timothée picard is a delta mutant with the ability of self resurrection. they’ve been in new york for three years where they spend most of their time as a student at xavier's & clerk at give n' take. when i think of them, i think of stacks of half finished drawings, annotated first edition novels, and long black trench coats. they are affiliated with the xavier institute.
character inspo — vax (critical role), kane montgomery (reverie), oliver blackwood (boyfriend material), lila bard (a darker shade of magic)
Content Warning: death, war, guns, claustrophobia
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BASICS
Name: Timothée Alluard Picard
Nickname(s): Moth, Picard, anything but Tim
DOB: 26 June 1851
Age: 23/137
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Sexuality: Homosexual
Traits: ( + ) Disciplined, Organized, Practical, Wise ( - ) Dry, Private, Solemn, Morbid, French
Occupation: Assistant Mortician
Family: Arthur Alluard (Father) — Deceased, Odette Alluard (Mother) — Deceased
APPEARANCE
Height: 5′8″
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brown
Ethnicity: White
Nationality: Ethnicity
Aesthetic: https://www.pinterest.com/vexishere/character-timoth%C3%A9e/
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None
BIOGRAPHY
I — 1851 to 1870.
Arthur and Odette Alluard gave birth to their one and only son in the middle of Paris, France in 1852. The family was relatively wealthy given that at the time Arthur owned his shop and his mother was a popular dress designer and tailor. The boy was named after his father. Arthur was different from the moment that he was gone. He didn’t have many worries. As a child, he mostly stayed home and read books. Neither of his parents thought anything bad of it. Eventually he’d take over his father’s business. Arthur barely paid attention to the world around him, a book in his hand. People called him soft, they whispered about him behind his backs, wondered when his parents would have a child who was more serious. But the Alluards loved their child and didn’t care if his head was in the clouds most of the time.
Education was very important to the Alluard family and they wanted their boy to have a good education. Arthur had always wanted to become a writer. His parents let him write books in journals and on scrap paper. One day he’d write a book that would be in every household. He was a brilliant student though not the best. Arthur was slated to attend a university and be on his way to becoming the author he always dreamed he would be.
But then Napoleon III declared war and Arthur was sent off to war. Books though, they might mention war, but they never prepared him for the carnage that was the battlefield. He was smart enough to stay away from a lot of the danger for a while at least. Arthur was young enough to just be the aide to a general at first. The Germans invaded Paris. Then he was sent on the front lines. So many people had died and Arthur knew it was his time as well. He’d die defending his country, like so many other people.
Thankfully, Arthur doesn’t remember how it happened. The last few memories of his life were of loud and bloody. The bullet hit him in the front. He was killed in battle.
And then...
II — 1870-1916.
...he woke up.
Arthur does not know how many days later it was that he woke up, but there were dead bodies all around him and the scent of blood in the air. He didn’t know how he managed to wake up. It wasn’t possible. The dead didn’t wake up. No one else woke up. He’d been dead. Then he was suddenly awake. It wasn’t possible.
He was scared.
So he ran.
He forged some documents and ran.
He went south, stayed in France.
His name didn’t matter.
His identity didn’t matter.
He was given a second chance, but he didn’t know what to do with it. It had to be a fluke. He was sure of that. So he kept his head down and didn’t make waves in his second life. He lived his life to the fullest as much as he could, but the confusion of even having a second life was strange.
But he wouldn’t give up having a second life for anything.
Until there was another war.
He didn’t last long.
Two years.
Then he was dead again.
III. 1916-1962.
His third life was different. It took a long time for his body to regenerate. He woke up two years later in a coffin and it took a while for him to get out of it.
His third life was nothing special. He spent the majority of it living in the French countryside. He forged new papers and had a new identity. He fell in love. He fought in another war and this time didn’t die. But eventually he died, this time of natural causes at home, with the man he loved, Denis Picard, beside him.
IV. 1962-1994.
And so Timothée Alluard was born. Although it was weird using his last name again, it felt right for this life, this time.
With his fourth life, nothing interesting happened. Moth spent most of it travelling and seeing the world before he didn’t have an opportunity not to do that. He went all over the world.
Eventually, he came to America, hoping to see it before moving on. Except it was a tragic accident he was involved in that caused them to die a fourth time.
V. 1994-1998.
Timothée really loved cities, though was strange for him to be in America. It was dying again that made him reach out to Charles Xavier. He knew there were other people like him of course, but he never really did seek them out before because he had other things to do, other lives to live.
Although he has money over the years from living as long as he has, Timothée got bored doing nothing. He took a job at the bookstore and is a student at Xavier’s. Though they really don’t know what they want to do now that they’re on their fifth life.
When it comes to mutant business, he sides with Xavier. He’s seen enough battle and war that he doesn’t want to fight anymore. Not with mutants or non-mutants, but he also knows that he’d give up his life to make a new generation of mutants happy and safe. Right now he believes that both can exist in co-harmony if given the chance, so he’ll help with Institute business whenever he has a free moment. Timothée truly believes in the cause and doesn’t think the Brotherhood is right. He was appalled when the news about Essex House came out.
In his day to day life, Timothée tends to live to the fullest. He doesn’t take too many risks in life because he doesn’t know what life will be his last, but he believes there’s no point in wasting his mutation by living in fear. He is afraid to love again, so he does tend to shield himself from romantic relationships. Timothée would rather have a life worth living in case it’s his last, even if it means dying to make sure that his friends don’t die.
tldr;
Timothée Picard is a mutant with self resurrection who moved to America recently. He’s seen a lot in the last hundred and fifty years, some good and some bad. He doesn’t know how many lives he has left.