[OOC] The Redwatch

[Little Bill]

Current player contributions to the canon:
Dung beetle sewage
Cheese not made out of latex

[Sloth]

Oi m8 I suck at these basic sheet things goddamn.

"Aim higher than any mouse ever has before."

Name:
Cedric Sparrowkin, formerly known as Cedric of Groveshire

Rank:
Watcher

Appearance:
Cedric is still little more than a child to his more experienced cohorts. He has a handsome coat of light brown fur, and other than his larger than average ears and slightly too long whiskers, he has the average look of a stereotypical citizen of Redfield. He has yet to gather any amount of scars during his time in the Redwatch, something his colleagues have said speaks volumes about his inexperience. Cedric likes to say it's a sign of his superb abilities. Most notably, Cedric wears a fencing glove on his left paw and a longsword on his right waist, a stark contrast to his nature as a sparrow rider. Cedric's newly made cloak is straight white.

Personality:
In many ways, Cedric Sparrowkin is still every bit the farmer's son he was when he first entered the Redfort. He still speaks plainly and he still holds the watch in high regard. Most of all, he remains every bit as reckless and daring. He is quick to laugh and make light of the dangers of his chosen profession, which makes him popular amongst his fellow young pilots but garners him no small amount of resentment from the more experienced flight jockeys. Some of whom say Cedric is either fearless, half mad, or both. But no one has been able to deny his skills on sparrowback. Maybe the harsh realities of service in the Watch will eventually get to him, but for now, Cedric remains an amiable and, in his own words, heroic example of a Watchmouse.

[Holy Soldier]

So Fresh

Name

Copper of Autumnbrook; Pup

Rank

Greenband

Appearance

Copper was named after his reddish-orange fur. His fur color would be considered fancy for not many mice have such an attractive luxury. His fur has a gentle shimmer that appears whenever he moves, giving him a copper-penny appeal. His eyes are maroon, whiskers white and short, and ears large and cupped. Copper has no scars or any deformities, a clear sign that he is fresh to the force. The mouse is slender and young in vigor and appearance. When the mouse isn't serving his duties in the kitchen, the mouse carries a brown sack for holding pots and other kitchenware as well as an extra sack for collecting food and ingredients.

Personality

Copper is naïve and boyish in nature. He is very optimistic and likes to believe that there is good in every mouse. He hails from Autumnbrook in the Kingdom of Redfield, so it is apparent that his life has been rather good if not spoiled. Copper, seeking a life of adventure, joined the Redwatch simply because he believed the Watch was good. His imagination led him to believe that he would be a great watchmouse one day, bathing in glory, hero of many battles…until he wound up working in the kitchen. Copper is not entirely disappointed that he wound up as a Greenband rather than an outright Watcher. He learned how to cook even if he thinks cooking is for does (female mice). He has been able to make many Watchers happy with his cooking, and he has started experimenting with new recipes.

As a Greenband mouse, Copper has heard many Watchers whisper behind his back about how he is easy prey. Many mice find his naïve and innocent nature to be amusing/annoying for they are eager to see it crushed on his first watch. Copper doesn’t let their whispers bother him even if it is true that he has never taken a life before. He is serving a good cause, and if he is assigned to a good mentor, then his mentor will have the best Greenband around (and best cook).

Godric

Name

Godric The Raven; The Black; The One-Eyed; The Peg Leg; Wielder of the Flukespear

Rank

Watchguard

Appearance

Godric’s Westercroft blood is obvious from his black, thick and fuzzy fur making him appear round and plump. His appearance is grizzlier than other mice. When he isn’t wearing his black eye-bandage, his right eye is a white blind pearl with a claw scar over it. His left is a black glossy bead. The fur at his chin is white and gray from age. His maw has an overbite, his two milk-white incisors forever visible over his lower jaw. From between his ears down his neck, his mane is cut short but for a track of hair creating a distinct ridge. Without his gear on, his furry body has white old battle scars and his right leg has a mangy patch of missing fur.

Godric wears a black cloak and a vest of tanned lizard mail. At his back, he has equipped on a lizard leather strap his double-headed spear called "The Flukespear." The Flukespear is a war trophy he acquired when he defeated the Weasel King, Kharag - the weasel who bit his left leg off. With the Flukespear at his back, the Watchguard is imposing even with his peg leg.

Personality

Godric is quiet for being a Watchguard. His leadership is much different from the other leaders. He doesn’t scream for he feels he doesn’t have to/shouldn't have to. Godric only tells his Watchers once and they get it. At least the ones who have been under his leadership long enough do. Those who don’t learn realize this when the Westercroft mouse is on them beating the obedience into them. While this may seem like bad leadership to those sensitive types, the Redwatch cannot afford to lose lives over ignorance and incompetence. Therefore, Godric believes his mice to be the most disciplined and focused. His squad tends to mostly be full of dark-colored rodents due to the black mouse stigma making it difficult for them to feel welcomed in most other squads.

The black mouse emanates an unfriendly aura. When he is about, his mere presence could quiet a room. It could be because of the numerous rumors that have manifested about him. Once the grapevine has gotten ahold of a story, it is never the same. Because Godric is a mouse of few words, he is a mystery, and this mysterious personality has led to many a young mouse skewing his tales.

“He’s a dark one. I heard Watchers beg to be switched from his squad.”

“It’s because he’s a black mouse. They’re unlucky.”

“Why is he called The Raven? Is it because he’s black?”

“No; it’s because he has a pet raven.”

“What? I’ve never seen it.”

“None of us have but that’s what they say.”

“Catshit!”

Godric has gotten into the habit of making few friends for over the years he has lost many. The Watch has taken much life and limb out of him. While the mouse is far from exhausted with the Redwatch cause, he has become desensitized. Everything is business. No feelings go with him to battle. He takes the most logical route, and if it requires sacrifice, then so be it. Some mice may not agree with his methods, but they have proven to be effective at times.

[Asura]

thief mouse

"Not everybody's a hero. Sometimes Watching is just the means to an ends.."

Name:

Bernia the Briar

Rank:

Greenband

Appearance:

It is said looks are deceiving, and certainly this is the case with Bernia. Short in height and slender of build, the mercurial youngster cuts a very unintimidating form despite her temperament. Her fur is cinnamon brown in tone, intermittently specked with small pale spots along her back and blended into a milky white on her undercarriage. Her youthful features are quite clear, with a short muzzle, shiny black whiskers and large rounded ears perhaps just a tad too big for her head outing her as a rookie if her height did not. She does not often dress herself, seeing clothing as unnecessary, though she does keep a leather belt around her narrow hips to hold various pouches and tools, and perhaps more notably, insists upon wearing a copper band around the base of her tail.

Personality:

In possession of an aptly given alias, Bernia can best be described as thorny. She is capricious and hot-tempered, often spiteful and almost universally mistrusting. Self-serving as they come and greedy to a fault, she sees her apprenticeship at the watch as an opportunity to reach a better life for herself, in a manner than just happens to be considered 'honorable'. Her shunning of the noble ideologies of old, scornful behavior towards others and foul attitude towards authority figures lead her often to conflict and quarrel with her fellows, but she is not entirely negative. She is of strong will and not easily shaken, allowing her to think clearly in a crisis where some may cave to baser instincts and flee. Resourcefulness, a learned trait from years in the caverns, allows her to adapt to situations easily where some may faulter. All and all, she's an unpleasant mouse.

[Nemaisare]

I am annoyed at myself for not being able to hold up my end of the bargain. But as I haven't finished those other posts I owed, this is a good sign that I am currently full up of rp and need to not apply here until I'm less full. But this looks like it will be awesome and I wanna join in so I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it. Might jump in down the road if there's an opportunity. :)

[Little Bill]

Shitmouse WIP

Name
Angus of Fortkeep

Rank
Greenband

Appearance
Angus is a sandy brown red-eyed mouse, with sleek tawny fur and a short, pink tail. He has a few white hairs appearing on his muzzle, a fact that reminds him of his age every waking morning. Wearing only a green armband to indicate his rank, he has never picked up a sword, much more than purchased a signature weapon to keep at his side.

Personality
Angus joined the Watch not out of a sense of civic duty, but to escape his lifelong trade of sewer-cleaning.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@DeadbeatWalking

Bastard in every sense of the word.

"My family defended their lands for generations, but I am not of that family. My bloodline swore to protect all those under them, but I am not of their blood. My dynasty fought without peer in the mountains until the bitter end, but I am not of their namesake. So I did not die for them or their people. Shame me as you wish, but I have greater plans than simply being the bastard of some lost, remote castle."

Name: Aelfric the Bastard of Kyburgrad

Rank: Watcher, rising Watchguard.

Appearance: Aelfric is a grey mouse who wears the tattered banner of the lost castle of Kyburgrad, opting to wear that instead of the black cloak he was given. With the remains of the wealth from Caste Kyburgrad, he managed to equip himself in relatively heavy armor by most standards wearing a breastplate with metal forearm protectors. In addition, he wears a mail head coif with the cracked Crown of Kyburgrad in all of its dulled and dirtied glory. He wields a single weapon, a large two-handed great sword

Personality: Aelfric is a very contradictory if not outright hypocritical mouse. He says many things on how the family who shunned the illegitament child where fools for adhering to the their noble codes and honors and yet he wears their banner as well as the crown of the fallen lord, his father. He proclaims to have some great ambition but the way he recklessly fights suggests that perhaps he is seeking death. On some occasions he will happily use anyone around him as a tool to future his goals but at others he is shown to mourn very death he witnesses and has vowed vengeance on more than one occasion.

[Little Bill]

The issue I have with Aelfric is that his character is very bound to his ties to a family, which is something you give up when you join the Redwatch. I don't think Watch Captains and other higher-ups would appreciate a lone member of the Watch wearing a flag and a crown when he's supposed to be representing the Watch everywhere he goes.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@DeadbeatWalking Would it be possible to at least have one? If not I'll just change the cracked crown to like a circlet that's supposed to represent the crown of Kyburgrad to Aelfric and give him a small shield or something that has the emblem of his family on it.

[Lady Selune]

@DeadbeatWalking Would it be possible to at least have one? If not I'll just change the cracked crown to like a circlet that's supposed to represent the crown of Kyburgrad to Aelfric and give him a small shield or something that has the emblem of his family on it.

@ClocktowerEchos

Yo. Nibba. He don't want non watch flags.

[Little Bill]

As Selune mentioned, the Watch would not take kindly to an outward display of allegiance to a group that's not the watch. Joining the Watch is akin to formally cutting ties with your family -- your enemies can't find you, you don't inherit any lands, you nullify any former promises of marriage, and so on. If one guy breaks the uniformity of thousands of mice by wearing tokens of his family, this leads to three things

A) His peers, who are mostly lowborn, assume he thinks he's better than them. They beat him in the barracks with in the middle of the night. Aelfric removes his shield and circlet to stay safe.

B) His superiors, who notice his defiance of the rules, penalize him for disrupting the uniformity of the Redwatch. Aelfric is systematically bullied by superiors until he removes his shield and circlet.

C) The superiors of his superiors notice the Watchmice under their watch have allowed one mouse to flaunt his family's crest, which by extension makes them look bad. Aelfric is told to remove the signs of his home, or go back to it.

If you really wanna do a deposed nobleman, I think you should have Aelfric secretly keep tokens of his family around somehow. Maybe a dead sister's locket or a childhood instrument or something. I'm just spitballing here.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@DeadbeatWalking Ahh okay. What if he did something sneaky like have his family ring be a part of the pommel of his sword or something like that?

[Little Bill]

@ClocktowerEchos That would work, but because his character is very focused on his family, his sheet would need substantial beefing up.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@DeadbeatWalking He's not focused on his family though, his quote is literally him scorning the family who hated him and how he's trying to separate himself from them.

[Little Bill]

@ClocktowerEchos I was talking about his sheet. Of the sentences, four do not contain a direct reference to his past, which makes his sheet require more information. Also, the quote should be a belief.

[71452K]

...he recklessly fights suggests that perhaps he is seeking death. On some occasions he will happily use anyone around him as a tool to future his goals ....

@ClocktowerEchos

Redwatch needs to implement a more thorough HR (or rather, MR) psychiatric screening system, seriously. :P.

[BingTheWing]

pls no die dis luk kul

[Little Bill]

IC's up! To those of you not on discord, try to pop in every once and again so you can get the scoop on happenings.

[71452K]

I see, it's nowunder I thought OOC was strangely empty.

I haven't joined discord yet (must have missed it) will pop by every once in awhile to keep up with the times. Post will be up in 21-30 hours!

[Lady Selune]

Willow

"Just ‘ause we’re ‘oung doesn’t make us any worse at proteting dem people den you!

Name: Willow of Burrowhill

Rank: Greenband

Appearance: For a mouse, and especially a female mouse, Willow is exceptional. She’s taller and wider than average, and uses an equipment set that most mice would struggle to wear, let alone sprint in. With a Warhammer as tall as she is, a heavy metal ‘bucket’ helm, a thick gambeson and splinted greaves, as well as a buckler shield, she’s no small force on the battlefield, although her little green band sort of removes her intimidation factor.

Without her armour, she’s actually very pretty. Her fur is bordering on copper, with a black patch of fur splotched over her chest, where her heart lies. This is considered a rather auspicious marking by most mice- showing that she is destined to die a violent death, something that she has taken to heart.

Personality: It’s hard to be a relative to Myrtle without some of her burning fire rubbing off onto you. Willow, a lot of her formative years having been shaped by her aunt, has a little more than ‘some’ of that fire. If her aunt’ll run through a burning building to save someone however, Willow will stare down a fox in order to let a group of gnawers run for it. Her choice of weaponry and armour is endemic of this, although it is not the only thing that shows off this part of her personality.

Her ‘birthmark’ has affected her a lot. Being told practically from birth, often sadly, that she was going to die violently. Instead of thinking she was doomed however, she has interpreted this to believe that she will die in battle, and has internalised a fatalistic, but not overly negative, view of things. Running contrary to common gnawer belief, she hopes that by dying doing something noble or honourable, she’ll end up an afterlife with other warriors. This has been taken from truly ancient mythology, and she kinda has to keep it a secret so she isn’t completely reviled.

Lastly, Willow is a self-sufficient individual most of the time. She can tend to her armour herself, and because of a lonely childhood, feels just as comfortable around herself as she does others. Her Burrowhill accent does not help matters, it must be said.