A rogue at heart and in life, Jack has been dodging trouble and rewriting Torchline’s rules for as long as most can remember. Though his slight, rugged exterior might seem easy to overlook in the crowded alleys of Haulani, a sharper look reveals a man as dangerous as he is enigmatic. With an infamous reputation and razor-sharp wit, matched with eyes that see and say more than most can handle, Jack's real weapon lies not in his stance but in his piercing blue gaze—and a telepathic edge no one knows about. Recent endeavours—like romancing Torchline's queen and trading favours for children with Safrin—show that while Jack may lack a conventional moral compass, he’s bound only by his own ambitions.
Congratulations, Jack!
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Court of the Fallen was created in October of 2018 by Odd, Honey, and Crooked.
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Nate has spent the day in Haulani. Mostly glowering at things, to be honest, trying to keep his cool and think. Bleeding from one dark shadow to the next, just in case he really needs the extra edge of protection.
Nothing had come from it, nothing useful at least, and stalking home with the sun at his back really feels like the perfect end to this shitty day. He’s uncomfortable, bent in an angry hunch with fists balled up in his jacket pockets, boots kicking sand up with every step.
Quick strides pause, halfway between home and the city, a deep sigh slumping Nates shoulders as a clenched hand pulls from his pocket. He tries to shake the worst of the tension away, so he can reach in and a grab a smoke and a pack of matches without crushing either of them, lighting it in a smooth, practiced motion. Maybe he can avoid taking home some of the twist in him with this.
Maybe it’ll just get worse.
I’m in trouble for the things I haven’t got to yet
Sunlit Shadows (mastered) | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
Type: Grey | Style: Offensive | Level: Mastered
Deadly Recall | Can recall 1, or 2, or 3 of her feathers to her hand, within a range of 30ft. Recalled daggers do 1/2 damage when recalled.
Rescue (Mastered) | Remi can bring a fellow Old God demigod to his side in a time of crisis for three concurrent posts. One use per thread. If the summoned demigod also has mastered this ability, they can remain until the end of the thread.
It gets worse before it gets better. Isn't that how the saying goes?
Though there are shrines in Stormbreak, the one on the dock here in Torchline has always felt a bit more personal to Remi, and so it is toward that one that he currently walks. With his head down and his hands shoved into his pockets, the alchemist has allowed himself this solitary stroll so that he might wallow in his feelings for a time, before putting them aside and moving on with things.
Not particularly paying attention to what's in front of him, Remi's shoulder collides with Nate's creating a tableau of comical clumsiness. "Ah! Sorry I did not..see.." The alchemist's words slow and then fade all together as he straightens and takes a large step back, meaning to help right the stranger he'd bumped into. It takes only a second or so for Remi's blood to seemingly all rush to his feet leaving him feeling cold and slightly unmoored.
Oh, it's you.
Sorry I didn't see you there.
I had sex with your ex-wife.
I destroyed the shrine you're rebuilding.
Hear you're called some weird chicken-pun now.
There were so many things the alchemist might have said, but instead, he opts for: "I am glad your clinic did not burn down." Genuinely said, the alchemist still straightens by degrees as his pale stare takes in the man opposite to him.
Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair
Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
And worse it gets. Somehow, despite all the room around him, Nate is bumped into. Hard. It has him twisted immediately, shoulders up and a snarled Watch it! rolling off his lips. It’s a twist of expression that doesn’t get any friendlier when he sees who exactly it is that’s bumped into him.
Remi.
There’s some distant satisfaction in seeing the other Demi-god pale, realization washing over both of them simultaneously, but Nate doesn’t seem to know what to do from there either. He settles for drawing hard on his smoke, letting the cherry flare and cast a dull light over his features.
Remi breaks the stillness, something that is probably for the best, if only because it catches Nate off guard. Keeps his response from being too agressive. “Lucky I know better, or I’d think you did it.” Smoke pours out of his mouth along with the words, Nate not bothering to turn or direct it anywhere other than into Remi’s face.
I’m in trouble for the things I haven’t got to yet
Sunlit Shadows (mastered) | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
Type: Grey | Style: Offensive | Level: Mastered
Deadly Recall | Can recall 1, or 2, or 3 of her feathers to her hand, within a range of 30ft. Recalled daggers do 1/2 damage when recalled.
Rescue (Mastered) | Remi can bring a fellow Old God demigod to his side in a time of crisis for three concurrent posts. One use per thread. If the summoned demigod also has mastered this ability, they can remain until the end of the thread.
For a moment that's a flare of incredulity and anger that resounds in Remi's bones, but it's gone quickly, replaced by dry laughter. "You know, for someone you hate so much, you really do not know me well at all." He doesn't roll his eyes despite wanting to. Settling instead for letting a snarl twitch at his lips for a moment or two before wiping it away, Remi just gives his head a slight shake. "Though I suppose that makes us even, as I thought you might have had something to do with the fire at Isla's infirmary." He adds with a shrug that threatens to become something more petty.
Really, what should happen next, is that one of them should awkwardly excuse themselves—or perhaps say nothing at all—and they should fuck off in opposite directions before the situation escalates. Feeling this in the balls of his feet, Remi nonetheless remains, eyeing the way the light from the cigarette contrasts the blue of Nate's eyes and idly wondering how much of a hazard it was for an ascended to have something smouldering in their mouth.
Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair
Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Nate sucks his teeth, the cherry flaring and dying as he does. Everything Remi does seems to be the wrong move, seems to fill Nate with a twitching, restless energy, the same kind that had the alchemist against a wall last they met. “Hate a lotta people I don’t know.” The words come out lazily, the ascended spitting the cigarette butt into the sand as he shifts his weight. “Y’made it easy to.”
The next words though, they strike a nerve, the same one he must have brushed agaisnt with his initial accusation. “Y’gotta real funny idea of even.” Nate sneers, crossing his arms and straightening up. “Why the fuck would I have anything t’do with that, eh?” The words slip away into a quiet hiss, Nate leaning in just a little to try and compensate for it. Or maybe to be a little threatening, despite the power imbalance between them.
I’m in trouble for the things I haven’t got to yet
Sunlit Shadows (mastered) | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
Type: Grey | Style: Offensive | Level: Mastered
Deadly Recall | Can recall 1, or 2, or 3 of her feathers to her hand, within a range of 30ft. Recalled daggers do 1/2 damage when recalled.
Rescue (Mastered) | Remi can bring a fellow Old God demigod to his side in a time of crisis for three concurrent posts. One use per thread. If the summoned demigod also has mastered this ability, they can remain until the end of the thread.
That does illicit an eye roll from Remi. "I think that says more about how easy it is for you to hate than about the people you hate." He points out tonelessly, wondering what it was about Nate and the situation they found themselves in that made it so easy to want to just needle the ascended relentlessly with his words.
Raising a brow, if anything, Remi finds Nate's attempts at intimidation easier to bear that cool silences, if only because physical threats are something he understands implicitly. "Are you sure about that? We both suspected the other of fires they did not start. Sounds pretty even to me." As for why? Gesturing at Nate's entire stance of hostility, Remi bobs his eyebrows suggestively. "Well we both know you cannot even hurt me let alone kill me. What better way to get at me then, than hurting someone I care about?" Willfully ignoring the friendship that he should assume was between the two medics, the alchemist just shrugs his shoulders with a vague air of having made his point.
Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair
Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
He’s not here to be psychoanalyzed, a rough, half ass shrug the only answer Remi will get. “Guess you don’t know a lot about me either.” It’s easy, the snap, the sneer, even the way shakes his head and rolls his eyes, as if he and Remi are anything close to even.
Nates brows pull tightly together, mouth closing in a hard line before he remembers, the connection between Isla and Remi strangely loose in his mind, though the memories of a hand on his literal heart should really have cemented it. “Why the fuck would I try to hurt you though Isla? By burning down an infirmary?” His hand is up, gesturing, his voice growing louder. “Is there a fuckin’ brain in your head, or are you so self centred you think that sounds like something someone would do? Fuckin’...” Nate breaks off into a rush of lyrical and nonsensical curses, every language he knows mashing into the frustration before he straightens, shakes his head.
“I bet it was your fuckin’ people.” A finger jabs into Remi’s chest, Nate’s whole face screwed up with rage.
I’m in trouble for the things I haven’t got to yet
Sunlit Shadows (mastered) | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
Type: Grey | Style: Offensive | Level: Mastered
Deadly Recall | Can recall 1, or 2, or 3 of her feathers to her hand, within a range of 30ft. Recalled daggers do 1/2 damage when recalled.
