Swann

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> ### Name
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> Swann
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> ### Species
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> Transhuman Preternatural
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> ### Affiliation
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> * ARCDA [Formerly]
> * The Rogues
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> ### Age
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> Unknown
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> ### Group or Family
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> * Storm Fraser-Swann
> * Freya Fraser-Swann
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> ### Location
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> Duxford
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> ### Status
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> Alive
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> Physical Description
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> Transhuman Preternatural
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> Male
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> Fair
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> Grey
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> Greying Black
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> ### Species Features
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> * Camouflage Skin
> * Enhanced Senses
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> "*Nature and god- I neither knew, yet both so well knew me…*"
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**Swann, Fraser-Swann,** is a secondary character of Silverbird and the parental figure to Storm and Frost. He is a Transhuman Preternatural who was the former head of security at Mullardoch and a favourite of Gaius Daniels before he quit after the fall of Loch Mullardoch.

## Appearance

Swann is described as being older man with a Glaswegian accent that adds a gruff snarl to his voice. He has black hair that has silvered with age, adding white hairs into it, as well as grey eyes. He has fair skin and despite his age is still athletic and fit.

> *He wasn’t tall but he had broad shoulders and a barrel chest. For an old man he was strong, with a weather-beaten face, sharp eyes, and a scruffy beard. Malana let out a little gasp and gripped Raoul’s hands. The man’s eyes caught the light, reflecting a green-blue eyeshine back for a split second.*
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Swann has several tattoos on his arms including an old sleeve tattoo. On the back of one of his hands he has a tattoo of a compass and symbols on each finger. These include a crescent moon, a crown, an anchor, and a lightning bolt.

According to Raoul, Swann smells citric like other Preternaturals do, and Swann reveals that his eyes were once brown before he became Transhuman. Now they are grey.

## Personality

> *There was too much of every other species in him to be one. An amalgam of Pard, Avio, Canid, Reptile, and Preter; something that had been over designed.*
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Swann is initially an aggressive and wary individual, suspicious of anything new and ready to spring into action. He is curious and intelligent however, having a good knowledge of mechanics, biology, and a myriad of other things such as literature which he can quote off hand in the same way Amelia Samodiva and Guy Daniels can. He can be mischievous and violent, happily joking about being chopped into little pieces and being turned into curry and eaten or straight up being ready to fight.

He is very familiar with how ARCDA works as well as how other companies and organisations function, giving him a strong sense of wariness and hypervigilance when dealing with any given situation. With this, it gives him quick mannerisms and an intimidating intensity.

## Skills

Swann has several skills, both as a Transhuman Preternatural and as himself.

#### Main Skills

* Mechanical Knowledge
* Security knowledge
* Aviation

#### Transhuman Skills

* Camouflage Skin
* Enhanced strength
* Enhanced senses

## History

#### Mullardoch.

In Mullardoch, Swann was essentially Guy Daniels's bodyguard and head of security. To Rex, Swann was considered to be a favourite of his, and often intimidated Rex with his aggressive nature.

He admits that he became a Transhuman Preternatural progressively during his time working at Mullardoch, and was lied to about what the purpose of all the "vaccinations" were for and that his team were guineapigs.

> *“I and my security team were pretty much the guineapigs for their perfecting of the process. Every few weeks we’d get a new vaccination or supplement that would either make us rage like ‘roided-up hippos around the countryside, or we’d be passed out for several days vomiting our guts up. A few hated the fact that they weren’t told about it, but those were the ones who didn’t fully read their contracts.”*
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Swann is deeply knowledgeable about what was occurring in ARCDA, as well as how ethically dubious it was. He agreed to join in with some of the other experimentation and acted as a base and rolemodel for Storm and Frost, who he named to himself Morgan and Freya after mythological figures. Freya (Frost) was named after the norse goddess who had a cloak of feathers that allows people to fly, and Morgan (Storm) after Morgan Le Fay who was said to be a shapeshifter and able to fly.

He insists that he left after Loch Mullardoch's destruction and Guy Daniels was happy to leave him in relative peace.

#### Silverbird

in Silverbird, Swann has retired from being head of security and works in historic aircraft restoration at Duxford Imperial War Museum. He immediately drops the human façade with Malana, Raoul, and Palmer, allowing his skin to change colour and being open in the fact that he knows that they are synths. However, despite his reservations, Swann agrees to meet Storm who is after information as to what Rex was up to.

## Role

#### ARCDA

In ARCDA, Swann was head of security for Loch Mullardoch. He was a particular favourite of Guy Daniels.

## Relationships

* Gaius Daniels
* Rex Brisbane

Swann terrifies Rex to the point of paralysis.

* Storm Fraser-Swann

## Quotes

* *“You think I don’t know an Avio when I see one? You think you can hide primary feathers with a wee-little coat?”*
* *"Nature and god- I neither knew, yet both so well knew me…”*
* “*Terror and beauty, cold silver and hot blood.*”
* *"ARCDA*. What a stupid acronym. It was always meant to be *Arcadia*." Swann snorted.... "*“Harmony with nature and repairing the faults of the world back into a sustainable paradise.”*
* "All standing on the shoulders of giants to try and reach up to the catch the stars."
* *“I’ll tell you the same thing I told Daniels. Wherever they let him work on it, is probably where he last had it. I never saw it in person because they never gave me a reason to look into it. Daniels did though, but he never told me any details about it.”*
* *“Just watch. The moment they hear that you’re going to look into all of this, they’ll come out of the woodwork.”*

## Trivia

* Swann shares a knowledge of literature and poetry, and references them in a similar manner to Guy Daniels and Amelia Samodiva.
	+ *"Nature and god- I neither knew, yet both so well knew me…” -* Emily Dickinson, Nature and God - I neither knew
	+ *Oh, fair princesses of the spacious air, that hast vouchsafed acquaintance here, Who, when our activ’st wings try, advance a foot into the sky. Bright heir of the bird imperial, from whose avenging talons fall. Thunder and lightning twisted and spun. Brave silver kin, to the golden Sun.” -* Richard Lovelace, the Falcon
	+ *She knows too, of flying through the air, like Daedalus, on strange wings; And at will she glides down from the sky to your shores." -* Geoffery of Monmouth, Vita Merlini
* Swann never shares his first name or confirms if Swann is even his real name.

## References

1. ↑ **Silverbird**, Chapter 14
2. ↑ Emily Dickinson - Nature and God
3. ↑ Richard Lovelace - The Falcon
4. ↑ Geoffery of Monmouth - Vita Merlini

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