#The A_______ meddler

[the-avaricious-meddler]

Filled out for Namkuzu the wonderful template by @t6fs

Flower: morning glories may be beautiful, but like any vine it grows rapidly and over anything it can grab- including itself.

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Rowan was born pre-fall and is in her 60s-ish. Both Vil and Namkuzu are beyond human lifespan- however Namkuzu appears in their mid to late 30s, and Villanelle appears in her 40s-50s.

All my curator OCs are beyond human lifespan, as are The Violet/The Orchidous Regent, The Grey/The Spiraling Monarch, and The Tower of Ash and Graves.

Glaszen (Namkuzu's failed attempt to create an artificial fingerking) and The Forgotten Meddler (weird Irrigo clone) are younger than Namkuzu but still beyond human lifespan. The Forgotten Meddler resembles Namkuzu when they were about 40 (albeit as a silhouette). The Dream-Watching Showman is in his late 30s.

The Overworked Assistant/The Overworked Enforcer, one of the POV characters in you are loved by the city, is in his mid 50s.

And The Not-Drowned-Zailor (SSeas PC) was in his 40s when he became a drownie.

How many people here have ocs that are over the age of 30?

Doesn't have to be a PC, can be any character within the universe

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On a first thought, they are completely normal. A bit on the lanky side, perhaps. Are they eating enough? Well, it's none of your business.

Their dress is perhaps a bit too casual, they use a few too many compliments for you to ever be confident they are genuine. But there's nothing worth being concerned about, there. If they get in trouble for their dress, that's their problem, and London has plenty of flatterers.

But their face. Their face.

You swear you saw it. Stared it down. They smiled at you, you think. Or was it a frown? You can't remember.

You can't remember... Anything about their face at all. Except for one single detail.

The look in their eyes.

That glint in their [redacted] eyes. A warm, almost glowing gleam of [redacted] amongst the [redacted]. It was... Unsettling, to say the least. Especially since it's the only thing you can seem to remember.

But they never acknowledge it. Are they aware of it? Surely, they must be. And why does no one else point it out?

Are you seeing things?

Perhaps a visit to the doctor's is in order. In fact, a good friend of yours recommended you one recently...

[the-avaricious-meddler]

Name: Namkuzu Moniker: The Avaricious Meddler (present), The A_______ Meddler (future) Age: 4000+ Species: Debatably human  Gender/Pronouns: No, They/it Ambition: Light Fingers (False-Star Ending) Profession: Crooked-Cross Lodgings: A Handsome Townhouse, Various Hideouts Across London Closest To: Urchins Other Close Affiliations: LF crew (Allies), The Hybrid (child), Mr Fires (Object of Obsession), The Manager of The Royal Bethlehem (Object of Obsession), The New Sequence (Dubiously Allies), The Great Game (Red), Mourners (As much allies as they can be, which is not much), The Rowdy Corsair & Co. (Allies), Hell, Rubberies, Starved Men, Fingerkings (Dubiously Allies, on shaky terms), Cats (Dubiously Allies) Most Valued Primary Stat(s): Shadowy, Persuasive Most Valued Advanced Stat(s): Mithridacy, Shapeling Arts Ship: Nyx-Class Zubmersible Estivals Experienced: Horticulture Hell, The Sixth Coil

Exceptional/Premium stories canon to this character: 

-The Icarian Cup                                     -Inheritance -Homecoming                                         -Paisley -Cricket, Anyone?                                   -Written in The Glim -The Ballad of Johnny Croak                -The Bloody Wallpaper -Say it With Flowers                               -The Sunken River -The Shallows                                         -There is The Richest Juice in Poison Flowers -Uncovering Secrets Framed in Gold -The Green King -A Newt by Any Other Name               -Slobgollion -Arcana                                                   -Deja Vu -The Clay Man's Arm                            -The Laws of The Game -The Stolen Song                                   -The Stripes of Wrath

Personality: Impulsive, selfish, obsessive, and has a tendency to betray others to keep from getting attached to them. 

History: Originally from the first city, Namkuzu, through unknown means, learned the fate that awaited their home- complete destruction, and being replaced by the second city. Wishing to escape death, they made a deal with the fingerkings, allowing them to escape into a relatively safe part of Parabola. The exact cost of this deal is unknown. Also around this time, they found The Cave of The Nadir, but willingly forgot its location after an incident which resulted in a copy of them made of Irrigo being created. They were introduced to the Shapeling Arts, as well as Rubbery techniques for avoiding aging. This sparked the beginning of their obsession with immortality, though it wasn't yet nearly as bad as it would come to be. Alongside this, they also slowly learned how to change their appearance whilst still appearing human. Over time, and across cities, they took on several aliases, different identities to prevent anyone from catching onto what they were doing. And each time a new city fell, they returned to their hiding place in Parabola, never even attempting to stop it. When the fourth city was destroyed, much sooner than expected, they only barely escaped. Years passed. During a stint in New Newgate, they abandoned an old alias and took on the name "Alizaben Thomas" as they made their escape, erasing all ties to that name's records. Not long after, they learned through a contact, a music-hall singer who did jobs as a surface-runner to supplement her dwindling income, of a massive diamond ripe for the plucking. Of course, this did not go as planned. 

(Major Light fingers spoilers below)

The amount of resistance put up against their search only fueled their desire to continue, even going so far as to willingly drive themself mad in the house of mirrors to get into the Royal Beth to find the singer's sister Clara, and not turn back when it came time to break into the Orphanage after both were captured. They did not take Poor Edward's threats of burying them alive seriously. They really should have. Because they got caught, and he did just that. Fortunately for them, they'd been tending to a particular plant, and it rescued them from certain, continuous deaths. Undeterred, they returned to the Orphanage- and this time, they succeeded. After rescuing Clara, they set the Orphanage alight and escaped on a stolen dirigible. From there, and now fairly certain the diamond they originally sought did not exist, but in too deep to back out, they set out knowledge of the roof and its inhabitants. Which led them to one Doctor Vaughan, who they tracked down and met with great effort. Their alliance was, at first, shaky at best. Neither trusted the other all that much, but it was clear that Clara would die without intervention, so there were no other options. With what they learned, they prepared for a trip to the roof, and after a brief distraction from Poor Edward, they ascended. After gaining what they needed from a Moon-mother to make Clara's condition- pregnancy with a human moon-miser hybrid- survivable, at least for Clara, they left the roof into Parabola, ending up on the skin of the sun. Unfortunately, this was a great offense to The Boil of Calamities, and by extension, the fingerkings- they tread on sacred ground without permission. Having already offended the fingerkings in the past by attempting to create an artificial facsimile of one, Namkuzu knew it would be difficult to mollify them, and as such, they fled into the jungle with their companions. Preparing the rest of the birth was no easy task either, and they ended up having a run-in with a Master of The Bazaar- Mr Fires, who had one of the needed materials. Agreeing to give the hybrid to it once it was capable of leaving Parabola, they were given the material- and, at Fires' suggestion, burned down Wines' library of love stories where they'd had the meeting. They hadn't been lying when they said they'd give the hybrid to Fires. But that plan was ruined by one simple fact: they got attached. Having known the hybrid- their child- and seeing it grow up, they decided they simply could not hand it over to its fate. But how they would save it, they did not know.

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You could have sworn you saw their face.... But no matter how hard you try, you just can't seem to remember it.

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New oneshot just dropped

This one's about Namkuzu and The Boatman

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Namkuzu eye reference

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gay revenge