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PB: Cillian Murphy ("The Dark Knight Rises"/"The Dark Knight" + "Inception" + "Oppenheimer")
Age: 25-ish (or at least his human nature is, the fae part may be much older)
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 140 pounds (yes, he's painfully thin. No amount of food seems to fix this as he has a lightning metabolism)
Gender: Androgynous male (? what even is gender to the fae)
Orientation: Bicurious, albeit in a time period where this is at best frowned upon (then again, Prohibition times folks were more geeked over who was drinking what than who was smooching whom). Very leery of physical intimacy, due to having issues with surfaces and space in general at times (see below).
Human father - Emory Oldham-Jaquith
Dark fae mother - [Name indecipherable to human ears])
In 1881, Emory Oldham-Jaquith, the scion of an old New England family who'd made their fortune in industry and heir to a furniture factory in Gardner, Massachusetts, travelled to Ireland with his occult-obsessed uncle Montague. On Midsummer's Eve, Emory had a brief fling with a fae woman disguised as a fetching country girl. Thinking little of it, Emory returned to the States.
By 1908, he had come into his inheritance and married Lavinia Cabot, the daughter of a textile baron, who had borne him no surviving children. On Midsummer's Night, she wished out loud for a son and heir to the family. On the eve of the following May Day, a child's cry rose from the doorstep.
Outside, in a basket woven of faded grass and lined with oak leaves, they found a male child with a face vaguely like Emory's, but with startling blue eyes. Emory's wife went into seclusion, emerging seven months later with a surprisingly mature newborn child whom they named James.
James grew up a precocious, curious, but cautious child, always exploring the woods and fields around the family home. When he had turned seven, his stepmother bore a son whom they named Thomas, who would later showed more aptitude for finance and the family business. James, on the other hand, while he excelled at mathematics and science, with a broader interest in poetry and art, seemed more drawn to the natural world, even as a young adult.
Emory, hoping to put his elder son's curiosity to good use, sent him to Harvard University to study geology and apply it to working in oil. James, on starting at Harvard, discovered a newly emerging branch of science known as quantum physics, the study of the very nature of the world itself and the particles that comprise it. This fascinated and haunted him. And at this point, the capabilities of his fae nature manifested. While he excelled at the maths which physics involved, he would be the first to admit that he didn't always know quite how to apply them to more practical, concrete things. Until one day, the equations he'd jotted caused peculiar phenomena to occur. One caused him to step through a chalkboard and the solid wall it hung on (albeit getting scratched up in the process, though he healed up quickly). Another he discovered would cause an object to turn invisible or at least hard for the average person to see it, if he scribbled it on or near that object (writing this one in chalk on his sleeve came in handy in seeking to avoid one annoying and belligerent guy from the recently created football team. Perhaps most dramatically, one equation on the flammability of hydrocarbons accidentally set fire to the page he wrote it on. Even thinking too hard about these equations would trigger some phenomena: one time he phased through a chair he sat on, and another time he inadvertently teleported across a short distance, ending up stuck in a bush on the other side of the quad.
His professors tried to write these off as collegiate pranks or hallucinations brought on by working too hard for prolonged hours, even when they had witnessed these occurrences. One classmate in Greek Myth teasingly called him "Junior Prometheus", while a kindly groundskeeper and general campus handyman, Dodson "Dod" Washington, took James under his wing after finding the lad had phased into an otherwise locked storage room. Nothing would please him more than to master these abilities, particularly after his father got wind of them and threatened to disown him for his perceived antics, if not have him committed to a lunatic asylum as a "deranged nuisance". Fortunately, he soon came under the tutelage of Doctor Emerson Yates, a professor with an interest in magick and the occult, who marveled at the young personage's emerging abilities.
PB: Cillian Murphy ("The Dark Knight Rises"/"The Dark Knight" + "Inception" + "Oppenheimer")
Age: 25-ish (or at least his human nature is, the fae part may be much older)
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 140 pounds (yes, he's painfully thin. No amount of food seems to fix this as he has a lightning metabolism)
Gender: Androgynous male (? what even is gender to the fae)
Orientation: Bicurious, albeit in a time period where this is at best frowned upon (then again, Prohibition times folks were more geeked over who was drinking what than who was smooching whom). Very leery of physical intimacy, due to having issues with surfaces and space in general at times (see below).
Human father - Emory Oldham-Jaquith
Dark fae mother - [Name indecipherable to human ears])
In 1881, Emory Oldham-Jaquith, the scion of an old New England family who'd made their fortune in industry and heir to a furniture factory in Gardner, Massachusetts, travelled to Ireland with his occult-obsessed uncle Montague. On Midsummer's Eve, Emory had a brief fling with a fae woman disguised as a fetching country girl. Thinking little of it, Emory returned to the States.
By 1908, he had come into his inheritance and married Lavinia Cabot, the daughter of a textile baron, who had borne him no surviving children. On Midsummer's Night, she wished out loud for a son and heir to the family. On the eve of the following May Day, a child's cry rose from the doorstep.
Outside, in a basket woven of faded grass and lined with oak leaves, they found a male child with a face vaguely like Emory's, but with startling blue eyes. Emory's wife went into seclusion, emerging seven months later with a surprisingly mature newborn child whom they named James.
James grew up a precocious, curious, but cautious child, always exploring the woods and fields around the family home. When he had turned seven, his stepmother bore a son whom they named Thomas, who would later showed more aptitude for finance and the family business. James, on the other hand, while he excelled at mathematics and science, with a broader interest in poetry and art, seemed more drawn to the natural world, even as a young adult.
Emory, hoping to put his elder son's curiosity to good use, sent him to Harvard University to study geology and apply it to working in oil. James, on starting at Harvard, discovered a newly emerging branch of science known as quantum physics, the study of the very nature of the world itself and the particles that comprise it. This fascinated and haunted him. And at this point, the capabilities of his fae nature manifested. While he excelled at the maths which physics involved, he would be the first to admit that he didn't always know quite how to apply them to more practical, concrete things. Until one day, the equations he'd jotted caused peculiar phenomena to occur. One caused him to step through a chalkboard and the solid wall it hung on (albeit getting scratched up in the process, though he healed up quickly). Another he discovered would cause an object to turn invisible or at least hard for the average person to see it, if he scribbled it on or near that object (writing this one in chalk on his sleeve came in handy in seeking to avoid one annoying and belligerent guy from the recently created football team. Perhaps most dramatically, one equation on the flammability of hydrocarbons accidentally set fire to the page he wrote it on. Even thinking too hard about these equations would trigger some phenomena: one time he phased through a chair he sat on, and another time he inadvertently teleported across a short distance, ending up stuck in a bush on the other side of the quad.
His professors tried to write these off as collegiate pranks or hallucinations brought on by working too hard for prolonged hours, even when they had witnessed these occurrences. One classmate in Greek Myth teasingly called him "Junior Prometheus", while a kindly groundskeeper and general campus handyman, Dodson "Dod" Washington, took James under his wing after finding the lad had phased into an otherwise locked storage room. Nothing would please him more than to master these abilities, particularly after his father got wind of them and threatened to disown him for his perceived antics, if not have him committed to a lunatic asylum as a "deranged nuisance". Fortunately, he soon came under the tutelage of Doctor Emerson Yates, a professor with an interest in magick and the occult, who marveled at the young personage's emerging abilities.
