ooc: application

[wroughtamiss]

PLAYER

Name: Mhairi
Other Characters: Araceli Bonaventura, Morrigan, Yngvi, Bronach

CHARACTER

Name: Deacon
Race: Human
Nationality: Marcher
Mage?: No
Age: 50
Affiliation: Chantry
Occupation: Chantry brother, fixer
Goal:
I'd like him to lurk around sort of indefinitely really before I decide if I'd like to app him later down the road, plus he's a bit different for me and I don't really know how he'll fit so the side character deal seems best for now for him.
About:
Left with the Chantry as a very small boy, Deacon is someone who very much believes and understands the workings of it and the Maker; if your flesh and blood father is the one to do the leaving to the Chantry's bosom, it puts it into perspective that yes, the Maker can turn his back just the same can't he? So Deacon is a man who has been loved and not loved in that peculiar Chantry way, fashioned as required with too much of a temper to become a Templar or the head for figures that work behind the scenes. Instead he's been the beating heart sort of Brother who believes with every breath and bloodied knuckle.

Sometimes, after all, keeping the faith is a violent act when people are hassling the good children of the Maker, and sometimes the Chantry has to have men and women work on their behalf. If he grew up willing and able to do it, mean and bald and primed for it, so much the better.

(He knows his place within all of it, it's easier to make your peace with things and get on with it then.)

So Deacon is a gruff man but is able to be oddly gentle at least from looking at him. Not the Brother you might want to approach but the one you find yourself confessing everything to because he's the quiet one who'll get to the heart of it and sort it all out for you. Who has a sense of wicked humour lurking beneath it all. Who'll be just as likely to tell you to meditate as go say this or that verse of the Chant because a bit of solid meditation calms the mind and body, allows you to really think don't it?

Despite misgivings he might have that aren't his place to voice, the Chantry does good work for people like him who would've been left to starve through charity, through protection, through comfort, through spreading the word of the Maker and Andraste so they have to be allowed to continue. What sort of world would it be without them? Well the current chaos is some indication, isn't it?

Given the nature of Kirkwall and the Inquisition, he's been sent in the guise of a Brother of the Faith to offer comfort for their souls when really he's being expected to report back to his Chantry about anything that should pose some sort of worry in the greater scope. And quite possibly he'll genuinely help some souls in Kirkwall because he really does believe in the Chantry and their Chantry was blown up and rumours out of Kirkwall have been no less disturbing.