Offering Description: The murder of Beat, the destruction of Oscorp, and Entropolism the March 2023 event.
As an amnesiac Harry came to Ryslig with a week's worth of lived experience, primed to be at least a bit sympathetic to the Fog- in his own world his supernatural skill, Shivers allowed him to communicate with and receive guidance from La Revacholiere, the soul of his city and one of the many parts of Elysium's World Spirit.
Their relationship is shown to be complicated. La Revacholiere is the city and the city is also Harry. While she has her own desires and goals she also reflects and echoes whatever Harry already believes. If Harry was paranoid and bloodthirsty in the moment then she responded in kind, feeding his mental images of streets soaked with blood. If Harry believed in apocalypse accelerationism she would echo him, saying that the age of man is over.
Naturally he lost this link upon arrival and has felt lost and distraught ever since. He’s clung to the Fog not only because she’s 'made his body better' but because she genuinely feels like a part of Harry’s mind that he’s lost. He understands the difference between her and Revachol but sees them both as a mighty force of nature and himself as the ‘sensitive instrument' that receives their words.
Even with Kim at his side Harry was eager to embrace monsterhood as the better version of himself to be. The human body he lived in Elysium was painful, embarrassing, and generally uncomfortable to be in. And while he briefly started to come to terms with it shortly before his arrival…it wasn’t like he had the option of anything else.
He feels that the Fog saved him (and Kim and Jean) from their failing old bodies and lives damaged by a cruel world full of harsh prejudices. When Harry is feeling particularly uncharitable and bitter about his previous life he calls it hell. And losing his former partners has only driven Harry further into the Fog's arms. He believes that Elias' meddling with the Fog's power last year took them away from him.
Harry has kind of…spiraled downward or failed up in terms of rising through the Fog's ranks. Marco's murder was accompanied by desperate and deranged ranting on the network. Beat's death was a premeditated suicide bombing that Harry nearly fumbled in his desperation to save Reira and Namani from the same fate as the other smashed up victims of Beat's baseball bat.
Despite this general messiness Harry very loudly maintains that everything he does is on purpose and rejects sympathy.
Since being murdered by Norman last year Harry has mostly withdrawn to Dyster, fearing Norman, his comrades, and whatever further plans he and the Fourth may have. Not to mention his fears of further 'treatment' if anyone found out about why he was murdered- an attempt to kill the monologuing voices in his head.
After months spent brooding and taking potshots at Norman's credibility on the network in January Shadebrain gave him the boost he needed to strike back at Oscorp. He destroyed the building, ignited the dangerous chemicals inside and gloated on the network afterwards.
Harry has had time in somewhat-isolation to think about his theories of how to help others truly understand each other. (And understand him especially, as he wants to be understood and not murdered for being 'crazy.')
He knows he comes from a world with significantly different physics. And he believes that the mind melting properties of the Pale and his ability to imitate it might be the key to spreading the Fog's influence and fostering this understanding among monsters and humans.
With his ragtag 'support group' of humans he regularly exposed to his memory share ability he’s seen how this close mindedness can be overcome. They can experience the joys of flying through his mind and see how wonderful monsterhood is, can feel his gratitude to the Fog and make it their own.
So he and Abigail approached the Fog with their grand plan for March. To demonstrate the power of the Fog, the joys of her gift and to show humans and Fourth followers how frail the technology they rely upon truly is. All magnified through the unified eyes of monsters and humans alike.
The fallout of the event (his CR crumbling, panicking and 'mercy killing' his support group) has left him shaken. He still believes in the Fog but he also feels like he might've failed her. Or that his philosophy of ‘peaceful unity' is simply wrong.
Reward Description: -priest cloak, styled after his old RCM patrol cloak -the whispers, the following Fog, all standard priest things -ability: Monstrous Shifting A fluidity of form to compliment his fluidity of mind, to inspire fear, and destroy Her enemies. (And a reflection of his self destructive tendencies to paint himself as repulsive as possible.)
examples: growing spikes of bone on the body to shred enemies, turning an arm into a writhing mass of tentacles, turning his head into that of a long necked-monstrous bird's. Etc.
-I forgot to make a separate request comment for this last year but for Harry’s freebie from mom to remove his Fourth-given mark, I’d like his burn scars to have a fun shimmering swirly effect. Like so.
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly): Harry’s shapeshifting cannot run counter to his nature and beliefs. He cannot replicate human bodies and any part of his body that he shifts takes on a distinctly horrific look. He can’t masquerade as other characters, so no identity theft for Harry and no mechanical features.
Any attempts to revert fully to his own human body are met with hiccups. A third arm. A disfigured vulture's head. Etc.
Cannot 'shift' into having new powers like venoms, fire breath, etc
Shifts that significantly change his size or body mass must be powered by feeding on an amount of human flesh/bone equal to the desired change.
Monstrous inspiration: Harry is naturally compelled to experiment mess around with this in his free time. Doorbell rings, he answers it as a shambling horror.
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Harrier Du Bois
Alignment:
Fog
Offering Description:
The murder of Beat, the destruction of Oscorp, and Entropolism the March 2023 event.
As an amnesiac Harry came to Ryslig with a week's worth of lived experience, primed to be at least a bit sympathetic to the Fog- in his own world his supernatural skill, Shivers allowed him to communicate with and receive guidance from La Revacholiere, the soul of his city and one of the many parts of Elysium's World Spirit.
Their relationship is shown to be complicated. La Revacholiere is the city and the city is also Harry. While she has her own desires and goals she also reflects and echoes whatever Harry already believes. If Harry was paranoid and bloodthirsty in the moment then she responded in kind, feeding his mental images of streets soaked with blood. If Harry believed in apocalypse accelerationism she would echo him, saying that the age of man is over.
Naturally he lost this link upon arrival and has felt lost and distraught ever since. He’s clung to the Fog not only because she’s 'made his body better' but because she genuinely feels like a part of Harry’s mind that he’s lost. He understands the difference between her and Revachol but sees them both as a mighty force of nature and himself as the ‘sensitive instrument' that receives their words.
Even with Kim at his side Harry was eager to embrace monsterhood as the better version of himself to be. The human body he lived in Elysium was painful, embarrassing, and generally uncomfortable to be in. And while he briefly started to come to terms with it shortly before his arrival…it wasn’t like he had the option of anything else.
He feels that the Fog saved him (and Kim and Jean) from their failing old bodies and lives damaged by a cruel world full of harsh prejudices. When Harry is feeling particularly uncharitable and bitter about his previous life he calls it hell. And losing his former partners has only driven Harry further into the Fog's arms. He believes that Elias' meddling with the Fog's power last year took them away from him.
Harry has kind of…spiraled downward or failed up in terms of rising through the Fog's ranks. Marco's murder was accompanied by desperate and deranged ranting on the network. Beat's death was a premeditated suicide bombing that Harry nearly fumbled in his desperation to save Reira and Namani from the same fate as the other smashed up victims of Beat's baseball bat.
Despite this general messiness Harry very loudly maintains that everything he does is on purpose and rejects sympathy.
Since being murdered by Norman last year Harry has mostly withdrawn to Dyster, fearing Norman, his comrades, and whatever further plans he and the Fourth may have. Not to mention his fears of further 'treatment' if anyone found out about why he was murdered- an attempt to kill the monologuing voices in his head.
After months spent brooding and taking potshots at Norman's credibility on the network in January Shadebrain gave him the boost he needed to strike back at Oscorp. He destroyed the building, ignited the dangerous chemicals inside and gloated on the network afterwards.
Harry has had time in somewhat-isolation to think about his theories of how to help others truly understand each other. (And understand him especially, as he wants to be understood and not murdered for being 'crazy.')
He knows he comes from a world with significantly different physics. And he believes that the mind melting properties of the Pale and his ability to imitate it might be the key to spreading the Fog's influence and fostering this understanding among monsters and humans.
With his ragtag 'support group' of humans he regularly exposed to his memory share ability he’s seen how this close mindedness can be overcome. They can experience the joys of flying through his mind and see how wonderful monsterhood is, can feel his gratitude to the Fog and make it their own.
So he and Abigail approached the Fog with their grand plan for March. To demonstrate the power of the Fog, the joys of her gift and to show humans and Fourth followers how frail the technology they rely upon truly is. All magnified through the unified eyes of monsters and humans alike.
The fallout of the event (his CR crumbling, panicking and 'mercy killing' his support group) has left him shaken. He still believes in the Fog but he also feels like he might've failed her. Or that his philosophy of ‘peaceful unity' is simply wrong.
Link:
Beat
Oscorp
March Event
Reward Tier:
Priest
Reward Description:
-priest cloak, styled after his old RCM patrol cloak
-the whispers, the following Fog, all standard priest things
-ability: Monstrous Shifting
A fluidity of form to compliment his fluidity of mind, to inspire fear, and destroy Her enemies. (And a reflection of his self destructive tendencies to paint himself as repulsive as possible.)
examples: growing spikes of bone on the body to shred enemies, turning an arm into a writhing mass of tentacles, turning his head into that of a long necked-monstrous bird's. Etc.
-I forgot to make a separate request comment for this last year but for Harry’s freebie from mom to remove his Fourth-given mark, I’d like his burn scars to have a fun shimmering swirly effect. Like so.
Backfire (for abilities characters wouldn't ask for ICly):
Harry’s shapeshifting cannot run counter to his nature and beliefs. He cannot replicate human bodies and any part of his body that he shifts takes on a distinctly horrific look. He can’t masquerade as other characters, so no identity theft for Harry and no mechanical features.
Any attempts to revert fully to his own human body are met with hiccups. A third arm. A disfigured vulture's head. Etc.
Cannot 'shift' into having new powers like venoms, fire breath, etc
Shifts that significantly change his size or body mass must be powered by feeding on an amount of human flesh/bone equal to the desired change.
Monstrous inspiration: Harry is naturally compelled to experiment mess around with this in his free time. Doorbell rings, he answers it as a shambling horror.