NAMEHarlequin Kingschilde
ALIASESHarley, Quin, H - MooCow, Beast.
AGE25
GENDERMale
SEXUALITYPansexual, promiscuous
SPECIES/ETHNICITY Kulshedra/Onyx and White
HEIGHT/BUILD 5'3" (161.54cm) / Slim, lean muscled.
OCCUPATIONPilot Cardinal - Solarta PR Department - Immediately under
Neeko ReynardRESIDENCEApartment in Solarta
__________________IN-DEPTH STUFFPHYSICAL Born and bred a kulshedra, Harley is an
out of season child. Born when the mother was not at her 'prime' for breeding, thus making the pregnancy short and harder. Because of this, he's small and slightly 'discoloured'. He was born black with white spots, but as time has gone on, he's gaining more and more white scales. For most of his life he's had a tail, black and white like the rest of him, but an accident as a candidate meant his tail had to be amputated. There was a blow to his balance but it was either relearn or die.
Of course he learned how to walk again. There's a bit of a wobble to his gait or it's very calculated and extremely graceful. Because of the way he's built, what little height he has is mostly leg. His ears are half his expression and you can usually tell how he's feeling by the state of them.
PERSONALITY Harley is very
unsure. What he did with confidence as a Candidate is done with a little hesitation now. Having been freshly chosen by a dragon not long ago, he's doing his best to mentally find the place of 'I'm a Pilot now' and not 'I'm a Candidate'. It's a thin line and he's having some trouble finding the right shoe size. Has trouble speaking up to those in higher ranks. Of course, deep down he's predator. It can only be beaten down so many times before it hides and Harley's predator hides best. He's good at blending in and being polite. Harlequin is
very good at getting a job done, having a kind of tunnel vision where he's bad at being side tracked, as such he's a very bad multitasker. He's unable to write notes and talk on the phone.
TL;DR - The tidbits.
WORKAHOLIC Harlequin
can't do nothing. He dreads weekends and free time. Harley as a working regular person ceases to exist when he has free time. Of course he's perfectly normal the next time he's at work, but if he doesn't have something to do he goes a little weird. As he's recently discovered, finding alcohol is a good way to fix boredom. He's also slowly collecting cook books, puzzles, calligraphy, clay. Anything to keep him busy and out of trouble. Trouble being someone else's bed.
KULSHEDRA As a kulshedra. He was raised human. The things little boys and little girls are taught are different from what little kulshedra children are taught and it shows. He's deeply ashamed of himself as a not-human and knows nothing of his more scaly heritage. He doesn't know how to process what his learned versus what his brain chemistry is telling him to do.
KINGSCHILDE While he's not blood related, Harlequin is a Kingschilde. They're an old family - very old - and from the upper levels. They have their fingers in many pies and own a number of businesses. Their main claim to fame is a line of alcoholic drinks, from very fancy wines to cheap drivle - though they don't put their name on that. While it's not a widely known name - it's High Class and usually only High Class would recognize it - it holds a lot of weight. Not for good reasons.
LOSTHarlequin is very lost. He's not a pet. He's not a rich prissy kid. Harlequin, as he see's it, is
nothing. He's a Pilot but he works at a desk. He's itchy for
more and his dragon doesn't want him to do that. Harley entertains the idea of just laying in the bathtub for too long or having accidents while doing dishes, but he knows it would be fruitless. So he hasn't tried it. Yet.
ABILITIESTelepathy- Fairly decent. He'd been using it for a while before he even really knew what it was. It would occasionally get him into trouble - projecting his thoughts onto others. He's hesitant to use it on anyone but his dragon now that he doesn't
have to.
Cryokinesis - Harlequin's downfall - or his salvation. Harlequin was freezing the water in the pipes in the mansion. Constantly. Heightened state of his emotions caused it and being where he was and what he was meant that it was happening constantly. His bedroom was freezing cold and on an occasion or two he'd caused frostbite in someone trying to touch him. He's since then gained excellent control over this and things only get a little
chilly when he's sort of out of his head, whether it's by anger or pleasure. He's got excellent control on creating small things and projecting
cold. Not so good at the whole blizzard thing.
RELATIONSHIPS [ T/W --- Bad things down there!]
Phareen A gorgeous iridescent lady dragon with long flowy hair and strange dragonfly like wings( Though they're fleshy), all her paws are mechanical as well as most of the tail. She's a sweet girl who's younger and still finds humanity fascinating. She wants to form a strong bond with her Pilot so a few times a month she wants nap time together. Where Harley lets her curl up and he sits with her and they do something and he tries not to think. So far, they haven't been together many times but it's nice to be around someone who can see inside his head and doesn't have any thoughts of his past. She was the dragon of a past squadmember of the Solarta Valkyries, which is why she's so fond of the location.
Co-WorkersDoesn't really know them yet.
MotherThe warden. The woman who runs everything. The one that bought him in a bid to find her son a protector. Of course she was fed false information but by the time Harlequin grew up - and stopped growing - it was too late. Rich enough to get away with anything, Harlequin has no relationship with her by choice though she sends him their families famous wine occasionally so he can't forget them - because
Her adopted son is a Pilot! - Of course he drinks it. It's his. He's earned it
FatherA puppet. Harlequin just feels sorry for him. Of course, there's deep loathing and Harlequin is looking for the day he dies because when Mother was on business trips and the maids could tell, who else was he going to spend his nights with?
BrotherHarlequins relationship with his 'brother' is strange. A little older than the kulshedra, he was also Harlequins first lover of sorts. They were supposed to bond. They were supposed to be close. They were, almost inseparable. This of course worked out for Mother because she wanted that. A stalwart protector for her sweet son. One of the more notable ventures was when a strange came up behind his brother with intentions to pat his shoulder. Harlequin turned his head and cleaning bit off a few fingers before spitting them out. Publicly he was punished - he had cost them money in medical bills. In private he was praised.
HISTORY Harlequin was born from an affair. The need for contact had struck a mated pair but, alas, they weren't mated to each other. The woman, married to a military man, had been apart from him for a year already and he was going to be gone for several more. The chance of a child was extremely unlikely but that was exactly what they got. The woman didn't know what to do. Of course her husband would understand but she was afraid, so she took to the web. Asked questions. Eventually, she found a lovely upper class couple willing to adopt her child for a lump sum.
What she didn't know was that she was basically selling her child to be a pet. Harlequin was bought and raised to be her own sons companion. A specialty pet. And what a rare color. The woman, whom Harley would call Mother, knew what she was getting. He would grow to be big and strong. He'd take care of her son and be a good solid friend. They were. Her 'children' grew up together and Harley knew he'd have no better friend than his 'brother.'
Harley's upbringing was rife with abuse of all kinds. Growing up was a terror. Be less of an animal. Be more of an animal. Stop getting attached. Get attached. Conflicting messages for his animal brain. Things that shouldn't happen to a child. Harlequin is several kinds of fucked up - though he'd never admit it. With a past he'd much rather forget, being drafted into the candidate program was a blessing he never thought he wanted.
Of course it was an honor but it also meant if he'd fail he'd be gone. Forever.
Which was also a good outcome.
Harlequin only gave his brother a hug, brief so suspicion didn't rise.
Then he never saw them again.
He knows they boast about him now. They didn't visit. They didn't send packages. Nothing. It was a strange kind of heartbreak, the quiet rejection and for a time it seemed like he wouldn't graduate fully. Too much inner turmoil to get his icy-powers to work properly. Of course, coming to terms with being so coldly rejected to some degree with it helped. And he was well on his way to having a dragon pick him. His first meeting with Phareen was intense. It was the first time in a long time that anyone or anything had touched him. A gentle nuzzle against his shoulder and he just stared at her.
There were tears but he let her do what she needed, even if it made his head hurt and Phareen knew that he was hers and he would be hers forever. Young for a dragon, she'd lost multiple partners in combat and she didn't want to lose him too. So, at the insistence of his dragon Harlequin got a desk job. He was cute, she said. Cute and sweet.
She also liked the way the sun glittered off her scales ( and his! the white ones were almost iridescent like hers in the sunlight!) so off to Solarta they were sent. Harlequin is doing better, "better", so far away from Haviah - he suspects that was almost the reason they were so far from there. When he finds himself in dark places - during free time - he feels Phareen in his head as a calming presence.
Having just graduated, Harlequin doesn't know what to do with his freetime. He's never been by himself, there have always been maids and people in the mansion. Other candidates. He was in stage 5 for a short while, but he was still a candidate so it was
different. Harlequin finds himself disliking free time. Though he appreciates the wine.
Now he's a hard worker who doesn't know how to have regular relationships with people so he just gives them(and pushes on them) what they probably really want anyway. Any attention is good attention.
Pilot Program
17-17 Stage 1
17-19 Stage 2
19-21 Stage 3
21-23 Stage 4
24 Stage 5 -- Graduation
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