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mythmakers) wrote2013-11-16 05:53 pm
mythmakers) wrote2013-11-16 05:53 pm
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❅ Applications
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Simon was born the youngest of seven brothers, all with the same name. He was raised as a farmer, and worked his family’s land with his brothers without much desire or expectation for any great life than that. As a child, he discovered his talent for theft while his brothers each learned a trade from their father; he was unable to learn any trade his father tried to teach him. After the first incident where he discovered this talent, he never stole anything that he did not almost immediately return. Anything he stole was more for the benefit of proving that he could rather than any desire for material wealth, for he was content with his life as it stood.
This all changed when one day the King of the land went out riding and summoned Simon and his brothers to be brought before him to commend them on their work in his fields. His oldest brother introduced them, and after learning that each of the brothers had a special trade the King inquired after all of them. He tried to evade answering the question, but after extracting a promise that the King not execute him, he confessed that his special talent was that of theft. The king flew into a rage, in spite of that fact that Simon hadn’t even stolen anything, even though he could have, and Simon spent the next several months in the dungeons of the King’s castle while his elder brothers displayed their special talents to the king.
Finally, he was brought from the dungeons to ‘steal’ a bride for his King, and since he had no desire to stay in the dungeons any long than he already had, he agreed. With his cleverness and the gift special talent he managed to steal the Princess Helena and bring her back, where the King wooed her and they were married. Simon travelled back to Princess Helena’s father to bring him an invite to the wedding. After all the involved efforts of himself and his brothers, the King’s thanked them and offered them anything they wished. The brothers asked that their fields not be taxed, and that the King pardon the youngest Simon, and the king agreed.
Even after returning home and working hard in their fields, Simon found he was still discontented at his treatment and resentful of his king. Thus he set off traveling for a while to try and ease his sour memories associated with the whole ordeal. By the time he came back he found his home kingdom had become one of the rapidly fading and sleeping kingdoms. Now homeless and without his family, he wandered until he came to the Märchenstraße and settled there to work in the fields nearby, as was his original profession.
A more detailed/fleshed-out history can be found {HERE}.
Canon Abilities or Powers:
Other than being a farmer, Simon has a special ‘trade’, in that he can steal anything. Directly quoting “‘… There is only one thing I can do really well, and that is—to steal, and to hide the smallest scrap of anything I have stolen. Not the deepest vault, even if its lock were enchanted, could prevent my stealing anything out of it that I wished to have.’” Simon is, in essence, the perfectly talented thief, and nothing is safe from his hands should he put his mind to taking it.
First Person Sample:
[ There is some hesitance in the way the neat script works its way across the page, as though the writer is either unused to or unsure of the words he offers forth. ]
Those of you [ a spot of ink, where the nib of his pen has lingered too long ] unfamiliar with this world, I would give you a word of caution.
Even to her heroes, a story is seldom kind.
[ It’s as long and short of a warning he thinks he can give, and he does not want to presume farther. He has his own limits to his story. And, in all fairness, he is truly little more than a farmer. ]
Third Person Sample:
This time, when the door to his cell opens, it’s not some meagre scraps of food, but rather more guards in their prim-pressed uniforms. He wants to hate them, but at this point, he is too hungry, and he knows it to be a futile effort anyways. Simon knows well enough that it is not the guards who placed him here, and they stand every at their duty as he and at his, laboring in the very fields belonging to the King who placed him here.
It’s a bitter thought, and perhaps a pointless one, so he lets it go, for now, lets his hunger and his weary weight swallow him.
They move to make him rise, and as he finally musters the strength to stand they remove his shackles. He is still a little shocked as they begin to guide him out of the dungeon and Simon wonders, not-unmoved if the king has had enough and today is the day he dies. Its strange to think that this thought scares him, as his feet pause before his mind catches up and he stumbles slightly. Simon feels so brittle, and never before has he been so frighteningly aware of how young he is, before this moment. Never more has he felt like such a child.
He knows with a distant, elsewhere-thought that he looks wan and thin before the king—more pale from months in the dark than he had been after years in the field—but some of that is from the sudden icy fear that grips along his spine.
When the King gives him his task, and then his justification, Simon is too relieved to still be alive and too tired—and, truthfully, just plain hungry now that his body has caught up with the necessities of living—to muster the strength think of the hypocrisy in what the King says. Stealing for the Kingdom, when he has yet to steal and keep a single thing in his life.
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