Feste
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| Feste | |
| [[Image:|200px|Feste]] | |
| Code Name | Feste |
| Real Name | Unknown (Andruw Nisse) |
| Creator(s) | Per and Helen Nisse |
| Serial Number | Unknown |
| Faction | Irregulars |
| Function | Everyman |
| Primary Specialty | Shakespearean Foolery |
| Secondary Specialty | Getting in Trouble |
| IC E-Mail | tosk@freemail.net, thefool@irregulars.net |
| Divisions | Fashion Police |
| Weapon | Hammer of Indiscriminate Justice |
| Weapon Type | Blunt |
| Buster | Royal Blue and White |
Feste is a giant weirdo.
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Basic Information
"I have never been wise."
Andruw Nisse is a man of many faces. To the public, he is Feste, a manic, self-proclaimed 'Shakespearean Fool', known as much for his often cryptic wit and antic revelry as his ability to weasel his way into the pockets of the rich and powerful, entertaining and selling information on the side. To the criminal underworld, he is Skald, rogue tattoo cyborg, former oyabun, and traitor to the Crime Council. To those with the resources, he is Eskil Sorensen, Swedish graduate of the Oxford School of Law, a young barrister known for his effortless style of defense and currently spotless record. No matter which face he presents, Andruw is a man with a very colorful and complicated past, filled with more intrigue and secrets than he will ever let on, including the one that tells why he split himself into pieces to hide from the rest of the world. Though he is no true master of disguise, he has an odd knack for ingratiating himself into many different social circles, maintaining the multiple lives as men with different friends, jobs, and allies, but the same face. Rumors surround his dealings both with the former director of Interpol and his former business partner, Glyde Loath, whom he has recently abandoned for the Irregulars.
History
Origins
Born in 2189 to Per (a fisherman) and Helen (a seamstress) Nisse in the city of Oslo, Norway, Andruw Nisse differed from the average child in his family's income tax bracket only in that he worked with his father in his family's ancestral fishing business, consuming most of his spare time, and he professed an intense love of acting and Shakespeare, both from an early age. Raised in Trondheim, the young Andruw learned to work hard and well, to always be honest, to rely on himself, and to have practical dreams. When he showed exceptional intelligence in his schoolwork, his father began to urge him into his family's other ancestral business: working with the Hansa Trading League of which the fishing business was a part. When Andruw turned 16, Sigma and his Mavericks began their tour of Europe, and the forward-thinking Nisse clan decided not to wait for the renegade soldiers to reach Norway. They moved, as if in a great caravan, to Cardiff, where the Hansa also maintained offices. Per, Helen, and Andruw went instead to London, where it would be easier for them to find work while still staying close to the rest of their family. With his father having to shift gears, Andruw was urged even more strongly to do well in school, get a degree in international business, and work for the Hansa. Little did Per Nisse realize that Andruw had been doomed to his fate nearly from the beginning. From the first time small Andruw, only barely able to understand the English his Shakespearean idols spoke, saw a play, he was hooked. He rarely spoke of his aspirations to his pragmatic father, whom he was certain would never understand, but he always dreamed of getting on stage, speaking those magically charged words, at the center of a world of wonder and pageantry. He began to sidetrack from the path he'd been pushed toward in high school, as more opportunities were available to him in London than had been in Trondheim. Mostly mild-mannered Andruw quickly became a fixture in his school's theatre department, playing whatever role they'd see fit to give him. He learned to play the guitar, was an instant hit with the ladies, and met a girl named Tristan Blackwood, who taught him that to be shy was to be boring and the essentials of getting into trouble. (It involves explosives.) Andruw excelled in drama at the expense of some of his other subjects, but he did well enough in competitive theatre to make up for it. He dreamed of attending Oxford, and much to his surprise, where his own family could not cover the tuition, his relatives, some of them well-paid Hansa traders, provided for him. They hoped, of course, that he would change his mind, shed his dreamy eyes and go to the business school. He never quite made it that far.
The First Accident
Instead of following his budding acting career, Andruw entered studies in English literature, intent on becoming a Shakespeare scholar. He modeled through his undergraduate years to help make ends meet, joined a band, and otherwise was a normal university student at Oriel College. He loved studying the Bard, loved it to death. He was eager to see the land the great poet had lived in, and his professors were eager to feed the starved curiosity of such an enthusiastic student. While on the way back from a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, Andruw was caught up en-route by a surprise Maverick assault ultimately directed at the Monolith. As a bystander, Andruw was unfortunately placed to be in the way of either a particularly large soldier or a Ride Armor (he can't remember), resulting in a totaled car and a totaled Andruw. The damage was extensive; he nearly died on the table, but he managed to pull through. At the time, cybernetics were the only way to repair his broken body, several years too early for the beginnings of better biomedical solutions. He received implants that kept him together quite handily, indeed, perhaps more handily than most people, and were thankfully less obtrusive than most. He lived to return to his studies, but for a very long time, he had a crippling fear of small cars, and for an even longer time, Mavericks.
The Second Accident
After he recovered from his injuries and adjusted to his new way of life, Andruw returned to his studies, completing his BA and moving on to graduate school - which for him meant only moving across campus. He jumped back into the literary world with renewed aplomb, approaching his TA position with such vim and vigor that he jokingly became known as 'Assistant Professor'. Andruw had, as far as he was concerned, a great life - a passion, a girlfriend, a dramatic accident from which he had miraculously recovered, like he was in a novel. He even had a secret: his cybernetics. He was doing just fine, until he let that secret slip. The people who knew him were mostly not surprised and entirely unbothered. It was the people who didn't know him that were the problem. The newly outed cyborg became a target for homegrown Luddites, future Roundheads and Arcadians all. For a time, all he suffered were threatening letters in his box or obscene little pranks, nothing that truly worried him. Blinded by his optimism and idealist nature, it came to Andruw as a very great surprise when he was cornered in an alley by townie ruffians, the self-same Luddites who had come to prove they weren't all talk. They might have succeeded in killing the lanky Norwegian if not for the timely intervention of the police. He was rescued and taken to the hospital, though even today he cannot remember precisely what happened at the end. While in the hospital, Andruw fell into depression, battered by the notion that there were people who wanted to kill him. It was totally abhorrent to him to think so, and deprived of his voice, he turned to his old friend Shakespeare for solace and answers.
Moving Forward
From that day onward, Andruw adopted a cover persona that was an amalgam of characters fitting the archetype of Shakespeare's Fool, changing with ease his manner of speech and thoughts about people and adapting his approach, demeanor and even clothing to fit with this idea in his head of who the Fool would be. He postponed his studies and used what little money he had to begin erasing his past and building a new future, procuring black market cybernetics to better aid him in his quest. He set out on a mission to find a patron, someone who in the classical sense would pay him to be funny and insightful, and surprisingly, he did find one in the person of just-recently-appointed Director General Abernathy, who cultivated the strange and often shocking Fool into a valuable intelligence asset. The two of them became fast friends and often worked and played together. At the time of Abernathy's death, it was considered a substantiated rumor that the two of them were pursuing a relationship. The Fool became an information broker and a celebrity at the same time, finding friends in the unlikeliest of high places, from Kalinka Cossack to Elpizo to Glyde Loath.
Other
Patrons
These people have at some point in time been considered by Feste to be his patron, primarily through financial means:
- Abernathy
- Glyde Loath
- Daryn Luna
- Fianait
- Elpizo
- Epsilon (current)
Some may note that half of the people on this list are dead or missing in action.
Command Notes
From Abernathy: he si teh sex lololo
"He reminds me very much of Masquerade." - E.
Trivia
- Feste is from Norway, but claims London as his hometown.
- Feste also claims to be a lawyer, and indeed, he can often be found doing legal work for the Irregulars.
- Feste also claims to have adopted Daryn as his son.
- Feste also claims to actually have a daughter, or otherwise sometimes refers offhandedly to someone named Melissa.
- Feste enjoys cherries, Sharpie markers, and the power of Orange Clean.
