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Quill-8
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Quillon: The part of the guard or handle that extends beyond the tang of the blade to provide additional protection to the hand.
Quill has about as many names as he does knives—and just like with his knives, he has his favourites. To his friends, he's Q: spirited, funny, loyal, a bit mischievous. Undercover, he's Axis, the point around which the success or failure of the mission often revolves. To his enemies, he's Shiv: a weapon, a blade, shoved rudely into their lives and yanked from the wound with the same amount of care. Many things can be true at once. Every blade has its use.
His Ghost, Flint, is in many ways his opposite. Where Quill is impulsive, Flint is a voice of reason. Where Flint is cautious, Quill is willing to take the risks to that get the job done. In that way, they balance each other. Both bring their own sharp insight to the table, and are often telepathically debating strategy on the fly, even in the thick of a firefight. Flint has a quick wit of his own, and enjoys intellectual sparring with his Guardian. They share a deep bond, forged over nearly a century of partnership, and though they are prone to banter, Quill cannot imagine a better Ghost to call his own.
Redm
by A. Yarmak
❝ I have defused bombs, killed self-proclaimed Gods, felled conquerors and Vex Minds alike—so, believe me, I know what I’m talking about when I tell you that there is no creature in this whole blasted system worse than a fucking Screeb. ❞
Combat
Quill is a stealth killer, until he’s not. His enemies would be unwise to assume that he’d be vulnerable out in the open; Quill carries many tricks up his sleeve, and nearly all of them involve fire.
Thermite Grenades
Improvised explosives, packed with Solar energy that detonates multiple times.
Throwing Knives
Blades made of Solar energy. Ingite targets on impact.
Sunshot
[ Red Dwarf ornament ]
A hand cannon that fires explosive rounds. Bullets ignite their target with Solar energy.
Skyburner's Oath
A scout rifle modified to fire explosive slugs. Stolen from the Cabal during the Red War.
Personality
“You now face godlike judgement,” Quill drones in his best-and-worst imitation of that obnoxious A.I. from the Crypt. As he does, his middle finger slowly raises from his loosely clenched fist, pointed directly at the 1:16 scale replica of Clovis Bray’s ego buried under Europa. “May this finger extend eternally.”
EXTROVERT | IMPULSIVE | CLEVER
To quote his fireteam’s resident warlock, “Quill-8 is a man of great skill and insight, slathered in the most insufferable paint the world had to offer.” Quill, for his part, happily accepts the compliment. He prides himself on his humor, much to the chagrin of nearly everyone around him. A joke that makes his best friends groan is, in his book, a complete and utter victory. Childish? Perhaps. But when one is also categorized as one of The Young Wolves, fellers of Gods and savers of worlds, well, you have to compartmentalize somehow, or you’ll never survive.
Quill, for all his terrible jokes, is a man both loyal to and beloved by those who surround him. He’s the sort of person who can as much become the center of the room as he can become invisible within it, should the situation demand it of him. Though he prefers close range combat, he is an incredibly skilled scout and assassin who has spent nearly one hundred years mastering every possible way one could imagine to kill with a blade, and then some. In combat he is fierce, precise, and effective; outside of combat he might seem anything but. Despite his impulsiveness, most of his choices are calculated. Most of them.
Design Notes
- Emotes most visibly through his eyes.
- Eye/internal glow shifts slightly warmer/colder or more/less intense with his mood, but is always some shade of yellow/orange/red, unless he's sleeping/unconscious/dead. Red is his neutral color.
Likes
- Knives
- Explosives
- The way his friends groan at his jokes
Dislikes
- Slow-loading & slow-firing weapons
- Europa
- Rain
Trivia
- Quill, who was a trans man when he was human, takes well to body mods, and is known to tinker with himself and his physical “loadout” on occasion. His consciousness is much more comfortable in the form of a modular robot body than the illusion of being flesh and blood.
- He has no knowledge of his prior lifetimes and no desire to dig that information up. His time raiding the Deep Stone Crypt was, as a result, highly uncomfortable. He avoids Europa whenever possible.
- Quill collects exactly two things: cool-looking knives, and cooler-looking shells for Flint. He has an extensive (some would say excessive) hoard of each.
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