LFRP: Landon Bell [Mateus]
Full Name: Landon Bell
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Race: Midlander Hyur
Birthplace: Tailfeather
Current Residence: Ishgard
Sexual Orientation: Straight? (emphasis on the ?)
Relationship Status: Single
Occupation: Temple Knight, Ranch hand
Notable Features: Very pale (well-healed) parallel slash scars across his face, mainly along the cheeks and the bridge of his nose. When not in his armor, he dresses in functional clothes made with simple peasant fabrics in pale or low saturation colors.
Physical Appearance: 5′11″, 220 ponze, with pale skin, short blonde hair, blue eyes, and dense freckles. He has a broad and well-muscled frame from years of manual labor, but he isn’t toned and lacks obvious definition in most places. Further sets of parallel scarring along his torso, though redder and less well-healed.
Personality: First impressions of Landon tend to be Boy Next Door meets Choir Boy meets Good Ol’ Boy. He’s grounded, physically inclined, and a bit salt-of-the earth. Naive and trusting, though interpersonally guarded. Friendly aura, blank face, subtle sense of humor. Self-effacing.
Congregation of Our Knights Most Heavenly: Landon joined the Temple Knights in the final few years of the Dragonsong War, and saw a fair degree of combat with Dravanians. He also did grunt work protecting Ishgard proper when he wasn’t actively deployed. Any character who is linked to the Temple Knights or Holy See could have a reason to have engaged with him in this context. Alternatively, he may have had a run-in with your civilian or heretic character during guard duty!
Chocobo Rancher: Growing up in Tailfeather with his father and stepmother, Landon spent his youth working around chocobos (mostly cleaning up after them–it was not glamorous work). The Bell family is pledged to a noble house and performs chocobo husbandry and training in service to them. Characters who live or spend significant time in Tailfeather or who are in the chocobo business may know his family. Landon also currently does grunt labor for the various chocobo stables in Ishgard, so a connection could be made there too.
Halonic Devotion: Pious and devout, Landon spends a great deal of time in St. Reymanaud’s Cathedral and attends regular services. He has a pipe dream of joining the Scholasticate and taking a more formal step toward deepening his devotion, but he can’t currently afford the tuition, even if he wasn’t struggling with religious self-doubt. Halonic scholars, clergy of the See, and other habitual worshipers will likely know his face.
Spiritual Cleansing (18+): Landon suffers from nightmares and insomnia, which he believes are a result of some personal moral failure, and he is actively seeking guidance from a spiritual authority. While I’m eager to do general religious guidance RP with any appropriate character, I’m also specifically interested in seeking some dark and adult themes that bridge the gap between spirituality and sexuality (primarily, but not limited to, bondage/discipline, submission, and religious shame). This would heavily depend on his chemistry with the other character, and I’m likely to be fairly selective about who I roleplay this with! Although erotic in theme and nature, this does not have to explicitly include sex. All genders are appropriate.
Ishgardians: While I realize I’m tying my own hands with this, I’m trying to roleplay Landon as a character who doesn’t venture into the other city-states very often (and when he does, it’s almost always Gridania). As such, I am extremely fucking thirsty for Ishgardians-in-Ishgard RP! If you play an Ishgardian and you like what you’re seeing here, please reach out to me! I’m happy to put our heads together and come up with a contrivance for why our characters might run into each other. If all else fails, Landon frequents both the bar and the pew.
Sex (18+): I like ERP, but Landon is one of my tougher nuts to crack (no… pun… intended). He’s likely to eschew anyone’s attempts to date him, although at heart he’s a romantic and desires to be intimate with people. He’s not shy or timid, he’s just a bit closed off. Give it a shot! The worst that can happen is that he says ‘no’ too abruptly and then gets embarrassed and never talks to you again because he feels guilty about bluntly turning down your sexual advances. So, hey, no pressure.
Heresy: Landon isn’t (currently) a heretic, but you might be. ;) No spoilers for this one! Open-ended. Just fuck me up, dude.
Server: Mateus/Crystal DC
Timezone: EST
Type of RP: Action/adventure, sex and relationships, fumbling and ineffective romance, military, spiritual/religious, dark/mature themes, plot-driven, ERP (18+ only). [A note: I like my “dark” RP to be primarily rooted in and the result of realistic human flaws and shittiness as opposed to cartoonishly or villainously grimdark.]
Contact: thatsadorbsyo#6895 on Discord, or Tumblr message.