Abraham Musser

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Abraham Musser is one of the founders of the Blue Heron Institute.

Personality

Relationships

Reid Musser is his son.<ref name=":0">Reid Musser
Reid takes after his father, a school founder, but does not necessarily follow in his footsteps. He has been traveling the world since he was fifteen, studying in its various forms. Reid keeps a collection of nine Implements and two Familiars, Blackhorne and Drowne, a trick that owes to close-held family secrets. He attends Advanced classes and helms one special project in the workshops. - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref>

Raquel Musser is his niece, but he raised her after her mother was cast out of the family. As a result of their weaker connection, as well as gender issues within the Musser family tradition, she's been disfavoured.<ref>“It’s my job to keep these two from puffing themselves up too much,” Kass said, indicating the other two on her bench with a swish of her thumb.  “They talk fancy and dress nice but they lean too much on the family name.  You aren’t defined by the family you come from.”

“You’re a little bit defined by the family you come from,” Raquel said.  “If you try, you can be the best bits of it.”

“You’re going to have to try awfully hard, Raquel,” Kass said, sitting back against the bench.  “You’re not a boy, and only boys get the best of what the Mussers have to offer.”
[...]
“Was it your dad that was a school founder?” Avery asked.

Raquel looked over, still clearly very pissed, and pissed in a way that made her look hostile even as she turned to Avery.  “Uncle. But he raised me, more or less, after my mother was removed from the family.”

“That’s pretty heavy,” Lucy said.

“You aren’t lying.  And, I’ll say this, there’s way more to things than gender, like me beng a niece, and not his actual kid,” Raquel said. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1</ref>

Commenting on Elise Norwood's age, Musser stated that she looked "young enough to be my illegitimate child." This unusual choice of phrasing may indicate that he has one or more illegitimate children.<ref>“You look young enough to be my illegitimate child,” Abraham said.  “Oh, this is going to be a shitshow, isn’t it?”- Excerpt from False Moves 12.a</ref>

He was a founder at the Blue Heron Institute and Bristow's right-hand man, but after Bristow was replaced by Alexander he got in an argument with Alexander and almost never visited the school, even to drop off his kids. When Bristow returned to the school, he travelled a long way to be at his side again.<ref name=":1">“Musser was one of the school founders, wasn’t he?  But he sorta isn’t a part of things anymore.  Which makes it sound like he was pushed out by Alexander.”
[...]
“If you want to learn about implements, then you should talk to Mr. Sunshine,” Melody said.  “There’s Mr. Musser, but he’s rarely around and Mr. Sunshine is way more approachable-” - Excerpt form Cutting Class 6.4</ref><ref name=":2">“You finish your ritual?” Jarvis asked.

“I did,” Lucy said.  She adjusted the angle of her head.

“Congratulations.”

“Thank you.”

“You know, if you want to make the most of it, you should ask Mr. Musser.  He came a long way to be here for our new headmaster.  I know you were hanging out with Raquel Musser last week.”
[...]
“He invited Musser back.  And Musser hasn’t been back in person since he and Alexander got in an argument years ago.  Doesn’t even drop off his kids, normally.” - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.9</ref> However he was considered a guest teacher who had agreed to be there with Alexander in advance.<ref>“Raymond has been serving as a guest teacher for a year while pursuing other projects, but is returning this summer and fall, at the very least. We’re glad to have him. On the topic of guest teachers, I would like to extent my gratitude to Mr. Bristow, Electra Miraz, the Ports, the Crowes, Mr. Musser, and Ms. Lair, for agreeing to come this summer, and to anyone and everyone else who decides they can find the time. To others too numerous to name, I would extend thanks for the loaning of books for the student library.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref>

He knows Gerald Haris and has a non-aggression treaty with the Lighthouse, they don't go after him in exchange for Bristow providing them with Aware. Since Bristow's removal they've fallen behind on their agreement.<ref>“We have arrangements with the Lighthouse.  Nonaggression pact.  We supply you with Aware.  The building in Winnipeg.”

“Surely you can name the person in charge of ‘the building in Winnipeg’,” Elise said.

“I can.  Bristow?  He was a colleague.”

“Was is the operative word,” Haris called out.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.a</ref>

He's been married twice, the first time shortly after the founding of the Blue Heron Institute and the second time more recently to a significantly younger women named Carolyn.<ref>“Which time?  The first marriage was about three years after Lawrence and Alexander founded the Blue Heron.  The second was only a few years ago.  More peaceful.  Carolyn, my second wife, was nineteen, but she’s risen nicely to the occasion.  Manages the house and finances, sets up events, sometimes with her sister’s help.  I can send her to meetings to speak in my place, and trust that if the subject turns to things she doesn’t have the power to answer, she’ll end things without breeding any bad blood.”- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.z</ref>

He has a nephew named Sullivan Fletcher.<ref>Sullivan Fletcher, of House Musser.  Nephew to Abraham Musser.- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.y</ref>

Appearance

Tall, with the wavy brown Musser hair. Wears glasses with no arms. He dresses expensively but casually, and carries a lot of stuff in his pockets. His body language gives off a vibe that he's dangerous, and he moves as if he's carrying a lot of weight but accustomed to it.<ref name=":3">They stopped at the door, talking to a tall man. Because the man was in the doorway, the lights from either side of him made his features clearer. He wore a white t-shirt under an open black blazer, matching slacks, and a necklace, and he had brown hair with a dense wave to it, like the locks of hair had been stretched under one finger, over the next, under the next, and so on.  He wore glasses that had no arms stretching from the edges to the ears.

The look didn’t really make her think ‘teacher’. It made her think, like, an agent for actors or musicians, striking that look that was both casual and expensive, and very deliberate. The look in his eyes, the cast of his mouth, and his posture made her think that if he were one of those agents, he’d deal with a stalker fan of one of his clients by contracting some guys with baseball bats and ties to organized crime.

The hair made her think of Raquel and Reid.

Mr. Musser?

Now that she had a guess as to who he was, she could notice other things: he had a way of standing and moving like he was carrying a lot of weight, but he’d done it for so long that he’d gotten used to it. One hand gesture in the air, to punctuate a statement, and it felt like it had enough weight to knock on the air.
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Musser followed behind the group, and pulled off his jacket, casting it aside. It fluttered briefly in the wind, then disappeared. White t-shirt that probably cost more than a hundred bucks, necklace, watch, rings, and the glimmer of things at his pockets that suggested he couldn’t even put his hands in them. They weren’t overstuffed, either. - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.2</ref>

Abilities and Art

Basics

He is knowledgeable about Implements,<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> owning multiple of them himself, he also was several Demesnes<ref>I know how you get some of those implements and familiars, from people who think the kind of power that makes you great makes you good.”

“A plurality of demesnes too,” Musser said.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.a</ref> and at least six Familiars.<ref>Reid aping the approach his father had taken when he’d let Reid watch the capture of his sixth and most recent familiar.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref> These all derive from family secrets that let him steal them from their rightful owners.

• Familiars include:
  • Abbas the Storm Child<ref>Abbas, one of his father’s Others, a Stormchild, was standing by the railing upstairs that overlooked the main area, eyes and hair faintly glowing.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>
  • Nova Aquila the Icon<ref>Nova Aquila was one of his father’s Others, an Icon.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>
  • Rabbit Killer<ref>His father addressed him, “Rabbit Killer is telling me there’s an enterprising young woman who can shrug off his influence.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>
  • Unidentified - Daena who's appearance changes depending on the viewers morality<ref>“Musser stole a Daena familiar.  A Zoroastrian psychopomp.  When seen by wrongdoers and murderers, she appears ugly, and she condemns them to eternal wandering.  Others she guides as a psychopomp will.”- Excerpt from Fall Out 14.1</ref><ref>

“There’s a woman.  Older teens or twenty.  Old clothes, well worn, plaid-print shawl or cape or something swept around her shoulders, even in this heat.  White, blonde, badly taken care of hair, looks almost like straw, tied into a braid.”

“Older teens or twenty?”

“I think?”

“To me, she’s aged, moles growing out of moles, stretch marks on loose skin, which ranges from dry and flaking at the parts most exposed, to overly moist in the folds.  Her hair is caked with fluids.  Knobby limbs, long.  You could mistake her for human, but it would be hard.”

“Hm.”  Lucy turned on her Sight.  She described what she saw, “Watercolor bleeding out around her.  Very bright colors.”

“You’d know better than I what that means.”

“Tied into the environment?  Or a leaky power?  I tend to only see danger, pain, hurt, and whatever she’s got is bright enough to push into my way of seeing.  Like colors bold enough to make a colorblind person see…”

[...] At the far end, Musser, hand at his face, glasses broken, shoved the door open.  Two of his Others were there.  The women.

Lucy’s Sight started going crazy as spirits and echoes began to flow in from behind the young-old woman. -Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref>

• • Unidentified - Four-in-one Abyssal kids in a trenchcoat arguably one of the most dangerous others but not the most powerful.<ref>“Uhhh…” She assessed one figure, who was taller than the rest, Musser included, and stood at an odd angle, stooped, as if her back was a bit broken, arms hanging limp at her sides.  Her hair hung down on either side of her face, masking her features, and she wore a long black raincoat, black apron with leather strings, and a surgical mask.  With the Sight, she saw… different things.  The figure was heavily stained, making the black of the raincoat swirl like black water had blacker ink in it- and the way she stood was a little bit clearer, especially with knives and broken blades stuck into the raincoat, making it sit in a different way.  She could see the outline of heads and shoulders, a quarter of the way down and then halfway down.  She could guess, based on proportion and how short the legs seemed beneath that coat.  “I think four child sized Others wearing a raincoat and aprons.  Possibly Abyssal?”

“Abyssal, yes.”

“Bogeyman?” Lucy asked.

“I don’t know.  I’ve been wondering.  I don’t know enough about labels.  Bogeymen lean aggressive, feeding on fear and anger.  They’re often restless.  If she’s a bogeyman, she’s the most docile, least aggressive one I’ve ever seen.” -Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref>

• Demesnes include:
  • Demesnes of the serial killer, it enables him to access it from anywhere at a moments notice.<ref>Learned what I needed to learn about the demesne she maintained constant and free access to, slipping back to it at a moment’s notice to elude authorities ... Then told my father what I’d learned about the demesne.  Matter of days later, I smoked outside while my father took it.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref> It works better at night and in a place no one had claim to.<ref>His father drew power, fed the doorway, and opened the shadows around himself.  It worked better at night, away from a territory someone else owned.  Since he had the school, he could use it there now, which was convenient.
    
    And nobody owned this town, really.  No Lord had claim.- Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>
• Implements include:
  • Set of glasses<ref>Weakening one of his better Others, breaking his glasses, that would cost Self to repair.  Or whatever he used to repair implements that weren’t his by right. -Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref> that let him see somethings value or avoid troublesome items.<ref>Toadswallow nodded.  “The glasses, remind me what they do?”
    
    “They let him see something’s value.  Lets him avoid troublesome items,” Zed said.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.10</ref>
  • He has a sickle shaped knife that when you cut someone with it the wound spreads outwards as a line.<ref>Reid’s father held a sickle-like knife in one hand, and left his other empty, wearing the glove...From Elise’s vantage point, it was impossible to see, but the old man’s shirt split, and was followed soon after by a line of blood.  The cut dragged itself from the back of his shoulder to the top, to the front, down his chest, tracing a lazy, traveling line.  The older parts of the cut got deeper, as the line lengthened. - Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>
  • He also owns a leather catchers glove that allows him to grab bullets out of the air.<ref>They kept advancing.  Musser raised his hand, wrapped in a leather glove that left the fingertips exposed.
    
    John fired.  It might have been a warning shot.
    
    Musser’s hand jerked.  The bullet hit him smack dab in the palm.  He flinched, shaking his hand, and dropped the lead.- Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.7</ref>

Abilities and Spells

He's capable of using augury to look back in time.<ref>The area around Musser was becoming nighttime, and that area was growing.  Lucy could see snow, and she could see the blood on the ground.-Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref>

His movements have a palpable weight to them.<ref name=":3" />

He was immune to Kevin Noone's Evil Eye.<ref>To Lucy’s Sight, Kevin’s gaze was a stain, subtle but vast, spreading over everything around him.  She could tell when he stopped looking around and started focusing on Musser.  The droplets of darkness beaded on Musser’s face and front, then slid off to the side like droplets on a windshield, over the top and sides of his head, and the sides of his neck and body. - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.2</ref>

He was able to See or sense which items Goblins had messed with.<ref>“Watch out!” Musser called out.  “He left things behind!” [...]

Mr. Musser walked forward, toward the destruction and mess. He bent down to pick up a plank, throwing it back atop the pile. He kept only half an eye on what Hadley Hennigar was doing. He looked up as something fell over, glass breaking. [...] Mr. Musser answered, “He laid traps. The bigger one did some obvious things, like the slime box. The small one did something to this stack of wood. Something to this box of nails.” - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.2</ref>.

Chronology

Before

Scion of the Musser clan, very patriarchal clan which doesn't give much support to female members.

Was part of the group that bound the Blue Heron God.

Summer Squabbles

He came to the Blue Heron Institute with Bristow to help him take back the school.

After learning that John Stiles was responsible for Alexander's death he and his allies visited Kennet, whilst their he was attacked by a group of Witch Hunters.

Tried to field a candidate for the Carmine Contest but failed and decided to leave.

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