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Circle-kid clown from [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.5 Circle Kids / Stoners & Skaters | the stoners]] and long-game harbinger of the big bad. + +--- + +## Role + +- **Age:** same year as PCs +- **Heritage/Class:** Human (or tiefling) Sorcerer / Wild Magic or just “innately weird” +- **Primary Faction:** [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.5 Circle Kids / Stoners & Skaters | Circle Kids]] +- **Public Image:** Lovable idiot. Permanent comic relief. The guy everyone has a story about. + +--- + +## What Students Know + +- Fouad is: + - The guy who somehow manages to be at *every* party and *every* minor accident. + - The one who says stuff like “I meet new people every day!” to people he went to the gym with for two years. + - Known for: + - Crashing *two* wagons/cars post-graduation in the “real” story → here, maybe two arcane carts / scooters / enchanted beaters. + - Showing up late, confused, smiling, but never quite in trouble. + +- Reputation: + - So dumb it loops back around to endearing. + - The safest person to tell secrets to because he’ll forget them or misremember them so badly they’re useless… or so everyone assumes. + +--- + +## What He Wants + +### Surface Wants + +- To have a good time, always. +- To be included: + - Invited to hangouts, parties, Mageball tailgates, etc. +- To never think too hard about anything. + +### Deeper Wants + +- To not feel broken: + - There are gaps in his memory he can’t explain. + - Sometimes he wakes up in weird places with no idea how he got there. +- To avoid the creeping dread that: + - People around him get hurt more often than seems random. + +--- + +## Methods & Tactics + +- Social lubricant: + - Will talk to anyone, anywhere. + - Makes friends by sheer persistence. +- Accident prone: + - Trips rituals, + - Knocks over important items, + - Walks into places marked “RESTRICTED” without noticing. + +- People excuse it because: + - “That’s just Fouad.” + - “He didn’t mean it.” + +--- + +## Relationship to [[Leyline Root System | Root]] & [[Kalen D'Serris | D'Serris]] (DM Focus) + +- Unbeknownst to anyone (including himself): + - Fouadriel is the **single cleanest anchor** the Coherence has in the valley. + - Something about his soul / mind structure: + - Makes him easy to ride, + - Hard to detect directly. + +- D’serris’s data: + - Shows **weird correlations**: + - Minor spikes whenever Fouad is near stressed taps, + - Small anomalies following his movement through campus and town. + - He is quietly convinced that: + - Fouad is a problem. + - No one will believe him if he says “the dumbest kid on campus is the threat.” + +- Long-term arc: + - Freshman–Junior: pure comic relief with subtle weirdness. + - Senior: reveal that the entity behind the [[Leyline Crisis|Korrin Crisis]] / Coherence has been **wearing** Fouadriel as a glove, slowly pushing through. + +--- + +## Relationship to the PCs + +- **Ben:** + - Fouad thinks Ben is the coolest person alive. + - Will 100% blow up Ben’s spot unintentionally (“Oh yeah, Stinky sells *great* weed!”). +- **Joe:** + - Treats him like a golden retriever: + - High-fives him, praises his plays, forgets he exists five minutes later. +- **Soren:** + - Soren terrifies him, but the Coherence in him is fascinated by her. + - In quiet moments, he might say things that cut uncomfortably close to her secrets, then forget he said them. + +--- + +## Secrets & Pressure Points (DM Only) + +- Manifestation signs you can sprinkle in: + - He sometimes stands perfectly still, staring at nothing, humming in exact sync with faint Root vibrations. + - Animals occasionally avoid him or stare at him with hackles raised. + - He “dreams in graphs” some nights—Root telemetry knocking at his subconscious. + +- When the Root / Coherence pushes through: + - His vocabulary spikes for a sentence, then crashes. + - His eyes focus *too much*; posture straightens; voice gets cold for one line. + - Then he’s back to “duhhh so anyway.” + +- PCs could: + - Misread D’serris’s obsession with him as pure paranoia. + - Be forced, later, to decide whether they’re saving Fouadriel *from* the thing or killing both. + +--- + +## How to Play Fouadriel + +- **Voice:** Friendly, slightly breathless, always one thought behind the conversation. +- **Body language:** Loose, floppy, easily distracted, constantly knocking stuff over or fidgeting. +- **Sample “Normal” Lines:** + - “Brooo, I meet new people every day! …Wait, we had class together?” + - “I crashed my cart twice, but, like, the third one’s probably fine.” +- **Sample “Glitched” Lines (when Coherence peeks through):** + - (voice drops, eyes sharpen) “You shouldn’t have cut that branch. It remembers.” + - (then immediate reset) “Haha, branch! Like, trees and shit, right?” +- Keep him funny and harmless-feeling… until you’re ready to flip the table. +