Appearance

Liam is a lean yet slightly muscular boy with an interest in attires that match his blonde, messy hair with faded out blonde tips and his yellow irises. You would not easily see him wearing other colours besides the sun bright yellow, orange, white or black and that's exactly what his favourite pair of clothing consists of. He's usually seen wearing his black jacket with golden details on his shoulders, upper arm and zipper with underneath a white blouse with yellow stripes over the button area and a black sleeveless shirt. He usually wears dark blue jeans and black sneakers to finish his outfit.

Liam listens to music often and is sometimes seen wearing his headphones with a lacrima implemented. His guild mark goes in the right side of his neck, slightly overlapping his collarbone so it isn't directly in his face, in an orange colouring

Magic

Liam has a special form of magic that he has been developing well in the years after his mother's death. Liam is able to copy someone's elses affinity for a few hours a day and use it his own during that time. He developed this kind of magic because he couldn't choose which affinity would cause his old man the most trouble, so he decided on all of them. The only downside he currently faces is that he can only contain one affinity currently and it will wear off the more he uses it. One powerful spell could cause the affinity to disappear within him and he can only use small spells other than the affinity that he has copied. If the affinity he uses is a body changing affinity, it will wear off quicker as well as it uses more ether and concentration from Liam. There it no limit to what kind of affinity Liam can copy, however, it's entirely possible Liam might copy an affinity he is not able to use at all due to his own incapabiity or due to the amount of ether he has already used.

Liam needs physical contact to be able to copy someone's magic. It doesn't matter if he touches someone or if he is being touched. In the first stages of his affinty, he would sometimes copy someone's affinity on accident but he has learned to only copy an affinity when he wants to. He has used almost every affinity available in Shessalie for the purpose of troublemaking but as Shessalie doesn't have many affinities available, he sometimes would go off to neighbouring towns or wizards that would stay in the inn. Yes, that means he has broken into rooms to touch people, in their sleep, for the soul purpose of copying an affinity.

Copying an affinity can tire Liam to some extend. He has been trying to deal with it and improve it as he copied a strong affinity once and was left with little energy to use it. It's currently unknown how much something like that will tire him.

Summary

Liam has lived in the town of Shessalie since the age of 12. Having lived with his caretaker in a small yet cosy house at the outer parts of town, he wasn't seen by the folks of the town often but he was infamous for the trouble he always caused. Even though Liam never left Shessalie, he knew a great deal of the outer world.

You see, Liam was born from a former noble that was unfaithful to his wife and made love to a woman from the city. It was a one-time only event, the noble couldn't contain the lust he had for her, and so he made her fall head over heels for him under a false name. They spend the night together and after the deed was done, the noble's attitude towards the woman changed significantly. The woman made many attempts to visit him at the inn he was staying at the time but was always send away because the name she was given by him, was not staying there.

They had made love only once but it was enough to make the young lady pregnant, something she only discovered weeks later. Fortunately for her, the former noble was back in the city and she ran into him while he was on his way towards important matters. He was angry, furious in fact, because this would mean she was going to deliver a child that could possibly ruin his reputation and his wife would surely leave him. That's when the young woman found out about his real identity. The noble demanded that she'd move to a small town, that she would not mention their affair to anyone and the child was not allowed to do anythin that could make people suspicious of him or have their eyes on him. If those demands were met, he would send a monthly fee to pay for their living.

That's how Liam lived his life until the age of 12, with his mother in a small town as a bastard child of a former noble. His mother never spoke ill of his father but didn't tell much about him either, leaving Liam with curiosity. When Liam's mother got terribly sick and was on the verge of leaving her son behind, she sent sir former noble a letter telling him about her health that was decreasing and begged to take good care of Liam. This letter was never answered. It was only weeks later when Liam's mother passed away. Liam left the town to meet his father that had never bathed an eye in his direction. At the von Howell manor Liam stated who he was towards one of the maids so he was let inside but left a train of confusion in the progress. Liam's father went to meet him as soon as possible but not for a proper meeting, it was to send him away as soon as possible. While being brought outside, he catched a glimpse of two of his supposed to be siblings. This was the first and last time Liam had met his father.

The next months were hard extremely for Liam as he lost his mother and was forced to move to Shessalie to live with an old lady he did not know. The old lady introduced herself as Emma, a retired maid that had served the von Howell family for a long time. She had volunteered to take care of Liam and for that he was grateful, but he was extremely angry as well. He had always wanted a father and he had rejected him, the realization of that was painful. Liam developed an "I-don't-care" attitude with a little bit or arrogance and felt nothing for the occasional letters he got from his old man to scold him. Liam realized that making trouble was the best way to annoy his dad.

And that's how Liam, as he got older, got infamous for his pranks and troublemaking throughout the town of Shessalie. His latest addition was getting cats caught up in trees.