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Avalon/03_NPCs_Students/Fouadriel “Fouad” Al-Mir.md

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+# Fouadriel “Fouad” Al-Mir
+
+> DM-facing NPC writeup. 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.
+