Brentwood

▶ PLAYER
HANDLE: Deria
CONTACT: On file
OVER 18? Yes
CHARACTERS IN-GAME: Esme Faulkner

▶ CHARACTER
NAME: Brentwood
CANON: Gargoyles
CANON POINT: CRAU from Wake
AGE: Nearly a year.
BACKGROUND:
Canon:
-Brentwood is still encapsuled but physically mature on August 18 1996 and begins his subliminal programming as his development finishes. Programming is primitive and focused on obeying Thailog.

-October 12th, he and the other clones are released from their capsules and hidden in an abandoned funhouse by Thailog. They ambush and capture their originals once they arrive, but are later defeated by them instead. Thailog apparently dies in a fire, leaving them confused and without guidance, and since their originals don't want them they are taken to live in the Labyrinth under the city with the Mutates and homeless.

-October 31st, Goliath arrives to ask the clone Delilah to a Halloween party with him. Soon after they leave, Thailog appears to reclaim them. The clones quickly fall in line and turn on the Mutates, who demand to know why they're calling Thailog "Master" and obeying him when they have free will. Brentwood begins to muse on this idea, ignoring Thailog's orders and simply watching and listening during the later fight in Xanatos' tower. When Delilah appears, she and the other clones decide to return to the Labyrinth (and decide that everyone is in agreement before Brentwood can vote), but Brentwood rejects that idea and decides that Thailog's intelligence makes him worth choosing instead. Lexington tries to stop him, stating that Brentwood is making him look bad, but Goliath tells him to let them leave even though Brentwood is making a bad decision.

-From there Brentwood follows Thailog and a mysterious female human who appeared on Halloween on many undetailed missions, doing various tasks such as searching for something in the ruins of a recently destroyed church.

Wake
-Brentwood arrives in Nautilus and is found and taken to one of the welcome houses. He gradually befriends people like Scott Summers, Nott Lovell, and Augustus Siamese who all offer him help in settling as well as education since he's obviously in need of it. He also receives an offer from Relius Clover for education and shelter, so he moves out of the welcome house soon after. He moves to the NOL building in the much more dangerous Western District, staying under no illusions that Relius' offer was out of kindness because the man states outright that he is using the clone.

-With so many tutors, Brentwood is able to start learning many things and start to dabble in the world's power, Bending. He remains neutral as things begin to grow tense between Relius and the other Wakened, unable to see why everyone was so suspicious of him when he hadn't done anything to anyone unasked by that person. This is especially true regarding Knuckles, who had been made into a powerful robot because he was feeling inadequate and lost, and had turned to Relius for help. However, he does not ever try to say that Relius is a good person.

-Antione D'Coolette eventually comes to the lab to learn about souls and Relius' work, via the return of a Flicky's soul from its new robot body to a recreation of its flesh one. Antoine berates Brentwood for having eaten the original body after the soul had been removed, pushing the fact that Brentwood should have gone shopping for food instead even though he had no knowledge about shopping yet. This sparks a strong dislike for Antoine in Brentwood.

-Brentwood begins to have strong moral disagreements with other Wakened about the choice that Knuckles made and whether Relius had coerced or forced him to do it. That continues through the attempts to restore Knuckles and beyond because he, at two weeks old, was allowed to make and have to deal with the consequences of his "unwise" choice to stay with Thailog. To him, it felt like everyone was saying that Relius was lying to, or manipulating, Knuckles into having given up his free will. This contradicted the fact that Relius had plainly stated that he saw the potential to improve Brentwood but allowed him the choice of whether to allow Relius into his mind to boost his intelligence or to tutor him normally, when he had been so ignorant at the time that Relius could have only given that first option and used it to brainwash him. No one can really help him around that inconsistency, so he continues to take Relius at his word by asking many questions before making a decision.

-After a fight for Knuckles' freedom, Knuckles is restored to his own body and Relius moves onto another project involving what to Brentwood is simply an augmented clone of Antoine. This clone and Antoine end up in a fight that gets broadcasted on the network, where Brentwood sees that Antoine is perfectly willing to end the clone's life because he sees it as an abomination. This removes any possibility for Brentwood to ever trust him, but thankfully the clone isn't killed.

-Brentwood's friends eventually learn to allow him to make his own opinions on matters by giving him as much as they know, rather than trying to force him to change it with information that just confuses him. He does gain a lot of respect for Augustus, learning through the strange storms that his morals aren't so black-and-white but also that he doesn't push his morals on people. This was most evident when Augustus became a flesh-crafting vampire and did several immoral things, while also teaching Brentwood, but later protected Brentwood from criticism while taking it all. Augustus later began to relearn the flesh-crafting through Bending for personal reasons that were far less immoral. He also befriends Dark Leonardo, as they're both clones and Dark Leo offers Relius his services as bodyguard in exchange for food and shelter.

-One year into his stay in Nautilus, Brentwood discovers a gargbeast pup and takes her in. This prompts him to start researching gargoyles and he begins to learn a lot that he never would have back home. He names the pup Nucla and does his best to raise and protect her unassisted. He doesn't leave her with Relius though, because he isn't entirely sure she would be safe there due to the location, the fact she might wander off, and somewhat Relius himself.

-Brentwood gets his first true sense of brainwashing when several people gain Jedi powers. Augustus becomes a Sith and begins doing questionable things, prompting Brentwood, Nott, and their friend Kale to try and make him stop. In the resulting confrontation, Augustus takes control of Brentwood and forces him to attack Kale. Augustus is ultimately stopped though and once the event has passed Brentwood forgives him because the event had altered his mind.

-A strange affliction starts to spread through Nautilus, causing people to sprout flowers and other plants out of their bodies that can't be permanently pulled out and make their hosts tired. No one seems to be figuring anything out and eventually Augustus asks him to enlist Relius to help look into a cure. Relius agrees and states he needs test subjects to study. Brentwood puts that request out on the network, along with an offer to help negotiate terms, but Nott is the only one who submits himself to Relius for help finding an answer. Brentwood is asked to watch over him through the duration and helps with the tests until Nott is taken home once no more can be done.

-Strange plant monsters start to appear in Nautilus. Brentwood helps Dark Leonardo keep Relius' lab safe while Relius is away researching the cause. He eventually asks Nott to help him stay safe during the day, but loses his arm to an exploding monster while he sleeps. Relius is able to help determine the origin of the infection and later help develop a cure. Things mostly return to normal and Relius makes Brentwood a new mechanical arm. This also results in Nott using Brentwood's trust to lure him away in order to make sure that Relius wasn't being deceitful, but once he confesses this Brentwood forgives him in exchange for his promise to trust him to make his own choices and know when to ask for help.

PERSONALITY:
Starting as a very simple-minded clone, Brentwood has had a lot to process over the course of about a year. He's learned the notion of free will, deciding that if you want someone to really choose then they have to actually be allowed to choose and deal with the consequences. That was his first real development and helped pave the way for his development as a Wakened in Nautilus. His thoughtful nature and the fact that he can simply sit and mull over a subject to come to a conclusion on his own shows that being a bit primitive doesn't mean he's not smart in a way.

Despite being cloned to be Thailog's obedient enforcer, Brentwood isn't a needlessly aggressive gargoyle. He fights when he has reason to, stops when there's no more reason, and might even not engage in battle when prompted to. He can move in with complete strangers problem-free, and even when someone is doing something obnoxious like telling him that his choices are making them look bad he doesn't lash out. However, gargoyles as a species are shown overwhelmingly to be protective and quick-tempered. So if someone close to him was in danger then that would probably result in immediate and potentially violent action

After his stay in Nautilus, he's still neutral to good and evil. He doesn't believe that someone is objectively good or bad based on their moral compass, but by how they present themselves in comparison to their words. This keeps leading him more toward people he can easily identify their stance. With Thailog, Brentwood knows that he's just a tool to him. But to him, Thailog's intelligence was more worthwhile than siding with the good guys, who hadn't really wanted to help them despite knowing they had nothing to help themselves without Thailog...and hadn't hesitated to fight back with claws and insults while also telling them that they had free will and should use it to not listen to Thailog. Even the other clones had forgotten to check with him before deciding that all of them had decided to go home to the Labyrinth. With Relius, he understood that the man didn't value him or anyone else. But Relius was upfront about that and let him choose how far he wanted things to go with him. Those opposed to Relius were so biased toward him that they could only see him as evil even when everyone was at risk of DYING and Relius offered his help simply because his research would end if the world died. He finds it harder to trust those kinds of good guys than the obviously untrustworthy types who are honest but immoral.

Brentwood has developed the mindset that a disagreement on views doesn't mean he can't befriend a person though, as nearly every friend he's made he has major ideological disagreements with. But these people have shown him that talking it out helps him understand why they think what they do and he won't judge them harshly if they take the time to understand him. He also has come to the conclusion that if a person hasn't taken the time to fully think about something or learn as much as possible, then if something they do goes wrong then they need to take at least part of the blame. It's fine to acknowledge another guilty party in the event of omission or deception, but that doesn't mean the person didn't make a choice. Though it should be noted that he's never truly experienced deception, only omission. Regret is also fine, though depending on the situation, it may need to be explained to him why something is regretted.

His education in Nautilus has also afforded him some useful skills. He can now read and write, and his ability to use proper sentences has gone from nonexistent to passable. He still refers to himself in third-person and often addresses people by name instead of pronouns, but he's come a long way from when "Brentwood stay Thailog. Thailog smart" was the closest he got to sentence structure. He enjoys reading as well as musics and spending time with the gargbeast pup he was given by Nautilus. And he does enjoy learning people's views as long as they're not too pushy with them.


POWERS/ABILITIES:
Despite his small size, he's in peak physical condition and has physical strength that exceeds his original's and is noticeably above that of a human. He's able to claw steel and stone, and grip with enough force to climb surfaces made of either. He's also able to bend or tear steel, lift heavy objects, and crush metal or stone like any other gargoyle. These feats just sometimes require a bit more exertion from him than a larger gargoyle, like Thailog or Hollywood.

Like all gargoyles he can't fly, but can glide on air currents and is good at maneuvering in midair. His night vision allows him to see in almost no light at all. When angered, his eyes start to glow red unconsciously, whereas normal males' eyes glow white. His vocal range comes from the fact that he has two sets of vocal cords, one for human speech and the other for more animal sounds like growls and roars. He can take more damage than a human can, recover faster from unconsciousness, and usually has better endurance. He is very resistant to heat and cold, enough that he can deal with any type of weather with little trouble, but is not by any means immune to extreme conditions.

Brentwood has a prehensile tail that can be used as a whip or to grab things outright. His body shape makes him very flexible, to the point that he can effortlessly reach his ears with his foot if he wanted to (Lexington does this once in canaon).

During the day his body completely turns to a stone-like substance that's no heavier than his flesh state. This is how gargoyles sleep and, while in this state, he can heal almost any kind of damage from received injuries without leaving scars, or illnesses and drugs/poisons. He also absorbs energy, most likely thermal, in this state and he can still dream. He is completely vulnerable though and is entirely unaware of anything that happens around him. Damage done is this state that goes deeper than the layer he sheds at night would become permanent, but not necessarily kill him if not of a fatal nature. Should he be smashed, he would simply remain stone and die. Lost limbs aren't something he can regenerate, and if he died before sunrise he wouldn't turn to stone at all.

When waking, his body thaws from the inside outward, resulting in only a thin layer of "stone" skin being shed every night. This is a natural occurrence for gargoyles and isn't magic. It's also because of their biological clock rather than the sun, so things that disrupt their clock would result in him possibly being awake after sunrise or asleep after sunset. Being somewhere with no exposure to natural light also has no effect on this. Additionally, this is the only time that gargoyles sleep.

Lastly is the modesty spell. All gargoyles are subject to it. It turns anything that they have on them at time of sleep to stone provided they consider it part of them. Apparently the spell also affects clones, as they still have all of their same equipment from their first appearance two weeks later on Halloween.

INVENTORY:
Nucla (gargbeast pup he received from Nautilus), the harness he made to be able to carry her, the MP3 p;ayer he received as a gift

MOONBLESSING:
Sanguis.

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Brentwood is simple and fairly primitive, and doesn't seem to really comprehend much of the world around him yet because Thailog programmed him to be basic but effective. This shows largely in his often clueless expression and his inability to use proper speech even though he appears to be able to understand most proper speech with little to no difficultly...but he is not stupid, merely ignorant, and is apparently actually a bit of a deep thinker. Since learning about free will he seems to have decided that he is perfectly capable of making his own decisions and doesn't really seem to like having someone push their opinions on him once he's made his choice.

He's been shown not to be violent for the sake of violence as he was apparently able to live happily in the Labyrinth with no trouble, which also indicates that differences in species probably mean very little to him. He seems to actually get along quite well with whoever he's staying with as he also didn't seem to have any disputes with the other clones and they worked well together when needed. He is a natural warrior like most gargoyles, though he probably runs mostly on instinct in a fight without much forethought to his strategy at his current stage.

Despite his simple nature, Brentwood favors intelligence over both clan and morality...though he doesn't really have the experience to fully understand the latter just yet. He's already proven that he is willing to relinquish the ability to choose to someone of above average intelligence, at least in part, regardless of how that person views him. He's also proven that he is no longer blindly obedient to Thailog despite his programming, but in a situation where he feels that he could gain something from working under someone with a lot of smarts and cunning he would likely do so without much hesitation.

It's fairly likely that he has little to no sense of modesty both because it's something learned over time that Thailog would have little reason to teach, and because modesty isn't a gargoyle thing normally.

Gargoyles seem to have an instinctive tendency to protect both territory and those associated with it, so he likely has the same instinct. He doesn't seem to be particularly materialistic, as most gargoyles really aren't, but that could also be because he hasn't really gotten anything that he feels a need to keep yet. He's not at all educated on gargoyle customs and may never be interested in learning about them if he's not part of a proper clan.

Interestingly, because of his obviously simple nature, and his often clueless expression, it could be easily possible for others to either overestimate or underestimate him. He's capable of learning and thinking things over, and can recognize when others are upset with something he's involved in, but he is not and doesn't come across as someone who has full understanding of everyday things and this could make it hard to determine his intentions.

Abilities
Despite his small size, he's in peak physical condition and has strength that exceeds his original's and is noticeably above that of a human. He's able to claw steel and stone, and grip with enough force to climb surfaces made of either. He's also able to bend or tear steel, lift heavy objects, and crush metal or stone like any other gargoyle. These feats just sometimes require a bit more exertion from him than a larger gargoyle like Thailog or Hollywood.

Like all gargoyles he can't fly, but can glide on air currents and is good at maneuvering in midair. His night vision allows him to see in almost no light at all. When angered, his eyes start to glow red unconsciously, whereas normal males' eyes glow white. His vocal range comes from the fact that he has two sets of vocal chords, one for human speech and the other for more animal sounds like growls and roars. He can take more damage than a human can, recover faster from unconsciousness, and usually has better endurance. He is very resistant to heat and cold, enough that he can deal with any type of weather with little trouble, but is not by any means immune to extreme conditions.

During the day his body completely turns to a stone-like substance that's no heavier than his flesh state. This is how gargoyles sleep and, while in this state, he can heal almost any kind of damage from received injuries without leaving scars, or illnesses and drugs/poisons. He also absorbs energy, most likely thermal, in this state and he can still dream. He is completely vulnerable though, and is entirely unaware of anything that happens around him. Damage done is this state that goes deeper than the layer he sheds at night would become permanent, but not necessarily kill him if not of a fatal nature. Should he be smashed, he would simply remain stone and die. Lost limbs aren't something he can regenerate, and if he died before sunrise he wouldn't turn to stone at all.

When waking, his body thaws from the inside outward, resulting in only a thin layer of "stone" skin being shed every night. This is a natural occurrence for gargoyles and in no magic. It's also because of their biological clock rather than the sun, so things that disrupt their clock would result in him possibly being awake after sunrise or asleep after sunset. Additionally, this is the only time that gargoyles sleep.

Lastly is the modesty spell. All gargoyles are subject to it. It turns anything that they have on them at time of sleep to stone provided they consider it part of them. Apparently the spell includes clones.

Name: Brentwood
Age: Early/mid-forties physically.
Gender: Male
Species: Gargoyle
Hair Color: N/A
Eye Color: Red w/ black pupils
Sexuality: Homosexual
Dom/Sub: Switch

Physical Appearance
Except for his coloring, Brentwood is nearly identical to Lexingto. His wings are pierced at the waist to allow him to wear his tan loincloth and he wears metal greaves, as well as metal claws and a metal spike on the tip of his tail.

Physically older, he's is in his prime, slim and muscular despite his small size. He has two small horns on each of his eyebrow ridges, a row of spines going down his back and the base of his tail, and a small spike at the shoulder joint of each wing. However, he's still roughly waist/stomach height for the average human.

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Note: PM me if your kink isn't clearly listed and you're unsure if it's allowed. Brentwood is very ignorant of the world around him so, while he almost definitely knows about sex, he does not know about kinks and will be learning as he goes.