Florian Raniari (Sastre Quicksilver)

[Florian Raniari]

Florian Alexandre Raniari*
formerly “Sastre Quicksilver”

The Vitals*

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Name

--- >> Florian Alexandre Raniari

Nicknames

--- >> None

Age

--- >> 54

Date of Birth

--- >> February 13

Employment

--- >> Hunter (mostly retired), and has held various odd jobs over the years, including auto repair, construction, farm work, and cooking, among other things

Education

--- >> Home-schooled, high school equivalent

Alignment

--- >> Good

Blood Group

--- >> O-

Sexuality

--- >> Straight

Species

--- >> Human

Powers

--- >> No powers to speak of, but is in top physical and mental condition after having survived a grueling regimen of training as a youth. He is a master of various forms of hand to hand combat, weapons combat, and mental techniques including meditation, pain-blocking, and reiki

Mother

--- >> Dominique Raniari (deceased)

Father

--- >> Henri Raniari (deceased)

Brothers

--- >> Darian Raniari (58, vampire)

Sisters

--- >>None

Children

--- >> Lily Faraday-Brennan, daughter, deceased (now "Sastre Quicksilver"); Axel Maverick, son; Charlotte Cashton-Raniari, adopted-daughter

Other Family

--- >> Allison Brennan, granddaughter

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All About Image*

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Celebrity Claim

--- >> Viggo Mortensen

Height

--- >> 5’11”

Build

--- >> Tall and rangy, leanly muscled

Eye Color

--- >> Grey-blue

Hair Color

--- >> Brown/Grey

Distinguishing Marks

--- >> A dizzying amount of scars gained from spending the past 40+ years hunting

Piercings

--- >> None

Tattoos

--- >> Anti-possession tattoo over his heart

Best Feature

--- >> His piercing eyes, and his smooth French accent

Worst Feature

--- >> Florian has spent so much of his life alone that he sometimes forgets that he has friends to call on when he’s in need, and oftentimes he still goes it alone when he doesn’t have to

Personal Style

--- >> Florian likes to look sharp. He dresses in fine suits when he can, but even when dressing casually he tends cut quite the dashing figure. He keeps his hair long, usually, hanging down to his shoulders, though he sometimes cuts it short if the mood takes him. When out on a hunt, Florian forgoes the suits and fine clothing in favor of simple, serviceable garments that offer mobility and protection.

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Personal Qualities*

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Likes

--- >> Honest, hard-working people
--- >> Good food
--- >> Reading (everything from newspapers to novels)
--- >> History
--- >> Hiking/camping
--- >> Classical music

Dislikes

--- >> Spiders
--- >> Liars
--- >> Computers
--- >> People who bully the weak
--- >> Snowy, cold weather
--- >> Being medicated (even when he’s in pain, he hates to feel like he’s under the influence of something)

Strengths

--- >> Steadfastly honest and loyal
--- >> Has a vast knowledge of all creatures supernatural
--- >> Can think his way out of almost any situation and improvise on the fly
--- >> Never forgets a face, particularly those of people he’s helped
--- >> Determination; he never, ever backs out on a job once he’s started
--- >> General wisdom; he’s been around for a while, and he’s seen just about everything. He has no qualms about passing that wisdom on to anyone who genuinely wants to learn

Weaknesses

--- >> Has a dreadful fear of spiders that stems from a traumatic childhood incident
--- >> Still isn’t entirely up to date on “modern” technology
--- >> He has a lot of old injuries that can (and do) come back to haunt him at the worst possible moments
--- >> Constantly worries that his loved ones will be used against him someday
--- >> Tends to go it alone, when he really doesn’t have to
--- >> His age; no matter how good of shape he’s in, he isn’t quite as fast, strong, or resilient as he used to be

Dreams

--- >> To live the rest of his life in peace and happiness

Fears

--- >> Besides spiders? He fears that the things he used to hunt will come for him someday, and will use the people he loves to bring him down. He’s afraid that he’ll lose everyone close to him again.

Pet Peeve

--- >> Dishonesty

Worst Habit

--- >> Not letting people help him when he needs it

Biggest Secret

--- >> That, for nearly forty years, he was the hunter known as “Sastre Quicksilver” until he passed the name on to another

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The Big Ones*

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Personality

--- >> Florian is a fairly laid back, quiet man. He tends to be pretty friendly though, and is quick to laugh and smile when not brooding about some problem or other. He worries a lot about the people he cares for, and is steadfastly loyal to his friends and family. Florian is also very smart, having spent years reading just about anything he could get his hands on, not to mention all of the real world experience he has in everything from cooking to farming, and beyond. When not working or hunting, Florian enjoys spending time with his family, getting lost in a good book, or listening to classical music.

History

--- >> Florian was born in a small town in the French countryside. His parents were servants to the LeDucs, a powerful family with political and financial connections that had made them quite wealthy. He had an older brother named Darian, and the LeDucs treated the Raniaris as if they were family as well, rather than servants. Julian LeDuc, their only child, was very close friends with Darian and Florian, more like a big brother to them than anything else.

The happiness of Florian’s childhood was shattered, though, when he was just barely seven years old. A band of vampires, hired by one of the LeDuc family’s business rivals, fell upon their estate one night and set about burning it to the ground, and murdering everyone. Julian, Darian, and Florian managed to escape, but there were no other survivors. After wandering for days, the children finally made it to the nearest city, but Julian refused to go to the authorities, knowing that if any of the creatures who had murdered their families were looking for them, it wouldn’t be wise to step forward. Instead, the older boy led the three younger children to Paris, where they lived on the streets and survived by begging and stealing for the next two years.

It was then that they came to the attention of a mysterious old traveler, who took them in and coaxed their story out of them. He told them that his name was Sastre Quicksilver, and that he hunted monsters such as those who had destroyed their home. Sensing the resourcefulness of the boys, and their desire to avenge their families, Sastre decided to train them as hunters. Taking the children back to America with him, Sastre began their training immediately, and it consumed the next several years of their lives.

Finally, after all their years of training, Sastre told the children his secret: he wasn’t the first hunter to claim the name “Sastre Quicksilver.” It was actually something of a title, passed down from ancient times from master to student, an honor reserved for the best and most dedicated of hunters. This title, he then bestowed upon Julian LeDuc, who had proven to be the most skilled among them during the training. A few weeks later, the former Sastre—now called simply “the Old Man” by the others—led the boys on their first hunt.

Disaster struck on this hunt, though, against a nest of vampires that turned out to be much larger and better prepared than the hunters had thought. Sastre—that is, Julian—was killed, Darian was taken, and Florian and the Old Man barely managed to escape with their lives. After months of recovery, and left with only one remaining candidate, the Old Man passed the name of “Sastre Quicksilver” on to Florian.

Florian lived as “Sastre Quicksilver” for nearly the next forty years of his life. In that time, he fell in love with a young woman—a fellow hunter—named Solphi, and the two had a daughter that they called Lily. Not wanting the little girl to grow up in the life of a hunter, they gave her to a couple that had been friends of theirs, and who were now retired hunters themselves. Not long after that, though, Solphi and the Old Man were murdered by demons. Florian-Sastre also learned that his brother, Darian, hadn’t been killed, but rather was now a vampire, and was bent on tormenting Florian-Sastre for reasons of his own.

After Solphi’s death, and after losing several close friends to Darian’s predations, Florian-Sastre cut all ties with his few remaining friends and went into a sort of self-imposed exile, living the life of a wandering vagabond and hunting all the while. He battled for years with alcoholism before finally kicking the habit, and he hasn’t had a sip of it since, drinking almost nothing but water now.

Eventually he met a young doctor named Madison, and the pair quickly fell in love. Florian-Sastre also discovered that his daughter, Lily, was now a hunter, and had been for years since her adopted parents were killed. They met up and after a rocky start began hunting and spending time together, and Florian-Sastre even revealed to her the secret of “Sastre Quicksilver.” Several months passed in this way, before Darian showed up and destroyed everything.

Madison and Lily were kidnapped, and though Florian-Sastre and his allies were able to rescue the doctor, Darian had Lily sent away and forced his brother to hunt her down and rescue her. When Florian-Sastre finally found her, she was in very bad shape and needed a lot of time to heal and rest up. Lily also told him that she knew he wanted to give up hunting and get on with his life with Madison, but that he couldn’t until he’d found a successor to pass the “Sastre Quicksilver” name on to. She wanted it, and after much convincing, she talked him into doing just that.

After a year and more of intense, secluded training in the middle of the New Mexico desert, Florian finally felt comfortable returning to Madison, and the life he’d left behind, leaving his daughter Lily as the new “Sastre Quicksilver.” Now he lives with Madison and is hoping to open up a restaurant of his own, reveling in the simple fact of finally having his normal life after so much time on the road hunting…

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Out Of Character*

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Name

--- >> Arius/Sastre

Roleplay Experience

--- >> A lot of years

Where Did You Find Us?

--- >> The internet

Any Other Characters?

--- >> A lot, lol

Anything To Add?

--- >>Nope

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