Michael Williams [Endymion]

Posts : 44 Join date : 2015-03-20

Michael Williams
Man, borin' the crap outta me

The Biography

Birth Name: Michael Williams
Aliases: N/A
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Birth Day: 10th October
Arcana: Emperor
Place of Residence: Little Tokyo
Evoker: Mental Shackles
Academy Semester: N/A
Class: (We'll fill this in once you're approved. This will be your class in school)
Part/Full Time Job: N/A for now

Appearance: At 5’6”, and weighing 133 lbs, Michael is the type of guy that doesn’t win any awards for being too physically intimidating. His eyes are a dark brown, are are always more focused, calculating, and calm than what his usual actions might suggest, and he is of African american decent, having a light skin tone. His attire is fairly vast, and he generally doesn’t wear anything in particular, but he prefers whites and other, darker colors, and always has a habit of stuffing the ends of his pants into his shoes. As a result, his preference in regards to shoes are vast; high tops, low tops, mids, it doesn’t make any real difference, though he prefers shoes with fairly durable soles.
Alternate Appearance: N/A

Alternate Appearance: While donning his mask, Michael dons a black, double-breasted suit with a black tie and a white long-sleeved, buttoned shirt with pinstripes. In addition, he gains a black fedora to top off the suit along with a pair of basic black gloves, along with his soul bound weapon, which is in stark contrast to the rest of his attire. This masked form also comes with a literal mask, acting as a black visor that covers his eyes and nose, without hindering his vision.

Personality: Michael is the type of person whose charisma, outspokenness, and and ability to blend into just about any crowd causes him to drawn the attention of many around him--purposefully and accidentally--allowing him to command the room with even the slightest bit of effort. However, while confident in his ability to do whatever he wishes--so long as he actually makes an effort to do it--he has a habit of doubting whether or not he’s really meant to do anything at all, and often questions his role in the world.

While he can fit in with anyone--and seemingly make friends of anyone--he often comes off as being incredibly lonely, feeling as though he doesn’t truly fit among the majority of the world, and strives to search for those he can consider kindred spirits. Despit these attributes, however, he comes off as someone who can help others achieve their own ‘light’, just as he attempts to find his own in the process.

Despite being the sort of person that generally keeps his circle of friends fairly small, he is fiercely protective of them, and, above all else, tries his hardest to keep them out of trouble, and steer them down, what he believes, ‘the right path’. His attachment to money is almost nonexistent, as he will often pass it to those who he believes really need it, often leaving him with only just enough to do what he needs to. Whether this is a factor of purely good will, or simply not wishing to be bogged down by the love of money, he’s never sure, but he often receives praise for his charitableness, so he never questions it too much.

Recently, he had found a new home, and a new hope; during his time spent speaking with new friends of his, he finds himself one step closer to his grand goal. With the end of his search for kindred spirits well at hand, he has, perhaps, moved even closer to beginning his own goals, whatever they may be.

In spite of his normal confident, calm, assured demeanor, he has a habit of requiring his actions to actually have an impact on others around them; often taking ‘students’ under his wing, and hoping the many chats, arguments, and confrontations would only serve to make them even better than they were before so. He feels he wants his actions to shape the futures of others in the most positive way possible, and wishes to control just how well a person who he believes close to him’s future would be.

The Potential

Strengths:
—Strength Name: I’m a grown little man!
—Description: Being short, and having to make up for it constantly, often dealing with larger, stronger, yet slower opponents, Michael has a 15% boost to his Dexterity stat.

—Strength Name: The ole 1-2
—Description: Being the type of person who is, frankly, incredibly persistent in taking down someone before they get taken down, he is able to attack twice with his Soul bound weaponry in PvS conflict in one attack post.

—Strength Name: Taekwondo
—Description: Learning the actual version in his youth, after paying off a taekwondo instructor during his more thugish part of his life, he has learned taekwondo to a fairly proficient level, putting him above the general thugs on the street by a good margin.

—Strength Name: Guiding Light
—Description: Having a fair aptitude in finding the ability in others, and helping to blossom it, he has quite a bit of proficiency when it comes to causing others to see their own ability, and becoming better for it. As a result, he is great is teaching others how to better themselves.

—Strength Name: Intelligence
—Description: Michael has a naturally high intellect, noticeable from an exceptionally young age. Over the years he has developed this through experience. This allows him to analyse and react to a wide variety of situations, be it academic or practical, with relative ease. Note: Is not an actual statistical strength.

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((A floating Strength is a strength you've gained inRP. For example, if you were on a Kendo team for some time, you'd naturally know Kendo which is where this strength would come in. However, be aware, it will not be as strong as any of your actual strengths and is a small plus)

—Floating Strength Name:
—Description:

Weaknesses:
—Weakness Name: Low Resistance
—Description: Through a lot of time spent dealing with his illness, and having issues with it, he finds it harder to handle the effects of things that affect him. Thus, he has a natural 15% extra susceptibility to status afflictions.

—Weakness Name: Casual Walker
—Description: Despite his brimming confidence, and other such ability, he’s actually sometimes calm and casual to a fault, and has a hard time speeding up when it comes to moving. He takes his time, and, as a result, he travels 25% less distance in dungeons.

—Weakness Name: Lower Upper-Body Strength
—Description: Despite fairly impressive lower body strength, his upper body leaves much to be desired. While he has improved a bit more in the past few months, he has little more upper body strength than an average male of his height and weight, leaving him weaker than most other martial artists with relatively good skill.

—Weakness Name: Blind to Own Ability
—Description: While he is confident in his own ability, he has been told, more than once, that he is perhaps a bit too modest. Often times, he has an opinion of himself that is lower than what others think of him, which, on more than one occasion, leads him to making plans or strategies that do not take into account his real ability, and instead his ‘lessened, overly modest’ opinion.

—Weakness Name: Introvert
—Description: Despite being capable of socializing with people fairly easily, and being able to fit in with just about anyone and make friends while doing so, he prefers not to, above all else. He is distrusting to a fault, and feels like he should keep his company only with those he deems interesting, or those he could learn things from. His encounters with most others tend to be brief, even though he is prone to making himself known to further his goals. To some, he could seem to be a recluse, but to those he speaks with, his charisma is more well known, even if it is a fault for him to not try and get to know others on a more personal level.

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((A floating weakness is one gained in RP. It could be a fear you inherited during RP, or an injury that hinders your character. Some can be temporary while others can be permanent.)

—Floating Weakness Name:
—Description:

Soul Bound Weapon: Shoes
Weapon Name: Kicks
Weapon Description: A pair of black high top nike canvas shoes. Upon activation, the term ‘Nike’ switches to ‘Mike’.
Weapon Image:

Spoiler:

Weapon Attack Type: Strike
Weapon Element:

Side-Arm Weapon:

Side-Arm Name: Penitence
Side-Arm Description: A strange black gun, with an odd, almost crystalline barrel. Despite its appearance, it was clearly built with rapid fire shooting in mind.
Side-Arm Image:

Spoiler:

Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun
Side-Arm Style: Machine Gun - Muti-Round - Accuracy is decreased by 30%. Consumes 3 types of ammo at once to fire -must be same type of ammo.

The Background

History: Michael was born in America, his good old father far out of the picture before he was born and his mother completely unable to handle taking care of him, leaving guardianship to his grandmother. Early life was fairly casual, as he lived a fairly sheltered life, away from most other children outside of school, and, upon the passing of his grandfather, life became increasingly hard. What was once the hard but good-willed care of his grandmother, became the tyranny of one who was both emotional and physically abusive.

Due to the weight of his abuse, much of his frustrations were taken out through regular physical violence, chiefly directed towards those who tried to bully both himself and others. In understanding his predicament, and the rationale for the actions of those who were going through great troubles, or had been impacted with great loss, he began to better understand the actions of his grandmother--though hardly accepting them--and began to strive to instead help those in need, deciding himself above blindly throwing his misfortunes onto others.

While his ability to see throw others, and his wishes to continue with his life, and have nothing to do with those who wished to take advantage of others, outside of teaching them a lesson, aided him, it also gained him no small amount of enemies, which led to near constant conflict. Conflict that, instead of breaking him, only made him stronger as a person, if not a little lonely due to the distance he had with others. A distance not always created by his own actions.

He had spent a large amount of time writing, which caused him to share this hobby with others--both in person and over the internet, starting with different websites where he could both write and converse with others--finding those in similar positions to him, and those who yearned for something else, but within and without, and had began to forge bonds with said individuals. Eventually, one such bond had blossomed quite a bit, leading to an adventure he had never expected with a pen pal he had dedicated a significant amount of his time towards helping reach their potential.
Unaware to what was going on, yet suspecting something--their actions being far more upbeat than usual, with no indication as to what; strange, considering he was often told of at least an indication of something big happening--he was still caught by surprise when he received a key and a plane ticket, which was sent by this very pen pal. Eventually, he found himself arriving in little tokyo, living in a nice flat with whom he could only, at this point, consider his best friend, and enrolling in the same local dojo, in order to not only watch and nurture his friend’s training, but also get back into shape and learn more martial arts to improve himself, not wishing to be left behind for once.

Of course, being the type of man that he was, he had no intention of relying on his friends current wealth, and took the time to not only find a job to earn his own money to live off of, but also began to try and actually find his own path of gainful employment to live the rest of his life on; after all, he couldn’t mooch off of his friend for too much longer, as there was always time for romance, and he had to have his own place to make the most of it.

Subject: Re: Michael Williams [Endymion] Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:31 pm

Looks alright thus far. Good Job, bro.

The only thing that really strikes me as not being... how shall I say, okay, is the intelligence strength. We tend to avoid prodigy levels here now, with the new Social Stat System introduced in Endymion. However, you can change it to double the rate at which he gains Intelligence, but then you'd need a weakness that halves the learning rate of another Social Stat.

Other than that, he looks good to go.

Posts : 44 Join date : 2015-03-20

ok, I'm not making this for endydemeimio

Posts : 6498 Join date : 2013-07-06 Age : 30

Approved for Endymion

Subject: Re: Michael Williams [Endymion] Sat May 28, 2016 10:29 am

Unapproved for editing.

Posts : 44 Join date : 2015-03-20

it is done

Posts : 5994 Join date : 2013-10-06 Age : 30

Approved.

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