#setting; akotsk

[stixnbonez]

Gonna be fleshing out and adding in Stix's Pitt and AKOTSK verses to his dossier here soon. But, here is a quick overview of his verses to get things started for him:

AKOTSK

Stix was born to a House he does not even remember the name of, the youngest presumed daughter of a Lord who was easily conquered when Stix was just a child. He was given to the Silent Sisters, where he was left to his own devices for the most part, learning to tend and dress the dead. Until one day, in his later teen years, he broke his silence by declaring that he was, in fact, a man and intended to live his life that way. The Silent Sisters gave him enough to start his own life, where he became a mortician and undertaker.

The Pitt

Born and abandoned in Pittsburg, Stix ended up bouncing around the foster system, never really able to find a family that either wanted him or were willing to listen to him about his identity and protect him. Finally, after being removed from a particularly abusive and overly religious household when he was just beginning high school, Stix was matched with a couple that recognized he was struggling as a trans youth and got him the care that he needed. When he was 18 and fresh out of high school, he began his medical transition and began attending college, working his way through med school. He currently heads up the morgue at the Pittsburg Trauma Medical Center.

In both these verses he's in his mid to late 30s, but I'm willing to throw him into earlier and later timelines as well.

[stixnbonez]

Okay but one of my favorite things about Stix's AKOTSK verse is that he lived and trained with the Silent Sisters for the first half of his life, stood up one day and was just like "I'm a man, actually" and peaced out to go live his best life as an undertaker/mortician, robbing from the rich dead nobles and donating the spoils to the poor.

King.

[demondellamorte]

A Knight Of the Seven Kingdoms

The Crows are a loose alliance of several noble merchant families in Dorne, the Dellamortes are know for their vineyards and the wines they produce from them.

The merchant businesses are fronts for the true business of the Crows, which is assassinations and mercenary work that they offer throughout the nine realms.

Lucanis was betrayed on a contract by his cousin, Illario. Lucanis was set to inherit control of the Crows from their grandmother, and Illario felt the title belonged to him. So, he betrayed his cousin to a blood witch who tried to bond a dark entity to Lucanis and make him the perfect, mindless assassin for her to use.

The entity, Spite, made a deal with Lucanis to escape, killing one of his jailers, though the woman who bound him to Spite had escaped his grasp.

He has not returned to Dorne, instead hiring himself as a mercenary and blade for hire across the rest of the kingdoms, though he travels mostly between Summerhall and Storm's End.

Spite can be heard by others, but he can only be seen by people who have been a little touched by magic or supernatural circumstances.

[dandiestbard]

New Verses

Brief summaries of the verses I'm adding for Jaskier, AKOTSK and The Pitt

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms

The youngest of five sons in House Pankratz, a House that is of no real particular note from some little fishing and pearling village on the west coast of the Riverlands. While his brothers were more than happy to take on the family business, Jaskier always found himself to be an outlier and never quite fit in with his brothers. He was far more interested in literature, music, and the arts than he ever was with learning knots and how to properly shuck an oyster (though he can do both with ease).

When he was in his early 20s, he left his home to pursue the life of a wandering minstrel, though at first he found himself unlucky in finding work, and traveling the road alone was very... lonely.

Eventually he found company with a white haired knight, of sorts, another wanderer along the road who had been sorely lacking company (or at least he thought so). He joined up with the grumpy man and his horse, following him to tourneys and becoming his herald.

The Pitt

Jaskier was the youngest in a family of lawyers. His father was a lawyer, his mother was a lawyer, and all four of his older brothers were also lawyers. Jaskier, however, played to the beat of a different drum and went to study medicine and nursing.

He is newly transferred from a small hospital up north that shut down because of federal funding cuts. At 36, he's been an ER nurse for about 9 years. He also plays guitar and keyboard in his off time, making music he is trying to release independently.

He works the midshift, specifically between 11am and 11pm, mostly so he can get off of work in time to go play midnight gigs at local clubs when he gets the chance.

[stixnbonez]

@bratheon asked

“ Being overdressed is a myth made up by people who didn’t want you to have fun and be sexy. ” from lyonel.

A small grin spreads across the undertaker's face as he looks down at the body of the Knight he is cleaning in preparation for the funeral. He has prepared and dressed so many bodies now that the process is almost second nature to him, and he cleans the flesh of Ser Humfrey Beesbury as he converses with Lyonel as if he were baking bread or soling a shoe.

"Well, I am not certain that anything Beesbury here has to offer would make one overdressed, but you are more than welcome to take a look through his belongings before I dress him for his casket." There is a small smirk on his lips at the last word, an inward joke that only he understands, but it still brings him a bit of joy.

"I would have better to offer if I'd have been allowed to tend to the Hand's body... but you know how those dragons like to keep to their own."