Post by Church Xandre on Aug 20, 2015 13:05:17 GMT -5
Basics
Name: Church Saint Xandre [Sherwood]
Nicknames: None
Age: Eighteen
Birthday: Feb 14th
Grade: 11th
Power:
Mind Swap
User can take over the body of another, although in Church's case this means the target takes his body as well. All powers of both involved remain with their original body, except for this power which follows Church into the new body. Example; if Church took over the body of a fire manipulator he would then be able to use the target's power. To switch bodies Church must kiss his target.
Some users have changed so many times that they no longer know which body is their own. In Church's case, his currant body is not his own as his original body was destroyed while he had been switched.
Enhanced Endurance
Users can operate on a low power setting, allowing them to operate for an extended amount of time. They can hold their breath for longer periods of time and remain calm through stressful or painful situations, tolerate extreme hunger, unbearable thirst, and strong urges to sleep.
Church's body is able to survive most things that would kill a normal person. Including torture and even critical injuries to an extent. Obviously, he would still die if he was stabbed in the heart. But his organs and bones are harder to break and more durable leaving him very hard to kill via blunt force trauma.
Member Group: Neutral
Canon or not: Not
Appearance: Church has a sturdy body and stands at about 5'8. He is oddly toned with hard lean muscles despite no one actually catching him working out or training on a regular basis. His skin is milky white and smooth, the only notable scar being an X-like mark between his shoulder blades. His snow white hair is spiky and hangs haphazardly about his face down to the nape of his neck. His eyes are a dark shade of cyan. Both of his ears are pierced numerous times, though he usually only wears his three small silver clasps on his left ear.
Typically he wears his student outfit whether he is in class or not. The only difference being that he removes the coat once class is over.
This body, however, is not his original body.
Originally Church was a lean and slim boy with tousled red-brown hair. His eyes had been a stunning brown so light it often appeared amber or even yellow. Like now his skin was light and fair, though countless scars hid just out of sight beneath his clothes. He wasn't very strong psychically and was actually quite weak, the reason for which his trickster nature came to be.
This body died however during a switch, and with it his other two original powers which had been Water manipulation and Fox Mimicry.
Original Body
Personality
[/b]- He is rarely fazed by changing events and simply goes with the flow.
Positive:
* Amiable- He smiles often and is generally friendly to everyone he meets regardless of the person.
* Charming- He is quite the playboy and flirt, using his natural charm to win hearts.
* Calm- Very few things rile him and he usually remains calm even if his life is in danger.
* Diligent- He rarely does something without having some meaning or reasoning behind it.
* Humorous- He is always willing to do something stupid or silly to get a smile or laugh out of others.[/ul]
Negative:
* Compulsive- He has been known to follow his gut instinct suddenly if it might further his goal.
* Detached- Despite his friendliness, he lets very few, if any, people truly close.
* Flirtatious- He is very flirty and to be honest, slutty. He has zero self-worth.
* Lazy- Most days he is seen snoozing on the ground somewhere, he rarely puts effort into school.
* Vague- You are insanely lucky if he ever tells you his true intentions or past, he tends to dodge the subject or give vague answers.[/ul]
Likes:
* Music- Who does't like music?
* Mischief- He loved to cause mischief and see the reactions of different people.
* Water- Church feels at ease around water, this could be due to his manip' power lost in his original body.
*Jalapenos- He adores jalapenos and eats them like chips whenever he gets his hands on them.
*Smoking- Nothing better than a smoke after sex right?
*Booze- He's as close to an alcoholic as you can get at a school in the middle of the ocean.[/ul]
Dislikes:
* Sour Things- He hates the taste of it and avoids them like the plague.
* Parks- Bad reminder of his 'dark days'.
* Guns- Bad reminder of his brother.
* Himself- He really hates just about everything about himself.
* His family- He hates them even more than himself and bats.[/ul]
Extra: Church's major is his charisma. He's able to easily charm most people around him thanks to his looks and friendly disposition in general. However, Church never seems to be seen with anyone constant, implying that he isn't actually close with any one specifically. He is also quite lazy and has skewed priorities, usually preferring to leave major works to others and prioritizing perverted things over what is really important.
This being said, Church also has many positive points. Although he acts the idiot, he is actually very intelligent and observant, fully capable of organizing complicated plans and goals if he actually put his mind to it. He is loyal to his friends and values their friendship, willing to help them despite any risks to himself. He is far wiser and more mature than he lets on, knowing when to help someone and when to let them figure things out themselves and learn from their mistakes.
He is very aware of his lack of strength when it comes to powers. Therefore preferring to reside on the sidelines of Ashford confrontations. Despite this he has taken on the role of a guider. Slowly nudging other students in the direction that most benefits them without their knowing he is doing so. He prefers to act the mischievous pervert rather than let others into his mind, actually taking great care to hide his more caring and brotherly self.
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History
Family Members/guardians:
Melody Sherwood - Mother
Cross Sherwood - Father
Dustin Sherwood - Older Brother
Sammy Xandre - Patron
History:
Church was born to a family that owned a rich estate and lived in pride for their name. As the second born not much was expected of him except to abide by his parents rules and to never shame the family with unlawful conduct. This, however, would have been fine had it not been for his elder brother. Dustin was two years Church's senior and expected to inherit his parent's estate and wealth and to run their business when they passed away. However the constant pressure and work piled on him soon began to erode his mental state, making him into a closet sociopath. No one realized this however, except for Church. Church became his brother's secret sociopathic outlet. Day by day he would attack Church. First simple things such as a hit or kick, but slowly they became more and more aggressive such as pinning and choking Church until he passed out. Church became very skittish and moved about the house like a shadow, constantly in fear of both his brother and his parents finding out. Knowing they would only blame him somehow for provoking their 'perfect angel'.
Eventually things began to get dangerous for Church as his brother sank deeper and deeper into insanity. He began using guns and knives to intimidate and hurt Church, holding the gun to his head and playing Russian roulette, or cutting him with knives. Church's household quickly became a living hell. But this wasn't what broke Church in the end. As they got older his brother began to use him for other things than tormenting, or perhaps it was simply a worse kind of torment. His brother began to abuse him sexually and before long.. it broke him.
Church grew distant and numb to everything around him. No longer fazed by his brother's torture but no longer able to feel happiness in things that he had still enjoyed such as reading. He felt nothing and wanted nothing. It got to the point that Church himself felt that he should be worried. He did not want to become a monster with no conscience like his elder brother. So slowly he began to try and find things to make him feel again. From stealing his father's booze to self-harm. Yet nothing worked. Eventually he turned to a girl that lived in an estate beside his named Belle. Their parents had pre-arranged for the two to marry when they became of age so they had spent a lot of time together growing up. She had been his only real escape from his brother, and he looked to her for help as she had always been the leader of the two.
However she seemed just as lost. He could never tell her about his brother no matter how close they were and without all the pieces.. she had no idea what to do. However, as most girls she had grown up to the tale of princess' and princes and all things true love. So her answer had been a kiss. Yet nothing could have prepared Church for what came after that fateful kiss. He opened his eyes to see himself staring back at him in horror. The two had switched bodies and now stood frozen in place by a mix of terror and wonder. Belle as always was the one to act first, grabbing Church and kissing him again, which led them to once more switch. Leaving them back once more in their original bodies. As most children faced with the unknown and what was a pretty scarring experience.. Belle fled back to her home with tears. Never to be seen by Church again.
A month passed back in hell before Church decided to test his power in one last ditch effort to end his brother's tyranny. You see his brother had one major weakness. Felines. The mere sight sent the sociopathic Dustin screaming in the opposite direction. So Church decided. If kissing a girl made them switch bodies, what would happen should he kiss a cat? Sure enough he stole a cat from the neighborhood and snuck it up to his room where he tied his wrist to his bedpost and, after a brief self-questioning as to whether he too had lost his mind, kissed the cat. He opened his eyes once more to gaze upon his own body staring back at him. His plan would proceed.
However things never go as planned. Church wanted no more than to feel the rush of striking fear into his elder brother. But as he found his brother in the courtyard and took off after him in chase, his brother did something unexpected. His brother did not run into the house and barricade himself in his room as he usually did after seeing a cat but instead took off down the pathway towards the main gates. Confused but fully excited at the prospect of a longer chase Church sped after him yowling and hissing at his brother's heels. As his brother fled past the gates and onto the road in a panic it all ended in a blur of steel and a sickening thud. Church skidded to a stop at the curb and starred in a mix of shock and wonder. His brother lay on the road unmoving as onlookers gathered around him. Within moments the reality of what he had done struck him cold, panic tearing through his chest as he turned tail and fled back to the house. He flew into his room and returned to his own body, swiftly untying his wrist from the bedpost and curling into a ball on his floor. Accident or not… he had killed his own brother.
An hour passed as he lay curled in a ball. His mind fighting back a whirl of emotions he hadn’t felt in so long. Anger. Fear. Joy. Before he knew what he was doing he had pulled a backpack from his closet and began stuffing a few belongings into it. He could hear his mother screaming bellow in the atrium and his father smashing something. As he walked to his window an eerie calm came over him. He would never be able to explain this or even hide this from his parents. This life had died with his brother.
Church ran away that day and never looked back. Traveling to the next city and living on the street fighting to get by. The numbness from before had come back to him, now a gift from heaven in his eyes. To live he became a trick. A name given to male prostitutes that frequented a park near where he lived. Day by day he hung with other Tricks at the park and went home with anyone that would pay, no matter their gender or age. To him it was no different than it had been back home with his brother, if anything it was actually better. After a few months of this living he had enough clientele paying him to get his own apartment. His life was moving on. Yet a small part of him felt like he was still in a kind of hell.
All that changed however the night he first met Sammy. The older man was an icon in the underground business at the age of only twenty-two and a mystery even to those that worked for him. He dressed in black suede and began to frequent the park, but never took anyone home or even talked to them. He merely sat on a bench some feet away and smoked. Ever watching the group. Something about him always drew Church’s attention despite the fact that he himself had never had feelings for men. Something about the man’s eyes. They seemed to stare right through him into his mind. It unnerved him and thrilled him all at once.
Then one day when Church was alone on his bench Sammy came into the park and approached him. Without a word the man grabbed Church by the back of his shirt and dragged him back toward his car, tossing the boy easily into the backseat and slamming the door. For the first time in awhile Church suddenly knew the bite of fear again and desperately tried to escape, but the car’s backseat doors were rigged not to open from the inside. Church could do nothing but sit and stare at the back of Sammy's head. Wondering why the man didn't say anything. A closet pervert maybe? To embarrassed to talk?
Eventually they pulled up to a mansion and Sammy got out, walking around to open the door for church. But instead of pulling him out Sammy simply stepped to the side, his voice soft.
"This is your home now." Church didn't understand what the man was saying, but was to shocked by the warmth of the man's gaze to reply. He simply got out and followed him up the front steps. Afterward Sammy explained to church that he too used to be a trick, and that he wanted to save Church from that life before it got him killed. Under Sammy's care Church began to recover and return to his old self. His life was easy. Milling about the mansion or lounging and listening to Sammy play the piano. But he always knew who Sammy was, and who he dealt with. Though Sammy tried his best to keep it out of Church's watchful eyes.
He lived with Sammy for two years before his life took a turn for the worst once more. One night men from a rival fraction broke into the mansion seeking Sammy's life. They caught Church and used him to force Sammy's surrender, and Church could do nothing but watch as they murdered him. Afterward they beat Church severely and left, expecting the boy to die of his injuries.
Church knows nothing after that or who had taken him to the hospital where he quickly made an escape by kissing a nurse and switching bodies with her to slip past the police stationed at the end of the hall. After that he spent a long time switching bodies to elude the police and the government. Until the day he landed himself in a trap. A psychic enlisted by the government awaited Church in an alleyway as he was being chased and church, thinking her a normal girl, attempted to switch bodies with her to escape. However this quickly backfired as pain blasted him the moment their lips touched. Rendering him unconscious.
After that he was taken to Ashford where he now resides.
Behind the Character
Name: Mocha
Chatango Name: Mochaspazz
