WE kinda noticed that We really haven't got anywhere We keep a list of Our major characters and such, so!
We thought We'd make a post outlining and detailing the big ones (and there's some BIG ones, for sure!) to link back to, for reference's sake and just for the fun of showing off!
Thus without further Ado,
The Characters
of the
Blue Skies Company's
Grand Adventures!
(read more break because it's not finished yet!)
..Another dimension exists closely alongside the Legendarium's, a place of strife and steel in the sky...but also one of Boundless wonder.
And one of its heroes' stories goes a little something like this:
(CW for mentions of death, limb loss, betrayal)
Mathieu Bonvents does not remember where or even when he was born. He never thought it mattered much.
His parents were murdered when he was eight by the Pirate King Izmael Cagge, and for twenty years thereafter he spent his life on the run from something or another. A deft mechanic, a tenacious fighter, and above all an incredibly daring and skilled pilot, Mat would eventually be conscripted by the Britannic Royal Navy as a way out of a parole violation, and serve it with distinction as one of its greatest drivers and pilots. It was one of the best times in Mathieu's life.
And then he realized something was wrong. An errant conversation here, a climactic battle there, and he began to realize he was not doing what he thought he was, not helping the world the way he was told he would be.
It would not take long after that for him to discover the terrible deeds his empire was committing...and the actions he undertook that contributed to those aims, and worse.
In horror, disgust, and rage, he went explosively AWOL. During his escape, he would lose the few friends he had left, and entire swathes of his body.
But Mathieu Bonvents was nothing if not tenacious; in the depths of this hell was his iron will forged into steel.
Wielding a repurposed construction prosthetic as his new left arm, from a commandeered airship he wages a campaign of liberation and of reclamation from the forces of tyranny and of Empire.
He has been called many things, from Traitor to Savior.
Above them all, however, he is best known best, and simply, as