Could you tell me more about solar austus, max, and jackson if possible? :3c
of course, i'd be happy to! all of those characters are currently npcs in a dnd campaign i'm running (players have met two of them) so i'm putting their info under a readmore. my dear players i am asking you to look away from this ask 🙏
-- SOLAR AUSTUS --
Austus is their name, Solar is their title. They're a holy warrior of the sun, with their body capable of harnessing the sun's power due to a divine transformation they're undergoing. This gives their body a glowing, warm appearance. Their current quest is to bring light into dark places, and they commonly fight back against shadow monsters and accompany adventurers in their nighttime travels. They want to travel all of Kyor and feel the sunlight in all its high places, with their final goal being to become a vessel of the sun itself. This process of becoming the sun involved a ritual, with a magic tattoo being placed on them to slowly mutate their body into a vessel. They can speed up this process by using more of their sunlight abilities and furthering their quest. Austus is odd in their mannerisms, but as friendly as can be. They enjoy helping others, but also won't miss the chance to stop and rest. Their strange nature and dedication to their quest make them quite lonely, so they treasure the time they get to spend with other parties. Their story is currently unfolding in the dnd campaign, so we'll see how their quest goes!
-- MAX --
Max is an exiled Vaness, who now travels the country taking bounty hunter jobs with his partner. He was exiled because he killed his own brother when he was a teen, but this was due to a curse that was placed on him before he was born. The curse fills with him an insatiable lust for blood and flesh, which while makes him an excellent fighter, it keeps him from stopping before the other person is mangled to hell. The Vaness are fighters, but in a sport sense. They admire fighting as an art but condemn senseless bloodshed, so when Max killed his brother they sent him away. Lucky for Max, there is a way to cope with the curse. He found out that if he eats raw animal meat (that due to the curse he can process) that need for killing completely goes away for a while, its just a matter of eating it every week, like a medicine. Him and his partner will go on hunting trips to keep this condition managed. :) Writing out his backstory now makes him seem really edgy, but he's quite upbeat, playful and outgoing! He's the kind of person who's presence uplifts a room. He loves to wrestle and generally goof around, as guys do.
-- JACKSON --
Jackson is a hitman/bounty hunter that is currently working for the Order Church. He feels no actual affiliation with their ideology, but he works for them because the pay is good and it keeps him out of trouble with the law (since, well, they are the law). Jackson is an antisocial weirdo who got himself possessed by a demon in hopes of it making him more sociable and charismatic. The demon he got himself into a deal with, Sonia, is a mirror demon. Mirror demons make special pacts with people to act as a sort of 'coach', in exchange for the person engaging in the demon's vice. For Jackson's case, his demon makes him more assertive, charismatic, and confident, while he's supposed to kill and cause violence for the demon. Right now, the demon and Jackson are two semi-separate people, with the end goal that their personalities, traits, and consciousness merge until there is no distinction and they function as one entity, both internally and externally. Because Jack does not normally crave incredible violence, and because of his lack of ability to control the vices of his demon, this process of becoming one is not going super well. Unlike Max, Jackson does act a bit edgy. He's aloof, tries to act cool and badass, but often just comes across as strange and like a bit of a loser. With the demon helping him, he comes across as much more intimidating and fills the role of 'badass hitman' better. Though, under all that, all Jackson really wants is to fit better into society and make some real genuine friends.
I will start this off by saying John Green is one of my favorite authors. Sometimes I think this fact strange, as I usually delve into the paranormal things, science fiction things, and things that are very far away from here. For example my other favorite authors are J K Rowling, Veronica Roth, and Andrew Davidson. All of these authors have given me another world to live in that is nothing like the one I am actually in. I can't really explain what John Green does in his novels, but the way he does it has made him my number one favorite author.
Let us now proceed to his newest book.
The character telling the story is Hazel who is a terminal cancer patient, thyroid with mets in her lungs. I did not instantly fall in love with Hazel. I did love the way she talked, the ideas she had as the book progressed, how she said that she was really just a side effect and how so many things were just side effects of dying. But i did not really love this character until Issac, eye cancer, and Augustus Waters, cancer free for some time, came into the book. These two got her out of her house, on her own, and that's when I felt the story really did begin.
Augustus Waters is an interesting character, in that he seems so much younger than Hazel when they meet. He still feels young as I think back on the book. There is a certain bit of innocence that surrounds this character even though, like most of the people in this book, has been touched by cancer.
Mean while Issac possibly becomes one of my favorite characters as the book progresses. When we meet him he has a girlfriend, Monica, and, like Augustus, seems extremely young compared to our main girl Hazel. As the book progresses though I find myself wanting to hear more and more about him.
Stopping here.
Read his new book.
And then read his other's if you have not already.
