Ethan Frye
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- "'Don't allow personal feelings to compromise the mission.'"
- ―Evie Frye, quoting her father, Ethan Frye, 1868.[src]
Ethan Frye (c. 1825 – 1868) was a schoolmaster and a member of the British Brotherhood of Assassins during the Victorian era, as well as the husband of Cecily Frye and the father of twins Jacob and Evie.
Biography
Early life as an Assassin
In 1841, Ethan traveled to India, where he helped his fellow Assassin Arbaaz Mir fight William Sleeman and recover the Koh-i-Noor; the two Assassins becoming good friends in the process. In 1847, following the death of his wife in childbirth and blaming the newborn twins for his loss, a distraught Ethan returned to India to take up the training of Mir's son, Jayadeep.[1]
Teaching him swordsmanship and theories, he put Jayadeep's lessons into practice in the streets of the city. Despite Ethan's harsh and gruff manner, the two eventually developed a mentor-pupil bond. Once, on a stealth lesson, he ordered Jayadeep to return with information gained from covert means. The student returned to his mentor about a gossip about Ethan's past. Ethan confessed, and admitted in his own way that his friendship with the boy had awakened a parental instinct.[1]
He eventually transitioned Jayadeep's training from wood swords to steel and discovered that the talented Jayadeep had a weakness for violence. He told this to the furious Arbaaz and depressed Pyara Kaur.[1]
Nevertheless, he left for England in 1853 when his time with Jayadeep influenced him into taking proper care of his children and mourn his wife's passing. Ethan raised the twins in the philosophy of the Creed, advising them to learn patience and to never let personal feelings get in the way of the mission. Evie took his words to heart, whereas Jacob merely wanted to drown them out.[1]
Operating with the Ghost
Sometime in 1862, Ethan tracked down the thief Boot in the St. Giles Rookery, who worked as a courier for the British Rite of the Templar Order. Threatening him with a Hidden Blade, he interrogated Boot to discover who his boss was. However, before the man could answer, he was shot by an unidentified individual as well as another innocent girl who accidentally took Ethan's shot. Angered by the death of an innocent, he stealthily chased and assassinated the man who turned out to be Boot's boss Robert Waugh, without further questioning him.[1]
Returning to his friend George Westhouse's Croydon home, Ethan lied as George interrogated his assassination of Waugh. The two then formulated a plan involving the Ghost and a precursor artifact that the Templars sought.[1]
Later life and death
In 1868, he died of pleurisy, some weeks before his children traveled to London.[2]
Personality and characteristics
- "I'm thirty-seven years of age, and I've seen more than my fair share of kills, and I know that notions of justice, equity and retribution play a second to skill, and skill is subordinate to luck. When fortune turns her face to you. When the killer's bullet goes elsewhere, when he drops his guard, you take your chance, before she turns away again."
- ―Ethan defending himself to George Westhouse, 1862.[src]
Ethan delighted in courting with danger and was unafraid of accidents that the Hidden Blade may cause. He had a sense of justice especially for the innocents and once assassinated a target because it accidentally killed a young girl.[1]
As well as being equipped with the Hidden Blade, Frye was armed with a Pall Mall Colt revolver. Ethan was a skilled freerunner and a master of stealth. He was also talented in spying and in interrogation.[1]
Trivia
- The name Ethan (איתן) is of Hebrew origins, meaning "firm", "strong" or "impetuous". Frye is a derivative of the English word free.
References
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