Post by NightshadeVII on Mar 7, 2017 11:09:54 GMT -6
Hey, Even though I've alreadt posted this guy's ref on DA, I figured it wouldn't hurt to add it here as well >:3
Name: Aberdeen Muir
Gender: Male
Species: Nøkk (Corrupted water spirit)
Age:around 600 years old (appears to be around 27)
Height: 182 cm
Occupation: Works at a music-cafe downtown
Badge: white (unregistered)
Personality: Aberdeen comes off as a very charming and naturally confident young man, without over doing it. He is very calm and pleasant to be around, most of the time, though sometimes he can be overly friendly, giving the impression that he wants something from you. While he is charming and all that, he never reveals anything about himself. It would be very fitting to call him unpersonal. While he is good at being courteous and generally nice to be around, he is not good at maintaining long-lasting relationships, with anyone. Though one might not expect it, he is extremely aware of himself, the way he speaks and the way he moves. There is something rather melancholic about him, but he seems unaware of it himself. He has a great passion for music, and while he doesn't sing per se, he can emit some quite haunting, but oddly beautiful stretched-out wailing, that doesn't sound entirely human. Aberdeen is surprisingly unsympathetic, and is able to fake a certain degree of empathy, feeling a smaller degree of it. Nothing enrages him more that people mistreating his lake, when this happens, (which it rarely does), he becomes unbelievably violent, and will try to drown this person, without his usual rituals of ensnaring and means of dulling pain.
Physical description:
Human: Aberdeen can be described as obscurely beautiful. Incredibly fair skinned, which brings out his chin and cheekbones. His hair is a classic clean black and grown relatively long. He constantly wears it pulled back in a braid (both for the aesthetic and to get it out of his face) and decorated with silver rings. Though his eyes are quite the odd coloring a completely clean greenish-turquoise, which makes his gaze both intense and haunting. Either people greatly enjoy having eye contact with him or they despise it. He usually wears a pleasant, soft expression and doesn't come off as threatening. His fingers are long and slender and he says this is caused by him playing the violin from a young "age". He calls it, "musician's fingers." Slender build, average height. Usually wears a dark-blue shirt, with a few buttons unbuttoned, black pants and shoes.
Natural: Now, Aberdeen in his natural from (which is only slightly more comfortable to him than his human form), is a, while not directly frightening, rather odd sight. In this state, his skin is sickly pale and he grows strangely thin, making him appear taller. From the elbows to the finger tips, and from the knees to the feet, his skin gradually goes from pale to a dull mudish green. His fingers also seem to get more pointed. His eyes change as well, as the borders between seclera, iris and pupil becomes nonexistent, they still have their greenish-turquoise colour, but this dominates his entire eye. When out of his lake, his entire form seems to be constantly soaked, no matter how long he is on land. His hair is never braided like this.
Abilities:
•Agility: he's far from a gymnast, but he is agile, especially underwater.
•Connection to lake: due to being connected to his lake, as long as his lake isn't hurt, he isn't hurt. Of course he feels pain and bleed and sustain great injury, his body is like that of a human. But he won't die as long as his lake exsists. However, he heals the same way a human might. This also enables him to breathe underwater, however only in his own lake.
•Violinst: Very good at playing the violin and using it's beautiful haunting sounds to it's full potential. He uses this as a means of ensnaring victims and luring them to his lake.
•Charm/entrancing: Aberdeen is rather charming, practically entrancing. This comes in handy when luring victims to his lake to drown them. He can easily charm people into being relaxed around him and uses this in practically all social situations.
Weaknesses:
•Human body : has the body of a human, so he is far from invunerable. He gets sick, like a human does and gets injured like humans do.
•Connection to lake: whereas it is a strength it is also a weakness. Due to his connection to his lake, if the lake suffers, he suffers. If the lake is polluted, he will get horribly sick. If the oxygen-levels drop in the lake, he'll feel like he's slowly suffocating. If someone were to use his lake against him, he can be pushed into practically anything.
•Low pain threshold: Aberdeen has a very low pain threshold, even though he wants to hide it. He would quickly give into torture.
•Fear (especially of death): rather fearful creature, and while he knows fear of death is natural, his fear is in the extreme, just the possibility of death scares him and facing death might give him a panic attack. He'll do litteraly anything to stay alive, even if it means joining bad guys or sacrificing someone dear to him. This is why he has no trouble killing.
•No combat-abilities what-so-ever: this speaks for itself, doesn't it? Seeing as he usually lures and ensnares people to ambush them, he's never had to develop combat-abilities. So if his ambush fails, well, then he needs to run.
•Compulsions: Aberdeen has a compulsion to drown people in his lake, this is how he stays alive, and it plays a huge roll in his thought process, both consciously and unconsciously.
Extra notes:
-Wants to start a music-shop specializing in classical string instruments such as violins and cellos.
-Is relatively environmentally active, though only when it involves water. He couldn't care less about deserts.
-Likes it when people touches his hair, but he doesn't want to like it. He will never let anyone do his hair.
-Has an apartment downtown, though on the verge of being in the suburbs.
-It is believed that his choosing of victims is related to his "sexuality" (or however close we get to that), he has no preference in victims and can therefore be considered bisexual.
-His name Aberdeen Muir, is self-chosen and has a bit of meaning. Aberdeen means "mouth of the river" and Muir means "sea, moor"
-He is easily recognized in the cafe where he works and often chat's with customers.
-Minor cuts causes him to bleed. Water will come out of major wounds. (The bleeding is a means of appearing "human")