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Sunjata
Finn Rosencrantz


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#1
memory’s so treacherous
Finn has made quite the remarkable error in judgement. He has headed into the Hanged Man after a long day - longer than it has had any right to be, in fact - to sit in some quiet corner and write out his notes. The writing helps; it feels like the oil spill in his head is able to take shape once it’s on paper. And all things considered the tavern isn’t so busy - Finn is lucky and he doesn’t know it, that most of the sailors are on the sea this season. No crowds.

So with two fingers of whiskey in a glass and his own thoughts for company, he begins a task both meticulous and soothing. The rain is coming down hard against the window behind him, a steady and hypnotic drumbeat for him to work against. And it’s warm, too, and the pen between his fingers feels heavier than it ought to.

And here lies the error in judgement. He ought to have gone back to his room at the inn, rather than come here. His concentration is shot; he has been restless for days. And now? Now Finn is fast asleep at his little table, his whiskey untouched, his pen still in his hand.
one moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights
the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go
FINN
Sunjata Wrenzaok
the Flood
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#2
lions sit in solemn lines, drinking gin and dropping lines
Somehow he always finds his way back here, to the Hanged Man. Whether it be for just a quick drink or just to keep tabs on the way life in Torchline had changed once the Ark had set sail, was hard to say. Either way, he’s here, slipping through the doors and giving a quick scan around the area before heading straight for the bar, Haai at his heels with her iridescent wings tucked in tight, paws easily slipping along the floor.

He receives a glass of whiskey, taking a sip from it before he goes to scan for a place to sit – to work on his own journal again, some sort of correlation between what was happening to those closest to him (the Ascended attack, the fact that he’d managed to get Fae blood but could only deign the fact that it had been during said attack) when he spots someone that’s promptly fallen asleep at his table, drinks untouched.

The man looks a bit like Remi, but upon closer inspection there’s something… Different, something off. None of the scars Remi bore were on this man, and so Sunjata assumes he’s perhaps a stranger, someone new to this place, seeing as he certainly didn’t look like he was from Torchline. So he slips over to the table, taking a seat opposite of the man, letting his steel gaze flicker along the stranger. “Might not want to fall asleep in a place like this. Makes you an easy target.” He rumbles, taking a sip of his glass.
wasting beats in this heart of mine
SUNJATA
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Sunjata speaks with an Australian accent and has a passive magic that makes him produce a subtle scent that matches exactly to whatever those around him most desire him to smell like.
Finn Rosencrantz


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#3
memory’s so treacherous
In his dreams he is laying on the surface of a lake, one endlessly deep, and yet he never sinks. Above him the stars row across the sky, which is the most stunning shade of violet he has ever seen. Finn floats, he’s at peace, it’s all still...

...place like this. Makes you an easy target.

The lake splinters into a thousand shards, sending Finn plummeting into the dark. He’s falling, it’s eating him alive, swallowing him up—

He gasps as he jerks into a sitting position, stormy eyes glazed and confused, and for a second - just a second - he thinks perhaps the man opposite has been sitting there the whole time. Has Finn been holding a conversation without being there?

”S-sorry,” he mumbles, blearily gazing down at his notes, at the stranger, at his drink. ”Have... have we met?”
one moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights
the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go
FINN
Sunjata Wrenzaok
the Flood
Archon of King's End

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#4
lions sit in solemn lines, drinking gin and dropping lines
Is there some sort of amusement that Sunjata gets when his words register, wake the man, and watch as he sputters awake? Probably. It curls the corners of his lips as he takes his sip, setting the glass down as Finn stares at his notes – something Sunjata doesn’t look at. The apology is easily shrugged off, after all – he had surprised the man by simply arriving and sitting unannounced other than the words he’s uttered.

The question of have they met? The smirk remains as he watches Finn’s face. “Nope, we haven’t.” He rumbles, turning to look more fully at the other man. “Sunjata Senzaok. And you are?” There’s a tilt of his head, an air of confidence surrounding him as he tries to clean more about this man, how similar yet not similar he looks to Sunjata’s boss, his Governor – trying to pick him apart.
wasting beats in this heart of mine
SUNJATA
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Sunjata speaks with an Australian accent and has a passive magic that makes him produce a subtle scent that matches exactly to whatever those around him most desire him to smell like.
Finn Rosencrantz


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#5
memory’s so treacherous
The name rings distantly in Finn’s mind. They haven’t met, but he does know this man. Sunjata, the Arbiter, the man touched by Safrin - but Finn doesn’t expect a smile so sharp on a man like this. A ripple of tension moves through him automatically, his overtired mind still awake to being scrutinised, to the possibility of being threatened. Blinking hard, he sits up properly in his seat, neck stiff, back aching, and reaches for his whiskey to take a generous sip.

”Finn Rosencrantz,” he supplies in return, the burn of the liquid somehow cooling him down, persuading the gears and cogs that make him up to turn a little slower. ”Thank you for waking me. I must have drifted off without realising it.” His hands are already gathering the notes into a neat pile, Finn looking at the paper rather than the man.
one moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights
the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go
FINN
Sunjata Wrenzaok
the Flood
Archon of King's End

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#6
lions sit in solemn lines, drinking gin and dropping lines
Of course, Sunjata doesn’t know this man, doesn’t know that Finn has heard of him. It wouldn’t come as much of a surprise, that small part in the back of Sunjata’s mind imagining that his name pops up in a lot of random conversations – rarely anything good, but a conversation regardless. Still, the Arbiter is amused infinitely at the way Finn tries to recover, sipping from his own whiskey before his name is offered.

A pleasure.” He offers, tilting his glass a small amount toward Finn, the grin spread along his face still sharp, still pointed with the hint of sharp pointed fangs of his cobra shift behind it. But there’s a nod given to Finn with the thanks, a rise and fall of tattooed shoulders. “Try to keep an eye on it while you’re here. Again, people’ll try to take advantage of someone that drifts off asleep.” A dark brow raises, before he’s turning his gaze away as Haai returns to his side, having done her rounds. The griffin sits, wings tucked in tight, emerald eyes boring into Finn while Sunjata’s are away. “You don’t sound like you’re from around here. Just passing through?” His attention flickers back toward Finn, toward the papers briefly, then to the other’s face again.
wasting beats in this heart of mine
SUNJATA
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Sunjata speaks with an Australian accent and has a passive magic that makes him produce a subtle scent that matches exactly to whatever those around him most desire him to smell like.
Finn Rosencrantz


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#7
memory’s so treacherous
If it’s a pleasure, Finn has all sorts of skewed ideas about what pleasant means. He keeps hold of his glass, feeling eyes on him from a small creature sitting at her master’s heels, it he doesn’t look. There are too many things going on around him all of a sudden, and it’s easier to use Sunjata as an anchor for his attention. ”Are you one of those people?” he asks, his tone frank, his stormy gaze fixed on the man who does not look at him.

Too many conversations, lately, have tried to tease at where he’s from, inquire about his business in Torchline, and Finn is beginning to feel like it’s a habit that the people of Torchline all possess; wanting to know all about outsiders. ”That’s right,” he says, offering nothing more to punctuate Sunjata’s assumptions. ”You are from around here. Else you would not have asked.”
one moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights
the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go
FINN
Sunjata Wrenzaok
the Flood
Archon of King's End

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#8
lions sit in solemn lines, drinking gin and dropping lines
Are you one of them?” Oh, he could be confusing and intimidating by answering ‘sometimes’, but he isn’t. Hasn’t done that in a long time, but that doesn’t mean the grin doesn’t remain sharp at the accusation. “Nope. I try to prevent it.” That was his job after all. It was why he’d come over here in the first place, content otherwise to simply let the man find out exactly what Torchline was like.

Instead, he focuses on the next question — the one he poses of being out of town. Finn responds with an easy response yet something about the tone seems to suggest to Sunjata that he didn’t particularly want to talk about it. Which, fine, fair enough. He latches onto the second question, however, far easier to comment on. “I am now. But I’m an Outlander. Arrived in the Grounds just after the barrier fell. Found my way here after the portal opened.” There, that should be enough.
wasting beats in this heart of mine
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Sunjata speaks with an Australian accent and has a passive magic that makes him produce a subtle scent that matches exactly to whatever those around him most desire him to smell like.
Finn Rosencrantz


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#9
memory’s so treacherous
”You must be very popular,” Finn says, rolling the glass between his fingers, stormy eyes still pinned on Sunjata. Lifting the glass again, the sip he takes this time is much more measured, the Spyglass savouring the taste of the liquor on his tongue. He doesn’t need magical spectacles to get the impression that the man sitting before him is a force of nature, that he doesn’t give a damn about popularity. It creates a heaviness in Finn’s gut, a sense that he’s walking a tightrope and that Sunjata is as likely to pull him onto as shove him off.

Not the sort of man he expects to be touched by Safrin, in truth, but he is good at his job. He isn’t wrong, not about things like this. Finn has to stop himself from saying I know as the other man gives his story. Because of course he knows - he’s a researcher, precisely for this sort of thing. ”Torchline suits you, evidently,” he says, sitting back in his seat and setting his drink down. ”Do you have any other tips?”
one moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights
the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go
FINN
Sunjata Wrenzaok
the Flood
Archon of King's End

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#10
lions sit in solemn lines, drinking gin and dropping lines
A snort leaves him in response to popularity. He is but he isn’t, not in the way that most people craved popularity. To be loved, looked up to, a figure of sorts, a role model. No, Sunjata was quite the opposite, usually having his name passed around by means of small talk, likely because he’d ran into some trouble he shouldn’t have. But that was that, and he was far too used to it to grow any sort of defense against it.

Instead, there’s a dip of his head in acknowledgement that Torchline suits him, his gaze leaving Finn to scan the bar while Haai keeps her eyes trained on the man. “Closest thing to home I can get.” Storms and seas, floods and a variety of trusting yet not trusting people. But he takes a sip from his glass again, turning to face Finn a bit more fully. “Stay away from the Port at night unless you can defend yourself from pickpocketing.” An easy enough tip.
wasting beats in this heart of mine
SUNJATA
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Sunjata speaks with an Australian accent and has a passive magic that makes him produce a subtle scent that matches exactly to whatever those around him most desire him to smell like.
Finn Rosencrantz


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#11
memory’s so treacherous
He snorts and Finn smirks, lifting his glass again to take a sip of whiskey. ”Sorry,” he murmurs, ”did I perceive notoriety for popularity?” It doesn’t surprise him to think of Sunjata as being the notorious sort. Whilst its true that the fact that he’s one of Safrin’s is disconcerting at best, Finn can’t help but make those connections based on the way he’s been woken from his rest by the fanged, smiling man.

Tipping a glass in thanks for the advice, Finn does note that it’s a little late for that - he’s already at the docks, and it’s already past dark. ”I suppose there’s no home for you, now that you’re in Caido,” he says, perhaps putting his foot in his mouth there (but he perpetually does, so... that’s not so surprising).
one moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights
the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go
FINN
Sunjata Wrenzaok
the Flood
Archon of King's End

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#12
lions sit in solemn lines, drinking gin and dropping lines
Perhaps.” He rumbles with that easy fanged smirk once more. It’s easy to say his name pops up in conversations he’s not involved in, easy to say that the span of his reach is large when it comes to Halo and the Grounds, followed up by Torchline too. What he doesn’t know, however, is that the man before him actually knows about him somewhat, and that in and of itself will be quite interesting to find out.

But he leans forward after giving his tip, an easy enough one despite the fact Finn’s already broken it. Best he check his pockets, Sunjata supposes. It’s the next comment that has the Korofian held a bit off guard, though he doesn’t let it show. His face carefully masked like he’s back in Korofi, that easy smile remaining, and if his gaze narrows a fraction he doesn’t admit to any of it. “Oh, I do have a home though.” He offers, thinking of the cluster of homes by the lighthouse. But what was the other meaning behind it? “Unless you mean something else?” Like the fact he’d danced between portals time and time again, a marriage that began and ended in the Grounds before he’d shifted his attention here, found and built the home he lives in now.
wasting beats in this heart of mine
SUNJATA
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Feel free to use magic/force on Sunjata, without killing him <3
Sunjata speaks with an Australian accent and has a passive magic that makes him produce a subtle scent that matches exactly to whatever those around him most desire him to smell like.
Finn Rosencrantz


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#13
memory’s so treacherous
It will be interesting to find out, if and when it finally comes to light. Which, if Finn has his way (he rarely does, in fairness), it won’t. Still, as Sunjata’s gaze levels on him the Spyglass gets the impression that he’s made a misstep (something that happens much more frequently), and he breaks the stare to look at his notes. Not that they really say much, given that he’s not yet had a chance to do any work on them.

”I meant more of a place where you were born. A home town,” he explains, though suddenly it feels awkward even by Finn’s standards, and he reaches out to knock back the rest of his whiskey. ”Thanks for the tip. I’ll... ah, leave you to your night. Wouldn’t want to be pickpocketed.”
one moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights
the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go
FINN
Sunjata Wrenzaok
the Flood
Archon of King's End

Age: 34 | Height: 6'5 | Race: Demi-god | Nationality: Outlander | Citizenship: King's End
Level: 15 - Strg: 76 - Dext: 73 - Endr: 75 - Luck: 79 - Int: 3
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#14
lions sit in solemn lines, drinking gin and dropping lines
Finn doesn’t meet his gaze when the question is aired, which only rises a few more of those figurative hackles along Sunjata’s spine. His gaze drops to the notes which have barely started, to the glass that’s nearly empty when Finn begins to speak of what he meant. And while it still made sense, there was a part of it that would always seem to rub wrong, he imagines.

Mmm, that’s fair. I'll give you that.” He hums, tipping back the rest of his own drink, before setting the empty glass on the table and shifting in his seat to brace both tattooed arms along the top of the table, letting himself get a bit more level with Finn. “Nobody’s going to pickpocket me unless they’re looking to spend a night in a cold dark room.” That playful grin spreads along Sunjata’s face, teeth pointed a bit sharper now. “Let me know if someone targets you, though.” He pulls away from the table with a wink, going to stand and set his glass back at the bar – ordering yet another whiskey to be sent toward Finn’s table and waiting to see if he gets a response.
wasting beats in this heart of mine
SUNJATA
No permission needed for power play!
Feel free to use magic/force on Sunjata, without killing him <3
Sunjata speaks with an Australian accent and has a passive magic that makes him produce a subtle scent that matches exactly to whatever those around him most desire him to smell like.


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