Carrin
'Hero' Carrin Erik Anatase
Before you read the sidebar, please understand that the current world date is long before this character was even born. As such, World Anvil believes I mean that this character died in 1853 BCE, but he did not, for his story is simply set long after the one I am currently writing. Apologies for any confusion caused. Please enjoy your read.
Carrin was once a kind, quiet, young human boy who grew up in the celestial kingdom. When he was eighteen, he was given a quest to save the world from the evil dragon king, the dragon of meekness and fear. This was a successful quest, but the years it took to train enough to beat the dragon king gave the princess reason to send Carrin back in time. Unbeknownst to either the princess or Carrin, one sour note was played, creating a new song, a song that created an infinite time loop until feelings were betrayed. Once Carrin turned ten again, he entered the palace and told the king what he saw. The dragon king was placed in a prison, and Carrin became an honourary noble, staying in the castle. He was distant, lonely. Surrounded by pristine nobles, Carrin, a kid from a smaller, less formal kingdom, was isolated. Despite this isolation, Carrin did not leave, for this was a gift he had been given for his good deeds, and he did not want to throw it away.
When Carrin died, he found himself in his childhood once more, memory slightly fuzzy. When he was eight, he ran away from home and warned of the dragon king. The dragon king was imprisoned once more, but Carrin politely declined the offer to stay in the castle. He returned home the next morning. When his family found him, he was grounded for a week. This lifetime, Carrin became a civil engineer and married his childhood sweetheart. They settled down in a small cottage on the outskirts of the celestial kingdom. Carrin and his wife had two children, and their family was close-knit. This was his happiest lifetime.
After Carrin died again, he ran away from home, warning of the dragon king when he was six. The dragon king was imprisoned again. Carrin did everything else the same as he had his previous lifetime, but the happiness dwindled, the sameness comforting but boring. He repeated this same life ten times before giving up on that happiness, for repeating the same lines, while once filled with joy, became more and more half-hearted and boring.
When Carrin died again, he began training as soon as he could. When he was sixteen, he went and killed the dragon king himself. He died. Again, Carrin trained and trained. Over and over and over and over and over and over again. He succeeded on his twenty-fifth try. He managed to marry the princess. When he died again, he tried again. He got married to the princess again. The world was at peace again.
When Carrin was born again, he chose to become an inconsequential bard. Over and over and over and over and over and over again he roamed the land, steering clear of the palace as he sang glorious tunes that became more and more bland and boring to him each time he was reborn. To the crowd, however, his tunes became more and more vibrant and exciting each time.
When Carrin stopped being a bard, he stopped counting the loops. Loop fifty-seven was the last loop he counted. Carrin took a new job each lifetime. If he didn't think he got enough time at one of his jobs, he got the job again in his lifetime. He became a baker, a benevolent king, a doctor, a beggar, et cetera. He had new hobbies every loop, and these hobbies often became jobs. A lot of times, however, he became a complete workaholic, devoting no time to himself, working himself to death, especially on jobs he didn't enjoy at all. Sometimes, he'd get high-ranking jobs and become rich. Other times, he'd get poor jobs or no job at all. Sleeping on the streets and slowly starving wasn't as bad to Carrin as the time loops were.
Over and over and over and over and over and over again, Carrin got new hobbies and new jobs while the world burned around him. As far as he cared, he had done enough, and someone else needed to take care of the dragon king problem. If no one did anything, then that was their problem, not his. If the dragon king attacked his home, maybe he'd do something. If the dragon king attacked him, maybe he'd do something. As loops went on, however, these maybes turned into not at alls. If one of his lifetimes ceased to continue, then he could just continue his job again in the next loop.
As lifetimes went on, number of seemingly pointless existences passing from hundreds into thousands, Carrin finally found that he had done everything he could think of. One lifetime, he redid one of his earlier lifetimes, warning the royal family of the dragon king, becoming a civil engineer, and marrying his childhood sweetheart again. They settled down in a quaint little cottage on the outskirts of the celestial kingdom again and had two children. He enjoyed that lifetime just as much as he had the second time he lived that life. It was the happiest he had been in uncountable lifetimes.
But he died. And he didn't attempt to relive any more of his lifetimes. When he was twenty-two, he walked straight up to the castle and challenged the dragon king with the same sword he had been given in his first lifetime. He made a deal with the dragon king. He manipulated the dragon king more than the dragon king was already being manipulated. The castle was ruled by Carrin. Carrin captured the princess and imprisoned her in a gemstone. He was strict, but he didn't pay too much attention to the dragon king, for the dragon king seemed fully under his control.
Behind his back, however, the dragon king and the princess plotted to kill him. Even though time loops and Carrin's premonition, they succeeded less than a year after he usurped the kingdom. This time, however, he stayed dead. Opinions had been changed. Love became hate, and hate killed Carrin. The song had played out, and the dance fell apart.
Carrin wasn't given a funeral or a gravestone. Even his family and his childhood sweetheart forgot about him, only negative sentiments remaining. The god of time respected his soul, for he was the only one who really knew what Carrin had gone through to become the person he had. Even dreams and prepared fate could not describe what he had been put through. While history books recorded everything he did as a king, Carrin wasn't remembered by name. He was instead simply called the 'disgraced hero'.
Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
Despite still not being extremely visible in a crowd, someone could identify him from close up by his red eyes.
Special abilities
Due to a single wrong note played when Princess Tristis sent him back in time, whenever he dies, he is transported back to his first day with all of his memories intact. This has caused him much misery and suffering, but it has saved the world from destruction many times.
Apparel & Accessories
Carrin wears a smart suit. He also wears the royal crown. While it's very basic, it makes him seem much more trustable and sane.
Mental characteristics
Accomplishments & Achievements
Carrin saved the world from the dragon king once in the past. Or a different time loop. Time travel terms aren't linear in any sense of the word. Even if they were, when they were used would be just as nonlinear.
Mental Trauma
Going through repeated time loops without a hope for escape, nothing telling you how to leave this loop, every death, every life, leading to the same script repeating over and over and over and over and over and over again... Well, it would probably traumatize anyone.
Morality & Philosophy
Carrin's moral codes kind of disinigrated after enough time loops. After looping the same cardboard cutouts of people and conversations over and over and over and over and over and over again... Good morals were bound to crumble.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
To end the timeloops or at least make something more exciting happen.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes: New things, experiences, and people.
Dislikes: Same things, timeloops
Virtues & Personality perks
Carrin, at least at first, was empathetic and selfless. He is also physically strong. Whether his strength is a positive in much later time loops, however, is very debatable.
Vices & Personality flaws
Carrin's desire for new experiences make him do extreme things, including harming others or himself just to feel something. He doesn't see people as people, just actors reading off of a script at best, cardboard cutouts at worst.
Social
Religious Views
Gods of Strings, most specifically the god of time. Even while he hates the god of time, he still prays to end his suffering.
Wealth & Financial state
Many time loops, Carrin bacomes fabously wealthy with his lifetimes of experience.
Disgraced Hero
Human (Dusk Dialect), Celestial
The Shadow/The Ruler
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