MAERCHENHAFT INFOPOST
Jul. 10th, 2020 09:21 pmCharacter Canon: A Song of Ice and Fire
Character Name: Jon Snow
Character Canonpoint: the end of A Dance with Dragons, however he has been through two games (Clockbox and Meadowlark)
Character Age: 21
Character Appearance in Game: Appearance here. The wings on his fairy godparent uniform will have the overall shape and structure of dragon wings, but be covered in crow feathers. They will be massive, with spikes rising about his head and feathers covering the claws on the ground, and seem to move as he walks, like a second set of legs moving in coordination with the first. The overall appearance will not be dissimilar to this.
Link to Character History: History here.
CRAU: His time at Clockbox put some distance between him and the traumatic events of the past few books. With the help of his sisters and eventually his mother he was able to find a comfortable equilibrium between the stressed-out Lord Commander he'd become and the boy he'd been at Winterfell. He found much of the persona he'd taken on among the Wildlings came back to him in a safe environment. He became fascinated with differences between cultures and worlds. He did his best to absorb as much new knowledge as he could, but he also became a bit defensive of the North and the world around it, and tried to show his friends that his home planet was more than just a brutal warscape by sharing bits of history and science he remembered from his lessons and the books from Maester Aemon he'd studied as Lord Commander.
Perhaps the single most powerful and transformative experience he had in Clockbox was meeting Lyanna Stark. She informed him of his parentage, though she was a bit cagey with the details. Jon was delighted to have a mother, albeit one a year or two younger than he was, and became a protective, doting son. He was less delighted with the revelation of his true heritage. He does not believe himself a legitimate Targaryen and has mixed feelings about his birth father. He is very concerned that if word of his royal blood were to get out he might be taken as some sort of Blackfyre figure, and his work at the Wall, as well as his relationship with Stannis Baratheon, to whom he owes a great deal, would be compromised. He is determined to keep knowledge of his birth parents within his close CR.
Though Jon initially thought he had died at the hands of the mutineers, he came to believe he might survive his injuries thanks to repeated conversations with Sansa. Despite himself he has some hope that he will be able to return to his work of protecting the realm from the White Walkers. However, he intends to prolong this period of respite between worlds for as long as possible, especially with his family present. He sees this as a sort of temporary suspension of his duties, as Sansa and others have assured him he will be returned to the time he left.
In Meadowlark he was forced once again into a position of action and responsibility. He took up the role of of revolutionary agent, hoping to learn more about both the organization he worked for (Morningstar) as well as their enemy, the corporation-backed United Nations and its army. He took it upon himself to educate himself to the degree that the native citizens of New Amersterdam generally were, and he turned his steward training into a career as a bartender with the help of a Morningstar liason. He also met Daenerys Targaryen and informed her of his heritage. They formed an uneasy family unit with his sister Sansa. He became fluent in the use of their neurally-integrated computer network, though never quite proficient, and trained in spycraft and hand-to-hand combat with Bobbi Morse, an experienced spy and mentor figure to him. He learned a good deal of that world's history and became a useful asset to Morningstar, which he learned a good deal about as well. He was determined to make their world into a safe one for him and his family to live in, despite overwhelming odds and questionable allies. It wasn't as different from his life on Westeros as his friends seemed to think.
Link to Character Abilities or Powers: Abilities and Powers here. Jon is also an excellent swordfighter and adequate archer. He has received firearms and hand-to-hand combat training in previous games.
(Conditional) Maerchenhaft Power: Molecular manipulation--slowing down or speeding up molecules to increase or decrease temperature.
Character Personality (3 Strengths, 2 Weaknesses): Jon is a natural leader who strives to build bridges and consensus. While he's good at problem solving, his real strength is in knowing when he's out of his depth and listening to people who know the situation better than him. He is constantly trying to learn and improve. He is motivated by compassion and a strong sense of justice and has a strong moral compass informed by his upbringing as well as his experiences with people of different backgrounds.
The flipside of this is he tends to take on too much responsibility for himself, doing whatever it is he thinks needs doing and sacrificing his well-being in the process.
When he notices himself showing signs of stress and trauma, he retreats into the polite, distant persona of the lord commander and refuses to let anyone (bar his family) get close. In a leadership position this becomes literal as he promotes away his friends and allies due to their competence as perceived by him until he is outnumbered by those he does not like or trust.
