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"Yeahyeahyeah! It's me!" Jeremy all but shouted, just as excited as he'd been when he pulled the same thing with Sid. "I'm great! Better than great even, now that I'm back here! I just got back last night, so I was super excited to meet everyone again! Oh, and don't worry, I get why you wouldn'tve recognised me. I mean, look at me! I wear hawaiian shirts now!"

He paused for a moment as he saw her get embarrassed, even going so far as to blush, before he realised why she did and started laughing again.

"Oh right, I see what's going on!" He said, before making his own series of hand gestures. "Don't worry, made sure to check and make sure I hadn't forgotten it before I left. Not gonna be having any secret conversations while I'm around anytime soon!"

He looked to the guy sitting with her, the masked man from before, and returned the wave he sent him with another wide grin.

"Hey, nice to meetcha! I'm Jeremy, an old pal of Sid and Ami and the others! Moved away a while back, but I guess I couldn't really stay away even if I'd wanted to."

He also turned to the other guy who'd been sitting with Ami and the bear-faced person when she called him back over, introducing him as Ludwig in her notebook. He was also notably the guy Sid had strong armed her way in front of to talk to the mystery lady.

"Hey, sorry about that. Sid can be pretty excitable, but once you get used to her pace you'll probably realise she's actually really cool! Or die from exhaustion trying to keep up, one of the two. Anyway, like Ami said, I'm Jeremy! Nice to meetcha!"

He looked over to the squirrel currently messing around in Amelia’s hair.

"Anyway yeah, you had this little one when you came in right? Didja find her out in the woods around here, or have you guys been a team for a while?"

[  BASICS  ]

[  NAME  ]
Leonard Karsten

[  AGE  ]
21 

[  GENDER  ]
Male

[  COMMUNICATOR OF  ]
Wayland

[  MYTHOLOGY OF (YOUR GOD)  ]
One of the greatest smiths of norse and germanic mythology, Wayland was the creator of many famous weapons and armour, such as the sword Mimung. While probably not technically a god, he was also not human, or at least not fully, being known as both a son of the giant Wade and a lord of the elves, and many consider him to be the closest equivalent to a god of the forge in norse/germanic mythology.

[  APPEARANCE  ]

[  PHYSIQUE  ]
Leo is a very muscular man, the result of many years at a forge, and is generally the tallest person in the room. His skin is tan, and he has dark brown hair and grey eyes. His hands and lower arms are covered in old burns, many of them small, but many others large enough to be easily noticable for anyone who knows what to look for.

[  HEIGHT / WEIGHT  ]
6'6"/206 lbs

[  PERSONALITY  ]

[  PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION ]
Leo is a very timid, soft-spoken young man, if he even speaks at all. It is actually quite rare for him to do so honestly, usually responding to any attempts to strike up a conversation by freezing up and staring at the person, locked in a panicky internal debate over how he should respond. It's rare for him to escape this state before people either decide he's too weird and leave, or think he's glaring at them, get intimidated, and then leave. If he does feel comfortable enough to manage to talk, it will usually only be a few words at a time.

On top of his social ineptitude, he is also easily frightened, often getting to the point of freezing up completely, and this has led to an absolutely awful view of himself, with his sense of self worth being almost non-existent.

Sometimes it seems like the only time he can calm down a little, and maybe even show a bit of pride in himself, is when he's making something in his workshop. Usually, this comes in the form of metalworking, an area he was already considered particularly talented in even before becoming the communicator of Weyland. He views this as his only constructive skill, and therefore is the only time he can allow himself to feel slightly more than useless.

[  LIKES / DISLIKES  ]
Likes:
Metalworking
Cooking
Cleaning
Reading

Dislikes:
Fighting
Getting hurt
Public speaking
Himself
[  BIOGRAPHY  ]

[  Place of Origin ]
Queensland, Australia

[  BIO ]
Leonard Karsten has always been something of a weak-willed person. Throughout his childhood, he was always the guy who would try to laugh along at jokes made at his expense, even if they actually hurt deep down. As long as it kept it from becoming some kind of confrontation, he was happy to pretend he was fine. It was a personality trait he'd gotten from his father, the other mild mannered member of their family, who had always found it easier to let that kind of thing go. His mother and his younger sister Emilia, on the other hand, had far more intense personalities, and therefore often had to be talked out of 'marching over and teaching those little shits a lesson.' Still, despite their differing personalities, the family tended to get along pretty well, with one of Leo's main ways of coping with the issues he had being to join his mother in her blacksmithing hobby, something which stemmed naturally from her metalworker career.

However, everything changed one day when... well, he wasn't even really sure what happened... When he was sixteen and his sister was fourteen, they'd been walking home from school one day when some... thing appeared in the middle of their path. At the time, he could hardly describe it, except to say that it was some kind of monster. Something that shouldn't exist in this world. He couldn't react. Couldn't move. Could barely even think. As the monster approached him, seeming to pierce straight into his soul as it stared into his eyes, it was all he could do to realise how isolated their path was right now, and no one else would be coming to save them.

However, nobody else needed to, as Emilia decided to take on that role herself. After all, she knew how bad Leo was with conflict, how scared he could get in situations like this, so naturally it was her job to step in and protect him when it happened, right?

The 'fight' went about as well as you'd expect, and although the monster ended up leaving the area for some unknown reason before it could strike a finishing blow on either sibling, the end result was still terrible, the boisterous, excitable, athletic girl being confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Despite this, she still somehow managed to remain optimistic. Leo, on the other hand, was absolutely destroyed by the situation. By the guilt. Why did he let Emilia fight that thing on her own? He was her big brother! He was meant to protect her! But no, instead she'd been the one to protect him, while he'd stood there frozen like a coward! The fact that his family acted so goddamn understanding only made it worse. Why wouldn't they blame him? He knew they must have deep down, why couldn't they just say it! Yell at him, insult him, berate him for his weakness! He deserved it! He should be punished for it, and yet everyone was just letting it go!

The guilt and shame he felt only caused him to withdraw even further into his shell than before, finding it more difficult to talk to people than ever. He slowly managed to get a little better with his parents again, although Emilia remained a challenge, even so much as looking at her bringing all his self-loathing right back to the surface. Other people too proved too much speak to, anything he might want to say catching in his throat before he could go through with it, until eventually he just decided to stop trying at all. In the end, he coped the same way he always did, occupying all his time with either household chores or working at his mums forge, which had eventually just become his forge at some point, and giving whatever he made there to his mum to sell to help support them.

And this would have continued, no doubt, if not for the voice that appeared in his head one day, offering him one last chance to become a better person.

[  REASON FOR CHOICE ]
There are two main reasons Wayland considered someone like Leo to be a worthy communicator. The first is clear, as the boy loves blacksmithing and being creative just as much as he does. The second is a little harder to see. Though one may not be able to tell at first, Wayland actually holds a deep, burning regret for the actions he took in Ninud's castle, particularly those taken during his revenge against the man for his crippling and imprisonment. Although Leo's regrets come not from his actions but his inaction, the old blacksmith still understands the pain and guilt well, and hopes to help the boy overcome his burdens. 

[  POWERS  ]

[  RELICS / FAMILIARS ]
Unlike many deities, Wayland has no relic of his own. However, through his power, Leo can summon any item he has forged to himself. As has been the role of many communicators of Wayland throughout history, it will be his job to forge his own relics, both for himself and his companions, though anything of actual power is currently well beyond him.

[  POWERS ]
The Forgemaster
Being the communicator of a master blacksmith spirit, Leo has been granted the power to forge items at speeds far surpassing that of normal smiths, and with a much larger range of materials.

He has also developed the ability to inscribe runes on these crafts to grant magical abilities to them, although he will have to put in the time and effort to learn how each rune works, and how they react to each other.

Finally, as mentioned in the relics section, being the communicator of Wayland allows him to summon any item he forges to himself. This summoning works regardless of where the item may be. However, this has the obvious drawback of potentially taking it from anyone he may have given it to, potentially endangering them if they need it at the same time he does.

[  INVOCATION ]

Though Wayland could be invoked for combat and do an adequate job, it isn't exactly his area of expertise. Instead, Wayland is better off being invoked to aid in the creation of a particularly powerful item, even approaching the level of an actual relic.

[  OTHER INTERESTS/SKILLS ]
Leo is actually quite talented at many domestic tasks, such as cooking, cleaning, and textiles.

[  MISC.  ]


[  BIRTHDAY / SIGN ]
April 5th, Aries

[  FAVORITES / LEAST FAVORITES ]
Favourites:
Cats
Curry

Least Favourites
Olives

[  SEXUAL PREFERENCE ]
Heterosexual

[  MUSIC/MOVIE/BOOK/GAME TYPE ]

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