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NAME: Terry
AGE: 40
PLAYER JOURNAL:
TIMEZONE: PST
CONTACT: inkblotted23@gamil.com
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Rorschach, Colonel Tick-Tock
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Cedric Fairchild (Caradoc ap Tangwystyl)
CANON: Original character
POINT IN CANON: n/a
AGE: Approximately 1000
APPEARANCE: PB is Julian Sands. Cedric is approximately 6’ tall, slender but broad-shouldered build, with very fair, almost luminous skin and long, thick blond hair that falls to his waist, with a slightly receding hairline. He has dark blue eyes, a long nose, and just slightly horsey features, in human form. In his birth form he’s the stereotypical unicorn - white, slender, long spiralling horn. He also has a half-and-half form, similar to a satyr - relatively human upper body, though with a small horn, horse’s ears, and horse legs from the thighs down, as well as a tail. He can shift into many other animal form (I am assuming this power will likely be nerfed), but they all tend to be white or pale.
CANON HISTORY:
Cedric comes from a world not dissimilar to our own, but in which magic has been present from the dawn of time. It has been there both as a mysterious, ephemeral force, and also in the form of living beings. Forces of nature were personified as living beings, and the earliest magical creatures were primal dragons and unicorns - dragons as forces of destruction and unicorns as forces of life and renewal. These creatures were essentially immortal and usually worked in harmony with each other, though there were conflicts at times. As such primal, powerful forces, they generally did not have what we would consider distinct personalities - they were more simply physical embodiments of the power they contained.
However, as time went on, and more life developed on the planet, these primal creatures began to become interested in the lesser creatures growing and developing all around them. For some races, they gave of their magical power. For others, there was actually intermingling and breeding, which spawned other very powerful beings, though slightly lesser than their primal parents. This went on for hundreds of thousands of years, and slowly the world developed into the one we know today. But as the world developed and the lesser races flourished, the primal races faded further and further into the background. Many chose to sleep, never to awaken - this was often the way of the dragons. Others simply disappeared, and it is unknown whether they died or simply ceased to be. In the modern world, there are almost no dragons left, and no primal unicorns have been seen for hundreds of years - they are presumed to have vanished from the earth entirely. Left in their place are younger and much, much less powerful versions of themselves, ordinary dragons and unicorns, many of whom spend much of their time in human form, living among humans, though there are some who chose instead to inhabit the few wild places left in the world, away from all.
The modern world from which Cedric comes from is a mix of magic and technology, co-existing somewhat uneasily. There are many, many races of magical creatures, most of whom have some way to pass as human, whether through an illusion spell, a magical item, or the ability to shape change. These races have intermingled with each other and with humans, increasing the incredible variety of types, magics, abilities, and lifespans. In fact, many of the older magical creatures mutter about misecegenation and the watering down of species, while others rampantly spread their genes about with little concern as to what might result. Younger magical creatures are generally more open-minded, however, and see the intermingling of traits as a positive part of modern life. Some, much like humans with views on racial equality, fight fiercely against what they see as racist and old-fashioned values.
Some humans, too, have their own magical abilities. Some are faint or small, what we would consider psychic gifts, ‘spoon benders’ or people with a particular talent for Tarot cards. Others are full blow witches and wizards, with incredibly abilities. These traits do seem to have some genetic basis as well, leading to culture values in magical families that discourage intermingling with ‘normal’ humans, but like the magical creatures, this point of view is not without controversy. Normal humans themselves are somewhat aware of the magic around them, but not fully, as there is a general tendency among those gifted with magic, either creatures or humans, to remain hidden. But keeping everything completely quiet would be impossible, so most normal humans tend to believe there is something out there, though no one can agree on what it is - angels, magic, aliens, psychic powers, etc. Essentially, in Cedric’s world, publications like The Weekly World News are actually taken seriously by many, and degrees in parapsychology or university programs in paranormal research are not considered as laughable as they are in our world. New Age religions, belief in faeries, etc are all considered at least semi-legitimate, and it is in this modern world that Cedric is taken from.
Cedric himself is a ‘pure-bred’ unicorn, born in the 11th century to his mother, Tangwystyl by an unknown father. Tangwystyl was a unicorn free with her favors, and in fact often left her young colt alone for long periods of time to spend time with the various males she favored. Cedric has an older sister, also pure unicorn, born several hundred years before him, however she does not get along with their mother and was not around for much of his childhood. 500 years later, Tangwystl dallied with an each-uisge, a kind of water-horse monster, and had Cedric’s brother, a half breed. She was killed 50 years later by hunters, devastating Cedric who had been devoted to her, despite her neglect of him. Cedric (born Caradoc, he later chose the name Cedric to fit in better with certain humans) had a fairly simple childhood, living in the wild woods of Wales, often wandering around on his own for months, even years at a time. He was semi-raised by nearby magical creatures and some fae. As he got older, he became fascinated with humans, and quickly learned a human form to better interact with them. He watched with great interest as they grew and developed, was mad for their art and culture, and learned to pass seamlessly.
When his brother, Maddoc, was born, he ended up stepping back from the humans for awhile. From the first, his mother had little interest in raising the half-unicorn she had bore because he didn’t look right. Cedric felt deeply sorry for the other colt, and took over much of the care for his younger brother. He was devoted to him as much as his mother, though his love was somewhat conditional - he, too, found his brother’s each-uisge half distasteful, and was constantly encouraging him to overcome his ‘monstrous’ nature and favor his unicorn side. Eventually his brother became an adult and pulled away from Cedric, unable to come to terms with the unicorn’s disgust for half of him. From then on the two had a complicated relationship, though often contentious - they disagreed on many things, but both still held on to the thread of love and devotion that had marked their early years.
Cedric himself went back to his humans after this. In the same manner as his mother, he took many lovers, though seldom for very long - the longest relationship he had was with a young satyr with similar appetites. They stayed together for nearly a century and a half, but the satyr died, leaving Cedric in mourning for many years after that.
At the point in time his is taken from, he is living in modern America, and has been working as a history teacher in a prestigious boy’s preparatory academy, involved in both the human world and the magical community of the town he lives in. He has also recently become romantically involved with one of the last primal dragons, and through this dragon, Jo, he has inherited some of the primal unicorn power that the dragon was holding on to for safe-keeping. Unfortunately, just being a unicorn does not give him the innate ability to use this power, and at this time it lies dormant inside him.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Cedric is unicorn with something of a perverse nature. While unicorns are symbols of purity and goodness, simple beauty and higher nature, Cedric really embodies none of these. He is selfish, vain, arrogant, lustful, and enamored of physical pleasures. As a unicorn, he is naturally drawn to purity and goodness in others, as part of his ability is to feel and judge the inherent goodness of someone’s soul, as well as their virginity. Normally a unicorn would then be at least partially bound to that person, and would desire to protect and serve them. However, for Cedric this often the form of a more physical and carnal attraction. While he is no pedophile (he actually tends to want to protect and nurture children, as is more fitting to his species), older adolescents are extremely attractive to him, and he has seduced many, especially those still virginal. Up until recently, one of his favorite games was to chose a young person (though age is not particularly important, he was perfectly willing to do this with older virgins who were particularly good-hearted) and very slowly, sometimes over the course of years, romance and seduce them, generally losing some sexual interest once he had finally taken their virginity - though he did often remain close to them in a more platonic manner, at least for awhile.
Part of this perversity has to do with his inherent platonic attraction to purity, part with his mother’s example, and part because for the last few centuries, Cedric has grown tired of losing his generally shorter lived lovers. While he is by no means a good person, he does love deeply, and the pain of losing so many has taken its toll on him. But he remains fascinated with the vitality and creativity of the shorter lived species, and cannot quite keep himself away from them. His relationship with the dragon is actually quite a new thing for him - while he has certainly dallied before with older creatures, he has never actually stayed with one, and as such he can be somewhat insecure in the relationship. Deep seated in him is the belief that older, more powerful creatures will be like his mother, and abandon him. He tends to vacillitate with Jo between desperately wanting his approval and reassurance and behaving coldly towards him in an attempt to assert his independence.
Cedric also feels very strongly that he’s just a little bit better than most people. While he appears fairly handsome as a human, he considers himself extremely attractive beyond what he actually is. He loves to adorn his hair, wear fine clothing, and otherwise put himself on display. Even his casual outfits are well thought out, and generally in public currently he likes to wear fine suits. Aesthetics are extremely important to him, and he can appreciate many different kinds. He has meticulously decorated his home, drives a very nice car, and in generally lives like the very wealthy person he is. In a similar vein, he loves fine food, wines, and other sensual pleasures, but likes them to be designed and well thought out. Places like low class diners and the like he tends to find very distasteful, but he will go to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant if they are reputed to have the best of some dish or other.
While Cedric can be quite the snob in many ways, and a vain, base person, he doesn’t like to present himself that way. It’s deeply important for him to be liked and for others to find him impressive, so he tends to put forth an image of serenity and wisdom. It is one of the reasons he loves to be a teacher, to be seen as someone with great knowledge and looked up to. He seldom admits his baser desires, and often couches things in fancier phrases, or tries to sound like a sage. He is polite and pleasant to most, the better to seem like a completely even-handed and genteel sort of person. Those who know him better have seen his temper and his ability to get irate about even little things, but he is very good at presenting a kinder front. He plays up the pure and gentle unicorn stereotype.
However, Cedric is not all bad or completely shallow. As a unicorn, he has an ability to heal almost any wound or illness, and while he doesn’t spend all of his time in a hospital, he does tend to extend that gift to others almost at random. He doesn’t seek it out, but when he sees great suffering, such as a homeless person with disease and mental illness, he stops to help. Part of him is actually very tender-hearted, it’s just been buried under many years of increasing cynicism about certain things. He is afraid to extend his power further for fear of failing or looking foolish, but when suffering is put in his face, he reaches out to help. He also loves teaching for more than just the position of authority and wisdom - part of him genuinely enjoys passing knowledge on to others, and loves to see them when they understand a concept or develop a love for the past, the way he does. Finally, Cedric tends to become very devoted to the people he cares about, with an almost unshakeable loyalty. While he may behave towards them in ways that are not kind (such as with his brother), those that he truly loves stay in his heart, and he could never be persuaded to truly hurt or betray them.
POINT OF DEPARTURE:
Initially, Cedric will not likely be too bothered by the concept of infiltration (or the Trumps, for that matter), he is used to living in a world of magic and while he is not used to being so easily controlled, he is in a new relationship with a creature who is a thousand times more powerful than he, so he is not completely unused to the idea. Initially it would change him very little, especially if he infiltrated as people like himself, people he considers superior or special somehow. However, if forced into infiltrations where he is either a bad or cruel kind of person, or very low class or mundane, this will affect his psyche significantly. In some ways, because he is so old, he has many mental shields in place to allow him to ignore certain aspects of his personality and to protect his own image of himself. Being forced to live and remember people in distinctly different situations will erode those protective mechanisms he has.
Because of his towering ego, at first there will likely not be much change. But as time goes on, and he gains more and more new perspective, this will wear away at him and force him to confront long-held beliefs about himself. I could see it going in several directions. In the best case scenario, he will slowly incorporate those new views, and learn a bit more compassion for others, to be able to reach out and not be so selfish. However, on the more negative side, he may either clutch more tightly to his illusions, becoming more arrogant and aloof in an attempt to continue to protect himself, or he may become very despondent, unable to deal with this new knowledge about himself. A lot of his reactions will depend on the CR he has developed and how much support he has.
ABILITIES:
Cedric is as magic as all get out as a unicorn, so likely he will have to be nerfed considerably. These are his main abilities.
1. Shape shifting: He can turn from his natural form, a unicorn, into a human, and into a half and half form, as described in the appearance section. He can also take on dozens of other animal forms, all white.
2. Healing: Cedric has incredible healing powers himself - if he is not killed immediately by an attack, he can usually heal any wound he suffers. He can do the same for others, as well as curing disease and even mental illness in another person. In addition, his touch is soothing and calming in general.
3. Soul reading: Cedric can sense the inherent goodness or corruption in a person’s soul. This goodness and corruption is really determined by his own view of those two concepts, it does not predispose a universal morality. He senses these things through their scent, primarily. His own scent, too, can convey what he likes, and is exceedingly attractive to those he sees as good or pure. He can share what he senses with others.
4. Empathy/emotion projection: Cedric can feel other’s emotions, and can also project his own feelings to others. He cannot truly overpower someone’s stronger emotions, but he can calm them or sway them in one direction or another with his own.
5. Minor magics: He can do all sorts of little spells to make life easier, such as lighting candles with his pure magical energy, minor telekinesis, things like that. Probably the equivalent to general cantrips.
6. Growth: He has the ability to induce growth in the flora around him. In general, this means that plant life tends to thrive around him, but if he concentrates, he can also cause plants to grow abnormally quickly, flowers to bloom, etc. This is mainly cosmetic, however - he cannot cause the plant life to do anything unnatural.
7. Primal unicorn magic: This is more as a note for potential, as currently he cannot do anything with this power. Primal unicorn magic is pure life-giving force - essentially the primal unicorns would use it to bring new life to blighted or destroyed places, such as causing a new forest to spring up after a devastating fire. It also has the ability to alter a person’s soul force, who they are, as well as create new soul energy, so essentially new sentient creatures.
INVENTORY; Fine suit, wallet, car keys, cell phone, satchel with several books, papers from students
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? Nothing I can think of!
S A M P L E S;
Just a brief caveat, when I brought Cedric to the 4th Wall Event, I was having him use his original name because I thought that would be simpler. However it soon started feeling weird to me, as I have been playing him as Cedric for so long. The samples are from the 4th Wall, though, so the name is different.
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Chat with a robot and a cannibal.
PROSE SAMPLE: A conversation with a drow.
NAME: Terry
AGE: 40
PLAYER JOURNAL:
TIMEZONE: PST
CONTACT: inkblotted23@gamil.com
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Rorschach, Colonel Tick-Tock
C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Cedric Fairchild (Caradoc ap Tangwystyl)
CANON: Original character
POINT IN CANON: n/a
AGE: Approximately 1000
APPEARANCE: PB is Julian Sands. Cedric is approximately 6’ tall, slender but broad-shouldered build, with very fair, almost luminous skin and long, thick blond hair that falls to his waist, with a slightly receding hairline. He has dark blue eyes, a long nose, and just slightly horsey features, in human form. In his birth form he’s the stereotypical unicorn - white, slender, long spiralling horn. He also has a half-and-half form, similar to a satyr - relatively human upper body, though with a small horn, horse’s ears, and horse legs from the thighs down, as well as a tail. He can shift into many other animal form (I am assuming this power will likely be nerfed), but they all tend to be white or pale.
CANON HISTORY:
Cedric comes from a world not dissimilar to our own, but in which magic has been present from the dawn of time. It has been there both as a mysterious, ephemeral force, and also in the form of living beings. Forces of nature were personified as living beings, and the earliest magical creatures were primal dragons and unicorns - dragons as forces of destruction and unicorns as forces of life and renewal. These creatures were essentially immortal and usually worked in harmony with each other, though there were conflicts at times. As such primal, powerful forces, they generally did not have what we would consider distinct personalities - they were more simply physical embodiments of the power they contained.
However, as time went on, and more life developed on the planet, these primal creatures began to become interested in the lesser creatures growing and developing all around them. For some races, they gave of their magical power. For others, there was actually intermingling and breeding, which spawned other very powerful beings, though slightly lesser than their primal parents. This went on for hundreds of thousands of years, and slowly the world developed into the one we know today. But as the world developed and the lesser races flourished, the primal races faded further and further into the background. Many chose to sleep, never to awaken - this was often the way of the dragons. Others simply disappeared, and it is unknown whether they died or simply ceased to be. In the modern world, there are almost no dragons left, and no primal unicorns have been seen for hundreds of years - they are presumed to have vanished from the earth entirely. Left in their place are younger and much, much less powerful versions of themselves, ordinary dragons and unicorns, many of whom spend much of their time in human form, living among humans, though there are some who chose instead to inhabit the few wild places left in the world, away from all.
The modern world from which Cedric comes from is a mix of magic and technology, co-existing somewhat uneasily. There are many, many races of magical creatures, most of whom have some way to pass as human, whether through an illusion spell, a magical item, or the ability to shape change. These races have intermingled with each other and with humans, increasing the incredible variety of types, magics, abilities, and lifespans. In fact, many of the older magical creatures mutter about misecegenation and the watering down of species, while others rampantly spread their genes about with little concern as to what might result. Younger magical creatures are generally more open-minded, however, and see the intermingling of traits as a positive part of modern life. Some, much like humans with views on racial equality, fight fiercely against what they see as racist and old-fashioned values.
Some humans, too, have their own magical abilities. Some are faint or small, what we would consider psychic gifts, ‘spoon benders’ or people with a particular talent for Tarot cards. Others are full blow witches and wizards, with incredibly abilities. These traits do seem to have some genetic basis as well, leading to culture values in magical families that discourage intermingling with ‘normal’ humans, but like the magical creatures, this point of view is not without controversy. Normal humans themselves are somewhat aware of the magic around them, but not fully, as there is a general tendency among those gifted with magic, either creatures or humans, to remain hidden. But keeping everything completely quiet would be impossible, so most normal humans tend to believe there is something out there, though no one can agree on what it is - angels, magic, aliens, psychic powers, etc. Essentially, in Cedric’s world, publications like The Weekly World News are actually taken seriously by many, and degrees in parapsychology or university programs in paranormal research are not considered as laughable as they are in our world. New Age religions, belief in faeries, etc are all considered at least semi-legitimate, and it is in this modern world that Cedric is taken from.
Cedric himself is a ‘pure-bred’ unicorn, born in the 11th century to his mother, Tangwystyl by an unknown father. Tangwystyl was a unicorn free with her favors, and in fact often left her young colt alone for long periods of time to spend time with the various males she favored. Cedric has an older sister, also pure unicorn, born several hundred years before him, however she does not get along with their mother and was not around for much of his childhood. 500 years later, Tangwystl dallied with an each-uisge, a kind of water-horse monster, and had Cedric’s brother, a half breed. She was killed 50 years later by hunters, devastating Cedric who had been devoted to her, despite her neglect of him. Cedric (born Caradoc, he later chose the name Cedric to fit in better with certain humans) had a fairly simple childhood, living in the wild woods of Wales, often wandering around on his own for months, even years at a time. He was semi-raised by nearby magical creatures and some fae. As he got older, he became fascinated with humans, and quickly learned a human form to better interact with them. He watched with great interest as they grew and developed, was mad for their art and culture, and learned to pass seamlessly.
When his brother, Maddoc, was born, he ended up stepping back from the humans for awhile. From the first, his mother had little interest in raising the half-unicorn she had bore because he didn’t look right. Cedric felt deeply sorry for the other colt, and took over much of the care for his younger brother. He was devoted to him as much as his mother, though his love was somewhat conditional - he, too, found his brother’s each-uisge half distasteful, and was constantly encouraging him to overcome his ‘monstrous’ nature and favor his unicorn side. Eventually his brother became an adult and pulled away from Cedric, unable to come to terms with the unicorn’s disgust for half of him. From then on the two had a complicated relationship, though often contentious - they disagreed on many things, but both still held on to the thread of love and devotion that had marked their early years.
Cedric himself went back to his humans after this. In the same manner as his mother, he took many lovers, though seldom for very long - the longest relationship he had was with a young satyr with similar appetites. They stayed together for nearly a century and a half, but the satyr died, leaving Cedric in mourning for many years after that.
At the point in time his is taken from, he is living in modern America, and has been working as a history teacher in a prestigious boy’s preparatory academy, involved in both the human world and the magical community of the town he lives in. He has also recently become romantically involved with one of the last primal dragons, and through this dragon, Jo, he has inherited some of the primal unicorn power that the dragon was holding on to for safe-keeping. Unfortunately, just being a unicorn does not give him the innate ability to use this power, and at this time it lies dormant inside him.
CANON PERSONALITY:
Cedric is unicorn with something of a perverse nature. While unicorns are symbols of purity and goodness, simple beauty and higher nature, Cedric really embodies none of these. He is selfish, vain, arrogant, lustful, and enamored of physical pleasures. As a unicorn, he is naturally drawn to purity and goodness in others, as part of his ability is to feel and judge the inherent goodness of someone’s soul, as well as their virginity. Normally a unicorn would then be at least partially bound to that person, and would desire to protect and serve them. However, for Cedric this often the form of a more physical and carnal attraction. While he is no pedophile (he actually tends to want to protect and nurture children, as is more fitting to his species), older adolescents are extremely attractive to him, and he has seduced many, especially those still virginal. Up until recently, one of his favorite games was to chose a young person (though age is not particularly important, he was perfectly willing to do this with older virgins who were particularly good-hearted) and very slowly, sometimes over the course of years, romance and seduce them, generally losing some sexual interest once he had finally taken their virginity - though he did often remain close to them in a more platonic manner, at least for awhile.
Part of this perversity has to do with his inherent platonic attraction to purity, part with his mother’s example, and part because for the last few centuries, Cedric has grown tired of losing his generally shorter lived lovers. While he is by no means a good person, he does love deeply, and the pain of losing so many has taken its toll on him. But he remains fascinated with the vitality and creativity of the shorter lived species, and cannot quite keep himself away from them. His relationship with the dragon is actually quite a new thing for him - while he has certainly dallied before with older creatures, he has never actually stayed with one, and as such he can be somewhat insecure in the relationship. Deep seated in him is the belief that older, more powerful creatures will be like his mother, and abandon him. He tends to vacillitate with Jo between desperately wanting his approval and reassurance and behaving coldly towards him in an attempt to assert his independence.
Cedric also feels very strongly that he’s just a little bit better than most people. While he appears fairly handsome as a human, he considers himself extremely attractive beyond what he actually is. He loves to adorn his hair, wear fine clothing, and otherwise put himself on display. Even his casual outfits are well thought out, and generally in public currently he likes to wear fine suits. Aesthetics are extremely important to him, and he can appreciate many different kinds. He has meticulously decorated his home, drives a very nice car, and in generally lives like the very wealthy person he is. In a similar vein, he loves fine food, wines, and other sensual pleasures, but likes them to be designed and well thought out. Places like low class diners and the like he tends to find very distasteful, but he will go to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant if they are reputed to have the best of some dish or other.
While Cedric can be quite the snob in many ways, and a vain, base person, he doesn’t like to present himself that way. It’s deeply important for him to be liked and for others to find him impressive, so he tends to put forth an image of serenity and wisdom. It is one of the reasons he loves to be a teacher, to be seen as someone with great knowledge and looked up to. He seldom admits his baser desires, and often couches things in fancier phrases, or tries to sound like a sage. He is polite and pleasant to most, the better to seem like a completely even-handed and genteel sort of person. Those who know him better have seen his temper and his ability to get irate about even little things, but he is very good at presenting a kinder front. He plays up the pure and gentle unicorn stereotype.
However, Cedric is not all bad or completely shallow. As a unicorn, he has an ability to heal almost any wound or illness, and while he doesn’t spend all of his time in a hospital, he does tend to extend that gift to others almost at random. He doesn’t seek it out, but when he sees great suffering, such as a homeless person with disease and mental illness, he stops to help. Part of him is actually very tender-hearted, it’s just been buried under many years of increasing cynicism about certain things. He is afraid to extend his power further for fear of failing or looking foolish, but when suffering is put in his face, he reaches out to help. He also loves teaching for more than just the position of authority and wisdom - part of him genuinely enjoys passing knowledge on to others, and loves to see them when they understand a concept or develop a love for the past, the way he does. Finally, Cedric tends to become very devoted to the people he cares about, with an almost unshakeable loyalty. While he may behave towards them in ways that are not kind (such as with his brother), those that he truly loves stay in his heart, and he could never be persuaded to truly hurt or betray them.
POINT OF DEPARTURE:
Initially, Cedric will not likely be too bothered by the concept of infiltration (or the Trumps, for that matter), he is used to living in a world of magic and while he is not used to being so easily controlled, he is in a new relationship with a creature who is a thousand times more powerful than he, so he is not completely unused to the idea. Initially it would change him very little, especially if he infiltrated as people like himself, people he considers superior or special somehow. However, if forced into infiltrations where he is either a bad or cruel kind of person, or very low class or mundane, this will affect his psyche significantly. In some ways, because he is so old, he has many mental shields in place to allow him to ignore certain aspects of his personality and to protect his own image of himself. Being forced to live and remember people in distinctly different situations will erode those protective mechanisms he has.
Because of his towering ego, at first there will likely not be much change. But as time goes on, and he gains more and more new perspective, this will wear away at him and force him to confront long-held beliefs about himself. I could see it going in several directions. In the best case scenario, he will slowly incorporate those new views, and learn a bit more compassion for others, to be able to reach out and not be so selfish. However, on the more negative side, he may either clutch more tightly to his illusions, becoming more arrogant and aloof in an attempt to continue to protect himself, or he may become very despondent, unable to deal with this new knowledge about himself. A lot of his reactions will depend on the CR he has developed and how much support he has.
ABILITIES:
Cedric is as magic as all get out as a unicorn, so likely he will have to be nerfed considerably. These are his main abilities.
1. Shape shifting: He can turn from his natural form, a unicorn, into a human, and into a half and half form, as described in the appearance section. He can also take on dozens of other animal forms, all white.
2. Healing: Cedric has incredible healing powers himself - if he is not killed immediately by an attack, he can usually heal any wound he suffers. He can do the same for others, as well as curing disease and even mental illness in another person. In addition, his touch is soothing and calming in general.
3. Soul reading: Cedric can sense the inherent goodness or corruption in a person’s soul. This goodness and corruption is really determined by his own view of those two concepts, it does not predispose a universal morality. He senses these things through their scent, primarily. His own scent, too, can convey what he likes, and is exceedingly attractive to those he sees as good or pure. He can share what he senses with others.
4. Empathy/emotion projection: Cedric can feel other’s emotions, and can also project his own feelings to others. He cannot truly overpower someone’s stronger emotions, but he can calm them or sway them in one direction or another with his own.
5. Minor magics: He can do all sorts of little spells to make life easier, such as lighting candles with his pure magical energy, minor telekinesis, things like that. Probably the equivalent to general cantrips.
6. Growth: He has the ability to induce growth in the flora around him. In general, this means that plant life tends to thrive around him, but if he concentrates, he can also cause plants to grow abnormally quickly, flowers to bloom, etc. This is mainly cosmetic, however - he cannot cause the plant life to do anything unnatural.
7. Primal unicorn magic: This is more as a note for potential, as currently he cannot do anything with this power. Primal unicorn magic is pure life-giving force - essentially the primal unicorns would use it to bring new life to blighted or destroyed places, such as causing a new forest to spring up after a devastating fire. It also has the ability to alter a person’s soul force, who they are, as well as create new soul energy, so essentially new sentient creatures.
INVENTORY; Fine suit, wallet, car keys, cell phone, satchel with several books, papers from students
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? Nothing I can think of!
S A M P L E S;
Just a brief caveat, when I brought Cedric to the 4th Wall Event, I was having him use his original name because I thought that would be simpler. However it soon started feeling weird to me, as I have been playing him as Cedric for so long. The samples are from the 4th Wall, though, so the name is different.
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Chat with a robot and a cannibal.
PROSE SAMPLE: A conversation with a drow.
