Byasta Rossignol, The Punny Bard

Byasta Rossignol (X-SAMPA: bja.sta R/O.si.NOl) was born in 2404 on Lase-kan in the Alixhemni nation. He is most known for being the pun-loving lead singer of the band The Active Aerophones.

Early Life

He and his sister Seri grew up with their immediate family in the Roselake Colony building. They lived there in the 15 or so years that its mining project was functional, and families were invited to live there.
Vicki Crenshaw and Seri, both younger sisters in their respective families, both took cello lessons from the same teacher, thus allowing the families to discover that they lived just four doors apart.
This allowed the families to teach each other a number of things. In Byasta's case, he and Violet Crenshaw both were tutored in English by Violet's mother, Vivian. This started his interest in Engish-based wordplay, which carried through to The Active Aerophones.
(21st century distaste for such things as puns did not last. Perhaps it was due to all the languages people knew by this time. Or maybe it's just the sweet discovery of something you didn't think of.)
As Byasta grew, he also discovered a love for singing in a number of languages, as well as a general love for the inner workings of both music and language.

The Band

Byasta, Seri, and two of their friends, Steven Avwalid and Jikliu Thomasson, started The Active Aerophones in one of the RLC building's rehearsal rooms.
Byasta was the lead singer, Seri was the cellist, Steven was the drummer, and Jikliu was the "lights guy".
Byasta's puns made them stand out among the countless musicians in the colony.

Powers and Loyalty

The band members were all color mages. Seri and Byasta were both blue mages, Steven was a red and white one, and Jikliu was a yellow and white one.
The awakening of their powers did not end the band. Instead, they all went to the same training school in the Procyon solar system.
Seri and Byasta learned how to make extra sounds by controlling the small amounts of water in the air. Steven and Jikliu learned how to work together to create light effects neither thought possible.
By combining their training and skills, they were able to create a lot of the effects they'd previously used technology for. They still used technology for several things; they'd grown fond of many of the sounds that their gear could make.
There's no replacing that theremin, after all. Even if you can play it from across the room.
Jikliu and Byasta even found great fun in building synthesizers that would respond well to their and their bandmates' powers.
When the Active Aerophones played their first concert tour after graduation, it was regarded as one of their most astonishing.

Continued Friendship with Violet Crenshaw

Byasta and Violet kept in contact after the evacuation of the RLC.
He was (along with Seri) one of the first people to visit her in recovery after the explosion in the library.
He was the one to convince her that her "robotic ears" were different, but not lesser than her own original ones, and that he would still love her anyway.
"I've loved you since we were kids, and that will not change, no matter what machinery houses you. If you are an AI, if you cannot see, if you cannot hear...you are still you."
He and Seri convinced Vicki to visit Violet, reminding her that she was still the same person. Then the three of them finally convinced Vivian and Ryssi to visit their daughter.