Hardwin

Hardwin

Hardwin's name is an old Micletan word meaning "dawn".

Physical Description

Body Features

Hardwin is a pale-skinned sapien with bright blond hair.
Though fairly lean, Hardwin has surprisingly well-defined muscles from running and climbing in the densely forested mountains of Holdo.

Facial Features

Hardwin has a soft and pale face. Hardwin is often seen with small cuts from running and climbing through foliage.
Hardwin is generally considered to be one of the prettiest pale sapien youths in Brillam, often attracting glances and gazes, as well as advancements, from other youngsters who live in or visit the village.

Apparel & Accessories

Hardwin usually wears a light tunic with a belt fastened on his waist and pants tucked into a pair of dark hideshroom long boots.
When not scouting the woods, Hardwin likes to wear his scout's attire with short pants under a bright-colored tunic.

Specialized Equipment

Hardwin carries on his belt a range of scout's tools, such as ropes, a leather cask, multipurpose tools and leaf rolls smeared with various salves. He also has a knife scabbard fastened on his thigh, to use as a tool and for self-defense.

Mental characteristics

Gender Identity

Hardwin has formed a clear gender identity of more or less male, primarily using him and accepting them as pronouns.

Sexuality

Hardwin is attracted to personal traits that make him feel comfortable, such as a confident and easygoing attitude while avoiding unwarranted and excessive intimacy. He is also attracted to moderately well-built physique.

Education

Hardwin has received basic education for general knowledge and thinking skills at the village schoolhouse. As a scout and a healer, Hardwin is studying basic medicinal biology, herbology and alchemy from the Lion alchemist Amrit. Amrit is considering teaching Hardwin to read and write so that he can study on his own from books.

Employment

Hardwin is a member of the mercenary group Lion Monarchs, working as a scout and a field healer, having joined them at an unusually young age of nine.

Accomplishments & Achievements

As a simple scout, Hardwin has not made particularly notable achievements. Hardwin's skills as a healer, however, have often come helpful when people are injured or sick in the village.

Mental Trauma

When Hardwin was very young, his farmhouse was raided by a pack of bandits. Although the bandits were not a bloodthirsty group, intending to only take the harvest without hurting the family, the experience of being intruded upon and roughly handled by unfriendly invaders has a lasting scar in Hardwin's mind. From that day, Hardwin has gained an unhealthy obsession with the idea that he must become strong to protect those he holds dear, which led him to attempt to join the Lion Monarchs at the age of nine. Hardwin's trauma also made him distrustful and hastily aggressive to others, a tendency that often conflicts with his gentle and caring nature.

Intellectual Characteristics

Hardwin is neither particularly bright nor dim-witted, but he is a diligent thinker and is used to gathering and analyzing information from his activities as a scout.

Morality & Philosophy

Hardwin is a gentle and caring person who, though he tries to hide his feelings and empathy in his striving to be a strong and self-contained man, is deeply sensitive to the feelings of others. While he would not always go out of his way to make or keep others happy, he finds himself unable to turn a blind eye when he notices someone's unhappiness, especially if it happens to be someone dear to him.

Personality Characteristics

Hygiene

Activities as a scout comes with running and rolling on soil, sleeping in the wilderness, and spending days in the forest with no reliable access to water for washing. Hardwin is often seen covered in dirt and dried sweat. Otherwise, he makes it a point to keep himself as clean as possible.

Social

Family Ties

Hardwin was born from two Micletan women. He has two siblings older than and one sibling younger than himself.

Social Aptitude

Hardwin is a soft-spoken and unassertive person. Though he gets along well with other youths and is liked by the adults for his politeness, he finds it difficult to share feelings with others. He often shies away from conflicts unless he finds the consequences utterly unacceptable.
A youth with a rather low self-esteem, Hardwin often assumes the worst of himself. However, such a low ego also makes him wary of trouble, a trait that helped him in several occasions and is beneficial to his role as a scout.
Hardwin is fully aware of his good looks and the attraction that many feel towards him, but feels nervous and intimidated by advances and has never accepted any. When he was younger, he would run away in confusion. As he matured slightly, he is now able to politely but nervously reject such advances.

Relationships

Martel

Lover (Important)

Towards Hardwin

5

5

Honest

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Hardwin

Lover (Vital)

Towards Martel

5

5

Honest

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History

Martel and Hardwin have been friends for a few years, since when Hardwin visited Martel's smithy to run errands for the Lion Monarchs, though they knew each other since they were little children as they grew up in the same small village.

Commonalities & Shared Interests

Martel and Hardwin share many hobbies as close friends. They are very often seen at Martel's smithy when Manius is not around, chatting as Hardwin watches Martel work. Outside Martel's working hours, they like to walk around the village and sometimes take a walk outside to beautiful spots around the village.

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Both Martel and Hardwin also greatly enjoy gazing the famously beautiful night sky of Brillam, usually on the roof of a building in the village but sometimes walking out to clearings close to the village, enjoying the silence and solitude with each other as their only company.
Most of Martel and Hardwin's activities start with Martel discovering something of interest and coming up with ideas, often very unusual, to satisfy her curiosity or desire to act upon it. Hardwin would usually attempt to pursuade her against it, but ends up following and helping Martel.

Shared Secrets

Two sapiens who prefer solitude, Martel and Hardwin know many things that they do not bother, or deliberately refrain from, informing others. Usually such secrets are what Martel discover, although Hardwin also knows many things happening around the village from his affiliation to the Lion Monarchs, either by his own scouting of the area or listening to talks in the Lion's garrison.
Despite their friendship, Hardwin is very careful not to leak any confidential information of the Lions to Martel, which Martel of course respects.

Current Location

Brillam

Species

Sapien

Ethnicity

Micletan

Year of Birth

6268 R. 15 Years old

Spouses

Siblings

Current Residence

Brillam

Eyes

Brown

Hair

Bright blonde

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pale

Height

1.5m

Weight

50kg

Aligned Organization

Lion Monarchs

Known Languages

Hardwin only speaks Micletan, but knows some basic expressions in Zaartumese from his friendship with Martel. He is one of the few Micletan villagers in Brillam who pronounce Martel's name correctly.