Kyle Bedlam

A particularly bastardous Half-Mara wizard, with goals that are as of yet unknown, but likely unpleasant for all involved.

## Personality

Kyle is a sadist, a narcissist, a liar, and a genius. He's vindictive, aloof, and cruel in a manner that's just shy of gleeful. He sees breaking a spirit as an artform, one he finds himself to be particularly adept in. He's also charming, persuasive, and manipulative, seemingly to the point where he could convince you that cyanide was honey so you'd flavour your tea with it. His demeanor is always calm, steady, and perfectly poised, seemingly unflappable until the very moment when he snaps and things get nasty. He likes to play with his victims, his so called "puppets", finding out just how to get under their skin to make them squirm and flinch and cry, and has a seemingly deep seated desire for absolute control of every situation.

In every sense of the words, Kyle Bedlam is a puppeteer and a monster.

## Appearance

A tall, pale, reelkind man, seemingly human, with greyish pale skin, honey blonde hair that turns to dark purple-grey smoke at the ends, and glowing purple eyes. His build is thin and sharp in a way that makes him look starved or sick, and his face is equally stark and angled, with a frequently cold, annoyed, smug, or disgusted expression. He dresses in shades of purple, frequently in either a button up, pants, and long coat, or in elegant dresses and evening gowns.

## Backstory

Kyle Bedlam was born to Clara Hart-Bedlam, and the mara Athazagoraphobia, and raised for the first 3 years of his life in Einquell. However, when he was 4 years old, his mother seemingly lost her mind, murdering his father and commanding the house servants to get rid of him by any means necessary so she'd not have to look into his eyes again, for they reminded her too much of his father.

Kyle was sold to the Broken Birdcage, a pleasure house on the Capital Island of the Evershore Isles, where he was raised by a young woman named Orchid, who worked as an escort and waitress at the pleasure house.

At age 12, like all Everfairies, he was tested for his Talent, and was marked as a Song Talent. Seeing his chances of ever escaping the Broken Birdcage and life of servitude he was expected to bend to as he got older slipping away, Kyle threw himself into the study of magic and social intricacies. He grew adept with his magic, and charmed his way out of the hell he'd been given to, earning a place in the Ivory Tower college of magic.

He took the spellwriting track at the school, and earned his mastery sigil for the spell **Soul Strings**, a spell which allows one to take complete control of an individual to the point of controlling their speech and internal organs, as well as seeing through their eyes, all the while keeping the target fully aware. Somewhere near this point, he also struck a deal with the Second Star, who gave him the secrets of teleportation magic, and a pocket dimension space to use as a home. He also met, fell in love with, and courted Zivri Cardia, a young Evershore Courtier on the spellwriting track, with whom Kyle shared certain less than savory interests.

After earning his mastery sigil, Kyle took on an assignment on the mainland. In the kingdom of Diaspro, Kyle was meant to be working with the master artificer, Nobelle Amaryllis Price, to create a weather machine to end the kingom's decade long drought. However, Kyle refused to do more than the minimum of his part, and instead manipulated the people against Price, seeking to pressure her into giving him the credit for the machine. When she refused, he cast a spell on her that removed her from his path, and stole the machine.

The last sight Kyle had of Diaspro was of its fall, the people of the kingdom breaking down the castle doors and laying siege to it. As he watched the chaos and violence, he felt only satisfaction. Since then he has returned to Evershore, made a business of selling potions, and torture behind the scenes. He has become a renowned "toymaker", an individual skilled in the breaking of wills and in the torture of others. All the while furthering his own schemes which are beginning to near completion

## Shenanigans

**Color Studies:**

Kyle's debut game where he appeared as the final boss. Caught stealing color samples from the Einquell Continental Color Registry, Kyle faces off against the Star Trio (Mersel, Tobias, and Primrose), trapping the trio in nightmares, before eventually being rather soundly defeated, with his belongings such as the pocket dimension in which Hope was stored, and his goggles, being taken by the victors.

**Travels and Preparations, The Evershore Inquiry, The Ruins of Diaspro:**

Kyle appears or is mentioned several times throughout this series, as the person responsible for Hope's being stolen and the person responsible for the downfall of Diaspro. While he never appears in person, we do get another appearance from Kyle through the Puppet, who tries to cause trouble for the trio when they're leaving Evershore, by calling the guards down on them.

**Learning the Hopes:**

Kyle is once again mentioned (With no small amount of derision), by Tobias to the Engineer, and is put on a list of "Absolutely do not let enter dodo studios under any circumstances kill on sight" individuals that the studio security detail is aware of.

**Memory Lane:**

A few images of a younger Kyle appear in photographs and paintings in Memory Lane, and it's revealed that "Clara" is his mother.

**A Retrospective Conversation:**

Kyle is mentioned in a conversation between Bondlock and Gille Trebble, when Bondlock reveals that Kyle is frequently hired to "break" him when his director, Eri, is displeased or dissatisfied with how he plays his role as the "bad guy" of the story, a revelation Gille responds to in a very responsible way, by apparently internally swearing to kill Kyle, an action encouraged by anyone who knows the bastard.