okay there is a solid part of me that is tempted to have locryn and astrid like... have a child at some point (like they are intimate at some point during Locryn seeking so that Astrid doesn't give birth/know she's pregnant until after Locryn's gone North) because like... that'd be cute and there could be some fun angst surrounding that (and also it lets me kind of keep a part of Locryn alive because I'm honestly very attached to them but like... they wouldn't turn back after seeking.
(mostly this is just a random idea/brainstorm no guarantees of this being canon lol)
(art of them in their normal outfit to come later but I've drawn them a few times)
Other names/Nicknames: N/A. With people they don’t know as well they prefer a title (or at least being called Professor Penhale) to being called Locryn, but as they grow more comfortable with you they’re more okay being called Locryn.
Pronouns: They/them
Gender: Non-binary (Agender but they wouldn’t ever explicitly call themselves this) (they’re AMAB and have no interest in making their body more femme) (if you call them transfemme they will be sad don’t do it)
Sexuality: Bi (they’re into guys and girls)
Age: 32 years old
Birthday: July 6th
Appearance: Locryn has pale skin with a warm undertone. They have short curly red hair that’s usually the first thing people notice about them. They have green eyes, and they wear black spectacles for distance vision. Locryn has a reasonable amount of freckles on their face and cheeks, and they have dimples when they smile. They usually dress colorfully and semi-formally, wearing suits and other more formal wear. They’re lanky and reasonably attractive. Their anatomy is traditionally male.
Voice: A hesitant tenor, quiet and gentle. They have an Austrian/German accent when they speak English.
Backstory: Locryn was born on the surface, in Austria-Hungary, near the German border. Locryn was born into a wealthy family and was an only child, but they were emotionally neglected and weren’t treated very well in their childhood. Locryn is not in contact with their family on the surface, but they are grateful that they got the funds to get their education in mycology and biology at Heidelberg University (bachelors) and the University of Berlin (Masters/PhD).
Because of their sheltered upbringing (and even early adulthood), they’ve always been really naive and innocent, and thus have been taken advantage of accordingly. They arrived in the Neath and began teaching at Benthic College right after they finished their PhD. At this point, they’ve been in the Neath for about two years. However, they don’t remember a lot of their early time in the Neath (due to irrigoing themselves as a suicide attempt after a lot of their early social escapades crumbled and they blamed themselves for it).
Ambition/in game storyline: Seeking
(I’ll put character relationships here once I have updated stuff for everyone)
Personality: Locryn can be very innocent and cautious, especially in new situations, but opens up quickly if they trust they won’t be rejected. They're friendly but struggle a lot with social skills and actually making friends. They withdraw very quickly from situations where they sense they’ll be rejected or laughed at. Locryn is someone who will only resort to violence if needed, and they’re not a very strong fighter. Locryn is very intelligent and they have more book smarts than street smarts. They always keep their word, and they’re an honest and steadfast person. They are not a good liar. They can be stubborn at times, and once they’ve embarked on an endeavor, academic or otherwise, it’s hard to get them to stop. They sometimes struggle to accept help from others, but honestly need it more than they let on, but they worry about being too dependent and having that drive people away. Quite honestly, if you want to be Locryn’s friend, you just need to be nice to them and care about them, and they will accept it (although at this point due to past trauma they are more cautious). Locryn wears their heart on their sleeve - they are so unbelievably bad at hiding their emotions.
Hobbies:
Sketching: They have a sketchbook, mostly full of various drawings of fungi and stuff from their research, it’s a stress relief thing for them.
Reading: They always used books as an escape from the real world, and they like to delve deep into various research topics and learn more about the world.
Fears: Rejection, abandonment, truly being worthless.
Quirks/Habits:
They fidget a lot when they’re anxious.
Medical info:
They are autistic.
Quite honestly, they probably have CPTSD from their childhood and from their chronic past of rejection.
Locryn has a phobia of owls and of balloons.
They have DPDR.
They had a stutter when they were a child. It’s generally not very bad anymore, but it gets worse/more noticeable when they’re anxious.
Open to RP: Yes
Open to shipping: Depends? Generally no.
Are they an in-game OC: Yes
Fallen London Account:
Locryn (their main account/the one I’m active on): https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Locryn
Locryn Phineas Penhale (an account I initially created as their seeking alt that I’m hella inactive on) (I’m not gonna share the link for this one because I’m not active here)
Notes:
They are seeking. They will go North. I will cry when I write their final moments. <3
The reasons their arc will go in the direction it will go in are mostly because they resonate with the story and everything that happened and it sort of is channeling their worst anxieties in a not-so productive way.
Their favorite kind of tea is chamomile tea
Touch/physical contact is their main love language
Locryn is right handed
I still ship them and Astrid and should do so more loudly now. <3
Their relationship with May is more of a strange parent figure/child relationship than the sort of quasi-romantic/sexual relationship it was initially. May does still genuinely care about them and want to protect them, and there’s still lots of tenderness and comfort and fluff to be written, but they’re certainly not having sex.
Here for the OC ask game! Staring at 11 for Locryn (I love seeing academic OCs' inventories) and 20 + 21 for Cas!
@staring-at-my-keyboard
Thank you for the asks! :D
11.) What does your OC carry around in their pockets? What about their bag?
Locryn's pockets are almost always filled to the brim. They almost always have 3 or 4 dip pens and an inkwell on their person, a couple of handfuls of coins, samples of various mushrooms they've gathered in the wild, a set of keys to Juno's house where they're still staying, a few crumpled up notes about various experiments they plan on undertaking (currently one is on the idea of music from mushrooms, and one is specifically about trying to figure out what was so poisonous about the neathy Death Cap mushroom that totally didn't almost kill them a few weeks ago (yes I will write that scene soon). Usually when they carry a bag, it's for an academic expedition, and they have notebooks (specifically notebooks that can make carbon copies they love carbon copies), more pens and inkwells, inks of various colors (naturally, from dyes found in Neathy mushrooms), a spare lab coat and change of clothes just in case, scientific goggles (even though they generally tend towards the biology and not the chemistry, one never knows what kind of science they might need to use down here), a couple of test tubes filled with totally non-suspicious liquid, a book on the third city, and a small candle (don't worry about those last two).
20. How quick is your OC to shift blame? Do they own up to their mistakes, or are they prone to start pointing fingers at others?
Cas can be very prideful at times, being raised in a house where it was a virtue and not a sin. Generally, Cas is not very good at owning up to his mistakes. He tends to be more of a person who would let his mistakes compound and build onto each other until they explode and/or cause irreparable harm. He doesn't necessarily shift the blame onto others or blame other people for things that he's done, but he did this more when he was younger. Sometimes when he was seeking, he'd say people provoked him to avoid being blamed for attacking people in his hunger. Rather, at least nowadays, he'll blame the environment or the circumstances or something that seems out of his control. Although, at this point THE SUN can see through his excuses, and after all, he would never dare lie to THE SUN.
21. How does your OC handle criticism?
Poorly. Cas tends to double down when he is criticized. Even if the criticism is valid, he hates admitting he's wrong.
Locryn has only exploded like twice on this journey, they probably have some very fun scarring now from all of this. I could so write some hurt comfort from this as well as the mushroom poisoning I was thinking of a bit ago.
Locryn would probably be able to ferment things really well (since y'know that requires yeast and yeast is technically fungal in nature), so I could totally see them taking up like a winemaking or brewing hobby
