1863-project-art:OC-tober: Day 7Godfrey Byrde - The World Turned Upside DownGodfrey is a bookkeeper
1863-project-art:OC-tober: Day 7Godfrey Byrde - The World Turned Upside DownGodfrey is a bookkeeper with a real nose for trouble. He loves engaging in harmless but confusing pranks, something he’s been doing in his neighborhood in York since childhood with his partner in crime, Tobias. He didn’t mean to get all mixed up with the Lords of Misrule, but that’s just how things shook out that one night when he and Tobias went to draw on General Fairfax and had to leg it. Luckily, Godfrey tends to be down for pretty much anything, so he just went along with it.When Aibhilin showed up after the Battle of Marston Moor, Godfrey was posing for Tobias in the town square. He took an apple from the still life portion of the image and broke it in half with his bare hands, and he handed half to Aibhilin. She was incredibly freaked out, but she appreciated the gesture nonetheless, and before long she learned that this was a thing Godfrey was capable of doing on the regular and often did just to mess with people. Godfrey wasn’t actually terrifying or weirdly strong for his size - and he was actually quite protective of her, to boot! Godfrey’s talents didn’t stop there, either. He’s also capable of perfectly impersonating a Puritan preacher, and he does this just to muck about under the name Fly-Fornication Johnson, with Tobias as his cousin Goodwood Johnson. He’s also able to get away with all manner of pranking when he’s taken on this guise because nobody would suspect the Puritan preaching about Calvinism as the person who put the bucket of water above the door. This ability above all else has made him quite useful, however - he’s the perfect diversion. Godfrey and Tobias have also discovered in their quest to be less unprepared that frying pans can block musket bullets. How they discovered this is best not mentioned to Edmund, however. -- source link
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