Post by mugenginga on Aug 20, 2010 20:26:40 GMT -5
Full Name: Faisal Hakim
Nicknames: Osiris (and related titles)
Age: 17
Height: 175 cm/~5’8”
Weight: 61 kg/~135 lbs
Gender: Male
Race: Human (Avatar)
Alliance: Neutral Good
Home: Cairo, Egypt
Franchise: Yu-Gi-Oh! Original Character
Physical Description
Faisal is of average height for his Egyptian ethnicity. His skin is tanned as would be expected of that ethnicity. Its fairly middle of the road in regards to being pale or dark for people of his race. He is a bit on the lean side of things, and has been called lanky by some. Its not anything out of the ordinary, but it does depict his lack of musculature. He has pronounced eyes, the first feature most people notice about him. They are golden yellow and stand out very sharply against his skin.
His hair is fire truck red by birth, and it’s rather long. It tapers as it comes down, but the bottom point would come to the base of his spine if it didn’t have a habit of curving slightly to one direction or another. His bangs are rather pronounced, with two large pieces flaring to either side, only the bottom part concealing his ears due to their angle. The tips are split into two distinct pieces. They don’t quite meet at the center of his forehead. Instead, he has two long tapering strands in a loose half circle. The tips come just past the very tops of his eyes. The main part of his hair has a series of sort of stylized clumps. It almost looks like you might expect spikes too, and in a way resembles a tail. It curves to the side a bit in one direction or the other, with a right curve being the most common.
Faisal prefers to dress in combinations of red and black. He is almost never seen outside of pants, and he favors jeans over other types. Shirts tend to be short sleeved if they have sleeves at all, and he has a liking of trenchcoats. Jewelry consists of silver in various locations. He’ll always have a thick pewter ring on both middle fingers, plain bands lacking decoration.
He comes to the Island in his favorite outfit. His shirt is a a sleeveless black muscle shirt with a tall collar concealing his throat and his pants are tight black jeans. He has on a rather impressive trenchcoat. It is red in color, but a noticeably darker shade than his hair. The collar is tall and curves in a bit of a wave near the front, allowing the tips to come up in front of his face while the main part only comes about halfway up his neck. Around the back in a semi circle is a thin silver metal piece that seems there for style and no other reason. It comes to a clearly defined point at both ends, which end just before the collar begins to wave upwards.
The sleeves of the trenchcoat have an exaggerated bit of fabric that seem to form a kind of pseudo spikes that come off his shoulder. The trenchcoat isn’t the sort that buckles all the way up. At about the middle of his chest, the coat curves upwards to create a sort of spike illusion. On the right side are three silver buttons. The top is the largest and each one gets a bit smaller than the last. They snap on the left side, but Faisal never chooses to.
The trenchcoat continues in down. About a quarter down from the waist, the trenchcoat branches into two pointed curved shapes. They resemble two dimensional spikes. Somehow they seem to hold their stiff position and ripple in the wind at the same time. The tips are just above his knees. It continues down and ends in a point that curves to the left side. If it were to point straight down, the tip would drag on the ground. How it keeps this form is a mystery, but it is not unheard of in fashion in Faisal’s home world. The lining of the trenchcoat is black. The long sleeves of it are tucked into two arm-tight silver bracelets, and as such the bottoms of them can’t be seen. The bracelets are just past his wrist, allowing full movement.
Faisal wears a black belt over the top of his trenchcoat, guiding it a bit and keeping it close to his body. The belt is worn at a sharp angle, and the lower side is on the right. It can easily be removed, as the buckle actually has more in common with a seat belt. The button to undo it is on the top, but is designed in a way that makes the top mostly smooth except for the button outline, and it isn’t visible from most angles. The buckle is a plain silver rectangle. Evenly spaced from the buckle and each other are raised blue ovals. They are of a high quality shatter resistant plastic.
The teenager has tall red leather boots. They end in points at the front but have a flat back. The points come up higher than the back, and are a couple inches down from his knees. The tops have a silver border. There are four silver rings evenly spaced from the top border at the back and each other. They are thin. The tips of his boots are silver and come to a slight point. They aren’t sharp, but they’d do more damage than a standard blunt tip if he were to use them to kick. The sole is also lined in silver, although its an alloy that keeps it strong.
Weapons
Faisal doesn’t carry any weapons on him in the traditional sense. He does possess a deck of forty Duel Monsters cards, complete with a side deck of fifteen cards. The deck is a type of deck known as “Strategy”, the deck style used by the “King of Duelists” in his home world, Yuugi Mutou. Faisal’s deck focuses on Dark and Earth attribute monsters with a focus on Dragons and Zombie types. His spells and traps revolve around support for those attributes and types.
The reason why his cards are considered weapons is very specific. Cards from his homeworld function more like portable versions of the stone tablets in his Ancient Egypt. He is able to summon the monsters displayed within as Ka, and use his Ba (life force) to activate the spells and traps. Not all of his cards serve the same purpose as displayed on the cards due to the battles being real as opposed to games. However, he can still use them. See Abilities/Powers for a full explanation.
Abilities/Powers
Faisal is the avatar of the Egyptian god known as Osiris. This isn’t to say he isn’t his own person as well. Where Faisal ends and Osiris begins is a topic best left up to scholars. He seems more his own person with the potential to use the powers the god he represents might and the ability to call upon memories and knowledge as they are needed. They are perhaps described as aspects of the same entity, and for all his potential and power Faisal is generally a normal teenager allowed to live his life as a normal human would.
He possesses a lot of powers one might expect from a polytheistic deity. He’s not all powerful by any means. His abilities center around things relating to the dead, the afterlife, and judging. They are not defined and will better be developed in plot. He can use various magical abilities associated with being a chief god of the dead and the underworld of his pantheon.
In specific relation to his cards, he knows how to use the spells, traps, and effects in a way not properly reflected in a simple card game. Because he is the avatar of a god who was most active when Ka were still being actively used, he has full understanding of such things. He also has a natural Ka that requires little to no effort to maintain, but it is linked to a card possessed by Atem. A limitation exists as a result of this, and both of them can’t use his natural Ka at the same time. The link exists in a manner that Faisal could interfere with and prevent Atem’s ability to summon the Sky Dragon, Osiris.
Skills
Faisal has a natural knack for picking out “tells” that people tend to show when they are lying or bluffing. Its not foolproof, but it is quite a bit better than average. He’s actually quite smart, getting top or near top marks in school almost his full life. He’s an excellent problem solver, and greatly enjoys things like puzzles. This grants him the ability to quickly pick up the rules of something new to him. He’s rather good at games involving bluffing due to his ability to pick out tells.
He speaks Egyptian Arabic as his first language due to it being the dominant language of his country, and he reads Standard Arabic. He has some limited skills with English, but his ordering of words and grammatical structuring makes it clear its a second language. It’s a bit under conversational. Of special note is his ability to both speak and read Ancient Egyptian, a skill granted due to his status as an avatar of an Ancient Egyptian deity.
Personality
Faisal is a rather competitive sort of person. He doesn’t run around getting into physical fights, but give him a clear rule structure and he’ll use it to prove his point. He has justified pride issues in regard to his skills in competitions. He’s an overall decent young man, but he’ll never turn down a game. He is surprisingly hard to upset given his competitive streak, with the only way to really piss him off is to insult his ability in a game after the fact (giving he understands the psychological aspects of games during).
He isn’t the world’s most social individual, the social interactions outside his home being limited to competitions and school. That isn’t so much to say he is abrasive, but he’s a bit choosy when it comes to picking his friends. He’s a bit judgmental of others in addition to his tendency to be cocky, and both of these will sometimes get in the way of developing friendships.
His competitiveness would actually make him a good friendly rival. A good way to earn his respect is to defeat him at something he considers himself good at, and its not in a manner that resembles a grudge. The only people he’ll run around disliking on the spot are people he reads as liars and those who refuse to play any games.
A special personality point is his hatred for luck based games and dislike of luck based strategies. He doesn’t consider card games to be of that sort, but he does for many traditional dice games such as Yahtzee. Basically, he hates games relying entirely on luck, but those with a strong luck element (drawing the right cards, for example) are fine as they require as much strategy as luck. Faisal does, however, recognize when lucky streaks transcend something as simple as “luck”... but until he realizes this he’ll despise the strategy and only begrudgingly accept it after.
History
Faisal Hakim was born on November 16th in Cairo to two parents, both whose ancestries were pure Egyptian as far back as the line could be traced. They were never able to have any other children, leaving Faisal an only child for his full life. His life was more or less average, nothing horrible or wonderful to speak of.
About a year back, the first localization proper of a card game known as Duel Monsters came to Egypt. Up until that point it had been released under the name Monsters and Wizards and had not seen much popularity. The release came at the start of a tournament known as Duelist Kingdom, and placed the release of Duel Monsters in Egypt as after the one in Japan.
The marketing campaign focused around the theme of the cards “returning home” and Industrial Illusions was making a point of the original inspiration for the game having come from Ancient Egypt. The company was using footage of various key duels that had happened in the tournament to help sell the product. It was catching this footage in a few store windows that got Faisal interested in the game, and he found extra interest in the Japanese teenager Yuugi Mutou, which the footage was focusing on as he had come in as the champion of the Tournament.
Something clicked a few days after the final between Mutou Yugi and Jyounouchi Katsuya (their names being displayed in English letters during the fight). It had been something that had been growing since Faisal had first seen Yuugi’s pendant during the Duel with who the English letters had called Kajiki Ryota. It was the knowledge that he was in fact the Egyptian god Osiris and that the Pharaoh history had forgotten had finally resurfaced. This had no impact on who Faisal was, just an interesting truth he now knew.
Faisal continued to his life normally. It was likely only a matter of time before his spirit was whole again, something it hadn’t been since Pegasus had brought the Ka of him and two other deities to the modern age via the god cards. While he respected the Pharaoh as his superior, there was nothing he needed to do for the destiny to play out as it should. He continued to play the game as he always had.
He was forced to defend himself a few times when a power brought forth Ka onto the world in massive numbers. Monster spirits from all over history were being summoned and controlled by an ancient force. Having full understanding of the beings but being unable to summon his own, he called upon the power of those he had in his cards to defend himself. He fell unconscious at one point by the power he allowed Atem to order from his innate Ka to combat the evil god that had appeared before even the time known as Ancient Egypt had existed... but things went normal enough.
It was when he felt part of himself leave the very dimension he currently existed in that he realized things had gone terribly wrong. That part of himself was tied to the Pharaoh via the god card, and it only meant that the card had left the dimension. The drain on his spirit was now constant, and he collapsed that same day only to wake up before he hit the ground. It was this drain that meant it would take three days of focus for him to jump dimensions to reunite his spirit... he only felt sorry for his parents, who felt their son was in a three day coma.
Other
OMIGOSH YOU SPELLED JOUNOUCHI AND YUUGI’S NAMES WRONG.
No, no I didn’t. It’s my way of dealing with “canon” romanizations. The Jyounouchi spelling shows up in the Japanese anime, and the “official” romanization for Yuugi’s name is Yugi. I would do the same thing with Raito vs Light in Death Note (unless someone forced me otherwise...). If his name were to come up in ‘verse in English, I’d say it was spelled Light. In a fanfic I would spell it Raito given the Japanese name (that uses the “tsuki” kanji, if anyone is curious). I’d spell Ryota’s name Ryouta, btw.
Faisal is Osiris, as in the god and the god card. I asked NN1 about this quite a while back and she said they would count as OCs. Ra and Obelisk are already ready, and may show up before Faisal depending on how the plot goes. Duel Monsters anime canon only is directly referenced in the history.
Pictures
Rough Reference: www.sheezyart.com/art/view/2255772/
Nicknames: Osiris (and related titles)
Age: 17
Height: 175 cm/~5’8”
Weight: 61 kg/~135 lbs
Gender: Male
Race: Human (Avatar)
Alliance: Neutral Good
Home: Cairo, Egypt
Franchise: Yu-Gi-Oh! Original Character
Physical Description
Faisal is of average height for his Egyptian ethnicity. His skin is tanned as would be expected of that ethnicity. Its fairly middle of the road in regards to being pale or dark for people of his race. He is a bit on the lean side of things, and has been called lanky by some. Its not anything out of the ordinary, but it does depict his lack of musculature. He has pronounced eyes, the first feature most people notice about him. They are golden yellow and stand out very sharply against his skin.
His hair is fire truck red by birth, and it’s rather long. It tapers as it comes down, but the bottom point would come to the base of his spine if it didn’t have a habit of curving slightly to one direction or another. His bangs are rather pronounced, with two large pieces flaring to either side, only the bottom part concealing his ears due to their angle. The tips are split into two distinct pieces. They don’t quite meet at the center of his forehead. Instead, he has two long tapering strands in a loose half circle. The tips come just past the very tops of his eyes. The main part of his hair has a series of sort of stylized clumps. It almost looks like you might expect spikes too, and in a way resembles a tail. It curves to the side a bit in one direction or the other, with a right curve being the most common.
Faisal prefers to dress in combinations of red and black. He is almost never seen outside of pants, and he favors jeans over other types. Shirts tend to be short sleeved if they have sleeves at all, and he has a liking of trenchcoats. Jewelry consists of silver in various locations. He’ll always have a thick pewter ring on both middle fingers, plain bands lacking decoration.
He comes to the Island in his favorite outfit. His shirt is a a sleeveless black muscle shirt with a tall collar concealing his throat and his pants are tight black jeans. He has on a rather impressive trenchcoat. It is red in color, but a noticeably darker shade than his hair. The collar is tall and curves in a bit of a wave near the front, allowing the tips to come up in front of his face while the main part only comes about halfway up his neck. Around the back in a semi circle is a thin silver metal piece that seems there for style and no other reason. It comes to a clearly defined point at both ends, which end just before the collar begins to wave upwards.
The sleeves of the trenchcoat have an exaggerated bit of fabric that seem to form a kind of pseudo spikes that come off his shoulder. The trenchcoat isn’t the sort that buckles all the way up. At about the middle of his chest, the coat curves upwards to create a sort of spike illusion. On the right side are three silver buttons. The top is the largest and each one gets a bit smaller than the last. They snap on the left side, but Faisal never chooses to.
The trenchcoat continues in down. About a quarter down from the waist, the trenchcoat branches into two pointed curved shapes. They resemble two dimensional spikes. Somehow they seem to hold their stiff position and ripple in the wind at the same time. The tips are just above his knees. It continues down and ends in a point that curves to the left side. If it were to point straight down, the tip would drag on the ground. How it keeps this form is a mystery, but it is not unheard of in fashion in Faisal’s home world. The lining of the trenchcoat is black. The long sleeves of it are tucked into two arm-tight silver bracelets, and as such the bottoms of them can’t be seen. The bracelets are just past his wrist, allowing full movement.
Faisal wears a black belt over the top of his trenchcoat, guiding it a bit and keeping it close to his body. The belt is worn at a sharp angle, and the lower side is on the right. It can easily be removed, as the buckle actually has more in common with a seat belt. The button to undo it is on the top, but is designed in a way that makes the top mostly smooth except for the button outline, and it isn’t visible from most angles. The buckle is a plain silver rectangle. Evenly spaced from the buckle and each other are raised blue ovals. They are of a high quality shatter resistant plastic.
The teenager has tall red leather boots. They end in points at the front but have a flat back. The points come up higher than the back, and are a couple inches down from his knees. The tops have a silver border. There are four silver rings evenly spaced from the top border at the back and each other. They are thin. The tips of his boots are silver and come to a slight point. They aren’t sharp, but they’d do more damage than a standard blunt tip if he were to use them to kick. The sole is also lined in silver, although its an alloy that keeps it strong.
Weapons
Faisal doesn’t carry any weapons on him in the traditional sense. He does possess a deck of forty Duel Monsters cards, complete with a side deck of fifteen cards. The deck is a type of deck known as “Strategy”, the deck style used by the “King of Duelists” in his home world, Yuugi Mutou. Faisal’s deck focuses on Dark and Earth attribute monsters with a focus on Dragons and Zombie types. His spells and traps revolve around support for those attributes and types.
The reason why his cards are considered weapons is very specific. Cards from his homeworld function more like portable versions of the stone tablets in his Ancient Egypt. He is able to summon the monsters displayed within as Ka, and use his Ba (life force) to activate the spells and traps. Not all of his cards serve the same purpose as displayed on the cards due to the battles being real as opposed to games. However, he can still use them. See Abilities/Powers for a full explanation.
Abilities/Powers
Faisal is the avatar of the Egyptian god known as Osiris. This isn’t to say he isn’t his own person as well. Where Faisal ends and Osiris begins is a topic best left up to scholars. He seems more his own person with the potential to use the powers the god he represents might and the ability to call upon memories and knowledge as they are needed. They are perhaps described as aspects of the same entity, and for all his potential and power Faisal is generally a normal teenager allowed to live his life as a normal human would.
He possesses a lot of powers one might expect from a polytheistic deity. He’s not all powerful by any means. His abilities center around things relating to the dead, the afterlife, and judging. They are not defined and will better be developed in plot. He can use various magical abilities associated with being a chief god of the dead and the underworld of his pantheon.
In specific relation to his cards, he knows how to use the spells, traps, and effects in a way not properly reflected in a simple card game. Because he is the avatar of a god who was most active when Ka were still being actively used, he has full understanding of such things. He also has a natural Ka that requires little to no effort to maintain, but it is linked to a card possessed by Atem. A limitation exists as a result of this, and both of them can’t use his natural Ka at the same time. The link exists in a manner that Faisal could interfere with and prevent Atem’s ability to summon the Sky Dragon, Osiris.
Skills
Faisal has a natural knack for picking out “tells” that people tend to show when they are lying or bluffing. Its not foolproof, but it is quite a bit better than average. He’s actually quite smart, getting top or near top marks in school almost his full life. He’s an excellent problem solver, and greatly enjoys things like puzzles. This grants him the ability to quickly pick up the rules of something new to him. He’s rather good at games involving bluffing due to his ability to pick out tells.
He speaks Egyptian Arabic as his first language due to it being the dominant language of his country, and he reads Standard Arabic. He has some limited skills with English, but his ordering of words and grammatical structuring makes it clear its a second language. It’s a bit under conversational. Of special note is his ability to both speak and read Ancient Egyptian, a skill granted due to his status as an avatar of an Ancient Egyptian deity.
Personality
Faisal is a rather competitive sort of person. He doesn’t run around getting into physical fights, but give him a clear rule structure and he’ll use it to prove his point. He has justified pride issues in regard to his skills in competitions. He’s an overall decent young man, but he’ll never turn down a game. He is surprisingly hard to upset given his competitive streak, with the only way to really piss him off is to insult his ability in a game after the fact (giving he understands the psychological aspects of games during).
He isn’t the world’s most social individual, the social interactions outside his home being limited to competitions and school. That isn’t so much to say he is abrasive, but he’s a bit choosy when it comes to picking his friends. He’s a bit judgmental of others in addition to his tendency to be cocky, and both of these will sometimes get in the way of developing friendships.
His competitiveness would actually make him a good friendly rival. A good way to earn his respect is to defeat him at something he considers himself good at, and its not in a manner that resembles a grudge. The only people he’ll run around disliking on the spot are people he reads as liars and those who refuse to play any games.
A special personality point is his hatred for luck based games and dislike of luck based strategies. He doesn’t consider card games to be of that sort, but he does for many traditional dice games such as Yahtzee. Basically, he hates games relying entirely on luck, but those with a strong luck element (drawing the right cards, for example) are fine as they require as much strategy as luck. Faisal does, however, recognize when lucky streaks transcend something as simple as “luck”... but until he realizes this he’ll despise the strategy and only begrudgingly accept it after.
History
Faisal Hakim was born on November 16th in Cairo to two parents, both whose ancestries were pure Egyptian as far back as the line could be traced. They were never able to have any other children, leaving Faisal an only child for his full life. His life was more or less average, nothing horrible or wonderful to speak of.
About a year back, the first localization proper of a card game known as Duel Monsters came to Egypt. Up until that point it had been released under the name Monsters and Wizards and had not seen much popularity. The release came at the start of a tournament known as Duelist Kingdom, and placed the release of Duel Monsters in Egypt as after the one in Japan.
The marketing campaign focused around the theme of the cards “returning home” and Industrial Illusions was making a point of the original inspiration for the game having come from Ancient Egypt. The company was using footage of various key duels that had happened in the tournament to help sell the product. It was catching this footage in a few store windows that got Faisal interested in the game, and he found extra interest in the Japanese teenager Yuugi Mutou, which the footage was focusing on as he had come in as the champion of the Tournament.
Something clicked a few days after the final between Mutou Yugi and Jyounouchi Katsuya (their names being displayed in English letters during the fight). It had been something that had been growing since Faisal had first seen Yuugi’s pendant during the Duel with who the English letters had called Kajiki Ryota. It was the knowledge that he was in fact the Egyptian god Osiris and that the Pharaoh history had forgotten had finally resurfaced. This had no impact on who Faisal was, just an interesting truth he now knew.
Faisal continued to his life normally. It was likely only a matter of time before his spirit was whole again, something it hadn’t been since Pegasus had brought the Ka of him and two other deities to the modern age via the god cards. While he respected the Pharaoh as his superior, there was nothing he needed to do for the destiny to play out as it should. He continued to play the game as he always had.
He was forced to defend himself a few times when a power brought forth Ka onto the world in massive numbers. Monster spirits from all over history were being summoned and controlled by an ancient force. Having full understanding of the beings but being unable to summon his own, he called upon the power of those he had in his cards to defend himself. He fell unconscious at one point by the power he allowed Atem to order from his innate Ka to combat the evil god that had appeared before even the time known as Ancient Egypt had existed... but things went normal enough.
It was when he felt part of himself leave the very dimension he currently existed in that he realized things had gone terribly wrong. That part of himself was tied to the Pharaoh via the god card, and it only meant that the card had left the dimension. The drain on his spirit was now constant, and he collapsed that same day only to wake up before he hit the ground. It was this drain that meant it would take three days of focus for him to jump dimensions to reunite his spirit... he only felt sorry for his parents, who felt their son was in a three day coma.
Other
OMIGOSH YOU SPELLED JOUNOUCHI AND YUUGI’S NAMES WRONG.
No, no I didn’t. It’s my way of dealing with “canon” romanizations. The Jyounouchi spelling shows up in the Japanese anime, and the “official” romanization for Yuugi’s name is Yugi. I would do the same thing with Raito vs Light in Death Note (unless someone forced me otherwise...). If his name were to come up in ‘verse in English, I’d say it was spelled Light. In a fanfic I would spell it Raito given the Japanese name (that uses the “tsuki” kanji, if anyone is curious). I’d spell Ryota’s name Ryouta, btw.
Faisal is Osiris, as in the god and the god card. I asked NN1 about this quite a while back and she said they would count as OCs. Ra and Obelisk are already ready, and may show up before Faisal depending on how the plot goes. Duel Monsters anime canon only is directly referenced in the history.
Pictures
Rough Reference: www.sheezyart.com/art/view/2255772/
