Appearance

Physical Description

Archer is a slim lad. One of those types that can suck in and you can count every single one of his ribs; though he's obviously healthy and well-nourished. What he lacks in raw muscular power, he makes up for in speed.

Body Features

The lad has long arms and well-defined (albeit not altogether large) muscles. His youth hasn't yet abandoned him and his metabolism is insatiable. He wears no trinkets or baubles, no necklaces rings or bracelets. He's acquired no tattoos. Just a slender young man.

Facial Features

Archer has green eyes and the soft features of youth; his skin is smooth and fair, though he seems he's had his share of sun. He doesn't look like a boy that was coddled indoors. He only "needs" to shave once a week. That "need" is more based on his "wanting to" than "needing to".
 
He keeps his dark blonde hair swept and comed, short and neat. Despite the awkward untrimmed length, he wears it well.

Identifying Characteristics

Aside from often being in the company of people older than himself, one of Archer's most identifying features are his ears. They sometimes look as if they end in a point. Or darn near close enough. His slender build, quick speed, and almost-pointy ears have led many to believe there's elven ancestry somewhere in his lines.
 
He's also incredibly confident for one his age, and he wears that confidence well.

Physical quirks

The young man generally appears quite serious or solemn. His smile usually only appears when he starts talking. And he smirks nearly every time he gets to show off by shooting, well... anything.

Apparel & Accessories

Archer wears clothing specific according to the traditional lower-class style of those belonging to the Kingdom of Layn. Mostly linens. For Archer, most often green.
 
He normally wears that beneath a long-sleeved brown woolen shirt, and that beneath a darker leather vest.
 
He normally keeps his cloak stuffed into the pack on his back, which contains a case of easy-to-access bolts.
 
Often buckled to a heavy strap on his shoulder is a rather impressive looking (and large) crossbow, with a strange mechanical contraption on it, which differs from most its kin weaponry.
 
His tan woolen trousers are tucked into solid leather boots, turned down at the knee.

Mentality

Personal history

Education

Taught to read by a childhood sweetheart. He absorbed the books she'd been assigned in her own studies (she was of higher blood than he), which, for the most part, were history books.
 
He also picked up dwarvish slang in the streets of his home.

Employment

Archer worked as an apprentice to his father, a leatherworker. He found the work tedios and disliked working with leather; so after he'd finish his projects and assignments given him by his father, Archer would tinker with Noran, his blacksmithing friend.
 
They would build puzzles, traps, and various contraptions. Just before Archer's departure, he and Noran had invented a crossbow crank that significantly increased the time it took load a bolt.

Accomplishments & Achievements

Invention of the whipcrank. He's currently using it as a prototype to test its reload times.

Failures & Embarrassments

He got caught slipping into Vierah's room.

Mental Trauma

He knew Vierah was punished for having had a young man in her chambers. He had no idea what the rammifcations for that were; later conversations with her proved that something significant had happened. Significant enough that he had never been able to get that information out of her.

Morality & Philosophy

Aspiration: I work hard to be the best there is at my craft.

person.sexuality

Straight

person.gender_identity

Male

Known Languages

• Common


• Dwarvish

Personality

Motivation

Aspiration: I work hard to be the best there is at my craft.
 
I like to live up to reputation. I enjoy congratulations and recognition.
 
I need to watch after my own hide. If I don't, who will?
 
I've gotta return home and take care of what I fled from.

Quotes & Catchphrases

Turns to look at you with a smug smile. "Did you see that shot?"

— Archer Hastings

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Savvies

Ineptitudes

Likes & Dislikes

Likes

• Archer loves showing off and proving people wrong


• Trying to make arrogant people look dumb. Sometimes he'll try and fail


• He likes the sound of the elvish and wants to learn it some day


• He loves tinkering and inventing contraptions


• A good day to him generally involves Vierah. And shooting a crossbow

Dislikes

• Arrogant jerks


• Nuts


• Pork


• Annoying little kids


• Going to church

Virtues & Personality perks

Virtues

Vices & Personality flaws

I’m horribly jealous of anyone who can outshine my handiwork. Everywhere I go, I’m surrounded by rivals.
 
I hate sleep. Exhaustion creeps up to me eventually and I snap. It might be a source of my headaches, too...

Personality Quirks

Archer is pretty anal about the way things are packed. In a back, on a cart, in the horse's saddlebags... Everything has its place.
 
He also thinks he could build a little contraption that could be a solution for everything. He'll say it, too. Probably more than once.

Hygiene

Archer grew up in an environment where baths weren't really a thing. You washed up with a wet rag or on the occasion where you could make it to a river or a lake. Disinfectants and deoderants weren't really a part of his day-to-day life. Only when Vierah sent him home with soap.

Social

Birthplace

Felder Falls, Kingdom of Layn, Western Rodain

Current Residence

Felder Falls

Contacts & Relations

Wealth & Financial state

Archer's family falls in the upper-lower class or lower-middle class in terms of wealth. Life was simple. They couldn't afford many of the niceties of life.

Family Ties

His family worked for House Valander.
 
 

Religious Views

The Ten Masters. His family focuses mostly on Beladon, Celesta, and Pella. He's not incredibly invested in his spiritual worship.

Social Aptitude

Despite his confidence, his intelligence, and his inventions, Archer hasn't had an easy time talking with people. He's a peasant, more-or-less, which has worked against him for much of his life; now more than ever. He's got this great thing--a thing that could literally win wars--and many folk won't give him a second thought. More often than not, he's ignored. He looks younger than he is (not that 18 isn't already young) which likely lends to his inability to get anywhere socially.

Mannerisms

I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.

I’m well known for my work, and I want to make sure everyone appreciates it. I’m always taken aback when people haven’t heard of me.

Hobbies & Pets

Tinkering. Reading. Building things. Taking things apart. These are all things that Archer loved to do in his upbringing. He'd broken more than a few of his father's leatherworking mechanisms trying to figure out how they worked.

Speech

Nottingham English Accent
 
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