agentsilvertongue

[agentsilvertongue]

basil can't help but snort out a laugh at their statement. there are things that field agents can do that he can't. he's never been a fighter for one and he's worked here long enough that he can't even come up with an once of bravery to find his sister. " speak for yourself, " he replies with an eyebrow raised. " i might be able to lie to myself, but i wear my emotions on my sleeve. and there's a reason i spend my free time with my nose in a book. " basil would rather interrogate someone.

starter : julia ft. open @ unspecified location w/in mercy hq

" i'm just saying, " julia says, with all the confidence of someone who is about to expose everyone in the vicinity to the worst take of all time, " there's nothing a field agent can do that an intel agent can't do better. " says the intel agent with absolutely no in-person subterfuge skills — they can only lie when there's a computer screen between them and whoever they're talking to.

[agentsilvertongue]

most of the time basil liked talking to his fellow agents, but lately it seemed like every time he thought about interacting with other people, he thought about how much he had to do. sometimes his brain went to odd places and he really didn't like being alone with his thoughts these days. " i don't know if it's everyone. wednesday won't let me work past a certain time. " he shrugs and looks at yejide with a small smile. " a game night? as in like scrabble? or something more... interesting like mario kart. or are we talking slightly more nerdy and going down the d&d route. because i don't know if it's fair for everyone if i'm involved in something like scrabble. " basil wasn't unopposed to a game night, even if it was only a small group of people.

➥     status  :  open  +  ongoing  ...  ➥     location  :  mercy's  recreation  center

          not  a  full  ten seconds  pass  when  the  other  agent  walks  in  before  yejide  scrambles  to  her  feet  and  beelines  towards  them.     "     okay,  so,  hear me out.  i  know  everyone's  super  stressed  and  wants  to  make  sure  they're  getting  stuff  done  and  everything,  and  that's  cool  and  important  but  i  feel  like  people  are  driving  themselves  into  the  ground.     "     she  speaks  a  mile  a  minute,  her  pre-prepared  spiel  thrown  out  the  window  the  moment  she  had  someone  to  deliver  it  to.     "     i'm  proposing  an organization-wide  game  night.     "     a  finger  is  held  up  to  silence  them  before  they  have  a  chance  to  respond  and  she  looks  over  her  shoulder  at  the video  and  board  games  she  set  up  and  brushed  the  collected  dust  off.     "     i  think  it  has  a  chance  to  be  successful,  i  just  need  support.     "

[agentsilvertongue]

[ :// retrieving data : ... basics ]

name : basil william isaacs

nickname(s) : bas

gender & pronouns : cis man & he / him  

date of birth :  fifteen january

age : twenty - seven

place of birth : jacksonville, flordia

zodiac sign : capricorn

sexual & romantic orientation : gay

ethnicity : white

nationality : american

species & power : radiant & intuitive multilingualism

languages : as long as he's heard a full minute of a language spoken, basil is able to comprehend a language / does not work with coded languages

codename : silvertongue

trigger warnings : abuse, alcoholism

[ :// retrieving data : ... family details ]

mother : marilyn isaacs, alive ( abuse mention ) basil has mixed feelings about his mother because she knew how her husband acted, yet turned a blind eye at it all. he wants to care about her and knows nothing was ever her fault, but it was his sister who always was the one to care for him growing up. basil isn't sure she'd accept him the way he is now. as of current, basil is not in contact with his mother, having gone no contact with her after a year of becoming a junior agent.

father : william isaacs, alive ( abuse mention ) basil went no contact with his father the second he turned eighteen. he has never had a good relationship with his father. basil was never sure why his father hated him, but there was always something basil did wrong and couldn't seem to reach his father's high standards he had for basil. he quickly learned he would never impress his dad, so basil tried to make himself smaller and stay out of his dad's way.

sister : [redacted], questionable growing up, basil's sister was his best friend. they were only two were only a year and a half apart. unlike basil, she was always the louder one, the one to jump head first into danger, whereas he was the more cautious one. when she left home three weeks before her eighteenth birthday, basil became a shell of himself until he was able to move out as well.

[ :// retrieving data : ... background ]

william isaacs and marilyn webber married straight out of college as high school sweethearts. marilyn became a teacher at the very same school she attended when she met her husband. william's goals in life were loftier, wanting to get a foot in the door in the political scene, so out of college, he worked at a law firm while working on his law degree. the two of them were in their late twenties when they welcomed their first child into the world, [redacted], and only a year and a half later, basil.

growing up, basil's father was always harsh on his children. eventually he moved from law to politics becoming involved with state government and the family was flung into some spotlights. basil remembers his father being harsh on how the family was presented when they were out in public. they were supposed to be perfect children, but no matter what, something was always off.

because of the similarity in age, and how basil and [redacted] we so close in age, a lot of the time they were mistaken as twins. basil considered his sister his best friend, especially since he was the shy one of the pair, often sticking close to her side rather than talking to other kids his own age. one was never seen without the other and [redacted] was often called a troublemaker for sticking up for the things she believed in, regardless of if it got her into trouble with their parents.

(abuse & alcoholism tw) : despite his father's best efforts, his political career never took off past state government, which was always everyone's fault but his own. basil and his sister were always to blame for their father’s failed career, and nights when he was half a bottle of whiskey in he made sure they knew it. those were always the nights that basil curled up on the floor in his sister's room, quietly crying as she softly read stories to calm him down.

life went on like that for a long time until a few weeks before [redacted]'s eighteenth birthday when an argument broke out between her and her father. the result of which was her moving out or kicked out, depending on who you asked. basil didn't go with her, choosing to stay with his father and the guarantee of a roof over his head. the next year and a half was miserable.

without his sister, basil destroyed his GPA and no college would take him, but he moved out at eighteen with a friend and worked to earn a college degree by going to community college for a year and transferring to an out of state college that offered him a decent scholarship.

when it came to a career, basil only had one thing on his mind: finding his sister. but she came up on no social media or google search, so he had to get more creative. that's why at twenty, basil ended up looking into mercy and eventually going through training. he had always kind of expected himself to take the solaris drug when he was able to and when the time came he did. he ended up with the power of intuitive multilingualism, which allows him to speak any language he come into contact with for a full minute.

[ :// retrieving data : ... headcanons ]

basil has a dog named wednesday. she's a black lab. he got her when he was twenty. she's basically a huge part of what helped him work through a lot of his traumas.

he'll tell you his favorite book is great expectations, but it's not. he loves the picture of dorian gray. and if you ever see him without a book of some sort, something is wrong.

he played soccer in high school and raced go - karts until [redacted] left.

basil does not tell people he has an older sibling and has yet to use his position to look her up.

his favorite color is blue and he often dresses like he's a depressed english teacher.

[ :// retrieving data : ... connections ]

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