Lysander Kadar

**Lysander Kadar** is a half-elf born in the continent of Rheims. He currently works under Flora Delacroix in Garreau, mainly doing hunting, and investigation jobs for her. After meeting Sasha Tales, and Eduard Mikhailov they've dubbed themselves the blue-blooded misfits that work together to survive in the socio-political climate of Rheims.

## Appearance

Lysander is average in height, and pretty skinny due to having malnutrition through most of his teenage and early adult years. He has shaggy longer black hair and yellow eyes. He tends to wear glasses, saying he's specifically far-sighted. Lysander usually wears jackets, long pants, high boots and capes of typical Northern Rheims fashion; however due to his lifestyle as a monster hunter they all tend to have lots of tears and tatters.

When on the job, he is usually equipped with rapiers, daggers, and crossbows. Like most people from Northern Rheims, he also is equipped with the mutagens and toxins used to enhance himself in battle.

## Personality

Lysander usually tries to be that hard-around-the-edges, aloof type of guy when someone first meets him. It's usually a feeble attempt to not really make friends so he can stay the loner he wishes to stay, but by the end of the day he still has the charisma similiar to a goat; he ends up just coming off extremely awkward and not graceful at all. He's more on the introverted side that would rather be a wallflower. Conversations with Lysander usually don't last long since he gives very short, abrupt answers to end conversations as early as possible.

Caught in his own self-loathing, Lysander usually gets stuck in his headspace too much. He has all the bad coping habits one can think of: drinking, smoking, and other substances (but recently is trying to at least quit smoking). Lysander has another bad habit in battle of being extremely self-sacrificial, putting himself purposely in harms way guising it as being protective but in reality it's just a way to get himself killed faster.

However, Lysander is extremely smart and well studied, like most nobles born in Northern Rheims originally. He's passionate, and is empathetic towards people that he sees himself in him, like Sasha, someone who has also been extremely rejected by their parents for not being completely successful. He tends to make attempts to help these kind of people basically not end up like him. He's a big example of "don't be like me, I'm the bad example".

## History

Born in Florent, Ly is a bastard child of Roshia Vallas, a human from the city of Badeaux, and Damon Kadar, an elf who is the lead commander of Florent under the rule of Rousselle family. However, upon having a child, Roshia decided to make Lysander live with Damon for an easier life, especially when it comes to things such as education, and money.

Blood is important to Northern Rheimians so when people found out about Lysander, with blood from a person of a middle-to-lower class he became pretty much a laughing stock; he got bullied a lot, and generally was looked down on. Lysander mostly became a shut in as a child, reading the entire library in Damon's study because he didn't like showing his face outside of the manor. Not only that, but he couldn't accomplish the type of feats his older brothers and father could do when they trained. The disappointment became apparent from Damon awfully fast since the most thing that's important to him is his family name, and reputation as one of the highest ranking Paladins that commands Rousselle's armies.

So, instead of Damon wasting his time with Lysander, he blatantly ignored him and focused on his older brothers instead that could actually accomplish things. Ly became pretty independent fast when living in Florent. He travelled to Badeaux to visit his mom every so often, mostly for his birthday, or whenever he could make the trip without anyone noticing (which was pretty easy). Visiting his mother was when he could feel at peace more, he helped her out with the garden at her flower shop, but when Ly was feeling especially anti-social and attempted to shut himself in she would drag him out to help customers in the store.

His childhood never really changed from always being ignored by Damon, and visiting his mother until he was about 18 years old when the Rousselle family decided to test a new training regime for the army. Damon, seeing no use in Lysander for his family name decided to offer Lysander for the training regime and he was taken away. The goal of the training regime was to experimentally improve the bodies of their soldiers so they don't have to spend over 10-20 years training them for the army. Their bodies would be sturdier, more athletic, dexterous -- depended on the person. The regime was also harsh, if you didn't keep up with training, or wasn't good enough, you'd more or less would just be killed during training and your body would be dumped as a failure to the experiment.

Lysander, somehow, survived his way through the training - having to kill a number of people which made him feel sick to his stomach every night. He was locked up in a cellar, and the next five years of his life became the same every day; a fight to survive. Slowly getting sick of it all, he managed to escape, ditching everything like his family name and running away. He eventually came by a small village having a problem with a band of goblins and seeing Lysander's sword they offered him money to take care of it. He became a monster hunter since it was an easy way to make money, but it wasn't as lucrative as he was hoping; so he spent his years traveling, making little coin, mostly sleeping in forests, ditches, or alleyways. He often got into fights at taverns due to his terrible hygienic habits, and terrible drunken attitude.

Several years later he meets Eduard, who nearly stops Ly from picking a fight with ritzy patrons. They get to know each other more. Ly tries to keep himself dethatched, but Eduard was stupidly too nice and it was nearly impossible to get him to leave. They got close (begrudgingly, for Ly), but came to realise the company was nice and being around someone like Eduard made him a better person. Ly slowly trying to realise his faults, and bad habits to change himself for the better.

## Relationships

### Eduard Mikhailov

Lysander first met Eduard in a tavern while he was being harassed by several noble-bloods. Even if Lysander tried to be aloof and uninteresting to push Eduard away, he still pursued Lysander. Lysander, at first, thought Eduard was a bit annoying; had a lot of hopes, dreams and looked at the world romantically when he could (which made him jealous, wishing he could do the same). They both have different views on life and personalities, so they do challenge each other a lot and argue.

Lysander still found himself falling Eduard regardless of all his negative thoughts, which ended up just being fueled by anxiety and they started casually dating after a couple of years of knowing each other. At Esrik's party in Aslason during Lysander's contract to investigate Esrik, they had their first kiss.

### Sasha Tales

Lysander first met Sasha while traveling when she was trying to break into an establishment that was meant for adults only, saying a group of thugs stole one of her projects that was meant for Flora to see and hopefully patent. Lysander didn't find Sasha's personality great at first, thinking she's a bit too confident and haughty for her own good, which is why she ended up in that situation in the first place but decided to help anyway. Then they both went to go see Flora so she could get that patent.

At first, they didn't along, until Lysander figured out her personality was more to guard herself from people looking down on her and to keep herself strong in the cut-throat world of adults and inventors. When he finally understood they got along better. Lysander helps Sasha from being too gung-ho about certain things and take care of herself, and Sasha also gets onto Lysander when he isn't taking care of himself. They keep each other afloat.

## Abilities

* Weapon training in most light melee weapons, and ranged weapons.
* Like most Northern Rheimians, he knows alchemy and chemistry to make toxins, poisons, drugs, and mutagens.

## Trivia

* Hobbies include gardening and cooking so he can take care of Sasha and Eduard. Also because it reminds him of his own mother.
* Dreams of owning a nice villa with enough land to own a few horses.
* Afraid of doctors, he'd rather perish than get a check up.
* Other skills include drawing (mostly for documentation purposes of his bestiary), and playing the viol which he was kind of forced to learn; same with dancing.

## Gallery

Ly with his Rapier "Bolt"Ly and EduardReference Sheet