Open AU Discussion Post

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Having trouble with a facet of your AU backstory? Trying to co-ordinate your AU with another player? This is an open post for players to discuss their AUs, give/receive suggestions, and thrash out any crossover between your characters' pasts!

Comment with your character's name/canon in the subject line, and discuss away!

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Faramir | LotR

[overshadowedingly]

I'm planning on bringing Faramir in as a clerk/researcher, in Lethevale to do some kind of study (historical? geographical? anthropological? Still figuring that out).

Backstory-wise, he was born the second son of a lord, which he just barely remembers. His mother died when he was very young and his father, not wanting to be reminded of her death every time he looked at the child whose birth had brought on her fatal weakness, sent Faramir to an orphanage. Because this was so long ago (Faramir was 3 or 4 at the time), Faramir doesn't remember the details of this: he only knows he had a brother and a father, and that he was sent to the orphanage because he did something terrible and his mother died. Oddly enough, he has some... issues about that.

At the orphanage, he worked very hard to educate himself and the other children, and when he left at the age of 15, he found work as a clerk. He went on studying, saved all his money, and eventually, at the age of about 30, was employed by an academic (...Beregond?) who sponsored him through university. He's moved from being the academic's clerk to his friend and research assistant, and has spent the last six years travelling doing research, with or without his employer.

I haven't got the details thrashed out yet, or decided which journal to use, but that's the gist.