Profile
my current PC for the CASCADE campaign!
RACE: light blue-ish/teal tiefling
CLASS: level 8 monk (way of the shadow) (former level 1 cleric - light)
AGE: 22
EYES: bright orange irises, black sclera, kinda spooky lookin’ as a tiefling
HAIR: medium-short, cropped wavy black hair pushed over to one side
BODY: slender track and field runner build, yeah, he’s a twink, fine. kind of a jock/skater punk aesthetic BIG POINTY SHARK TEETH. long devil’s tail (skinny pointy kind)
HEIGHT: 6'
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: aries/pisces cusp
BIRTHDAY: march 23rd, national puppy day
PERSONALITY:
his energy is an extreme version of tom holland in spider-man. extremely naive, gullible, bad wisdom. impulsive and makes decisions quickly. moves fast - dexterity is his highest skill. late for anime class with toast in his mouth riding a skateboard or biking or something. he runs a lot. excitable, bouncy, can’t sit still for long, unless he’s working on tinkering. funny and pulls a lot of goofs, likes to pull faces, but still genuine and honest. he’s the type of person to sneak up on someone just to make them jump and laugh, but would apologize if it actually scared them.
an uncharismatic extrovert - will talk for hours on and on, but otherwise completely unable to persuade, intimidate, or deceive anyone. he’s not really cool in the way a stereotypical jock is cool or popular; he’s still pretty weird because he’s a tiefling, so he doesn't have a lot of friends. also he spends most of his time out of school and sports at his internship or working on little gadgets and robots. he’s dumb with regards to wisdom in social situations - i.e. doesn’t notice or perceive larger things happening in the world very well, isn’t in tune with other people as much - but he’s got an above average intelligence especially when it comes to his trade and combat style. he’s a good student in his craft, but doesn’t know a ton about magic by any means. he’s the general athletic kid who’s also secretly on the robotics team; not a super star of either thing by any means though.
is generally fine with being a tiefling, doesn’t see the harm in being one or doesn’t fully understand, but doesn’t appreciate it when people stare at him and things like that. rocco also LOVES his older brother, hector (who is a lavender purple tiefling), dearly.
BACKSTORY:
he’s a monk because his school is pretty religious like a monastery, so he was required to study something, and he wasn’t going to become like a librarian monk or something boring like that. so he studies monk fighting styles, but on the side he’s also teaching himself the basics of engineering, but the school doesn’t really know about that.
he is currently a college student of saint arkadia university. it’s located in the city of prospect, where rocco and his family are originally from. it’s a fairly religious school that his father sent him to maybe has ties directly to the vale religious order of people if that makes sense, maybe they’re huge donors to the school. the school, being religious, is pretty anti-magic. anyone caught studying or practicing magic would be kicked out of the school or worse. it’s hard to be a tiefling and to have gotten in, but his father has connections with his company and got him in. rocco had two gay dads, but one died when rocco was really young.
he wants to be an engineer or whatever the equivalent in dnd is (his background is the izzet engineer background from the ravnica book), but he’s been sent to religious monk school by his father to learn discipline. but again, he’s not about the boring book reading, give up life’s pleasures ways of the monks, so he’s decided to study to become a monk warrior of the school. in high school au, probably plays on the school’s rugby team as a lock (the skinny tall boy who run fast and gets lifted by big strong boys) and/or track and field.
INTERNSHIP:
he also has an engineering internship that he recently took on where he is unknowingly just a human test subject for the company his father works for called cicero. the company is using him to test magical items they find on him, since they don’t know the magical properties and can’t just use an identify spell or something. they are using him in particular because he’s a tiefling and therefore rare in the world, so they want to know what magical items do on tiefling since they’re inherently magical beings.
he does bring home bits and pieces from the labs that they throw out and tries to tinker and cobble together little gadgets, gizmos, robots...little automatons that walk around and aren’t incredibly powerful (yet) but do little things like pick up the trash in his room like a roomba.
RECENT CAMPAIGN HAPPENINGS:
rocco has joined the resistance with his current party and is actively helping to overthrow the vale, the monarch religion in their part of the world. he's also recently been to hell and back, only to discover that he's the long lost descendant of the ancient evil demon goddess, lachesis. he gained two servants(?) followers(?) alexios and narkissa, who follow and obey his every command, referring to him as their dark prince, though he hates to command anyone to do anything and feels very weird about possibly becoming a evil demon prince. he's definitely changing physically and not sure what to do about that either.
rocco was also briefly reuinted with his long-lost brother, hector, whom he'd been searching for since the start of the campaign. he found out that hector's formed his own gang of people who also want to stop the vale, but rocco and his party disagree with his method of summoning demons and ruthlessly killing vale members. they're currently on a quest to retrieve several ancient weapons that have a lot to do with lachesis, but a lot of people, hector and the vale included, want these powerful weapons for their own means.
CHARACTER RELATIONSHIPS:
issac graves is his bodyguard/babysitter/best friend and has been in charge of him since he was a baby because his dad is super busy with work all the time. rocco calls him mr. graves and loves him dearly. he's also rocco's supervisor that he reports to for his internship. he thinks they're really good pals. at the start of the campaign, issac would disagree, but as the campaign has gone on, you could definitely say that issac is more than attached to this tiefling.
hector greylock is his lavender purple tiefling brother; however, as rocco recently found out, hector isn't actually his blood brother - he's talmage's long-lost brother by birth who was sold by his family to hugo greylock, rocco's father. the party discovered that hector's formed his own gang that wants to take down the vale, though by more aggressive and dangerous means involving demon summoning and the powerful weapons of lachesis. word has it that he's hidden himself away in vaselle, perhaps working alongside the new queen aedith, who violently deposed raja's royal family.
hugo greylock is rocco's father. he recently got promoted to a high position of leadership at cicero, a magical items procuring company that seeks to test and procure items away from the general public and perhaps, as we've discovered, for use by the vale. a distant figure in rocco's life since his husband died mysteriously many years ago, he's devoted his life to his work, at the expense of raising his two tiefling sons. any outside observer would note that hugo has never really loved his boys in the ways that they deserved and needed, and he incidentally left most of the child-raising to his right-hand man and hired bodyguard, issac graves.
talmage sazerac is a pink tiefling in rocco's party. talmage is a small, abrasive, smart-mouthed boy with what could be lightly called "magic street smarts." after escaping the murderous vale attack at his magic school, talmage joined the party and their quest to aid the resistance's fight to overthrow the vale. rocco and talmage's relationship has only begun to develop, since talmage is guarded with his feelings towards literally anybody. rocco sees him as a fun, clever inventor as well as a good companion & friend, though talmage might resent the latter. their main point of connection is usually when they craft magical items together - or, talking about hector, since they recently discovered that talmage and hector are blood brothers. rocco would say that makes talmage his step-brother, but talmage would probably think of them more as awkward cousins.
bishop (balen) solis is a large, beefy man with wings and very little clothing, who just recently found out he is not only a sphinx, but also a former god of some sort. during an early mission, bishop brought an unconscious rocco back to life and managed to accidentally imbue rocco with cleric powers, though recently those powers were revoked when bishop died and lost his connection to his "followers" during a battle with a kraken. as the main tanks of the group, bishop and rocco have taken a lot of damage and spent a lot of time getting closer during recovery after big battles. rocco sees bishop like a big brother, and trusts him to make a lot of big decisions, even though recently bishop has been distracted by his rather angry ex-husband(?) kairos.
raja devrine is a once half-elf woman, now turned dragonborn by a horrible curse. after escaping the violent usurping of her family's throne by aedith, she joined the party with a similar interest to take power from the vale and hopefully divert it towards regaining the right to her throne. raja sees rocco as "too kind for his own good," childish, and vulnerable, but nevertheless views him as "one of her subjects" - thus, she is protective of him, given how susceptible he is to more villainous minds. a card-carrying member of the "I hate hector" gang, raja is sympathetic towards rocco but desperately wants to stop hector and aedith, no matter what.
vivienne delaroux is a human woman with shockingly blue hair, a damaging vale mark, and a strong desire for vengeance against the vale, particularly her former vale superior, leonard lucile. though viv only recently joined the party and the resistance, she's become an empathetic figure towards rocco's demon issues, though her empathy ends at hector, her former rival schoolmate. viv believes in rocco's good moral sensibility and his positive attitude and would probably want to protect him at all costs. one could say that rocco is definitely helping to bring out the softer, kinder nature that vivienne rarely displays as a stoic, war-trained ranger and vale runaway.
ares montblanc is a former vale assassin turned rogue runaway who also joined the party and resistance at the same time as vivienne. ares's strongest connection to rocco lies with issac graves, his former partner when he worked for the vale, though issac is certainly not pleased that rocco's been spending so much unsupervised time with ares. ares is similarly sympathetic towards rocco's recent demon issues, given that his (recently stolen) trusy sword, lachesis, is actually a part of the powerful demon goddess lachesis, whom rocco shares a mysterious ancient bloodline with. though ares wants his sword back, he wants to help rocco, and hopefully mend his damaged relationship with issac graves if he can by keeping rocco safe.
