Renaud Becquerel
 Renaud Georges Becquerel
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| Gender | Male |
| Race | Elezen |
| Clan | Wildwood |
| Citizenship | Limsa Lominsa |
| Born | 17th Sun of the 6th Astral Moon, 1535 |
| Guardian | Llymlaen |
| Height | 6 fulms, 9 ilms |
| Weight | 240 ponze |
| Grand Company | The Maelstrom |
| Free Company | The Coral Sea |
Contents
Character
Appearance
Between being of average height and unsurprisingly gawky, Renaud doesn’t immediately stand out in a crowd, particularly a crowd of other elezen. With sharp green eyes and dark skin, half from a natural caramel inclination and half from time spent in the sun, he is perhaps only somewhat unique among Wildwood, but hardly in any fantastical way.
As tanned as he is, however, his skin is far from dried and wrinkled enough to suit a man of thirty; this is a man who moisturises. He has the hands of a craftsman and an archer, but they are similarly saved from the stress put on them by regular care and, one might safely assume, something more than a passing acquaintanceship with a manicurist. Even intermingled as it is with the scent of the road, the waft of flowery cologne that follows him marks him as something of a dandy or at the very least a ponce.
Behaviour and Personality
Though perhaps given to his own eccentricities, Renaud is a generally warm, magnanimous sort; intensely loyal to those he calls friends and honourable as is reasonable with acquaintances and anyone lesser. His approach to other races and cultures reflects his background in Limsa Lominsa with little more than a purely mannerly care for cultural boundaries. Renaud respects the restrictions imposed by differing races and cultures as much as he is forced to, beyond that, he finds it little worth the effort.
Most would likely call Renaud peaceable. He is prone to mostly-benevolent jesting and prodding of others, maybe even the occasional cutting remark in regard to something he finds distasteful, but he is otherwise unlikely to ever start a fight. Those who have seen Renaud actually involved in a fight would likely offer a different opinion of him. Uneager though he may be to be dragged into violent conflict, his inclination is not mere retaliation, but to end conflict outright and prevent any further conflict with whatever level of violence necessary to do so.
Renaud generally expresses himself in an ornate style of speech not unlike what one might expect for a particularly theatrical Limsan, often verging on the level of speaking in poetry and metaphor. Why he does this is something that generally goes unexplained. Likewise, his father and countless generations of Becquerel men before him had similar habits and, similarly, never bothered with explaining it.
There is arguably some question as to the completeness of Renaud's virtue. While he is undeniably and obviously a man who enjoys creating a certain aura about himself, past dalliances before his leaving Limsa Lominsa five years before the Calamity along with a handful of certain mannerisms might lead one to believe Renaud is possibly a dangerous sexual deviant with no attention paid to race or gender, or at the very least a profound lecher. The reality is that in recent years Renaud has turned his habits to a more chaste and reasonable bend, one that injects far less unnecessary conflict into his life. That choice, doubtlessly driven by self-preservation, clearly does not prevent him from his fondness for melodrama and probing other people in his own way.
Combat
General
As a bard and generally talented bowman even without the use of song, Renaud is a thoroughly deadly combatant, but he is certainly a man given to his speciality. Though he has some passable skills as an axe-wielding melee fighter, his expertise undoubtedly lies in taking shots at range or short, swift strikes when brought close as part of an attempt to make space between himself and his foe.
Generally, Renaud does not take well to light scraps both in terms of skill and attitude. By virtue of his personality, Renaud prefers to avoid overt violence until it is the sole solution to a problem. Once the hope of an alternative is gone, however, Renaud hardly shies from violence, hindering himself with the trappings of neither excessive honour nor mercy in facing whomever he believes to have forced his hand. Without an attitude of revelling in violence, he brings a serene calm to a fight which belies a focused lethal intent.
Tendencies
Likes
- Tea
- Fine woodcraft, particularly bows
- Maps
- Women
- Not being punched
- Gunblades
Dislikes
- Eagerly-violent types
- Women with angry fathers
- Being punched
- Not having a gunblade
Hobbies/Talents/Other
- Moderately talented cartographer and navigator
- Fairly skilled carpenter
- Considered a “poet” by some
- Considered an “insufferable, loquacious ponce” by others
Relationships
Family
Over years of wandering and occasional tragedy, Renaud’s lineage has dwindled to but two members, himself and the matriarch of the line, his grandmother, Oliviette Becquerel. He can claim ancestry in both Vylbrand and Coerthas and, though he spent nearly a decade living in the the Twelveswood with and under the stern guidance of his paternal grandmother, he, in characteristically outspoken fashion, claims his ancestry as Lominsan first and foremost. This claim in no way prevents him from extolling the virtues of the "generations upon generations of Becquerel tradition" before him, including a loose tie to knighthood and retainership in Coerthas, whenever it may suit the moment.
More recently, the name Becquerel might be known to veterans of Carteneau as the names of a pair of Elezen, Beauvissoix and Vivienne Becquerel, Renaud's parents. A talented archer and marauder respectively, the husband and wife died at some time during the chaos of the battle, leaving Renaud as the sole heir to a largely defunct estate.
Friends
While Renaud's wide-ranging travels and travails have left him with a wide array of acquaintances, associates, and general contacts, he retains relatively few close friends. Easily regarded as warm-natured, this lack of a vast network of friends is potentially a question of choice or perhaps the result of some quirk of his unique personality.
((You really can't expect me to be industrious enough to maintain one of those comprehensive lists of everyone he's tight with.))
Enemies
If Renaud has enemies, they're not people he either admits to or seems to give a particularly great deal of mind. Whether or not he's simply dismissive of those he dislikes or truly not sufficiently antagonistic enough to generate real enmity in others is a matter of opinion.
History/Timeline
Coming soon!
How someone might know Renaud...
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