#knowledge posts

Born to Angelique Mercier and Claude Fontaine in Marseille, France, Eden is the oldest of three children. They have two younger sisters of whom they are very protective of.

Their parents divorced when they were around 10 years old. Eden's father basically abandoned his family for another woman and none of them ever heard from him again. As a result, Eden had to watch their mother struggle raising 3 children on her own. As a result, Eden vowed to do something to help her as they got older.

Eden was always talented at ice skating and even tried hockey at one point, but realized that their passion was with figure skating. Their mother, despite not having a lot of money, helped nurture this natural talent and took them to weekly lessons.

They won their first competition at 12 years old. Then again. And again. And again. Eden was rapidly surpassing their peers and caught the eye of France's top coach, who took them under her wing at the age of 14. They then debuted in the Olympics when they were only 16 years old and has gone to every winter Olympics since.

Eden, who was born male, does compete in the male skate. They publicly came out as nonbinary at 19, which they hope inspired many young athletes to know that they can identify how they wish and still compete.

Eden does hope that one day they can see competitions allow a mixed gender category in skating so people like them can compete how they want and not be confined to their sex at birth. This is something they heavily advocate for.

Eden now supports their family financially, with winnings from competitions and brand deals galore, they're able to live comfortably.

Eden does have issues committing to relationships due to their intense love of skating. That is their #1 priority in life. They can come off as cold and distant, really only interested in people for sex or easy friendships. Romantic relationships are extremely difficult for them.

They can also come across as very judgey and snobbish. Eden is a bit high maintenance overall.

They are now in their mid-twenties and people are questioning if they're going to retire soon. Incorrect. They're at the prime of their career. They'll retire when they drop dead.

When Ikaros fell, he died the second he hit the water. However, the Fates had other plans for him. As a punishment for his supposed hubris of trying to reach the gods (he just wanted Apollo, but Apollo didn't catch him), he was cursed with immortality, forever walking the earth until the day they decide otherwise.

Ikaros was one of the first, if not the first person, to be cursed with this punishment.

Every 7 years, the Fates will give him a mock trial to decide whether or not to lift the curse. It's a rigged game, though. A game he can't win. A game he won't ever win, and he knows it.

He's 5'4, with blonde hair and dark blue eyes. Because he's been alive for 5,000 years, he has a bit of an uncanny look about him.

The Fates control his life. He is always out of money, he has a shitty beater car that he has to fix constantly, he doesn't know stability, often homeless or living in extremely rundown apartments.

He also has to deal with the burn scars on his back for all of eternity. They often sting and ache and he is extremely self conscious about them.

To cope, Ikaros is always drunk or high. Being sober is hard. Being sober means he has to think about the weight of things. He'd rather not.

He has abandonment and codependency issues. If someone is nice to him one singular time, he gets attached. If he sleeps with someone and they don't call, don't stay, don't text back, it sends him into a spiraling pit of despair. All he wants is to be good enough for someone, but the moment he reaches any kind of happiness, it gets taken from him.

He is quite hung up on Apollo, but acts like he isn't. If he ever runs into Apollo for whatever reason, it sends him into a panic and messes him up for days.

Ikaros is his father's son, however, and can fix just about anything you put in front of him. He is an expert at car mechanics, computers, etc. He's also a polyglot and can learn languages like nothing. Still, he doesn't apply his intelligence to anything. He doesn't see the point.

He thinks that the only way people will like him is if he sleeps with them. Someone tell this boy he doesn't have to do that lmao.

He's been in the States since the turn of the 20th century. All of his documents are fake, made on his own. He typically goes by the alias Isaac Katsaros. His story is that he's a Greek immigrant and his father is dead (which isn't technically a lie).

Kit was born as Kathleen Girard on October 28th, 1987 in Quebec to a Russian mother and a Quebecois father. No they will not name them because these two are dead to them. Kit's father was a narcissist and extremely physically abusive.

They've always had an interest in archaeology, computers, and creating fake documents. They'd often get in trouble for being caught with fake ids.

Kit was a very poorly behaved child, likely due to all that they endured in their household. They were shipped off to Catholic school as a teenager and committed their first murder against one of the "popular" girls. Instead of going to prison, they plead insanity and were put into a mental hospital at the age of 17.

This didn't last very long, only a few weeks. They escaped by strangling their nurse and hopping out the window. They had planned on fleeing the country for a while, so fake id and passport in hand, they assumed the identity of Kit Harris and fled into the United States.

It was honestly pure luck that they were able to do this and they planned on somehow getting to California to completely start over. They did this by convincing people to let them stay in their homes and then robbing them, couch hopping and getting onto trains from city to city, state to state, until they eventually crossed the wrong person (I haven't decided on a name for this person yet but it's not that important lmao).

Instead of killing Kit for crossing them, however, they saw their potential and took Kit under their wing, showing them the ways of the criminal underground. This is how Kit really perfected their ability to fake documents and assume different identities. This is also how they start grave robbing.

Not content with just being someone's underling, Kit eventually double-crossed and killed their mentor under the guise of a heist gone wrong. Kit then assumes the moniker of The Chameleon and starts their own crew.

Kit's main source of income is selling people fake id's, documents, finding information about people, etc. If you can give Kit a name, they can likely find everything out about someone. They steal for fun, for the sake of having things. They grave rob, steal from museums, etc etc.

They're also a polyglot and can assume any identity that they wish, hence The Chameleon. It's like they become a completely different person. They burn every alias after only using it once.

The Chameleon is known for being ruthless and cut throat, killing anyone who so much as breathes wrong at them. Hardly anyone knows their true identity. Kathleen Girard has been presumed legally dead for a while.

After a few years of success, they meet Casper Reid (@boyinvisible) aka The Ghost, who was then going under the alias of Alex Stanwick at Club Oxygen. They start a whirlwind romance that lasts a few years before Kit finds out who Alex really is. See, by being so close to Kit, Casper was able to know what they were aiming to steal (mainly ancient papyri). He'd forge them, steal and replace them before Kit could get to them, and that would be that. This robbed Kit of millions of dollars, and when they figured out that it was Alex, or rather, Casper doing this to them, they stabbed him and left him for dead.

In the years that pass, the Chameleon's network only grows stronger. However, due to....many circumstances (mostly to fuck with Casper while he's in prison), Kit ends up faking their death. There's a whole funeral and everything. They attend their own funeral it's very funny lmao.

Still, even with supposedly being dead, they still operate as they are. Unfortunately they're obsessed with Casper and once he gets out of prison, they make it their mission to torment him every second of everyday until they get back the papyri that he stole from them. So everyone who is romantically involved with Casper....fucking...watch out LMAO

Nate is...old. Older than any normal person could comprehend. He can't tell you exactly when he came to be, but he's upward of 5,000 years old. He used to represent the land that is now the USA, but that all changed when Conall came and colonized the land.

He is 6'4" at his tallest with bright blue eyes and long black hair that he often braids. He only ever trims the ends once they get too split. It's one of the few things that hasn't changed about him.

If you ask what it was like before the land was colonized, he can't really remember and that's the point. Colonization took away his memories of everything he ever knew. It comes back to him in bits and bursts, but nothing cohesive. Conall named him Nathaniel, and that was that.

His time under English rule absolutely broke him. He was probably physically in his 30s and colonization de-aged him back to a teenager. Conall took every bit that made him him and ripped it away. It took a long, long time for him to find his personality again.

As a result, he was very nervous during the American revolution. He was quiet and jumpy and eager to please. Once the French came to help, he started to see that people had faith in him, and he started growing a backbone. He killed Conall himself during the battle of Yorktown, stabbing him several times in the chest as a final fuck you.

During the civil war, he was very ill. He couldn't walk or get around on his own. As a result, he stayed in the white house and Lincoln and his family took care of him (@historiavn).

The civil war really messed him up. Reconstruction in the southern states prolonged his weakness until the 1920s, and then he grew ill again during the depression.

He finally gained strength back once the US started to become a superpower after WWII. His greatest fear, however, was becoming like Conall. He really does his best to not let the power get to him, but it comes out in short bursts, to which he can't even look at himself in the mirror after.

He knows his position as a visibly native man. It's hard to get anyone in political positions to listen to him. It sometimes feels like he's screaming at a brick wall.

'Born' when the city of Rome was first founded in 753 BCE. He was found in the woods by his adoptive mother Priscilla (@divinehr), surrounded by a nursing wolf and her cubs. Marcus was rather articulate for a child that looked to be no older than five and was brought back with one of the wolf pups in tow.

This is how the Romulus and Remus nursing on a wolf myth came to be. Marcus never bothered to correct anyone.

He is 5'10" at his tallest with crimson eyes and black hair. He looks far too young to have prominent positions in the Senate and the army, and yet there he is.

Marcus has many titles. He won't bore you with them (they can be found here)

Marcus had a turbulent relationship with Hannibal Barca (yes THAT Hannibal) despite their status as enemies. Even though Carthage and Rome were at war and Hannibal nearly killed him with the battle of Cannae, they still loved each other. Hannibal was Marcus' first lover and his death struck him hard. He was the one who warned Hannibal that the Romans were coming to kill him while he was in hiding. He didn't stick around to watch him commit suicide.

Marcus is the opposite of how Romans expect men to behave. He openly flirts with other men, throws wild parties, is a man of the people first, denounces the rich on a regular basis, treats his slaves humanely and always frees them, acts "feminine." As a result, he has many political enemies, but also people who are staunchly loyal to him.

He has pet wolves that descend from that first wolf he had as a child. His current wolf is named Remus.

He has far more humanity than is typical for empires and this is chalked up to him starting out as a city. There is the human part of him that is Marcus, and the empire part of him that is Rome. Rome is horrendous, evil, only acts out of his own interests. That side of Marcus only comes out during war or when Rome is threatened.

He has one son that he knows of, Aulus Furius Atellus, who is his son by Caelestis (@lovedgods). Aulus can see the future and lives for a long time, but eventually passes away from old age as he is still technically mortal.

He had sexual and even romantic relationships with several prominent political figures, but he'll never say who.

He does die when the western half of the empire falls in 476 CE, but eventually comes back as just the city during the Italian Renaissance. This changes his personality a bit, as he is not so stressed by political events, so he's a lot calmer and far more stereotypically Italian.