Cody Brown

Cody was kidnapped by a renegade fae noble who made him her squire and used his soul to house a mystic sword. Having run from that life, he's trying to find balance and live a human life, hiding out from her.

Personality

Cody is reserved and cool. He's friendly on the surface, urbane and obviously used to dealing with situations where he needs to be sociable, because the Fae love their protocol and etiquette, but there is a certain level of self-control and self-containment that he has a hard time getting past. He has a sense of honor and duty built from a twisted pseudo-Medieval upbringing that is slightly out of place with modern/human society, but he's also good at keeping things to himself.

Background

Cody was born in 1984 to middle class parents who lived in Vermont. He was a happy, well-loved and thoroughly average kid who went missing on December 21, 1990 and was presumed dead after several years. Given that his parents woke in the early hours of the morning to find the front door open during a raging blizzard, it was presumed that for some reason, their son wandered out into the night and was lost. Massive search parties were called once the blizzard cleared, but a body was never found. Tragic, but just another face on a wall of missing person flyers in the local police station, with both the notice and the memory of the boy himself fading over time.

SKILLS

Athletics - Competent Level

From tumbling to horseback riding to fitness drills, Cody has been training to keep himself in literal fighting shape most of his life.

Combat - Expert Level

As a squire to a militant lady of the Fae, Cody has been trained to fight and in tactics and strategy. He can fight with a skill that most humans can't match, having paid for those lessons in pain and blood. His skills include integrating fae-gained powers with melee and missile combat, but he has no skills with modern weapons like firearms.

Etiquette - Competent Level

Raised among the fae, Cody has a strong sense of politeness, personal etiquette and the courtly conversations of the fae. He's good at smiling an empty smile and promising nothing while saying pretty things.

Fae Lore - Novice Level

Though he spent years among the fae and has more knowledge than most humans, his upbringing was twisted by a childhood in a renegade, exiled 'court'. Sometimes his perceptions of the fae are through a dark lens.

Intrigue - Competent Level

Raised among the fae, court intrigue, politics and maneuvering are second nature to Cody. His deceptively innocent expression hides the mind of an Elizabethan courtier.

ABILITIES

Magic: Agility - Enhanced Level

With his body enhanced by fae magics, Cody is far quicker, more agile and flexible than baseline humans. He doesn't have a typical fae knight's strength, but his speed with a blade or his hands is every bit their equal.

Magic: Cold-Hearted Warrior - Enhanced Level

Cody has access to martial fae magic from his time with Lament and thanks to having a faerie artifact buried in his soul. He can combine cold and ice effects with hand to hand or missile combat to form an athletic, acrobatic fighting style that involves using ice weapons or bursts of liquid nitrogen level cold from his hands, delivered by touch. He can cause severe frostbite to a small area of a person's body with a touch or grab, but he can't hold onto somebody while channeling that energy and anything more than a second or two at time of focusing that power is progressively draining. For instance, he could freeze a steel door to the point of being able to shatter it, but it would leave him drained and shaking.

Magic: Constitution - Enhanced Level

Cody has been altered to be functionally immortal and unaging, perhaps thanks to having a fae artifact jammed into his soul. He heals at an inhumanly quick rate, rarely runs out of stamina and can endure elements from arctic to death valley levels without discomfort. He doesn't have full-on regeneration, but can bounce back from something like a broken bone in days, rather than weeks or months.

Magic: Fae Magic - Basic Level

Cody has minor magic with a theme of winter and cold. That includes glamour and self-healing and communication, as well as other small effects. All of them have some element of cold and winter to them. For instance, to talk to a distant friend, Cody might cause a film of hoarfrost to form over a glass or metal surface so it acts like a mirror, projecting his image to others and seeing and hearing theirs in return. Or if he creates an illusion of something, when discovered or dismissed, it 'pops' into a swirl of cold air and snowflakes.

Magic: The Sight - Enhanced Level

Cody has been granted both heightened senses and a kind of mystic or psychic sense by his time with the fae. His senses are close to those of a werewolf or vampire, with the ability to see, hear and smell things outside of human perception and at greater distances than unaltered humans. This includes night vision. He also has a 'sixth sense' that lets him feel magic and supernatural beings, but doesn't act as an automatic font of knowledge. He might know a werewolf seems to be magic and very vital and wild, but doesn't say 'werewolf!' right off the bat, for example.

WEAKNESSES

Lady Lament

Lady Lament is an outcast of the Winter Court who makes her home among the Mists between Earth and Faerie. She kept Cody against his will for many years, using his very soul to store a powerful magical item, until he was able to temporarily incapacitate her and escape. While Lady Lament is an outcast and has no support from the Winter Queen or the rest of the fae courts, she has a number of vassals and attendants bound to her who dwell in her realm between realms, and she now has a very potent grudge against Cody. On some level, he knows Lady Lament will come for him, some day, and that she will seek to visit terrible revenge upon him.

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