Post by marsh on Aug 6, 2008 21:38:08 GMT -7
Basic Information
Full Name: Elijah Sebastian Marsh
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Birthday: February 14
Codename: None
Classification: Under sea creature, considered actually a type of merfolk. But as he's half blooded, he has turned into it slowly, instead of being born with it. Though the BPRD knows all about them, most others don't...except through writings like this:
"The first and only hint that we had was that radio communications became unusable. Someone or something was jamming our signals. The next thing that happened was that our fleet of ships exploded. As they sank into the sea, what few of us that survived the blasts were attacked by mermaids. These mermaids were not the pleasant ones of Hans Christian Anderson but those of whom only the Brothers Grimm could dream of."
He is a hybrid of that and humans, meaning while he lacks the true power of those creatures, he will eventually gain it in cost of his appearance and ability to stay on land.
"Because of their human appearance, hybrids are capable of infiltrating human society virtually undetected -- at least at younger ages [see below]. As time passes the human population of a Deep One dominated community will slowly be replaced by hybrids who continue human practices only to fool nearby communities. Promising Hybrids, especially those with sorcerous talent, are often used as agents in human communities, creating cults dedicated to worshipping the Deep Ones as sea gods and working to destroy human society from within. A sign that a hybrid may be at work in a community is the elimination of the human sorcerers within it -- Hybrids fear magical detection and will often remove those capable of doing so.
As time passes though, their alien nature begins to become dominant. At some point they begin to transform slowly into a Deep One themselves as their foul blood devours their seeming of humanity. When the process starts to become hard to disguise, hybrids begin to shun normal human community and prepare for their coming life in the waves. They retreat to Deep One dominated communities and begin to join in Deep One life, capable of limited immersion in the sea at first, then beginning to prefer the sea's embrace more and more until at last their transformation is complete and they go to join their kin in their great cities beneath the waves.
Why Deep Ones produce Hybrids and how they are able to breed with an alien species is open for speculation. Hybrids make excellent spies and bolster the Deep One population, but their general contempt for humanity makes it odd that they would choose to join with them. "
Abilities:
Like any person of his race, he has the ability to breath under water. Barely visible now, he has gills, and his fingers are slightly webbed. Also due to his race, he doesn't die of old age, but he can die of accident or violence. His skin is clammy and often very cold. Thats WITH the glamor spell. Due to his constantly changing he often must employ a glamor spell. Without it...
Despite his unassuming appearance he is much more frightening than expected. He has the ability to control water and wind, enough to cause a maelstrom if he has enough strength to, but for the most part its limited, due to his own weaknesses. He also feels a natural but irresistible pull to the ocean, and when it calls he can't go without following it. Sometimes chants are the only way to channel it in order to successfully use it.
*Note: Although he seems to favor meat, right now he is mostly omnivourus. Later on he will become carnivorus.
Alignment/Occupation: Nuetral smug count? If not then probably between nuetral and evil.
Special Skills:
This isn't a power as much as a side effect. People who arent' used to the strange and unusual who look at his fishy form without his glamor spell have been known to feel dizzy, fearful and think they're going insane. Sure...its not a power...but hey most people don't think scary fishmen exist, so coming up face to face with a pissy one isn't going to help their sanity right?
He knows how to speak a foreign language of under sea origin, as well as french and spanish. He also has surprisingly high knowledge of the occult and alot of ocean lore and science.
Weapons: Just the rudimentary shot gun, hand gun...small uzi...maybe tommy...it depends on what he has on him. He prefers to talk and run honestly.
The Look
Appearance:
He is someone who obviously wouldn't fit in in anything other than a suit, despite how he might try. He is pretty tall, and has at least semi-decent posture. He is more lean than muscular, and most tailored suits look exceptionally well on him. His skin is clammy and cold to the touch, making it a bit unsettling to touch him. His fingers, like said above are webbed, and he has barely visible gills with the glamor on.
Despite the odd features with the glamor at least he is a semi-pleasant looking fellow with an alluring smile. His eyes are a piercing gray, and are very intimidating when he is angry. Pretty much his emotions are all in his eyes. His face appears to be slightly gaunt but other than that completely normal.
His hair is dark and cut in a neat shorter style of course, why would he wear it anyway but something that screams sophistication?
Without the glamor its a different story. His condition seems much much worse in this state. His posture seems to worsten and his shoulders seem to slump. His voice sounds alot more 'wet'. His webbed fingers are now webbed claws and his skin is sickly but in some places scaled. And this is the scary part...its not the worst, it'll progress much worse as the game progresses.
Celebrity: Cillian Murphy
Style:
Suits, suits and more suits. He likes them, he likes how they look especially. Maybe it runs in the family, or something but he can't get enough of them. Even in the most stressful situation he loves to wear suits, always nuetrals. A fedora or bowler hat are often the accessory. Often wears a ring.
Daily work - photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3563/1764/1600/c3.1.jpg
Downtime - www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/31/barley_narrowweb__300x450,0.jpg
It's The Inside That Counts
Personality:
Most people don't embrace their 'dark side', well he does to a degree. Because in his mind his kind will inherit the earth, but right now its rather inconvenient to look like something that just crawled out of the ocean. But he's been able to put a nice mask over it all, hiding everything but some slight oddities and an inherited sense of entitlement.
He finds humans inferior, but not so that he can't profit off of them. He appears to be perfectly cool and collected, but he can get very easily panicked and make mistakes if it looks like people are onto him. He is stuck between following the old teachings of his family and the ones of contemporary society, making him effectively out of place. He doesn't seem to mind that most people avoid doing business with anyone with his surname, because its easy to make them think he's the only one on their side, right?
Smug and lecherous, and pretty blasphemous, he rarely seems to feel remorse for his actions, though he's hardly a sociopath. As anti-social as he is to normal humans, he can be evasive but at least agreeable to people who he thinks he can gain something from. He's very defiant, only complying when all other hope is lost. This directly conflicts with his hit and run technique to everything, prefering to fight and shout insults and threats at a distance and have others do the dirty work.
He is fanatic to a fault despite the fact that he may hide it. Any insult to anything he believes and he's quick to shout all manner of foreign curses and praise to his dieties, not to mention threats and insults to the 'blasphemer'.
Despite as professionally smug as he might act, he does slip and try to cover it up. From random and stupid spells that do nothing, to dark rituals....Due to his greed and unwillingness to trust normal people he resorts to more and more dangerous means. Even to the point where parts of his own family have conflict with him. He has a desperate need for group acceptance...and that group HAS to be the one with the most power at the moment. He loves corrupting others because it gives him a sense of power and acceptance. Some are easily fooled by his smooth talking.
In his credit, he likes to spoil the people he happens to have his eye on, and enjoys dark humor. Yea...thats it...the only real redeeming bits of his personality.
Likes: At least three or more.
[The Water]
[when things go his way]
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Dislikes: At least three or more.
[when things dont' go his way]
[dressing down]
[...anyone not like him...so pretty much people in general.]
Fears: At least two or more.
[He fears other people who know what he is, or are magical because they can easily detect him or what he is.]
[Has a strong fear of tight spaces.]
Weaknesses: At least two or more.
[High temperatures dry him up very quickly, and he has to gain some sort of moisture to survive.]
[]
Strengths: Two or three.
[High intelligence]
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History:
There are the people who wage the war...and the people who profit from it. He's one of those people, and totally proud of it. But he wasn't always that way, he was pretty pleasant until he figured out what he was going to turn into and exactly what sort of blood ran in his family.
See, his family now is the last vestiges of a formerly prominent family in Massachusetts. They used to rule a port town, but things didn't go so well and when it was raided by government agents, they were either decimated or arrested...or they fled. So while money was never an issue, he had to keep a low profile as a child, and because of this his family's history was hidden from him...
Until he discovered it himself when he started to show the signs of the 'taint'. Panicked at first, he thought he was suffering from a late blooming deformity, but he would be told that it was inevitable...he would turn into something and return to the ocean. Some would be driven insane, but to him it felt...right in a way. He stopped doing everything he could to change it, and embraced it for a time.
Deciding to bring the family back to prominence he started a few business ventures. But he seemed to naturally be more adept at breaking the law then following it. That didn't gain much attention until people started to dissapear who pissed him off, learned too much...and he happened to use less than normal means. Some would say more into the supernatural. History began to repeat itself because at the height of his career so far in his short life because he's again under investigation, not by the FBI, but the BPRD, and this time they are much better equiped.
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