David Webber
From Changeling Venue
| Seeming | Beast Skitterskulk |
|---|---|
| Court | Autumn Court •••• |
| Freehold | pending |
| Player | Anthony McLoughlin |
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Overview
Name: David Webber
Titles: Diadem of Dire Silks
Seeming: Beast
Court: Autumn
Kith: SkitterSkulk
Freehold: Gainesville, Fl
Motley: TBA
Played by: Anthony McLoughlin, E-mail ant.cammy@gmail.com
Before Arcadia
Children should always be happy.
David was.
His mother with golden hair and a voice like an angel.
His father a stoic man of dignity and nurturing care.
Children should always be happy, but then
David never got that chance.
Dew Covered Webs, In Arcadia
After his mother checked under the bed, and in the closet and behind the dresser(monsters are clever, and you must check everywhere) he was tucked in to sleep with his favorite song, It made spiders not so scary. He drifted off to sleep singing of spiders and rain and water spouts. When he awoke, his room was covered in spiders. They covered every corner of the room, when he would scream, spiders flooded his mouth, they crawled all over him with tiny harry legs. At the far end of his bed stood the prettiest woman he had ever seen, He felt the pang of guilt to think she was prettier than his mother. She held out a helping hand with the faintest hint of a smile. He reached out for her hand, accepting the offer of help. She took him in her arms and walked toward the closet door. Looking back he could see ‘himself’ stand from his box of toys and lay down in his bed just as his mother came to check up on him. He still remembers screaming for his mother while he was carried deeper into his closet with thorns cutting and tearing his flesh and soul. She never heard him.
That’s when he came to truly know his keeper. The Queen With Eight Eyes. She was a tall onyx skinned woman, with long flowing robes of webs complete with cocooned butterflies twitching in fear and hope. She was awe-inspiring, she was terrifying. She ripped the nightmares of a thousand and one children and gave them life to torment him. And the day he finally found solace and safety in himself, she changed him into the spider from his nightmares. She summoned terrible storms so water drops would hang from her web filled domain. Tilled he saw his reflection in every drop, around every corner. He still called out to her, his mother. He dreamed of her long golden hair and her voice that cut the darkness and blanketed him in safety.
Up the Spout Again, Escape
The one day, David awoke to a quiet lullaby; he found the Queen’s domain empty. The storm clouds gone, the water drop mirrors gone, the 1001 nightmares gone, just an empty web. Fearful of what this could mean, David cautiously followed to the source of the song. He found the palace gates that over looked the entrance to the hedge. He had never been this close to salvation but now here he stood. However, fear paralyzed him, torn between hope and loosing it so quickly. Then he felt The Queen standing behind him. He could feel her cold breath on the back of his neck. “five years” was all he heard her say before he was running toward the hedge. The dream of his mother, her voice and her songs carried him through the thorns and vines and blood and nightmares.
He arrived to Gainesville, fl and soon came to learn that only a night had passed since his kidnapping. Twenty two years in Arcadia had changed him to a full grown man. His family remained unchanged. He found an impostor in his place. He couldn’t go home, he was truly lost.
Weaving Webs, Jewels and Friends
David took solace and care in a friend. He was the Autumn king. He taught David of the world, helped him become a teacher to the youth and even took David as a close adviser. When the kind became sick was when David's obsession with the Well of Eternity began, but to no avail, the king still died. He was expected to be king of autumn then, but passed the crown and leadership to Zoe, the newly arrived fairest from Atlanta, and remained as second of the Autumn court. He always preferred to assist a king or queen and spend his time studying wyld magic and crafting of magical gifts. A pursuit that could be called an obsession in recent months.
Friends, Enemies, and Others Met
Close allies with Zoe Edwards
Is in a Motley with Zoe Edwards, Marty Sullivan and one other Summer ogre.
Has been working on a special Token for each ruler in his domain as his show of fealty to them, gaining him favor
Strong member of the Autumn Court (4 or 5 pending approval rules for these)
(OOC - I am open to some connections, specifically for having crafted a token for you and am willing to endure application processes for such gifts. I am picky about personal ties outside of that but still open to the possibility. And enemies are always welcome.)
Quotes
"In the travel and passage of time, proven insidious is the Spider. Leery of it's patience and subtle machinations it's enemies never appear to be so. Moving little, it allows the common to be foiled within its web. Struggle as they might, the web serves only to sap their strength. In the truest meaning Mr. Webber is the spider content to be a maker of Kings and Queens, while they toil within the web of trust, he waits the ever patient and gracious host. Lingering only to strike when he deems fit. In this he is our greatest ally, and our most insidious enemy. Time is the only judge that will tell the tale of the Spider, let us hope he remembers who his allies are, and who will serve as his greatest enemies." - Aretas
"When I was a little girl, I was terrified of spiders. No matter how small or harmless, I was convinced that a spider would be the death of me. I killed as many of them as I could get a shoe on, and one I even crushed with a maple leaf. Not a single one was safe within my sight. Years went by and so much changed, and I finally reconciled my fear. Now I trust a spider with my life. I can only hope I deserve what I get, and not the other way around..." - Zoe Edwards
Rumors
It is said he will craft a personal token for anyone who brings him the untouched corpse of a fetch, from pieces of the fetch, and he will do such without a price.
It is said that Zoe and David are rarely apart. Some even say the spiders that crawl on her could be him.
David is seen being deep in conversation with a young boy often, though none can explain why, as the boy is a normal child at his school.
Some claim that David is still pursuing the Well to this day, though the reason they do not know. When asked about it, he always says that the Well is just a fairy tale.
Soundtrack
Unkle - Lonely Souls
Devils Never Cry
VAST - Cello Song
VNV Nation - Dark Angel
Theatre of Tragedy - A Distance There Is...
