Theron Aeter

Theron Aeter is a member of The Pack. Thanks to his mutation, he is mostly immortal. At one point he was bodyguard to Emperor Lucien and lover to Roséline Augustin, until the former's death during a coup.

Early life
Theron Aeter was born to two peasant farmers in a small village called Larinne, in Amarande. He had a brother, just over two years his senior. The two got on well and were very close.

Theron

Joining the City Guard
Theron also learnt how to read during this time

Vanguard
Aron Galhade,

It took just over a month for

Fighting the Coup
A month after the assassination, Theron was still living on the streets of Rianne, unsure what to do.

The Royalists were primarily funded by Lord Herno of Amettise, despite his Lordship

Felix Merle

At first Theron believed Felix was only in his high-up position in the rebels due to his brother's funding, but quickly found the man to be a brilliant strategist. They developed a snarky relationship, and soon considered one another close friends. Equally, Felix understood Theron’s feelings of being out of place as a Vanguard, as Felix was the bastard son of the former Lord of Amettise, and was the son of a kitchen maid.

Felix was the first among the to work out Theron was a mutant, and that he had not simply survived and escaped the throne room on the day of the assassination.

Capture
Theron was on a mission with Felix and two other members of the Royalists.

Upon seeing Theron's healing ability for the first time, the Protector made a comment about

For four days, Theron was tortured for information by the Protector and his interrogator.

After four days, Theron finally managed to make his first escape. When the interrogator turned his back on Theron, Theron dislocated his own hand to escape his bindings before suffocating and killing the interrogator with the whip he had been using to torture Theron. He then tried to make his way through the dungeon to find his taken items.

Unbeknownst to Theron, the reclaiming of the throne had just begun. So when Felix Merle was sent to find Theron,

Roséline's ascension
Theron refused to join Roséline's Vanguard, stating how he had failed. However, another reason was part of it: Theron knew his Empress would need to get married, and that it couldn't be him.

Theron stayed in the Palace to train the new set of Vanguard. The period was strange for him, as he had been the youngest member of the Vanguard, yet was now the mentor to the new brothers.

Theron was

A few months after the coup, negotiations began with Tsurina

It became apparent that Roséline would have to marry the sole heir to the Tsurinan throne.

Aware of what

The couple knew they had to part.

Roséline suggested they run away, but Theron said that they couldn't, jokingly adding that he wouldn't let her put all his work getting her on the throne to waste.

Theron and Ros'eime

And so at the beginning of Laurium, 1433, Theron left the Palace. Later that month, Roséline married the Crown Prince of Tsurina, uniting the country and the Amarandic Empire.

Imperial spy
After leaving the Palace, Theron became an official spy for the Empress, under his close friend and the new Imperial Spymaster, Felix Merle. During this time, he continued to write to Empress Roséline, and she wrote to him via a drop-off in Rianne. While they at first tried to keep their letters purely platonic, Some of their letters were written in code, due to their somewhat incriminating content.

Around a decade after the 1431 coup, Theron began to discover that the orchestrators of said coup hadn't been working alone. They were a part of something greater, a nameless organisation that aimed to control the Empire and bring it to "perfection".

Theron started trying to find more evidence of this group and its activities, reporting some of it back to Felix.

Return to the Palace
In Vriust, 1451

But Theron stopped her, and told her that they couldn't, stating that if they did this, he wouldn't be able to bring himself to leave her. While neither wanted to part again, they knew they would have to.

Roséline's death
Thirty years after saving her life again and forty-nine after leaving her at first, Theron returned to the Imperial Palace at request of his Empress, who was dying.

Theron barely recognised the palace and the court

Upon his arrival, he was quickly ushered to the sick Empress' chambers.

They discussed how they both wished things could've been different, and that

Roséline asked Theron to

He would fulfill this promise more than a hundred years later, protecting Catieness Aurelia Darchell, Roséline's great-great-great-great granddaughter.

When he woke, Theron found that the Empress had passed away in her sleep, leaving him to wonder if she'd been holding on just to see him. Theron accepted the news gracefully, but broke into a sob once alone again, knowing that all chance of

Roséline's son, the uncrowned Emperor Arnau III, invited Theron to stay for some time, aware his mother was close with the former Vanguard and of his mutation.

Theron was allowed to stand with the Imperial family and Vanguard

During his stay at the Palace, Theron introduced himself to others as his own grandson, in order to hide the fact he was a mutant.

The one person he didn't do so to was the former Spymaster, Felix Merle, who already knew of Theron's mutation -- but was still shocked to see his friend still looking so young.

Despite knowing the man when they were younger, Theron

Who was now in his eighties.

Theron was somewhat surprised to hear Lord

After a few days, the Lord revealed that he'd worked out Theron was himself and not a descendant, as he'd claimed, and reminded Theron that he was "old, not stupid." Theron then explained his mutation.

Wanderer
After Roséline's death, Theron completely quit being an Imperial spy.

Lord died a few days after Emperor Arnau III's coronation. Theron was invited to the funeral at his estate shortly after. Meeting again at their friend's funeral, Felix Merle invited Theron to stay at his manor. Theron accepted, and spent the next year with the former spymaster. During their time toget

What they knew would be Felix's last

Felix fell gravely ill a year after Theron came to live with him. The disease was feared to be contagious, but Theron, who of course couldn't be harmed by the illness, stayed by his friend's side until his death in Moren, 1482.

Theron was distraught at the loss of everyone he'd known as a young man.

Weeks after Felix's death, Theron tried to end his own life. To his initial dismay, he woke up some time later, completely healed and alive.

For years afterward, he was hateful of the world and himself,

But over time Theron began to come to peace with his immortality. He decided that spending his days filled with hate was hardly the way to pass eternity, and tried to instead focus on saving with love in the world rather than destroying with hate.

Searching for a purpose again, Theron returned to his mission of fighting against the Organisation. Though he knew he, as one man, couldn't take down the Organisation, and instead resolved himself to trying to disrupt it in what ways he could, while still taking on mercenary work. He did not, however, devote his entire life to taking down the Organisation, and tried to find peace, friends and happiness where he could.

Darchant
In 1572, Theron came to Darchant

He ran into a group trying to fight against the Organisation. He briefly worked alongside some members of the group, including Evelyn and Alé Melinno, but did not join their ranks fully. And he never received a chance to; in Moren 1573, the group was purged by the Organisation and most of its members were killed.

Theron then stayed out of Darchant for some time, but by 1580, he had returned to living there, mostly working as a mercenary.

Joining the Pack
Little did Theron know, but the Pack's leader, Jace, had known about Theron and his fight against the Organisation for years.

Jace invited Theron to join their Pack, making "quite the speech" to convince him. Theron accepted, recognising that fighting the Organisation with likeminded mutants would be a good idea.

After joining, Theron was surprised by what the Pack knew. In a few short years, they'd gathered as much -- or perhaps more -- on the Organisation than Theron had in lifetimes -- though he was sure Jace had been searching for answers a lot longer than he let on.

Theron had never previously believed any group had a real chance of taking down the Organisation, but after seeing the Pack, he had hope. Jace in particular had a determination to end the Organisation he'd never seen in lives before. When Theron eventually asked Jace what it had done to him to drive him like this, Jace avoided the question, simply saying that the Organisation had done too much bad in the world to be allowed to stay. Theron, of course, did not know that Jace was the presumed-dead Jason Melinno, the son of the murdered Alé and Evie Melinno, and was seeking his family's revenge while continuing their legacy.

While aware Jace was the leader, Theron assumed a somewhat protective role to the rest of the Pack, whom he all still saw as kids -- despite most of them being young adults in their early 20s. Though he was most protective of Aurelia once she joined as "Q" -- not only because of her young age (too young to be fighting against the Organisation, in Theron's opinion) and her parents' treatment of her, but because of his promise to Roséline over a hundred years earlier.

Personality
Despite his long and painful life, Theron is positive and warm to those who aren't his enemies.

Unable to have his own children due to his mutation, Theron is very protective of and often fatherly towards kids he meets.