Xander Avery (Forgotten)

Posts : 589 Join date : 2018-09-17 Age : 33

Xander Avery
It burns. It BURNS!

The Biography

Birth Name: Xander Avery
Aliases: Andy, Scarface,
Gender: M
Age: 23
Birth Day:July 22nd
Arcana: Tower
Place of Residence: Sunlake Palms
Academy Semester: Third
Class: (We'll fill this in once you're approved. This will be your class in school)

Sorority: (Are you a part of a club? This is optional.)

Part/Full Time Job: Part-time warehouse worker, part-time late night janitor, part-time caregiver

Appearance: A large, heavy-set man man standing at 6'2'' tall. With broad shoulders, wide chest, and muscular thighs and biceps, he has an impressive stature. His face is also quite wide, with a hefty, square jaw and pronounced brow ridge and cheek bones. His green eyes squint out from under fairly thick eyebrows of hazelnut brown that matches his messy, finger-length hair. He usually has some stubble on his chin and cheeks. His skin has a fairly heavy tan to it, which only further draws attention to the numerous scars on his body.

Several thin scars line the his arms, some self-inflicted, others not. He has several larger cut-scars on his shoulders and chest, as well as some smaller scars on the abdomen, most of them short lines from stab-wounds, and a single circular scar from a gunshot wound. The two most notable scars are on his right hand and forearm, and the left side of the neck, both burn scars. On the left side of the neck is a patch of skin, discolored almost purple, roughly hand-sized, starting from above the shoulder blade, and climbing up to the base of the jaw. Meanwhile on the Right arm, the entire back of the forearm and hand are covered in discolored skin, except for a patch of normal skin on the back of the hand, on which the shape of a partial hand and four fingers can be seen.

Alternate Appearance: Xander's alternate appearance seems largely based on united states academic regalia, albeit modified. The primary clothing consists of a dark blue robe, with a black hood, with trimmings of dark olive green. The entire left sleeve, and the right sleeve from the mid-bicep down are missing, appearing torn off. The hem of the robe is also visibly torn and tattered, only further revealing a pair of white leather chaps, and sturdy boots of brown leather Both chaps and boots appear to be permanently stained with a black, soot-like substance. The right hand and forearm are covered by red leather glove, held tightly in place with several buckled straps. Both his right knee and left elbow have worn pads strapped on, the kneepad notably having a few small spikes to it.

His mask appears to be based on an academic square cap with a green tassle, with the rim of skullcap extended down to his nose, with eye holes to see through. The left-hand side of the board is missing several chunks. Several layers of what appear to be red cloth appear to be stapled or riveted on to the left side, draping down his neck and usually tucking into the robe. The mask also incorporate several large feathers in various shades of orange and red onto the left side of mask, seemingly crudely attached to the draping red cloth. In just the right lighting and angle, these feather can be mistaken for billowing flames.As one final detail, his eyes shift shade to a much lighter malachite shade of green, and the stubble from his face disappears.

Personality: Much of the time, Xander is quite a withdrawn person. He rarely seeks interaction with strangers, sometimes even outright avoiding it. He rarely steps outside his comfort zone, and often follows fairly rigorous routines, almost compulsively to the point that breaking from said routines can be a source of anxiety. In what social situations he does get into, he usually just "goes with the flow", rarely expressing preference or liking for subject of discussion or choice off activity. One big exception to this, is his love of ant-keeping.

That's much of the time, but other times it's quite a different story, as he can prove to be very unstable. Most notably is that even in the best of circumstances, he does not handle rejection or criticism that he interprets as being even vaguely aimed at him in a good way. While these things themselves are major triggers, his reactions to even seemingly minor things can be vary, with a tendency toward disproportionate reactions in comparison to the situation.

This tends to land him into trouble every now and then, where he can be found to be prone to fits of rages, as well as revealing a tendency toward violence. He can also be impulsive at times, with tendencies toward stealing, reckless spending, and frequent substance abuse.

And on top of all of these, Xander has a history of having depressive episode,accompanied by low self-esteem and bouts of self-destructive behavior beyond his substance abuse. He often struggles both academically, and in work-environments.

The Potential

Strengths: (Anything your character is skilled in, such as Martial Arts/ Drawing/ etc? You are allowed a maximum of five strengths and a minimum of three.)

—Strength Name: Parasite Blade
—Description: Xander's demon weapon has permanently merged itself to his firearm. Both components still function, unhindered by one another, but the they cannot be separated from one another by normal means.

—Strength Name: Nightmares in The Blood
—Description: Xander's demon weapon can reduce itself and the attached firearm into a liquid-state, and hide itself inside of Xander's body, allowing him to call the weapon to his hand at will so long as it has been previously stowed away like this

—Strength Name: Stick it where it hurts
—Description: Xander knows his way around a knife. You slash when you want someone to stop, but you stab when you want them to stay down. He deals an additional 15% damage with attacks dealing Pierce-type damage.

—Strength Name: Knife-Fighting Stamina
—Description: One way to quickly get yourself killed when blades are involved is to over-exert oneself. And Xander has learned a thing or two to keep himself going longer. Decreases the HP% cost of Pierce-type skills by 3%

—Strength Name: Leech Blade
—Description: Xander's uniguely visceral connection to his demon weapon allows said weapon to share tiny scraps of
the life force it devours as it inflicts injuries. Whenever Xander deals Pierce damage to an enemy, he heals 10 HP.

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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: (You must have the same amount of weaknesses as strengths. These weaknesses pertain to you and not your Persona. IE: Physically Weaker, lack of attention span, etc.)

—Weakness Name: Parasite Blade
—Description: Xander's demon weapon is a hungry one. Should he acquire a new firearm, the demon weapon completely consumes the one it's currently integrated to, before merging with the new one.

—Weakness Name: Nightmares in The Blood
—Description: Te problem with hiding a fairly large amount of mass inside a human body is that getting it out in a hurry can be quite traumatic. Unless he spends several minutes slowly letting the weapon out, or unless he has suffered damage from a Slashing, Piercing, or Gun attack dealing at least 10% of his maximum health immediately prior to summoning the weapon, he suffers 10% of his maximum HP in unblockable damage from summoning his weapon. This damage is not considered an attack for the purposes of skills like Counter or Tetrakarn, and does not PEnd.

—Weakness Name: Afraid of fire
—Description: Xander's burn scars leave him vulnerable to sudden changes in temperature, and have also left him with a great fear of both fire and hot steam. Xander suffers and additional 15% damage from Fire attacks.

—Weakness Name: Weak Will
—Description:Xander is fairly weak in terms of mental fortitude. His SP is reduced by 15%

—Weakness Name: Emotional instability
—Description: Xander is prone to shifts in emotional state, even more so through supernatural influence. He is 10% more likely to be inflicted with mental ailments.

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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:

Shadow/Demon Weapon: ((This is the both a Weapon and a Shadow/Demon. You have a parasitic relationship with this Shadow/Demon, and as such you will always want it near you as it is the source of your power. Unlike Soulbound Weapons, this Shadow/Demon Weapon cannot be summoned and will always remain active, meaning you'll have to keep it on you at all times.))

Weapon Name: Oizys
Weapon Description: On it's own, Oizys appears like an almost amoeba-like amorphous mass of verdigris-hued material, with what appears to be branching veins of smoky black and sickly yellow crisscrossing its form with seemingly no rhyme or reason. However, when merged to a firearm, it forms a large, tanto blade under the barrel, with the base of blade scooping a few inches outward like an exaggerated quillon. The blade extends a good 16 inches past the tip of barrel, often with several more inches of cutting surface running along the bottom of the barrel itself, and is usually around 4 inches wide before the quillon, and around 1/2 inch thick at the thickest. Both thickness and width taper down toward the point. The blade itself is the same verdigris-hue, but the edge is completely black. The verdigris color also spread to the metal of the firearm.
Weapon Image:
Weapon Attack Type: Pierce
Weapon Element: (Leave this blank. Only special weapons obtain an element behind its blows.)

Side-Arm Weapon:

Side-Arm Name: Queen
Side-Arm Description: A 10 gauge lever-action shotgun with a shortened barrel and magazine tube, and a slightly angled pistol grip and sizable buttstock.
Side-Arm Image:
Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun
Side-Arm Style: Shotgun - Scatter Shot - Accuracy is decreased by 30%. Consumes 3 types of ammo at once to fire -must be same type of ammo. Can shoot all enemies with one attack.

The Background

History: Once Xander seemed like he had a bight future ahad of him. Firstborn child to a wealthy american couple, Xander grew up with everything he could ask for given to him on a silver platter. At age four his parents would have a second child, a baby sister for the young Xander. Both children would grow up, getting along, and growing quite close. Though money was never really an issue, and Xander would be afforded access to expensive hobbies, quality clothes, and skilled tutors as he began school, he was also taught not to take it for granted.

He would devote time and work to his studies as time went by, the rest of his time divided between hobbies, family, and charity work. Back then, Xander was a bright, and well-liked boy. His academic years flew by, his grades remaining in the top 90% much of the time. As graduation day approached, he'd already been accepted into a prestigious university, and nothing looked like it could go wrong.

Then came Graduation day, the day Xander's world collapsed. His whole family was there, and Xander graduated with honors. There was to be a big part waiting back home, with much of the extended family. But as the four, Xander, his sister, and their parents, were moving to exit the school, a tremor struck. He didn't know at the time, but what happened that day was the result of demons released as part of the Eternal Divide. But, in that moment, everyone in the building did what seemed like the best idea, they ran. Chaos ensued, Xander grabbing his sister's hand so she wouldn't get trampled by the mob of panicked studnets and parents. Xander's father was among the first victims, falling within the first seconds of mayhem, and people didn't stop to help him up, much less go around him.

As they ran, another tremor struck. This ruptured several pipes running in the walls, hot water pipes. Many students, including Xander and his sister were doused in a sudden burst of boiling hot water and high pressure steam. Xander held on, even as the steam scalded the hand with which he was clutching his sister. They kept running, despite their burns, they ran. Finally they would reach the exit, just as another tremor struck. Xander felt the hand in her grip... Xander would look behind himself to make sure his sister was safe, just in time to see a falling pane from the stained glass window above the main entrance of he school slicing through his sisters forearm. The next few seconds seemed to go in slow motion, her eyes going wide in pain and shock, the young girl reaching out with her other hand, either for Xander or her severed hand.

Then the rest of the stained glass window came down.

What followed is hazy to Xander. He remembers himself sitting there for a long time, merely staring at the burn on his hand, the skin where his sister had been holding on having gotten through unburnt. His mother had survived the collapse of the school building, but rather than being hysteric, she simply.. Shut down. Years would pass, and Xander sank deeper and deeper, having been forced to care for of his mother, who by then more or less lived inside her own head. His academic brilliance and charitable nature meant little in the early days of the post-Divide hellscape. He resorted to theft and robbery, unwillingly at first. But as time went on a survival of the fittest mentality developed, leaving him less and less fazed at some of the horrible things he would do to support himself and his mother.

Somewhere along the way, he came across... something, what he thought was a lump of slag he could maybe trade. He would take it with him, putting it into a stolen backpack alongside an eqaully stolen shotgun. But a few night later, Xander would wake up horrified, as it seemed he'd not only been robbed during the night, but it seemed like some wild animal had also attacked him. The lump of slag was gone, as was the shotgun, and he had several small cuts around his body. The backpack though, remained, which he at the time thought was odd. What Xander doesn't know to this day, is that lump of "slag" was in fact an experimental demon weapon that had wandered the ruins of civilization sicne the divide, searching for host. A host it found in Xander.

Endymion would finally offer sanctuary for the two. But by then, the Xander that had graduated an honor student on that day was no more. He bore that man's face, that man's scars, that man's nightmares. But the charitable man who put others before his own needs had died somewhere along the way. He would live with his mother, taking care of her needs. But he avoided others. Too many had abandoned him on that day, he didn't want to be hurt like that thing. In the end he'd find some minor solace in something simple: An ant farm. The ants weren't' like humans. They had structure, order, hierarchy. And perhaps most of all, they depended on him. They wouldn't leave him.

Subject: Re: Xander Avery (Forgotten) Fri Mar 08, 2019 10:09 pm

Everything works with the exception of the following Strength:

Quote :: —Strength Name: Insult to Injury
—Description: You hit someone once, and you'll usually have them open for a follow-up. Xander's multi-hit attacks have their miss chance lessened by 10% (to a minimum of 20%)

For starters this is actually two Strengths: one to lower your miss rate and another to lower your minimum miss on multi-hit attacks from 30% to 20%. However we cannot allow you to lower the multi-hit miss floor to lower than 30% as a character strength. This change actually was implemented at the start of Endymion because beforehand multi-hit skills without this stipulation were stupid powerful so we can't break this rule with a character strength, sorry.

Posts : 589 Join date : 2018-09-17 Age : 33

Did a change to said strength.

Subject: Re: Xander Avery (Forgotten) Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:27 pm

Sorry fam, Gran has put his foot down about Strengths that increase critical hit chance before since they can get equally ridiculous. You can get a damage increase on critical hits if you really want but we can't allow you to increase your crit chance.

Posts : 589 Join date : 2018-09-17 Age : 33

Welp, lets try this again. This time went in a different direction. Granted, even if acceptable, the wording might need some fine-tuning. I'm jsut throwing science at the wall to see where the gore sticks.

Subject: Re: Xander Avery (Forgotten) Sun Mar 10, 2019 3:27 am

I've seen crazier. I'll approve it. Have fun, bruh.

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