- ♔THE BASICS
- ▌Name ▬▬ calypso sytille
▌Alias ▬▬ count sytille, 'the greyhound'
▌Role ▬▬ the Friend
▌Age ▬▬ twenty-nine
▌Gender ▬▬ male
▌Race ▬▬ human
▌Orientation ▬▬ homosexual, bi-romantic
▌Allegiance ▬▬ atreus
▌Appearance ▬▬ composed, dark-eyed, & shady-looking. ashen.
▌Height ▬▬ six feet, two inches
▌Weight ▬▬ approximately two hundred pounds
▌Markings ▬▬ scarred hands and forearms, as well as missing the tip of his right pinkie. the price of mastering a difficult sword technique.
♔THE INTERESTS
- ▌Likes ▬▬ good tobacco, sparring, traveling, studying, atreus, talented people
▌Dislikes ▬▬ being analyzed, rusted equipment, flirtatious women, frostbite, insomnia
▌Hobbies ▬▬ people watching, collecting blackmail from other nobility
♔THE POWERS
- ▌Longsword ▬▬ double bladed, forty-eight inches long with a cruciform hilt. given to calypso as a gift from his family, he never cared to name it. a powerful weapon, known for cleaving lesser blades in twain.
▌Fighting Style ▬▬ calypso is smarter than the devil, and probably craftier too. fighting with a two-handed style requires 360 degree awareness of one's surroundings. he's certainly skilled in making use of the environment. the greyhound is completely ruthless, and will attack without scruples when not in the general proximity of atreus. he employs a fast-paced technique which involves heavy, cleaving blows or thrusts. due to the size of his montante, calypso shines when combating multiple melee opponents at once. he is weakest when saving face in front of his friends, or against long range attackers.
like atreus, calypso also studied magic in the arethusa college. he had no talent for conjuring or manipulating the elements, so instead ended up focusing on transmutation. altering what already exists is less taxing than other forms of spellwork. his capabilities are simple, but efficient.
▌Smokescreen ▬▬ this ability requires smoke or fog to already be present, whether from the remains of a fire or from his own cigarette. useful for a surprise attack or a speedy getaway.
▌Enhance Armor ▬▬ the reason calypso is able to get away with only medium weight armor, as opposed to fullplate, and maintain his fluidity of movement in combat. if taken by surprise, or drained of magic, the count would be much more vulnerable to damage.
▌Heavyweight ▬▬ unrelated to his magical abilities. due to his blade's size and two-handed nature, it is able to deal concussive damage to those otherwise protected by heavy armor. or those held aloft by, say, a horse's leg.
▌Bargaining ▬▬ an unsympathetic, calculative thinker. the count is a cutthroat negotiator and deal maker.
▌Diligence ▬▬ mastering the two handed style was a work of neither talent nor pedigree. it was the result of time, sweat, and many missed opportunities for friends and lovers.
▌Nose for Trouble ▬▬ you could not find a more untrusting, or suspicious individual. the greyhound's knack for sniffing out unsavory individuals or brewing tribulations is unparalleled.
▌Finance ▬▬ calypso possesses a mind suitable for crunching numbers and economic variables.
♔THE PERSONAL
- ▌Pessimistic ▬▬ utterly faithless in the world and in those who inhabit it. he calls it thinking 'realistically', but his vision of the future is bleak, to say the least. it is a daily struggle of calypso's to deal with the weight of his own negativity.
▌Wanting ▬▬ recently, it has come to calypso's attention that all the time invested in his skill and craft has left him rather... alone. he yearns for a family. it is markedly easy for an attractive man or a kindhearted woman to make him weak in the knees.
▌Impudent ▬▬ the count is one saucy, irreverent bastard. there is nothing he loves more than to tease or otherwise give friends and foes alike a hard time. he possesses a deep appreciation sarcasm, jokes, quick wit, and banter.
▌Crafty ▬▬ calypso is loyal like a dog, but he'll just as easily lie like one too. he's not opposed to cheating or other dirty tactics required to get what he wants, from bluffing to backstabbing. he pretends he is much more honorable than he actually is when with atreus, or executing royal duties.
▌History ▬▬ calypso sytille's family was cold in the way that enterprising nobility often are. although two older siblings came before him, they were the work of his father's mistress and thusly illegitimate. as his mother's firstborn, the title of 'count' sat upon his shoulders as soon as he was born. although the blood of sytille ran deep with pedigree, calypso's parents were concerned with the rising influence of the 'new money'; a class of lesser aristocracy who acquired lands through wealth or favors. seeking to strengthen their ties with the royal family, their household began making regular appearances in court.
although calypso met (and was even encouraged to befriend) atreus at a very young age, nothing more than boyish amicability would come from it until much later.
like most nobility, calypso had been schooled in both martial and scholarly arts nearly his entire life. when war erupted, he possessed both the age and training required to be sent off alongside his father. calypso fought for three years, and it changed him. it was on that battlefield that he lost his father, and where he forged a bond with atreus which ran thicker than blood or love of country.
calypso considered, and still considers, the prince to be his greatest comrade and ally. over the years he threw himself into his sword, lands, and political dalliances with other nobility... but it was no secret that the greyhound was the most dedicated of atreus' royal guard. calypso would follow his friend through hell and hellfire.
after the events of the king's assassination, he made a political cover for himself, and traveled with atreus' lover to seek out the outlawed prince. although calypso didn't believe atreus capable of murdering his father, he wouldn't have responded differently either way.
♔PLOT WISHLIST
- ▌▬▬ -calypso will blame himself for trusting the betrayer, and bringing him to atreus. it will be ugly.
-if atreus is a magnet for the ladies, then calypso is the scariest mother in law of the century.
-it's possible that calypso's influence and secret-trading with other nobility will help their party back into the castle. that is, if they don't excommunicate him first.