Alfeaux Jeulerand

Alfeaux "Alfy" Jeulerand
"S-Surely there must be some c-cure for this...affliction..."
Heir to Misfortune
Gender	Male (he/his)
Race	Elezen
Clan	Duskwight
Citizenship	Unaffiliated

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Basic Info

With his oversized spectacles, stuttered speech and general fear of most things, Alfeaux seems like a harmless bookworm. And for the most part, he is just that. He is, however, cursed with an ungodly strength by merit of his Amdapori ancestors, who continue to watch over (read: haunt) him. In situations of extreme distress, this sometimes leads to them possessing Alfeaux completely, transforming him into a specter of horrible power. Alfeaux himself is completely ignorant of this, however.

History

Alfeaux (birth name unknown) was born to a pair of Redbelly Bandits in the southern reaches of the Shroud. Deciding that the path his life would take if he'd stay with them was a treacherous dead end, they made plans to sneak him into an orphanage in nearby Gridania. Before they could set out, however, their hideout was raided by the Wood Wailers, and they fled into the stormy night. Realizing they had no choice, they hid their infant son on the doorstep of Rurula Lula, a Lalafellin scholar/archivist recently moved from Limsa Lominsa to study the Elementals of the Twelveswood. With a great deal of hesitation, she decided to take the Duskwight in, if only to deliver him to an orphanage later. She became incredibly attached to the child incredibly quickly, however, and decided she couldn't leave him to the hopeless future of an orphaned Duskwight in Gridania. Not knowing any Elezen names to give him, Rurula named the boy after a character from an old storybook, Alfeaux Jeulerand.

As as child, Alfeaux was bright and cheerful, but worryingly quiet. In fact, Alfeaux didn't speak a word until he had seen his seventh summer, instead communicating by gesture and scrawling on a notebook. It was around this age the symptoms of his 'condition' started to emerge. He was an easy target for bullies, as he didn't want to risk seriously hurting or even killing them by fighting back. The bullying culminated in an incident wherein a group of older children took it upon themselves to perform some 'community service' by 'branding' Alfeaux a lowly Duskwight; they held him down and slowly carved a line down his face as his screams of agony went ignored. This incident seriously scarred Alfeaux, physically and mentally. Gone was the happy, outgoing child he once was, replaced by