Saturday, January 19, 2008

   Hawkers Exposè
So, I "poisoned" my little brother's food. It won't hurt you or make you sick, but the idea is to make you think it will. Just how we play. My parents dumped it back in with everything else so now all the food is "poisoned". I'm ammune but if something does happen I know how to neutralize it so it's okay.

I was talking with Meg about our mobsters in Epic. I really like our mobsters, so, in another copywrited by The Unsaid Works exposè, I'll talk about three mobsters that we call the Hawkers.

Firstly, we call them the Hawkers because most of them are falconers, which are also called hawkers. Not very creative but if you look at gang names (even though these are mobsters not gangsters) they have very uncreative names. Usually it's a street name from their territory. Mobsters and gangsters are separated by class and grace. They're businessmen with a dark nightlife, even though a lot of the businessmen now are worse in my opinion.

The leader of the Hawkers is Kaspar Metzger. His name translated is 'treasurer butcher'. He's thirty one when the show starts. He's got brown eyes, which is actually fairly unusual in Epic for some reason. He's also got bluish gray and reddish brown hair. His hair will probably be long, or only one of the colors will be long. I haven't decided yet. Kaspar's an Ameriquian but was born and raised in Lockey. His bird is a female harpy eagle named Aquala. I had a picture of the closest thing to what she'll look like a few months ago.
Kaspar's family was fairly wealthy. His father was a regional merchant and his mother was a master weaver. I haven't named them yet. He's also got siblings or a sibling, but I haven't worked on that yet either. The main point is that this guy had a loving wealthy family and a great life, so why become a crimelord? I'll get to it. Kaspar is well educated and can paint. He can't draw though so he uses that blotching method with his paintings. I forget what it's called. I'm not going into arts so I don't really need to remember it. He was sent to Kikimora to be trained in falconry and hunting by the Merridam family when he was a teenager. I don't know the exact year or how long he was there yet. But he did learn how to be a falconer and he took a real interest in it. That's where he met many of guys who would serve him as Hawkers. He left Kikimora all confident and feeling good, only to return home to nothing. Smaller merchants had moved in and taken most of his father's business. The family had spent everything and were broke. Kaspar turned to crime. He contacted his friends from the training facility and they eagerly joined him looking for a life of excitement. With most of his members falconers, Kaspar contacted his friends in the Merridam family and purchased Aquala at a very discounted price. He was twenty seven when he recieved her. Soon after, Kaspar started carving himself a deep path as a crimelord.

Kaspar's second in command is the handsome and motivated, Phyre Beckett, name meaning 'fire little brook'. The handsome part is really more of a joke. He's got this weird super competitive thing going on with the second in command to the rival mob. He's better looking then her so he refers to himself as handsome when she's around to tick her off. Well, look at that, I managed to give you some of his personallity. When the show starts, Phyre's twenty eight. He has light yellowish green eyes and white and brown hair. I'm pretty sure he wears it long. He's also Ameriquian but was born and raised in Milano. It didn't occur to me until yesterday that this would mean he'd have strong feelings about Zephyr, probably bad feelings. That could make things more interesting. Phyre's bird is a blue eagle named Keefe. She's really like this brown color since she's female. He got her when he was twenty four, about the same time Kaspar got Aquala. Phyre's an only child for sure. His parents weren't wealthy, in fact, his father was a pick-pocket for a living. I haven't named his parents yet but I think his father is in jail when the show starts off. Phyre first met Kaspar and the other future Hawkers at the Merridam's for the hunting training. He got there by stealing the invitation off a wealthy man one day. Instead of selling it, he went and checked it out. He was almost thrown out for lack of manners and obvious lack of education, but what he lacked in the classrooms and dining halls he made up for in talent on the hunting range. When Kaspar called everyone to form the Hawkers, Phyre lept at the chance just because he thought it'd be more fun then being a pick-pocket. He only managed to get Keefe through Kaspar's connections.

Runners are the mail system since there is no phones or e-mail in Epic and each mob has it's own runner. The Hawker's runner is a twenty three year old man named Swift Killin, translated out 'fast burying place'. Swift is also Ameriquian but was born and raised in Ny. He's the youngest of all the Hawkers (expect for Borealis) and because of his speed was given the job of runner. Swift has light brown hair, skin, and eyes. We joke saying that he can lay in the dirt and people will pass him. I'm almost certain he wears his hair short. Hair's kind of important to my vanity. He's also a falconer, despite being a runner. His kestrel is also mostly light brown and his name is Galahad. Swift is fairly quiet, and sort of cold. He doesn't talk about his life before joining the Hawkers. He's got two un-named parents and some un-named siblings. I'm not sure where they stood on the econemic ranks, but Swift seems to be fairly educated which would either mean he was sent to a sort of academy, had a privet tutor, or had a parent who was either a tutor or from good background. Well, he's much more educated then Phyre. He was also at the Merridam camp with the two but was there around the time they were leaving. After he graduated, he recieved Galahad. He was eighteen, so he's been a full falconer for a year longer then the boss and second. I'll have to do some work on all of them but mostly this guy.

And Borealis is an actual up front character so he gets his own info. He's Ameriquian too, notice a pattern? He was eighteen when he joined the Hawkers. He wasn't a falconer. I have to work a lot on him so this is all any of us will say about him for now.

Ameriquian just means that we didn't want to deal with trying to find then a country and stuff. We've actually got a lot of Ameriquians who just live in different countries. Oh, and what do you know, the food I "poisoned" isn't killing anyone or even tasting funny. I told then it wouldn't do anything.

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