[COLOR=SLATEGRAY][CENTER][sup][h1][center][img]https://img.championat.com/news/big/y/s/alan-wake-2-samaya-masshtabnaya-i-ambicioznaya-igra-v-istorii-remedy_16752742671565333016.jpg[/img][/center][b][center][color=black] H E M L O C K E  F R E Y[/color]
[color=lightgray]H E M L O C K E  F R E Y[/color][/center]
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[color=silver][sup][i]"Here, there, and everywhere."[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
[color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270596687540518915/1104560434415140914/FQE31U2X0AABOg8.jpg[/img]
[sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   S U M M A R Y[/color]
[color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R   S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Hemlocke Valentine Frey[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]November 11[sup]th[/sup], 1811[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]212[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Caucasian[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Single[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]♀[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Heterosexual[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]New Orleans[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Louisiana[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]USA[/COLOR][/sub][/center]
[indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P H Y S I C A L   P R O F I L E[/color]
[color=lightgray]P H Y S I C A L   P R O F I L E[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   P H Y S I C A L   T R A I T S[/color][/b][/sub]
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	[COLOR=darkgray][COLOR=lightgray]◼   [b]B U I L D[/b]   ||[/COLOR]   [i]Lean[/i]
	[COLOR=lightgray]◼   [b]H A I R   C O L O U R[/b]   ||[/COLOR]   [i]Black[/i]
	[COLOR=lightgray]◼   [b]E Y E   C O L O U R[/b]   ||[/COLOR]   [i]Black[/i]
	[COLOR=lightgray]◼   [b]H E I G H T[/b]   ||[/COLOR]  [i] 6'-1"[/i]
	[COLOR=lightgray]◼   [b]W E I G H T[/b]   ||[/COLOR]   [i]176 lbs[/i]
	[COLOR=lightgray]◼   [b]S K I N   T O N E[/b]   ||[/COLOR]   [i]Caucasian[/i][/COLOR][/SUP]
[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   M O T I V A T I O N S   &   G O A L S[/color]
[color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R   M O T I V A T I O N S   &   G O A L S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   M O T I V A T I O N S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Haunted by his connection to Limbo, Hemlocke drifts around the country, desperately trying to silence the constant noise of the departed, but simultaneously driven immutably to assist the restless dead and bring them peace. Unsure what would happen to him upon death - if he [i]can[/i] die - he is determined to define himself as a Good Man, and his life as one lived in the service of a noble pursuit, in hopes that when he eventually passes on, he won't be trapped in Limbo like so many others he's seen throughout his journey.[/color][/sup]
[sub][b][color=lightgray]   G O A L S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Hemlocke seeks three things, and his travels are only ever in service of one of these ends: healing his mortality, that he might find peace from his affliction; finding his parents in Limbo, that he might finally put them to rest; and hunting his parents' killer, the Jäger responsible for their deaths and Hemlocke's condition, that he might enact final revenge. Throughout his life, from childhood and beyond, he has only ever focused himself on these aims; despite this concerted and ceaseless effort, he has yet to achieve any of them.[/color][/sup]
[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   N O T E S[/color]
[color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R   N O T E S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   M I S C E L L A N E O U S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]►[/b][/color] Has a healthy amount of 'old wealth' from his foster-family due to their own ancient and magical nature, but is something of a drifter, existing on the fringes of society and never holding a singular residence or staying in a singular city for too long. He's well-versed at grifting, grafting, and general skulduggery to survive, but maintains a personable, affable (if morose) exterior so that he's never [i]too[/i] far from a hot meal, a cold bottle, and a warm bed.[/color][/sup]
[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/hider][/INDENT][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   S Y N O P S I S[/color]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Hemlocke, even before the incident that would come to define his life, was something of an unusual child by the circumstances of his birth; first child to a notorious and long-lived Hexenbrut couple, he was born decidedly [i]non[/i]-magical, despite the arcane blood coursing through his veins; this would have fine to both parents, had either had the proper opportunity to discover this as he grew. However, the warring factions of the magical underworld were catching up with them, and after only a single year of life, hard-won domestic peace was shattered for Hemlocke's family.

A Jäger had hunted them down, coming to the end of a long-fought chase after Hemlocke's parents for some bygone and forgotten sin; the family was ill-prepared for such a foe, and all three were struck down swiftly by the Jäger's Spirit Sword, cast from the mortal plane and banished back to Limbo, the spirit world threaded beneath ours. Hemlocke's parents, Hexenbrut true and thoroughly, were scattered across Limbo utterly, never to return; but Hemlocke, young and lively and of Hexenbrut blood but not Hexenbrut nature, was simply a baby on the ashen floors of Limbo, an unwanted beacon of warmth and life that Limbo rejected by its very essence. And so, Limbo began to do what it did to all living mortal things that found their unfortunate way into its bosom - it began to eat.

Time and space have an unusual relationship with Limbo, and while the infant Hemlocke spent days in Limbo, his life essence siphoned off a little more every hour, it was mere minutes on the mortal plane before the reverberations of the Jäger's wrath were felt across the fabric of magic, Magni everywhere feeling the ripples of the banishment. Across the country, Draoi and Hellions alike were drawn to the tear between planes, dipping their hands into the fray and gorging on the magic that held it open; it was only a handful of hours before a particularly brazen Draoi reached into the heart of the rip and found Hemlocke on the other side, pulling him out - a baby boy, now quite literally half-dead.

The Draoi, one of a clan, took well to his newfound charge. Not only was Hemlocke a unique child, full of potential and an unwitting keeper of many secrets - secrets Draoi are drawn to by nature - but he was intelligent, quick-witted, a fast learner and in possession of unique qualities. His parents never identified, the clan adopted him as their own, and raised the child with curiosity and a welcoming arm. As Hemlocke grew, he learned to wield his abilities, and began to dip back into Limbo in early expeditions for his parents, or clues about the Jäger that had banished them. 

Eventually, these expeditions grew perilous, for both Hemlocke and his Draoi family; not only did Limbo continue to reject the living half of Hemlocke, seeking to claim him completely on every new journey into its depths, but his voyages left behind shredded threads of the veil between Earth and Limbo, and these holes began to attract Hellions and Magni of all variety and disposition, and soon enough his family grew tired of the constant need for movement, relocation, and fending off of foes who felt bold enough to assault a full clan of Draoi. Adolescent but wise beyond his years, and well-versed with the world and its rivers, Hemlocke did the only thing he could do; he bid heavy farewells to his found-family, and continued his odyssey alone.

Over a century later, Hemlocke - 'Locke', to those who ask - has witnessed every aspect of the human condition and trekked across the entirety of the western continent, through cities and wildland, across war-torn trenches and country borders, forging his way through life, putting to rest those loudest of the restless dead, and ever-seeking his parents and the near-mythical Jäger that rent them from the life they had worked so hard to put together. Still yearning for closure on his lost-life in any regard, he makes a living drifting through the lives of others, selling their secrets back to them, and moving on before the world - catching up and ever-changing - has a chance to label him as something he either is or isn't, and do him harm accordingly.[/indent][/COLOR]
[INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] A B I L I T I E S,   L I M I T A T I O N S,   &   W E A K N E S S E S[/color]
[color=lightgray]A B I L I T I E S,   L I M I T A T I O N S,   &   W E A K N E S S E S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT][sub][b][color=lightgray]   S U P E R N A T U R A L   A B I L I T Y   ||    SPIRIT WALKER[/color][/b][/sub]

[INDENT]Thanks to Hemlocke's inadvertent foray into Limbo as a mere babe, his souls have been forever tainted by unnatural death, the result of a living, non-native being having their raw mortality eroded by a realm it did not belong in. He came out quite literally half-dead, and due to the portion of him that was claimed by Limbo during his stay as an infant, he exists in the planes of the living and the dead simultaneously, belonging in neither, prevailing in both. 

Because of this, he acts as something of a medium, inconsistently able to hear and converse with the dead who have yet to pass on, though often this is dependent on the volume of the spirit itself; those with serious trauma or heavy unfinished business are louder and wilder than those who are merely meek or unwilling to pass on. 

Hemlocke can also deep-dive into Limbo completely, able to use its peculiar nature with time to travel across the mortal plane with leaps and bounds in mere seconds, as well as forge a direct connection to spirits, hellions, and Hexenbrut that reside there, far stronger and clearer than what he can hear on the living side of the veil.

Finally, his particular nature has given way to a natural talent for exorcism, as he exists as something of a walking bridge between Earth and Limbo; he has been able to 'help', with varying amounts of willingness from the traveling party, many a being cross from life to death to be returned where they belonged. Hemlocke has theorized that the return journey may very well be possible - but he is uncertain if it can be done, and even less confident that it [i]should[/i] be done.[/indent]
[sub][b][color=lightgray]   L I M I T A T I O N S   ||    T B D[/color][/b][/sub]

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[sub][b][color=lightgray]   W E A K N E S S E S   ||    T B D[/color][/b][/sub]

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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT][sub][b][color=lightgray]   G I V E N   N A M E   S U R N A M E[/color][/b][/sub]

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