[🔥] ~ Gideon Coal

Name: Gideon Nathaniel Coal, Friends call him Gid, associates call him Gideon Age: 39 Gender: Cisgender male Sexuality: Bisexual Species: Fire Genasi, humanoid Body: Beefy, large, broad shoulders, buff, incredibly tall

Appearance: Gideon Coal is a large 6’8” male fire genasi. He has red skin and dark brown hair, beard and mustache that appears to have flames at the tips. His hair could be described as "charcoal with, like, glowing embers weaved throughout", and "the roots and bits of the hair are glowing...like the end of campfire", where it's mostly bits of "dark black, but then there's still some of that glowing ember". He wears a simple, dirty white shirt, black trousers, and red suspenders and boots. He has two large manacles on his forearms with long, heavy chains bound to each one. He has black eyes with yellow sclera, and a pair of scarlet horns protruding from his forehead.

Personality: Gideon is a very confident man with a fiery personality who is not afraid to speak his mind. He is proud of his fighting prowess and never backs down from a fight, especially when taunted. He’s quite the ladies man; he is bound by a fey pact marriage to three women, but has had a "crossbow wedding" to at least five others, whom he subsequently ran out on. Gideon has a deep dislike of hobgoblins and is still affected by the trauma of his time as their prisoner. He is adamant that he will not be captured again, often saying things like "I broke out of prison, I'm not going back." Due to his time imprisoned, Gideon doesn't let anything stop him from having a good time because he considers life to be fleeting, knowing that it can be snatched away at a moment's notice. He lives life in the moment, not worrying about his responsibilities or the consequences to his actions. Gideon fights to protect his freedom, the people he cares about, and for fun. While not necessarily book smart, Gideon is a lot more clever than he lets on and is quite proficient with mechanical engineering and other hands-on skills.

Background: Gideon is from the prairies of the continent of Yona. He was an only child raised by a single dad, his mother being an efreeta, and had a relatively average childhood. Gideon describes his father as a good man, but tough and distant because of work; one of the only happy memories he has of him is when his dad taught him how to build a motorbike as a teenager. It was one of the rare few times they were able to spend time together "like that". At eighteen years old, a hobgoblin war host raided and razed his town, burning his father alive and imprisoning Gideon. As the hobgoblins' prisoner, Gideon was forced to fuel their magitech train for ten years. On the tenth year as their prisoner, he reengineered his shackles to escape and went on the run, often resorting to crime to get by. He eventually met up with Kremy Lecroux, who helped Gideon hone his criminal skills while keeping Gideon hidden from the hobgoblin force that was still after him. In return, Gideon acted as a bodyguard and companion for Kremy. For at least the next eight years, Kremy and Gideon ran various cons. Eventually, the two met Morning Frost and Gricko Grimgrin. The four of them worked at Kremy's carnival together, Gideon designing the shoddy rides and rigged games at Carnivàle Lecroux. During his time at the carnival, he accidentally caused at least two clowns' deaths, which include:

• Curly the clown, by accidentally mistaking the paint thinner for alcohol and drinking it due to Gideon mistakenly swapping the two bottles. Later on, this is changed to Curly drinking lethal quantities of the wood alcohol Gideon uses to get rid of the paint, and varnish off of backdrops.
• Chuckles, by punching him in the body so hard he died. Gideon initially claims Chuckles had an unrelated, fatal seizure after he punched him, though he doesn't maintain this charade consistently.