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• Kevyn •

The Master of Trickery


Basic Info

Full Name

Kevyn Fennway

Nicknames / Aliases

He has a bunch I'm pretty sure

Gender

Male

Birthdate

13 October 1995

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Species Class

Mammal - Carnivora

Species

Canine [Fennec/Coyote]

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Birthplace

Farrowlark, Wickenstern

Residence

Technically none but rents a storage unit in Luthenfold, Wickenstern

Occupation

Trader at the magic black market (mostly a scammer)

Affiliations

• None

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Main Setting

Luthenfold and Midlands


Character Overview

sly • reckless • overconfident • unreliable • stubborn


Kevyn is an illusiomancer who makes a living out of cheating in luck games and scamming people with his tricks. His illusion trickery "job" gets him in trouble very often, and since he usually deals with darkmages and other shady folks from black market communities, they don't hesitate in making him suffer for his deeds, leaving him with several scars.

He is a sleazy bastard who acts impulsively and thinks mostly of his own benefit, but whose luck is almost never in his favor. So many of his scams are ruined by seemingly unlikely circumstances happening that he's learned to count on everything going the worst possible way each time -- and sometimes he's still caught by surprise. The only reason why he's still alive is because his illusiomancy skill is so advanced that he can trick his way out of the situations he puts himself in.

He's not exactly proud of the kind of life he leads and sometimes wishes he could walk away from all that, but despite his attempts of becoming better, he always ends up drifting back into the scams. Although it's risky and always uncertain, he still finds it easier than any alternative at this point because he thinks he's so damn good at this game -- despite almost always losing anything that he gets by playing it a bit too far.


Loves

• Gambling
• Card games (especially Kothwish)
• Tricking people with his illusion magic
• Successfully completing a scam
• Train rides
• Nighttime

Hates

• His bad luck
• His scars
• Most of his life decisions
• Being caught cheating
• People who remember his debts


Magic Details (?)
Level / Class

Rookie Wizard

Preferred Field

Tried necromagic before he quit.

Area of Interest

He doesn't really practice magic much other than his illusiomancy, but he does know how to use a few healing spells, mostly because he gets hurt so often that he kinda had to learn.

Other

Illusiomancer. He can create incredibly realistic illusion imagery and even sounds. The amount of things he can render at once is impressive, as well as the detail of each of those things.

Magical Background

His mother was a bit of a mage (and also dabbled in witchcraft) so he inherited it from her, but since he never got to meet her, he didn't learn much.

Magis Pool

Medium

Volis Extent

Very High

Percis Acuity

Very Low

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Arcaster Type

None

Description

He might have had one at some point, but he lost it.


Background

Kevyn was a necromagic student at the Luthenfold School of Magics, but quit for some time as his grades were always terrible and he needed money. After his neck incident, he needed quite a while off his risky job, so he decided to try school again, at least for a couple of subjects he was interested. He felt uncomfortable with people's reactions over his scars and isolated himself from others even more than before. He was a subject of much speculation, particularly about his neck scar but also about being a remarkably terrible student, skipping several classes, leaving early and getting bad grades, as well as about his unusual illusiomancy abilities. Eventually he quit again, for the third time, but he had become some kind of legendary figure around campus as several rumors were spread about him.

Stories

Main Stories:

  • Thorns and Trickery [WIP].

Side Stories:

Other:

  • None.


Other Stuff

Dressing Style

Basic clothes under a wizard jacket, usually with fingerless gloves.

Hobbies

Collecting Kothwish decks

Favorite Activities

Playing Kothwish (and winning naturally with no illusion trickery), travelling to new places

Favorite Colors

Black, deep purple and silver

Favorite Foods / Drinks

Potato chips, fries. Grape juice, chocolate liqueur

Favorite Animals

Coyotes, jackals

Height

Average, maybe tall-ish

Handedness

Left handed

Romance

He likes girls, but since he's always on the run, he never gets to develop any real relationships and usually forgets about them... with a few exceptions.

Internet Usernames

He isn't much of an internet person

Symbols

Cards, crackles, stitches, scars and wounds, luck/bad luck, black cats

Music Taste

[X] [X] [X] [X]

Other Stuff

• Due to his illusiomancy, his brain is highly trained in reproducing images with extreme detail so that makes him a pretty good artist despite him not drawing much.

• He claims he might be cursed by the goddess of misfortune but there's no such thing as far as anyone knows.

• He's been a little scammer since he was a kid. One of the first tricks he learned was to make a regular piece of paper look and feel like money so he could buy candy.


Character Connections
Main

Kass saved Kevyn's life when he had his neck cut. She was carrying out a mission coincidently at the location where it happened, so she and her team managed to rush him into the care of the healers at her group's headquarters. She also took care of him for a while as he recovered, allowing them to get to know each other better. They have strong feelings for each other, but neither of them really thinks it would be a good idea to bring it forth.

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Kevyn met Catarina when she did illusion tricks at a circus in the Midlands. He could tell from her presentation that she was an illusiomancer like him, so he approached her after the show and they talked and became friends. He actually has a crush on her too.

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Mylos met Kevyn when he studied at LuthenMag. Although Mylos was several levels ahead of Kevyn, they occasionally shared a magic lab, in which Mylos helped him with assignments he struggled with. But they weren't more than acquaintances back then, so when Kevyn dropped out of school, Mylos didn't even care or even notice for a while. However, later on, their paths crossed again when Mylos fell for one of Kevyn's illusiomancy scams. When he found out, he should've killed him then and there, but in an attempt to recover his losses, he ended up joining Kevyn in his quest. After that ordeal was done, he learned that a partnership with him could be useful at times. They mostly just tolerate each other when they occasionally collaborate.

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Zechary thinks Kevyn is an asshole and an idiot. Kevyn thinks the same of him. However, they do collaborate with each other occasionally, mostly when they're forced to.

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Relatives

Kevyn's dad always loved his son very dearly, but as he grew up, they started to have conflicts. Kevyn wanted to go out and do things he tought were dangerous, so he tried to protect him. But containing an illusiomancer of Kevyn's skill isn't easy and he would always easily escape and refuse to listen to his dad's advice. Kevyn would often come back home beat up or injured in other ways, and absolutely hated hearing the "I told you" from his dad and his step-mom. Eventually, he made up his mind that he wanted to go study at LuthenMag, a decision his dad thought was very foolish, given that he had no money and no real plans on what to do when he arrived in Luthenfold. But Kevyn left anyway, and his family hasn't heard from him since. Now, after failing and giving up on magic school, he regrets his decisions and misses his family, but is too ashamed to go back and face them.

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Kevyn did not get to know his mother, because she died on the day he was born.

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Kevyn's relationship with Mae was good when he was a child, but as he grew up and turned rebellious, he would often disregard her because she was not his real mom. This always made her really sad, and he knew it. Now, he regrets doing that and wishes he could come back to apologize. Despite everything she still worries about him.

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Pets

He can hardly take care of himself, let alone a pet.

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Other

None.

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Important Items
To take everywhere

The only thing that Kevyn manages to not lose. He calls it his lucky jacket not because it brings him luck but because the jacket itself seems lucky. It always seems to survive no matter what, and even if he loses it, he somehow always manages to recover it.

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To keep safe

A phone he keeps at his rented storage unit in Luthenfold, to make sure he's still somewhat contactable by the few people he cares about. He wouldn't want to risk losing it while going about on his scams.

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Character originally created on 21 November 2017

Published: 11 April 2022
Last modified: 27 February 2024