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!
Credits
Court of the Fallen was created in October of 2018 by Odd, Honey, and Crooked.
Skinning and hosting by the epically talented Kaons, and functionality fanciness by the coding magic of Neowulf. If you ever see either of them around, make sure to show them some love!
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.
there's a feeling i get when i look to the west, & my spirit is crying for leaving.
Safrin's recent actions had been the final straw. For all that Ronin had given to the goddess over the years, that he was now being made to feel guilty for not giving enough was one thing, but that the Nova didn't even know the full story was no longer something Remi could abide. While he wouldn't risk the life of their son, he couldn't keep his thoughts caged any longer.
Having been in the Greatwood recently with Jude, Remi had opted to stop at the shrine within Ludo's woods rather than venturing back to Torchine. The Greatwood had always felt like home, and for all the trauma the herald had caused him in these woods, still they were too familiar to abandon completely.
So, with a piece of paper and a hanged-man drawn upon it (there were 5 blank spaces awaiting letters), Remi set down the little game and waited for the herald to arrive.
in my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees & the voices of those who stand looking.
Ludo has been having A Time, and a visit from its demigod does not miraculously make it all better. Whether Remi is aware of the issues in the spirit world, or whether he cares, is not something currently on Ludo's radar. For all of this, though, it still responds when the Lullaby... well. He doesn't call for the raggedy god, exactly. But he comes to play a game, and that much is enough.
"A," Ludo announces, meaning A to be the first letter it chooses. From above in the branches of the trees, the black eyed child dangles its bare, frostbitten toes, and Ludo cranes forward to try and see the paper more clearly.
LUDO
Braved the forests, braved the stone
Braved the icy winds and fire
Braved and beat them on my own
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.
there's a feeling i get when i look to the west, & my spirit is crying for leaving.
Glancing up at Ludo, it's with what feels like a banshee's wail barricaded behind his teeth, that Remi nods. In greeting as much as recognition of the herald's first guess.
_ A _ _ A
The first A was likely expected by the god, but the second? Trying to exhale steadily, Remi held the bit of charcoal in his fingers as loosely as he could lest he snap it and find himself reduced to tracing out letters in the dirt.
Whether Ludo was as omniscient as Safrin was, or pretended to be, didn't matter much to the Lullaby. Either it was enough information or the game would continue.
in my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees & the voices of those who stand looking.
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Indeed, Ludo beholds the name with furrowed brow, tilting its head this way and that and finally pushing itself from the branches. Falling with the speed of a feather, on black tip-toes the herald lands softly before the Lullaby, crouching opposite until they are both hunched over the paper.
"N," it guesses, its eyes never leaving Remi's face despite the game that sprawls between them. It knows already. Of course it does. But a game is a game, and Ludo wants to be sure this is the conversation they are about to have.
LUDO
Braved the forests, braved the stone
Braved the icy winds and fire
Braved and beat them on my own
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.
there's a feeling i get when i look to the west, & my spirit is crying for leaving.
Looking at Ludo through a clump of curls as it lands, Remi blinks a single time. Every predatory instinct he possesses wants him to strike before his opponent has a chance to, which makes the tears which swipe at the back of his eyes feel all the more painful.
_A N _ A
the game now reads.
Still, Remi wants to scream. Moreso, he wants Ludo to give him the ability to score a hole in the cosmos and tear Vanya free while also marring Safrin's canvas at the same time. He wants to slam his fist into the soil to declare that she's gone too far this time, that he'll no longer abide the threat over his son's life, that he is done.
Instead, he merely looks back at Ludo and waits for it to guess again.
in my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees & the voices of those who stand looking.
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
But of course, we all know Ludo does not need to guess again. And, written by an invisible hand in elegant ink rather than the blunt scratch of charcoal, the word fills itself in, and the hanged man avoids the noose.
V A N Y A
"The world is fuzzy with spirits this season," Ludo murmurs. "It's chaos. Ghosts trundling about as if they are alive again. But this one in particular is the one that has your attention, and she isn't even in Mort's realm."
Another herald might have scolded; others still might have punished.
But Ludo regards its chosen with soft, black eyes, and it nods.
"Speak freely, then."
LUDO
Braved the forests, braved the stone
Braved the icy winds and fire
Braved and beat them on my own
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.
