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E-mail: lid.johnson@gmail.com
Other Characters: Marty Hart, Thomas Blanky
Character Name: Major Elim Rawne
Series: Gaunt's Ghosts
Age: 28
From When?: The end of the third book, Necropolis. In canon, he survives the final battle, but here, he doesn't.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He's a rage-filled, bigoted, violent barely ex-criminal who maybe murdered someone in the past. He has a chip on his shoulder the size of a small moon and he wants to kill his commanding officer.
Arrival: Rawne was grabbed from the moment of his death in Heritor Asphodel's giant, pyramidal, mobile command center. He's not happy about it, especially as he was expecting to arrive at the foot of the Golden Throne of the God-Emperor, as he was told would happen.
Abilities/Powers: No powers
Personality: The foremost emotion in Elim Rawne's life is anger. He's angry all the time, for all sorts of different reasons. His main cause for rage is the Fall of Tanith, the terrible day when Chaos ships slipped through an Imperial blockade and bombarded his planet (among others) until the core destabilized and exploded. He focuses most of his rage about this at Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, his commanding officer, for taking the one remaining Tanith regiment off-planet instead of letting them fight and die there. He also has some anger saved for the enemy who did blow up his planet, but that doesn't actually get expressed much. His loss isn't personal enough to be a drive to avenge anyone, as he's not attached to anyone on Tanith enough to care in that way. It's just generalized grief, expressed through anger and pointed at the easiest person to hate, who is both an off-worlder and his commanding officer.
In the first book, First and Only, Feygor, the closest thing to a friend, narrates "Bitterness was what had ruined him, bitterness was what had scalded his nature early on." What caused this bitterness is never explained, it's just a foundational part of his makeup. The only real clue to this is that he's the third son of a rich family and he's bitter because he wants more than what his station in life will give him. That's why he joined the Tanith Attica militia and why he started dealing on the black market. He had money, but no position that held any kind of real power, so he went out and found one that had power. He formed a connection to the black market through Feygor, who had also joined the militia, but how exactly that connection formed is not explained. Given Rawne's snobbishness in the first couple of books, it's odd that he talked to Feygor at all, but perhaps he wanted to rebel against his family or experience a new, darker way of life. Whatever the reason, he took to crime readily enough for that to be one of his defining characteristics.
Related to his bitterness is his scorn for authority. The one time he calls Gaunt "sir", it's a clue that he's about to try to kill him. He wasn't supposed to be an officer before the First and Only became the only regiment to make it off-planet and leadership sits ill with him. His regiment is basically a group of criminals who respect him enough to not kill him, but aren't more organized than that. There's a couple of ordinary, young soldiers who mostly get ignored.
His ambition to be powerful mixed with his awkwardness when given it isn't particularly explored, unfortunately. He's too angry and unable to connect with people to be a solid leader. He wants power, but he can't handle the responsibility said power gives him. He is good at tactics and he's brilliant at explosives, but his ability to truly lead and affect morale is low.
Rawne's weirdest trait is probably his honor. Despite his wiliness and criminality, he has a very firm personal code. Despite his ambition, he really does hate Gaunt because, as he sees it, Gaunt "let Tanith die", not because he wants to take Gaunt's place. His anger at Gaunt is only inflamed by the fact that he saved Rawne's life early on (as told in the second book Ghostmaker). He feels like he's in his debt and therefore he can't kill him until he's cleared that debt. He's also honorable and brave enough to never fall to Chaos, which is a possibility in this setting. He never runs from battle, nor does he shrink from danger. He never used anyone as a human shield or killed anyone who wasn't the enemy (despite many threats).
Rawne is isolated. He doesn't make friends or see other people as worth a relationship. He's too suspicious of the people around him (which is probably wise, since most of the people he interacts with are criminals). This isolation also feeds into his bitterness, which then increases his isolation. He tells himself he doesn't need people and he is very self-sufficient, but ultimately, his inability to trust is a weakness. Since no one likes him, no one cares what happens to him. In First and Only, he gets captured and tortured because he's been purposely excluded from a meeting and so he and his regiment are easily attacked. He gets rescued, but more because he's needed as a soldier than because anyone wants to save him.
Path to Redemption: Rawne's path to redemption will not be easy, but it can happen. Over the course of the book series, he lets go of his anger and becomes a much better person, if still an asshole. At the point he comes from here, he's gone through none of that growth. The most important step, and probably the hardest, is to get him to admit that the anger he feels is based in grief at losing his entire planet and everyone (outside the First and Only) he knows. Once he's dealt with that most, if not all, of his anger will fade. This anger/grief is a lot of what fuels his anger with his commanding officer, who he blames for them not dying with Tanith. Another huge step is going to be getting him to accept that non-human (and to an extent humans with magic/psychic powers) aren't horrible enemies of humanity, fit only to be killed. That's what he was taught since he was a child; it's what the Empire preaches. But if he's to be redeemed, he needs to change those beliefs. Finally, he should learn to form actual connections and friendships to people, instead of viewing them as tools or, at best, business associates.
History: Link 1 and Link 2
Sample Journal Entry: Meme Thread
Edit:
Sample RP: Elim Rawne is up to something. He's creeping along the deck, resolutely not looking at the stars that glint above and around him. The Warp can drive men mad, they say, and he's not taking any chances. This strange ship that drifts unprotected, as far as he can tell, through the Empyrean, has enough on it to drive him insane.
He doesn't trust the dining hall, neither the people there or the food laid out for them. They say it's open to everyone but there has to be a catch. There's always a catch, with heretics. And these people, who don't seem to have even heard of the God-Emperor, certainly are heretics. Some of them aren't even human. No, it's best he keeps to himself.
The door to the Greenhouse opens silently and he creeps inside. This late at night, he's the only one there. Still, he remains stealthy, keeping his camocloak around him. Who knows what surveillance they have here.
He sniffs the first fruit he picks, but it doesn't seem to be Warp-tainted. It could be anyway, but his growling stomach reminds him of why he's here. He has to eat something. There's no point in starving before he gets to the Golden Throne. Besides, he's already died of hunger here once. He woke in the infirmary, surrounded by heretical doctors. He's not doing that again.
He eats quickly, juice running down his face and drying stickily on his skin and his shirt. The sweetness is almost cloying, but he makes himself eat until he's not hungry anymore. Once he's eaten his fill, he puts some more fruit in a bag and stows it under his cloak. Then he creeps back to the door and sneaks back the way he came, to his room.
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lookashinyE-mail: lid.johnson@gmail.com
Other Characters: Marty Hart, Thomas Blanky
Character Name: Major Elim Rawne
Series: Gaunt's Ghosts
Age: 28
From When?: The end of the third book, Necropolis. In canon, he survives the final battle, but here, he doesn't.
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. He's a rage-filled, bigoted, violent barely ex-criminal who maybe murdered someone in the past. He has a chip on his shoulder the size of a small moon and he wants to kill his commanding officer.
Arrival: Rawne was grabbed from the moment of his death in Heritor Asphodel's giant, pyramidal, mobile command center. He's not happy about it, especially as he was expecting to arrive at the foot of the Golden Throne of the God-Emperor, as he was told would happen.
Abilities/Powers: No powers
Personality: The foremost emotion in Elim Rawne's life is anger. He's angry all the time, for all sorts of different reasons. His main cause for rage is the Fall of Tanith, the terrible day when Chaos ships slipped through an Imperial blockade and bombarded his planet (among others) until the core destabilized and exploded. He focuses most of his rage about this at Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, his commanding officer, for taking the one remaining Tanith regiment off-planet instead of letting them fight and die there. He also has some anger saved for the enemy who did blow up his planet, but that doesn't actually get expressed much. His loss isn't personal enough to be a drive to avenge anyone, as he's not attached to anyone on Tanith enough to care in that way. It's just generalized grief, expressed through anger and pointed at the easiest person to hate, who is both an off-worlder and his commanding officer.
In the first book, First and Only, Feygor, the closest thing to a friend, narrates "Bitterness was what had ruined him, bitterness was what had scalded his nature early on." What caused this bitterness is never explained, it's just a foundational part of his makeup. The only real clue to this is that he's the third son of a rich family and he's bitter because he wants more than what his station in life will give him. That's why he joined the Tanith Attica militia and why he started dealing on the black market. He had money, but no position that held any kind of real power, so he went out and found one that had power. He formed a connection to the black market through Feygor, who had also joined the militia, but how exactly that connection formed is not explained. Given Rawne's snobbishness in the first couple of books, it's odd that he talked to Feygor at all, but perhaps he wanted to rebel against his family or experience a new, darker way of life. Whatever the reason, he took to crime readily enough for that to be one of his defining characteristics.
Related to his bitterness is his scorn for authority. The one time he calls Gaunt "sir", it's a clue that he's about to try to kill him. He wasn't supposed to be an officer before the First and Only became the only regiment to make it off-planet and leadership sits ill with him. His regiment is basically a group of criminals who respect him enough to not kill him, but aren't more organized than that. There's a couple of ordinary, young soldiers who mostly get ignored.
His ambition to be powerful mixed with his awkwardness when given it isn't particularly explored, unfortunately. He's too angry and unable to connect with people to be a solid leader. He wants power, but he can't handle the responsibility said power gives him. He is good at tactics and he's brilliant at explosives, but his ability to truly lead and affect morale is low.
Rawne's weirdest trait is probably his honor. Despite his wiliness and criminality, he has a very firm personal code. Despite his ambition, he really does hate Gaunt because, as he sees it, Gaunt "let Tanith die", not because he wants to take Gaunt's place. His anger at Gaunt is only inflamed by the fact that he saved Rawne's life early on (as told in the second book Ghostmaker). He feels like he's in his debt and therefore he can't kill him until he's cleared that debt. He's also honorable and brave enough to never fall to Chaos, which is a possibility in this setting. He never runs from battle, nor does he shrink from danger. He never used anyone as a human shield or killed anyone who wasn't the enemy (despite many threats).
Rawne is isolated. He doesn't make friends or see other people as worth a relationship. He's too suspicious of the people around him (which is probably wise, since most of the people he interacts with are criminals). This isolation also feeds into his bitterness, which then increases his isolation. He tells himself he doesn't need people and he is very self-sufficient, but ultimately, his inability to trust is a weakness. Since no one likes him, no one cares what happens to him. In First and Only, he gets captured and tortured because he's been purposely excluded from a meeting and so he and his regiment are easily attacked. He gets rescued, but more because he's needed as a soldier than because anyone wants to save him.
Path to Redemption: Rawne's path to redemption will not be easy, but it can happen. Over the course of the book series, he lets go of his anger and becomes a much better person, if still an asshole. At the point he comes from here, he's gone through none of that growth. The most important step, and probably the hardest, is to get him to admit that the anger he feels is based in grief at losing his entire planet and everyone (outside the First and Only) he knows. Once he's dealt with that most, if not all, of his anger will fade. This anger/grief is a lot of what fuels his anger with his commanding officer, who he blames for them not dying with Tanith. Another huge step is going to be getting him to accept that non-human (and to an extent humans with magic/psychic powers) aren't horrible enemies of humanity, fit only to be killed. That's what he was taught since he was a child; it's what the Empire preaches. But if he's to be redeemed, he needs to change those beliefs. Finally, he should learn to form actual connections and friendships to people, instead of viewing them as tools or, at best, business associates.
History: Link 1 and Link 2
Sample Journal Entry: Meme Thread
Edit:
Sample RP: Elim Rawne is up to something. He's creeping along the deck, resolutely not looking at the stars that glint above and around him. The Warp can drive men mad, they say, and he's not taking any chances. This strange ship that drifts unprotected, as far as he can tell, through the Empyrean, has enough on it to drive him insane.
He doesn't trust the dining hall, neither the people there or the food laid out for them. They say it's open to everyone but there has to be a catch. There's always a catch, with heretics. And these people, who don't seem to have even heard of the God-Emperor, certainly are heretics. Some of them aren't even human. No, it's best he keeps to himself.
The door to the Greenhouse opens silently and he creeps inside. This late at night, he's the only one there. Still, he remains stealthy, keeping his camocloak around him. Who knows what surveillance they have here.
He sniffs the first fruit he picks, but it doesn't seem to be Warp-tainted. It could be anyway, but his growling stomach reminds him of why he's here. He has to eat something. There's no point in starving before he gets to the Golden Throne. Besides, he's already died of hunger here once. He woke in the infirmary, surrounded by heretical doctors. He's not doing that again.
He eats quickly, juice running down his face and drying stickily on his skin and his shirt. The sweetness is almost cloying, but he makes himself eat until he's not hungry anymore. Once he's eaten his fill, he puts some more fruit in a bag and stows it under his cloak. Then he creeps back to the door and sneaks back the way he came, to his room.
