Bastien of Seachange

Biography:

Bastien first appears in A Gathering of Leaves.

Correspondence Chart Entries from The Portable Grove

Denotation	Bastien of Seachange (French, short form of Sebastien, ultimately derived from the Greek sebastos: venerable, there is also the potential play on the English word bastion; all Ophion emanations have the surname of Seachange, Early Modern English: a change wrought by the sea, a transformation, something rich and strange.)
Numeration	85th emanation of Ashtara; 9th branch of Ophion; 88 in the correspondence chart.
Age	26
Hotness	9/10
Vital Statistics	1.807 meters tall, cock size 17.22 cm when erect.
Description	Moody with extreme focus, his handsome face is occasionally lit with a mischievous grin. He has sandy brown, unevenly laser cut hair. Wears a striped shirt with a scarf tied around his neck, lots of heavy rings on both hands.
Skills	Fencer.
Sexual Prowess and Kinks	Blood-play.
Average Duration of Play	Unknown.
Totem Tree	Arbutus menziesii, the Pacific madrone or arbutus.
Fixed Star	Hamal, the ram (α Ari) ), also called Dil-kar, proclaimer of the dawn, Dil-gan, messenger of light, or Ku, leading one.
Color
Esoteric Symbol	The Minchiate trump L’Ariete, Aries.
Function	Administrative resistance.
Official Title	Maestro Bastien of Seachange, Order of the Cockatrice.
His Prophecy	Piercing; he doesn’t love a wall.
Dessert	Nau’gsholi baklava with Cu’enashti resin syrup.

Persistence of Weeds Addendum

Branch Growth Characteristics	Ophion branches grow immediately when their spark is absorbed into the pleroma due to the excess of nul-energy in Ophion’s ocean.
Nul-history	Caught in Tara’s hand during the first diving expedition with Hollis.
Proto-conscious Root Concept	Impedance, designated Bastion.
Prime Number of Energy Resonance	457
From Self-Portraits Not-of-Me II: Baby Pictures by Driscoll Garrett