A chost which reads,
Mathieu Bonvents does not remember where or even when he was born. He never thought it mattered much.
His parents were murdered when he was eight by the Pirate King Izmael Cagge, and for twenty years thereafter he spent his life on the run from something or another. A deft mechanic, a tenacious fighter, and above all an incredibly daring and skilled pilot, Mat would eventually be conscripted by the Britannic Royal Navy as a way out of a parole violation, and serve it with distinction as one of its greatest drivers and pilots. It was one of the best times in Mathieu's life.
And then he realized something was wrong. An errant conversation here, a climactic battle there, and he began to realize he was not doing what he thought he was, not helping the world the way he was told he would be.
It would not take long after that for him to discover the terrible deeds his empire was committing...and the actions he undertook that contributed to those aims, and worse.
In horror, disgust, and rage, he went explosively AWOL. During his escape, he would lose the few friends he had left, and entire swathes of his body.
But Mathieu Bonvents was nothing if not tenacious; in the depths of this hell was his iron will forged into steel.
Wielding a repurposed construction prosthetic as his new left arm, from a commandeered airship he wages a campaign of liberation and of reclamation from the forces of tyranny and of Empire.
He has been called many things, from Traitor to Savior.
Above them all, however, he is best known best, and simply, as
THE MAN IN BLUE.
Air pirate captain Mathieu Bonvents, the Unbound Hero, standing with one hand in his pocket as his coat billows out dramatically behind him. He points with equal drama at the viewer with his mechanical left arm. A cuirass covers the pinstriped work shirt he wears. he is cinched up at the waist by a leather belt with the crest of the Five Falcons embossed on the buckle; his work pants ripple in the wind, warping the two blood-red stripes along their sides. The thaumatotechnical (magitech) wonder of his Aether Booster boots stand, with gems inset at the knees and orbital thrusters on either side primed and ready to take off at the merest moment's notice.
The story of the Boundless then reaches a perilous zenith ten thousand years later...in the mechanical hand of a dreamer.
Through this tempest, Mathieu Bonvents emerges.
(CW for mentions of death and loss of limb.)
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