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nostradamnit) wrote2021-01-03 12:49 am
nostradamnit) wrote2021-01-03 12:49 am
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PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER NAME: Solstice
OVER 18?: Yes
PREFERRED CONTACT(S): darkersolstice#9463
OTHER CHARACTERS: Coda Sinneslöschen
CHARACTER INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Michel de Nostradame, called Nostradamus
CANON: Reign
TIMELINE: During Season 2, Episode 1, as the plague descends on the castle.
AGE: Never made explicit on the show; I'm declaring him 35.
REFERENCE: https://reign-cw.fandom.com/wiki/Nostradamus
PERSONALITY: Michel de Nostradame is a man of faith, who believes his actions will determine the fate of his immortal soul. The trouble is that he cannot live up to those ideals at all times, to his own standards. He's lost his wife and children to the plague, and currently serves a queen who sees him as a useful tool and isn't afraid to threaten him in order to ensure his loyalty. He doesn't really like the person he's had to become in service of Catherine de'Medici. But he dedicates himself to the work of tending to the ill and injured, seeing it as more important than his visions, because he feels like he needs to make up for failing his wife and children.
It's for this reason that he turns down the love offered by Olivia D'amencourt after saving her from The Darkness; he refuses to even dance with her, but does kiss her.
Olivia's relationship with Nostradamus while he's healing her after her encounter with the Darkness illustrates other important aspects of his personality, like his view of good and evil. When he takes her to the woods for something that I think resembles a baptism, he has this to say to her: "You are brand-new. None of what you were need remain, except what you choose. Evil is not a thing. it is not a condition. It is a choice. You are only what you choose. That alone is what makes you. Do you know what you choose? Then hold on to that choice, because it's your salvation."
This quote demonstrates how Nostradamus feels about evil, but he takes a similar thoughtful approach to his work as a physician, making clear to his patients that he works science, not magic. Nostradamus experiments with poisons and tonics and tinctures, inventing a poison he's later able to identify by the scent and effect on victims, as well as a tonic that will put the king into a coma after he's gone mad. His purpose in creating them is different from Catherine de'Medici; poisons are a weapon for her, while Nostradamus is seeking to better understand the working of the human body.
In general, though, the core of Nostradamus is a kind man who has not had the chance to rest because of his visions, because of the plague, because of his low social status.
That is not to say he's without a temper--he threatens Clarissa, the girl he saved from the woods, after bringing her to the castle leads to misfortune and death as she grows up. He locks her up in a cage, threatens to starve her. His anger doesn't lead to duels him grabbing a sword; it looks different than Henry and his sons, with their constant low-level dick-waving over Mary and other women. He is usually angry on behalf of others, and not for himself, and it manifests more in words than outright violence: "You see Mary as a victim. You think you have a bond because you see yourself as fate's victim, too. But she is a beautiful queen, and you...you are a monster." The one time we see him with a sword in hand is to cut the head off a snake, saving Olivia's life
Nostradamus' relationship with Olivia leads to tension in his relationship with Catherine when he attempts to leave the French court with her, to start a new life. Catherine sees the loss of his visions as a betrayal, and Nostradamus threatens her: "You can force me to stay... but not to see. You'll have me, but not my visions. Not if you cost me this last chance at happiness." In the end, though, he sends Olivia on to Trinidad and his family alone, after Catherine leaves the aforementioned venomous snake in her luggage--he wishes for her to have happiness and recognizes (bitterly) that he's sort of chained to the court; Catherine will not let him go free. We don't see him talk to her again on the show for the rest of season 1, not until plague threatens the castle in season 2.
The loss of Olivia leaves Nostradamus with a certainty he'll never love again, but the character isn't shown dealing with this, as he moves out of the recurring cast in season 2, and his last episode (which is after my canon point) is the death of Francis, which he predicted at the beginning of the show.
ABILITIES:
- Trained court physician and man of science. While his understanding is limited because the 16th century, he is at least aware of some of the basics of how the human body functions and how to treat ailments common in his time (wounds, illnesses, up to and including the plague)
- Immunity to the black plague. Historically, this may be due to having a blood type that was less susceptible to the effects of the plague.
- Visions of the Future. Nostradamus's visions come in the forms of dreams, or flashing images, or voices that speak to him. Regardless of form, they are never things that can help him make his own future better in any way.
PERSONAL EFFECTS:
- Clothing (leather jerkin, linen shirt, trousers, boots, undergarments)
- A leather pouch with herbal medicines and poisons
- A set of scales
- A mortar and pestle
- A quill and inkwell, as well as some parchment
PRIZED POSSESSION: One of his son's tiny baby shoes; both his kids died in the black plague.
CRAU PREMISE: N/A
SAMPLE
SAMPLE: https://dataglitch.dreamwidth.org/9893.html?thread=469669#cmt469669
PLAYER NAME: Solstice
OVER 18?: Yes
PREFERRED CONTACT(S): darkersolstice#9463
OTHER CHARACTERS: Coda Sinneslöschen
CHARACTER INFORMATION
CHARACTER NAME: Michel de Nostradame, called Nostradamus
CANON: Reign
TIMELINE: During Season 2, Episode 1, as the plague descends on the castle.
AGE: Never made explicit on the show; I'm declaring him 35.
REFERENCE: https://reign-cw.fandom.com/wiki/Nostradamus
PERSONALITY: Michel de Nostradame is a man of faith, who believes his actions will determine the fate of his immortal soul. The trouble is that he cannot live up to those ideals at all times, to his own standards. He's lost his wife and children to the plague, and currently serves a queen who sees him as a useful tool and isn't afraid to threaten him in order to ensure his loyalty. He doesn't really like the person he's had to become in service of Catherine de'Medici. But he dedicates himself to the work of tending to the ill and injured, seeing it as more important than his visions, because he feels like he needs to make up for failing his wife and children.
It's for this reason that he turns down the love offered by Olivia D'amencourt after saving her from The Darkness; he refuses to even dance with her, but does kiss her.
Olivia's relationship with Nostradamus while he's healing her after her encounter with the Darkness illustrates other important aspects of his personality, like his view of good and evil. When he takes her to the woods for something that I think resembles a baptism, he has this to say to her: "You are brand-new. None of what you were need remain, except what you choose. Evil is not a thing. it is not a condition. It is a choice. You are only what you choose. That alone is what makes you. Do you know what you choose? Then hold on to that choice, because it's your salvation."
This quote demonstrates how Nostradamus feels about evil, but he takes a similar thoughtful approach to his work as a physician, making clear to his patients that he works science, not magic. Nostradamus experiments with poisons and tonics and tinctures, inventing a poison he's later able to identify by the scent and effect on victims, as well as a tonic that will put the king into a coma after he's gone mad. His purpose in creating them is different from Catherine de'Medici; poisons are a weapon for her, while Nostradamus is seeking to better understand the working of the human body.
In general, though, the core of Nostradamus is a kind man who has not had the chance to rest because of his visions, because of the plague, because of his low social status.
That is not to say he's without a temper--he threatens Clarissa, the girl he saved from the woods, after bringing her to the castle leads to misfortune and death as she grows up. He locks her up in a cage, threatens to starve her. His anger doesn't lead to duels him grabbing a sword; it looks different than Henry and his sons, with their constant low-level dick-waving over Mary and other women. He is usually angry on behalf of others, and not for himself, and it manifests more in words than outright violence: "You see Mary as a victim. You think you have a bond because you see yourself as fate's victim, too. But she is a beautiful queen, and you...you are a monster." The one time we see him with a sword in hand is to cut the head off a snake, saving Olivia's life
Nostradamus' relationship with Olivia leads to tension in his relationship with Catherine when he attempts to leave the French court with her, to start a new life. Catherine sees the loss of his visions as a betrayal, and Nostradamus threatens her: "You can force me to stay... but not to see. You'll have me, but not my visions. Not if you cost me this last chance at happiness." In the end, though, he sends Olivia on to Trinidad and his family alone, after Catherine leaves the aforementioned venomous snake in her luggage--he wishes for her to have happiness and recognizes (bitterly) that he's sort of chained to the court; Catherine will not let him go free. We don't see him talk to her again on the show for the rest of season 1, not until plague threatens the castle in season 2.
The loss of Olivia leaves Nostradamus with a certainty he'll never love again, but the character isn't shown dealing with this, as he moves out of the recurring cast in season 2, and his last episode (which is after my canon point) is the death of Francis, which he predicted at the beginning of the show.
ABILITIES:
- Trained court physician and man of science. While his understanding is limited because the 16th century, he is at least aware of some of the basics of how the human body functions and how to treat ailments common in his time (wounds, illnesses, up to and including the plague)
- Immunity to the black plague. Historically, this may be due to having a blood type that was less susceptible to the effects of the plague.
- Visions of the Future. Nostradamus's visions come in the forms of dreams, or flashing images, or voices that speak to him. Regardless of form, they are never things that can help him make his own future better in any way.
PERSONAL EFFECTS:
- Clothing (leather jerkin, linen shirt, trousers, boots, undergarments)
- A leather pouch with herbal medicines and poisons
- A set of scales
- A mortar and pestle
- A quill and inkwell, as well as some parchment
PRIZED POSSESSION: One of his son's tiny baby shoes; both his kids died in the black plague.
CRAU PREMISE: N/A
SAMPLE
SAMPLE: https://dataglitch.dreamwidth.org/9893.html?thread=469669#cmt469669