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===Body Language===
===Body Language===
* Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.
* With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.
===Musical Instruments===
===Musical Instruments===
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, including lute, guitar, violin, cello, harp, and lyre. He also plays both woodwinds and brass; his weakest point is percussion. His favorite instrument is the piano, at which he is a virtuoso.
* A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, including lute, guitar, violin, cello, harp, and lyre. He also plays both woodwinds and brass; his weakest point is percussion. His favorite instrument is the piano, at which he is a virtuoso.

Revision as of 21:51, 14 September 2020

Jahir Galare, Prince-Consort

An Eldritch, mind-bonded partner to Vasiht'h, married to Sediryl Galare and cousin/lover to Lisinthir Nase Galare.

Physical Appearance

  • 6'6"
  • white hair falling to ribcage
  • square jaw
  • yellow-gold eyes, often described as "honey-colored"
  • tenor speaking/singing voice
  • smells like vetiver and bergamot
  • prior to his ascension liked to dress in browns and caramels and creams and tawny colors; now is usually in Galare blue
  • very fastidious/neat

Scars

  • burn scar on left hand, in the webbing between thumb and forefinger, acquired while cooking [1]
  • faint gray Chatcaavan claw scars along his ribs on left side; that skin doesn't flex when he breathes hard enough [2]
  • hypermobile wrists (both); left is worse [3]
  • nearly invisible scar at his shoulder where he was punctured in a duel [4]
  • Chatcaavan claw scars on left side of face

Biography

Jahir Seni Galare, an Eldritch lord, is the eldest son of Jeasa and Kolvin Seni Galare; he is about six or seven years older than his brother Sernataila (Amber). Kolvin was killed in a riding accident when Jahir was about ten years old and Amber about three. He was a loving brother who made every effort to ensure that Amber had as good or better possessions than himself. He was presented at court at the usual time, at about age eighteen, and attended both summer and winter courts for several years. By his own admission, he “did not seem to be accomplishing much,” and stopped attending. He was educated as was typical for a noble heir in the management of a great estate as well as the courtesies and skills. Among those was music, which became his great passion and at which he was skilled beyond the norm.

Possessed of an acute mind, Jahir used his family’s Well feed to the Alliance’s u-banks to study through Seersana University’s open enrollment. When he finds he has accumulated enough credits to qualify him to take an advanced degree in xenopsychology, he decides, with his mother’s support and encouragement, to go to the Alliance and pursue his degree. (Background from multiple books)

Mindtouch

When Jahir arrives at Seersana University, nerves jangled by the close proximity of other people whose touch forces him to experience their thoughts and emotions, he learns that his request for single accommodations is denied because of space limitations. While waiting for the problem to be addressed, he takes a walk on the hospital grounds and encounters a Glaseah entangled in the jumprope being wielded by six little girls who have slipped away from their nurse. He offers to help, and eventually joins in the play. He and the Glaseah, Vasiht’h, agree to visit the children again. Vasitht’h offers to share his apartment with Jahir and smooths out the administrative details. Jahir moves in, and immediately Vasiht’h, a year ahead of him, begins his informal education in the ways of the Alliance, from mundane activities like working a shower and cooking to university practices, from working with his advisor, a Seersa named Khallis Mekora, and navigating the campus. Back in their apartment, Jahir faints, and Vasiht’h calls the emergency channel for help. Their touch exacerbates his discombobulation, but once he rouses, they recommend he go to the clinic because the greater gravity on Seersana is causing Jahir problems. Jahir follows through and is attended by Healer Lafayette KindlesFlame, a Tam-illee, who prescribes a drug regimen to compensate for the gravity, judicious rest and increased food. Because of the Veil, Jahir is unwilling to commit to coming to the clinic, so KindlesFlame suggests they meet weekly for lunch to check Jahir’s health and talk medicine.

As the year progresses, Jahir becomes more integrated into university life. His classes interest him, and he enjoys regular get-togethers with their quadmates, Brett (Seersa) and his flatmate Lucrezia, (Luci, a Harat-shar), Merishiinal (Circaana) and his flatmate (???). Vasiht’h introduces him to new foods, and he is enthralled by ice cream. The two also begin regular visits to the six little girls they met jumping rope: Kayla and Meekie (Tam-illee), Amaranth and Persy (human), Kuriel (a Seersa), and the fragile Nieve (also Seersa).

As the year passes, Vasiht’h begins to notice flashes of a connection between what Jahir is thinking in his own mind, beginning with music after an outdoor choral concert. Jahir, who has decided to stay in the Alliance after his schooling, is deciding between the medical and the clinical tracks, while Vasiht’h is floundering and starting down the research track, a poor fit. Jahir enrolls in Clinical Management, a medical track course, and Patient Assessment. Both courses challenge him, the former when an accidental collision involving several fellow students causes him to lose consciousness, and the latter when the professor humiliates him in front of the class for being unreadable. Interestingly, he has no trouble touching and even holding the little girls at the hospital. While he is still deciding, during a visit to the children, fragile Nieve dies in Jahir’s arms. He turns to Vasiht’h for comfort, and finally asks about the mental connection he’s experiencing. Vasiht’h explains mindtouch and how it has the potential to develop into a permanent mindline – a very rare and intimate connection. He and Vasiht’h are invited to attend Nieve’s funeral, a great honor, and there her grandmother gives Jahir wise counsel. Jahir decides to commit to the medical track. Vasiht’h is concerned because of the toll on Jahir’s stamina. He, too, has been struggling with his research, using his esper talent to reduce people’s stress level while they sleep. He struggles with not contaminating the study, because the subjects want to talk with him about their problems.

Jahir, in order to finish the medical track coursework within two years, embraces a grueling course load starting the summer after his first year. Before that, he gives Vasiht’h two weeks of vacation fun, and the mindtouches grow in frequency. The summer workload is intense, and Jahir is successful, leading KindlesFlame to suggest he apply for the coveted residency at Mercy Hospital on Selnor. At summer’s end, Vasiht’h begins to withdraw from Jahir, protecting himself because he knows Jahir will leave for his residency. Both continue their weekly visits to the children, which Jahir will not give up, even with his demanding schedule. Jahir begins to dream of a garden whose flowers rot before they can bloom. He weeps in his sleep, and Vasiht’h comforts him using the esper technique underlying his research. The dreams continue, and Jahir wakes to find Vasiht’h asleep in his room on more than one occasion. Over the winter holidays, their quadmate Lucrezia, who has previously confided her romantic troubles to them, tells them that she has broken the relationship off. They offer to have her stay overnight, and when she falls asleep on the sofa, together Vasiht’h and Jahir calm her dreams. While doing so, a nascent mindline forms, and for the first time, they can hear each other mentally. Both are unnerved, and Vasiht’h fears he has offended Jahir. In his last semester, Jahir, doing shadow practicums with real patients, comes home drained and begins to rely on Vasiht’h to buoy him back up. Vasiht’h realizes that the mindline is growing stronger, and since they will necessarily be separated, decides he has to be replaceable to Jahir. Jahir wins both the residency at Mercy Hospital in Heliocentrus on Selnor and the one on Seersana at General. Vasiht’h tells Jahir he should go to Selnor, believing it important that Jahir find out if he can handle the demands of a medical psychology career. On the last night, Jahir asks Vasiht’h if he can hug him. Jahir leaves, and Vasiht’h is heartbroken. He dreams Jahir’s dream of the gardens with dying flowers, and, realizing that Jahir needs him, determines to follow Jahir to Selnor.


[NOTES: Killed a man in a duel before he left Escutcheon for the Alliance: "A maiden at the summer court had been seeking relief from her over-managing mother and aunt. We found an alcove to sit in and talk. That was all. But we were seen and aspersions were cast on her, so I called those who maligned her to account. We dueled. He put his tip through my shoulder, but I fought on until I sliced him. So honor was satisfied. My wound, though more serious, healed. His developed infection, and he died." Further: "I did not even care for the woman--she was the daughter of one of the Queen's enemies! I was fighting Galare's enemies when I threw down the challenge." [5]


Agreed to help train the mind-talented Eldritch of sufficient power, at Val's request. [6]]


Family

Quotes

"We move from strength to weakness and come around again to strength, and that movement is a sign of life. Were we always strong, were we always weak, did we never trade roles, we would be souls impervious to the world around us. And then how would we change? How would we grow?" [7]

"Because I am the one who will willingly go to your cruel hand and kiss it for gratitude, and you will deny me nothing." [8]

"Do not doubt yourself, Ambassador, for your cousin still loves you." [8]

"We are all worthy of love, no matter what we've done lately to earn it." [9]

"I try not to make promises unless I know I will keep them." [10]

"Sometimes one needs the surgeon's touch, not the therapist's." [11]

"A skilled musician makes many promises with the fingers on the frets of a lute." [12]

"I think you measure your worth in your utility, Nase's Heir... and we know that we are disposable when we are no longer of use. But we don't need to be useful to be worthy."[13]

Trivia

  • likes mornings
  • likes walls
  • prefers swimming as exercise
  • loves ice cream

Names

Himself

  • Gentle Guide (the Queen Ransomed)
  • Silence Between Stars
  • Voice in the Silence
  • My Delight (Lisinthir)

Other People

  • calls Vasiht'h 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'ariihir' and 'beloved' and 'my brother'
  • calls Sediryl 'my heart'
  • calls Lisinthir 'Hunter' and 'my-better' and 'cousin' and 'Lin' and 'Imthereli' (it's complicated)
  • calls Val 'Teacher'

Body Language

  • Habitually compensates for the height difference between himself and Vasiht'h by sitting or kneeling.
  • With Sediryl, has a habit of not just holding her hands, but subtly caressing them.

Musical Instruments

  • A gifted musician, Jahir plays most stringed instruments, including lute, guitar, violin, cello, harp, and lyre. He also plays both woodwinds and brass; his weakest point is percussion. His favorite instrument is the piano, at which he is a virtuoso.

Notable Property

  • A wooden box of alien hardwood, resinous and deep, holding a scalpel-like knife (may be currently kept by Lisinthir) [14]
  • An asymetically stylized jeweled swan mask in platinum, mother-of-pearl and blue [15]

References

  1. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 1
  2. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 6
  3. Heartskein
  4. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
  5. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
  6. "Longest Night", short fiction
  7. Some Things Transcend, chapter 12
  8. 8.0 8.1 Some Things Transcend, chapter 14
  9. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
  10. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 2
  11. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 9
  12. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 13
  13. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 11
  14. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 15
  15. Amulet Rampant, Chapter 3