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The Story


You have been enrolled into the Hermes Powder Academy, but under strange circumstances. You didn't apply, nor were even interested in enrolling, and the day you were enrolled was a rather strange day to say the least. Everyone is acting weird, even your pet dog or cat... or really any other pet you have (you can even have a pet tiger if you ask nicely)... You find out that students, including you, are supposed to go through challenges called the Eternal Moon, which are six challenges the students go through every three months in their year, and these challenges can often be life-threatening.

Where the story takes place: 1800's/Victorian era.

Student requirements: Between 10-20 years old. Black ties, blouse, knee-high skirts for females, white ties, collared shirts and dress pants for males, and optional for genderfluid/non-binary children but it MUST meet school dress code.

Location: Sheffield, England (though some challenges of the Eternal Moon require you to be out of Sheffield, with places such as London, Nottingham, etc.)

Rules:
General Guild Rules, refer to here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/163267-fun…
Romance and violence will be allowed, only by GM's approval, and if things get heavy, either go to PMs or "fade to black", since no one else consented to seeing such things.
Inactivity for three weeks will get you kicked out, and I will message you to tell you.
Post at least one at a time, since I do not want "IC" and "OOC" to be flooded with messages/stories for characters/
Faceclaims and art is optional, but no AI! I need people to *actually* be creative.
And most of all, have fun!


Enjoy your stay!

 The Bronze Baron
The Bronze Baron

"I'll have you know, I happen to be amazing at.... well...."
 C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T
C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T 
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C H A R A C T E R   S U M M A R Y
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Gerard Cuthbert Boddingham - The Bronze Baron - La Fourmi de Feu
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20   |   Married 
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Independent    |   Vallé D'Or

 N O T A B L E   A B I L I T I E S   &   T O O L S
N O T A B L E   A B I L I T I E S   &   T O O L S
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   A B I L I T I E S
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◼ Finish Carpentry
When Gerard isn't trying to scrape by, he's also making furniture for a living.
◼ Photographic Memory
Gerard can tell you one of his best childhood memories on the spot. Even when it wasn't asked for. Which is all the time.
◼ Charm
Gerard can simply win others over even with a simple wink and nod, or he'll often enchant others with stories of his adventures.
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   T O O L (S)
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◼ Knight's Fall 
The name of the dagger Gerard always carries, he mostly uses it on knights who threaten him, hence the nickname he gives it.
◼ Banished Shooter 
Gerard got this pistol in rather illegal matters, since he stole it from an old gunslinger when he was trying to bribe him out of getting in trouble, in which he shot the gunslinger with it afterward.
◼ Blind Justice 
Gerard also happened to get Blind Justice through illegal matters, though he'll never confess how. Blind Justice happens to be a lasso that he uses to catch things.
◼ Specter Ring 
The ring was given to him through a long lost relative, yet Gerard still doesn't know who gave it to him. Gerard refuses to wear the ring due to the ghost contained within it violently possessing him, to a point where the ghost did not want to come out of his body when an exorcist was called.
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 N O T A B L E   S K I L L S   &   T A L E N T S
N O T A B L E   S K I L L S   &   T A L E N T S
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   S K I L L (S)
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◼ Foraging
Gerard is an expert at obtaining food, provisions and as such through gathering them or searching them for other people (mostly his very demanding wife).
◼ Lip-Reading
Through extensive training, Gerard knows how to read people's lips from a faraway distance where noise/talking can't be heard.
◼ Swift-Footedness
When he gets in a fight, Gerard can quickly get himself out of the situation just by running quickly. No wonder his wife couldn't keep up with him at their wedding...
◼ Sharpshooting
Gerard is incredible at firing projectiles (such as guns and arrows) with great precision and accuracy, with heavy training from his strict father.
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   T A L E N T (S)
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◼ Empathy 
Aside from his crime-riddled adventures, Gerard can feel deeply for others, which surprises even himself, since he can't really list off some of the talents and skills he has.
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 T H E   S T O R Y   S O   F A R...
T H E   S T O R Y   S O   F A R...
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The youngest child of Agnes and Barnaby Boddingham, Gerard was raised with seven brothers and twelve sisters, which called for a lot of ruckus and a lot of mischief. And mischief sure did run in Gerard's family, for his father did get in the same amount of trouble he did when he was a youngin, and his grandmother, and his great grandfather, so on and so forth. Gerard was raised in an incredibly strict household, even to where this strictness bordered on physical and verbal abuse, typically by the hands of his father, who trained him in all sorts of things, hence his skills and talents.

Gerard mostly stayed around with his brother Benedict growing up, since he was more "sane" out of the whole family according to Gerard. Up until they started to be both abused when their father found out that Gerard liked to hang out with Benedict, and this changed the both of them very differently - while Gerard still tried to keep himself sane, Benedict started to retract further into himself and became more violent, inconsolable and all the more aggressive, even to a point where he started beating on Gerard too.

Gerard met his wife Winifred Wyclot when he shot the gunslinger, who was her father, and she immediately kissed him after she witnessed it, in which he quickly fell in love with her, not for her beauty or the way she kissed him, but for her sadistic nature and wonderful personality.

Gerard sometimes gets himself in the worst situations, much to the dismay of Winifred. Whether it be getting into scuffles in an alley, fights in some sleazy brothel, Gerard will fight anything and anyone that threatens him, or duck out last minute, even when he caused it in the first place.

Gerard's mostly aggressive and violent nature roots from fighting with his brothers when he was a child, he even brags he could throw punches by the age of six, though he's not at all good at fighting. But despite this, his brother Benedict is more violent than Gerard because of the abuse they both endured at the hands of their father. When Benedict is the Yin of their relationship, Gerard is pretty much the Yang, even though they used to be so close when they were children and teenagers.

When Gerard was around five, he received the Specter Ring from an unknown relative, he still doesn't know who gave it to him, though the sender claimed to be one of his seventeen aunts, who were well-known for being assassins for royals back in the day. Once Gerard wore the ring, he was immediately possessed by a violent and blood-thirsty spirit that refused to get out of him when an exorcist was involved, Gerard's father nearly gave up trying, even though the exorcist told him that the spirit that was possessing the young boy could potentially make him go insane and slowly kill him from the inside out. But luckily, they were able to trap it back in the ring. It is still not known who the spirit is, but Gerard says that the sender must have done it out of spite.

Gerard often travels a lot, and it's why he's after his brother Benedict to stop him from going on a murderous rampage, since he followed him all the way to the New World, though Gerard is still trying to figure out where he may be, and the only person Benedict has killed so far is his sister Zephoria.

Gerard went out on sea to search for the meaning of life, he picked up meditation, yoga and many other things on his travels, and mostly, to find his brother Benedict and put a stop to what he's trying to do.

 P L O T ( S )   &   G O A L ( S )
P L O T ( S )   &   G O A L ( S )
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Gerard simply wants to stop his criminal ways, but he also wants to stop his brother Benedict from a murderous rampage he's about to unleash on Vallé D'Or, and Gerard does not like the only way he can stop him - murder. What caused Benedict to be so violent was believed to be when Gerard gave him his very-dreaded Specter Ring and the ghost happened to have possessed Benedict, though it's just a rumor and his reasonings are still unknown. Gerard is still on the hunt to find Benedict in various cities and countries.

Gerard also wants to find out what spirit possesses his Specter Ring and try to find a way to break the curse of the ring and free the angry spirit, and he'll stop at nothing to find the sender and confront them.

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