~Atlas DeGuard~
the collector

||Role||
High Fae of the Day Court

||Name||
Atlas DeGuard

||Nicknames||
~The Collector~
Due to his profession of acquiring objects for selective clients, Atlas has earned himself the name of 'the collector', and anyone in the world of ancient objects will know his name as the one to go to.

~Bastard~
Both in the 'you're a dickhead' sense and the 'you're illegitimate' sense. He doesn't mind the former- he's more than happy to roll with the punches. But if someone dares to insult his mother they will get a firm fist to the face.

||Age||
1318
His birthday is on the 9th of January

||Gender||
Male

||Court||
Day

||Species||
Fae

||Powers||
~Invisibility~
Atlas has the ability to turn himself invisible, whenever he chooses. He can only turn himself invisible for 10 minutes at a time, and if he is making himself and someone else invisible at the same time, he can only hold it for 2 minutes. He is always working on improving his powers, but he often doesn't have time.

~Light Manipulation~
Like many others in his court, Atlas can manipulate light. How bright things are, how dark things are, colour of the light, temporarily blind people yada yada yada.

~Object Refraction + Mirages~
Using the ability to refract light, Atlas can make objects or people to appear in places where they aren't actually. It's complicated, but the basic principle is he can make a vase appear on the opposite side of the room as it actually is. If someone tried to touch it, they'd realise it was simply an illusion, but it's still a neat trick.

||Sexuality||
Bisexual

||Appearance||
Reece King

||Personality||
Atlas, despite his turbulent heritage, inherited his father's academic prowess and has a quick mind. Like many of the Fae in the day court, he is considered ruthlessly intelligent, though he doesn't apply his smarts to academic study. No. His subject of choice is people. The ability to use words to bend people to his will is far more useful than knowing which star is which. Needless to say, Atlas can be very persuasive. Manipulative is another word. If he needs to do something slightly immoral to get what he wants, then that's what he'll do. The world isn't a fair place, and he's not planning on letting it destroy him. He is an incredibly driven individual who values wealth over most other things. He enjoys the comfort of having everything he'll ever want of need at his fingertips, and he's not afraid to indulge in things. Alcohol, drugs, sex. If it gets him happy, it doesn't take much for someone to tempt him. Unfortunately, despite his manipulative tendencies, he is very easily manipulated himself. His will is weak when it comes to his favourite vices, and it only takes a small suggestion for him to partake in them. All that being said, he roots for the underdog more often than not, and he's more than willing to throw a punch to defend his or someone else's pride. In the right circumstances, he can be incredibly soft and sweet, especially after a few drinks. He can make people feel like they're the most important thing in the world and truly believe it, and then pretend it never happened in the morning.

||Background||
Ezra DeGuard was an academic of the day court, renowned for his study into the fall of the Fae and the media that remained about that time: paintings, poems, diaries, even the people who were there to witness it. Anything related to that fated day the Fae were banished to this measly earth. This research consumed him, from the moment he hit adulthood to the moment he died, and it was exactly because of this obsession that he eventually met his downfall.

Alina was a Fae from the day court, the daughter of a respected Lord, and a girl (of barely 75) who was gifted to 2345 year old Ezra as a sign of goodwill. She was pretty, and she was quiet, and that is all Ezra needed her to be. Apart from the nights he fell into her bed, they rarely spoke. Rarely did anything together other than hold hands and smile at public events. The rest of the time, Ezra spent on his studies, and Alina spent sitting in the gardens. She bore 2 children to Ezra, a boy named Kronos and a girl named Gaia. These children were her whole world, and every day was spent teaching them the way of the world both inside the classroom and outside of it. She wanted them to be strong. She needed them to be safe. But Ezra was a man of ambition, and Kronos was sent away to study when he was only 60, and a few years later Gaia was married off to a man Ezra was friends with. And Alina? She was alone again.

Until a young scholar caught her attention. He was studying the stars, a man who looked at the skies and saw possibility beyond one's wildest imagination, and Alina had spent far too long being stuck on the ground. Ezra found out about their affair 3 years after it began, and the young scholar found a quick and merciless death at Ezra's hands. The only problem was that Alina was pregnant, and the child in her womb was not Ezra's. They both knew it, because they hadn't slept together for over 7 years.

And so Atlas was born, a baby hated by his father and a painful reminder to his mother. Still, Alina tried to love him, gave him the best childhood she could under the oppressive gaze of her husband and the disdain of half the court. She rose Atlas to be aware of the danger around every corner, and to know that he was never safe. Never. If he wanted a place in this world, he was going to have to carve it out for himself, and leave no room for argument. Alina was raising him to be independent because she had a plan, and on the day Atlas turned 75, officially an adult, Alina snuck into her husbands bedroom and put a dagger through his neck, and then did the same to herself.

Perhaps she wanted to see her true love again. That's what Atlas told himself, anyway, as he made his way through life alone. He saw his siblings once in a while, but it was hard to be close to them when they all knew he was not of their blood. He was tainted by illegitimacy, and it was all he'd ever known.

And so Atlas took his mother's advice: he carved a place out for himself in this world with his bare hands, bloody knuckles and all. He started at the bottom and worked his way up as a 'procurer of rare and expensive items'. Pieces of art, ancient artifices, enchanted weapons, magical objects that deserved to stay buried. His methods weren't necessarily illegal, but it's safe to say the channels he goes through are perhaps not always ethical. But hey, his clients normally don't care how he gets what they want as long as it ends up in their hands. And he doesn't care either as long as he gets paid.

||Skills||
-Persuasion
-Eavesdropping
-Punching people who get on his nerves

||Aesthetic||
TBA

||Quotes||
'if you want the world at your fingertips,
grab it with both hands'

'this world was not made for you or i'

'hand me a cigarette and kiss the
nicotine off my lips'

||Trivia||
-Regularly travels between courts to find and procur the objects he's been told to

-Quite enjoys flings with humans. They are so short lived that he doesn't have to commit

-Has a nose piercing (as seen in the pictures above) which he got when he was 78