Faux Monsier/History

## Past

Faux was born to the Monsier family, a relatively well known criminal family on Necroa. He is the son of the Family's heir, Falk Girn Monsier, as well as a noblewoman from the Van Boreas household, Ril Van Boreas. He grew up in the mountainous Drachtlant region of Necroa. Growing up Faux spent a lot of time playing in the mountains, this quickly allowed his body to develop stronger and more agile.

In his youth, Faux moved to the Necroan capital of Skornyard where he lived life as a petty criminal, earning his money by pickpocketing and burglary. He was arrested on numerous occasions by both local guards and later in the 2860's by Alliance peacekeeping forces. It was during this time in his life that Faux first started to show signs of his arrogance and superiority complex as he'd often taunt his victims and dominate smaller and weaker criminals into handing him their earnings.

It was in Skornyard that Faux eventually met Lee Van Kaitos, the Slayer known as Poison Ivy, a high ranking Slayer and the founder of the Cerberus Squadron. He convinced Faux into applying for the Slayer Brotherhood, to which Faux was reluctant at first but eventually, after some persuasion, agreed. Faux initiated as a Fledling and went through the Slayer trials, graduating with 6 other as of yet unnamed initiates. Together these 7 became the third generation of Cerberus. Faux would serve under Van Kaitos for a while, rapidly ranking up and becoming the Viceroy of the Squadron.

Eventually, Faux would come to meet Reaver after she passed the Slayer exams much like he had done in the past. Reaver would come to serve under Van Kaitos and Faux as a member of the fourth generation of Cerberus. It was sometime after this point, that Reaver and Faux would enter a semi-romantic relationship. Mostly for the purpose of raising Faux's own social status by appearing to be taken.

Sometime after Reaver's initiation, Faux's jealousy toward his mentor Lee Van Kaitos would grow too much for him to bare, and in envy and hungry for power and status, killed his mentor and took over his position as the de-facto Captain of Cerberus. He would also kill many other former members who would come to find out about the truth behind Lee's death. He would also begin to hunt for loyal subordinates to turn into the fifth generation of Cerberus, and the first generation of Cerberus's Daemon era. Many of these members were wanted criminals and were allowed into the Squadron through less than official means.

Shortly before Reaver would finally decide to leave Cerberus. Faux's new title as the Captain of Cerberus had gone to his head, and he begin to stray further and further from the regulations and traditions set in place by the Elders of the brotherhood and Cerberus would act more like a dissident paramilitary than a Slayer Squadron. As such, Faux's actions eventually reached the Elder's, who would punish him by sending the inquisitor, Seeker, to deal with the situation. Seeker's intervention eventually resulted in a short skirmish between him and Cerberus, which ended in Seeker wiping out most of the fourth generation, say for Reaver, as well as severely wounding Faux, leaving him with a visible scar. This would mark one of the rare occasions where Faux would learn from his mistakes, as he began operating more covertly. However, this defeat did spark an everlasting hatred towards Inquisitors, and Seeker in particular.

## Andromeda Arc

In 2873. Faux would go to Terra along with Amalia for a supposed diplomatic meeting with the Andromeda Squadron. Unbeknownst to him however, the actual purpose of their trip was for Amalia to transfer to the Andromeda Squadron, as she had grown tired of her treatment by Faux back in Cerberus. Upon finding this out, Faux would fly into a rage, immediately attempting to use his Blood Puppet Manipulation to make Amalia choke herself to death. He was stopped however by the combined efforts of Tempest and Oracle. Despite being partially blinded by Oracle's Divine White Flash, and taking a direct hit from Tempest's Crashing Arrow, Faux still insisted on making Reaver pay for her betrayal and to fight the rest of Andromeda Squadron. His rage was only stopped when Crock showed up and aimed his rifle toward Faux's head, threatening to kill him. After regaining his composure, Faux chose to retreat, telling Andromeda that they were going to pay.

Faux would not take his defeat at the hands of Andromeda and Amalia's betrayal lightly however. Knowing that he would have to return to Necroa soon, Faux would spend the entire rest of the night and early morning of the 6th of may to search for a way to carry out his revenge through a third party. Eventually he finds someone to do the job for him, a former Slayer and bounty hunter named Busco P. Velvet, a high ranking member of the criminal organization known as the Zealots.

Faux, having learned of how to contact Busco through one of his contacts on Terra, goes to Club Yorokobi, a pleasure club and human trafficking center owned by Busco. At the club he asks for Busco's location from the bartender, but receives no answer and instead gets a gun pointed at the back of his head by a member of the Zealots and one of Busco's personal body guards, August Van Dogler. After a brief confrontation, Faux manages to subdue August using his Blood Magic and receives Busco's location from him.

Faux finds Busco in private room 107 at the back of the club and confronts him with his situation. Busco seems interested but tells Faux that all bounties have a price, Faux agrees and offers Busco 1000 Alliance Credits for Amalia's capture, and 500 Credits for every member of Andromeda he kills while completing his mission, Busco is pleased with Faux's offer and after recieving a picture of Amalia, confirms to Faux that he will complete the bounty, reminding him that he will have to pay once the deed has been done.

## References

1. ↑ Eclipse: Legacy of the slayers, Chapter 1 parts 1 and 3
2. ↑ Eclipse: Legacy of the Slayers, Chapter 2, Part 1. Faux recounts how he spent the entire night researching
3. ↑ Eclipse: Legacy of the Slayers, Chapter 2, Part 1. Faux goes to Club Yorokobi and is confronted by August
4. ↑ Eclipse: Legacy of the Slayers, Chapter 2, Part 1. Faux and Busco make a deal.