Username : Lunaur
Time Zone : PST
Journal Type : [I-J]
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Character Info
Name : Andre Smith
Age : 18
Gender : Male
Appearance :
Hair: Andre has short messy blonde hair that usually seems to be all over the place on his head. Because of his inability to tame it he keeps it rather short.
Eyes: Honey Brown eyes usually making sure to take in his surroundings. He is the kind of person who has an intensity to his gaze and because of that not many people can hold his gaze for too long.
Skin: He has average lightish skin. During the summer it tans a little bit but he isn’t incredibly dark.
Clothing: He prefers to walk around in shoes and shorts because of his upbringing as a blacksmiths son but when he does go into town or walk around outside of his house he wears very simple and functional clothing usually homemade since his family doesn’t have too much money. He does tend to always have a belt that attaches a compass and hunting knife to him at all times.
Personality :
Andre is a very dependant and reliable boy. He gets things done and he usually does his best at it. He tends to like to roam around places and enjoys when he can be by himself to enjoy the company that nature provides. He is not exactly a loner because he doent like the company of others it just isn’t in his nature to desire to be in the company of others. If people want to come with him when he explores, which he does often, they are welcome to come but he is not likely to invite them. He loves to know the area in which he lives he will often explore every nook and cranny within a days hike just to make sure he knows the area inside and out. He is usually found out in the forest under a fruit tree or near a berry bush writing observations in his journal or just napping. He can be rather lazy and sometimes needs motivation to get things done, but it is easy to motivate him (generally promising a meal will do) and once he gets started on a task he does not stop until he finishes. The only things he has no tolerance for is stealing and lies. He is generally a very nice boy, kinda quiet, and mostly keeps to himself but if you do one of the two before mentioned things to him or in his presence don’t be surprised to feel the full force of his anger immediately! His anger is swift and strong and he will most likely not give you a second chance unless you REALLY deserve it, but he probably wont give you the chance to prove you deserve a second chance if your already on his bad list.
Keywords [5 Max]: Reliable, Loner, Scout, thoughtful,
History :
Andre grew up in a mountain town. It was small but survived because it happened to be near the route to the next big City so the town had all kinds of people always passing through to stay, buy, and sell. He was the eldest son of 4 children (two sisters and the youngest a brother) and was expected to follow his fathers craft and become a smithy. Andre really wanted to please his father and did his best to be a good Smithy and Tanner but his work was always passable. His father was a master craftsman and Andre could never quite master the subtlety of the craft and be as good as his father. However the youngest brother seemed to take Smithing and tanning to heart and quickly outshone his brother when he began to train with their father. Andre was a bit jealous at first since he had been training for a few years before his brother started and now had nothing to show for it. He spent a few days wondering what to do, he had always been expected to be a smithy and so had never given thought to what he wanted to do, now with that freedom he tried his hand at all kinds of things. He found nothing that he really liked and nothing that he was particularly good at and so took to the mountains to scout for fun and get to know the wild country.
This was something that he found very much to his liking! He could easily memorize deer paths and track all manner of animals that lived in the wild. As time passed he learned all of the habits of the bears and more dangerous creatures and how to avoid them while also learning the best and safest shortcuts through the mountains themselves. Of course he also memorized where all of the wild berries and fruit trees were for his own benefit. His parents did not wholly approve of his hobby for the first year, believing that he was wasting his time on idle and childish journeys but as his knowledge of the mountains began to gain him some popularity he began to be approached by merchants looking for animals to make into pelts, wives looking for the best berries to make pies, and all manner of people who needed guides through the mountains, he even helped a cartographer once! Generally if a Townsperson needed his help he would help for little or no payment, if it was berries for a pie he would simply as for a slice, or if it was to find a good swimming hole he would just help, but if a stranger or merchant came asking for his help he would charge an affordable fee. He began to make a good living out of the mountains and his family was happy.
A few years passed and his father business blossomed with his younger brothers help and his sisters were soon the age to be married off and looking for grooms. All of the children were only a year apart, (Andre – 18, Serina – 17, Malinda – 16, Robert - 15) at this point when tragedy struck. A sickness began to spread throughout the town. No one knew how combat the illness and it didn’t take long for it to attack Andres family. His mother was the first to show the symptoms and his sisters were next. The men of the family did what they could to help the women but the only thing that happened was they all fell ill. For days everyone in the household was crippled with the illness, they had no strength and with no one healthy to tend to them they began to waste away. Andre doesn’t remember much from those times, he had strange fever dreams and he just knew that something terrible was happening that he had no power to stop. He felt so helpless and he did his best to fight the illness with everything he had. He managed to pull out of the illness before anyone else in his family though severely weakened. He stumbled into the families stores and ate until he could not hold anything else. After a day of eating and sleeping he felt healthy enough to find out what had happened to his family. His mothers and sisters had been the first to die, their delicate bodies hadn’t held like his had and since they had been sick for far longer they hadn’t survived, all three women had died. His father seemed to still be fighting as was his younger brother. Andre held out hope for the men in his family and he did his best to tend to them. He got them water he wiped away the sweat and he would often talk to them. It was a stressful and rather traumatic time for him. His sisters and mother lay dead and unburied because he had no time to do the proper rites while he was tending to his father and brother who could die at any moment. He began to hear a voice talk to him and he was glad for the company. He embraced his daemon even though at the time he had no idea what it was and it helped him keep his sanity during this time.
Eventually his brother survived the illness and the two of them managed to help their father survive too. The boys seemed no worse for wear after the illness but their father was forever severely crippled. He could no longer control one of his arms properly and now he became tired very easily. This was a disaster for his line of work but since Andres younger brother had survived the secrets of the family still survived. The men once all alive and mostly well were able to grieve for the women of the family together. Andre had long since boarded up the room where the womens bodies lay since he hadn’t been able to properly bury them and none of them was brave enough to open the door. They knew what was left would be unrecognizable and none of them wanted to see it. So Andres father made the decision to burn the house down. It would destroy the bodies in a fit way and it would purify the house of any lingering sickness. The boys agreed and all went about the somber task of destroying their house. They removed all of their precious belongings and set fire to the house. They watched it burn and prayed for the souls of the women. When that was done all that survived was the Forge which had been built of brick and stone and was just burned where it had been attached to the house.
Andre had decided when he saw his house burning that he would leave, he wanted to go to school and maybe hone his talents for scouting some more. He was leaving to make his own life and his father and brother approved. They both wanted to stay and rebuild the house and open the business once again but Andre knew that the town would never be the same. His childhood home was gone and he now had a voice in his head. He said goodbye to his father and brother and set off towards the city.
He took his time getting there, making sure to take the most winding mountain paths and getting to know his Daemon. He learned that her name was Trissmia and called her Mia for short. By the time he reached the city she had settled into a mountain lion form that always traveled by his side and he was content. Soon after he learned about Jaradin and how the school was founded on learning more about Daemons. He decided that was where he wanted to go, he would learn about Trissmia and maybe find a better trade to settle himself into. It was a plan and so he headed for Jaradin.
