Apocalypse How App

[dangerousmind]

→ PLAYER INFO

Name: Kai
Age: 20+
Contact: ectoplasmfear#9086 on discord, ectoplasmfear
Character(s) in game: N/A
Permissions: Here

→ CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: Aelwyn Abernant
Age: 20
Canon: Dimension 20: Fantasy High
Canon point: Immediately after entering the Nightmare King's forest.
History: Here.
Personality:
Intelligent. Aelwyn is, in her words and in the words of nearly everyone around her, a genius. At age 18 she was at the top of her class at Hudol, a school for arcane prodigies to begin with, but her actual intelligence is better showcased by her extra-curricular activities, notably her work for the conspiracy in 1. Killing one of the most powerful wizards of the past millenia by designing her own spell that would allow her to sink a ship with just a scrap of wood from it's hull. 2. Manipulating her sister into unknowingly following their plan 3. Getting caught intentionally and then placing a trap within her own mind so that she could retroactively erase all her memories to a certain point. The way she uses her talents is debatable but she is extremely talented.

Callous. Aelwyn has changed in a lot of ways over her time in Gloucester, but this still sticks around. She sorts people in her head based on how important they are to her or to her sister, so her compassion for strangers is practically nonexistent. When confronted on participating in the kidnapping and forced confinement of seven teenaged girls, some of which were trapped for over a year, her reaction is to simply shrug and say "Well, they were alive in the end, weren't they?" She's deeply selfish and she doesn't really see it as the flaw everyone else seems to.

Cowardly. Aelwyn's outward confidence and unshakable smug demeanor is ultimately a cover for her deep fear and self loathing. She's worried if she lets down her guard at any second, the people around her will use it as an opportunity to hurt her. She keeps her head down and lets tyranny and abuse happen out of fear that it'll reach her too. She's gotten better at this, a little, since Adaine quite literally crawled inside her mindscape and saw the deep insecurity and fear, and that Aelwyn did genuinely love her despite everything and isn't as heartless as she can appear. Adaine, in turn, eventually reached her by telling her that she doesn't have to put on a front or cover her flaws to earn her love, and that she loves her too despite the horrible things she's done. But before that, the family structure involved their parents giving Aelwyn anything she could want and more (besides genuine unconditional affection or relief from the overwhelming pressure they put on her) while sneering at Adaine for daring to ask. She was afraid that if she spoke up in Adaine's defence, the roles would be reversed, and she would be the scapegoat instead.

Ambitious. This is something that's grown almost entirely over the course of her time here at Gloucester, rather than something she had to begin with. She wants to make peace with herself and the awful things she's done, and the only way she can think to do that lies in the extremes, of becoming so powerful that she can do some grand act of good like destroying the entities entirely and undoing all the pain she's caused. As a wizard from a wizard family that measured her self worth at how good she is at being a wizard, being constantly told to be anything other than herself has set a fire within her to stubbornly prove them wrong in the most extreme ways possible.
Suitability: Aelwyn already works here!

Powers/Abilities: Aelwyn is a level 14 abjuration wizard, and also will be arriving back as a full Avatar of the Desolation. This means she has access to a number of classic DND spells like magic missile, shield, polymorph, teleport etc, but as they're all influenced by the Desolation, every single one of them is tinged with fire and fueled by pain. She regains her "spell slots" by inflicting agony on other people/creatures rather than resting. She has a constant invisible barrier preventing any physical attacks to get at her that's been upgraded so that it never goes down unless it's broken, and that any pain inflicted will be reversed onto the attacker tenfold.
Entity Affinity: The Desolation. Over time she's become more and more affiliated with the Desolation, with some influence from The Eye. She's a sadistic bully who enjoys inflicting shame and humiliation and craves power over others to prevent herself from being harmed.

Inventory: She will be arriving with the cursed book she obtained after the circus playerplot, her handgun, her cigarette lighter, and not much else.

Samples: TDM toplevel
Text post from when she was in the game