Of Pens and Papers: Irving

Ahoy!

I decided to continue writing in English, unless I feel I HAVE to write something in German. If so, I will most likely provide translations. Reason: Catering to the audience.

Alright, Pen&Paper!

Finished the long. LONG campaign of a friend of mine. It was actually getting really confusing in places, with a lot of secrecy, betrayals and one or two seemingly random plot twists for good measure. The Ending cleared, or rather: cleaned it up pretty neatly though.

Some basic info about the campaign: Originally based on Neon Genesis Evangelion, a bunch of theoretical concepts (Multiverse, etc.) and a lot of „wishful thinking“ (quite literally – we obtained the power to manifest our wishes, in some sense.) lead to „THE QUEST TO DESTROY THE WORLD MACHINE“, which later turned into „THE QUEST TO FIX THE WORLD MACHINE, KINDA“(The WORLD MACHINE is the highest entity. Period. And it's broken, apparently..OR IS IT?) As you can maybe tell from the sheer scale of it all(and the wishing), it takes some ideas from Gurren Lagann as well. It all started Ages ago, with 3 Characters, prepared to defend Earth from the „Invaders“, while their supreme commander had his own plans.

Told you, it's based on NGE.

Time to tell you the Backstory of one of the three „teenagers“ - the one I was playing.

Irving Lanchester ]I[ (← the 3rd. Yes, he writes it that way. It's also his Symbol.)

Born in Lanchester, a (fictional) town in England. As the second of three children, with his older brother Simon and his younger sister Meriday, he was a bit of a spoiled child. Not a brat, certainly, because he had a fairly stern father, but since he was the second-in-line for the „honour of the family“, he cared much less for his title, and a lot more for having fun in life.

For instance, as part of family tradition, he had to learn an instrument. His sister chose the Violin, and his Brother the Chello, so it was expected of him to learn the piano, like is father.

Instead, he went for the Saxophone.

Now, one day, he was sitting under his favourite tree, a big, old Oak, of to the side of their residence, reading a book. His brother Simon (already known as a bit of a troublemaker) walked up the path to their house, just now coming home from taking private math-lessons, disgruntled.

To keep it short(the original bio was several pages long – don't expect me to go into detail here):

Simon walked up to the house, Meriday(sitting on the swing in front of the house) teased him a bit about his bad school grades. Simon, not seeing Irving and knowing that their parents weren't home either, decided to teach that loudmouth a lesson; he tried to rape her. Irving reacted to the commotion, saw what was happening, grabbed an Axe (think two-handed, lumberjack-axe) from the shed and killed his brother by first just hitting him with the axe and then beheading him as soon as he got him off his sister. After that, he joined the „We defend earth from giant monsters“-company at the age of 17 and has been all about protecting and helping other people ever since. Usually not by violence – he's hates violence, but doesn't hesitate to use „approriate force“ to protect others. If not forced to fight, he's a really, really social guy, and likes to be around other people all the time, joking, flirting and playing his Sax.

Over the course of his Playercharacter-life, he had 3 Girlfriends(all of them died), one threesome, got shot at multiple times, stabbed, shared his body with another soul(twice), shared his own soul with someone else, got to be the sidekick for a „superhero“ and threw people through the room per telekinesis on multiple occasions, amongst other things.

At the end of this campaign, he's 20.

I think those are the most important outlines. Should you feel the need to ask for specifics, go ahead.

That's it for now – honestly, I'd rather talk about NPCs than PCs – even if they are my own – but since the campaign just ended, I felt the need to share.

Avast, I be deparrrtin' - me be postin' later in tha week!