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Name: Zalia Age: 37 Contact: Timezone: GMT Other Character(s): Martin Blackwood

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Name: Crow Door: Door Pass Canon: Destiny Canon Point: Just after the first mission of Season of the Lost - Crow has just discovered that Osiris, the man who helped save him from slavery and has been mentoring him is actually Savathun, the ancient Hive God of Deception, who had taken Osiris prisoner and impersonated him before Crow ever met him. Age: Physically appears to be mid to late 20s. Mentally an adult. Has existed as Crow for around 4-5 years. Prior to this, he was Uldren Sov, who was potentially many thousands of years old. Appearance: Image History: Crow’s History Personality: Positive Trait: Empathetic Crow is, despite his rough introduction to the world, an extremely empathetic person. When he is on the Shore with Spider, he still manages to become friends with some of the Eliksni there, despite their sometimes poor treatment of him. He understands what a difficult life it is, and how Spider mistreats them too. He is someone who is desperate to help people when he can - when the Wrathborn are attacking the shore, Crow is sad over the people who have been claimed by them, and driven to becoming mutated monsters only capable of feeling rage. He helps people when he can, even when it would be safer for him to ignore them - for example, when he takes out an enemy targeting the Guardian Siegfried in the Dreaming City, which leads to him being attacked and nearly killed. During the Season of the Splicer, when the Eliksni House of Light move into the City, Crow risks himself again to steal supplies from Spider to help them, knowing that they have very few supplies. He also defends the Eliksni from people of the City angry at their presence. Later on, he follows Osiris when the man asks for his help, even though it puts him into conflict with the Guardian and Osiris’s lover, Saint-14 (it isn’t really Osiris, but that is a whole can of worms). This trait was also present in his previous life as Uldren Sov. Even when suffering from a Taken infection, which was corrupting him with Darkness and slowly driving him insane, while also being manipulated by the Ahamkara, Riven, he is distraught when he encounters a dying Eliksni named Fikrul, lamenting the brutality of the Guardians - he cries and wishes to save the Eliksni’s life (which works, after a fashion thanks to Riven). Negative Trait: Easily Led/Impressionable: Crow is someone who is, in many ways, desperate to trust people, and have someone guide him. As Uldren, he was partially created that way by his sister, Mara - she literally helped to make him when the Awoken first came into being, and because of this, Uldren was extremely easy to manipulate. He was desperate always to please Mara, and Mara used that to her advantage. This devotion and need to be guided was, in turn, used by Riven to drive Uldren into committing atrocities, believing that Mara wanted him to. As Crow, while he has no real memory of his sister or Uldren’s actions, this trait has persevered. When he is first Risen, he is desperate to be accepted, and heads to the Last City. After he is repeatedly killed by various Guardians, he flees, and after a ship accident, is ‘rescued’ by the mob boss Spider. At first Crow is a guest that Spider claims to be helping, and Crow easily accepts that ‘kindness’ at first. He even lets Spider give him a name (one which is a mocking insult referencing who he used to be). Once Crow is freed, he latches onto the Guardian and Osiris. He becomes dedicated to them, trusting them to guide him. Osiris becomes his mentor, and Crow lets Osiris dictate rules for him, including keeping him secret from the Vanguard, and having to wear a mask to hide his identity. Even when he disagrees with Osiris, he still obeys him. As Mara says in Season of the Lost, he needs a guiding star. And that can definitely get him into trouble. Negative Trait: Arrogant: Crow definitely has a cocky, arrogant side to his personality. He is often quite willing to talk back to people, even when they have power over him and he has some extreme confidence in his abilities. We see an example of this early in Season of the Hunt, where Crow complains that he would have killed the High Celebrant already if he hadn’t had to rescue Osiris. During his time working for the Vanguard, he is quite prepared to talk back to and insult Lord Saladin - a figure of great respect, nearly reverence to other Guardians, since he is the last Iron Lord, and Commander Zavala’s mentor. He also snaps back at Osiris when he is confronted about removing the mask concealing his identity. In Season of the Lost (a short way after his canon point, but not too far), he insists that he should be allowed to see Savathun, and is denied by Petra Venj, who threatens him and holds a knife to his throat. Crow is entirely unintimidated, and mocks her for using a knife against a Hunter, as well as talking about her failing in her position. Negative Trait: Lack of self-worth: From the moment he was resurrected as a Guardian, Crow was abused and targeted, sometimes even brutally murdered, for the crimes of Uldren Sov, crimes that he had no memory of. This has given Crow a near-crippling lack of self-worth. He has generally accepted that whatever his past self did, he obviously deserves the punishment and hatred aimed at him. When he is abused by Spider and forced into servitude, while he isn’t happy, he accepts it as something that he deserves, and he is amazed at Osiris agreeing to teach him and also when the Guardian frees him at the end of Season of the Hunt, rather than choose a different reward. He accepts Osiris instructing him to always wear a mask when he is in the City, and also that Osiris wants to keep him secret from the Vanguard because he is certain that they will hate him just as much as the Guardians who killed him. When he is berated by Osiris, while he does snap back at the man, he then backs down and accepts the rebuke. Even when he saves Commander Zavala’s life from an assassination attempt, losing his mask in the process, he is genuinely shocked when Zavala does not immediately kill him, and, in fact, helps him to his feet and lets him officially become a Guardian. He also saves Zavala by risking his own life, believing that it would be worth it to save someone so important (and who he believes is better than him). This lack of self-worth is present even as far back as Uldren Sov - despite being a Prince and generally beloved by his people, he is absolutely desperate for his sister’s approval, and crushed when he doesn’t seem capable of getting it. Later on in canon (beyond his canon point but relevant), this leads to Crow becoming depressed and risking his life to prove that he is not Uldren by deliberately taking on some dangerous enemies - when he gets killed by them, he counts this as a win. Powers and Abilities: Crow is a Guardian - essentially a corpse resurrected by a bio-mechanical drone-like creature known as a Ghost, using the Light of an entity called the Traveller. He is functionally immortal - he will not age, recovers from wounds quickly, and his Ghost, Glint is able to resurrect him if he dies under almost all circumstances. Obviously, in-game he will not have Glint with him so will not be able to be resurrected, and will heal from wounds only a little faster than normal. Due to the Light, he also has a selection of powers. Guardians are capable of drawing on Solar, Void and Arc energy to perform impressive attacks, create grenades out of nothing, as well as various other skills. Hunters are speedy and agile, able to jump on air and dodge out of danger. He can form grenades, smoke bombs, and knives from his Light to use as weapons. He’s capable of becoming invisible for a brief time and firing arrows of void energy which suppress the abilities of enemies, as well as creating an Arc staff to jump into melee combat.. However he primarily seems to use the Gunslinger subclass - using Solar Energy to throw blazing knives, and forming a Golden Gun - a pistol of pure solar Light capable of causing an immense amount of damage. As an Awoken, he also has a tendency to prophetic dreams and visions, and Crow has in the past, been directly contacted by the Traveller through his dreams, using the form of a hawk. In terms of more mundane abilities, Crow is an excellent marksman, and is capable of using a wide variety of guns. He’s also very proficient with knives, including using throwing knives. He is an excellent spotter when it comes to supporting snipers - he’s able to calculate trajectories and the effects of weather conditions on potential shots. He’s got a lot of survival experience, having lived in the wilds for a good amount of time following his resurrection; he is a good tracker as seen when he helps the Guardian track the Wrathborn and High Celebrant. His previous life, Uldren, also attended a combat academy, and while Crow does not actively remember that, the skills have carried over. He’s a talented spy; as Uldren he was Queen Mara’s spymaster. As Crow, Osiris used him to investigate the Cabal, and to keep watch over Commander Zavala as a secret bodyguard. Zavala only spotted him once, when Crow broke cover briefly to warn him of an assassination attempt - and it was done in such a way that Zavala believed he had been a vision. Inventory: A very fine silk shroud, now somewhat grubby. His Duality modified shotgun, and box of shells. Samples: Thoughts This whole place is making him realise how very little of the universe he's seen. Or other universe? Osiris would be able to explain it, he’s sure, with a whole lecture about the paracausal implications of it. The thought makes him smile, at least until the memory of the truth hits him like a Titan’s shoulder-charge. No. Not Osiris. It was never Osiris. Savathun. He’s never met Osiris, not really. All of that help, the friendship, the kindness… it was a lie. A deceit. The thought hurts. He’d thought he had a mentor, someone he could look up to, and it had never been real. Focus on the present for now. He’s a Hunter, so do the recon. Maybe someone else is here that he knows. Maybe the Guardian… It's pretty, the area he’s in. The market reminds him of the Bazaar in the Tower, and there's the scent of food like the stalls where he sometimes buys dinner. He’s not great at cooking yet, nothing beyond the basics, but Saint had shown him a few places, and Holliday had practically drawn him a map of her favourite watering holes. He's happy enough to wander around, surreptitiously checking out the wares on offer and- a purple flush colours his grey-blue skin at the site of the toys. They definitely don't sell those in the Tower. He’s not actually sure what some of them are to be honest. It’s a bit intimidating. He lets himself be persuaded into a game of apple bobbing. It's the kind of thing that a Hunter would always find hard to resist; a foolish challenge, a dare, and he’s no different. He pushes his hood back and kneels down, laughing as he tries to grab one with his teeth and finally coming up with a ripe green apple and- “What? What do you mean punishment? You never said-” Old fear rears its head, panic rising. Spider’s brutal punishments, the threats to Glint, the things that he’d used to keep his pet Lightbearer in line and trapped. Communication