Benedict Brennan
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Name: Benedict Brennan
Player: Aaron
Caste: Twilight
Concept: Primary School Teacher
Motivation: To ensure that the NSR Causes no more harm to those the profess to protect
Intimacies: Well fair of Children(+)
Attributes
Strength-[][][] Dexterity-[][][][] Stamina-[][]
Charisma-[][][] Manipulation-[][][] Appearance-[]
Perception-[][][][] Intelligence-[][][][][] Wits-[][]
Abilities
Dawn
Archery- Martial Arts- Melee-[][][][][] Thrown- War-
Zenith
Integrity-[][] Performance- Presence-[][] Resistance-[][] Survival-
Twilight
Craft-[][][] Investigation-[] Lore-[][][][][] Medicine-[][][][][] Occult-[][][][[][]
Night
Athletics- Awareness-[][][] Dodge-[][][][][] Larceny- Stealth-
Eclipse
Bureaucracy- Linguistics-[][][][] Ride- Sail- Socialize-[]
Specialties: Melee With Brush [][][] Armored dodge [][][]
Backgrounds
Artifact- [][] Orichalcum Paintbrush
Artifact- [] Orichalcum Chain Shirt
Resources- [][] Still does some teaching, and earns wages for his family
Contacts- [][] Scholars/teachers throughout Meru
Metaphysical Information
Willpower- [][][][][][][][]
Compassion- [][][][][] Conviction-[][] Temperance-[][] Valor-[][][]
Essence- [][][] Personal- 17 Peripheral-41 Committed 7 Limit: Virtue Flaw: Red rage of Compassion
Combat Information
Join Battle- 5 Join Debate- 5 Join War- 5
Weapons: Orichalcum Paintbrush - Sp 4 Acc 4 Dam 5 Def 2 Rate 3
Natural Soak: 2B/1L/1A
Armored Soak 5B/7L
Total Soaks: 7B/9L/1A
Health Levels: -0[] -1[][][][][] -2[][][][] -4[]
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Charms
Ox Body
Ox Body
1st Melee Excellency
3rd Dodge Excellency
1 Weapon 2 Blows
Hungry Tiger
Shadow Over Water
Seven Shadows Evasion
Spirit Detecting Glance
All Encompassing Sorcerers Sight
Experience and BP expendatures
3 BP On Specialties
3 BP On Virtues
9 BP On Abilities
6 XP On Virtue
9 xp On Abilities
Background
Benedict was a gentle man, one who love to see others thrive from the knowledge that he passed on to them. He was a primary school teacher who loved his job. The kids loved him. He was strict, but nice. The kids seemed to understand why he was being strict at certain times and when it was okay to relax. The parents all loved him, their kids really learned under him. His life would be forever changed, however on one fateful day.
Benedict (or Ben, as he was called to those he knew) Had a lovely wife and 7 year old child name Akio who also attended his school. They were a loving family with little problems and enough money coming in from Ben's teaching that they never went hungry and had a nice house out in the country. The often sat under the willow tree, where Ben Taught his son further, teaching the art or fine caligraphy and answered any questions his son had. This was also where the large pots were where their laundry was done, so Ben's wife was usually on the scene as Ben taught his son. One day, as the water boiled away, preparing to be used, Ben, Akio and Hikari were resting beneath the willow tree. Footsteps approached, by the sound of it a few people. Ben sat up and saw three soliders approaching, one in command of the other two by the looks of it. The commander appeared to be a child of Luna. They all had weapons at their belt and the look of soldiers in their faces. Ben stood up and bent low in a bow of respect to the soldiers.
"Is there anything I can do for you this day, my good men?"
The Commander replied haughtily
"We are hungry. The roast you I smell would do finely. I think we will take that, and some bread. I trust you have no objections?"
Ben heard his wife stand behind him and his child sit up. His eyes narrowed slightly.
"Sirs, we would gladly share. This is, however, my sons birthday, and we bought this roast for the occasion."
"We care not for your snot nosed little whelp or for what day it is. We protect you and yours, and all we ask is that you give us something in return. Why do you not see this?"
Akio tore out from behind Hikari, bawling, straight at the Commander and started pounding on his leg.
"Don't talk to mommy and daddy that way you beast!" He cried
The commander looked down at the little child beating his fists off of his armor. He causually backhanded the child away from him.
"Get away from me, filth"
"You son of a bitch!" Yelled Ben as his son windmilled and smashed into the boiling pot of water. it tipped dangerously away from the from the people but didn't fall off its stand. Rather, it tipped back towards everyone, including Akio. Ben grabbed akio and threw him back towards his mother as the boiling water cascaded onto Ben's Back chest and right arm, up to the top of his neck. Screaming in pain, his blistered skin nearly gone, he crawls away from the pot.
"Thats what you get for inter-fearing... I think We shall take something else instead, we are always looking for new soldiers."
The commander moves forward and grabs Akio around the waist as Ben writhes on the ground, in great pain. Hikari tries to stop the commander, but is pushed back to the ground. The other Soldiers look a little alarmed at first, but quickly gain their composure. Ben goes quiet as Hikari Just stares as the soldiers turn to leave.
"Stop... Right there you... Sons of Dogs!"
The soldiers turn to see Ben standing, with a slouch and a golden disk on his forehead. His chest, back and right arm are virtually skinless, and his eyes appear to have a depth that was not there before. A soft golden aura eminates around him.
"Give Akio Back you son a bitch.."
Ben charges the soldier on the left, grabbing the nearest thing at hand.. His ivory painbrush with the softest yeddim hair bristles he had ever seen... and stabs one of the soldiers in the eye with it. The solider falls to the ground clutching his eye and screaming as Ben becomes a blur, Stabbing the other soldier in the throat. He fell to the ground clutching his fast failing airway. Ben turns to the child of luna, to see him slowly clapping his hands.
"Well done, Child of the sun, but it will not be enough. You are nothing, and your injuries will kill you soon enough"
The lunar commander, with Akio under his arm, Grabs Ben by the throat. Being a more experience exalt and stronger to boot, he had no problem handling Ben.
"There is no use killing you, you will die soon enough anyway"
As ben falls unconcious, the lunar commander throws the limp body onto the ground and walks away.
That was 10 years ago
What the commander underestimated, was the resource-fullness and survivability of one of the Children of the Sun. Ben Now dresses in a baggy shirt, so as to minimize the contact it comes in with his scars that cover his entire chest back right arm and up his neck. He wears a scarf to cover his neck so as to not show off the hideous marks he has from his past. His baggy pants swish with the sound of cotton brushing against itself as he walks to the small school he had started since that horrible time 10 years ago.
The children his school supports are those who were displaced by the war and are parent-less. He adopts them and they stay in a small dorm he has built. Hikari and he take them in as their own and watch after them, making sure they are fed and clothed and educated.
Through the past 10 years he has searched for his son with no success. Ben wants to pay the NSR back for what they did to his son, these kids, and himself. Ben had had an heirloom that he had wanted to pass down to his son one day. A chain shirt that appeared to be made out of gold, but was way too heavy to wear. Now he understood why. It was made of orichalcum, not gold. Over the past couple of years, he had come across some people of a rebellion against the NSR. They did not have much, as they are trying to keep as low key as possible, but they did what they could. The Rebellion assisted him in forging a weapon out of orichalcum. The only weapon he has ever used. A brush.
Thus starts the story in the present day.
