Yarrow (40k)

**name:** Yarrow

**occupation:** combat psyker (the primed and armed pocket nuke of the *Praxis*)

**homeworld:** nameless post-apocalyptic shithole functionally indistinguishable from fallout 4

**age:** 20s

## a physical description?

Yarrow is 5'6 with a dark brown mohawk (he never actually spikes it up; it's too long anyway) and brown eyes and pointy ears and fucked-up teeth. He has a leather jacket with fancy sleeves, and approximately five thousand tattoos - his forearms in particular have tiny homemade stick-and-pokes everywhere the way a gucci handbag has the gucci logo. These are the results of a self-soothing activity which also serves to record and remind him of his own autobiography - images related to various memories and incidents, you know?

## biography

### early life

Yarrow was born in a shithole little settlement his shithole parents ran like some kind of shithole mafia dons or something. Being the boss's kid didn't mean shit because he had an older brother who took after the old man and Yarrow's got shit wrong with his head. He's "always been stupid," by which he means his mom's attempts at home-schooling him weren't effective when he was like six so she gave up on him; he's still illiterate and at this point it's partly just being stubborn (if he's dyslexic Doctor Rodriguez can recommend some shit, you know? but he has to be willing to try to learn!).

He was pretty badly neglected by his parents, abused by his father and absolutely terrorized by his older brother; he tried running away several times before it finally took when he was in his early teens. After that he lived just sort of around, going where he could and eating what he could and sleeping where he could; he serially fell in with boys who were Not Good For Him and then they'd break up and he'd go somewhere else and then the cycle would repeat.

### praxis event

So anyway it turned out he has psyker powers and that's all there is to say about that, and the Black Ships got 'im and then Simon Templar needed a psyker because the Praxis didn't have one at all at that time so he got on the ship and he liked Yarrow's haircut and tattoos and thought he was cute so he said something to Yarrow and Yarrow still had enough of his spirit unbroken in there to say something smart-ass back so Simon took him immediately.

### on the praxis

He's Simon's little pet psyker, and he's also a proper Halo because he was already radicalized by living a shitty life on a shithole planet so he fell right in with Simon's schemes. He feels the weight of responsibility for Simon's affection very heavily even before he falls in love with Sam, a servitor who's not even supposed to be sentient anymore. To try and escape when he needs to be Extremely Alone, given that Simon is perfectly aware of where his quarters are, Yarrow has supplemented them by breaking into one of the ship's unused cabins and making a little nest in the back where nobody will know where he is.

#### psyker bullshit

Unintended but unavoidable: he "sees visions," which can vary from the surprisingly real-seeming presence of the Quartermaster's ghosts to just things being slightly different because he's seeing an alternate instead of the reality he's supposed to be in at the same time as he's seeing the one he IS in. So sometimes it's something true, and those true things are sometimes allegorical bullshit, but sometimes it's something meaningless and untrue that you gotta just ignore, so chasing down the visions to figure out what ones are true and what those true ones mean? Totally not worth the risks. Better to just keep anchored in this reality (checking in periodically with Sam helps with this) and ignore anything that ain't fit.

Somewhat intentional: potentially-immense reality-rending powers that he uses as absolutely gingerly as possible unless he's too stressed out and then weird bad shit happens