Lingon Çamain

Lingon Çamain [ˈli.ŋon ˈça.mai̯n] (often pronounced [ˈliŋən] in English) is a recurring character in the Zaun Ajma series and the main protagonist of Lingon and the First Survivor and its upcoming sequels. He becomes a zaun ajma while serving as a corporal in the Minsan Army during their botched invasion of Wistania.

Physical Description
Lingon is described in Lingon and the First Survivor as a 21-year-old man with blue eyes, a sharp face, and long white hair usually tied back in a pony-tail. He is also described as "barely physically fit enough to serve" and unable to do more than fifteen push ups. He is near-sighted and suffers from post traumatic stress, mostly from the death of his mother.

Early Life
Born and raised in Minsa, Lingon had a fairly quiet childhood separated from much of the drama and politics of Minsa until his mother's sudden death by suicide when he was nine years old. After his father, in a drunken rage, attempted to murder a child he had mistaken for his son, Lingon was moved into an abusive foster home until going to military academy in Nêssa at seventeen. After being promoted to Corporal, he was deployed to Wistania to assist the Minsan Invasion as a logistics officer.

Lingon is also a free-verse poet and uses a poem journal to record his experiences, questions, and reactions to his daily life as a way to process and regulate his emotions. His poetry was encouraged and enjoyed by his biological parents but looked down upon by his foster parents. When he was deployed to Wistania, he was allowed to bring one personal item, which he chose to be his poem journal.

Military Service
Like most Minsans boys, he attended a military academy from age 17. He was deployed to Wistania as a Minor First Grade Corporal Logistic Officer in Battalion 090 under the command of Lt. Keun. His primary job was to follow attack squads and survey the aftermath of battles to record deaths and acquired loot. He also took care of keeping important documents such as written orders, maps, guides, and patents. After The Flare, he and his battalion were forced to evacuate. However, they were ambushed by redsights, leaving Lingon as presumably the only survivor.

While attempting to find his own way back to shore so he could catch the ships back home, Lingon met Alaija, a blindfolded Wistanian boy with redsight who needed his help to get to Dazal for treatment. Because of his friendship with Alaija and later alliance with the Wistanians, he was dishonorably discharged. Afterwards, he betrayed the Empire and decided to stay in Wistania.

Personality and Traits
Lingon has a reserved and timid personality, but has deep empathy for people. Struggling with post-traumatic stress, he relies on introspection and meditation to process his often uncontrollable emotions. He becomes easily anxious and suffers from occasional panic attacks. Although he did not have many friends, he was extremely close to the few he made, especially Tsalo, who perished during the redsight ambush.

In the first chapter of First Survivor, it is said that Lingon "had never fallen in love even though he had tried," suggesting he is asexual and/or aromantic.

Powers and Abilities
Lingon is a zaun ajma. The ajma inside him helps calm and control him during moments of stress and panic, in addition to giving him visions. His visions typically allow him to interact with people that he knows but at different points in time, such as his mother from before her death, Alaija in the future after being healed of redsight, and even himself as a young boy.

Like all zaun ajma, Lingon also has the ability to use his body's energy to create light, emanate heat, and perform telekinesis.