# PROMETHEUS MADE !

**# characters prt 1. **

when colby is born, her mother dies. and her father hates her for it. despises the newborn baby quiet and wide eyed in his arms. he wants nothing to do with her; however, instead of abandoning her – instead of giving her to the system or giving her up for adoption – he does something so much worse.when colby and her small child body are seven, her father decides to make ‘use’ of her. he throws her into an underground fighting ring for youths under eighteen. it’s horrible. even at such a young age, colby as come to expect nothing from her dad; however, during her first fight, she presses against the wall of the cage and begs and cries for him. screams for him to save her.her opponent is twice her age and twice her size. they have no qualms with slamming her, head first, into the ground below before jamming kicks into her ribs and stomach until she throws up all over their boots.
the next few fights are very much the same.get the shit beat out of her. come back from the brink of death. repeat.
repeat, repeat, repeat.it takes five instances of resigned surrender before seven year old colby comes to a decision. a boiling point within herself. she’ll play her father’s game. she’ll fight. but as soon as she grows strong enough – old enough – she’s leaving this damn place. and then she’s killing that ugly excuse for a parent.she will not die a caged animal.ten years she waits. she uses the fights to hone her abilities. learns that, sometimes, throwing the dirty punch is better than preserving your own pride. but it’s not a low blow that meets her father’s skull. it’s a bullet from the stolen gun snagged from under his own pillow.she’s all hot tears and shaky hands as colby takes back what’s rightfully hers – the thousands and thousands of dollars her father has made over the years because of her. because of betting.play stupid games, get stupid rewards.from then on, she’s been hunting. coast to coast, continent to continent, colby has been taking down those connected to and who remind her of her father. it’s led her to take down people associated with groups like hydra or the ten rings. it’s also led her to work with avengers as well as other super abled people. fury knows of her existence and often calls upon her for dirtier work, but she is not an official asset of shield.

under construction.arbor was born to farmers in ferelden. he grew big and tall and strong very fast. he learned how to make him self imposing and intimidating to scare away unwanted visitors from livestock. he also learned how to make himself unseen and quiet — whether it be to sneak out or to not startle the animals they kept. life wasn’t overly exciting. it was constant. it was fine. the most harrowing it ever got was during the fifth blight, but he was still a child by the time it ended. he’s freshly eighteen when the breach tears open the sky.and it’s not long after that a rift opens up above the farm in the middle of the night. the screams of the livestock and of his family are a focal point of arbor’s nightmares for the rest of his life.four years he treks the world of thedas alone. by his own means, he gets across the waking sea and into the free marches. to kirkwall. he does what he must to survive as the city continues to reconstruct itself after corypheus’ defeat. the people, and their will, inspire him. he grows fond of the city and its inhabitants. the thought of it ever being in ruins again sours his stomach — so when, completely on accident, he hears the brewings of trouble, he takes it upon himself to see it ended. it’s not a thought out plan. it’s not even a good one.in fact, it gets him very much in trouble.it’s not the first time he’s ever killed, and it certainly would not be the last, but it’s the first time he’s almost met the maker. it’s a wonder how he managed to take down eight men and a mage by himself. it’s even a bigger wonder that he manages to survive the lightning that webs blinding splinters across the whole right side of body. the scars that they leave; however, would be the least of his worries.the men he had taken out were a part of an antivan contract. and a bigger, underlying operation that the crows had been pouring resources into for weeks. (funny how history would repeat itself). he wakes up in treviso days (?) later. while it seems they mean to punish him for ruining their plans, the impressiveness of his feat is not lost among them. for a house to take him would be unconventional. he’s too old to go through the woes of a fledgling. but a certain talon takes interest in him, sees potential. admits it. and the first agrees. but only if arbor trains directly under him. if only he is kept careful watch of. if only his failures and his achievements are weighted upon both their shoulders. (she means to sow discord within the house. to take it down as it continues to rise in power. little does she know, arbor doesn’t know how to quit).ten years before the events of veilguard, arbor de riva reinvents himself for the third time. the mold of an antivan crow fits him like a glove. and, to this day, he will challenge anyone who tries to prove otherwise.quick facts: arbor is 32 when the events of veilguard starts. he stands at about 6’3 and becomes heavily freckled when standing out in the sun for too long. uses the ‘dumb ferelden farmer boy’ get up to throw people off his scent. used to braid his younger sisters’ hair and does so sometimes with the fledglings. his ferelden accent is starting to butt heads with an antivan one the longer time goes on. use sickles. named after the plant arbor’s blessing.

under construction.
radian runeaseryes grew up in a small settlement on the outskirts of tevinter rule. his parents were free elves, and his mother was a mage. a healer. she taught him empathy and humility, a guiding light in dark times. when his own magic manifested in the form of purple, crackling light, he was gutted. radian desperately wanted to be like his mother. she treated ailments and injuries of neighbors and travelers. he saw the positive impact that she made on the loveless world around them. he wanted to help too -- not destroy. later he would learn the importance of protection along side health. despite how discreet they had tried to be about their small safe haven, it did not stop the venatori from finding them. in his early teens, venatori raided their settlement, tipped off to the possibility of someone harboring renegade mages. they razed the whole place. they tortured and delighted and killed. a surge of radian's own uncontrolled magic upon witnessing the murder of his parents left him a breath away from meeting his own untimely fate. alone, terrified, and now, magically exposed, radian was left vulnerable to tevinter and its ruthless society.very soon after the loss of his settlement and parents, radian was adopted by a tevinter military family. it was not done out of kindness or pity or even obligation. it was done with the intent of harnessing his magical potential. to them, the elf was a valuable asset. not a child. not a son. but a weapon that they could mold to serve their own ambitions. he was made to drop the last name 'runeaseryes' and to take on 'mercar' instead. he was not allowed to talk about what happened. who he was before. what he left behind. he was to be their blank slate. and what he couldn't leave behind, like his elfness, was thrown back in his face daily. they also weren't a fan of his heart -- the way he lead with empathy instead of calculated violence. especially his adoptive father. there were days where he wasn't given food or water. or days where he was confined to a small room with no light and no company. there were several 'training' incidents where radian was tied to a heavy object and thrown into a body of a water, made to either use either his magic to free himself... or drown.[ eventually fill out more information here -- blah, blah, blah]small summary while i continue to flesh out his background: radian eventually flees his adoptive family after a particularly traumatic event. he spends a year or two on the streets of minrathous before being recruited ino the shadow dragons by the viper. radian and tarquin do not get along. he is with them for a handful of years before the slave freeing incident in nessus. by the time varric recruits him for the hunt for solas, and the beginnings of veilguard take place, he is about thirty two years old.quick facts: he's got a sweet tooth. poison stings are his favorite travel snack. his mother is of a dalish descent, and she told him many stories growing up. he does not practice any religion. he has not let life harden him -- he still travels through it leading with empathy above all else, always making space for others before himself. even though sexuality is only a big deal in the higher ranking society of tevinter, the military keeps stricter views on the roles of men and women. radian hid his queerness for at least a decade of his life. he explored it during his time with the shadow dragons and has had his fair share of experiences.

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