Langley
Langley (he/him) is a character played by Rhu (they/she) in the nonfiction one-shot Headache Tower. He is a dhampir fiend warlock and a criminal.
Description
Langley is in his late 20s, though the stress wrinkles on his face make his age hard to pin. He stands about 5'10" with a sinewy and lanky frame, standing with an upright posture and holding his chin high. Aloof, stubborn, pompous, and easily annoyed, Langley often struggles to maintain his composure. He is known to hate his family, cops, and reading. Most of all, he hates his patron.Backstory
Langley is very tight-lipped about his upbringing, but discloses that both his parents came from very wealthy and successful families, in an attempt at a union of powers that ultimately failed. Always the black sheep of the family, Langley dropped out of school and ran away from home in his late teens. After some time, he adopted "Langley" as a pseudonym in the criminal underworld. He has not revealed his given name. Eventually, Langley stumbled across a rod belonging to Vog'torth'oroth (it/its), a powerful devil from the depths of the Nine Hells. Whispers emanated from the rod, promising Langley agency and power to make his own way in life, and eventually coaxed him to summon Vog'torth'oroth into the world. To his surprise, "Vog" took the form of a supremely annoying Imp, who explained that it couldn't bring about its full power into the mortal realm quite yet, but Langley, as its first acolyte, could help it fulfill its agenda. Although Langley protested, Vog revealed that by following the directions of the rod, Langley had offered implied consent to a binding contract between them. An interesting tension quickly grew between them - Langley, even with his slight frame, is able to easily overpower Vog physically, but Vog, not powerful in its own right, is able to enact great feats of power using Langley as a vessel. To this day, Langley travels the land with Vog at his side, begrudgingly gathering power for his dark master that he might someday see the contract to completion.Trivia
- Langley's parents are as-of-yet unspecified members of the Van Vermeer family and the House of Bellegarde.
- Rhu has made a picrew of Langley, seen here.
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