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- Name: Steven Hao / Byron Silverwood
- Age: 22 / 26
- Gender: Male
- Race: Human
- Original Appearance: "Maybe if the tempo here was a bit more..."
- Current Appearance: "As you command, master." He's roughly 5'11" tall now, and his uniform is always kept as prim and proper as possible.
- Personality: Byron is a very straightforward and duty-bound individual, always following his master's requests to a T. Anything he does, he performs with the utmost care and precision to ensure the most ideal outcome—in other words, an extreme perfectionist. While he does have all the necessary knowledge to act as a run-of-the-mill butler, his expertise shines more as a bodyguard for his master rather than simply handling day-to-day activities. After a good 20-odd years' worth of memories from a different timeline popped into his head, though, Byron has become a tad more lax in terms of day-to-day proceedings (to the relief of his subordinates), but also a lot more attentive and aware of the world rather than focusing all of his effort towards his job. He's also taken to actively practicing and honing his abilities as well as gathering strange magical materials to study from the market, though the latter is more unknown to the rest of his coworkers.
- Brief Backstory: Steven was a college student that majored in recorded music, with a minor in physics to placate his parents. Much of his time as a young child was spent playing instruments, and his parents could not have been happier as they saw him take to playing them one after the other. While he could by no means be called a 'child prodigy', it was no issue for him to play any matter of instrument after a few months of practice. His desire to play one instrument would swap over every so often, but his skills would keep. In the end, all three of them found it easiest if he just decided to go after a course that would allow him to pursue them all equally. Physics, of course, was a backup plan just in case things fell through, but Steven himself was never really too worried about that... Especially since he was still being sought out during his school years to teach music or to play at concerts.
Byron, on the other hand, did not have as much of a free will. His mother had died during childbirth, and his father, of an unfortunate illness a few years later. The young, now-parentless Byron was soon sent off to an orphanage and was eventually picked up and raised at the age of 5 to become a servant. The young child did not have much in the way of autonomy or freedom; he was taught to read, write, and be particularly diligent from a young age by his instructor, a codgy old woman who had a penchant for scoffing whenever something went ever so slightly wrong, and the rest of the jobs came about as a result of life taking its course. He never once regretted it, though, even if the course was hellish; there was some modicum of pride to be gained in performing the best he could, come hell or high water. This trait is what got him his current position, and since then he has been living relatively comfortably through his everyday life. 'Relatively', of course, being the suspect word here.
The sudden clash of the memories of the two resulted in Byron having to take a few days off to sort through the sudden two decades of experience spontaneously dumped into his mind, but since most people wrote it off as a minor illness none were all too worried. None save for Byron and his master, of course—they were, and currently are, the only person he has divulged this influx of memories to (along with proof by means of becoming a one-man orchestra and physics teacher for a day). - Abilities: In terms of abilities, Byron has one very special skill: the ability to 'stop time' for any inanimate object or projectile near him. Untrained as it is now, the ability can keep up to 10 items suspended in time at once, at most; these objects, once paused, will retain their velocity, momentum, acceleration, and other such vectors, but will only resume once Byron allows them to. The maximum range of this ability is 10 meters, but Byron is only able to freeze those within five. Of course, objects can be locked in position if he so desires, but that would require double the resources of simply 'pausing' them in time.
- Skills: Byron excels in all manner of things a butler might be expected to do: micromanaging staff, cooking, cleaning, handling day-to-day expenses, and, most importantly, bodyguarding. With the addition of Steven's memories, though, Byron also has the ability to play the violin (among otger things) with relative expertise, as well as having the ability to handle more complex calculations involving things such as physics in order to set up traps or abuse his special ability to its fullest.
- Equipment: Knives. Lots of knives. Also a small pistol for emergency self-defense, but mostly knives. Anything else he requires, he can procure from the markets or the merchants.
- Origin: Our World