Cearmaid
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| He stands tall, showing not the weight of ancestry | |
| Cearmaid | |
| Player: @Talen Lee | |
| Origin: | Magic |
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| Archetype: | Blaster |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Lachlann Piers |
| Known Aliases: | Lock |
| Species: | Human/Hecatoncheires |
| Age: | 23 |
| Height: | 6'4" |
| Weight: | 170 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Green |
| Hair Color: | Strawberry Blonde |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | American Citizen |
| Occupation: | Heir |
| Place of Birth: | Paragon City, RI |
| Base of Operations: | Paragon City |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | None |
| Known Powers | |
| God-burning flame, Soul of Iron, the Braid of the Sun | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Broad range of manual labour skills | |
| Equipment | |
| A smartphone, with which he checks formspring regularly | |
| No additional information available. | |
- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- - Teddy Roosevelt
Character
Lachlann is a man who started his life with nothing. A working member of the poorer classes, he's had a job since he was fourteen when he spent his time cleaning under the grills at an abbatoir because he was small enough to get under there. This grisly beginning, with its hard labour, helped shape his adolesence and eventually his adulthood. Lock eventually took up a three-job schedule to pay his own way in life. His life was laid out, in his mind, as a sequence of hard, backbreaking jobs, followed by occasional nights of booze and sex, ways to pay for that hard work, but never to expect hand-outs from anyone.
In mid 2011, Lock found himself the unexpected recipient of three inheritances - one, the medical debt and cleanup for his parents' untimely death in a car ride home from the hospital, one from a great-uncle who passed everything on to his estranged relative purely to spite his ex-wives, and one from a divine relative who had given up his own god-killing powers. Lock is therefore, in this modern day, a young man who has suddenly found himself owning more money than he can imagine, and with the superpowers requird to kill a god, as well as carrying the enormous burden of grief from a month being buckled under the loss of his parents. He's taken to it well - living as frugally as he can and trying to find good people to manage the wealth he has so he can ignore it, and people he can use as a moral compass as he comes to bring his powers to bear on the world around him.
Powers
The lineage from the hecatoncheires Cottus and its subsequent appearance in the Galeic myths of Cearmaid follow Lock's bloodline. This means he has inherited the same fire-based powers that his forebears had - powers that let him wield an intense fire that can burn even fire itself, a fire that flows and bends at his command. There is little Lock can do that doesn't have a destructive edge to it. In addition to his boiling powers of flame, however, comes signs that Lock seems to have a skin much like iron - he cannot be burned, or cut, except by some truly terrific demonstrations of force. When unconscious, Lock's body visibly repairs itself, a hallmark of the hecatoncheires.
Metatext
RP Notes
- Lock's accent is Scottish.
- Lock should always type in American english, not Australian English like his player uses.
- Lock tries to keep his super status reasonably low key, but he doesn't proactively hide who he is.
Themes
Lock's central theme is that of stubborn independence. He's gone his whole life being able to provide for himself, and after losing everything, became very used to that idea. Now the story is to see what he does with these new gifts he has been given - and if he can fall to a sort of laziness and irritation with the world for taking from him his identity as a poor person.
Trivia
- Lock has a formspring account.
- Lock has been to the Rogue Isles, where Mako attempted to recruit him, representing his patron arc.
- Lock is a re-re-reboot of a character who was also, originally, named Lock.
