ludomania | info

in short:
- a gentleman thief who claims to only steal from those who have stolen from others
- setting: a fantasy kingdom where magic users are hunted
- comes from privileged background but wasted away the family fortune
- weirdly obsessed with his half-sister
- his half-sister was discovered as a magic user and disowned by the family. now he's trying to find and save her because he couldn't protect her. or maybe it has something to do with manly pride
- thinks of himself as some chivalric hero but really he's just a criminal
- the only obstacles in his story were created by himself. no villains or hardships, just the consequences of his actions
- reckless, selfish, surprisingly vulnerable, charming

OOC
Name: Franni
Contact: plurk or PM

IC
Name: Felipe Asztalos
Canon: Original
Canon point: -
Age: 37

History:

Felipe Asztalos was born to noble parents in the town of Wynn in Seris, an old kingdom torn by wars between humans and magic users. The latter were feared, detested and considered dangerous outsiders. Felipe also had a half-sister, Farrah, two years younger than him. She was an illegitimate child of his father's. No one knew who her mother was.

At the age of ten he lost his parents in a fire that destroyed the port of their hometown. They were brought up by his grandparents, who were considered "old money" in the kingdom. They encouraged Felipe to sign up to serve on a trading vessel so he spent seven years at sea, having wild adventures away from his half-sister.

Years later he returned home and discovered that Farrah had grown up into a beautiful yet withdrawn woman who refused to leave her room. Sadly, this didn't concern someone as selfish as Felipe. Furthermore, something about her company – she was too kind, too gentle – made him uncomfortable, so he avoided her and ignored her letters.

The loss and the harsh years at sea had left their mark on him. He had become a gambling addict with a drinking problem who could no longer control his urges. He began squandering away the family fortune since he was now old enough to gain access to it.

Too ashamed to face his sister, he visited her only when forced to. Instead he gambled, drank and chased love in the extravagant parties thrown by the elite of the city. The war was still raging on, but the men who had family friends in high places didn't have to worry about enlisting. Around this time Felipe fathered a child, but his grandparents paid handsomely to the mother and no one spoke of the matter ever again. Farrah never heard about it.

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Everything changed one morning when Felipe woke up in his old bed at home, unable to remember what had gotten him there in the first place. He went to see his sister and was shocked to see how much she had changed.

Farrah had lost weight and she had bruises which she desperately tried to hide from him. Still, their relationship was as it had been before: she rebuked him gently, but made no real attempt to fix him. She didn't even ask him why he hadn't written her back. Somehow this was worse than her being angry with him, so Felipe fled, unable to deal with it all. It was probably the first time he realized he felt something for her which he wasn't allowed to.

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The following years Felipe spent wooing a countess who was married with someone in the king's court. He was desperately in love with the woman, but her company only encouraged his bad habits. In the end nothing came out of it and she swiftly cast him aside for someone else. She broke up with him publicly and humiliated him.

Heartbroken and pathetic, Felipe finally returned home, but Farrah was no longer there.

After confronting his grandparents about his sister's whereabouts, they revealed to him that they had always known that Farrah had a power, she had the gift of foresight. She knew magic, she was the enemy.

They had sent her away to a hidden, faraway monastery where she could do no harm to the family name. It was common for families to disown magic users since they were discarded by society. Often they were imprisoned or even worse, hanged before they could cause any real harm by joining the enemy's troops.

Felipe had been taught to fear magic users, but he could never disown her. He was beyond enraged. He cursed himself and cut ties with his grandparents, swearing that he'd do anything to find Farrah. He took what money was left of the inheritance and left.

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With the help of some of his old friends he gathered a small group to search for her and began a dangerous journey through the kingdom. Magic users had been driven away from cities and they inhabited caves and ruins and whatever miserable shelter they could find. Felipe and his friends met with several of their kind. The encounters were more often sad than hostile.

Whatever remained of Felipe's inheritance had gone to arranging the search and soon they were running out out of money. Someone from the group suggested – as a joke at first – that they take what they need from those who had taken so much already.

They became thieves, moving from one city to the next and leaving behind a trail of raided estates and banks. They could be cruel in order to survive – they were beginners so overreactions were made and people got hurt, but Felipe never lost sight of his goal: finding Farrah.

Personality:

Powers/Abilities: - no superpowers
- rogue: fights with two daggers
- can sing and play the flute

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