The Ensign

24

Male

Patrick Alazon Douglas

Ensign/Ancient Douglas, Douglas, Pat

Stuff of Dreams

Witnesses the deaths of Aristotle Jacques and Mab, but manages to escape. Hunted down and unceremoniously executed a few weeks later.

Patrick

Noble, Patrician

Pat-rick

Alazon

A Greek stock comedy character who sees himself as greater than he really is

Al-uh-zahn

Douglas

Black Water

Dug-liss

The specific type of Alazon that Douglas is based on is the Miles Gloriosus, or the braggart soldier.

Human

On the shorter side, slender

Average

Light, tanned from time outside.

5'6"

Dark blonde

Green

Long and fine, usually tied back in a low ponytail.

Some scruff

Crooked nose, from breaking it in a bar fight.

Ensign Douglas is a very loud and brash conscripted soldier in the king's army, befriending Aristotle Jacques as they embark on a journey into the Eris Woods. Douglas (who strongly dislikes being referred to as Patrick) hates that his life is essentially in the hands of a class of nobles that his family has never been a part of, and makes it his goal to survive the quest as safely as possible, often bailing in the actual fights (though you wouldn't know based off his bragging). Despite his friendship with Aristotle Jacques, he bails once it's clear that he won't survive the fight. He prizes his own survival above all else, and it leads to cowardice in important moments.

To get his conscription over with, preferably without losing any limbs.

Brash, cowardly, vulgar, all talk and no action, loudmouthed, melodramatic, braggart.

Against the fae, though he warms up to them once meeting Mab, and the upper class humans, due to them sending the poor into the most dangerous parts of their battles while they themselves stay back.

His iron ring, to ward off faery possession.

Aristotle Jacques
Miette Lenard

Louis Rennerman (much, much farther down the line, the descendant of Douglas's sister)

Raccoons

Usually uses a pike, but he also has a small knife. And his fists.

Soldier

Wants more of a voice, but isn't willing to actually fight for it.

Grey

A recipe for a leek soup that his mother made.

A peasant from Bassen, Patrick Douglas (who goes almost solely by Douglas) was conscripted into the king's army at age 24, much to his chagrin. He voices a distaste for the king's willingness to send the poor to their deaths on wild goose chases into the woods, but isn't invested enough to speak up for change to anyone but his fellow soldiers, more interested in his own survival than a longstanding political change.

Though Douglas himself doesn't speak up for the poor, his eventual descendant Louis Rennerman will become an outspoken voice for democracy in Alchester.

Low, can read and write decently but that's about it.

November 10th

Art credit to the makowka character maker II Picrew by makowka

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