Horace Staunce

Rector

Viskr of the Dragon
Hatar of the Ananasi
Kookyangua of the Damhán
Anomia of the Colony of the Inert Basin

Administrator of the Staunce Educational Reform Facility

Description


Homid
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 187 lb.
Ethnicity: Hispanic (light-skinned enough to pass as Caucasian)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Short simple brown-gray
Clothing: Black business formal
Comportment/Cadence: Threatening
Distinctions: An old and distinguished gentleman that seems to loom over all
Supernatural Qualities: none
Accoutrements: Light jewelry
Traits: Appearance 2; Cunning 5, Obedience 2, Wisdom 2

Lilian
Height: 7'10"
Weight: 410 lb.
Eyes: Black
Hair: Short black bristles on abdomen
Distinctions: Two scarlet marks on his thorax indicate Rank
Supernatural Qualities: Other than he's a massive and horrifying spider-man hybrid, with a lower body as a gigantic thick-legged spider, the top half a chitinous human torso, eyes spidery, hair pin-like bristles over his scalp
Traits: Appearance 0; Delirium; Cunning 5, Obedience 2, Wisdom 2

Pithus
Height: 8'1"
Weight: 447 lb.
Eyes: Black (spread over face, not grouped together)
Hair: Short black bristles on abdomen
Distinctions: Two scarlet marks on his thorax indicate Rank
Supernatural Qualities: Other than he's a massive and horrifying mouse spider the size of a small horse?
Traits: Appearance 0; Delirium; Cunning 5, Obedience 2, Wisdom 2

Crawlerling
Height: 1"
Weight: 1 oz.
Eyes: Black
Hair: Short black bristles on abdomen
Distinctions: Two tiny scarlet marks on his thorax indicate Rank
Supernatural Qualities: The bulbous Chilean mouse spider in all its shiny, bristly, primitive glory...multiplied by the dozens, scores, and possibly hundreds. RUN!
Traits: Appearance 0; Cunning 5, Obedience 2, Wisdom 2

"Henceforth, your will shall bend before the awful truth of reality."

"For I am her Reproacher and Revealer. I am the Rector."

History


Date of Birth: January 3rd, 1944
Home: Santiago, Santiago Province, Chile
Family: Cristian and Elia Staunce (parents), Nora (younger sister)
Metamorphosis: Observed Injustice (middle class family, dad a doctor and mom a teacher, eventually arranged an exchange student program in college to Melbourne, Australia, and there during a wild frat party he encountered a vile gang-rape scene that didn't fill him with any kind of emotion at all, and he felt his humanity literally fall away, until he took Crawlerling and analytically and dispassionately watched the foulness in secret), 1964
Mentor: Joaquin Nápoles
The Test: Trial by Influence (Kumatai came for him but Queen guided him with direct telepathy away from them and out of Australia altogether: he returned to Chile and encountered an angry tiny Hatar man who served as mentor, and from him Horace learned the basics of Ananasi life)
Comrades: Lydia Navarro, Carina Merz, Hugo Downs, Dwayne Webber, Desiree Santos, Jezebel Blake, Haylee Reilly, Ashari Jimmerson, Brixley Wilkins, Doya Marais, Camella Kerrell, Viviana de Montenegro, Ia Mee Song, Kyndall Manning, Gianna Younger
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (didn't care for Joaquin, so left Chile for the USA, settling in Dallas, Texas, to study Viskr mysticism in a monasteric Tenere colony for many years)
Key Event #2: Treachery (targeted corrupt privatization over the next few decades, especially in education, manipulating witting and unwitting humans and at one point a fomori witch)
Key Event #3: Treachery (then the Queen ordered him to foil his Tenere neighbors' Viskr efforts that sought to build up healthy public education facilities, including the works of his newer mentor, Lydia, so he outright refused the Queen's bidding; she promptly stripped him of rank and renown)
Key Event #4: Treachery (he left Dallas entirely for New Orleans post-Katrina, and set up his disciplinary reform school for girls, building a herd and unwitting candidates/guinea pigs for his "remedial" spirituality)
Transition: Shift in Purpose (he began to amass students, and sank resentfully into an anti-feminist mindset, punishing his students more and more ruthlessly, even the few Kin he discovered among them)

Sylie


Location: Secret "maintenance" level of Staunce Educational Reform Facility
Structure: Bunker
Stock: Lots of random funnel-styled webbing and concrete rubble
Traits: none

Significant Others


Names: Jezebel Blake, Haylee Reilly, Desiree Santos, Carina Merz, Camella Kerrell, Viviana de Montenegro, Ia Mee Song, Kyndall Manning, Gianna Younger, Ashari Jimmerson, Brixley Wilkins, Doya Marais, Rakel Fontaine, 2012
Nature: Volatile

Nurse Carina



Jezebel



Haylee



Desiree



Camella



Viviana



Ia



Gianna



Kyndall



Ashari



Brixley



Doya



Rakel



Weakness
Disciplined


He's been warned about intransigence before. It was a serious warning but the Queen shall not hesitate to destroy him if he denies her again.

Likelihood of Corruption


High.

Hatars often ride that whirlwind already, but he's wandered off campus more than most.

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