"I'm on the side of the strong. I'm a man who joins the team that seems like it'll win. And in this battle, the Detective Agency will win."
Francis Scott Fitzgerald to Louisa May Alcott
Bungo Stray Dogs
BASICS
NAME: Fitzgerald
GENDER: Male
PRONOUNS: Masculine
ORIENTATION: Demiromantic Heterosexual
BIRTHDATE: Early Fall 2756
AGE: 38 as of Early Spring 2774
LOCATION: Fort Weyr
OCCUPATION: Wherhandler
WING: Dawn Squad
APPEARANCE
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blond
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6'3" and Slim
PLAY-BY: Francis Scott Fitzgerald (Bungo Stray Dogs)
FULL APPEARANCE:
Fitzgerald is a tall man with short blond hair that he tends to be combed to the side. He tends to stand in a dignified, proper pose. He has sharp blue eyes that almost seem to pierce into another's soul. He tends to wear more neutral colors, enjoying browns to any sort of color. He has a slim physique with barely any visible muscle.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Fitzgerald is a prideful man for the most part. He views himself in being a higher status than most people he talks to, due to him being from a rich hold family and because he has a bronze wher. Sure, it's not a dragon- but he still views himself as above a lot of people due to this. He firmly believes that most people can be bought out by different means and he isn't afraid to flaunt his status to others around him. He tends to be very confident and arrogant as well. He doesn't believe he has a weakness, at least one that he thinks people can take advantage of.
However, there is a softer side to him. He is a very family orientated person. He deeply cares for those in his family. When his weyrmate and daughter died due to Thread, he was filled with nearly inconsolable grief. This caused for himself to close himself away from others as a result, not wanting anyone to get close enough to form a friendship- let alone a relationship- with him. He does genuinely care for those under him, though, even though, due to his pride, he does not appear to be. He's more someone to cheer someone on from out of view.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Older Brother
Daughter (deceased)
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: N/A
BIRTHPLACE: Ista Hold
HISTORY: TW: Death
Fitzgerald lived a relatively well off life in Ista Hold as a child. He had no want or need for anything and he was happy with that. However, he was admittedly spoiled by his parents, along with his older brother. His father taught the boys at a young age that people could be bought or bribed when they were young. After all, he wanted to ensure his sons had good status in their hold. His parents were both holdfolk, who had inherited their wealth from their parents.
He was a very confident boy growing up, often acting as a sort of leader towards the rest of the children in the hold. He thought he was invincible. However, he was also very prideful. He always bragged about his family's wealth. This caused for him to develop an inflated ego, something that got worse when he was searched by a dragonrider at the age of sixteen. He bragged to his brother that HE had been searched, and not the older boy. Quickly, he was off to Ista Weyr.
However, needless to say that life at the Weyr was VASTLY different compared to life in the hold. He couldn't really use his status to make himself look better and, as a result, a lot of the other candidates were often annoyed at him. However, there were a few he did get along with, one of which being a young woman. She reached out and slowly, the two became friends around when he was seventeen turns and she was sixteen turns. This would eventually turn to love with her confessing her feelings after she had impressed with a dragon. By that time, Fitzgerald had become a dual candidate and he had felt the same towards her for a while.
Two years after they had started dating, while Fitzgerald was nineteen, an egg was rolled to him at a wher hatching. Out popped Fitsk, a beautiful bronze wherlet that Fitzgerald quickly blooded. His heart was filled with joy and, after a season had passed when he graduated to become a wherhandler, his weyrmate revealed her pregnancy. His heart was overjoyed at this. Even though they knew they would not get to raise their daughter, the two were happy that they would have a family together.
Fitzgerald was happy when he heard that, in fifteen turns, his daughter became a candidate. He was there when she impressed to her dragon, cheering loudly with his weyrmate. He thought that life couldn't get much better than this.
However, he would soon find out this happiness was shortlived. It was her first thread. His daughter, who had been cocky growing up, had fought bravely, but had gotten hit pretty hard by thread.
Fitzgerald.. never really got over the grief of losing his daughter so suddenly. The grief both of them shared eventually caused for Fitzgerald and his weyrmate to separate. Even as it changed from seasons to a turn passing, he felt empty inside. Finally, it became too much.
He couldn't stay in Ista Weyr anymore.. nor could he return to Ista Hold. He decided to move as far as he could, eventually heading to Fort Weyr. He had chosen Fort over Semaca as he did not agree with allowing pirates into the weyr and he did not agree with the counsel system of High Reaches, so Fort felt like the best bet for him.
He arrived in the Spring of 2774, ready for a new life.
