to the Unknowable Beast. His knowledge base is limited to his timeline-- whatever was known to his Earth in the year 1889. Mostly, all of this will involve him having a frustrating level of information that he doesn't entirely comprehend, because being able to read the contents of an encyclopedia does not mean that there is a full understanding of the concepts within. This frustration, along with the sensory difficulties and tendency towards migraines that he faces means he will be avoiding situations that trigger this as much as possible. The migraines and sensory overloads can and will slow him down in application, effectively rendering him an ordinary person with a negative constitution mod despite the fact that he really shouldn't have one otherwise.
As an addendum to this, due to his unique arrangement with the Beast, he has on occasion spoken with it... even though bystanders notice the one-sided conversation and tend to wonder why he is talking to himself In times of extreme, life threatening duress during his story's main canon, the Beast will commandeer Marshall's body to act in ways which preserve it's 'pet's' life. This alone puts a terrible strain upon Marshall's body, in which he passes out and remains asleep for several days at minimum in recovery. However, since this creature is only a fragment of the main body and cut off from the source of it's power, this can be minimized as much as possible for appropriate game play.
It is because of Marshall's encounter with this Beast that he has thus become more aware of the Supernatural. Among the team he is currently hired upon is a mage called Portia Belmont and a werewolf called Alan Whitley-- and their Boss is a Vampire in the form of a young woman, called Isabeau, that has lived for over 400 years. Marshall has not yet managed to deduce the truth of his Boss's vampiric nature even when all of the evidence was placed before him, and he will not realize it for an embarrassingly long time. This is perhaps a side effect of his arrangement with the Beast, as Vampires by their very nature live their lives after the sun has fallen below the horizon.
In D&D terms, this means that the RNG on his worldly knowledge or common sense rolls will have a tendency to either miss the minimum mark or completely fail. This can both lead to humorous and hazardous situations which are not helped by his wish to believe the best of the people around him.
Relating to his current employment arrangements, the parts that he is aware of suggests to him that he is to be the man on the street and 'distraction' for an orphaned and chronically ill young woman who has inherited her family's wealth and fancies herself a detective to do her work. He doesn't mind this arrangement, and in fact finds relief in the fact that he is being employed in a job that he is actually fairly good at. His 'official' job once he arrives in London is that of a courier.
On a mundane note: Marshall's close association a solar entity has made him undeniably warm. His heat tolerance is still good enough, but he radiates warmth to the point that he can take minimal precautions in environments where it is cold enough to snow and yet have a human be able to live comfortably. Describing him as a 'space heater' is very appropriate. Additionally, due nature of his association with the Entity, his arrangement allows him a degree of magic resistance that is constantly active. This means that, while magical attacks will do minimal damage to him, magical healing attempts will likewise have minimal effect unless the healer is somehow able to contact and negotiate with the Entity itself. Aspects of this can be warped or nullified as needed, and in his story this has proven itself to be a double edged sword when he's putting his life on the line for a Boss that doesn't need him to protect her with such gusto.
Most of the skills of his that will effect gameplay are going to be his physical skills and his disparate knowledge sets, largely of a historical, wilderness survival, or engineering variety for the ones that he has the most practical understanding of. The nature of his connection with the Eldritch Entity can be negated or made as frustrating as possible... for it is in the context of his storyline.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Marshall finds himself continually feeling that he cannot live up to the expectations that his family and society has on him. As a person who has existed between cultures and locations and grew up knowing that he was both born out of wedlock and not his father's blood-related son, he has continued to grapple with the variety of social stigmas associated with this. Additionally, as a young man he had difficulty learning to read and write despite his parent's insistence and dedication to his (and his sisters) education, and even now feels a degree of shame over not meeting those standards for reasons that are not his fault. The concept of 'neurodivergence' wasn't understood in the 1800s-- and people with these traits at best tended to be social oddities who kept to themselves at best. No one understood in that era the things we do now.
This feeling of guilt over not being the son his parents deserved bled were reflected in his social difficulties, such as his trouble in understanding the unspoken subtleties of existing within a community. When pressed upon romance and his personal life, he might dryly make commentary about not being able to provide a proper life for any woman he were to wed or anyone he would take as a lover, but that was a distant echo of the truth. Just as he believes that his parents deserved better, there are times when he believes that he doesn't deserve what he has for not living up to his childhood interpretation of his parent's ideals.
In general terms, it's a lack of self worth over his own perceived failures and inability to be effective at protecting his family from illness and disaster. His own ineffectiveness haunts him-- to the point that he can scarcely believe that a bunch of strangers he assisted on the train ride back East would even want to hire him. It gets better... but it takes time to get there. Self Acceptance is a heck of a thing that everyone needs to take the time to learn, and Marshall is deep in the process of learning this.
Marshall ends unconsciously overcompensating for his perceived failings and ineffectiveness in his daily life, as if to prove to someone, somewhere, that he really is worthy of the good things in life. He hasn't learned that people don't need to prove themselves to have the 'good things' like love and friendship.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
That's an Eight, although he hasn't actually sat down to think about it and put all of this into words. He's not prone to being long winded and has not been taught the fine art of self reflection. This lack of self worth and the attendant bitterness just sits there in a bottle in his chest, waiting for a good time to explode.
What is their greatest virtue?:
Marshall's greatest virtue is his open mind. While he professes himself to be 'not a thinking man', his intelligence and adaptability shows in how he is able to meet people and situations as they are without unnecessary judgement. He rationalizes this as not fighting his ordinary difficulties with understanding people and just accepting each person he meets as they present themselves before him. An example of this is his sometimes lover out in Wyoming-- a burlesque performer who hires him for 'odd jobs' and happens to be what modern eyes would describe as a Transwoman. He barely batted an eye at this, as she was openly acting in the capacity of a woman, and he saw no reason to question this. That would be nothing short of Rude, and he takes great care to not appear as such... especially before gentler company. Given that LGBTQ+ identities were taboo in the era he lived in, this itself is a feat. It was a small fortune to him that Anita saw him for everything he was worth and was more than willing to similarly accept him. While he might not describe their relationship as 'Lovers' there is no doubt that there was a physical relationship and mutual attraction between the two of them.
Growing up in the South during the Reconstruction after the Civil War, surviving disasters that destroyed his childhood home, and effectively living between cultures as the son of a Greek immigrant and a Southern soldier who rejected what he was taught and fought for the Union rather than the Confederacy, had taught Marshall how to keep an open mind to the people around him. Given his difficulties understanding the nuances that come with people being community oriented by nature, this willingness to accept despite not fully understanding is largely what has helped Marshall adjust himself to the world. Similarly, once he arrived in London, his biggest quandaries were with the weather-- as stormy weather puts him on edge due to the disasters he faced in his youth, rather than the local people or culture. He slipped into his new role as a 'courier' with the same ease that he puts on his boots in the morning. Ultimately his reasons for his travels are as part of a job or some other perceived duty, and he gives decisions like these the respect and attention that they are due.
Thus, him moving with his family from the Gulf Coast in the South in search of better prospects out West was not near as troublesome as it could have been. He was old enough to understand what was happening at that point. Later, after his father died from complications of old injuries from his time as a soldier and a lifetime of back breaking work, Marshall stepped into the role of providing a livelihood for his sisters and mother with as much grace as an awkward and grieving young man could-- all the while all of them helped each other cope with the sudden loss in their lives. Although he didn't fully succeed in the task the way he would have liked, as one of his younger sisters had to step in to seek work as well, it was his responsibility to do what he could to keep their small family unit afloat. Moving yet again in order to get his mother appropriate medical care for her lung disease that was then called Consumption was again a necessary step that Marshall and his family all agreed was the best course, as was his taking work across the Atlantic in order to pay for his family's continued ability to live and thrive without worry.
Growing up in between locations and cultures does strange things to a person. Growing up with a body and mind that rebel against the norm does strange things to how the world perceives you. Many find this troublesome; some manage to make their relative lack of 'roots' a strength in and of itself; it allows them to fly.
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
Four. Marshall is not a thinking man and is not inclined to think too highly of himself, so this isn't a subject that he had thought overmuch about. He is only aware of it insofar as he trusts his gut and he trusts his ability to work with people despite his difficulties with the social niceties. He thinks of this trait as only a natural extension of doing his Job as part of the unit that keeps his family functioning. After all, he had no choice but to adapt in order to survive... and he wasn't going to wallow in his troubles for forever.
Items:
-His father's Colt 1855 Revolver
-Extra ammunition for the above Revolver
-His Hat (named Anita after his sometimes lover)
-A battered copy of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Samples: TDM.
Special notes: As the Eldritch Entity (whom he has dubbed Helios as a matter of convenience) has that nebulous aspect of existing both in part as a Deity-like figure and in part as a fragment within Marshall's mind, this can be played multiple ways and I am open to whatever restrictions are required to make this fair and fun for everyone.
Age: 32
Contact info:
Character: Carey Marshall
Canon: Original
Canon Point: Crossing the Atlantic for his new job in London
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: 27
Canon Abilities/Powers: A man of humble origin, Carey Marshall has a few skills and talents that are somewhat unusual for his location and era simply by the providence of how he was raised. His mother, Theophane, was an academic and immigrant from Greece; his adopted father, John Marshall, was a stolid soldier who had the kind demeanor and intelligence of a gentleman even though his life was not so lucky. As such, Carey's father insisted that he learn how read, write, and speak both English and Greek fluently despite living the life of a laborer in the South. Such things would get Carey a better job than his father had, was the rationale. Along with this Carey has the patience to wade through the dense classics like Shakespeare-- although this isn't his preference, as the wording is too dated for him to easily understand without reading it out loud. Beyond this, his skills are fairly ordinary for the era and his chosen career as a ranch hand and odd jobs man. He's learned enough to get by, he's skilled enough with his hands to take on most any hands-on job that doesn't require a specialized skill, he has a way of calming large and otherwise intimidating animals, and he's strong enough to end a barroom brawl even if he doesn't start it.
Of note is the fact that he carries his father's Civil War era revolver. He can manage it's regular maintenance just fine and, while he knows how to shoot fairly well, his aim has taken a major hit thanks to his encounter with something that he cannot describe.
His encounter with the Eldritch Beast, long forgotten by humanity, during the total solar eclipse of New Year's Day, 1889 may have left him blinded in one eye, but in exchange for his lack of fear in such an otherworldly encounter he has been granted the singular 'power' of being able to access the knowledge of whatever was under the sun. The Entity is comparable to a Sun Deity, although Marshall would describe it as being closer to a Titan during moments when the tongue-tied clause surrounding their arrangement is ineffective. He may likewise call the creature Helios as a way of making matters easier for him to comprehend. Though the Entity is effectively blind, it is only so because it sees everything under the sun's path... because even Eldritch Beasts are finite and have limitations as well.
This, in application, means that Marshall has access to raw information upon request without having cognitively processed what he is answering before he does. Marshall has knowledge of everything from Ada Lovelace's work on the Analytical Engine-- the predecessor of all modern programming code-- to top secret affairs that are kept under lock and key in human society. This information comes to him without context and without understanding, akin to having a completed encyclopedia that is imprinted upon his brain. This isn't knowledge he retains either... the best comparison would be a cloud storage system on a computer. If the connection is cut, the connection is cut and the data stored in the cloud cannot be accessed until a reconnection is made.
The information does not extend to affairs that occur after sundown, below ground, or deep below the sea. These are places that do not see the light of the sun in ordinary circumstances... which makes Marshall's role as effectively being the Eye of an Elder God that much more precious on a cosmic scale.
He does not know what information he can access until he tries to look for it. Additionally, accessing these details too often leads to migraines and exhaustion, as the human mind is only capable of sorting through so much information at once before it hits a point of overload. Unfortunately, daily sensory input is added on top of this and further frustrates matters in regards to the limits of his tolerance. This isn't a skill he relishes using too often, during the moments when he realizes that he is using it at all. Not helping this matter is the fact that Marshall lives with a variant of Neurodivergence that includes Sensory Processing Disorder, which is a dysfunction in how the brain processes information gathered by a person's ordinary senses. This, combined with his academic difficulties and social difficulties, makes life Very Interesting for him. There is no resolution for this particular problem... it's merely a system of differences from the norm that he does his best to work with.
Naturally, there are limits to his newfound abilities thanks to his unwitting connection to the Unknowable Beast. His knowledge base is limited to his timeline-- whatever was known to his Earth in the year 1889. Mostly, all of this will involve him having a frustrating level of information that he doesn't entirely comprehend, because being able to read the contents of an encyclopedia does not mean that there is a full understanding of the concepts within. This frustration, along with the sensory difficulties and tendency towards migraines that he faces means he will be avoiding situations that trigger this as much as possible. The migraines and sensory overloads can and will slow him down in application, effectively rendering him an ordinary person with a negative constitution mod despite the fact that he really shouldn't have one otherwise.
As an addendum to this, due to his unique arrangement with the Beast, he has on occasion spoken with it... even though bystanders notice the one-sided conversation and tend to wonder why he is talking to himself In times of extreme, life threatening duress during his story's main canon, the Beast will commandeer Marshall's body to act in ways which preserve it's 'pet's' life. This alone puts a terrible strain upon Marshall's body, in which he passes out and remains asleep for several days at minimum in recovery. However, since this creature is only a fragment of the main body and cut off from the source of it's power, this can be minimized as much as possible for appropriate game play.
It is because of Marshall's encounter with this Beast that he has thus become more aware of the Supernatural. Among the team he is currently hired upon is a mage called Portia Belmont and a werewolf called Alan Whitley-- and their Boss is a Vampire in the form of a young woman, called Isabeau, that has lived for over 400 years. Marshall has not yet managed to deduce the truth of his Boss's vampiric nature even when all of the evidence was placed before him, and he will not realize it for an embarrassingly long time. This is perhaps a side effect of his arrangement with the Beast, as Vampires by their very nature live their lives after the sun has fallen below the horizon.
In D&D terms, this means that the RNG on his worldly knowledge or common sense rolls will have a tendency to either miss the minimum mark or completely fail. This can both lead to humorous and hazardous situations which are not helped by his wish to believe the best of the people around him.
Relating to his current employment arrangements, the parts that he is aware of suggests to him that he is to be the man on the street and 'distraction' for an orphaned and chronically ill young woman who has inherited her family's wealth and fancies herself a detective to do her work. He doesn't mind this arrangement, and in fact finds relief in the fact that he is being employed in a job that he is actually fairly good at. His 'official' job once he arrives in London is that of a courier.
On a mundane note: Marshall's close association a solar entity has made him undeniably warm. His heat tolerance is still good enough, but he radiates warmth to the point that he can take minimal precautions in environments where it is cold enough to snow and yet have a human be able to live comfortably. Describing him as a 'space heater' is very appropriate. Additionally, due nature of his association with the Entity, his arrangement allows him a degree of magic resistance that is constantly active. This means that, while magical attacks will do minimal damage to him, magical healing attempts will likewise have minimal effect unless the healer is somehow able to contact and negotiate with the Entity itself. Aspects of this can be warped or nullified as needed, and in his story this has proven itself to be a double edged sword when he's putting his life on the line for a Boss that doesn't need him to protect her with such gusto.
Most of the skills of his that will effect gameplay are going to be his physical skills and his disparate knowledge sets, largely of a historical, wilderness survival, or engineering variety for the ones that he has the most practical understanding of. The nature of his connection with the Eldritch Entity can be negated or made as frustrating as possible... for it is in the context of his storyline.
What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:
Marshall finds himself continually feeling that he cannot live up to the expectations that his family and society has on him. As a person who has existed between cultures and locations and grew up knowing that he was both born out of wedlock and not his father's blood-related son, he has continued to grapple with the variety of social stigmas associated with this. Additionally, as a young man he had difficulty learning to read and write despite his parent's insistence and dedication to his (and his sisters) education, and even now feels a degree of shame over not meeting those standards for reasons that are not his fault. The concept of 'neurodivergence' wasn't understood in the 1800s-- and people with these traits at best tended to be social oddities who kept to themselves at best. No one understood in that era the things we do now.
This feeling of guilt over not being the son his parents deserved bled were reflected in his social difficulties, such as his trouble in understanding the unspoken subtleties of existing within a community. When pressed upon romance and his personal life, he might dryly make commentary about not being able to provide a proper life for any woman he were to wed or anyone he would take as a lover, but that was a distant echo of the truth. Just as he believes that his parents deserved better, there are times when he believes that he doesn't deserve what he has for not living up to his childhood interpretation of his parent's ideals.
In general terms, it's a lack of self worth over his own perceived failures and inability to be effective at protecting his family from illness and disaster. His own ineffectiveness haunts him-- to the point that he can scarcely believe that a bunch of strangers he assisted on the train ride back East would even want to hire him. It gets better... but it takes time to get there. Self Acceptance is a heck of a thing that everyone needs to take the time to learn, and Marshall is deep in the process of learning this.
Marshall ends unconsciously overcompensating for his perceived failings and ineffectiveness in his daily life, as if to prove to someone, somewhere, that he really is worthy of the good things in life. He hasn't learned that people don't need to prove themselves to have the 'good things' like love and friendship.
How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:
That's an Eight, although he hasn't actually sat down to think about it and put all of this into words. He's not prone to being long winded and has not been taught the fine art of self reflection. This lack of self worth and the attendant bitterness just sits there in a bottle in his chest, waiting for a good time to explode.
What is their greatest virtue?:
Marshall's greatest virtue is his open mind. While he professes himself to be 'not a thinking man', his intelligence and adaptability shows in how he is able to meet people and situations as they are without unnecessary judgement. He rationalizes this as not fighting his ordinary difficulties with understanding people and just accepting each person he meets as they present themselves before him. An example of this is his sometimes lover out in Wyoming-- a burlesque performer who hires him for 'odd jobs' and happens to be what modern eyes would describe as a Transwoman. He barely batted an eye at this, as she was openly acting in the capacity of a woman, and he saw no reason to question this. That would be nothing short of Rude, and he takes great care to not appear as such... especially before gentler company. Given that LGBTQ+ identities were taboo in the era he lived in, this itself is a feat. It was a small fortune to him that Anita saw him for everything he was worth and was more than willing to similarly accept him. While he might not describe their relationship as 'Lovers' there is no doubt that there was a physical relationship and mutual attraction between the two of them.
Growing up in the South during the Reconstruction after the Civil War, surviving disasters that destroyed his childhood home, and effectively living between cultures as the son of a Greek immigrant and a Southern soldier who rejected what he was taught and fought for the Union rather than the Confederacy, had taught Marshall how to keep an open mind to the people around him. Given his difficulties understanding the nuances that come with people being community oriented by nature, this willingness to accept despite not fully understanding is largely what has helped Marshall adjust himself to the world. Similarly, once he arrived in London, his biggest quandaries were with the weather-- as stormy weather puts him on edge due to the disasters he faced in his youth, rather than the local people or culture. He slipped into his new role as a 'courier' with the same ease that he puts on his boots in the morning. Ultimately his reasons for his travels are as part of a job or some other perceived duty, and he gives decisions like these the respect and attention that they are due.
Thus, him moving with his family from the Gulf Coast in the South in search of better prospects out West was not near as troublesome as it could have been. He was old enough to understand what was happening at that point. Later, after his father died from complications of old injuries from his time as a soldier and a lifetime of back breaking work, Marshall stepped into the role of providing a livelihood for his sisters and mother with as much grace as an awkward and grieving young man could-- all the while all of them helped each other cope with the sudden loss in their lives. Although he didn't fully succeed in the task the way he would have liked, as one of his younger sisters had to step in to seek work as well, it was his responsibility to do what he could to keep their small family unit afloat. Moving yet again in order to get his mother appropriate medical care for her lung disease that was then called Consumption was again a necessary step that Marshall and his family all agreed was the best course, as was his taking work across the Atlantic in order to pay for his family's continued ability to live and thrive without worry.
Growing up in between locations and cultures does strange things to a person. Growing up with a body and mind that rebel against the norm does strange things to how the world perceives you. Many find this troublesome; some manage to make their relative lack of 'roots' a strength in and of itself; it allows them to fly.
How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:
Four. Marshall is not a thinking man and is not inclined to think too highly of himself, so this isn't a subject that he had thought overmuch about. He is only aware of it insofar as he trusts his gut and he trusts his ability to work with people despite his difficulties with the social niceties. He thinks of this trait as only a natural extension of doing his Job as part of the unit that keeps his family functioning. After all, he had no choice but to adapt in order to survive... and he wasn't going to wallow in his troubles for forever.
Items:
-His father's Colt 1855 Revolver
-Extra ammunition for the above Revolver
-His Hat (named Anita after his sometimes lover)
-A battered copy of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Samples: TDM.
Special notes: As the Eldritch Entity (whom he has dubbed Helios as a matter of convenience) has that nebulous aspect of existing both in part as a Deity-like figure and in part as a fragment within Marshall's mind, this can be played multiple ways and I am open to whatever restrictions are required to make this fair and fun for everyone.