Stats

• Full Name: Virginal Harpsichord (don't call him this)
• Alias: Aaryn Hamlin
• Species: Island ixi
• Age: Old
• Gender: Cis man
• Sexuality: Pan
• Height: 6'2"
• Origin: Elysium (Yuliore's domain)
• Occupation: Baker
• Status: Principality of Muses
• Theme: If Rain Is What You Want -Slipknot

Likes

• Creativity: Despite his current assignment having nothing to do with it whatsoever, he IS still an angel of muses and therefore creativity is a big deal. Muse angels are able to inspire creativity in others so sometimes, on the rare occasions he allows himself to relax, he likes to go to cafes or similar places where people (furries) often work on their projects and send out some good vibes, so to speak. As a random aside, his favorite art is architecture and he'll make time to explore any old or interesting buildings or structures he comes across.


• Working: You know what's a great way to avoid thinking about the anxiety inducing state of your own existence? Not giving yourself any time to think about it. He just needs to continue working nonstop forever and he will be ok and find a way to fix everything and everything will be fine.
  
  
• Structure: With how much NONSENSE is going on in his life right now, he is clinging to the standard rules and black and white morality as if it can save him from the doubt he's trying to suppress. Unfortunately, he can't actually live by what he says which does, in fact, make him a giant hypocrite when he does things like not reporting Viola and the demon commune she now belongs to and his recent begrudging deal with Rydain, a demon. He hates this about himself in case anyone was wondering and stresses Demons Are Always Bad to shut down the topic whenever it comes up.


• Sunsets: There's no deep reason for this, he just finds them lovely and calming to watch. HOWEVER... if one wanted to derive a meaning anyway, it also signifies a peaceful and unambiguous ending that is necessary for the birth of a new day and a new start and hey, he'd sure like that for the next era of his life. He's so tired. Also they're pretty.

Dislikes

• Being Weak: Principalities are not made for combat and he is painfully reminded of this (sometimes literally) every time he fights with Rydain or any other higher ranking or powerful being. To compensate, he specializes in archery or any other long distance forms of combat and tries to avoid direct confrontation, but that's not always an option and sometimes he has to resort to, uhhh, less honorable tactics or strategizing with others. You would think that latter would be a more popular choice, but being forced to rely on others because of his own inadequacies is... unpleasant.


• Arrogance: You know what's a great way to get under his skin? Constantly brag about how great you are at literally anything, especially compared to him. He knows he has a long way to go in approximately every way, but so does everyone else so get out of his face. Honestly, it just makes him want to knock them down a few pegs and used to when he was younger and more hot-headed but he's trying to be calmer and more mature about it now. It doesn't always work, but he's trying.
  
  
• Stupid Questions: He is stressed and tired and doesn't have the time or the patience to field things he's either already explained or should be common sense. Aaryn will try to answer in a patient and understanding manner, but sometimes a little bit of annoyance still seeps through. Just a little. His sense of humor may or may not be at an all time low.


• He Might Also Just Be A Pawn: He doesn't want to talk about it.

Aaryn used to be a genuinely nice guy back in the day, even if he was more impulsive and hot-headed than is generally recommended for a principality. However, after a series of (unfortunate) events, he eventually grew to become bitter, cynical, and closed off from others. He still has issues with impulsiveness and hot-headedness, but he has simmered down quite a bit in recent centuries compared to what he used to be and is more inclined to at least try to talk things out, even if his stubbornness renders that rather moot most of the time.

He likes to put on a tough face anyway to give his remaining friends confidence and reassurance, but his sentimentality often gets the better of him and he can’t even bring himself to truly abandon those who fell from his host, as much as he says otherwise. To keep thoughts of them and lingering regrets of what he could or should have done to prevent it from his mind, Aaryn throws himself into his work and prides himself on performing to the best of his abilities, despite how little faith he has in others anymore and how pointless things seem to be.

Aaryn is a principality for the goddess of muses, Yuliore, so he was basically a paperwork angel in charge of a host of archangels and angels who helped with various mortal things on Ceres. Unfortunately for him since all this could have been avoided if stayed at his holy desk like a good boy, he is physically incapable of sitting around while others do work so he often joined them in their duties, which was all fine and dandy untilllll he eventually met the mortal Soleil and got involved in Reincarnation Plot(TM) and her quest to stop the queen of wraiths. In the beginning he was content with helping from the sidelines, even going as far as blessing Soleil with light magic, but after the demon, Rydain, got involved and nearly killed the entire party, Aaryn stepped in to stop him (barely) and he's been stuck in the cycle of Soleil and the queen of wraiths reincarnating battles ever since.

He still got enough done between cycles that his leadership of his angels didn't falter much, but during a particular arduous cycle where he was absent for a while, the angel, Cello, convinced his group to join his rebellion again their goddess, and it was too late by the time Aaryn learned of it. In the end, most of his host had either been permanently killed or became demons, one of them even attacking him later since they blamed him for not being there for them. Aaryn didn't disagree with that, but he ended up having to kill them in self defense and so they couldn't take their anger out on anyone else since they had well lost it by that point, and that messed him up real bad because his host had been like family to him. To make things even worse, one of the few remaining angels, Viola, voluntarily fell in order to protect a group of demons of all things, and it was at that point Aaryn decided he didn't deserve to be in charge of anyone anymore and his angels were reassigned to a different principality.

MEANWHILE! The reincarnation cycles were still going while this was happening and then during Aaryn's mourning period and wow, it sure was a lot more difficult without an angel to help!! By the time he pulled himself together enough to help, most of the group had died besides Soleil and together they barely scraped by in sealing away Rydain again and killing the queen of wraiths. The bit of solace and familiarity he found in joining Soleil's party, who he had also come to view as friends even if they didn't remember him each time (only the wraith queen kept her memories), also came to an end since the very next cycle Soleil triggered her memories of all the previous cycles and had a breakdown. Desperate to break the cycle and live her own life for once, Soleil sold her soul to a demon to leave the reincarnation cycle permanently since demons cannot be reborn, and killed the queen of wraiths. This was devastating for Aaryn who now had basically no one left and felt personally betrayed by what she had done, but couldn't bring himself to like, do anything about it since he was still attached to her and they parted ways.

However! The queen of wraiths who desperately needs a name so I can stop referring to her like this, had slowly been questioning if what she had been doing was really worth it, and, after her near victory last time, realized how empty and meaningless her actions had become. Just when she was contemplating what she should do about this, however, oops Soleil found her and murdered her. Yuliore, delighted by this role reversal, decided to revive the queen of wraiths for one last chance at redemption and had her reborn for the first time without her memories to see what happened. And since Aaryn had already spent so much time meddling with them and no longer had any principality duties at the moment, she ordered him to watch over her so no one could interfere or kill her prematurely. So now here he is. :) Living on Ceres with the woman he helped kill how many times and protecting her from his former friend. :) :) :) He's not bitter or resentful whatsoever, how could you ask such a thing.

Aaryn is like one good push from falling at this point, but he doesn't have time to think about that right now. No matter how he feels about it, he's going to succeed at this if it kills him.

Clarissa Tanzer
The current reincarnation of the Queen of Wraiths... but if he didn't know that already he doesn't think he'd notice anything out of the ordinary about her. Despite some... bumps... in her life so far, he's honestly a little surprised about how normal she seems and keeps accidentally dropping his guard around her. There's admittedly a degree of awkwardness about spending so much time with someone he helped kill so many times in the past, but he's not going to let it distract him from watching over her and keeping her safe until judgement comes.

Sugarplum / Ciel
Soleil's "noble steed" and a constant staple throughout her lifetimes. Aaryn's not sure how they became so connected that an animal also reincarnated with her every time, but it's not his place to ask so whatever. Unfortunately, that connection led to Sugarplum also becoming a demon when Soleil did and they've been furious about it, to put it lightly. Aaryn wishes he could help them, but with circumstances being what they are, there isn't much he can do other than sympathize and hope they can avoid fighting in the future.

Rydain
Aaryn loathes everything about this guy and if he knew how to kill him permanently, he would in an instant. Unfortunately, he hasn't found a way to do this yet, so he has to settle for sealing him away and living in dread until the next time he pops up and won't shut up about the stupidest things. Even beyond the whole murderous demon thing, Rydain is INFURIATING to deal with and Aaryn cannot stand how chummy he acts towards him, like it's all just a fun game to him. Despite how capricious and easy-going he acts, Aaryn has to take him seriously since in a fair one on one match with no weapons, Rydain would destroy him and they both know it.

Viola
She used to be part of his host but Fell. He resents her for it because he feels like he should, but he's actually torn and misses what their friendship used to be. He can't bring himself to actually fight her either after he had to slay a different fallen friend, so Aaryn is currently using the (admittedly shaky) excuse that he can't kill her since he hasn't actually witnessed her doing anything evil since he found her again. The other angels don't need to know about this one.

Cello / Zeke
The man responsible for getting most of Aaryn's host killed or turned into demons. They were in different circles since Cello had been a virtue so they had only interacted briefly before, but Aaryn had never gotten the sense he was dangerous before so his betrayal came as a shock. Aaryn has no idea where he vanished to after he was cast out and became a demon, but if he finds him (and he is very much looking) he's going to personally wring his neck.

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