KESLAN, Rye'Kar

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Rye'Kar Keslan

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Name: Rye'Kar Keslan[break]
Age: 25 years old (Born in 9:08 Dragon) [break]
Home: Ferelden [break]
Race: Human[break]
Class: Mage [break]
Affiliation/Occupation: Apostate (Escaped from Kinloch Hold in 9:30 Dragon)[break][break]

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[attr="class","abox"](NOTE: Rye'Kar suffers from a dissociative identity disorder, a sort of side effect he developed in his youth to endure extensive abuse. No one actually knows that Lark, Rye'Kar's alter, exists, as he is careful in keeping this secret. Even in instances where Lark manages to take over, he is usually pretty good about keeping the secret as well (as in he won't call himself Lark, won't tell others what's happening, etc), and Rye'Kar will usually just say he was a little out of it after he regains control. Lark acts almost as a separate consciousness for Rye'Kar. Their personalities are wildly different and Rye'Kar does not have any memory of what happens when Lark is "dominant". As a child, switching between himself and Lark was uncontrollable and extreme. But it's been many years, and now Rye'Kar can normally keep Lark from taking over. However, if he is in danger, startled, or triggered by some sort of extreme violence or abuse, Lark can gain the upper hand with little struggle. [break][break]

While Lark is dominant, Rye'Kar is usually "asleep". Tucked carefully away to be protected as always. But when Lark is not the dominant personality, Rye'Kar can always feel his presence at the back of his mind, and the two sometimes "speak" to one another. They can go from a mutual dislike to, surprisingly, a grudging friendship. After many years, they've managed to find a peaceful (though sometimes strained) co-existence. Usually, Lark just exists to make snide comments in Rye'Kar's mind. There are also times when Lark begs to be allowed to take over, to which Rye'Kar might reply with a resounding "no, now please shut up".[break][break]

Rye'Kar considers himself to be a good guy. He likes to think of Lark as a completely different person — to separate himself entirely from the things Lark does — but sometimes he struggles with the fact that Lark is a part of him. That the alter is actually a dark part of himself that he can't embrace, capable of terrible things that he chooses not to remember in order to avoid accountability.) [break][break]




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✓ INTUITIVE - A quick thinker on his feet, Rye'Kar has good instincts that he doesn't hesitate to trust. When his gut tells him something, he listens, and his gut seems to have a keen understanding of people and their intentions. This has always served Rye'Kar well, as his life as an apostate has a way of pitting him with all walks of life, some more questionable than others.[break][break]

✓ EMOTIONALLY-PERCEPTIVE - Rye'Kar tends to pick up on when someone isn't feeling well or if something is going on with them. And though he does often act on this empathy... there's usually a line that needs to be crossed before Rye'Kar feels his intervention is wanted and/or required. He does handle emotional or sensitive situations well, it just sometimes takes him a while before he's assured he has the right to handle them, or that his doing so won't be too inappropriately imposing. He can often approach these things too cautiously. He can sometimes overestimate the independence of others or how good a simple conversation or a gesture of compassion/concern might be to someone.[break][break]

✓ POLITE - Rye'Kar is a well-mannered man and always has been. He's kind and courteous. Considerate and respectful, but less in an overly-refined way and more casually.[break][break]

✓ GENEROUS - Rye'Kar can be very giving to those people he considers close to him. Emotionally perceptive as he is, he oft picks up what a person is wanting or needing and is usually willing and versatile enough to allow himself to be exactly that, or to provide that. He's generous with his words, his gestures, and his attention, and it's never an empty gift or action. Everything is chosen or done for a reason and given genuinely.

✓ CAUTIOUS/CURIOUS - Rye'Kar has the curiosity of someone always wanting to know how things work, why things the way they are, etc. He's always happy to learn and practice new things, as well as explore and seek. However, this is tempered by a healthy amount of caution as well. He isn't someone to rush headlong into anything and is always careful about where he goes and what he does. He's as slinky and careful as a cat (but not the cat that curiosity killed). [break][break]

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✓ SELF-PRESERVING - When it all boils down, Lark came to be out of need to protect Rye'Kar. Not much has changed since that creation. Although Lark would like nothing to more than to get in a whole bunch of trouble, he doesn't like to leave a mess for Rye'Kar to handle when he "wakes". Although he likes to pick fights and be a menace, he usually won't do things that will hurt Rye'Kar in the long run. Of course, though... Lark isn't always perfect. [break][break]

✓ WILY - Lark is a shrewd son of a bitch. He knows how to play a situation to his advantage and this astuteness (though tempered greatly by his rashness) helps him keep a step ahead of the game, even when making his current move. [break][break]

✓ ADMITTEDLY CHARMING - While Rye'Kar's appeal is that of a benevolent gentleman, Lark can be a forward and suave charmer himself, should he wish it. He knows people fairly well and can be a smooth-talker in order to manipulate someone around his finger. He has much more confidence than Rye'Kar and knows how to wield it. [break][break]

✓ BACKBONED - Where Rye'Kar will let himself be walked all over in order to avoid confrontation, Lark won't hesitate to assert himself and draw a line in the sand. Lark doesn't bend easily and isn't someone to beat back into submission, which can be such a change from Rye'Kar that anyone would be dumbfounded upon an attempt. Rye'Kar may be a pushover, but Lark is far from. [break][break]

✓ THICK-SKINNED - Lark can take a lot of abuse, where Rye'Kar can not.



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✘ NON-CONFRONTIVE & TOO FORGIVING - Rye'Kar tends to avoid conflict wherever he can, which isn't such a bad thing in theory, so long as there's a line. But if it means nipping a problem in the bud, Rye'Kar might go to great lengths to appease someone and that can easily become exploitation. He can be a pushover. When it comes to conflict resolution, Rye'Kar would rather forgive and forget than actually fight something out. Even if someone has actually hurt him. This can lead to him being taken advantage of by those close to him because no matter what they do, they know he'll always take them back.
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✘ EVASIVE - Though Rye'Kar is a friendly enough guy, he always seems to maintain some amount of distance. Personal questions or questions about how he's doing or what he's feeling are usually rerouted elsewhere. Or answered indirectly with not much substance. He's not a particularly open individual and it can seem, at times, that he's entirely unwilling to share anything with others. His thoughts, his feelings, his life. He's friendly and loud, but one day you may look at him and realize you don't actually know very much about him. He's superficial.[break][break]

✘ FOLLOWER/DEPENDENT - Rye'Kar isn't a solitary creature and doesn't thrive by himself. He's always happiest and more at ease with a companion or two. He also isn't a leader, and will always defer to someone else in any situation. He never wants to be the one to make decisions, for himself or for anyone. He's a bit cowardly in this sense. [break][break]

✘ EASILY DEMOTIVATED - For all his passion and enthusiasm in most things, Rye'Kar can give up ridiculously quickly. He's easy to demotivate. If it doesn't go right immediately, fuck it, what's the point. Didn't get it right the first try? Damn he sucks, you should probably ask someone else. [break][break]

✘ SCATTER-BRAINED - Sometimes... Rye'Kar has difficulty simply getting things done. He gets distracted, wanders off-task, and procrastinates horribly. He might fully intend on getting that firewood collected but somehow, three hours later, he's only collected kindling and stuck in a tree, observing the wildlife. He'll just get derailed, forget what he was doing, and then pick up something else, only to remember what he'd needed to buckle down and get finished when it's nearly too late. [break][break]

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✘ AGRESSIVE - While Lark is capable of thinking ahead and making smart decisions, sometimes he can be too brash and belligerent to stop himself from doing something he'd otherwise find dumb. He's confrontational and always coiled for a fight. Where Rye'Kar isn't able to be goaded or baited, Lark certainly is. He's a short-fuse and can be incredibly impatient. [break][break]

✘ PROMISCOUS - Always a seeker of pleasure, Lark is utterly shameless and hedonistic. Of course, where Rye'Kar considers himself mostly heterosexual, Lark stands firmly on the opposite end of the sexuality spectrum. Lark has taken a few lovers to bed who remain strangers to Rye'Kar, which has created a few embarrassing situations for him as well as raised the question of infidelity in Rye'Kar's existing relationships. [break][break]

✘ SPITEFUL - Lark isn't pure evil or anything, but he's generally mean-spirited. He's pretty liberal with his snide, sharp-tongued comments, and does things to people just to do them. Just to see and feed off their reactions. Plain and simple, he's a malicious little brute at times; a stark contrast to Rye'Kar's more benevolent nature.[break][break]

✘ APATHETIC - Unlike Rye'Kar, Lark has no great reserve of empathy or compassion for other people. In fact, Lark cares for no one other than Rye'Kar himself (and even admitting that, he causes Rye'Kar quite a bit of trouble). [break][break]

✘ WOMAN HATER - Lark doesn't just dislike women. He hates them. Lark came to be because of the abuse Rye'Kar went through as a child at the hands of his mother. Lark never seemed to grow past that, and now he despises all women on sight. Even when he isn't dominant, Rye'Kar will usually have to ignore the snide comments of "slut", "whore", "stupid bitch", etc, that Lark's always muttering when around members of the opposite sex. Lark will often make working with women as hard as possible, which is bound to eventually throw a wrench in Rye'Kar's relationships. Because Rye'Kar does like women. Lark just can't ever bite his tongue.

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RYE'KAR: [break]
✓ Quiet, cozy, and pretty things [break]
✓ People who crack themselves up while telling jokes[break]
✓ Affection [break]
✓ xx [break]
✓ xx [break][break]

LARK: [break]
✓ People who can match his sarcastic wit[break]
✓ Thick-skinned people who can take a little joke[break]
✓ Like-minded people (who probably wouldn't like Rye'Kar lol) [break]
✓ Thrill; be it getting in fights or getting in people's beds [break]
✓ Expensive alcohol



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RYE'KAR: [break]
✘ Abuse, in any form [break]
✘ Being unsure what Lark may have done [break]
✘ Water (can't swim) [break]
✘ Being booooooored [break]
✘ Vulgarity, excessively rude or disruptive behavior [break][break]

LARK: [break]
✘ When Rye'Kar lets them be walked all over [break]
✘ Dealing with Rye'Kar's "friends" [break]
✘ Restlessness, when Rye'Kar never lets him "out" [break]
✘ Rye'Kar being threatened in any way [break]
✘ Women

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In Lothering, Rye'Kar was born to a woman in her late thirties that never intended on having children. However, when she discovered she was pregnant, she decided that having a kid could end up being interesting. She was a selfish, narcissistic, and manipulative woman who found little love in her heart for her son once he was born. The baby's father was never mentioned, and today Rye'Kar sometimes wonders whether his mother hated him so much because of the unknown man. Sometimes he will also wonder why his mother didn't simply give him away, since it was so obvious she did not want a child. But it's always a pointless question. They're all useless wonderings. His mother, though cruel and hateful, chose to keep her baby, perhaps just to hold and have power over something so vulnerable and absolutely helpless. [break][break]

Rye'Kar doesn't have any memories of before he was five years old, so he is thankfully spared the memories of his infancy and toddler years. But if a certain healer in Lothering were questioned, one would discover the boy was brought to him multiple times for fractured bones, external and internal bruising, among other various atrocities. It would list the numerous times his mother was questioned by concerned Chantry sisters; each time the accusations miraculously unfounded. As time went on, his mother continued to abuse him in various ways, each increasingly more sick and unforgiving as Rye'Kar grew old enough to take them. [break][break]

And so entered Lark; an alter created out of the desperate need to endure the abuse. Named so, for his mother would always call Rye'Kar her "sweet little lark" when she was planning something particularly harsh. Rye'Kar developed a split personality, or what can essentially be considered a separate consciousness. Lark would become dominant because Lark was strong enough to take the abuse; he was steel where Rye'Kar couldn't possibly be. Lark was Rye'Kar's protector. And whenever Rye'Kar would find his way back to dominance and Lark would release the reins, whatever happened to Lark was not remembered by Rye'Kar. It was as if it had happened to someone else. And so Lark also spared Rye'Kar the pain of memory. [break][break]

One day, when Rye'Kar was a little over ten years old, he came back from one of Lark's episodes to find himself surrounded by the collapsing frame of his childhood home (if it could be called a home at all), set ablaze and crumbling with his mother still inside. Rye'Kar's magic had manifested in a destructive and vengeful way, and his mother had been unable to get out and perished in the flames. To this day, Rye'Kar does not know if this was truly an accident, or if Lark had done something to ensure their mother's demise. But he was at last free from his abuse and found himself promptly carted off to Kinloch Hold.[break][break]

But Lark remained. While at first, the two were in a constant struggle for power and dominance, they eventually came to a sort of begrudging co-existence. Lark's existence is something Rye'Kar kept secret. He never spoke of Lark and both he and the alter were content in keeping their shared existence between them. Rye'Kar didn't necessarily like Lark — he found him vulgar, dark, and troublesome. But sometimes Rye'Kar struggled with the idea that Lark was actually a part of him. That he was just a malicious part of himself that he wouldn't embrace or accept. Nowadays, the pair have a sort of rocky alliance. Lark still comes to the forefront when Rye'Kar faces danger, violence, or otherwise shuts down, but usually, Rye'Kar keeps a firm grip over the unpredictable alter. Lark often "speaks" to him, offering his two cents whenever possible. [break][break]

Lark understandably caused a few stirs in Kinloch Hold, and eventually, Rye'Kar was treated by templars and other mages alike with dislike and/or suspicion. But Rye'Kar did have a few really close friends, and an occasional girlfriend, and he wasn't too displeased with his life in the Circle. He grew into his magical talents and proved to be a rather skilled mage. It was only when he was cornered by a rather nasty and cruel Templar, that things took a turn south. Lark emerged and killed the Templar, then hid the body. The Circle was then wrought with chaos as they tried to find the missing soldier and discover what happened. And when the Templar was eventually found, suspicion turned a hard knife to the mages, trying to weed out who had killed the man. Rye'Kar was sure they'd figure out if was him, or hurt/kill other mages in their accusing, so he begged Lark to take over and get them out of there. Lark forced a Chantry sister to help find and destroy his phylactery, killed the sister, and then escaped the Tower and fled to the Free Marches, less than a year before the abomination massacre at Kinloch Hold took place.

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