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“I’m a baker. I make bread! I don’t shoot guns!”
NAME
Alan Booker
ALIAS
Al, Allie
GENDER
Male
SKILLS
Baking: Alan is actually quite a good baker, though this skill is less useful on the road. Still, he’s capable of more than baking bread and is a decent cook in a pinch.
Gunfighting: Every young man in the Freetowns is expected to pass basic combat training. Alan is a decent shot with a long gun, but he’s not exactly hardened by years of combat. He can shoot a stationary target, but anything moving or living Al would have trouble with. Ultimately, Alan has never had to take a human life; and the prospect of doing so would terrify him.
Fleet-footed: Alan’s pretty quick, having to grow up running around town a very busy and quite dangerous manufacturing town.
Educated: Unlike 90% of the population, Alan is capable of reading and writing (skills forgotten when survival is paramount). He’s a rare person who can actually man heads or tails of his father’s library.
Gunfighting: Every young man in the Freetowns is expected to pass basic combat training. Alan is a decent shot with a long gun, but he’s not exactly hardened by years of combat. He can shoot a stationary target, but anything moving or living Al would have trouble with. Ultimately, Alan has never had to take a human life; and the prospect of doing so would terrify him.
Fleet-footed: Alan’s pretty quick, having to grow up running around town a very busy and quite dangerous manufacturing town.
Educated: Unlike 90% of the population, Alan is capable of reading and writing (skills forgotten when survival is paramount). He’s a rare person who can actually man heads or tails of his father’s library.
PERSONALITY
Alan is a surprisingly high-strung young man. He’s spent the majority of his life trying to live up to both his father’s and his grandfather’s expectations for himself. This has made him slightly neurotic and fretting over little things. He also carries a deep sadness after his mother’s death from influenza when he was young. Due to his sheltered upbringing in the safety of Baker’s Rest, and due to his family; Alan has had the luxury of growing up with an idealistic nature, apart from the dark cynicism of the world around him. He holds a slight desire for adventure held back by his need for familial approval.
A good way to describe Alan at first sight would be lonely. Alan's place as both the son and grandson of two of the most powerful men in town never did him much credit with his peers. Alan's is a quest for belonging in a world that is harsh and cold; and the further Alan moves from home the less identity he has of who is is supposed to be compared to what he has to be.
A good way to describe Alan at first sight would be lonely. Alan's place as both the son and grandson of two of the most powerful men in town never did him much credit with his peers. Alan's is a quest for belonging in a world that is harsh and cold; and the further Alan moves from home the less identity he has of who is is supposed to be compared to what he has to be.
HISTORY
Alan was born in Baker’s Rest twenty two years ago and has never left the city once. His youth was happy, with a doting mother, a kind grandfather and a stern but loving father. That changed when he was nine, and his mother was stricken with influenza; dying that winter. Alan’s father grew cold, his grandfather grew bitter, and Alan felt a deep divide between himself and the rest of the city. Alan’s only goals in life are to make his family proud, and to be the best baker that he can be. Of course, the hand of fate is cruel and has other things in store for Alan besides warm French loaves.
After his mother's death, Alan receeded from others; which only added to the stress of his place in the city. With few friends and a cold reception at his own home, Alan seeks approval from his work; and dived both into his training as a baker and at his tuteledge under his father. While he claims only to be a simple baker, Alan has had a large education from his father's library; giving him suprising knowledge and understanding in the most odd times.
The irony of Alan's name not matching up with his occupation was never lost on him, either. Nor was his father's insistence that he learn to read and write; even though his own expectations were that he would be a Baker like his mother and grandfather. Alan's entire life has been a strange misunderstanding of his expectations versus reality. Alan's only real friend is Maybeline Waters, the daughter of the biggest bargers in town and granddaughter of another councilmember. Their shared lot in life at the very least has given Alan someone to connect with.
Alan's place in the world is shadowed by his family; his father and grandfather's place in town and also their history before Blackfinger. Alan's own knowledge of his family's past is something that has been locked away from his prying eyes and ears; and he has no idea beyond the fact that his father arrived in Baker's Rest twenty two years ago and in that span of time both Baker's Rest and many of the other Freetowns experienced a boom in both economic prosperity and invention.
After his mother's death, Alan receeded from others; which only added to the stress of his place in the city. With few friends and a cold reception at his own home, Alan seeks approval from his work; and dived both into his training as a baker and at his tuteledge under his father. While he claims only to be a simple baker, Alan has had a large education from his father's library; giving him suprising knowledge and understanding in the most odd times.
The irony of Alan's name not matching up with his occupation was never lost on him, either. Nor was his father's insistence that he learn to read and write; even though his own expectations were that he would be a Baker like his mother and grandfather. Alan's entire life has been a strange misunderstanding of his expectations versus reality. Alan's only real friend is Maybeline Waters, the daughter of the biggest bargers in town and granddaughter of another councilmember. Their shared lot in life at the very least has given Alan someone to connect with.
Alan's place in the world is shadowed by his family; his father and grandfather's place in town and also their history before Blackfinger. Alan's own knowledge of his family's past is something that has been locked away from his prying eyes and ears; and he has no idea beyond the fact that his father arrived in Baker's Rest twenty two years ago and in that span of time both Baker's Rest and many of the other Freetowns experienced a boom in both economic prosperity and invention.
INVENTORY
-Cooking tools: Simple cooking tools including a pot, pan, and ladle. Perfect for cooking on the trails.
-Wilson Model 22 Holdout Pistol (4 rounds): A Blackfinger designed pistol, the Wilson sacrifices capacity and accuracy for a smaller concealable frame; easily fitting in the pocket. The .36 caliber rounds lack heavy stopping power or kinetic force; but allow for deeper control when fired from the hip.
-Wilson Model 22 Holdout Pistol (4 rounds): A Blackfinger designed pistol, the Wilson sacrifices capacity and accuracy for a smaller concealable frame; easily fitting in the pocket. The .36 caliber rounds lack heavy stopping power or kinetic force; but allow for deeper control when fired from the hip.
REASON FOR VISITING
Alan isn’t visiting! He lives here! Still; Alan’s reason for being out in the city instead of cooped up inside is simple: it’s Market Day at Baker’s Rest, and that means it’s time for him to show his grandfather that he can sell bread just as well as he can bake it!
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