GIDEON TOWNSEND | QUINN CASTEL ZONE 1 TRAVELER | ZONE 2 RAIDER
I’ll elaborate on this more when I have a sec but it’s been a long week so, without further ado, I give you this two-faced SOB:
NAME: Quinn Castel || Impersonating: Gideon Townsend AGE: 38 PROUNOUNS: He/His ZONE OF ORIGIN: Zone 2 || Currently in Zone 1 STATUS: Technically Zone 2 Local/Raider || Impersonating a Zone 1 Traveler at CHQS TRAITS: + Adaptive, Charming, Quick-Witted || – Competitive, Distrusting, Machiavellian
BIO
Quinn Castel grew up a street rat in Zone 2. He and his “adopted” sister and brother learned to get by on sheer will and street-smarts.
With a near photography memory, he found himself a quick-study at most things, which helped him learn how to scrap, steal and survive.
He was always a bit of the mastermind of their antics – orchestrating ways in which they could not just survive but also thrive. In a dog-eat-dog world, he learned to be vicious in fights, knowing that it was kill or be killed. He learned to think harder and faster than all those around him. How to look at the details while never losing sight of the bigger picture.
Eventually, more people wanted to follow him – they saw he was capable, calculating and cut-throat enough to make it in their desolate world and in Amhaven specifically.
He became the leader of a group of Raiders that were known throughout their city to be ruthless and shrewd. They weren’t reckless but they knew how to take power but, more importantly, how to keep it. They controlled several main waterways in Amhaven, gaining wealth by charging a high tax to get through. They also began to control one of the city’s main water supplies.
It was good but it wasn’t enough.
There was more out there, Quinn knew this, and he began searching for ways to do more. To be more. Surely there was more for them than a decaying city?
This thought plagued him until, 3 years ago, he came across someone he knew...attacking the very same person. It was his first encounter with a doppelgänger. It was a small thread, the first of many that he pulled at. And when he kept pulling, the truth unraveled itself.
There was more. There were people who could come and go. Who kept them there despite having more to offer. To help. And they refused. So Quinn made up his mind that the only thing left to do was to take it.
How was the question that was answered just over a year and a half ago when Quinn spotted his own doppelgänger. Gideon Townsend. A traveler from Zone 1. An answer and a key wrapped up in one person.
It took a year of careful study, of eagle-eyed observation and espionage for Quinn to pick the right moment to strike. To enact a plan none but his siblings knew about.
He took care of Gideon Townsend, assuming his identity as a Zone 1 Traveler and embarking on a mission to lift his people out of the mud and mire.
Quinn is currently impersonating Gideon Townsend at CHQS and all of his Zone 2 associates/followers, believe him to be dead save his siblings. Down to the scars and tattoos Gideon had, Quinn is fully embodying the traveler as if his life depends on it. Which it does.
It’s a risky endeavor, but one that will be worth it if they can get the technology and knowledge of how to move between Zones and, more importantly, the opportunity to take what has been withheld from them: the opportunity for me. The chance to get away from a dying world.
CONNECTIONS
These will definitely expand once I think about them more but here are a few thoughts:
QUINN SIBLINGS – they’re not blood related but they are the people he trusts most in the world. They were all orphans on the street of Amhaven when they met, children without homes or families so they made their own. They are the only people who know about Quinn still being alive, and his doppelgänger being the one who is dead.
GIDEON CONNECTIONS – casual associates, friends, flings – people who won’t notice anything different about Gideon. / close associates, close friends – people who may, overtime, consider something different about the way he smiles, or tips his head but nothing that really raises the eye (just to avoid “they totally can tell he’s not himself!”. let’s discuss!)











