Post by forgerofsouls on Nov 26, 2008 0:19:29 GMT -5
Name: Michael
Age: 27
Mature Adult: 18
Gender: Male
Species: Half-Paragon/ Half-Devil
Placement: Land
Alignment: Good
Appearance: Stands 5'9" and weighs about 200 lb. and has a solid medium athletic build. Wears; a black trench coat, black pants, black boots, black long-sleeved shirt, black belt, and black fingerless gloves. Michael wears pauldrons (shoulder guards/mantles for the shoulders used in medieval full-plate armor) on his shoulders, the design is three spikes curving out then back in (like an S except out so that the top is pointing up) the top of each spike emanates green demonic fire, though no heat is given off and the fire doesn't harm anything, its for looks, the pauldrons are colored blood red (as in arterial bleeding). On the back of the trench coat is a golden cross. Michael keeps his hair long and tied into a pony tail (make fun of it and die), his hair is black in color and he has a right dark brown eye, his left eye is rather unique. His left eye had lost its eyelids and the brow lost all the hair on it, the eye became black, but the pupil had changed significantly, it was no longer the eye of a human, instead a demonic green circle with a upside down pentagram had replaced the corona and pupil. Tends to wear a neutral look on his face, unless he is in his mania than he wears an exaggerated happy look; while in his depression phase he wears a frown, these are not always accurate ways to judge his mood though. On his head is a black headband with strange demonic golden runes; the black headband covers his left eye, it wraps upper left to lower right across his face. Other than his eye and horn, he appears to be a normal human, though in reality, he is not a human, at least, no longer. Michael can summon a small variety of weapons, which are listed below, as they have no real powers themselves. Michael also has a short black demon like horn growing offset to the right from the center of his fore head; it is about 6 inches long. Other than his eye and horn, he appears to be a normal human, though in reality, he is not a human, at least, no longer.
Katana "Blood Dragon": Sharpened so that it can cut through even dragon hide. Was given the name "Blood Dragon" due to the draconic hilt and the blood red coloring of the blade which it gained by drinking the blood of an Angel. This katana is a straight edge katana, instead of the traditional curved blade katana that everyone is familiar with.
Scythe "Blood's Mercy": Made from unknown material it cuts through anything. Despite its size, Michael can swing it around like its nothing. It can cut through anything. The scythe’s shaft is about 7 feet long with the grip areas being an inch skinner than the rest of the shaft to make it easier to hold. The shaft itself is pure black with the grips being pink, despite this strange color choice, Michael is very proud of Blood’s Mercy. The blade is almost 6 feet long, making this weapon huge compared to Michael, yet he can wield it with ease. The blade itself is blood red with demonic green runes running along the blade. Unlike normal scythes, Blood’s Mercy is a double edge scythe, meaning that both sides of the blade can cut.
Naginata “Frozen Song”: Made from what appears to be ice, the blade may be cold to the touch, even if it has been heated up the blade is still cold, but only the cutting edge of the naginata can cause damage. Like all the other weapons that Michael can summon, Frozen Song can cut through almost anything. The polearm’s shaft is 5’9” long, with a three foot blade on the end. The blade looks like ice, while the shaft is white in color with a pale blue grip.
Twin tantô “Light’s Caress” and “Dark’s Caress”: Mainly used for two weapon fighting, they are also used when fighting with bigger weapons is not feasible. Light’s Caress has a silver-gold blade with the grip, guard, and hilt being white. Dark’s Caress has a purple-black black with the grip, guard, and hilt being black. The blade on each tantô is one foot long, making some people think that they are short swords of sorts. Both are capable of penetrating just about any type of defense.
Greataxe “Edge of Insanity”: A huge heavy axe. Edge of Insanity is like the rest of Michael’s weapons, able to cut through anything. The axe has a five foot long shaft with the grips being skinny enough to hold properly. The front blade is serrated and is about 4 foot long from top to bottom. The rear blade is not serrated and is only two foot long. The shaft is grey in color with the front blade being black with a blue edge, the rear blade is also black but with a red edge. Connecting the two blades at the shaft is a screaming skull (no noise made, just the look of screaming is on the skull’s face).
Kusarigama “Chain of Fate”: Looks like your traditional kusarigama, a kama attached to a chain with a weighted end. The blade is blue, the chain and weight is red, and the handle of the kama is black. The kama is of typical size for the kusarigama, while the chain is about 10 feet long. Like the rest of his weapons, this one is also capable of overcoming many types of defenses.
Suburitô “Oath Maker”: Oath Maker is not a summoned weapon; instead Michael always has it with him at all times. This weapon is actually a wooden training sword that is used to help train samurai of ancient Japan to wield and use swords. Due to the extra size and weight, it helped strengthen warriors to wield smaller swords such as Katanas. Michael uses it for combat and special rituals were he swears an oath. So the 4’2” wooden training sword is more for ceremonial purposes than anything else. Though he does train with it still, allowing him to use something other than his summoned weapons for training and rituals, making this suburitô very important to him. It is unknown how many times he has had to remake Oath Maker, due to it being nothing more than a wooden sword.
Kanabô “Pain Master”: Pain Master is an appropriate name for he oversized staff. The weapon is 5 feet long and several inches thick in the portion used for smashing with. The wood itself is a light gray color with the metal and the metal studs that cover the attack portion of the weapon a soft dark purple color. Despite the fact that this weapon has not cutting or piercing power, the blows are capable of severe damage, regardless of armor.
Personality: Michael seams to be a little dark at times. He can smile but when he does it kind a comes of as evil looking. And his laugh sounds evil. But despite these small evil tendencies, he actually has a heart that has been becoming more good than evil at its core. He even manages to go out of his way to help others. But he still manages to come off as unfriendly.
Magical Abilities:
Runic Eye: Invisibility and other such concealment abilities are useless to Michael’s left eye. He has to activate this ability; it is not active all the time. Though once activated, there is no time limit to how long it can keep going. Despite having no eyelid, the eye is normally not effected by bright light or becoming to dry. But using the ability changes this.
Weapons: Michael is capable of summoning a variety of weapons. Such weapons last till he dismisses them. He can even dismiss them at will even if they are not in his hands.
Perfect Teleportation: Michael can teleport anywhere, anytime, and any dimension with perfect accuracy as long as he knows the time, dimension, and name of the place.
Physical Abilities:
Beyond Mortal: Michael's physical strength, dexterity, constitution, and intellectual abilities are higher than mortal humans. This gives him the ability to fight as a one man army. These physical capabilities allow Michael to achieve a maximum running speed of 60 mph, and he can leap up to 500 feet into the air. Falling from higher than 500 feet can stun him with pain, but does not break or rupture anything in his body, thus allowing him to leap up high and survive long falls. Also, he can leap up to 1000 feet in distance in long jumps, though he gets little height from such leaps.
Immortal: Michael is immune to the passage of time, the effects of poisons, and the effects of diseases. Thus he doesn't age even though he is still young, nor does he ever get sick, he'll always look the way he does. He also can't die from other natural effects (such as a cave in not caused by magic or falling from too high of a height). Only crafted magic (magics casted by other creatures) and weapons can harm and kill him. He also can’t drown.
Combat Skills: Michael has complete mastery of his weapons. And is the master of many martial arts styles, mostly to help him fight with his weapons. These are: Ninjutsu, Kung Fu (Dragon), Jujutsu, Kendo (traditional katana), Zui Ba Xian Quan (commonly known as Drunken Master Style), naginatajutsu (style focusing on naginata combat), Kusarigamajutsu (style focusing on kusarigama combat), and kanabô-jutsu (style focusing on kanabô combat). While those styles cover his weapons mostly, Michael developed two unique styles for his scythe and axe; the scythe style he developed is called Blatt des Wind-Tanzes (Blatt des Wind-Tanzes translates to Blade of the Wind Dance), and the style he developed for the axe is called Gebet von gefallen (translates to Prayer of the Fallen).
Disadvantages:
Immortal Mortal: Can be killed like any mortal can in combat. Other than this, his only other disadvantage would be his lack of magic.
Weapons: All his weapons can be broken or disarmed from him. Though the summoned weapons can be forced out of his hands, they usually get dismissed immediately. They also have no special powers or abilities beyond being able to cut just about everything.
Beyond Mortal: Despite his physical and mental capabilities, he does not know how to fully use them, though he knows he is much stronger than a human, how much stronger has yet to be seen, as he never put the strength to the test (unknown to him but to us, his max lifting limit is 2 tons). Also, he needs about two to ten times the amount of energy a human does and thus requires more food than normal. Same goes for sleep.
Runic Eye: Though once activated the runic eye can stay active all the time, while active it is slightly painful. At first, it causes no pain, but after about a minute it starts to hurt. At ten minutes it is very painful. This normally causes Michael to deactivate the eye’s ability and cover it up with the headband. For once the pain starts his eye starts to become overly sensitive to light, and the fact that he has no eyelids does not help. With the headband on and the ability turned off the pain starts to lessen. It takes 1 full hour per ten minutes of use to fully recover from the pain before he can use the ability again. Example, he uses the eye for 30 minutes, than turns it off, he now needs to wait 3 hours before using it again.
Combat Skills: Since they aren’t really advantages but ways he fights with different weapons, there are no real disadvantages, beyond this: Michael has somewhat a pride about his skills, and if someone wants to duel him and tells him to use a certain style that he knows, he will indeed use that style and nothing else. Thus it can be possible for an opponent to select a style that they are capable of countering. But of course, the opponent would have to find out that he can use that style first.
Perfect Teleportation: Michael can only use this ability once every ten years.
History:
In some dimensions, certain events occur in a specific way, in other dimensions a different way, and yet in some dimensions those events never happened. Dimensions exist of the Theory of Infinite Relativity, in that there are countless dimensions, each with different reactions for every instance that occurs. Because of this, a person can exist in many different forms, and in some dimensions, they just never existed at all. Some people also believe in the Theory of Karma, in which that good or bad actions can bring good or bad actions to someone in the future. Some of those that believe in alternate dimensions also believe in the Theory of Infinite Karma. This theory states that if the many copies of a single person all do good or bad things, the opposite will be true for at least one copy of that person in the infinite dimensional timeline. Indeed, Michael, was in many dimensions insane and suffered from multiple personalities. In almost all these Michaels though were good hearts that helped people. And thus for this Michael here, Infinite Karma struck him, and he suffered because of his dimensional counter parts good deeds. Resulting in a being that has a good heart, but suffered from misfortune, every day he suffers from a mishap and he never understood why. But, at the same time, most people forget about another portion of Karma, when one does many good deed or suffer many bad deeds they shall be eventually rewarded by the opposite type of Karma. This is known as the Theory of Balance, which states that there is always an equal amount of good and evil in everyone and everything done, and that when one side grows too strong that the other side shall give birth to something even better. And thus the Michael here got struck by lightning, literally.
He got struck by lightning when he was 12, and when he woke he found himself staring into the eyes of a beautiful girl about his age. She had bright pale blue eyes and blonde hair. She wore a pure white dress and she had a wonderful smile as she looked into his eyes. His first reaction was to blush followed by the basic evil in his heart at the time to reach up and pull her in for a kiss, a passionate kiss as if they were lovers. Of course this action caused him to be slapped by her. His actions of course stemmed from Infinite Karma, he was the destined Michael to be evil at heart. After he got slapped he sat up and smiled at her. She drew away from him and blushed, but she did not run. He became curious as to who she was. So he asked her for her name, and she replied “Eis Engel.” He stared at her, the name was obviously a foriegn language, but because of how it sounded, it sounded like she said “Ice Angel.” If he had taken the time look up the words he would have found out that Eis Engel is directly translated into Ice Angel. So even though he heard what he heard, it would be correct in terms of translation. But still he found her name to be rather cute, despite the strangeness of being named Ice Angel. Indeed, that was the first true friendship that Michael had, one that would change his life forever.
As Michael grew up, he managed to stay friends with Eis for a long time, always managing to stay in the same city and school (and even the same classes) as her. Even she noticed that and the two of them started to come closer than just mere friends. They shared the second kiss during Prom night and that sealed their relationship. This all happened to him, but not to any other Michael because of the Theories of Karma and Balance. Eis was the good to his evil. And eventually his evil would vanish almost entirely, his attitude changing based on what she taught him. Eventually they married. This seamed to be a perfect love till disaster struck.
Michael was attacked by a devil that was trying to possess him so that it could attack Eis. This was due to the fact that Eis was indeed a real Angel, though Michael did not know this. Even though they had gotten married she had not told him about her being an Angel. Though this is obviously why she had managed to turn him from evil and into the light saving Michael from himself. The devil and Michael struggled for control, but neither was successful in gaining perfect control and both the Devil and Michael sank into a darkness in his heart. There the spirit of the devil was absorbed by Michael’s spirit, finally winning, but not lifting him out of the darkness. Then a bright light and Eis’ voice reached him in the darkness and clinging to his love for her he sought freedom from the dark. When he opened his eyes he found that the light came from Eis, and that she had somehow grown large white feathered wings that gave off a soft light, a very soothing gentle light. Then Michael fell asleep after gazing upon his wife.
The following day he woke up, still exhausted despite having slept for more than 12 hours. As he sat up he was struck with sudden pain in his head, as he stumbled his way into his bathroom he looked up in the mirror just in time to watch as his left eye lids and the hair above the eye melted, very painfully and bloody, he screamed in agony for what seamed like hours but was in reality only a few minutes as the painful transformation took place. When the pain had finally started to die down he looked up into the mirror, just in time for a new pain, this time in his left eye. He watched as it slowly and messily dissolved revealing a black swirling ball of energy in the eye socket. Of course he didn’t notice the ball of energy as he was to busy clutching at his eye out of sheer pain. He was in so much pain he couldn’t even scream in pain. Then the pain vanished, as if it never occurred in the first place. Getting up off the ground he looked into the mirror and saw his new black eye with the strange demonic magic circle. He didn’t have time to stare at his new gear, as pain sank into his forehead near the center but offset to the right, he watched in the mirror as his skin split and tore apart to reveal a black horn that grew to about 6 inches. After they grew he collapsed as pain took over his entire body. Was he going to fully turn into a devil?
NO! He wouldn’t because his wife, who had sensed his pain from outside came into the bathroom and saw what was happening. Though fear and terror over this transformation took her, she knew what to do. She ran into their room, and opened a lockbox that had never been opened before in Michael’s presence. Inside there was a diamond vial with a clear liquid in it. Grapping the vial, Eis ran back to Michael and forced him to drink the liquid that was inside. And she waited. The liquid had succeeded in stopping the transformation from progressing any farther. Michael found the liquid to have both a sweet smell and taste, but nothing like he had experienced before. Then once more, he blacked out. In two days, he had been rescued by his wife. He wanted to ask her questions about her angel wings, and about what just happened. But, while he slept for the next two days, his DNA and flesh were rewritten, causing him to gain strength, dexterity, constitution, and intellectual abilities beyond that of a normal human. In essence, he had become a paragon, which is to say, a creature that is almost a demigod in their own right, but are still of their species and thus are not gods or demigods. Just really powerful beings of their type that become immortal and are capable of so much more and thus are considered by many cultures to be the next step in evolution, though this is not true. The birth rate of paragons is about 1 in every 100,000,000,000,000,000 thusly there is rarely one in existence at any given time. It just so happened that Eis was the guardian of a vial containing an elixir that had a small chance of awakening the paragon DNA that laid dormant in a creature. Michael just happened to be one of those creatures. But, even so, it was an incomplete transformation of both the paragon and devil, thus he didn’t have the full powers and capabilities of either, instead he got what he got. But, things just got bad from there on in.
When ever Michael went out side after that event, people stared out of fear of him. Their fear was misplaced, as he was not evil, they misunderstood his presence. Many people wanted Eis to leave him due to him being a Devil that will corrupt her into doing bad things. Of course, she was an Angel and was the one that was doing the corrupting of Michael into being a being of good. Soon afterwards, Michael remembered about Eis’s wings. And then he questioned her, she told him that she was indeed an actual angel from heaven. And she was sent to live on the Planet, and that she was supposed to guard and use the vial, that she had used on him, on the one that would save the Planet. But everything else that happened was not planned, her falling for him, them getting married. That was not planned for, nor was the devil and Michael’s transformation. She admitted that she had panicked when she found Michael transforming into a devil and she had given him the vial’s contents out of desperation. But, it worked, he was no longer going to transform into a Devil. But now, he was tasked to save the Planet. But from what threat was he supposed to protect the Planet from?
That proved to be a strange alien traveling coliseum that arrived at Planet a few weeks later. Michael still wasn’t fully used to his new abilities, but he had a feeling that the alien’s were the threat he was supposed to face. Than the aliens made an announcement to the entire Planet making their intentions known to everybody. “Your strongest must face our strongest in a week’s time, or else we destroy your planet.” Of course, the major powers of the world launched attacks for the first few days, but after countless failures, they decided to find their strongest. It only took Michael one fight for them to realize that he was the one. After all, he threw the person he fought against over 100 feet into the air. Naming him the champion of the planet they had him learn how to fight. Amazingly, due to his increased mental capabilities he was able to master everything they taught him in two days. And the weapons they gave him to use, special weapons of unknown origins, had disappeared. In reality, he had learned how to assimilate them into a strange sub-space thus allowing him to summon them regardless of how many times they are destroyed. And so he faced off against the aliens champion. When Eis saw the champion she feared the worse. She revealed to Michael that the alien was in fact a paragon, like himself. At first Michael didn’t take it seriously. But after attacking several times with no results with every weapon except Blood’s Mercy, he decided to try Blood’s Mercy, as he had nothing else. Then with one slash, the alien died. This surprised everyone, he had killed a alien paragon. He won, the Planet was spared. He was called the Hero of the Planet. But did that change the fact of how people treated him? No.
Despite his efforts, he was still mistreated; even his own family treated him poorly. So, in his response he disowned his family, and his humanity. He wanted to go somewhere else. Some where were he would be accepted. And so, Eis told him about Deep Forest. A forest she had heard about, and that he should go there and see if it was to his liking. She told him to go, that she would take care of everything else on the Planet that would need to be taken care of. And so, after giving Michael her blessing, he teleported. He entered the multi-colored tunnel that would take him to Deep Forest, traveling and hoping that he might be able to find some type of peace there.
Family and Close Friends:
All human relatives have been disowned due to mistrust and betrayal.
Eis Engel – Alive, Wife, Angel
Special Desire: To be left in peace with his wife. Or, if that’s not possible, to at least be accepted.
Extras :
Currently Michael has no way of expanding his power's capabilities. He could train his physical capabilities just like anyone else can, but that’s about it. He can also acquire new weapons for summoning. To do so requires that the weapon and Michael go through an hour long ritual, after which the weapon becomes on of his summon able weapons. Also, Michael carries a special magical device that allows him to talk with his wife over any distance/plane/time/etc.
oh: There were so many fewer questions, when stars were still,
just a hole to heaven.
In Character Entrance to Draan:
The air was till, the tall grass waved gently in the cool breeze, the few trees around also waved their branches slightly in the breeze. The sun was out in full force, with a few clouds here and there, but it wasn’t hot out. Indeed, it was a nice gentle day that if one listened close enough, one could imagine gentle piano music playing in the background. But such a thing was obviously not happening. It was just the way the scene was at the moment. A few birds darted through the air, completely oblivious to the incoming person. Than again, he wasn’t even visible at the moment. In fact, nothing out of the ordinary was visible at the moment. So, where was the newcomer?
He was still traveling inside his multi-colored tube. He sighed in frustration and scratched his horn. That had become a bad habit actually, his horn never itched. But still, from time to time he would find himself scratching it. No real reason behind such an action other than habit by now. He didn’t even remember why he started to scratch it. Then, he saw it, the tall-tale sign that he was about to exit. So he reoriented his body so that he was traveling feet first. He needed to do that because that’s how he was going to arrive. Otherwise, he would land on his head. Then the entire tunnel turned white to the point of no longer anything inside it was noticeable.
Back in the open grass field all was calm. Than with a snap and a crack followed shortly afterwards by a pop, a strange white hole appeared above the ground about 50 feet. Then out of this hole dropped a man wearing a black trench coat and black…well…black everything… He plummeted the 50 feet and landed with a thud on the ground, but he managed to stay on his feet. He stood up and looked around. He was surrounded by grass, and a few trees. But…he thought about how his wife described the location he should have been traveling to. Tall trees, which this placed lacked, with his arrival being in a wasteland, and here he was in a grassland. Immediately he realized that he wasn’t in Deep Forest. Somehow, something had interrefered with his teleportation and he went to the wrong place. So, now he had 10 years to wait before being able to jump. Than he thought about it for a second, maybe this place could work out? He smiled took a step forward, took a deep breathe, and yelled…”HELLO!?”
((ooc: read the updated rules))
Age: 27
Mature Adult: 18
Gender: Male
Species: Half-Paragon/ Half-Devil
Placement: Land
Alignment: Good
Appearance: Stands 5'9" and weighs about 200 lb. and has a solid medium athletic build. Wears; a black trench coat, black pants, black boots, black long-sleeved shirt, black belt, and black fingerless gloves. Michael wears pauldrons (shoulder guards/mantles for the shoulders used in medieval full-plate armor) on his shoulders, the design is three spikes curving out then back in (like an S except out so that the top is pointing up) the top of each spike emanates green demonic fire, though no heat is given off and the fire doesn't harm anything, its for looks, the pauldrons are colored blood red (as in arterial bleeding). On the back of the trench coat is a golden cross. Michael keeps his hair long and tied into a pony tail (make fun of it and die), his hair is black in color and he has a right dark brown eye, his left eye is rather unique. His left eye had lost its eyelids and the brow lost all the hair on it, the eye became black, but the pupil had changed significantly, it was no longer the eye of a human, instead a demonic green circle with a upside down pentagram had replaced the corona and pupil. Tends to wear a neutral look on his face, unless he is in his mania than he wears an exaggerated happy look; while in his depression phase he wears a frown, these are not always accurate ways to judge his mood though. On his head is a black headband with strange demonic golden runes; the black headband covers his left eye, it wraps upper left to lower right across his face. Other than his eye and horn, he appears to be a normal human, though in reality, he is not a human, at least, no longer. Michael can summon a small variety of weapons, which are listed below, as they have no real powers themselves. Michael also has a short black demon like horn growing offset to the right from the center of his fore head; it is about 6 inches long. Other than his eye and horn, he appears to be a normal human, though in reality, he is not a human, at least, no longer.
Katana "Blood Dragon": Sharpened so that it can cut through even dragon hide. Was given the name "Blood Dragon" due to the draconic hilt and the blood red coloring of the blade which it gained by drinking the blood of an Angel. This katana is a straight edge katana, instead of the traditional curved blade katana that everyone is familiar with.
Scythe "Blood's Mercy": Made from unknown material it cuts through anything. Despite its size, Michael can swing it around like its nothing. It can cut through anything. The scythe’s shaft is about 7 feet long with the grip areas being an inch skinner than the rest of the shaft to make it easier to hold. The shaft itself is pure black with the grips being pink, despite this strange color choice, Michael is very proud of Blood’s Mercy. The blade is almost 6 feet long, making this weapon huge compared to Michael, yet he can wield it with ease. The blade itself is blood red with demonic green runes running along the blade. Unlike normal scythes, Blood’s Mercy is a double edge scythe, meaning that both sides of the blade can cut.
Naginata “Frozen Song”: Made from what appears to be ice, the blade may be cold to the touch, even if it has been heated up the blade is still cold, but only the cutting edge of the naginata can cause damage. Like all the other weapons that Michael can summon, Frozen Song can cut through almost anything. The polearm’s shaft is 5’9” long, with a three foot blade on the end. The blade looks like ice, while the shaft is white in color with a pale blue grip.
Twin tantô “Light’s Caress” and “Dark’s Caress”: Mainly used for two weapon fighting, they are also used when fighting with bigger weapons is not feasible. Light’s Caress has a silver-gold blade with the grip, guard, and hilt being white. Dark’s Caress has a purple-black black with the grip, guard, and hilt being black. The blade on each tantô is one foot long, making some people think that they are short swords of sorts. Both are capable of penetrating just about any type of defense.
Greataxe “Edge of Insanity”: A huge heavy axe. Edge of Insanity is like the rest of Michael’s weapons, able to cut through anything. The axe has a five foot long shaft with the grips being skinny enough to hold properly. The front blade is serrated and is about 4 foot long from top to bottom. The rear blade is not serrated and is only two foot long. The shaft is grey in color with the front blade being black with a blue edge, the rear blade is also black but with a red edge. Connecting the two blades at the shaft is a screaming skull (no noise made, just the look of screaming is on the skull’s face).
Kusarigama “Chain of Fate”: Looks like your traditional kusarigama, a kama attached to a chain with a weighted end. The blade is blue, the chain and weight is red, and the handle of the kama is black. The kama is of typical size for the kusarigama, while the chain is about 10 feet long. Like the rest of his weapons, this one is also capable of overcoming many types of defenses.
Suburitô “Oath Maker”: Oath Maker is not a summoned weapon; instead Michael always has it with him at all times. This weapon is actually a wooden training sword that is used to help train samurai of ancient Japan to wield and use swords. Due to the extra size and weight, it helped strengthen warriors to wield smaller swords such as Katanas. Michael uses it for combat and special rituals were he swears an oath. So the 4’2” wooden training sword is more for ceremonial purposes than anything else. Though he does train with it still, allowing him to use something other than his summoned weapons for training and rituals, making this suburitô very important to him. It is unknown how many times he has had to remake Oath Maker, due to it being nothing more than a wooden sword.
Kanabô “Pain Master”: Pain Master is an appropriate name for he oversized staff. The weapon is 5 feet long and several inches thick in the portion used for smashing with. The wood itself is a light gray color with the metal and the metal studs that cover the attack portion of the weapon a soft dark purple color. Despite the fact that this weapon has not cutting or piercing power, the blows are capable of severe damage, regardless of armor.
Personality: Michael seams to be a little dark at times. He can smile but when he does it kind a comes of as evil looking. And his laugh sounds evil. But despite these small evil tendencies, he actually has a heart that has been becoming more good than evil at its core. He even manages to go out of his way to help others. But he still manages to come off as unfriendly.
Magical Abilities:
Runic Eye: Invisibility and other such concealment abilities are useless to Michael’s left eye. He has to activate this ability; it is not active all the time. Though once activated, there is no time limit to how long it can keep going. Despite having no eyelid, the eye is normally not effected by bright light or becoming to dry. But using the ability changes this.
Weapons: Michael is capable of summoning a variety of weapons. Such weapons last till he dismisses them. He can even dismiss them at will even if they are not in his hands.
Perfect Teleportation: Michael can teleport anywhere, anytime, and any dimension with perfect accuracy as long as he knows the time, dimension, and name of the place.
Physical Abilities:
Beyond Mortal: Michael's physical strength, dexterity, constitution, and intellectual abilities are higher than mortal humans. This gives him the ability to fight as a one man army. These physical capabilities allow Michael to achieve a maximum running speed of 60 mph, and he can leap up to 500 feet into the air. Falling from higher than 500 feet can stun him with pain, but does not break or rupture anything in his body, thus allowing him to leap up high and survive long falls. Also, he can leap up to 1000 feet in distance in long jumps, though he gets little height from such leaps.
Immortal: Michael is immune to the passage of time, the effects of poisons, and the effects of diseases. Thus he doesn't age even though he is still young, nor does he ever get sick, he'll always look the way he does. He also can't die from other natural effects (such as a cave in not caused by magic or falling from too high of a height). Only crafted magic (magics casted by other creatures) and weapons can harm and kill him. He also can’t drown.
Combat Skills: Michael has complete mastery of his weapons. And is the master of many martial arts styles, mostly to help him fight with his weapons. These are: Ninjutsu, Kung Fu (Dragon), Jujutsu, Kendo (traditional katana), Zui Ba Xian Quan (commonly known as Drunken Master Style), naginatajutsu (style focusing on naginata combat), Kusarigamajutsu (style focusing on kusarigama combat), and kanabô-jutsu (style focusing on kanabô combat). While those styles cover his weapons mostly, Michael developed two unique styles for his scythe and axe; the scythe style he developed is called Blatt des Wind-Tanzes (Blatt des Wind-Tanzes translates to Blade of the Wind Dance), and the style he developed for the axe is called Gebet von gefallen (translates to Prayer of the Fallen).
Disadvantages:
Immortal Mortal: Can be killed like any mortal can in combat. Other than this, his only other disadvantage would be his lack of magic.
Weapons: All his weapons can be broken or disarmed from him. Though the summoned weapons can be forced out of his hands, they usually get dismissed immediately. They also have no special powers or abilities beyond being able to cut just about everything.
Beyond Mortal: Despite his physical and mental capabilities, he does not know how to fully use them, though he knows he is much stronger than a human, how much stronger has yet to be seen, as he never put the strength to the test (unknown to him but to us, his max lifting limit is 2 tons). Also, he needs about two to ten times the amount of energy a human does and thus requires more food than normal. Same goes for sleep.
Runic Eye: Though once activated the runic eye can stay active all the time, while active it is slightly painful. At first, it causes no pain, but after about a minute it starts to hurt. At ten minutes it is very painful. This normally causes Michael to deactivate the eye’s ability and cover it up with the headband. For once the pain starts his eye starts to become overly sensitive to light, and the fact that he has no eyelids does not help. With the headband on and the ability turned off the pain starts to lessen. It takes 1 full hour per ten minutes of use to fully recover from the pain before he can use the ability again. Example, he uses the eye for 30 minutes, than turns it off, he now needs to wait 3 hours before using it again.
Combat Skills: Since they aren’t really advantages but ways he fights with different weapons, there are no real disadvantages, beyond this: Michael has somewhat a pride about his skills, and if someone wants to duel him and tells him to use a certain style that he knows, he will indeed use that style and nothing else. Thus it can be possible for an opponent to select a style that they are capable of countering. But of course, the opponent would have to find out that he can use that style first.
Perfect Teleportation: Michael can only use this ability once every ten years.
History:
In some dimensions, certain events occur in a specific way, in other dimensions a different way, and yet in some dimensions those events never happened. Dimensions exist of the Theory of Infinite Relativity, in that there are countless dimensions, each with different reactions for every instance that occurs. Because of this, a person can exist in many different forms, and in some dimensions, they just never existed at all. Some people also believe in the Theory of Karma, in which that good or bad actions can bring good or bad actions to someone in the future. Some of those that believe in alternate dimensions also believe in the Theory of Infinite Karma. This theory states that if the many copies of a single person all do good or bad things, the opposite will be true for at least one copy of that person in the infinite dimensional timeline. Indeed, Michael, was in many dimensions insane and suffered from multiple personalities. In almost all these Michaels though were good hearts that helped people. And thus for this Michael here, Infinite Karma struck him, and he suffered because of his dimensional counter parts good deeds. Resulting in a being that has a good heart, but suffered from misfortune, every day he suffers from a mishap and he never understood why. But, at the same time, most people forget about another portion of Karma, when one does many good deed or suffer many bad deeds they shall be eventually rewarded by the opposite type of Karma. This is known as the Theory of Balance, which states that there is always an equal amount of good and evil in everyone and everything done, and that when one side grows too strong that the other side shall give birth to something even better. And thus the Michael here got struck by lightning, literally.
He got struck by lightning when he was 12, and when he woke he found himself staring into the eyes of a beautiful girl about his age. She had bright pale blue eyes and blonde hair. She wore a pure white dress and she had a wonderful smile as she looked into his eyes. His first reaction was to blush followed by the basic evil in his heart at the time to reach up and pull her in for a kiss, a passionate kiss as if they were lovers. Of course this action caused him to be slapped by her. His actions of course stemmed from Infinite Karma, he was the destined Michael to be evil at heart. After he got slapped he sat up and smiled at her. She drew away from him and blushed, but she did not run. He became curious as to who she was. So he asked her for her name, and she replied “Eis Engel.” He stared at her, the name was obviously a foriegn language, but because of how it sounded, it sounded like she said “Ice Angel.” If he had taken the time look up the words he would have found out that Eis Engel is directly translated into Ice Angel. So even though he heard what he heard, it would be correct in terms of translation. But still he found her name to be rather cute, despite the strangeness of being named Ice Angel. Indeed, that was the first true friendship that Michael had, one that would change his life forever.
As Michael grew up, he managed to stay friends with Eis for a long time, always managing to stay in the same city and school (and even the same classes) as her. Even she noticed that and the two of them started to come closer than just mere friends. They shared the second kiss during Prom night and that sealed their relationship. This all happened to him, but not to any other Michael because of the Theories of Karma and Balance. Eis was the good to his evil. And eventually his evil would vanish almost entirely, his attitude changing based on what she taught him. Eventually they married. This seamed to be a perfect love till disaster struck.
Michael was attacked by a devil that was trying to possess him so that it could attack Eis. This was due to the fact that Eis was indeed a real Angel, though Michael did not know this. Even though they had gotten married she had not told him about her being an Angel. Though this is obviously why she had managed to turn him from evil and into the light saving Michael from himself. The devil and Michael struggled for control, but neither was successful in gaining perfect control and both the Devil and Michael sank into a darkness in his heart. There the spirit of the devil was absorbed by Michael’s spirit, finally winning, but not lifting him out of the darkness. Then a bright light and Eis’ voice reached him in the darkness and clinging to his love for her he sought freedom from the dark. When he opened his eyes he found that the light came from Eis, and that she had somehow grown large white feathered wings that gave off a soft light, a very soothing gentle light. Then Michael fell asleep after gazing upon his wife.
The following day he woke up, still exhausted despite having slept for more than 12 hours. As he sat up he was struck with sudden pain in his head, as he stumbled his way into his bathroom he looked up in the mirror just in time to watch as his left eye lids and the hair above the eye melted, very painfully and bloody, he screamed in agony for what seamed like hours but was in reality only a few minutes as the painful transformation took place. When the pain had finally started to die down he looked up into the mirror, just in time for a new pain, this time in his left eye. He watched as it slowly and messily dissolved revealing a black swirling ball of energy in the eye socket. Of course he didn’t notice the ball of energy as he was to busy clutching at his eye out of sheer pain. He was in so much pain he couldn’t even scream in pain. Then the pain vanished, as if it never occurred in the first place. Getting up off the ground he looked into the mirror and saw his new black eye with the strange demonic magic circle. He didn’t have time to stare at his new gear, as pain sank into his forehead near the center but offset to the right, he watched in the mirror as his skin split and tore apart to reveal a black horn that grew to about 6 inches. After they grew he collapsed as pain took over his entire body. Was he going to fully turn into a devil?
NO! He wouldn’t because his wife, who had sensed his pain from outside came into the bathroom and saw what was happening. Though fear and terror over this transformation took her, she knew what to do. She ran into their room, and opened a lockbox that had never been opened before in Michael’s presence. Inside there was a diamond vial with a clear liquid in it. Grapping the vial, Eis ran back to Michael and forced him to drink the liquid that was inside. And she waited. The liquid had succeeded in stopping the transformation from progressing any farther. Michael found the liquid to have both a sweet smell and taste, but nothing like he had experienced before. Then once more, he blacked out. In two days, he had been rescued by his wife. He wanted to ask her questions about her angel wings, and about what just happened. But, while he slept for the next two days, his DNA and flesh were rewritten, causing him to gain strength, dexterity, constitution, and intellectual abilities beyond that of a normal human. In essence, he had become a paragon, which is to say, a creature that is almost a demigod in their own right, but are still of their species and thus are not gods or demigods. Just really powerful beings of their type that become immortal and are capable of so much more and thus are considered by many cultures to be the next step in evolution, though this is not true. The birth rate of paragons is about 1 in every 100,000,000,000,000,000 thusly there is rarely one in existence at any given time. It just so happened that Eis was the guardian of a vial containing an elixir that had a small chance of awakening the paragon DNA that laid dormant in a creature. Michael just happened to be one of those creatures. But, even so, it was an incomplete transformation of both the paragon and devil, thus he didn’t have the full powers and capabilities of either, instead he got what he got. But, things just got bad from there on in.
When ever Michael went out side after that event, people stared out of fear of him. Their fear was misplaced, as he was not evil, they misunderstood his presence. Many people wanted Eis to leave him due to him being a Devil that will corrupt her into doing bad things. Of course, she was an Angel and was the one that was doing the corrupting of Michael into being a being of good. Soon afterwards, Michael remembered about Eis’s wings. And then he questioned her, she told him that she was indeed an actual angel from heaven. And she was sent to live on the Planet, and that she was supposed to guard and use the vial, that she had used on him, on the one that would save the Planet. But everything else that happened was not planned, her falling for him, them getting married. That was not planned for, nor was the devil and Michael’s transformation. She admitted that she had panicked when she found Michael transforming into a devil and she had given him the vial’s contents out of desperation. But, it worked, he was no longer going to transform into a Devil. But now, he was tasked to save the Planet. But from what threat was he supposed to protect the Planet from?
That proved to be a strange alien traveling coliseum that arrived at Planet a few weeks later. Michael still wasn’t fully used to his new abilities, but he had a feeling that the alien’s were the threat he was supposed to face. Than the aliens made an announcement to the entire Planet making their intentions known to everybody. “Your strongest must face our strongest in a week’s time, or else we destroy your planet.” Of course, the major powers of the world launched attacks for the first few days, but after countless failures, they decided to find their strongest. It only took Michael one fight for them to realize that he was the one. After all, he threw the person he fought against over 100 feet into the air. Naming him the champion of the planet they had him learn how to fight. Amazingly, due to his increased mental capabilities he was able to master everything they taught him in two days. And the weapons they gave him to use, special weapons of unknown origins, had disappeared. In reality, he had learned how to assimilate them into a strange sub-space thus allowing him to summon them regardless of how many times they are destroyed. And so he faced off against the aliens champion. When Eis saw the champion she feared the worse. She revealed to Michael that the alien was in fact a paragon, like himself. At first Michael didn’t take it seriously. But after attacking several times with no results with every weapon except Blood’s Mercy, he decided to try Blood’s Mercy, as he had nothing else. Then with one slash, the alien died. This surprised everyone, he had killed a alien paragon. He won, the Planet was spared. He was called the Hero of the Planet. But did that change the fact of how people treated him? No.
Despite his efforts, he was still mistreated; even his own family treated him poorly. So, in his response he disowned his family, and his humanity. He wanted to go somewhere else. Some where were he would be accepted. And so, Eis told him about Deep Forest. A forest she had heard about, and that he should go there and see if it was to his liking. She told him to go, that she would take care of everything else on the Planet that would need to be taken care of. And so, after giving Michael her blessing, he teleported. He entered the multi-colored tunnel that would take him to Deep Forest, traveling and hoping that he might be able to find some type of peace there.
Family and Close Friends:
All human relatives have been disowned due to mistrust and betrayal.
Eis Engel – Alive, Wife, Angel
Special Desire: To be left in peace with his wife. Or, if that’s not possible, to at least be accepted.
Extras :
Currently Michael has no way of expanding his power's capabilities. He could train his physical capabilities just like anyone else can, but that’s about it. He can also acquire new weapons for summoning. To do so requires that the weapon and Michael go through an hour long ritual, after which the weapon becomes on of his summon able weapons. Also, Michael carries a special magical device that allows him to talk with his wife over any distance/plane/time/etc.
oh: There were so many fewer questions, when stars were still,
just a hole to heaven.
In Character Entrance to Draan:
The air was till, the tall grass waved gently in the cool breeze, the few trees around also waved their branches slightly in the breeze. The sun was out in full force, with a few clouds here and there, but it wasn’t hot out. Indeed, it was a nice gentle day that if one listened close enough, one could imagine gentle piano music playing in the background. But such a thing was obviously not happening. It was just the way the scene was at the moment. A few birds darted through the air, completely oblivious to the incoming person. Than again, he wasn’t even visible at the moment. In fact, nothing out of the ordinary was visible at the moment. So, where was the newcomer?
He was still traveling inside his multi-colored tube. He sighed in frustration and scratched his horn. That had become a bad habit actually, his horn never itched. But still, from time to time he would find himself scratching it. No real reason behind such an action other than habit by now. He didn’t even remember why he started to scratch it. Then, he saw it, the tall-tale sign that he was about to exit. So he reoriented his body so that he was traveling feet first. He needed to do that because that’s how he was going to arrive. Otherwise, he would land on his head. Then the entire tunnel turned white to the point of no longer anything inside it was noticeable.
Back in the open grass field all was calm. Than with a snap and a crack followed shortly afterwards by a pop, a strange white hole appeared above the ground about 50 feet. Then out of this hole dropped a man wearing a black trench coat and black…well…black everything… He plummeted the 50 feet and landed with a thud on the ground, but he managed to stay on his feet. He stood up and looked around. He was surrounded by grass, and a few trees. But…he thought about how his wife described the location he should have been traveling to. Tall trees, which this placed lacked, with his arrival being in a wasteland, and here he was in a grassland. Immediately he realized that he wasn’t in Deep Forest. Somehow, something had interrefered with his teleportation and he went to the wrong place. So, now he had 10 years to wait before being able to jump. Than he thought about it for a second, maybe this place could work out? He smiled took a step forward, took a deep breathe, and yelled…”HELLO!?”
((ooc: read the updated rules))
