by PleaserOfCrowds » Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:49 pm
Username: PleaserOfCrowds
Name: Cygnus | Gender: Male
Personality:
A friendly, but rather strange and mysterious knight.
Despite his welcoming demeanor, not many are close with him. While helpful, many of the town’s residents are intimidated by his mere presence. How he seemingly never gets mad, or reacts to anything all that much. To put it shortly, most generally see him as off putting, believing his nature isn’t what it seems. Still, he doesn’t seem to notice their suspicion and he usually helps anyways. The knight himself is humble, never really speaking anything of himself and preferring to listen to the stories of other kalons. However, his history is a mystery even to the lord that took him in as Cygnus claims he cannot remember anything.
The lord himself has noticed a few things about Cygnus. For one, he occasionally seems to get lost in his own mind, staring blankly at the sky. Two, Cygnus appears to have advanced swordsmanship despite being relatively peaceful to the residents of the village. Three, occasionally he’ll notice Cygnus humming to a unfamiliar tune, of a language the lord himself is not familiar with.
It seems to be more than what meets the eye as despite Cygnus’s genuine kindness and loyalty, he sure does keep a lot of secrets that he himself doesn’t know...
AU:
In a kingdom trapped in time where no one should’ve been able to enter or leave, Cygnus just fell from the sky one particularly sunny day.
Its residents had never seen a winged kalon, only ever hearing about them in stories. But there he was, slumped over a fountain in the village as others gathered around the badly injured Cygnus. Amongst the commotion, the lord took him in as Cygus struggled to take off back into the sky with broken wings. For the first few days, the lord worriedly watched as Cygnus couldn’t keep still from nightmares that seemed to plague him, as he explained to him with terrifying detail.
But by the end of that week, Cygnus was now strangely calm. When the lord asked him about it, he simply said he didn’t remember anything from those days.
When Cygnus fully healed, instead of trying to leave like many others he choose to stay much to the surprise of the lord. Rather, Cygnus begged the lord to be a knight for him, which he reluctantly accepted.
That’s how the story goes, at least to the lord. For he couldn’t find any answers to who Cygnus was before he crashed into the city square.
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Cygnus remembers nothing of his past life beforehand, yet he is instinctively drawn to the familiar things of his old life he cannot place a hand on.
He used to be a general to an army of winged kalons just like him, but soon he was struck down by the modern technology of the era outside of the kingdom. Shortly before his fall into the hidden kingdom, he was defending his city from invaders, but he was quickly struck down by their technology, plummeting to the ground far below.
It was his desire to live that allowed him to enter the hidden kingdom in the first place, thus saving his life. Unfortunately for him, most newcomers have a tendency to lost most of their memories due to a strange gem in the lord’s castle. Soon after he crashed, the benevolent but strange lord took him in.
Through becoming a knight for the lord, slowly he begins to recover his old memories throughout the span of many months. When finally he recovers his memories, he finds that the place he calls home has stopped existing in its entirety, destroyed completely by the invaders. The floating city he defended with his life is now completely gone.
With nowhere left to go, he returns to the kingdom and tries to forget about it, but he still hums the old songs of his former home. However, it doesn’t go unnoticed by the lord...
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PleaserOfCrowds on Mon Dec 16, 2019 5:23 am, edited 5 times in total.
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