Briar Moss (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
growingwild) wrote2012-12-02 08:36 pm
growingwild) wrote2012-12-02 08:36 pm
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Personality
Briar is an easy-going, with a mischievous and cheeky nature. When he was younger in particular, he often indulged in things like playfully tugging on his foster-sisters' hair. Now as a grown man, he comes across as a a bit of a rascal who only 'nearly-respectable', rather than completely respectable. Briar can put on the charm, he can act completely casual and innocent, but there's often something about him that hints to his former life as street rat.
Briar is also very much a flirt, and a ladies man: he likes women, and they often like him back. But for all that Briar can go through women like James Bond, he very much respects them. He's always straightforward about the fact that he's only offering casual relationships, he makes sure that none of the women he sleeps with will become pregnant by taking a herb that makes him sterile, and if a woman isn't interested in him he'll consider them completely off limits and not approach them. Women are always people to Briar (even if their time in his life is short) and he treats them accordingly.
But despite his criminal upbringing, Briar has a very strong sense of right and wrong - although this sense doesn't always align up with the law. Briar certainly won't object to someone who steals or breaks the law because that's what they need to do to survive; but he absolutely will not agree with those who hurt others just to gain power, or for their own amusement, or just because someone doesn't have the power to fight back.
To his friends and family, Briar is incredibly loyal: he asserts that he would have rather died than join a gang that killed one of his friends, and he's risked his own life to save that of his teacher, Rosethorn. And even when he was arguing with his sisters, if they were in trouble he wouldn't hesitate to help them. And while he does try to hide it, Briar is someone who is very caring and compassionate.
Unfortunately though, Briar also has his fair share of scars. Growing up on the streets did leave Briar with some insecurities about his background - although as he grew older this bothered him less - and he never forgets his time on the street. And even after managing to escape the streets, he's lived through some traumatic experiences, including a war. That war has had a very big impact on Briar, leaving him with what appears to be post-traumatic stress disorder: he can't stand to return to Winding Circle temple anymore, because the sound of the temple bells reminds him of the war. And he also suffers from terrible nightmares, which also makes him hate to sleep alone.
Briar is also very much a flirt, and a ladies man: he likes women, and they often like him back. But for all that Briar can go through women like James Bond, he very much respects them. He's always straightforward about the fact that he's only offering casual relationships, he makes sure that none of the women he sleeps with will become pregnant by taking a herb that makes him sterile, and if a woman isn't interested in him he'll consider them completely off limits and not approach them. Women are always people to Briar (even if their time in his life is short) and he treats them accordingly.
But despite his criminal upbringing, Briar has a very strong sense of right and wrong - although this sense doesn't always align up with the law. Briar certainly won't object to someone who steals or breaks the law because that's what they need to do to survive; but he absolutely will not agree with those who hurt others just to gain power, or for their own amusement, or just because someone doesn't have the power to fight back.
To his friends and family, Briar is incredibly loyal: he asserts that he would have rather died than join a gang that killed one of his friends, and he's risked his own life to save that of his teacher, Rosethorn. And even when he was arguing with his sisters, if they were in trouble he wouldn't hesitate to help them. And while he does try to hide it, Briar is someone who is very caring and compassionate.
Unfortunately though, Briar also has his fair share of scars. Growing up on the streets did leave Briar with some insecurities about his background - although as he grew older this bothered him less - and he never forgets his time on the street. And even after managing to escape the streets, he's lived through some traumatic experiences, including a war. That war has had a very big impact on Briar, leaving him with what appears to be post-traumatic stress disorder: he can't stand to return to Winding Circle temple anymore, because the sound of the temple bells reminds him of the war. And he also suffers from terrible nightmares, which also makes him hate to sleep alone.