Apprenticember! Days 1 and 2
Day 1: Introduce your apprentice!
James | he/she/they | 32 | taurus | april 21th | 178 cm
James is... something.
He’s a very spontaneous person. He’s warm, helpful and generally very easy to get along with. If you’re polite enough you’re going to have a good time around him.
He’s always available to lend a hand if needed, which makes a lot of people, Asra included, see him as a sort of responsible older sibling figure.
On the other hand, if you dig a little deeper you might get a pretty different picture.
James is not used to being disliked. People being mistrustful or giving him a hard time make him easily irritable, which he is at least a little bit decent at hiding.
He’s a chronic people pleaser, but instead of bending over to accomodate everyone he resorts to lying to cover up himself and his actions. Lies that always end up accumulating and making him sweat to mantain the charade.
He doesn’t do it maliciously, but he’s definitely the type of person who ends up hurting the people he cares about because of his decisions. He thinks (or tries to convince himself of it) he can handle anything alone all the time, which is what usually puts him in these kind of situations.
He can also be a massive hypocrite.
Asra could swear he wasn’t like this before.
Day 2: Who is their LI? What’s their relationship like?
During the murder investigations his relationship with Valerius, who is mainly his employer, is an absolute mess.
One of the things James is known around town for is how good he is at finding people and things who go missing, them being civilians, wanted criminals or lost valuable items. He obviously uses magic to do it, but because of how unreliable his spells are with his amnesia he doesn’t make it public.
So, when he hears that some rich guy at the palace is hiring a bounty hunter to catch a dangerous killer before the Countess’s new hiree that sounds like an easy job, right?
Wrong. Valerius sees almost immediately through his act and James struggles to deceive him about his true intentions.
They lie to each other constantly, they’re both extremely secretive and even tho their relationship start as a casual affair they still manage to be pretty possessive and jealous.
They have some rare tender moments of honesty in private but tend to be pretty awkward and tense in public.