Jan 14, 2019 22:28:01 GMT -6
Post by Zekigne Zunias on Jan 14, 2019 22:28:01 GMT -6
♦ STUDENT INFORMATION ♦
Name: Zekigne Zunias
Nickname: Zeke
Gender: Male
Age: 23 (Appears 17)
Year in school: Highschool (Sophomore)
Dorm: Undetermined
Height: 5'7
Appearance:
Personality:
Zekigne is a very isolated individual, both on purpose and not. He actively seeks to avoid conversation, and this in turn causes him to avoid people in general. Save for those he trusts who know of his secrets. And his internal struggle. Not only is he severely isolated because of this, but he is incredibly anxious. Afraid anything will trigger his angelic or demonic nature, he’s typically tensed up and worried. This also leads to him being distracted and absent minded often. Whether he’s distracted by his fear, or he distracts himself from his fear. Whenever he does or says something that seems close to his powers or his natures, he hides for lengths of time and withdraws into periods of depression.
At the same time however, there are periods of time where fear and anxiety do not cloud his moments. In these rare times he’s usually energetic, smiling, kind, adventurous, courageous, and very eager. And yet if his fears are strong these moments don’t last long.
Virtues:
- Kind - Excluding when he snaps due to his demonic nature, and when he's driven due to his angelic nature. He is a very kind soul. He seeks to protect others from himself, but at the same time cannot resist helping others when they are in need of it. Whether if it's an injury, or simply someone dropping their books by accident. While this can help him interact with people, it does have a limit. As his fear overwhelms the need to stand up to people.
- Eager - When not overcome by fear and insecurity, he can be very eager in any of his goals. These goals being to learn how to control his powers. Learn how to repel his angelic and demonic natures. Learn more about the world. Learn how to make friends. And learn how to live a normal life with no worries.
- Pure - When his demonic nature isn't influencing his thoughts or decisions, he would never kill anyone. He would never try to harm anyone as a base, but if someone else was going to be killed otherwise then he would suck it up and try to knock the attacker down first. Despite this he still wouldn't use his power since he would rather not deal accidental damage to the place or people around him, as well as not risking killing his opponent by accident.
Vices:
- Fear - He lives in constant fear that his angelic or demonic natures will take over him at any point in time. Because of this his fear dominates most of his actions and words throughout the day. In addition he refuses to use his powers as it can trigger one of his natures, and is very hard to control.
- Insecure - Because of his fear he isolates himself from anyone and everyone. He tries to avoid conversations, and any trigger words that may drive his demonic or angelic nature's to the surface. If he's concerned an individual will judge him, or prod him until his secrets are voiced he will put extra effort in avoiding them.
- Dual Natures - His demonic and angelic nature's both influence him to do and say things in different ways.
Demonic: He acts more or less based on the deadly sins: Pride, wrath, greed, envy, sloth, gluttony. His moral code goes out the door, acting on deceit, manipulation, insensitive, etc. for selfish needs or desires. Wrath is the strongest trait however, which he inherited from his father.
Angelic: He acts on completely selfless deeds and words to an unhealthy level. If someone is in danger he will take the quickest and most effective method to help, even at the cost of his own life. If someone has emotional pain or scars he will press for answers so he can help them. If others are struggling in relationship he will attempt to counsel them even without permission.
History:
Zekigne’s life was rough from the beginning. While he hadn’t been the victim of experiments and torture, lost his family, or other seriously horrifying backstory, being a Nephalem was never easy. Especially when you were the offspring of an Archangel, and an Archdemon. His father, Zostraal, was an Arch Demon of wrath. He hated the self righteous more than anything, and his most enjoyable sport was personally disguising himself as another race and luring them into traps where he’d then torture them. His mother, Taliel, was an Arch Angel of love. She sought to help heal others and show them what pure and virtuous love was. She had seen Zostraal’s disguised form and fell for his trap. When she was imprisoned however, and Zostraal told her what she’d be facing she simply smiled at him, asking if he truly did feel satisfied with inflicting pain on others.
Her pure kindness despite his cruelty infuriated Zostraal. He began to torture her, using every method possible. Yet no matter how much he tried, she would not say a single word against him. And continued to only say kindness, and ask why he did the things he did. This went on for many months before Zostraal decided to kill her and save himself the trouble. He wanted to do it slowly, and as he started she spoke with him. Her execution quickly became a debate of sorts between the two. Eventually she managed to keep him from killing her. But as time went on, she began to feel love for him on a personal level. And he found his anger and lust for pain diminish the longer he was with her. The two began to have more discussions, until eventually. The two had fallen in love with one another. They returned to their worlds but built a place they could meet in privacy.
They did not always agree, as although they had changed they were still bound by their nature. Yet when they didn't leave in disagreement, they found compromise, or put matters aside so they might spend more time together. A full year after this had continued, they had a child. Taliel couldn't hide the Nephalem from her kind and she understood this. Therefore she and Zostraal came to an agreement. They would find someone who would be willing to raise their child, who would not hide his heritage from the boy. After giving birth, she and Zostraal returned to their homeland and avoided contact for a long period of time. When asked about the child, Taliel told them he didn't make it.
The family Zekigne grew up with was a kind one. His foster siblings treated him like their own family, his parents raised him with kindness and understanding. Despite this however, growing up was hard for him. His demonic nature would often cause him to enter spurts of rage, hurting others physically and/or verbally. Bursts of greed and envy, stealing things from others or making skilled lies. And just the same, his angelic nature would drive him to do things as well. Such as attempting to preach to another, attempt to discover the inner pains of others when they did not want it, and other such things. Despite his family being kind and understanding, these made life hard for both the family, and the child.
Eventually, Zekigne began to hate his heritage. He started to practice suppressing his nature, trying to find ways to distract his mind, and avoiding conversations with others. The more he suppressed his nature however, the more it fought back. One day, his power awoke during one of his fits, injuring one of his foster siblings. He had run away and hid for three days after this. Crushed by the guilt of what he had done and who he was. It was then his mother and father appeared, meeting up with him for the first time. After explaining why they could not see him up till this point they encouraged him, both in their own way. And soon the two of them led him back to his foster home, promising to visit once in a while.
Soon he made a decision. With the help of his foster parents, he'd send an application to Eldritch Academy, and seek their help in the matter. He wished to learn how to keep his two nature's at bay, and learn how to control his power. Or better yet: if he could remove it entirely.
Her pure kindness despite his cruelty infuriated Zostraal. He began to torture her, using every method possible. Yet no matter how much he tried, she would not say a single word against him. And continued to only say kindness, and ask why he did the things he did. This went on for many months before Zostraal decided to kill her and save himself the trouble. He wanted to do it slowly, and as he started she spoke with him. Her execution quickly became a debate of sorts between the two. Eventually she managed to keep him from killing her. But as time went on, she began to feel love for him on a personal level. And he found his anger and lust for pain diminish the longer he was with her. The two began to have more discussions, until eventually. The two had fallen in love with one another. They returned to their worlds but built a place they could meet in privacy.
They did not always agree, as although they had changed they were still bound by their nature. Yet when they didn't leave in disagreement, they found compromise, or put matters aside so they might spend more time together. A full year after this had continued, they had a child. Taliel couldn't hide the Nephalem from her kind and she understood this. Therefore she and Zostraal came to an agreement. They would find someone who would be willing to raise their child, who would not hide his heritage from the boy. After giving birth, she and Zostraal returned to their homeland and avoided contact for a long period of time. When asked about the child, Taliel told them he didn't make it.
The family Zekigne grew up with was a kind one. His foster siblings treated him like their own family, his parents raised him with kindness and understanding. Despite this however, growing up was hard for him. His demonic nature would often cause him to enter spurts of rage, hurting others physically and/or verbally. Bursts of greed and envy, stealing things from others or making skilled lies. And just the same, his angelic nature would drive him to do things as well. Such as attempting to preach to another, attempt to discover the inner pains of others when they did not want it, and other such things. Despite his family being kind and understanding, these made life hard for both the family, and the child.
Eventually, Zekigne began to hate his heritage. He started to practice suppressing his nature, trying to find ways to distract his mind, and avoiding conversations with others. The more he suppressed his nature however, the more it fought back. One day, his power awoke during one of his fits, injuring one of his foster siblings. He had run away and hid for three days after this. Crushed by the guilt of what he had done and who he was. It was then his mother and father appeared, meeting up with him for the first time. After explaining why they could not see him up till this point they encouraged him, both in their own way. And soon the two of them led him back to his foster home, promising to visit once in a while.
Soon he made a decision. With the help of his foster parents, he'd send an application to Eldritch Academy, and seek their help in the matter. He wished to learn how to keep his two nature's at bay, and learn how to control his power. Or better yet: if he could remove it entirely.
♦SPECIES INFORMATION♦
Name of Species: Nephalem
Baseline Dimension: Can vary depending on form and prevalence of demon / angel, but mostly similar to humans
Baseline Appearance: Typically vary in appearance depending on the form taken and which side of the Nephalem is more dominant, angel or demon. They can choose to switch between angel / demon form at will or simply take a humanoid form, which will have some demonic and some angelic traits.
Culture/Origin of Species: Nephalems are angel-demon hybrids born from a union that goes against the laws of nature, offspring of both the holy and unholy at the same time. Nephalems thus share traits of both angel and demon and inherit aspects of both of these species. Generally, Nephalems can emerge anywhere where an angel and demon produce offspring or can be created by cursing an angel / blessing a demon in very specific, complicated ancient rituals that have mostly been lost to the world, thus making Nephalems a relatively rare sight to see. Other than that, like angelic and demonic beings, they have managed to integrate into modern society, not living their life among their fellows despite occasionally being plagued by nightmares of both heaven and hell.
Traits:
- Like Angels, Nephalems are resistant against illusions, though take this a step further. Nephalems are both blessed and cursed and thus immune to mind altering effects such as fear, charms, hallucinations and controls.
- Nephalems have an extremely long lifespan and may take hundreds of years to fully mature, though the time might vary depending on the mixture of angel and demon.
- Like Demons and Angles, Nephalems have an affinity towards religion based talents as well as talents that revolve around light and shadow, or even both. Talents revolving around these themes are stronger when used by a Nephalem
- Like Angels and Demons, Nephalems are unaffected by disease and plague, but, due to the mixture of bloods, also have a natural resistance against poisons of any kind.
- Nephalems, like their angelic counterparts receive a natural +3 aspect points to reflex speed, reaction speed and other senses.
- Unlike Demons and Angels, Nephalems are not fully bound to believe their specific religion fully and may choose to deviate from the bath that is normally set in stone for both of the other species.
Flaws:
- Nephalems are seen as abominations among both Angels and Demons, the offspring of a union that should not exist, thus earning them potential hate or prejudice from either of their parent species'.
- A Nephalem's very existence is a thing that goes against nature. They are simultaneously blessed and cursed, and while the two cancel each other out and they are able to live relatively normal lives, they are occasionally plagued by horrible nightmares of heaven and hell, both places most unwelcoming to the hybrids should they ever go there.
- Despite being part Angel, a Nephalem still has a demonic side. They sometimes have a hard time hiding the demonic aura of that side when they are agitated or in great emotional distress. The aura influences their surroundings similar to those of demons.
