Post by Erebus Ryder on Apr 4, 2014 11:02:39 GMT -5
Basics
Name: Erebus Ryder
Nicknames: Crimson, Crim, Ryder
Age: 16
Birthday: December 23rd
Grade: 10th
Power:
Night Embodiment
Erebus is the embodiment of night, his powers being the strongest whenever night comes around. His sword manipulation becomes stronger, leading to him being able to form more swords and carry them in a more telekinetic manor and also become next to impossible for others to absorb. When the sun sets he also gets stronger and faster physically, making his close combat even more lethal, along with becoming more durable, meaning he can take impacts that would normally break bones with a little more than bruising. He also has amazing night vision, making it easy for him to see in low light levels. Despite his strengths, he has some major weaknesses. He is significantly weaker during the day, having a slightly weaker sword manipulation with no ability to wield the swords in any way that aren't his hands and making it easier for a person with a similar ability to absorb his swords along with becoming slower, weaker, and less durable. He is also extremely sensitive to bright lights, especially sunlight and avoids it during the day and is always wearing sunglasses outside during the day to protect his eyes.
Sword Manipulation
He has the ability to summon and manipulate swords at will. His swords normally come in the form of twin, hardened steel short swords, and these are the easiest for him to create. Going with a more exotic sword will show signs of physical straining on his body and will be nowhere near as strong and reinforced as the more practiced one handed longsword. He can temporarily summon more than two, though this will drain him and cause him to resort back to just the two. His ability with swords moves past just being able to summon them, he is an expert swordsman as well, though this leaves him handicapped when it comes to ranged combat. He is good enough with a sword to deflect bullets if he knows he is being shot at, but he has to constantly feed energy into the blades in order to keep them from breaking under the stress, leading to him being able to hold onto a decent blade form for around 30 seconds of constant extra stress onto the blades before he can't hold the form any longer and they break. His signature swords are twin, one handed swords, though he is known to use the occasional rapier. He has shown signs of being able to control the swords without touching the blades, but has never actually done so and is extremely inexperienced in it. He also has two distinct styles with the blades, the more traditional stance and holding the right blade backwards.
Enhanced Reflexes
Quite simple really, he reacts at a superhuman rate, mostly helps him when it comes to ranged combat, giving him the chance to dodge or deflect attacks.
Member Group: Prefect
Canon or not: Nay
Appearance:
Erebus looks his age, if not younger. His hair is normally hanging in his eyes, being a fairly decent length, though fairly well kept. His eyes are a dark grey, though always seem to have some kind of mischievousness to them. He is fairly athletic, being well versed and constantly training his body to keep it in shape, though he still is fairly small, standing at around five foot eight and weighing a slim 130 pounds, but most of that is muscle. He looks small, but he's often underestimated physically, many of his opponents not realizing how well he keeps his body in shape. Despite this, he gives off a somewhat childlike appearance at times, though this is far from him being a child himself.
When not in his prefect uniform he is almost always wearing all black with shades of grey highlighting his clothing. His clothing normally consist of a of a long, black cloak covering his black shirt and pants. He wears black combat boots the majority fo the time with finger-less gloves. He isn't afraid to throw a splash of colour into his clothing now and again either, normally being dark blues or reds, though at times his clothing will have lighter colour tones to it. He'll also wear scarves, but only in less tropical settings and has pretty much abandoned this cold weather choice.
Personality
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Overall Personality:
Erebus is an unpredictable, aggressive teen. He is constantly throwing people off who had thought they knew him, be it by doing nothing about making personal gains or something previously thought to be out of character. His aggressive nature has lead him to being a bit fight happy, a little too fight happy for his own good. He can not back down from a challenge, no matter how high the challenge is. This has lead to him often times biting off more than he can chew, though he has learned from all his losses over time. He still makes mistakes quite often though, especially due to his big ego.
Despite his overly aggressive nature, Erebus does like to relax and will take things at a more lax pace than a lot of people around him. He is also fairly hard to anger, always keeping a cool head even when insulted. This has lead to people often times trying their hardest to get a reaction out of him, just to see him angry. Very few have actually managed to do so without challenging him upfront. Even insulting his skills wont anger him, he'd rather his actions speak instead of works, finding they hold more meaning. That being said he never understood the meaning of the pen being mightier than the sword.
He's fairly quiet overall though, only speaking his mind when he needs to or sees that it could lead to something humorous. He avoids all unneeded contact, but takes his job very seriously. He also respects authority, meaning all that are a higher rank than himself have his utmost respect, unless he gains a position higher than them, in which case said person can kiss all respect he showed them goodbye. There are very few that he truly respect or trust, leading to him normally pushing people away from him. Because of this he has become somewhat of a loner, preferring to work alone than to work with others, though he can be a team player if forced to be. He is also a surprisingly good student, seeming to want to learn as much as he can as time progresses.
History
Family Members/guardians: His parents are unknown
History:
Erebus was born in New York City to what at first were loving parents, however, they had a twisted sense of humor. Though they raised him lovingly for the first few years of his life, they had been training him from the moment the could walk. What was he being trained for? An illegal fighting ring, which was the only reason his parents had him, to make him their personal champion. Their goal was to train someone who would bring them fame and money, no mater how illegal it was. He was technically their third attempt, and was to be their final attempt.
They made sure to get him trained in blades this time so that their child wasn't trying to strangle people to death, teaching him with things such as sticks and plastic swords. They raised him on ways to kill instead of learning his ABCs, taught him ways to avoid strikes instead of reading. By the time he was 13 he was ready for the matches, though his powers had slowly started surfacing, especially his night empowerment. He won his first match easily, since every match was held at night it was hard for him not to win. However, as his powers got stronger people started to get suspicious of just how fair the fights he was being put into were.
During this time he had met a brunette girl by the name of Tyri, someone who he was actually allowed to hang around with outside of battle. She was a fiery, quick tempered girl who he seemed to get along well with for one reason or another. What he didn't know is that they had decided to try something new. Team fights, where it ended up being 2 vs. 2 fights to the death. Eventually they started training together, which neither of them objected to since they enjoyed each other's company. Then they were thrown into the arena together and told to kill two others, throwing the two completely for a loop. They did manage to pull out a win after a slight struggle, but the two quickly became a strong fighting duo.
Their fights were often one sided, however one night, after being disarmed, he had to watch as his friend was killed by the opposing team, unable to do a thing. At this he became enraged, a sudden sword of lunar light forming in his hand, killing the two. Because of this his powers, which had been present in the form of his ability with a sword and reaction time, came to fruition as he was quickly kicked from the arena, his family disowned from the community for having used a powered child to cheat, being robbed the next morning of all their winnings. He was 15, his parents having heard of the Ashford Project and how much money they could get from it, they quickly devised a way to drop him off without his past being tracked. In the end, they dropped him off with the local police, saying they had found him on the streets since there was no birth record leading back to them, the boy having been born at home.
They received the money and left, the boy being left behind in the hands of the government. They quickly decided to test him, finding a present surprise in his combat abilities, though his academics were sorely lacking. They also found that he was quite obedient, though they never learned that this was because he viewed them as being in a higher position than himself and nothing more. Eventually he was shipped off to Ashford after he agreed to join their Prefects upon arrival, though he didn't understand what exactly he was joining. All he knew was that he wasn't supposed to kill the students, instead protect them, which was a new idea to him, but he didn't mind. He wanted to try something new, and if it allowed him to fight every now and again even better.
Behind the Character
Name: Sky
Chatango Name: Skyofcrimson
RP Experience: 5 years...no 6....idek anymore, lost count XD
How did you find us: I'd hope you know by now owo
RP Sample: Let me sing you a song...
