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ABOUT

NAME

taylor aldrich

GENDER

cisgender man

AGE

HEIGHT

6'0'

ORIENTATION

Suppressed
Male-attracted

PROFESSION

Professor of
Archaeology

ARCANE DISCIPLINE

Counter-hex
specialist

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Taylor reads quite clearly as an academic. With students, he's warm, approachable, and enthusiastics. With peers, he's a little more subdued in casual conversation, awkward, and with an overall energy that can be best described as squirrelly.

He's well-kept for the most part, sometimes prone to bedhead, tired eyes, twitchy fingers, and general restlessness.

For anyone magically savvy, Taylor has an arcane presence that, at best, feels like fog and dust, but at times has an impression of rancid meat. Nice.

PERSONALITY

RESTLESS

Taylor has a constant low-thrum of energy around him which suggests he's often finding it very hard to stay still or quiet and often looks like he'd be ready to bolt out of a space at any moment given the chance. He tends to fidget and touch things, paces around rooms, and generally gives off the impression that stillness is akin to a kind of suffering for him.

INSECURE

Especially around peers, Taylor is relatively unsure of himself and often tries to overcompensate his lack of personal confidence through intellectualism and his academic work. He has a tendency to compare himself to others and in so doing downplays and undermines himself.

AWKWARD

Social adeptness is not typically Taylor's strong suit, and while he is generally well-meaning, he suffers from a fairly chronic case of foot-in-mouth and a tendency to over-correct himself in response to realising when he's committed a faux pas. He moves between being verbally monosyllabic and talking excessively to self-correct and rarely gets the balance right.

WORKAOLIC

Taylor works long hours and gets deeply, sometimes obsessively, invested in his projects leading him to overlook appointments and promises he makes to others at times. He has been known to lose days and nights on end to work and generally lose track of time in pursuit of completing a task or finding answers to pressing questions on his mind.

WARM

Taylor is incredibly warm and friendly, despite being incredibly awkward and kind of nervous around peers. Typically, he is much more approachable and outgoing toward students or people who occupy a similar age/power dynamic and with that comes an abundance of patience and willingness to share insights. He's warm to colleagues too, he's just more inwardly nervous about it.

GENEROUS

If Taylor is asked to do something, he will go above and beyond, often at the expense of something else. He is not stingy with his knowledge or resources, very willing to share and contribute whatever he can to a given situation. As a teacher, he mentors readily and willingly, and as a colleague he is swift to provide support and contributions wherever possible.

DILIGENT

When Taylor is committed to something, he is truly in it for the long-haul no matter what. He is dedicated to his crafts and areas of expertise, as well as those he considers friends, and is prone to being willing to deprioritise (or procrastinate) on some things to make space for that which he is more dedicated to.

ABILITIES

KNOWLEDGE: ARCHAEOLOGY

Taylor's academic field is archaeology with a specialisation in burial rites and artefacts. He has both practical and theoretical experience at locations across the globe, but in particular across Britain, Ireland and Türkiye.

ARCANE: DISPEL & COUNTER-HEX

Clean-up on aisle 3

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TAYLOR ALDRICH

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