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| Topic Started: Mar 26 2009, 02:50 AM (41 Views) | |
| Onyxian | Mar 26 2009, 02:50 AM Post #1 |
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 (Phoenix Form; bear with me here, this was the best picture I could find around the net. The basics are all there, just imagine more black and a bit more pronounced- as well as replacing other colors, red. However, if anyone would be most willing to allow me to use a picture that they might have found, that would be more accurate to my character, please tell me.)  (Human Form) Character Name:Onyx Firefly Age:207, 27 years since last rebirth. Species:Phoenix Job:Healer (for now; I might want to be an emissary. Maybe a grim reaper, if I head that way.) Relationships: His Childhood Friend - Ember Tide, his pet Hawk - Phoenix (Ironically named, huh?) Family:his Father - Onyx Nameless (Deceased), his Mother - Ember Birdsong (Deceased), his Brother - Ember Imara (Deceased), his Sister - Onyx Firefly (I'll explain)(Deceased) Physical Description: Phoenix Form - His wingspan is a bit larger than normal, and is black along the length that would be bone, and slightly beyond it, slowly changing into a brighter, more pronounced color of dark- to normal-red, going from darker to brighter in a rather short stretch. Near the tips, however, it switches back to black. The black itself is almost that of an Onyx color. His tail-feathers are of the same way as well, though the ones closest to his body are completely black. His body feathers mimic a much lighter color of the onyx-blackness, and once it reaches his neck it's almost a gray color. It continues along his neck this way, until it reaches his head-feathers, which are almost completely Onyx-black. His beak is curved at the end, making it slightly more dangerous than normal. His talons are also sharper than normal, and seem to need less upkeep than most others. His un-feathered legs are also longer than normal, but seem to hold no extra girth, and are slightly skinny. Human form -Starting with his hair, it is as his feathers are, though slightly different from the many hues. His hair takes on the characteristics of his head-feathers, but also takes on the view of his wings, only it fades from black-red-black in random areas rather than in set areas, though it does seem to be more focused around the lower-middle of his head. His head is wrapped with a cloth at almost all times, except when he is asleep and alone, and even then he makes sure, both conscious and unconscious, that his hair covers the scar that it hides. It is a scar that runs along his forehead at a slightly downward angle. His eyes are a vibrant red, which he blames on contacts to match his hair, though really it's because his Phoenix eyes are red as well. His nose is sharper than most others, probably because of his sharp beak. His lips are slightly more pronounced, though not unattractively so. his chin is also slightly sharper. In fact, his face is sharper and slightly more narrow than most. Even his ears are sharper. This is usually the order of what people notice. He believes this is also because of his normal, phoenix form. Keeping in tone with his phoenix form, he has longer arms and legs than most people have, and a tad bit longer neck, though he managed to squeeze a couple extra inches on his body for his human form, to make things match. He stands at about six foot five inches. Normally, he wears dark clothes. He wears a long black trench-coat that actually suits him, and doesn't make people think 'stalker?!' when the first see him, or other negative thoughts. Under it, he wears a black turtleneck shirt, and his jeans are also black. His muscles are not prominent, though they are there, under the clothing. Nothing special, but it doesn't really relay his true strength. Personality: Onyx was a cheerful, bright, and happy person, and can still be that cheerful, bright, happy person, but may never be the same after his families incident. Having become a master at hiding himself, considering his family stayed behind rather than retreating to Ris'Mos, he has been able to learn to keep a low profile. He works a job on Earth, nobody really knows much about him, and even his friends are kept at a distance. He has pretty much forsaken all magic, though he does still bottle his tears in case they are needed, which they are, frequently, considering he works as a doctor. Even though he has forsaken magic, he still remembers much of what he has learned. Speaking of tears, he cries himself to sleep almost every night, so you can imagine that he and wakes almost every morning after a nightmare. The nightmare is the same one, night after night, and it is that of the incident. He has always been a lucid dreamer, and tried many different ways to change the outcome, but he never is able to, and always loses control of the dream. His parents named him 'Firefly' after not just his bright red hair and eyes, which contrast with his Onyx-colored feathers, but also because they took him to a fortune teller, and his fortune said that after great pain, he would become the light in the life of someone who was pained as well. His last name (which oddly is reversed by normal standards) is Onyx, after his father, and because of his primary feather color, though he has all but forsaken this last name because of the incident. He hates speaking about his family, and if pressed he may break into tears. He has learned how to evade the questions, or sate them for a while, and he doesn't ever compare his own family to others for fear of breaking down. He feels rather lonely, because he hasn't been able to find any other people like him- people that weren't human, at least. Firefly is also rather intelligent. He understands most things quickly, and is a quick learner as well. He also has a photographic memory. However, he seems to 'zone-out' easily. Skills: Onyx is not truly skilled in offensive martial arts, though he does know some defensive and disabling techniques, mostly from Aikido, which he studied briefly. He also is a very quick learner, and is rather intelligent- combined with a photographic memory. As for his magical abilities, because he hasn't studied for at least 120 years, he's a bit rusty, but still knows most of the basics. He is also a very good healer, capable of healing most serious to critical injuries, though he has had the most experience with Humans. History: Onyx was born to a 'normal' phoenix family, a twin to be exact. His sister was born shortly after him, and she traditionally shares his name, though she does not hold the same prophecy. Not that she complained, though she did say how lucky he was. His family had survived the onslaught brought on by the humans, though he's not exactly sure how. Normal, by his definition, was one that had managed to hide the fact that they were not, in fact, normal human beings. Because it was imperative that his family keep their secrecy, his family was able to teach him at the age of 48 to keep a human form, and that was really all he learned to do besides the necessities for those 48 years. He lived in the rocky mountains, where he was able to keep a low profile in the wild. After he took his human form, they taught him language, and it was discovered; his quick-learning nature. He managed to get the English language down in about 1 month, considering he had never truly spoken before that, besides with thought. (This is explainable as if a deaf person were to start attempting to speak after learning to hear for the first time. They have no experience with how to use their mouth, but they can learn to do it over a long period of time) He learned much about magic and many other things, mostly the human ones, before the incident, roughly twenty-three years later, and only 17 years after his first rebirth. This is all he refers to it as, and it's the only thing that he can without breaking into tears. His father attempted a black magic, binding his spirit with that of a demon in a pact to find a portal that would lead his family away from here. The demon, however, had other plans, and murdered his family. with his fathers own hands. His father- or rather the mix of the demon and his father- very nearly killed him as well, and left a deep gash- the scar- on his forehead. His reaction to his father doing this was instantaneous, he knew it was no longer his father. Summoning a bolt of ice, he lanced it through his fathers heart. The demon left, cursing and filling the atmosphere with loathing, but was also silenced with a banishment spell he had learned from his father not just the day before. He sat there, taking it all in, and the memory was set in his mind, engraved there, forever. He cursed his photographic memory for this one reason, that he remembered his fathers face, his mothers body, his sisters corpse, his brother hanging from the ceiling chandelier, stabbed through the chest. His brother was still alive, though, and fell to the floor, crashing into the living room table and crushing it. Firefly ran to him, and his brother uttered his last words. "How could you do it?" Though he knew that it was in admiration, by the fact that not even Imara, the best magician of the family, could save his father and banish the demon, his mind still tormented him with those words in his nightmares; they were ones of horror, and ones of hate. And so he lived alone, for who knows how long. He continued his studies with what books they had, but then realized that he needed to move on from this place, it wasn't helping him at all. Though the nightmares never ended, and everything was still a touchy subject, he moved to New York City, and lived amongst the humans and their lives, returning only to rebirth. He lived like this, keeping friends at a distance, never talking about his family, never learning anything about magic, never practicing magic beyond the necessary, and to this day still lives like this. Though, he has begun to wonder, what is Ris'Mos like? Edited by Onyxian, Mar 26 2009, 02:51 AM.
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