Welcome

Hello there! You are now visiting a page dedicated the world-hopper character Laurence; it works as a sort of extension to his profile on Dappervolk, housing his beautiful art pieces, as well as some scattered bits of information.

art

To browse the gallery below, simply click to see the pictures in their full size and navigate through them (keyboard arrows and pressing Q to close the window should also work), you can hover over the thumbnails for each artwork's respective credits as well.

Is there more?

Yes indeed! To enjoy a little more freedom lengthwise, more details about him will be kept here. This guy has an already very long mileage that is constantly expanding, so most likely not all of his personal story, episodic adventures and personality will be featured here. Some things will be stated in a succint manner, others will be given some more context. Should be updated sporadically and little by little!

profile

Name: Laurence
Pronouns: He/Him
Age: 26 (estimated 19 upon arriving in Dappervolk)
Month: August (chose 08/08 to celebrate his birthday)
Species: World-hopper Animal (Goat)
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Good
MBTI: ENFP

miscellaneous

• The beings Laurence has animated, alchemized and adopted are referred to as his children (his lovelies, his little ones and similar); he's very firm about this, no matter what shape they might take. The one exception to this is Alcides, the Sunrise Celestial, who looked fairly older than Laurence back when he was brought to life; they have a strong (if oftentimes troubled) sibling relationship.
  
  
• He's a very loud, bold, confident, expansive person. A social butterfly who loves to laugh, to make others laugh, and who finds himself at the center of people's attention, drawing them towards him with a natural charm, rather than through conscious attempts.
  
  
• Nosier than the populations of a thousand small towns combined, he will go out of his way, sometimes to extreme extents, to find things out and help others, prompted or not.
  
  
• Strong moods paired with temperamentality leave no room for half-heartedness. He's unpredictable, and he doesn't miss an opportunity to respond in kind (sometimes beyond) when his spite is incited; he can well be petty.
  
  
• Has an almost unexplainable way to welcome himself into people's hearts, to earn their trust even when it seems most unlikely. He's not manipulative to their detriment, however; he's afraid of judgement and rejection, of being alone, and despite very rarely opening himself up in the same way (for reasons he will disclose even less), he's always glad to receive and cherish people's esteem.
  
  
• His sense of self-preservation is almost nil. He has been trying to be more mindful for the sake of his loved ones, though.
  
  
• Leading to intriguing perspectives, absurd, funny or fantastical situations, or as a magnet for all degrees of trouble, his logic only makes sense to him sometimes.
  
  
• Played too ambitiously with alchemizing, fiddling with the process by adding some external magic to it, which resulted in the Gentle Giant, a Mechanical Sea Nomad of colossal proportions named Passio. The creation was too much for him to sustain, as a consequence he spent around a month in a comatose state. When he woke up he took his time to recover and turned out fine, what he struggled most with was to recover his memories from ever since he'd arrived in Dappervolk (a great irony for a world-hopper, to say the least). He relied on Alcides to remember things and get back on track, although he suspects that something very important was kept secret from him. (And he's right about it, but they don't touch the subject.) Ever since, he has stubbornly perfected the process and created other three great serpentine children: Gysion, the Luminous Seashark, Acta, the Celestial Sea Serpent, and Tempest, another Mechanical Sea Nomad.
  
  
• Has once jumped out of a second-floor teahouse window to escape a date. He felt he couldn't meet the admirer's expectations of a stable life and that therefore the guy deserved better.
  
  
• The Politician Friend(TM) who knows people from all paths of life. Many, many people, everywhere. He's the kind to start conversation with strangers and make acquaintances in the most random of places.
  
  
• He's dyslexic, and much like for any other reason that could appear, he refuses to see a doctor to get some form of help. Relies heavily on his children and Halvel to read things for him, write letters, keep a schedule whenever needed, and so on. That, or he'll avoid certain situations (instead of talking about it or asking for help) with a lot of creativity.
  
  
• He does fine with basic math, however, counting things on his fingers if need be, which otherwise wouldn't allow him to be the outstanding seller and trader that he is.
  
  
• Another of his afflictions is restlessness. He has taken up crocheting to keep his hands busy and to help keeping his mind at ease. Makes things for himself and to gift to his family, and is gradually gaining more experience to advance with the craft.
  
  
• His children reside in two different locations - a farm he rents from a friend near Louise Hill, and Al's humble little house (also rented) in a settlement up the hills of Aviar Cove. He dreams of one day being able to build a large home where everyone can live together. He himself, however, wishes to quench his endless wanderlust by traveling all over the world until he truly is no longer able to; always making a point to return to his lovelies rather than one continuous journey, though.
  
  
• Laurence is obsessed with spicy food. Even so, his favourite flavour for sweets is coconut, but since it can be pretty rare to find in some places, his second favourite is anything cream.
  
  
• He also eats flowers of any kind. When gifted a bouquet, the only expected result is that he'll eat it, the one exception to this being sunflowers - they're his favourite, and he'll only eat their seeds.
  
  
• For reasons only probably explainable through a past life he can no longer remember, he has a very strong resistance to poisons, particularly from plants; he loves to scare the living soul of anyone who doesn't know of this beforehand by eating poisonous flowers and leaves in front of them.