Full Name: Dekjhen Weir, Alijas, Declan River, Jay Pond... Thackery Lake...
Gender and Sexuality: male, bi
Pronouns: he/him
Ethnicity/Species: human (for real this time)
Birthplace and Birthdate: Somewhere in Blaire, thirty years ago.
Guilty Pleasures: Putting bitter almonds in everything that he cooks for people, just to give the more astute ones the brief fear that they’re being poisoned with cyanide. Good to keep one’s friends on their toes. Also putting spiders in unexpected places for Amusement.
Phobias: None in particular.
What They Would Be Famous For: Brewing excellent poisons, raising several million spiders on a farm somewhere and being forever known as “That Guy with the Spiders”, hopefully having some part in ending a war. He’s a bit famous in his childhood hometown for having been abducted, replaced, and possibly eaten by a changeling - but that’s not actually how things went down.
What They Would Get Arrested For: Being a triple agent (he never was - he was framed). Being a double agent (that one’s true). Multiple counts of murder. Freeing slaves.
OC You Ship Them With: His childhood friend, Bentley, whom he hasn’t seen in almost two decades but still remembers affectionately.
OC Most Likely To Murder Them: Possibly the people responsible for getting him out of that whole framed-as-a-triple-agent debacle. He owes them quite a bit.
Favorite Movie/Book Genre: Foreign language textbooks.
Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: When there isn’t a happy ending.
Talents and/or Powers: Brews poisonous things, including good alcohol and better arsenic cocktails. Speaks a fuckton of languages.
Why Someone Might Love Them: He isn’t quick to warm up to people, but as long as he and they have mutual interests, he is a useful acquaintance to have. He has a personal vendetta against slave owners in particular, and will go out of his way to protect the wellbeing of anyone being forced to work against their will.
Why Someone Might Hate Them: He has no sense of loyalty to individual people, only to causes, and those are liable to change (recall the double agent debacle). He’s not above backstabbing his closest friends to achieve his goals. He’s frankly terrible with kids.
How They Change: He doesn’t call any particular place or people his home, and is no longer entirely certain of who he is thanks to a certain conflict of loyalties and also some issues with names and magically binding deals. He’s in the middle of an identity crisis at the moment. Over time, I hope he’ll figure that out, and finally achieve freedom, and maybe - maybe - learn to trust people.
Why You Love Them: I didn’t, at first, and I couldn’t figure out why. But now that issue has been fixed, and I love him for his paranoid nature and his poor life choices and his fuckton of spiders.