Retrograde

Retrograde is an Acanthus of the Free Council. He is a member of the Star Chamber, is of the Blank Badge legacy, and is married to Moonlight.

History
Retrograde was born and raised in Liverpool, where he fell into the dwindling punk scene, as well as hooking up with a group of local likely lads. This group had a habit of daring one another into things, and these dares escalated in scope and risk swiftly. After a smash-and-grab gone wrong, the young man who would become Retrograde and his friends were caught up in headlong flight from responding police officers on foot.

So far, so typical, but when a car joined the pursuit, Retrograde Awakened. He couldn't tell you how he evaded arrest - he vaguely suspects he manipulated Time to the extent that he could outrun a car, but he's far from sure. Struggling to make sense of it all, he was recognised at one of the smaller gigs he attended by the bass guitarist (and only guitarist) of the headline act as another mage.

So it was that he met Koor, who brought him into the Free Council, into her Cabal and, later, into her Legacy. The two of them were as close as anyone gets by this time, but he lacked one thing Koor had in spades; the ability to hide the author of the acts she perpetrated. He was quickly identified as a Blank Badge and, when he refused to say who'd inducted him, exiled beyond the see of the Mersey Consilium.

Hearing that Preston was much laxer when it came to Legacies which fell somewhere between 'accepted' and 'Left-Handed', he moved to their Consilium, where he immediately joined the prominent Council Cabal. As Blank Badges are, he was immediately swept up in its politics, and it was during this time that he met a woman whose stunning looks swept all thought of Koor from his mind.

Falling so hard for Moonlight brought him into regular contact with the Court, and as he and she began to push harder and harder against de Molay's rule, they became regular targets. He believes to this day that when de Molay took a knife to Moonlight's face it was as often about what he had done, a calculated gesture to punish Retrograde more than scarring him would have done.

He is wrong in this.

Determining that they would rise above this, the couple encouraged one another to greater and greater heights, and when Moonlight joined the Pure Sovereigns, Retrograde stood by her staunchly, fighting any criticism of her for it. She wanted to improve herself, and he couldn't refuse to support that.

They were married in 2012.