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Name: k2
Age: old
Contact: look deep within your heart
Other Characters: Luwenna Coupe, Melys, Casimir Lyov
Interests: "maybe this time i won't play a complete tool", & also the others are pretty set along their paths already, i'm interested to try someone a little more malleable who's yet to figure themselves out.





Name: Finch Wicker
Canon/OC: OC (Adopted from Roster & Discussed w/Liz)
Journal: justnice
Race: Elf
Nationality: Marcher (Ansburg)
Occupation: Farmhand
Division: Diplomacy (Servant staff)
Mage or Not: Nope
Age: 18


History

• Middle child from a family of farmworkers outside Ansburg.
• They've been there about as long as anyone can remember, with occasional moves into the city proper... and back out again.
• Spends most of his life handling livestock, assisting construction, bringing in crops, and running around like an idiot. It's hard work, but it's relatively safe, and a lot better than the stories he hears about city life.
• The local Hahren arranges his engagement to Fern Doirnáin, the daughter of family friends on a neighbouring farm.
• Fern takes off in the middle of the night without telling anyone.
• Wellp.
• Family & friends spend the next few months searching the local area, but without leads or resources, there's only so much they can do.
• When a letter arrives from Kirkwall, saying that Fern picked up some kind of Fade Shard, Finch volunteers to go. It seems like the right thing to do.

Personality

Finch is most often described as 'nice'. Sort of like a flowerpot, or the weather in a boring conversation.

He is — nice, not a flowerpot — and reliable, and rarely demanding. Finch has always been told to work hard and strive for kindness, and he genuinely believes in the importance of doing so. It's also acted as a survival mechanism: If you don't ask attention, that attention can't be malicious.

In theory.

Not asserting himself hasn't been a shield from harm, and the trouble with going and getting along is that people come to expect it from you. He doesn't enjoy being so easily-dismissed, or seen as dull by the people around him; he struggles to align the desire for acknowledgment with a sense of moral duty, and an awareness of the dangerous position that elves occupy. He's seen how hard his family work to maintain their life, and has seen what happens when others risk that.

Finch is both cleverer and warier than he often comes off. He doesn't believe in pressing an advantage to make someone feel small, and tries to give people the benefit of the doubt — the result is someone who looks a touch more gullible than truth. It's not that he doesn't expect someone to be full of shit, it's that they deserve the chance to prove him wrong about it.

He's more likely to extend this to elves than he is others, and accordingly, to be more hurt when that's taken advantage of. The People are his community, in a very direct way. His insulation from the politics of the cities means he finds the idea of far-off elven rebellions mildly absurd, but other elves having his back is very important to him, and he tries to do the same. 

At the end of the day, Finch is still a teenage boy, and a frustrated one. His patience runs out, he isn't great at reading a room, and good intentions don't keep him from sticking his foot in his mouth. His persistent optimism still has adolescent moods to tangle with, and he's prone to sulking when he feels he's been done wrong.

It'd be easy to accuse Finch of coasting through life. It's not that he doesn't put the effort in, just that he hasn't looked (or had to look) much beyond his immediate responsibilities. His concept of the future has been laid out on a stable track to this point, one largely planned by others. There have been no reasons to consider alternatives.



Opinions & Affiliations

Humans -

Though his unpleasant experiences have rarely been violent, they've happened. Most of them are defined by his awareness of how much worse things could have gone for him.

He tries to be friendly with humans, without investing himself (to lacking success). They're a fact of life, and some are friends — but none of them are family. He's both affable, and cautiously prepared for betrayal.


Dwarves & Qunari - 

Huh?


The Chantry -

Vaguely Andrastian. It's always been around him as background noise, but he has no investment or education in theology: Elves might be inherently more sinful, or that could just be his grandmother being devoutly herself, who knows. 


Mages & Templars -

Until the war, mages were a distant idea. Now they're a frightening one — but then again, so are large armored humans. He's never met either (he thinks).


The Dalish -

Kids' stories. Living in the woods eating babies doesn't sound very responsible.


Wardens -

Kids' stories that then come knocking with refugees in tow. Respects them, if not as much as the ex-Fereldens in his community do. Kinda unnerved at how many of them seem to be criminals and murderers.


Geopolitics -

The Tevinter Imperium is the root of all things evil, except for the stuff Orlais came up with. Ansburg is the greatest state in the Free Marches, because reasons. Ferelden is probably all Blight now. What's Nevarra?



Strengths & Weaknesses

- UNEDUCATED

Can't read, only speaks Trade. Good with basic math; if he ever studied more complex equations, he'd find they came easily to him.


+ FIXER-UPPER

Skilled in fixing things, keeping livestock, and tending grounds. Good eye for construction. Familiar with basic Thedosian herblore, and can tell you how to grow things like potatoes as well.


- NON-COMBATANT

He can throw a punch, or wrestle with buddies, and that's really about it. As menacingly as he tries to brandish that pitchfork, he has no clue what to do with it.


+ CAN-DO ATTITUDE

Finch is tenacious and tries hard. He's got Potential. That's... something.


Inventory

• The clothes on his back
• A pitchfork
• A blanket
• A pack that by now is pretty fuckin empty

Motivation

Finch is here to bring Fern home, and prove that he's exciting enough to marry. 

When it becomes clear neither of these things is going to happen, he'll stay anyway. They're basically family, and someone should stick around to make sure she's alright.

... And he's not keen to get home and be poor dumb Finch who was run out on, again.

(Maybe he'll figure out what he's doing with his life while he's here.)

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