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[faun_tumnus]

Player
Name: Alma
Preferred Pronoun: she/her
Contact: PM

Character
Name: Tumnus, Mr. Tumnus
Canon: Chronicles of Narnia
AU: NA

Pull-point: End of the film, after the departure of Lucy and siblings from Narnia and leading into Prince Caspian.

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Age: Several hundred years old, but still a young adult in faun years. He would be approximately 26 in human years.

Gender/Sex: Male

Appearance: PB: James Mcavoy

Tumnus is a faun and thereby not human. He has the torso of a man and the lower half of a goat; hooves, tail and all. His head is topped with a pair of horns and his ears are goat-like.

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History:

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again,
When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone,
Sits at Cair Paravel in throne,
The evil time will be over and done.

Tumnus is the first to literally bump into Lucy Pevensie when she arrives in Narnia. He learns that she is a Daughter of Eve; a human, a creature he has never before seen in his lifetime, but that he knows all about. He invites the little girl to his home for a cup of tea and to talk (as Jadis wants any humans brought to her).

While she warms herself the two talk about the land of Ward Robe, located in the kingdom of Spare Oom, before the conversation moves onto Tumnus' own past after Lucy spies a photo of another faun on his mantle. Tumnus, obviously upset, speaks of his father, a faun also born in the Age of Winter (the bespelled winter Jadis placed upon all of Narnia).

Jadis (the White Witch) took over the lands of Narnia from it's rightful lord and creator, Aslan some 900 years after its creation. Aslan was nowhere to be seen, and so her powers and control expanded. When Jadis placed the enchantment on Narnia that made it always winter and never Christmas, the citizens of Narnia revolted (Tumnus himself took part). Their leader was nowhere in sight, but this was not enough to thwart their attempts, however Jadis was too strong for them and the citizens were turned to stone.

Tumnus was terrified by the witch and her powers, and with Aslan nowhere to be found he was amongst many that bent to the will of and began to serve Jadis.

So, Tumnus (fearing for his life and worse), plays his reed pipes to hypnotize Lucy and lull her into an enchanted sleep with the intent to turn her over to the Witch. Startled and shaken by an image of Aslan in his hearth, the spell breaks and Lucy awakens. Tumnus begs forgiveness then helps her quickly escape.

After she is gone, Tumnus' is arrested and taken to Jadis' castle for a 'trial' and later encounters Edmund after he befriended Jadis. Tumnus is beaten and shackled in the dungeon and after his 'trial' (where he refuses to tell Jadis anything about Lucy) his is turned to stone and placed in her gardens.

He remains there until he is unpetrified Aslan and joins in the fight against Jadis and they win, the four children being crowned the rulers of Narnia.

Many years into their rule, the Pevensie children hear of the White Stag and it is said that whomever captures the stag will be granted three wishes. They accidentally cross through the wardrobe and reappear in the room in their home, the same age they had been when they first left and find that no more than an hour or two have passed. They cannot return to Narnia that way again.

Narnia's Golden Age ends and the Dark Age begins and Tumnus will not see his dear friend age again. When Lucy and Edmund return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace (in the novel/film Prince Caspian), Tumnus is long dead.

Personality:
As far as Fauns go, he can be rather bumbling, and his countless accidents and startlements tend to embarrass him -- at his worst, he is reduced to a stammering wreck. He is a creature of infinite apologies, oftentimes underestimating his own competence. Should either party survive their initial meeting with the Faun, however, one would find Tumnus to be quite a charming individual, winning the friendship and trust of those around him with relative ease.

He is terribly polite and proper, and you will rarely find him otherwise, even when he does venture out to meet with his more joyful brethren on the Dancing Lawn. After one hundred years spent alone in the Witch's frigid winter, he is much more comfortable resigned to solitude, although he does not particularly mind being interrupted -- especially if it is a certain Daughter of Eve coming to call on him.

Although initially he was quite a coward, the fateful meeting by the lamppost and his resulting friendship with young Lucy Pevensie has inspired in Tumnus a valor even he did not know he possessed. He will fight for the young Queen with nary a hesitation and will do so until he breathes his last breath.

Regarding the youngest of the Pevensie children, Tumnus has formed the strongest and most trusted friendship. Acting as both adviser and confidant to Lucy, Tumnus finds in himself a strength he never expected. He terribly regrets his initial betrayal in service of the White Witch and forever has the niggling sense that he did wrong by his young friend, no matter the amount of service or time dedicated to the 'good fight'.

Tumnus retains a terrible fear of witches from the time he was turned to stone by Jadis, the White Witch. He will, however, and did, go to war against the same woman in attempt to make way for a safe and just Narnia under the rule of Aslan.

He enjoys a quiet evening at home, nestled in a plush chair alongside the roaring fire in his hearth. A book preferred to a sword and a gentle laugh to a cry of war. He is, above all, a kind creature that would deem to be half the faun his father was; even though he has already proven to be on several occasions.

He loves Lucy Pevensie as a platonic soulmate, seeing in her all the hopes and aspirations of not just Narnia, but her own world of Spare Oom. He has missed her terribly since her disappearance those many years ago when she and her elder siblings dashed off to chase the White Stag into the forest, vanishing altogether from the land of Narnia. Desolate, but trusting Aslan, he hopes for her return, someday.

Abilities:
A determined fighter, Tumnus is able bodied with a sword if placed in his hand, though not as much as a truly trained fighter would be. He is more than capable of physically defending himself and unafraid to use his surroundings to their best advantage. He is a well-practiced and talented player of his Narnian reed pipes and can use them to put someone to sleep until they awaken in a natural manner. (The pipes are known to instill mixed feelings upon the listeners: urge to cry, dance, and sleep .. sleep always happens, but the other urges might as well)

Bulleted for your pleasure:
- good fighter (sword and hooves)
- super fleet footed and crazy good balance (yay, goat!)
- natural with reed pipes (can put others to sleep w/music and otherwise effect emotions); though as he will have to draw from Arda's own music now, this might be harder or not work as smoothly in the future
- he can hold his liquor unlike nearly any other species :), though he's had little enough chance or reason to do so

Inventory: An umbrella, a scarf, a parcel with books/paper/quill/ink, and a set of reed pipes

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