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Basics

• Name: Alecto Circe Carrow
• Birthdate: 30th June, 1956
• Citizenship: English by birth, Greek by maternal descent
• Current residence: Mid-level apartment in Grindylow Gardens (housemate open)
• Blood status: Full (Carrow family fortunes have been occasionally topped up with enterprising non-pure blood)

Physical

• Height/weight: Short/a touchy subject (5'3"/around 57kg)
• Hair/eyes: Black/blue
• Manner of speech: No elocution lessons or gentle upbringing has filed the rough patches off Al's voice. She tends to be loud and unmodulated, her voice thin with a bit of raspiness and an edge of southern London in her accent. She makes a point of speaking plainly, and isn't afraid of harsh language unless in very respected company.
• Manner of dress: Prefers Wizarding in the Greek tradition - loose drape, and arms generally bare, with large wraps in winter - and tends towards dark colours and patterns. She likes to accessorise, and earrings, necklaces, rings and bracelets are common. Her nails are always painted (usually black) and despite her height (or lack thereof) she almost never wears high heels.
• Physical description: Older male relatives have described her as a "cuddly little armful", which Alecto hates. She does, however, have nice curves and not much height. The darkness of her mother and the paleness of her father create a stark contrast in her looks. She might be considered pretty by those with an unorthodox taste, with a big mouth (and lots of teeth, especially when she grins or snarls), finely drawn brows and the sort of ice-blue stare that goes straight through you. Her thick black hair waves a little, but Al keeps it cut off just above her shoulders and dragged back out of her face one way or another. She strides rather than walking, demands rather than asking, and her default facial expression is just a bit belligerent. But she has a beautiful, blooming, wild grin.
• First impression: Challenge. (Dark and bold, chin up, gaze direct.) And possibly, "what big teeth you have, grandma".

• PB: Fairuza Balk
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Personal

• General personality: Alecto is a creature of abundant insecurities, uncertainties and bitter wishes, but she's long ago hidden them away behind the illusion of bullet-proof armour in the form of confidence, independence and belligerence. The best defence, after all, is a strong offence, and Alecto believes in pre-emptive strikes. She's always wished she was more dainty, more ladylike, more pretty and feminine, but knowing she never would or could be, she stomped down hard on those wishes and went wilfully in the opposite direction, devoting herself to being "one of the guys" and revelling in dirt and violence. Anxious about what people think of her, she declares loudly that she doesn't give a fuck. Worried about being considered weak or silly, about people laughing at her or looking down on her, she gets up in their faces first. Like a nervous dog, she's prone to bite at the slightest provocation, real or perceived, and she'll nurse grievances for a long time. She doesn't so much hate Muggles as she adheres to a "might is right" philosophy, and if Muggles can't defend themselves from Wizards, they don't deserve autonomy. Though she is actually a coward in the face of her own pain, she absolutely will not back down in front of witnesses.

So Alecto could be considered at best prickly, and at worst a bully or an agitator. With those who she'd consider friends - mostly boys, given her rampant disdain for "girliness", and mostly the sort of vindictive sods who went straight into DE ranks - she can be much more cheerful, even though her nervousness is still apparent. She laughs quick and loud, wise-cracking and shit-slinging with the best of them. It's sort of another breed of competition, and she can't lag behind or be thought lacking. In fact, the only time Al actually relaxes is when she's tinkering around with potions alone.

In the past six months or so - in fact, since the arrest and death of Roman Selwyn - Alecto has exhibited greater restraint about her outspokenness and general attitude. In someone else, it might be tempting to term it "sensibleness", but this is, after all, Alecto. So it isn't; it's more that she's faintly terrified of becoming an inconvenience and being cast off as well. After all, Roman was even pure, and it didn't save him. (She'll deny it to her last breath. All of it.)

• Strengths and weaknesses: The weaknesses are easier to label, and have been her downfall on more than one occasion. Her temper flares like a forest fire: easily, quickly, unexpectedly and dangerously. And once angry, her self-control - never brilliant to start with - more or less disappears. She has difficulty not lashing out, verbally or even physically, even if she knows it's unhelpful or dangerous. Moreover, she nurses grudges for a long time, and will go out of her way for vindictive revenge long after the initial slight. And finally, she has a tendency to boast in order to impress those whose approval she craves, inflating her prior achievements but mostly in the area of biting off more than she can chew; she takes on tasks that are occasionally beyond her and will not ask for help.

Surprisingly often, however, she does actually manage to achieve what she's declared she will do, often by sheer stubborn perseverance. Her pathological fear of appearing weak or ineffectual gives her enormous reserves of determination and resolve. She can actually get through things on sheer belligerent willpower.

For all her competitive nature, Alecto is strongly and viciously loyal to those who have earned a place in her mental list of the worthy - primarily her family, and selected senior DEs. She would never ever even consider betrayal of those people. This could be either a strength or a weakness, depending on circumstances.

• Mental health: There's a good deal of anxiety in Alecto, but it manifests as anger rather than panic. She can channel her rage into steely resolve, but pushed too much she does have an impulse control problem. Her anxieties and anger prevent real intimacy.

Relationships

• Relatives:
Father - Derek Faustus Carrow
Mother - Pyrrha Eris Kaklamanis
Brother - Amycus
• Relationship with family: Alecto loves her parents, and is a good and dutiful daughter. She obeys her father, but is closest with her mother, who is herself a strong-willed, unapologetic (and short) witch. After she was fired, both relationships became chilly with disapproval from the parents' side. In recent times, a thawing - greater on the maternal side than the paternal - has taken place, and Alecto is at least on terms with her parents. Alecto's relationship with her younger brother Amycus is endlessly complicated, encompassing both suspicion and trust, sympathy and antipathy, reliance and competition. There is no one she is more protective of, and no one she hates more to look weak in front of.
• Sexuality: Straight, and a bit rough.
• Significant other: Significant? No. She's been known to have an insignificant other from time to time.
• Children: Fuck no!

Educational

• School: Hogwarts
• Years: 1967-1974
• House: Slytherin
• Achievements: None that were officially recognised
• NEWTS: Potions (O), Divination (E), DADA (E), Charms (A), Herbology (A)

Occupational

• Occupation: Junior apothecary at St Mungo's. Again.
• Previous jobs, if any: Shop girl at Desdemona's Altar; junior apothecary at St Mungo's.

The War

• How is your character involved in the war? An active, loyal, eager (if junior) minion in the circles of the Death Eaters. She specialises in hallucinogens, which can be useful aides to Imperius and other efforts, and also maintains useful contact with much of Knockturn's generically maleficent population (useful patsies, sources, assistants and sub-contractors).
• Will your character die during the next year? No.

Overall History

• Family/childhood: The once proud and shining Carrow name has, over the centuries, become quietly tarnished as the dwindling Carrow fortune required the enlivening of the bloodline with some less-than-pure - but always wealthy, talented and thoroughly respectable - specimens. This line eventually produced Derek, who was thoroughly encouraged to marry the love of his life, as long as she was of excellent blood and, preferably, fortune. Both grandmothers and a variety of aunts were suggesting "nice" girls by the time he graduated, so it's little wonder Derek fled to the Continent for an extended tour with a couple of fellow Slytherin graduates. In Delphi, he met Pyrrha Kaklamanis, had a torrid fling, and barely managed to find out her full name before they were moving on to Istanbul. Amazingly, a couple of years later Derek, then working for International Magical Cooperation, ran into Ms Kaklamanis again (as part of the eternal bickering over the presence of the Elgin's Marbles collection, which also has a wizarding component, in the British Museum). They renewed their acquaintance, in a more sedate manner this time, and it turned out the Kaklamanis family was, while not precisely rich, of thoroughly acceptable blood. Hordes of female relations on both sides eventually agreed, and the marriage was contracted.

There may have been occasions over the years when Derek wished it hadn't been, for Pyrrha was as fiery as her name might have suggested. It's certainly never been boring, at least. She transferred to the British Ministry, and worked until she became pregnant three years later. Even then, she regularly ran fortune-telling parties from the Carrow house in Greenwich, which the aunts suggested was not quite appropriate, but since Pyrrha got shrill when bored, Derek turned a blind ear to his aunts and kept his wife happy.

Although Derek Carrow obviously wanted a son to carry on the name (he got one later, so it was all good) he was still delighted with his daughter, eager for her to be his little princess. Unfortunately, Alecto was a naturally boistrous child, and didn't do very well at being a little princess. When she broke, or tore, or muddied things, her father's disappointment and the disapproval of the mothers of other young girls with whom Alecto played were like knives to the child, and she responded by refusing to try any more. Better by far to not try than to try and fail. Instead, she took to playing with the boys alongside her brother, who occasionally said she couldn't because she was a girl, but mostly took that back after she thumped them. As long as she would dress nicely and behave prettily on important family occasions, Pyrrha was a strong advocate for her daughter doing as she pleased, and so Alecto became a bitter little tomboy, more by angry contrariness than actual wish.

• School/work: After a rather desultory mention of Gryffindor, the Hat sent Alecto into Slytherin, where she spent years getting used to at least getting along with girls (her roommates) and pestering the boys (once again) to be included in their gang. She always preferred to hang with the guys (and got increasingly annoyed that, despite her strident arguments, she was never allowed on the Quidditch team). But she did, through years of cohabitation, become accustomed to her female dormmates and even grow friendly with them to the point that she could indulge in being taught a few girly tricks. Consolidated by her mother at holiday time, Alecto did develop the shadow of a feminine side, or at least enough for her father to say she "looked quite nice", and for a few of the boys to notice that she was, actually, a girl. Intimidating as all hell, she still managed to have a boyfriend-type-relationship or two in her later years at school.

Generally slapdash at her schoolwork, classes were not Alecto's strong suit, and passing most of her OWLs required a lot of cribbing off (and threatening of) smarter folk. Exceptions were: Potions, for which Alecto had a strong inclination and at which she could be surprisingly perfectionist, snarling at many a partner for minor mistakes; Divination, for which she had a faint and erratic gift from her mother's side, which enabled her careless methodolgy to still yield accurate results; and DADA, skills sharpened by years of vicious practice amongst her group of friends, on others and each other. Those three, plus Charms (because she supposed she had to) and Herbology (necessary for anything involving Potions, though she hated it) were her NEWT classes.

After graduation, Alecto started her apprenticeship under the apothecary of St Mungos hospital, which was a useful place for a DE supporter to be, and her ambition was fulfilled shortly thereafter when she was recruited. She completed her two-year apprenticeship and got her license and a position as a proper junior apothecary at the hospital. In celebration, she moved out of home and into Grindylow Gardens, a perfectly respectable shared apartment. For the next 18 months, she worked in St Mungos as both apothecary and DE agent, gathering information that she passed on to her mentor, Rookwood. Unfortunately, in March 1978 she was discovered to have meddled with the medication of numerous patients without authorisation. After a brief investigation and hearing, her license was suspended and she was fired.

• Recent history: Alecto worked for a year at Desdemona's Altar down Knockturn Alley, making some money on the side dealing in not-precisely-prescription potions. Her disgrace at St Mungos was good neither for familial relations - both her parents were angry with her, her father more so than her mother - nor her status amongst the Death Eaters. Seething over just about everything, she vaguely intended to open her own black apothecary and seer shop down Knockturn upon being able to resit for her license. By the time the day came, however, her fellow mentee and sworn enemy (really) Roman Selwyn had pissed off the wrong people, been arrested, and summarily executed by the Death Eaters. Concerned now most of all with making herself useful (hopefully indispensible), Alecto instead applied to return to St Mungos. Due to war shortages in staff and increases in demand, they took her back, though she's watched closely.

Alecto was involved in the Imperiusing of the former Minster Trimble, the ambush and assassination of Newt Scamander, the attack on Hogwarts, and the deaths of the McCormacks and the Bells.

Basics

• Name: Gideon Ignatius Prewett
• Birthdate: December 5th, 1954
• Citizenship: Citizen of the United Kingdom, though he doesn't precisely have a passport
• Current residence: A quirky and on-the-small-side house in Screechsnap Square, Hogsmeade, with Fabian
• Blood status: Pure, but he doesn't much care

Physical

• Height/weight: 5'9/145lbs (more like 140, but he cops enough for being the scrawny one as it is)
• Hair/eyes: Dishwater brown/brown
• Manner of speech: Gid waffles. He uses a lot of words, and big ones at that, in a lazy and relaxed style with a faint Gloucestershire burr. He likes language patterns (assonance, puns, but NOT rhyme) and interspersing swearwords with polysyllabic monstrosities. Though he never says "um" or "er" or other gap-fillers, he uses meaningless strings of words to fill time while he's thinking about what he actually wants to say. It gets worse when he's nervous, but when he's angry he gets curt and clipped or entirely close-mouthed.
• Manner of dress: Simple, uncluttered but a touch scruffy. Gideon likes: shirts, dress pants, waistcoats, plain robes. He does not like: jeans, frills, scarves, sandals, fastening his robes or tucking in his shirts. Generally his clothes appear to be nice pieces, with good fabrics and tailoring, but looked after and put on by a bachelor with his head permanently in the clouds. At least with his range of neutral colours nothing ever actually clashes. It's just dull.
• Physical description: He is actually the older twin, alright? He just looks younger now and then because he doesn't have one of those healthy outdoor occupations that would put muscle on his frame and squint-wrinkles on his face. The twins are, by genetics, small and lithe, and since Gideon's daily exercise consists of the walk to work, his resemblance to a stick is not neglible: skinny arms, slim hips, legs the uncharitable might term "scrawny". He's pretty pale from his indoor lifestyle, and yes he does still sort of have a bit of a dimple on his right cheek, shut up. The hair doesn't help with his "boyish skinny one" problem; it's cut off very short, a spiky uncontrollable inch long at most. (Originally courtesy of Fabian's midnight barbering efforts, but Gideon discovered shorter didn't get in his face and didn't collect dust and cobwebs and didn't even need to be combed as often, so he kept it.)
• First impression: Mr Mostly Average. Gid's usually overlooked, unless he's talking.

• PB: Cyrille Thouvenin (short-haired)
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Personal

• General personality: It would be inaccurate, though perhaps not unfair, to call Gideon "vague" or "easily distracted". He's neither - he concentrates 100% on things, considering them thoroughly and rationally. It's just that the things that he's concentrating on may not be the same things those around him are currently talking about. His thought process is also ordered and rational, it just might not be proceeding along the same sequence of references as anyone in the room. Gideon knows a lot about a lot of things, and his associations can be oblique. He's also always - always - interested in learning more about just about anything. Once his mind is fixated on a certain subject, theory or train of thought, it can't be shifted with a crowbar. He'll hijack conversations, he'll read all night and forget to eat, he'll write four feet on emotional versus ethical motivations in the work of Dostoyevsky when he should have been writing two feet about Goblin Wars.

Which isn't to say he's autistic about it. If smacked back to reality - frequently literally and by Fabian - Gideon will get on with the business at hand, be that study, cooking, work or chatting up that fit blonde he's been ogling all night. When it comes down to everyday, Gideon is about as laidback as they come; he's cheerful, he's happy with whatever, he's friendly and he's accepting. If Gid is getting short with you, that is it. Prepare for a bollocking of epic proportions, because he has put up with absolutely all he can and you have reached the end of the world's longest tether. (It can be a pretty good show; just ask Fabian.)

As well as the written and spoken word, Gideon loves problem-solving, from the small (cryptic crosswords and other puzzles) to the downright huge (how do we solve a problem like Maria Voldemort). There is, he believes, always a solution, it just might not be what you expected. He brings all of his diverse knowledge to bear, and applies it in irregular and abstract ways, attacking it with rational logic and letting it simmer in his subconscious, but absolutely not giving up until he has something.

He also loves music, of all types, breeds and genres. His voracious appetite for it crosses time and race divides. It's the one muggle thing he knows anything about, and the initial reason he was anti anti-Muggle sentiment. Basically, as he puts it, Bach was a Muggle, Elvis was a Muggle, Joy fucking Division were Muggles, so bollocks to the lot of you...

• Strengths and weaknesses: Gideon knows a lot, about a lot of things. He's read books about just about everything under the sun, and he has the sort of memory that will, eventually, dredge up what he read in that one book one time, though it may occasionally be thirty minutes later and in the middle of a conversation about something else entirely (which won't stop him shouting it out). That said, he also has the sort of brain that makes the odd connections, the left-field observations, the completely unexpected suggestions. He thinks laterally, abstractly and creatively, which makes him an unexpected opponent (he'll do things and use spells others wouldn't think of) and the sort of person who makes people's head ache at chess (therefore a useful addition to strategy sessions).

On the negative side... well, he can occasionally be more than a little vague. OK, sometimes he's completely disconnected from reality. Sometimes he barely even takes in what's around him, which can be especially a problem when what's around him isn't, say, the Three Broomsticks but is DE country with hostiles closing in, and he doesn't always distinguish between the two. Not to mention he's completely hopeless at smalltalk most of the time, and (more importantly) being physically surprised. Intellectual surprise represents no issue, and is in fact welcome to a guy who lives for the new concept or mental challenge, but being physically leapt out at... well, it leaves him flummoxed for a good few minutes.

• Mental health: Gid's about as stable, healthy and normal as they come. Some people might make disparaging comments, but it's not that he's not all there, he's just preoccupied.

Relationships

• Relatives:
Father: Charles Prewett - Head of the Improper Use of Magic office
Mother: Sarah Prewett - stay-home mother who discovered hobbies when her children discovered independence
Big (bossy) sister: Molly, now Mrs Weasley
Younger (by 15 minutes but it's a very important 15 minutes) brother: Fabian
• Relationship with family: Charles and Sarah were pleasant, well-adjusted parents, who paid attention to their children (too much so, sometimes) and dispensed love and punishment as appropriate. Gideon's relationship with his father was marred by arguments at the end of his 6th year at Hogwarts over Gid's priorities and lack of direction. In the years since, as often as Charles has said that he's "just happy for you boys to be happy", Gideon has still felt like he's letting the old man down. When he joined the Order, he felt he'd finally found something he really felt passionately about, something to DO, but he couldn't tell Charles, because that could put him in a tight spot at work. Gideon loves his mother, but finds some of her hobbies rather bizarre. And while obviously twin boys exist to torment their older sisters, Molly actually taught the twins half the mischief they know, and they sort of adore her. Gideon finds it a little disorienting that this strange Molly with a passel of children is the same one who taught him how to climb out his bedroom window, but has lots of fun playing uncle to little Bill, Charlie and Percy. (The New Twins, as Gid calls them, are too small to be interesting yet.)
• Sexuality: Straight, and a leg man all the way. Muggle miniskirts? BRILLIANT. Mostly, though, he likes girls he can actually talk to (who don't roll their eyes and walk away mid-sentence, he means) and girls with something to say.
• Significant other: For most of 1974 and 1975, Gideon was involved with a lively ex-Hufflepuff called Esmerelda Kirkaldy. He hasn't dated anyone seriously since he broke up with her.
• Children: There was one claim, but he's pretty sure she was joking. Or crazy.

Educational

• School: Hogwarts
• Years: 1966-1973
• House: Ravenclaw
• Achievements: Not actually failing any external exams. (No, really, it was an achievement.)
• NEWTS: Transfiguration (O), Runes (E), DADA (E), Charms (A), History (A), Arithmancy (A)

Occupational

• Occupation: Junior librarian at the Lestrange Library
• Previous jobs, if any: Obscurus Books; the Broken Spine

The War

• How is your character involved in the war? Active member of the Order of the Phoenix. Gid's involved in surveillance through his work and is one of the Order guards of Hogsmeade, along with Fabian and Aberforth. He also writes propaganda.
• Will your character die during the next year? Yes!
• If yes, please give some details on how/when you'd like this to occur: Like a hero, side by side with Fabian, taken down by five DEs? *g* My preliminary thoughts have been that, if the Prewetts are Order guards on Hogsmeade - or even if they're not, they'd still defend it - then perhaps their deaths could be related somehow to an incident or attack there. I'm not committed to anything, and am willing to be included in any other plots that may benefit from a bit of extra pathos. (I'd like to have time to enjoy playing him first, please.)

Overall History

• Family/childhood: The Prewett family home is in the wizarding community at Tutshill, Gloucestershire. It was there that Charles Prewett (Gryffindor alumni; at that stage possessed of a promising young career in the Improper Use of Magic department) and Sarah Macmillan (Ravenclaw; who everyone agreed was breathtakingly beautiful in a white veil), two charmingly everyday purebloods, settled after a completely dull, boring and ordinary courtship, engagement and wedding. There they proceeded to have a perfectly delightful home with a perfectly charming garden and produce a perfectly perfect daughter. And, four years later - around when young Molly was really starting to run around and get into trouble and they were wondering what they were getting themselves into - twin boys. Eek.

Major influences in Gideon's early years were: Molly, who did horrible things to them but also taught them neat tricks and got into hideous trouble with them; and the various bookcases scattered around the Prewett home. Anyone looking for Gideon after the age of about 6 was most likely to find him sitting at the base of a bookcase. (His favourite was the one at the top of the stairs, which led to a lot of tripping over him and related yelling.) And, of course, there was Fabian. Though they have never been inseperable, frequently going their own way and doing things in their own manner, there has always been the certainty that Fabian is there. Somewhere. Providing another perspective to Gideon's view of the world.

• School/work: Molly had told the twins all about Hogwarts and how great it was and how much trouble you could get into and how Gryffindor was the best house. Then they bollocksed it up by being sorted into Ravenclaw. It was certainly the best house for the curious pair, though they never really presented as archetypal 'Claws. While Gid is obviously very smart and very well-read, he's always been completely and utterly independent in terms of subject matter, with the result that he's never done well in classes unless by some fluke his current interest and today's class align. It's likely that by the time he got to that class, he's already read the required and extra material, possibly two years ago, but today, he's more interested in something else. Gideon managed to make his way through school without ever actually failing anything drastically by having an excellent memory, and by judicious shepherding of his attention to the important points by his brother. Indeed, much worldly direction-giving has been provided by Fabian over the years, including the conception and execution of pranks. Fabian is the instigator, and Gideon the enabler. (i.e. Fabian comes to Gideon with an idea for mayhem, and Gideon figures out how to make it work. He loves it. It's like problem-solving and application of knowledge and it's a real buzz to see his solutions work just like he hoped knew they would.)

It was also at school that Gideon discovered people as sources of new and interesting information and theories. Arguments, debates and conversations could sometimes be even better than books (though he still feels a little blasphemous about that thought) and the Ravenclaw commonroom was an excellent place for all-night homework-obscuring rambling discussions on everything from magical theory to the problems in the Tutshill Tornados playbook. Speaking of which, Gideon has been a Tornados fan since birth, and loves the sport in general, though he doesn't play (all that practice? waste of good reading time). He always went out to cheer for Ravenclaw, though admittedly usually took a book with him.

End of sixth year Gid had his talking-to from his father regarding direction, priorities, what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-life, etc. Which actually panicked him a little, because... well, he didn't know. What he wanted to do was find out everything - everything - but now that it was pointed out he sort of saw how that wasn't precisely going to pay the bills. In the next couple of years, he was prone to more melancholy and thoughtfulness, his usual distracted theorising interrupted by spates of trying to figure out what he was going to do. He graduated with no real answers. He knew he didn't want to go into the Ministry, though, nor Gringotts, nor St Mungos. After his few attempts at tutoring, teaching seemed a bad idea. Lacking better ideas, he found himself a job at Obscurus Books, which would have made him reasonably happy if not for that feeling that he was letting down Dad and, somehow, himself.

• Recent history: Still, he puttered away at that for a while, as Mum became crazy (belly-dancing!) and the twins decided they needed to move out of home right now. (Mum was nervous about her baby boys in London, so they moved to Hogsmeade.) Eighteen months later, Gideon got fired from Obscurus for a variety of reasons, including reading the merchandise rather than selling it, and arguing about the content of books going to print. Fabian got him a job at the Broken Spine, which sort of flabberghasted Gideon, who hadn't quite realised the extent of his brother's shady connections.

It wasn't long after that that Fabian's shady connections again paid off, this time with an introduction to the Order. Gideon took to it with alacrity, and realised that this was a vocation, something he really believed in and wanted to do. Esme, his girlfriend of some 16 months, didn't understand why he was suddenly distracted (even more so than usual) and for a variety of reasons, Gideon couldn't bring himself to trust her enough to let her in on the secret. That was the death knell for the relationship; it was just two months of slowly breaking up after that, an utter fucking mess that only gave him more motivation to concentrate on Order stuff.

A little over a year ago, a position as junior librarian became available at the Lestrange Library, and with Order approval, Gideon went for it. His pure blood helped him get the position, and he's since skimmed tiny tidbits of useful info, though he's never going to be able to infiltrate anything serious with Molly's marriage staining his purity. (Gideon thinks Arthur's great; one more reason for his devotion to the Order.) Working in that purist environment sometimes gets on top of Gideon; in the past six months he's had bouts of severe grumpiness, white-hot ire or depression, most of which Fabian has witnessed or weathered. All of which have just made him more determined to fight.