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blaise ([personal profile] lachrymal) wrote2024-01-11 08:09 pm

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full name [roughly translates to he who illumes for a thousand thousand years, which sounds like a string of trumpeted notes with an otherworldly echo to most ears]
(current) alias blaise
age millennia
d o b august 29
zodiac virgo (currently)
pronouns currently he/him
hometown somewhere in the carpathian mountains
species phoenix
department/job knowledge / archivist & translator
connections sandy. husband, his heart's eternal flame, muse, the only person worth staying mainly terrestrial for. hyacinthe. fellow ancient immortal being and connoisseur of old, old forests.
BLAISE NYGARD
► ancient phoenix would like to peruse the society's archives in peace.

► immediately assumes most people have bad vibes; when they don't, he's pleasantly surprised.

► borderline frazzled librarian vibes. if he drops the 'please', you know you're in trouble.

► 'nygard' is just a name that he picked with his husband to put on the paperwork.
personality
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intelligent • unbreakably loyal (to one person) • (dry) sense of humour • when he commits, he c o m m i t s • protective (borderline feral)
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direct (can be interpreted as blunt) • fastidious • obsessive • high maintenance • honourable (often to a fault)
judgmental • aloof • prone to spitefulness • mistrustful of most other supernaturals • ulterior motives (undisclosed)
appearance
elfin features in a face that looks simultaneously youthful and ancient. eyes are a brilliant shade of blue and are quick to dart around, with distinctly dark pupils that constrict or dilate according to his mood. soft, floppy hair that becomes silver-grey as he matures. he favours natural textures and well made cashmere and merino knits, but all the stylish choices are left to sandy; he simply looks like he thrifted at a nice shop and has run a hand through his hair 50 times since brushing it.

in his phoenix form, he weighs about 30kg, with a wingspan of roughly 6m. at the peak of a lifespan, his plumage is a vibrant, fiery scarlet and gold, with a crest of violet and indigo feathers arising from his nape, and a long tail in similar hues. as blaise approaches the latter centuries of a cycle, his colour gradually transforms into something more ashen.

height 5'8"
build birdlike
eyes blue
hair like a pastel grey
abilities
species-related abilities
like many ancient cryptids, at his core, blaise is a wild creature with an inherent distrust of mortals. in terms of magical currency, he is valuable, and he has absolutely no intention of being held in thrall (again) to someone who sees him as being composed of priceless, magical ingredients.

    🔥 his tears possess potent healing properties. ancient legends speculate that they could confer immortality, but blaise is keen to dispel that rumour as lacking in all evidence. (n.b., doesn't actually know, but desperately wants to.)

    🔥 his feathers also possess magical properties that make them attractive periapts, ranging from fuck-off-powerful-protective amulets to nice writing instruments for the discerning collector.

    🔥 immortal in that he regenerates after a lifecycle of anywhere between 500 to 1000 years. his "death" is a process of bursting into flames and re-emerging in phoenix-form. he cannot take his human form for about a month as he re-acclimatizes (someone once described as downloading his previous memories; blaise no longer speaks to them, because how crass), but when he is ready to, he shifts back into a human, which usually appears to be someone in their 20s. is it always the same body? no, but he likes this one, and so does his husband, and so this is the one he's sticking to for the next however many centuries. does he retain all his previous memories? yes (hence the downloading comment), technically.

    🔥 other abilities include shifting at will between his bird and human forms; high levels of physical, psychic and magical invulnerability; flying improbable distances, but also "jumping" from one place to another, though taking someone along for the journey is inadvisable unless they are fire-proof; pyrokinesis.
how do you overpower or kill a phoenix? supremely dark magic and/or steal/destroy their ashes during the regeneration cycle. a regeneration can be induced by powerful, malicious means and grievous injury from which there's no coming back.
bonus ability
thoughtography the ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by psychic means.
mundane abilities
polyglot and an excellent mimic of voices; perfect sense of direction; an okay swimmer; can quite happily consume raw meat (the exception being patsy the pine marten, which he learned the hard way).
background
🔥 there was once a young-old phoenix who in the course of his fourth life-cycle found himself on the run from a sorcerer who wished to keep him. the phoenix, who did not love this idea, managed to escape, injuring himself in the process of freeing himself from his magical bonds. he flew and he flew and he flew until coming to a spectacularly fiery stop over a place known as the minch. and that is how he met the blue man who stole his heart.

🔥 they have been nigh on inseperable ever since. blaise was prepared to love sandy and then lose him, but then sandy went and did a deal with a devil to win himself immortality. on one level: very cool, extremely romantic, swoon. on various others: now they had to associate with demons and their capricious ways. but ultimately: sandy was his forever, and that? was worth everything and more.

🔥 together, they have lived a multitude of lives. some on sandy's whim, others on his, and a few very notable instances of dancing to the tune of sandy's demonic patron. blaise loathes this and over time, trying to figure out a way to break sandy's bond to the devil without endangering his husband has become the only project worth pursuing.

🔥 the adventure society presents an excellent opportunity to do just that. it's no great library of alexandria, but blaise hopes that there will be something or someone there who will have the answer, and that he can find it before his husband can work out the true reason why they're there.

miscellaneous trivia
🔥 loves opera and classical music.

🔥 also: poetry, of (almost) all forms.

🔥 on a whim, memorised the entire pantone library of colours. always has very strong opinions on the colour of the year (peach fuzz? why).

🔥 trained archivist and art conservator.





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pb swann arlaud
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