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Name: Janus Michael Gwydaine
Age: 29 (looks closer to 20)
Paradigm: Displaced Changeling
Birthplace: Aberystwyth, Wales
Next of kin: Diamond Gwydaine (mother)
Likes: Poetry, finely tailored garments, lemon-poppyseed muffins, Schala
Zeal...
Dislikes: Rude people, milk, boredom, iron, turnips...
Description
Janus stands about 6', and is a little on the thin side of an average
build, although he'd prefer to be called 'svelte'... He has a fair
complexion, and angular but handsome features. Being a faerie, he
naturally has pointed ears. He has crystalline blue eyes, and light blue
hair, a little more than shoulder length. This, obviously, refers to his
fae seeming, which is manifesting very strongly in the Nexus... The only
time his mortal frame has been visible was during the magic blackout
that bridged TP's 3 and 4. His features look mostly the same in that
state, but his hair and eyes are brown, and he appears as a normal
human...
Profile
Janus is a changeling, that is to say, a faerie soul in a human body.
However, over the course of his time on Nas Unara, he has been shedding
the vestiges of his mortal life, and often finds it difficult to
remember the mundane aspects of his life back on Earth. His fae self
becomes more dominant each day that he is in the Nexus. Back on his home
world, this would have been a big problem, as changelings who grow too
far apart from the mortal world tend to be driven insane by their own
magical natures; but the magical paradigm of the world of Nas Unara
(henceforth N.U.) makes it seem *more* sane to be a mystical creature
than just an ordinary mortal...
Janus comes from the noble class of changelings, the Sidhe. As such, he
often worries about what people around him think of him. He is rather a
high-strung individual; like many Sidhe, he is ruled by emotion. When
his mortal and fae sides were more in tune, his personality was much
more stable, but since his arrival on N.U., he's become somewhat less
rational, although not a total nutbar. Daniel Graves' records list him
as being 'manic-depressive and prone to paranoid fantasies', but I'd say
that's a little harsh.
He tends to be quiet most of the time, thinking over whatever particular
problem he believes he has at the moment, or simply distracted by his
own imaginings. He is curious, but in a way that verges on suspicion.
Janus is a very private person, but he doesn't really have anything to
hide.
History (Short Short Version)
In the beginning, Janus was not a very well-balanced Changeling. He
wasn't as one-sidedly fae as as become in the NuRPG, but he was
definitely somewhat less than stable. However, as a Sidhe, and the son
of a powerful Countess, his eccentricities were generally tolerated by
those around him. However, that was all to change after the summer of
1996. Janus was sent as part of a Changeling delegation to the summer
Olympics in Atlanta, to revel in the glamourous energies generated by
the spirit of the games. It was there that he met Debbie Woodrow, a
changeling girl of a commoner kith. He became quite infatuated with her,
but never revealed his feelings, fearing the social repercussions that
involvement with a commoner would surely bring. He returned home alone,
but could not stop thinking about Debbie... So began the downward
spiral. Secluded in his freehold, cut off completely from the mortal
world, he obsessed about her constantly. He wrote poem after poem
dedicated to her beauty and virtue; and as Bedlam set in, she was
transformed from a charming little common girl to an exotic lady of
perfect purity and matchless radiance, whose coyly smiling countenance
vexed him even in dreams. He became convinced that she was secretly
testing him, and that if he somehow proved his worth, she would reveal
herself at last. A year passed in this fashion before, by sheer
coincidence, Debbie and Janus ran into one another at a Court in eastern
Canada. He, believing this was his long-awaited sign, was happily
prepared to whisk her off to England, where they would live happily ever
after. Debbie, of course, remembered him as no more than an acquaintance
she'd made back in Atlanta, someone she really hardly knew at all. Not
only that, but in the time since she'd last seen Janus, she'd gotten
together with an old friend of hers, and the two were expecting twins!
She had no idea of the role she was supposed to play.
Janus left feeling indignant, hurt and betrayed. He imagined that the
pooka had deliberately tricked him; that she and her beau had played him
for a fool. He diverted his energies wholly towards sorcery, researching
darker Arts; perhaps for diversion, perhaps for revenge... His madness
took on a darker bent, and his peers soon began to realize just how far
into Bedlam he had slipped. For his own good, Duke Oliver, the ruling
lord of the area, had Janus sent away from the court, to live outside of
changeling society. This exile would force him to live in the mortal
world, and hopefully help him to find a balance between his human and
fae sides.
Janus found himself on the other side of an ocean, cut off from everyone
and everything he'd ever known... but eventually it did prove to be for
the best. He went back to school and finished a degree in law, and
mostly forgot about Debbie. His personality returned to a more or less
normal state, and he was able to find a sort of equilibrium between
humanity and the Dreaming, as an agent in the FBI, investigating cases
of unexplained phenomena. It was because of one of those cases that he
ended up being sucked into the Nexus.
Since then, he has, at various times, travelled with Crono, Jan Urmen,
Mykil, Sena, and Renin, along with another Changeling girl who has as
yet remained nameless. Most recently he's been with Schala Zeal. The two
were last seen serving aboard a pirate ship in Daniel Graves Chapter
5...
Abilities
Janus owns a pretty impressive weapon which he hardly ever uses. It's a
rather ornate scythe, which was left to him by his late father. It is
imbued with the power of a lightning elemental, and can call down bolts
of electricity when wielded in battle. Other than that, his offensive
capabilities are pretty limited. He finds brawling distasteful, and
isn't very good at it. He is, however, rather skilled in changeling
magical Arts, although he cannot remember many of the powerful spells he
researched while in Bedlam.... (yet?) He is capable of flight, moving at
superhuman speeds for short periods of time, flying anime leaps, walking
through walls, teleportation to any location to which he has been, or of
which he holds some artifact. He also possesses the Mystical Power to
Cloud Men's Minds. In addition, his birthright as a noble faerie grants
him everlasting poise... No magical/supernatural effect which would make
a Sidhe look silly is ever effective. And lastly, if roused to anger, a
Sidhe projects a sort of aura of fear, which compels people to do what
they want in order to calm them down...
That's it.
Now, I know that Janus and I are a bit behind, but I'm hoping that the
magic of Travel Time will eventually catch us up. Also, we haven't
worked together in quite some time, so we're bound to be a bit rusty....
practice makes perfect! </cliché> A chapter will follow as soon as it's
proof-read by the Lanstress.
wh
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Love is a fire
it burns everyone
it disfigures everyone
it is the world's excuse
for being ugly
LC
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