Post by jessie on Apr 23, 2016 12:14:33 GMT -5
Full Name: Enridian Desmond Lamorte
Nickname(s): En, Enrie,(he actually goes by his middle name these days, and use of these nicknames could make him real mad) Des, Dessy
Age: 23
Height: 5'4"
Weight: around ~120lbs I guess?
Gender: Male
Race: Human(?)*
Alliance: Ambiguous, at best. Whatever benefits him.
Home: Lightsend, America, Earth
Franchise: Original Character
Physical Description
With his height and round baby face, he's often mistook as much younger than he is. Des's hair is black, curly, usually cropped short in an attempt to tame it. His skin is really pale, and he appears rather sickly, and it's easy to forget he's actually alive and not some sort of reanimated dead. Constantly looks tired. Dark red eyes, can be mistaken for brown at first glance, but when his powers start flaring up, they lighten to a brighter red and start letting off a glow.
Des normally wears a brown hoodie over a dark red t-shirt, normally zipped up to some degree. He generally doesn't care much about his appearance and will wear whatever, as long as it covers him, y'know? On his left hand is a scar, both on the palm and back, as if someone stabbed through it. Which someone did.
Weapons and Accessories
He keeps several charms at all times, of varying uses, but most of them are for warding off nightmares. And knives. Not one knife, knives. He's got one in his pocket, one down his boot, one up his sleeve, one in his inside pocket, god knows how many others. If you think you've gotten all his weapons off him, pat him down again, you've most likely missed a dozen more.
Unbeknownst to Des, he has with him a powerful enchantment. The first time he's attacked, in any way, it will burst around him in a bright light, deflecting the attack. A symbol, a circle on top of a line, will appear, and then fade. It won't work again, it's one-use.
Abilities/Powers
He's become quite proficient in his chosen branch of magic, necromancy. His necromantic powers entail an ability to animate objects or small corpses for a limited time, large corpses for a drastically shorter time, control over spirits, inducing injury or energy loss, healing injury or energy loss, and sensing the dead.
Apart from the necromancy, Des was born with the innate ability to see and interact with ghosts. Strange how it ended up going so hand-in-hand with his magic branch, but life's funny that way. It might be a bit weird for him to be on an island where there are ghosts that are visible to everyone.
A while back he gained an interest in sigil magic, specifically, blood sigils. Sanguimancy and sanguisignumancy are powerful but difficult to learn and control, which was actually what appealed to him. He loves to challenge himself. So far he's only learned one, which can unlock any lock. Supposedly. He's not a master of it, still.
Weaknesses
He is horribly hydrophobic. He never learned how to swim, which over time developed into a detrimental phobia, to the point where even thinking about going near a large body of water makes him choke up. Some days it's so bad he can't even shower.
He's also pretty bad at defending himself, mainly because harming others sorta freaks him out. He can get past this block, but it takes him a pretty second. He also gets random pain in random joints at random times. The scar on his hand often acts up, which caused him to learn how to be right-handed. If he overuses his magic, he goes into coughing fits, and if pushed, can start bleeding from the gums, nose, etc.
And he's photosensitive, which I don't think is really a weakness, but where else to put it?
Skills
He can sharpen, clean, and wield knives quite well. He's no master of it, but, it doesn't take a genius to cut things. A semi-experienced cook, Des probably couldn't land a job at Four Seasons or anything, but he knows his stuff. He's also quite agile, good at climbing stuff like trees or something.
Des is also fluent in Latin and semi-fluent in Greek. This is useful for spells, which are usually in ancient languages such as those. But he also cusses in Latin frequently, because it's fun and he can. He knows minimal French, as in, like 3 words. He's been trying to learn ASL as well.
Personality
He's still a sweet boy, deep, deep, deep, deep down. He just has layers and layers of sarcasm and repressed emotion covering it up, that's all.
Rough around the edges, Des doesn't come off very friendly most of the time. And that's intentional, he doesn't intend to make any more friends than he needs to. However, sometimes he forgets himself in the moment and gets roped into helping out when it would serve him no benefit. Generosity is a quality he's been actively trying to rid himself of, and he still finds resistance.
He's got a few soft spots. His sympathies can't help but stir when there's a child involved, especially a child abandoned, or misled by their authority figure. Oh man, what a specific example, wonder why. It's easy for him to forget that he swore off helping when there's no benefit for himself, and then he remembers halfway through the task, and gets really pissed off at himself, so that's fun.
Des hates being indebted to people, and he hates seeming as if he can't provide for himself. Even though he's got a short end on the economical side, he's loathe to let anyone pay for anything for him. He can't stand it. Seriously, if someone offers to front for him, he really bristles. If they actually do it, he either starts hysterically sobbing or hates them forever. Or both.
He's very free with his use of emotion, which can be slightly dangerous paired with the power he holds. The fuse to his temper is short, and he's always steaming slightly. Though he finds it harder to loosen his grip on positive emotions, because he's wary of letting himself be vulnerable.
History
Hoo, boy, okay. Gonna have to shorten this one up.
Both his parents died the day he was born, mother from childbirth complications, father in an unrelated mugging. He was taken in by a man named... yeah that's complicated, he had like 15 names. Let's go with Memphis. So he was adopted by Memphis, who had previously taken in another orphan, Lillyan. Memphis was a necromancer, and raised him in those ways.
Years pass, y'know, life happens. Not as normal, since he's magic, but nothing really to go into detail about. He makes friends, he grows up, whatever. Until he's 14. The detail is still muddy, but he gets kidnapped, his captor stabbing through his left hand to subdue him. That's where his scar is from. In this universe, he stays a little too long in that situation, and had to rescue himself. Prior to this incident, he'd been a loving and kind boy. The shift in demeanor is understandable.
Then he realises his home life is a bit off. Then his sister Lillyan flies the coop and he has to deal with home life alone. Then he finds out Memphis has been lying to him for years, about multiple things. And he just kind of loses it. This is when he's around 18, 19 years old, by the way. He has a fall-out with everyone close to him one by one, like dominoes. And just kind of, packs his things and leaves one night. Moves in with an old friend from high school, Erec Faulkner, and tries to make due. Starts going by his middle name. Becomes a ghost detective.
And one day, he's skulking through the city, tracking down one of his leads. When this person grabs him. He's immediately like, this is where I die. The person is wearing the type of hood that shadows their whole face, and it has this symbol on it. Des couldn't make it out, but that shit just screams 'cultist'. He broke the person's hold and ran for it, but got caught again. But instead of killing him, they just tossed him into a portal. Like, yeah, okay? At least he's not dead. But he is... here.
Other
*He's actually partly enhuman, which will take some extensive explaining, which I'm not even gonna do. Basically: he's some fraction fae and he's really magic because of it, also he's got really sharp teeth.
Mannerisms: runs his hand through his hair, bites his lips when he's nervous to the point that they're usually bruised, makes wixen hand-signs to calm himself down. When he's thinking, he often plays his tongue along his teeth. And he majorly dislikes hair-cuts, though he suffers through it for necessity.
For those unaware, in another life, he was Aurthur Captor's son.
Picture(s)
N/A (*heavy sigh*)
Nickname(s): En, Enrie,(he actually goes by his middle name these days, and use of these nicknames could make him real mad) Des, Dessy
Age: 23
Height: 5'4"
Weight: around ~120lbs I guess?
Gender: Male
Race: Human(?)*
Alliance: Ambiguous, at best. Whatever benefits him.
Home: Lightsend, America, Earth
Franchise: Original Character
Physical Description
With his height and round baby face, he's often mistook as much younger than he is. Des's hair is black, curly, usually cropped short in an attempt to tame it. His skin is really pale, and he appears rather sickly, and it's easy to forget he's actually alive and not some sort of reanimated dead. Constantly looks tired. Dark red eyes, can be mistaken for brown at first glance, but when his powers start flaring up, they lighten to a brighter red and start letting off a glow.
Des normally wears a brown hoodie over a dark red t-shirt, normally zipped up to some degree. He generally doesn't care much about his appearance and will wear whatever, as long as it covers him, y'know? On his left hand is a scar, both on the palm and back, as if someone stabbed through it. Which someone did.
Weapons and Accessories
He keeps several charms at all times, of varying uses, but most of them are for warding off nightmares. And knives. Not one knife, knives. He's got one in his pocket, one down his boot, one up his sleeve, one in his inside pocket, god knows how many others. If you think you've gotten all his weapons off him, pat him down again, you've most likely missed a dozen more.
Unbeknownst to Des, he has with him a powerful enchantment. The first time he's attacked, in any way, it will burst around him in a bright light, deflecting the attack. A symbol, a circle on top of a line, will appear, and then fade. It won't work again, it's one-use.
Abilities/Powers
He's become quite proficient in his chosen branch of magic, necromancy. His necromantic powers entail an ability to animate objects or small corpses for a limited time, large corpses for a drastically shorter time, control over spirits, inducing injury or energy loss, healing injury or energy loss, and sensing the dead.
Apart from the necromancy, Des was born with the innate ability to see and interact with ghosts. Strange how it ended up going so hand-in-hand with his magic branch, but life's funny that way. It might be a bit weird for him to be on an island where there are ghosts that are visible to everyone.
A while back he gained an interest in sigil magic, specifically, blood sigils. Sanguimancy and sanguisignumancy are powerful but difficult to learn and control, which was actually what appealed to him. He loves to challenge himself. So far he's only learned one, which can unlock any lock. Supposedly. He's not a master of it, still.
Weaknesses
He is horribly hydrophobic. He never learned how to swim, which over time developed into a detrimental phobia, to the point where even thinking about going near a large body of water makes him choke up. Some days it's so bad he can't even shower.
He's also pretty bad at defending himself, mainly because harming others sorta freaks him out. He can get past this block, but it takes him a pretty second. He also gets random pain in random joints at random times. The scar on his hand often acts up, which caused him to learn how to be right-handed. If he overuses his magic, he goes into coughing fits, and if pushed, can start bleeding from the gums, nose, etc.
And he's photosensitive, which I don't think is really a weakness, but where else to put it?
Skills
He can sharpen, clean, and wield knives quite well. He's no master of it, but, it doesn't take a genius to cut things. A semi-experienced cook, Des probably couldn't land a job at Four Seasons or anything, but he knows his stuff. He's also quite agile, good at climbing stuff like trees or something.
Des is also fluent in Latin and semi-fluent in Greek. This is useful for spells, which are usually in ancient languages such as those. But he also cusses in Latin frequently, because it's fun and he can. He knows minimal French, as in, like 3 words. He's been trying to learn ASL as well.
Personality
He's still a sweet boy, deep, deep, deep, deep down. He just has layers and layers of sarcasm and repressed emotion covering it up, that's all.
Rough around the edges, Des doesn't come off very friendly most of the time. And that's intentional, he doesn't intend to make any more friends than he needs to. However, sometimes he forgets himself in the moment and gets roped into helping out when it would serve him no benefit. Generosity is a quality he's been actively trying to rid himself of, and he still finds resistance.
He's got a few soft spots. His sympathies can't help but stir when there's a child involved, especially a child abandoned, or misled by their authority figure. Oh man, what a specific example, wonder why. It's easy for him to forget that he swore off helping when there's no benefit for himself, and then he remembers halfway through the task, and gets really pissed off at himself, so that's fun.
Des hates being indebted to people, and he hates seeming as if he can't provide for himself. Even though he's got a short end on the economical side, he's loathe to let anyone pay for anything for him. He can't stand it. Seriously, if someone offers to front for him, he really bristles. If they actually do it, he either starts hysterically sobbing or hates them forever. Or both.
He's very free with his use of emotion, which can be slightly dangerous paired with the power he holds. The fuse to his temper is short, and he's always steaming slightly. Though he finds it harder to loosen his grip on positive emotions, because he's wary of letting himself be vulnerable.
History
Hoo, boy, okay. Gonna have to shorten this one up.
Both his parents died the day he was born, mother from childbirth complications, father in an unrelated mugging. He was taken in by a man named... yeah that's complicated, he had like 15 names. Let's go with Memphis. So he was adopted by Memphis, who had previously taken in another orphan, Lillyan. Memphis was a necromancer, and raised him in those ways.
Years pass, y'know, life happens. Not as normal, since he's magic, but nothing really to go into detail about. He makes friends, he grows up, whatever. Until he's 14. The detail is still muddy, but he gets kidnapped, his captor stabbing through his left hand to subdue him. That's where his scar is from. In this universe, he stays a little too long in that situation, and had to rescue himself. Prior to this incident, he'd been a loving and kind boy. The shift in demeanor is understandable.
Then he realises his home life is a bit off. Then his sister Lillyan flies the coop and he has to deal with home life alone. Then he finds out Memphis has been lying to him for years, about multiple things. And he just kind of loses it. This is when he's around 18, 19 years old, by the way. He has a fall-out with everyone close to him one by one, like dominoes. And just kind of, packs his things and leaves one night. Moves in with an old friend from high school, Erec Faulkner, and tries to make due. Starts going by his middle name. Becomes a ghost detective.
And one day, he's skulking through the city, tracking down one of his leads. When this person grabs him. He's immediately like, this is where I die. The person is wearing the type of hood that shadows their whole face, and it has this symbol on it. Des couldn't make it out, but that shit just screams 'cultist'. He broke the person's hold and ran for it, but got caught again. But instead of killing him, they just tossed him into a portal. Like, yeah, okay? At least he's not dead. But he is... here.
Other
*He's actually partly enhuman, which will take some extensive explaining, which I'm not even gonna do. Basically: he's some fraction fae and he's really magic because of it, also he's got really sharp teeth.
Mannerisms: runs his hand through his hair, bites his lips when he's nervous to the point that they're usually bruised, makes wixen hand-signs to calm himself down. When he's thinking, he often plays his tongue along his teeth. And he majorly dislikes hair-cuts, though he suffers through it for necessity.
For those unaware, in another life, he was Aurthur Captor's son.
Picture(s)
N/A (*heavy sigh*)
