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Character Profile: Rhys Lucen

Full Name: Ghostspeaker Rhys Alexey Lucen

Nickname: Rhys

Age: 16

Pronouns: He/him, but he also doesn't really care

MBTI: ISFJ maybe? Idk I can’t type him he's Difficult

Personality Description: He’s kind, stubborn, and curious; he's also incredibly loyal, but shy. He can be a bit awkward, but fakes confidence when necessary. He loves people tho.

Backstory: His mother, Ghostspeaker Deirdre Lucen, died soon after he was born, leaving his father, Nikolai, both to take care of Rhys and become the Ghostspeaker since there was no heir old enough to take the position yet.

Rhys was then raised by a mostly absent father, who was more concerned about furthering the Ghosts’ goals for his own glory than his own children, since the Ghostspeaker had adopted Val by then, too. The only time Rhys really spent with his father was in training to become the next Ghostspeaker, and this led to a huge fear of failure for him, as well as fear of what taking the position would do to him.

And then Val ran away, and Rhys’ father hatched a plan to recover the people’s hopes—bring back the Ghostborn, children Gifted to a Ghostspeaker by the Ghosts themselves.

So Rhys became an older brother to a winged baby girl named Brynn.

Rhys now adores Brynn with all his heart, so when the people find out she exists and aren't receptive to bringing back the species they thought was cursed, he takes her on the run just in time to become the next Ghostspeaker and receive an impossible mission:

Kill all immortals, the only people in the world who can’t be killed…to his knowledge.

Likes: Reading, journaling, taking care of kids, being helpful generally, classical music

Triggers/Dislikes: The dark, the unknown, any mention of his future

Relationships (by the end):

- Nikolai Lucen | Father

- Valentine Lucen | Sister

- Brynn Lucen | Sister

- Ellis Lucen | Brother

- Sterling Pierce | Friend

- Devin Snyder | Girlfriend? It’s complicated

Theme Song:

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More Rhys drabbles when?

Bet (aka as soon as I have time 😭)

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• THEME SONG TAG GAME •

Thank you for the tag, @dioles-writes!!

Rules: Pick three ocs and assign them a song!

Cam - Bones, Imagine Dragons

Kai - Eternal Life, Palaye Royale

Rhys - Keel Timing, Manchester Orchestra

Open tags :3

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕚𝕗𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣 𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥

Genre: Dystopian/fantasy

Series Title: The Ghostspeaker Saga

Number in Series: #1

Other Books in Series: The Deity in the Dark (Prequel), The Holy and the Healed, Of Mages and Martyrs, The End of the Eternal (Sequel)

Blurb:

On the planet of Zephan, three teenagers live their lives the way they always have.

Rhys Lucen—the son of the world’s ruler, the Ghostspeaker—lives in luxury with his family, including his secret and possibly cursed half-sister, Brynn. But when word gets out that three-year-old Brynn is alive, people start to panic and riot, and Rhys has to run for his and Brynn’s lives, aided by the same Ghosts that his father has the Gift of speaking to…

Sterling Pierce and his sister, Sage, struggle to survive their abusive Mage father’s magic addiction—which he feeds using them as an endless supply. But Sterling has the Gift of using magic as well, so when his father threatens to murder the siblings in a fit of rage, Sterling uses his power to fight back—killing his father, and nearly killing Sage by mistake. Now she needs a magic transfusion bigger than what any hospital on Zephan can provide, and there's only one way to gather more…

Kairo Rayos is descended from a long line of Ghostspeakers—one that ended with his infamous immortal father, Lev, who started the Lunari Alliance to fight the Ghosts’ rebellion against the Creator God, Solaios. Now Lev has been banished to the abandoned Blanklands surrounding Zephan City, and Kairo, thanks to a deal his father struck with the Ghostspeaker, is safe inside—but most Zephnic people don’t take kindly to followers of Solaios, especially immortal ones, and all Kai wants is peace. This kind of peace, however, can only come through the afterlife, and as his family and therapist are always quick to tell him, immortals can’t die. But when proof appears that they can—and have, as an immortal’s dead body was found in the Blanklands, seemingly murdered—Kai sets out to find the killer, and through them, eternal peace…

As Rhys finds himself assigned a seemingly impossible task from the Ghosts—killing every living immortal—and Sterling teams up with him to collect the immortals’ magic for Sage, they discover that things are not what they seem on Zephan, and that they're included in a prophecy called The End of Immortality. The question is whether or not the prophecy is true, let alone morally right—and will they find the supposed ‘chosen one’, who happens to be trying to get himself killed?

Character Bios:

Kairo Rayos | Bio

Saint Valentine Lucen | Bio

Ghostspeaker Rhys Lucen | Bio

Ellis Lucen | Coming Soon

Evara Rayos | Coming Soon

Sterling Pierce | Coming Soon

Nathanael Moore | Coming Soon

Geo DeSoto | Coming Soon

Devin Snyder | Coming Soon

Tags:

#the gift and the ghostspeaker

#tgatg

#*insert character name* the gift and the ghostspeaker

#*insert character name* tgatg

Color: Yellow

Alpha Reading Community: Coming Soon

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Thank you for tagging me @illarian-rambling!!

OC Headcanon Tag

Rules: use this website to generate headcanons for your OCs, then explain if they're right or not!

I'm only doing The Gift and the Ghostspeaker and This Blood Will Remember bc people liked tgatg and I'm currently hyperfixated on tbwr XD

Kai is going to hell.

This is incredibly ironic, he's one of the two main characters in The Gift and the Ghostspeaker who is a (fantasy world) Christian XD

Rhys can drive.

Yes? Kinda? The question is should he—

Sterling would succumb to the fog.

And frequently does!

Ellis believes in ghosts and insists on trying to summon one at every sleepover.

Also ironic, he's half-Ghost, and would do anything to prevent that from happening!

Val is unemployed.

Legally yes?

Nat has been canceled on Twitter.

Oh absolutely.

Gio wakes up on November 1st and starts decorating for Christmas.

Yep.

If someone they knew commited a crime, Evi would cover for them.

In a heartbeat

Devin role plays on discord.

Don't tell anyone but yeah.

Brynn likes to eat straight coffee beans.

What supernatural three year old doesn't?

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Cam could easily survive The Hunger Games.

Totally XD

Juni is tumblr famous.

Very—

Dresden stole a lollipop at the checkout when they were 5 and they still feel guilty about it.

Mayyybe?

Indigo sucks at saying tongue twisters.

In English, he does. Not in his own language tho

Tagging @seastarblue and open tags!!

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ok so this is lame but whatever. it exists also meet brynn

“We’re almost there, Brynny,” Rhys managed, shifting his tiny half-sister to his other arm as she wrapped her wings around him. “Almost there, I promise.” He wasn't sure what ‘almost’ meant exactly, but it was vague enough to be true…he hoped. He wasn't sure how much longer he could carry Brynn through this apocalyptic place.

“Miss my Daddy.” A muffled sob made its way through Rhys’ shirt, and he winced.

“I know, baby. I know.” He bit his lip, hoping their father was still okay—praying to the Ghosts he had gotten out of the Temple alive. If he hadn't…

Rhys shivered. No, he didn't need to think about that. He had enough to deal with already between Brynn and his new mission.

He paused to glance around the Blanklands for a moment. Nothing had really changed significantly since they'd gotten out of the city; there were only crumbling, overgrown buildings as far as Rhys could see. How anyone, immortal or not, could live here was a mystery to him.

But some did, and Rhys had to find a very specific Blanklander before the Ghosts gave up on him…

“Not thinking about that,” he muttered to himself, adjusting his hold on Brynn and trudging on into the Blanklands. “We’re not going to think about that.”

He wasn’t really sure who he was talking to; was it himself? Or was it the Ghosts who had made their home in him—who had already made him the next Ghostspeaker?

He didn’t know at this point—and the way life was going right now, he guessed he never would.

More Rhys drabbles when?

Bet (aka as soon as I have time 😭)