Adithan Varma
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“Never be cruel, never be cowardly. If you ever are, always make amends. Always try to be nice, and never fail to be kind. Hate is always foolish, and love is always wise. Never give up, never give in. Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind.”
– The Doctor
Best Quotes About Ed
- Tom observes Edmond leaving, and remarks to Poppy: "I feel like I'm somehow not sufficiently weird enough for your bar after hours now. Did he seriously break in with a mouthful of garlic, drown himself, tell you to give him a job and then leave? And he almost got the job, that's amazing. I'm gonna try that at my next interview." Reason number 3928 why Tom has lost out on yet another job.
Overview
Edmond was born Maharajkumar Sri Marthanda Thirunal Adithan Varma, Elayaraja of Travancore on 3 August 1902, in Thiruvananthapuram, Travancore, India. At a year old, he was dedicated to Vishnu and granted the right to prefix his name with Sri Padmanabhadasa, as his family's tradition dictated. Raised in the royal family of a Indian princely state under indirect rule of the British Raj, Adithan was rich, surrounded by luxury, and groomed to be a leader; he was well-educated and well-loved, given attention by his instructors and his parents, and by his parents' advisors and servants. He never lacked for anything but a sense of the real world outside the society and palaces in which he resided-- but he got in trouble a lot because he was always trying to get out and explore the streets on his own, and had a tendency to vanish into the kitchens and gardens. He was also an empath but kept it the hell to himself, but it made him protective of people who were being wronged, people who felt betrayed, people who felt sad. He liked studying. He was more or less a good kid.
The British Empire went to war in 1914, and it brought its colonies and protectorates with it. He followed his favorite uncle out of the palace to say goodbye and good luck when his uncle left to fight on behalf of the British Raj, and his soon-to-be-Keeper was looking for a prince to make her guard, and he was very pretty and very strong-willed. He'd lost his uncle in the crowd and this beautiful lady said she'd help him if she just took his hand. Of course he took her hand.
He was in Faerie for ninety-nine years, and after nearly not making it out at all, he emerged from the Hedge to a world completely alien-- one in which his country no longer existed, his family were generations removed from him, technology had hit exponential growth while he wasn't looking, humans had walked on the Moon, and no one saw what he saw when he looked in the mirror.
That was in 2013. It's been a bit of an adjustment since then-- and he never thought of himself as violent, and now he never thinks about why it's so easy to be angry and fight when the source of his anger's in arm's reach.
RP Hooks
- Science fiction is escapist and wonderful. Ed can frequently be found scribbling it in notebooks, though he has never published. He has 2gb of rejection letters: he is, after all, stubborn. His writing is great but he can't come up with plots to save his life.
- Vegetarian by religion and by choice; he is not vegan, but likes coconut milk all the same.
- In the wrong century may be fairly common, but more than fifty years is a little extra: Ed's had about four years to adjust to being nearly a hundred years outside time and space as science know them. There are still a lot of things he doesn't really get, and being an elemental doesn't really help with the social aspect.
- Have Fists Will Travel is kind of a way of life; Edmond hadn't even finished the equivalent of seventh grade when he was Taken. He was very well educated for a twelve-year-old in 1914, but everything else he knows is from cramming his head full of libraries in the past four years. He reads really fast, in English and Malayalam and Hindi. None of that actually helps his resume, so he generally hires out to do dangerous things, and accepts payment for fighting if the right side in a fight needs help.
- Researching for hire is also a thing he does; as long as he's reading everything he can get his hands on, he may as well make photocopies and do citations for students and professionals who suck at it or are too lazy or strapped for time to do it themselves.
- Music is a balm for the aggravated soul; Edmond is a vocalist and a musician. Unfortunately, he really likes punk rock, and his voice is a little too sweet for it, and piano and sarode, which he plays, are not very punk rock. He should think about busking, maybe. But not in the goddamn winter.
- Environmental activism is a thing: he's an Earthbones and a Woodblood, dammit, and we've only got one REAL Earth, and it deserves protecting. He is ostensibly saving up to buy a Tesla because it hasn't occurred to him he could just pledge someone for the money.
- Gardening is an interest and a hobby, as is cooking.
Contacts
- Roots
- Kelsey Williams
is the Flamesiren he doesn't know helped him get out of Arcadia, who he's endlessly looking for without knowing who they areis Edmond's down-the-hall neighbor who just moved in, and is a-dor-a-ble but not looking for a relationship or even a hookup because there ain't no justiceis Edmond's other half, sensible and cautious and subtle where Edmond is irrational, reckless, and blatant. Is also a beautiful and murderous snarkmonster.
- Branches
- Doctor Plague, who calls Edmond 'Sunset Colada', became the former wanderer of Summer's first real friend in Vermont -- they are, in effect, both too old for this shit. She's also seen him at his absolute twitchiest, and still did not judge, and cares deeply enough to be awful to other people on Ed's behalf. It's like Edmond collects murderous snarkmonsters or something.
- November is greatly admired and mildly feared; she is the Rainbow, and Edmond fully believes she is an actual devi, and she has agreed to teach him beautiful things about magic.
- Ashe_Whelan is the awesome Autumn Queen/Councilor who said it was perfectly all right not to pledge to the freehold, and that his help would indeed be appreciated should he choose to volunteer it.
- Elliot Jones is literally Ed's next door neighbor, and is delightful, and has a very growly stomach and didn't know what a webcomic is, and he thinks he may adopt her for a little while. Or at least feed her.
- Candice wants a garden too, and talks to trees in the language he's forgotten. He'd like to spend more time around her, and maybe put together that garden in the spring to give her when he inevitably leaves.
- Ardis Ardeid is a fascinating person who also loves the stars.
- Haruki is a lovely mortal boy who came to check on Ed when he was in bad shape, and brought takeaway, and for whom Edmond would love to cook more.
- Mina Grey, would converse with again, A+++.
- Teagan bought him a fancy sandwich for stealing a corpse.
- Poppy enabled this and also was actually willing to help him get a job at Alchemy except he wandered out? Elementals idk.
- Rozalia is the altogether too tolerant mortician that not only received the corpse but let Ed get followup information on what had happened to cause the body to be a dead one.
- CB Alexander is the guy who runs the Cat-22 Collective and who very kindly offered to Edmond that he could borrow or read in-store any of the books there, and also made sure Ed actually had a place to stay. Kindnesses are not forgotten.
- Vorpal is the overwhelming and frustratingly hard to connect with WYRD 9 SUBLIME LOST PANTHEON KNOWITALL that Edmond can't understand liking and can't understand why Vorpal doesn't like him, it's very confusing.
- Ziv is the lovely batling who initially directed Edmond to Tamarack Falls for any and all Freehold needs.
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