Lann Curtis

Design Notes

• He is a human with light skin.
• His grey hair is short and neat. The back of it is unruly and bubbly, much like his bangs. He also has two cowlicks, one standing and one falling, which shouldn't be forgotten!!
• His face is angular in shape.
• His eyes are square and blue in colour. He wears square glasses with a bottom rim.
• His eyebrows are medium in length and width, whereas his nose is stubby and sharp.
• He's long and thin in terms of body type.
• His fashion style is casual, prioritising comfort, then fashion and taste. He usually dresses in grey and blue colours.
• His item is a grey gaming headset.
• His default outfit is a grey turtleneck sweater under a long dark grey scarf with a blue star on it. He was also wearing grey capri pants and short dark grey boots similar to the scarf.

Trivia

Pillar of Knowledge: Language

As Language, Lann has several abilities. He is a lover of knowledge and is able to pick up on other languages really quickly. He's a nerd who loves to talk about etymologies and word or idiom history. He can also be quite good at descriptions and narration, which can come in handy in school theatre performances... or witness accounts, Lann presumes.

All of that was fine... if only he hadn't been cursed with the ability of telepathy. He could hear everyone's thoughts... and they could hear his. It's hard to control when this happens but it's more frequent when he's closer to other people. However, that didn't deter him from trying his best to be friends with everyone!

A skill he never knew he had up until Memory arrived was his "Aura of Translation". Apparently, people who aren't fluent in the same language are able to communicate when he's in a 10 meter radius from them. Every person involved is under the belief that everyone else can fully speak their primary or secondary language. It's... a strange feeling, especially if their language is unique and remote. However, if the person is able to speak a more widely spread language (such as English, Chinese, Spanish etc), that language will be the one they hear.

Item: Gaming Headset

Every Pillar of Knowledge has an item that benefit them in some way. Lann acquired his headset in a local electronics store, while looking for something to game comfortably with (yep, he's a casual gamer). Items always seem to be randomly selected, so he had no idea what that headset could do.

When he first tried it out, he couldn't tell the difference; that was because he was alone in his room. But in reality, the headset had heightened his telepathy and "aura of translation" by an extra 10 meters. With a little extra practice, Lann would also be able to control which thoughts he can share to other people, his own or... others'. The item allowed him to establish a telepathic network with whomever he pleases at the cost of increased tiredness. Being able to maintain a network of thoughts and regulate the passage of messages would take an absurd amount of resources, right?

Relationships

Memory is the one who found him and "recruited" him along with the others. He seems to know way more than he lets on, but even THE Language's influence couldn't get him to open up. He's eccentric and secretive, which is something that worries Lann... but he can't help it. Every time he's tried to learn something from Memory, he's failed... it's sad really.

She is intrusive and loud as well as being the Reason of the BOKs. Lann is constantly being belittled by Reason, even if she has called him "useful" many times in the past. She keeps ordering everyone around... but nobody listens to her anymore. She doesn't have the influence she thinks she has. If only she had Lann's help?

When Lann joined Memory's and Reason's adventure, they headed off to Bastille and found Sense, in a state "higher" than the sky. It's hard to communicate with him due to many factors: for one, he's almost always on something! Then again, he also asks to be alone as noises and other stimuli annoy him. Lann doesn't want to be annoying so... what else can he do?

It's really difficult to understand Imagination, even for Lann who's supposed to be Language and all! They can't understand much of the idioms Lann just loves to use!!! For "Imagination", they're really bad at making things up. So... they come to Lann a lot of the time so he can aptly describe what they have in mind with words. Is this friendship??

Faith, unlike most others, talks... way too much. Lann should be grateful for having someone so talkative around, but Faith isn't really communicating with everyone. He mostly preaches and daydreams all about the new conspiracy theory he has discovered or conjured! Learning all about how lizard people are real is not useful at all!!

The incident divided all of them and even if they were all closer than ever - living in the same complex and all - they were apart. However, Lann was able to meet two new people here, one of them being who Reason dubbed as Intuition. She was... nice! Actually nice, even if a bit unpredictable. She was the only one talking to him...

Along with Intuition, Emotion also appeared in the apartment complex. She seemed to have been living there for a while, meaning she knew where everything was. However, she was a recluse just like the rest of the BOKs... unwilling to share much with Lann. Apparently she could feel everything everyone is feeling, much like how Lann could hear everyone's thoughts?