Victor Tiarnach | 29 | He/Him | Human | Archival Investigator

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Bright, loud, and sarcastic – Victor has an impossible-to-ignore presence (whether you want to or not). The authenticity of his demeanor can be debatable, but genuine or not, he strives to be a fun, pleasant person to be around. Enjoys being flirty and physically affectionate with most people, especially friends, though amusingly will clam up in embarrassment at earnest inquiry into his personal sex life. Slept around regularly before meeting Charles, and made an intentional effort not to sleep with the same person twice if he could help it.

Despite his warm, outgoing personality Victor actively endeavors to keep most folks at arms length and has few true, close connections (Charles, Sasha, and Gerry being his closest circle). For those who manage to weasel their way in, the cracks in the façade are glaring in spite of his staunch refusal to acknowledge (or outright deny) them. A firm believer in "fake it 'til you make it" at least regarding his own life.

🩷 Coffee, tea, reading, gardening, sewing, parkour/gymnastics
❌ Elevators/small spaces, intense darkness, TV, crowds, swimming, ocean/large bodies of water

Trivia:
- Playlist
- Chain smoker, has a small collection of vintage lighters
- Equal parts coffee & tea addict – has a small greenhouse-worth of plants for making his own tea blends
- Moderate to severe claustrophobia – terrified of elevators
- Moderate face blindness, has improved over time
- Prone to eye strain and migraines, can be very light-sensitive due to spending a lot of time in darkness/low light growing up
- Co-parents a Spiral-aligned black cat with Charles that manifested in their flat one day – his name is Lawrence
- Phone is a Motorola RAZR V3i he got when starting university and refused to upgrade. Keeps several charms hanging off it that swap out occasionally.
- Incredibly dogshit chickenscratch handwriting - he can read it back no problem but good luck and godspeed to anyone else (has to retype his notes each day on a loaner laptop he keeps from the Institute)
- Born on Samhain, he recognizes & celebrates his regular birthday as Oct 31st
- Was pursuing a BA in Mythology & Occultism when he joined the Institute - only needed 2 classes he intentionally delayed, taking other electives instead as he didn't want to graduate

History:
Born on Samhain into a large family that lived sequestered in a remote manor on an isolated part of the coast in County Galway. A traditional Celtic pagan-style cult of the Lonely, the timing of Victor's birth marked him as intended to be an Avatar, destined for death when he'd come of age, a fact he was made plainly aware of from the moment he gained sentience.

Victor was named after his mother, Victeoiria, and was never told which member of the expansive household was his father (if the man was even still alive). He was all but ignored by every person in the house save his mother, who interacted with him with a cold, detached reverence for what he would one day be, leading to a twisted desperation for her attention and affection as she was the only one who regularly acknowledged him.

Due to the number of household members and their refusal to engage with him (unless to coldly stare him down in dead silence until he fled), Victor never managed to learn or grasp the names of any of his family, and struggled to recognize features and faces and suffered face blindness, which only cleared somewhat in adulthood. He was only rarely accompanied outside the manor (he was intentionally kept barefoot to hinder progress if he were to ever get outside) except visits to the cliffs with promises of what was to come – Victor never learned to swim and staunchly refused as an adult, suffering from severe aquaphobia. Frequently he was locked in a cramped, damp portion of the basement in the pitch dark, leading to him developing severe claustrophobia to boot. Looking back, it was a miracle he didn't succumb to a figurative Avatar death long before he escaped.

Through a series of strokes of blindingly good luck around his sixteenth birthday, Victor escaped his family and smuggled his way to England, eventually stumbling his way to London. A man caught him trying to steal food from a market stall and took him under his wing, housing, feeding, and teaching him to read and write in exchange for doing odd jobs and errands in the city, giving Victor a chance to learn the lay of the land. He learned at an alarming pace and read voraciously, absorbing everything and fully immersing himself in reading and research for every free moment.

Eventually his temporary guardian helped falsify documentation that allowed Victor to enroll in university, sinking his teeth into every class he could get into. He was on track for a BA in Mythology and Occultism but intentionally avoided taking the final two courses he needed, instead working his way through numerous other classes (world history, art history, geography, astronomy, linguistics, oceanography, cartography) at the college over the course of seven years.

A mangled, stray flyer stuck to his book bag advertised student internships at the Magnus Institute, and further altered the trajectory of his life. His first summer he met Charles fleeting as part of the mandatory security briefing, but wouldn't cross paths properly for almost three more years. He also met Gerry and Sasha during his first summer, and pursued a full-time job in the archives within a year. Little over a year later he split 50/50 between Archival Assistant work and an external Investigator, eventually switching fully to Investigator, where he remained for the duration of the (modified) events of the TMA timeline.

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Design Notes:
- Faceclaim is Garrett Hedlund
- Incredibly fair complexion though oddly immune to sunburn or overheating, covered in bursts of freckles
- Hair is deep reddish, easily misread as black depending on lighting
- Hair texture is a mix of curls and waves kept pulled into a low ponytail (just past shoulder length when down)
- Eyes are a very pale cool grey
- Scar cuts at an angle through left eyebrow, stops just above the outer corner of his eye
- Number of faded, self-inflicted scars along his arms (not typically added in drawings)
- Never without at least layer of eyeliner (black, often smudged) - effort for additional makeup varies wildly
- Nails painted (generally black, sometimes other dark color)
- Collection of chunky rings that swap out randomly: a mix of thrifted antiques and cheap mass-produced ones that fit his vibe
- Right-handed

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Boundaries:
- Open to roleplaying in and out of TMA universe, long and short-form
- Giftart is more than welcome and immediately loved and appreciated<3
- Platonic/queerplatonic relationships are chill, nothing overtly sexual/romantic (Victor is an incredibly touchy-affectionate person, but dating/shipping is a no-go)
- NSFW unlikely but you can ask (might be welcome in giftart if exclusively with his BF, not in RP)

Giftart: 🩷 | Roleplays: ✅ | Relationships (platonic): ✅ | NSFW: ⭕

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