Silas Montgomery

Gifted, warm, and incredibly awkward, Silas Montgomery has recently found himself aboard The Endurance and under the command of its captain, Molly Roberts.

Personality
Silas is gentle, kind, and excessevily polite. He is earnest in his interest in others and his willingness to learn new things, a fact that can make him seem overexcited or appear as though he's trying far too hard to please others. He tends to daydream, espeically when he's doing something he finds easy, but when he's challenged, he's focused to the point of shutting out everything else. His vivacity for study has a nasty habit of making him hard to approach and even harder to get to know.

Silas is a prodigy and a scholar at heart. He has studied and mastered at least ten musical instruments to the point of composing his own pieces, though he will insist that he is nowhere near the level of his instructors. He has a talent for research and a love of history and legends, meaning that he is rarely seen without at least two or three books on hand at any given time. He is one of the top students at Our Lady of Wisdom University, though he has a difficult time remembering names and schedules.

Polite to a fault, Silas rarely refers to others without some sort of honorific. Only the members of his family are immune to this, and even then he will often catch himself sneaking in a "miss" or "sir" here and there.

Silas longs for adventure. He has a secret interest in penny dreadful adventure serials, which has given him a skewed and romanticised view of Rovers and their lifestyles. Once in a while he will imagine running away, but he's not sure he could lift that many books for such a long period of time.

History
Silas was born to Taltha Montgomery and LadyWhatever Montgomery in Welkin YEAR. He is the youngest of eight children and the third child born to LadyWhatever, Taltha's third wife. Each of Silas's siblings have either taken their place as high-ranking businessmen and businesswomen of their father's trading company, Montgomery Co., or they are in the process of studying to join them. Growing up, Silas earned a fair amount of money babysitting his neices and nephews.

He has spent a year in university thus far, and his interests have strayed to far less economically-minded academic pursuits than his siblings, a fact that has his father worried and his siblings wondering if Silas will slow them down.