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[color=Gold][b]Name[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Gwyn Therwyn[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Gender[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Male[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Age[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]16 - born March 13th, 1898[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Sexuality[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Tsk...[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Race[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch, Edinburgh[/color]

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[color=Gold][b]Appearance[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Gwyn stands at 4'10" tall, and weighs 80lbs exactly. He has short, messy blonde hair and big, eager golden eyes that gleam with anticipation. Physically, he is lissom and trim and has skin as white as snow. His face is feminine and youthful in appearance, with full, puckered lips, pinchable cheeks and long, luscious eyelashes that he can bat completely by accident.

He wears the dress uniform, even in combat situations, with black bracers over the forearms. He dons a dull blue wool coat in cold weather.
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[color=Gold][b]Height[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]4'10"[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Personality[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Gwyn can best be described as a kind-hearted but quick-tempered boy. He has an easy smile and is always willing to crack a joke, even in the worst of situations. He's not the best spoken, and often sounds too casual for the situation, but he doesn't mean it. He has a strong sense of duty, forms friendships easily and is determined to finish any job he starts to the end.

Having said that, he's also very quick tempered. He doesn't suffer insults to him, his family or his men, and his tendency to put his foot in his mouth often draws him into conflict with his superiors. He's willing to risk his own life for his duty, but not the lives of his followers - this unwillingness to make a sacrifice in the name of a greater goal is most likely why, despite his pedigree, he wasn't given an officer's position. [/color]

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[color=Gold][b]Rank[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Private[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Role[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Sapper[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Equipment[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]SM-Longfield rifle and other standard sapper gear [/color]

[color=Gold][b]Potentials[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Gwyn comes from a long line of military men, mostly officers, who have served both locally in in foreign wars as expeditionary forces. This history weighs heavily on him, forcing him to do well to uphold the Therwyn name

Gwyn is willing to do anything for his country, including lay down his life. But in no circumstances will he allow men serving with or under him to give their lives in place of his. He would view anyone in his platoon who died as a personal failure.

Gwyn is an irreverent figure who cares little for pomp and ceremony, but nothing gets under his skin quite like an officer who sees his men as naught but expendable cogs in a machine.[/color]

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[color=Gold][b]Biography[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Gwyn was born to Captain Therwyn and his wife on the 1898. From a young age, Gwyn was groomed to be a military child, being put through rigorous training by his father since he could walk. Even at this young age, Gwyn showed real proficiency with the engineering aspect of service, constantly taking things apart and putting them back together.

The family was not a rich one, nor was it particularly caring. His mother often complained that Captain Therwyn would treat his son more like a recruit than a child, and would impose unnecessarily harsh restrictions on what the boy could and couldn't do. Any transgression was met with severe punishment, from beatings to starvation. This latter punishment lead to Gwyn being the scrawny little thing he is today.

His mother, however, was a sweet little woman and couldn't stand to see her son treated so brutally. Whilst she couldn't do anything about how harsh her husband was on their only son, she showed the boy nothing but kindness, and would tell him stories of great heroes and mighty battles to foster his imagination. She was delighted at his interest in engineering, and bragged about how her boy would grow up to be a great architect to her friends. But things changed when the mother fell pregnant with Gwyn's little sister.

The difference was immediate. The sister was never put through the ringer the same way he was. Captain Therwyn was to his daughter everything he failed to be to his son - a loving father, an understanding tutor and a good man. Gwyn couldn't understand why he was singled out for his father's cruelty. Had he done something wrong? Questioning his dad was unthinkable - he would almost certainly get battered for even daring. It got even worse when his second sister was born and Captain Therwyn again treated her with a kindness utterly absent froom his interactions with Gwyn. It couldn't be because they were girls - Gwyn had seen many women at military marches, and heard of great female heroes from his mother. Was it because he was the eldest? He saw no reason why that would change anything. A soldier was a soldier at any age, as his father often reminded him.

From what Gwyn could gleam, the decision to treat him with naked hostility and his sisters with kindness was entirely arbitrary. His father had taken one look at him and decided he was a soldier - he hadn't done the same for the girls. This sat at the back of his mind throughout his childhood, and soon confusion turned to anger. How dare he decide so early what direction Gwyn would take with his life?

Things took an interesting turn when Gwyn went to school. He found that the regimental lifestyle would earn him few friends with normal children; but on the sports field he quickly became a legend. He could outpace, outlast and outwrestle most of his peers, and his tactical studies meant he always knew exactly where to be and what to do on the football field. This was the crowd he fell in with, and was where he felt most at ease. When he was with them, he could be at ease. He was pushed to join the school football team, and when he did, he quickly assumed the role of captain. Suddenly, Gwyn had a new perspective. Just because he had to be regimented and drilled and dieted didn't mean he needed to be yelled at and berated. Not every failure was evident of a personal fault. He could make mistakes, if it meant he would learn from them.

With the parallels and differences between his fledgling football hobby and his military home life become clearer with each passing day, Gwyn came to resent his father's authority over him. He hated his arbitrary decisions. He hated his unnecessary punishments. And ultimately, he hated his father.

Things took a nasty turn on his 16th birthday. After school, his football mates took him out for a birthday treat with cake and ice-cream at the end. This meant he was late home.

His father didn't take this well at all.

Gwyn took the next few days off school for the bruises to fade. But this didn't make things any easier at home. When his father got home, he was put back out on the training course, and would be out there until the sun went down, until his muscles screamed for rest and his very bones ached with a dull throb. When they could, his mother and sisters would bring him food and water, and would let him rest if his father was out for whatever reason. Gwyn knew his enemies. Despite his envy of the girls, it wasn't their fault that he was mistreated, and he knew that. It was the officer, the father, who was doing wrong. And it was the officer who would suffer.

The captain was very proud of his uniform. He kept it in pristine condition, standing proud on a rack in the living room for all his guests to marvel over. Of course, the living room is a dangerous place to keep such a prize. Someone could spill tea on it, or it could get knocked over. And maybe, just maybe, a vengeful 16 year old could sneak into the living room one night and tear it to shreds with a knife...

Gwyn never got to see his father's reaction to such a thing, for he ran away from the home the very same night. He stayed at a friends house for a while, but at the outbreak of the war, he enlisted shortly after and went to do the thing he'd been raised from birth to do - fight and die for his country.[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Affiliations[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]The Therwyn family has been a long line of soldiers and officers for at least the past five hundred years - Gwyn is only the latest.[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Relationships[/b][/color]
[color=Silver]Currently knows none of the active characters[/color]

[color=Gold][b]Character Theme[/b][/color]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IaUXefAsCU[/youtube]

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