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Kharon Blackwing, bound mage
« on: December 27, 2017, 09:21:07 pm »
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{NAME}
Kharon Blackwing

{ALIASES}
That would require having friends.

{AGE}
Roughly 5,600ish years. Give or take a decade.

{GENDER, SEXUALITY}
Male.
Question mark? I mean he's a Neph character there's like a 80% chance he's some kinda into dick.

{SPECIES/ETHNICITY}
Human, mage. He no longer has a homeland but he used to he from ancient Adela.

{HEIGHT/BUILD}
6’ and lean.

{OCCUPATION}
Servant, mage, explorer, student.

{RESIDENCE}
“His" ship, mostly.

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IN DEPTH STUFF
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{PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION}
Tall, lean and angular, Kharon doesn’t need bulk to look imposing. It’s all in how he carries himself, head held high and shoulders set, brows permanently furrowed and full lips curved down in a frown. It’s as if he’s expecting a fight at every turn… and in his copious experience, there usually is one.

His brown skin is unmarred, save for a few tattoos over his torso. Two stylized raven skulls sit on his shoulders, and a network of lines follow his natural contours in mimicry of wings and tail feathers. Finally, there is what appears to be a kind of rune set over his heart, and this is the one he is most sensitive about.

His wardrobe choice is… bizarre, to say the least. He likes dark skinny jeans and long boots overtop them, but this is almost always paired with downright anachronistic mage robes and armor, right up to an ornately runed hood that he wears up more often than not when amongst other people. Honestly he looks like a LARPer 90% of the time and he doesn’t even understand what LARPing is.


{PERSONALITY}

Cold, blunt, and cruel. Kharon spares no feelings and makes his contempt perfectly clear, if only because that's the only real freedom he has left. He won't lie, whether by his own choice or because he physically cannot, but that won't stop him from making the truth as difficult as possible. He seems to get no joy out of anything, or if he does, he is very sure to hide what makes him happy.

Tsundere as fuuuu--


Fun Facts!:
  • When he’s a crow, absolutely loves getting head and chest pets. Will even seek them out if he knows he can get away with it. Is always embarrassed at his own behavior after the fact.
  • Loves old-timey slapstick movies a la the Marx Brothers. Gets a laugh out of him every time.
  • Likes collecting things that interest him. He has shelves and shelves of trinkets and odds and ends from over the years. He likes the idea that all of it is his.
  • Could eat an entire can of whipped cream by itself. Or two. ...Or three.

{SPECIAL ABILITIES}

Mage - A powerful mage, skilled in many mortal magics but particularly fond of ones involving transformation. Prefers to spend time as a crow when he travels.

Bound - Cursed by his first teacher, Kharon is immortal. He doesn’t age, and he can’t be physically killed. Any injury he sustains he maintains his awareness through, even during the impossible, and his pieces will reform without any skip in his consciousness. She made sure he’d feel every last agonizing second. This also means he is subjected to kinds of compulsions. He can’t go too far away from his master, he is compelled to defend them against danger regardless of any personal injury he might face, and he must follow any order given to him despite how he personally might feel (so long as it doesn’t interfere with the binding curse directly).

The Tree - Part of his curse: whenever Kharon doesn’t have a “master” to serve, he is bound to spend his time asleep inside of a magically constructed tree. Dripping blood on the bark binds him to his new “master” and wakes him up again, starting the whole cycle over again without any time for him to consider how to escape it.

{RELATIONSHIPS}

His first teacher and “master”, a powerful sorceress with a cruel streak to shake the heavens. She taught him many things, but most importantly, never to trust anyone.

Sita; One of his first new masters upon reawakening in Adela some five thousand years ago. Probably one of the kinder ones he’s ever had, and allowed Kharon several freedoms without restriction.

His current “master”; a bunch of bits in a jar kept alive by medical science. Unable to die and thus bind Kharon to his tree state, but also unable to give orders. Much like a lich with a phylactery, Kharon is obsessively protective of this one, because it’s the closest thing to true freedom he’s ever gotten.

{HISTORY}

Kharon was a promising mage, even when he was very small. Highly adept even at a young age, his parents were quite sure he would one day achieve great things. They had hoped to put him through proper schooling, but being simple farmers, could not afford to do much more than buy their son old secondhand books from which to learn.
Even so, he devoured every bit of knowledge he picked up, but was especially skilled in transmutive/transfigurative magics.

Eventually, he picqued the interest of a passing mage, and she offered to school Kharon free of charge. Elated, his parents said yes in a heartbeat, and soon their son was packed up and leaving with his new master.

This would prove to be the worst mistake of his life. She had him sign a contract, which unbeknownst to him, involved far more than simple legal binding-- the contract magically bound every fiber of him to her, to where unless she expressly ordered it, he could do nothing. And she was not kind about it. She put him through the worst conditions imaginable, often for the sake of her own study, or amusement. It really depended on her mood, which was an ever-changing thing. It was only through virtue of his life force being bound to hers that he even managed to survive it.

Kharon was not the type to just roll over, however. Every time she gave an order, he found a loophole, just to spite her. When she forbade him sleep, he made himself pass out via other means. When she forbade him speak to his parents, he taught a crow to do it for him. Every disobedience was met with even harsher punishments, his master making sure to destroy any little thing that gave him joy. It taught him to keep his emotions in check, and to show no favor lest the source of that favour suffer for it.

This all came to a head when Kharon disobeyed her for the final time. In retaliation, she would kill him, but not before giving her final order: that he would return home, and destroy everyone there. Following the deed, he was cursed to continue existing, trapped inside of a tree in the family orchard, living and yet dead, until someone came by and released him again.

Even then, he would be bound to his new master, forced to do every bit of their bidding until they died. And then the process would begin anew, over and over again, until the end of days.

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