"I am interested in the 'obscene amount of money' bit - you can keep talking about that."
BASICS
NAME: A'ksei [Aleksei]
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him/His
ORIENTATION: Flaming polyamorous bisexual
BIRTHDATE: Autumn 2149
AGE: 27 as of Autumn 2776
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Dragonrider
WING: Twilight Wing
APPEARANCE
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6'6" and limber
PLAY-BY: N/A
EXPY SOURCE: Aleksei ("Death Becomes You" WEBTOON by Franky M.F.)
FULL APPEARANCE: A'ksei is a beanpole with muscles. He looks tasty, and he isn't afraid to flaunt it. His skin is the hue of café au lait, adding a brilliant sheen to muscles molded and toned by endless wanderings beneath a sometimes-brutal sun. Long milk chocolate hair hangs well beneath his shoulder blades. He often ties it back into partial bun, allowing a good length of it to flow freely while the rest is restrained. The pointiness of his chin and apparent fragility of his jaw gives A'ksei a slightly effeminate face. He chooses clothing options that cling to his flesh like a second skin, making sure to leave nothing to the imagination.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: A'ksei is a cocky asshole with ties to no man and eyes on the golden prize. He is scheming and self-assured. He has all the makings of a pirate with no crew and no ship - and in the wrong territory, to be honest. He would be perfect for the Summerlands, but alas the Northern territory is his stomping grounds.
As the oldest son of a nomadic trader, A'ksei knows how to cut a deal and how to haggle. He also knows when it's ideal to cut his losses, although he's far more likely to go through ... ulterior means to ensure coin falls into his pocket. Whether that means ripping somebody off or outright stealing with a little sleight of hand, well ... who's to say the unsuspecting loser didn't drop their marks like fools? A'ksei has the charisma to convince his marks that it was their own fault, really!
A'ksei is a lusty jerk. He's bedded many a man and woman - many of them already betrothed. He feels no obligation to carry the relationships on post-coitus, although he does treat them with respect. Mostly they are just regarded as friends-with-benefits. It's no surprise that he's been on the sharp end of a blade by a scorned lover (or the spouse of said lover!) more times than he can count on both hands.
Due to his risky romantic lifestyle, A'ksei has fathered at least two children with a third on the way. He does take responsibility for his kin. Extra coin and goods he earns through dealings are sent to the women who bore his seed. Whenever he is within physical reach of his kids, A'ksei will go through great pains to visit them. He really does love them, but his lifestyle does not permit him 24/7 fatherhood.
The trader does take his deals seriously, however. If he vows something, it is never taken lightly and he will carry out the deed until the bitter end - whether he actually likes it or not. Of course, A'ksei may actively seek out a loophole to get out of something he's especially uneasy about. He does like living free, after all. And being killed, imprisoned, or exiled aren't things he aspires to be.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Aerich - [maternal great grandfather, deceased]
Kirlia - [maternal great grandmother, deceased]
Otose - [74, great maternal aunt]
Doromizu - [77, great maternal uncle]
Kaian - [maternal grandfather, deceased]
Aryn - [maternal grandmother, deceased]
Zeph - [52, father]
Wendi - [48, mother]
Osoric - [15, brother]
Roe - [20, sister]
Liira - [21, former bedmate]
Jaswyn - [27, former bedmate]
Heires - [5, son, through Liira]
Kove - [3, son, through Jaswyn]
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: None that he's currently tied to ... ?
BIRTHPLACE: Ista Hold
HISTORY: TW: Mention of death by illness.
A'ksei heralds from a family steeped in the practices of Healer Hall ... once upon a time. His grandfather Kaian broke family tradition long ago (for his own father had wanted him to carry on the legacy) and started a trader's caravan that would venture across the great expanse of the Northern Continent. Gradually this band of merchants would be passed on to his children, and so on so forth. Kaian handed it down to Wendi, who married Zeph at the tender age of 18. Others would join their caravan until five heavily-laden herdbeast-drawn 'shops' became part of the whole.
When Wendi was heavily pregnant at 22, the family took up roots - briefly - in Ista Hold, where she bore Aleksei on a stormy night. They lingered on the island for a turn before sailing back to the mainland and continuing their venture of trading, buying, and selling - this time with a baby on board! At this time, Thread was the farthest from their minds. Though they had dealings with Holdless at times, the encounters never ended with bloodshed. Aleksei's father was, after all, a master with words and very persuasive with a blade. Actually, most of the folks in their group were.
And there was the Interval War, but that was something that ... didn't really involve them, as far as they were concerned. They kept their heads down, avoiding political conflict.
Thread began falling from the sky when his little sister Roe was born. Traveling became risky during the warmer months. The caravan took shelter in the rocky Holds and cotholds when the deadly strings began drifting, only venturing out once the threat had passed for the moment - although now they began dealing in additional stores of numbweed and medical supplies.
5 turns later, the caravan would introduce Aleksei's brother Osoric into the world.
And in another 3 turns, plague would cripple Pern. Aleksei was 14 at the time, and bore witness to many of their caravan falling ill and passing away from disease - including his own grandparents Kaian and Aryn. Despite needing supplies and marks to keep going, the caravan decided it was best to keep away from large settlements and, therefore, dodge the involuntary culling of their own through the contagion. They sought refuge in an uninhabited (and rather inhospitable) system of caverns in the mountain range between Telgar and Igen Weyr, eking out their survival with hunting and foraging until the threat of sickness passed.
Supplementing their travels with marks earned through sales at Gathers and the like, their caravan continued throughout - never really stopping to rest unless one of their own was ill, expecting a child, or the weather was determined to thwart them. Stopping through Ruatha Hold when Aleksei was on the cusp of turning 22, the lad bedded a harper lass who would bare his first son - Heires. He fathered a second to a farmhand in Crom when he was 24 - a bubbly boy named Kove. Aleksei never stayed long to care for them, but he always made certain to send goods - clothes, toys, marks, and other goodies - to the mothers of his children by way of courier.
In 2774, the caravan's pathway brought them to Harper Hall, whereupon Aleksei was Searched out by a Fort Weyr dragon. He stood for Gold Ustreilith's clutch and Impressed to Blue Amishuth, earning himself the honorific of A'ksei and permanent residency of the Weyr while leaving the caravan in his parents' (and younger siblings') capable hands.
A'ksei has since sent invitations to Liira and Jaswyn - his former bedmates and mothers of his young children - for a life within Fort Weyr, although they have yet to accept the offer.
Amishuth is not thrilled with the idea of having toddlers hanging off of him. Or so he says. (Honestly, he may be a little excited.)
