I figure I'm going to need to make one of these things for Mayhem...
Name: Nikolai Kion (Kye-on)
Gender: Male
Age: 19, looks about 22
Species: Human
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 46 lb.
Body: Slender, but not all that thin. Lightly muscled.
Skin: Light tan
Hair colour: Brown, very slight tinge of red
Hairstyle: Usually somewhat messy and ungroomed. Combed hair with center leaning heavily to the left (his PoV) when attempting to look presentable.
Eyes: Blue-green outer ring with a dark brown, almost black, center. Makes the iris look a bit bigger, often with a serious/sleepy look.
Personality: Cheery and lighthearted, but sometimes quick to anger. Serious when he needs to be, but playful when he doesn't. Doesn't mind being made fun of, or being the victim of a practical joke. Usually very upbeat about any situation.
Hobbies: Birdwatching, hunting, camping, archery, swimming, video games, blacksmithing, woodcarving, photography.
Warm weather clothes: Brightly-coloured swimming trunks and a polo (matching the colour most dominant on the shorts). Prefers blues and reds.
Cold weather clothes: Black, or deep-coloured, pants with a similarly-coloured shirt. Prefers blacks and deep blues.
Accessories: Usually wears blue-rimmed sunglasses outside, even at night. Sometimes wears a nickel-sphere choker for luck.
Specialty: Manipulating "ethereal" energy, which emanates from some living creatures (including himself). Latent ethereal energy often causes light to become polarized, and is easy to spot if trained to see polarized light.
Main ability: With some concentration, he is able to manifest a set of ethereal wings on his back. The wings stretch out to about 16 to 20 feet tip-to-tip. The wings quickly manifest themselves almost as though they were the flames of a gas stove, emanating from his back. They glow a colour chosen when manifested (often navy blue), and fade into smoke when they are no longer needed. A shirt does not cause any disturbance when manifesting or using the wings. The wings become destabilized if something passes through a large portion of them, fading away.
Other abilities:
Ethereal Aim: With a bit of concentration, can wrap a small amount of ethereal energy around an arrow, which allows for slight adjustment whilst in flight (+/- 2 degrees).
Ethereal Solidification: Causes a body of ethereal energy to become a solid almost instantaneously. Concentration does not need to be held to keep the energy a solid, but it does need to be held to move it around. The blocks can be absorbed for small boosts of most kinds energy or magic, or used as a wall. Solid ethereal energy is about as hard as Styrofoam at the weakest (low amount of energy in the area), steel at the hardest (densely-packed pockets of energy).
Other attributes: Very light body, mainly to allow flight.
Bones are thin, hollow, and light, with strings of bone strung throughout the inside for strength. Bones are as strong as a normal human's.
Body fat is kept to a minimum, often being consumed through flight or wing manifestation.
Smaller muscles to reduce weight.
Very nimble, able to contort body in ways normal people can't.
Can jump roughly 2-3 times higher than a normal human.
Proficient in: Staves, daggers/shortswords, bows, some pistols and guns.
Typical equipment: usually carries no weaponry. Carries a dagger in a clip-on sheath and a short bow and a quiver of 5-10 arrows on his back
only if he's expecting trouble or is out hunting.
Excels in: Marksmanship, speed, stealth.
Strengths: Light, nimble, quiet, dexterous, flight, above-average eyesight and hearing, highly proficient with bows, quick minded, large lung capacity.
Weaknesses: All abilities require some degree of concentration, tight spaces, has weak muscles, easily distracted, limited flight time, loses some proficiency with all weapons (except bows) while flying, slightly claustrophobic.
History: **To come, I have yet to do some roleplaying to test him out.**
Fun facts:
He likes to carve the birds he sees from pictures taken whilst birdwatching. He has a collection of about 50 species, all painted by hand. He makes extras and sells them for some money.
Makes all of his weapons himself, using whatever he can find. He often raids local junk heaps in search of useful materials.
The wings do not forcibly disappear under water, but they do not hinder swimming either.
Ethereal Energy information: Ethereal energy emits from some creatures and plants. Primary sources of ethereal energy are as follows: most coniferous trees, some shamanic magic (mainly transformation/summoning), animals related to shamanism (mainly wolves), magic dealing with shadows or darkness, and rarely from humans.
If there's any holes, or questions about ethereal energy, PM me and I'll fix/answer them as soon as I can.
Edits:
Edits are listed here in order of occurrence, and lists what's changed in underlined text, followed by where the change is in brackets.
Edit [Unknown date]: Decided the ethereal energy ability should actually do something other than look cool, it now
allows for slight adjustment in flight (Fun Facts -> Other Abilities). He DOES
paint the carvings by hand (Fun facts), as he's quite
dexterous (Strengths). He has the ability to
jump roughly 2-3 times higher (Other Attributes) than a human can.
Edit [6/24/07]: Made a few
wording changes (Weaknesses, Strengths).
Added 3 new sections (Specialty, History, Edits).
Edit [7/6/07]: Added in the fact that his wings
destabilize when something passes through them (Main Ability).
Added a new ability, Ethereal Solidification (Other Abilities).
Added information about ethereal energy (Ethereal Energy Information).