# Chaz “Chad” Ironwick

> DM-facing NPC writeup. Brain-damaged golden boy of [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.1 Mageball Team & Jocks | Mageball Team]].

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## Role

- **Age:** 16 (freshman), tracks with PCs  
- **Heritage/Class:** Human (or half-orc) Fighter / martial-focused athlete  
- **Primary Faction:** [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.1 Mageball Team & Jocks | Mageball Team]]  
- **Public Image:** Star Mageball hopeful, loud, handsome, dumb as rocks, inexplicably popular.

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## What Students Know

- Chaz is:
  - The guy yelling in the hallway before first bell.  
  - The one starting “AVA-LON! AVA-LON!” chants at lunch.  
  - The kid who will absolutely call someone “4-eyes” in the year of our gods, whatever.  
- He’s got:
  - A decent arm,
  - Natural instincts on the field,
  - Absolutely no grasp of *why* any of it works.

- Typical interaction:
  - Bullying Millie or other nerds with playground-tier insults.  
  - Crude jokes that land mostly because of sheer confidence.  
  - Over-the-top loyalty to “the boys” on the team.

- Reputation:
  - Already a minor legend among underclassmen.
  - Teachers generally sigh when his name shows up on their rosters.
  - “Brain damaged but in a charming way” is the prevailing vibe.

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## What He Wants

### Surface Wants

- To win. Games, arguments, hallway confrontations—doesn’t matter.  
- To be seen as **the** face of Avalon sports:
  - Posters, announcements, crowds chanting his name.  
- To coast to a scholarship on raw talent and vibes.

### Deeper Wants

- To not think too hard about the fact that he forgets things:
  - Plays he should remember,
  - Classes he apparently attended,
  - A specific hit that everyone swears “wasn’t that bad.”
- To feel like he’s good for something other than hitting people and being hit.

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## Methods & Tactics

- **Default move:** push first, apologize never.  
- Fights verbal battles with:
  - Nonsense insults (“I bet you see good with those four eyes!”)
  - Louder volume whenever he’s losing the point.
- Sometimes takes orders surprisingly well from anyone who:
  - Sounds like a coach,
  - Speaks in sports metaphors,
  - Or just sounds confident.

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## Relationship to Millie

- Starts as classic bully:
  - Yells across the cafeteria,
  - Knocks trays,
  - Calls them “nerd,” “four-eyes,” etc.
- First crack in the dynamic:
  - Millie calls out a tactical flaw in his play (“You leave left-field wide open, that’s why you keep losing to <RIVAL SCHOOL>.”)
  - He freezes, gears visibly turning, then blurts, “Shut the fuck up, you fucking dork,” because he has *no* other response.
- Long arc:
  - By junior year, Millie is the **irreplaceable strategist**,
  - Chaz becomes their loudest defender on and off the field.

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## Relationship to the PCs

- **Joe:** immediate bro-crush:
  - Sees him as a fellow “real athlete,” tries to recruit him hard.
  - Will absolutely drag Joe into team drama and parties.
- **Ben:** thinks he’s funny until Ben’s bullshit affects the team; then he gets mean.  
- **Soren:** scared of her on an instinctual level:
  - Covers fear with bad jokes,
  - Will avoid being alone with her if he can help it.

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## Secrets & Pressure Points (DM Only)

- He genuinely has mild traumatic brain injury from repeated hits:
  - Headaches, mood swings, memory holes.
  - Nobody is taking it seriously because it would threaten his playtime.
- He is deeply superstitious:
  - Small rituals before games,
  - Secretly believes the Root “likes” certain plays / patterns on the field.
- If Root anomalies start mirroring his favorite patterns, he will:
  - Feel chosen,
  - Double down on risky plays,
  - Be very vulnerable to manipulation by Fouadriel / the Coherence later.

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## How to Play Chaz

- **Voice:** Loud, slightly slurred around big words, often confused mid-sentence.  
- **Body language:** Chest out, hips forward, constantly drumming on tables or patting backs too hard.  
- **Sample Lines:**
  - “Hey, four-eyes! I bet you see good with those four eyes!”  
  - (after Millie says something smart) “…Huh… well, uh… you’re a fucking dork. Nerd.”  
  - “Yo Joe, you and me? We’re gonna make Avalon *legendary*, dude.”
- Dial up the comedy early, the tragedy later when the hits start adding up.