Post by Hadrianus Demos on Jun 15, 2018 21:00:50 GMT -8
Hadrianus Cal Demos
Hades | 32 | Male Demisexual |
Sinclair | Civilian | Therapist |
Appearance
With skin and hair as pale as freshly fallen snow, and a posture as graceful as a swanna, it easy to envy this young mans beauty. With a soft, almost genuine smile, nearly everyone feels soothed by his presence. Though he has a very petite body structure, Hades does have a bit of muscle tone. From head to toe, he stands about five foot eight, being slightly shorter than most average men living in his city. His eyes are a very light hazel, almost appearing to be a shade of gold. They seem to complement the all-around peaceful and calm appearance he tends to harbor. Most days, Hades dresses in either formal suits or traditional Japanese attire. On very rare occasions, he can be found in simpler clothes such as a plain white jacket, black t-shirt, and comfortable pants.
Personality
On the surface, most people know Hades as a calm, gentle, and kind young man. As far as most people know, he never raises his voice or utters profanity. Though he does sometimes appear tired, annoyed or upset, he keeps most of those emotions to himself. Usually, these emotions don't last long, returning to his usual warm smile. A smile, that when paired with his soft appearance and grace, often calms others around him. On top of it all, he's considered to be a rather intelligent individual; very book smart, and amazing at reading others.
Dig a bit under the surface and the kind, calm man most people admire and trust, suddenly becomes the nightmare most are afraid of. Though he was born with an unnatural gift to feel the emotions of others, he struggles with what common people would call empathy. Though he does understand and can recognize an emotion someone is having, his inner being just doesn't care. In fact, when it comes to physical pain or grief, he becomes rather excited and intrigued. To him, it's like a drug that he craves every so often. When truly being himself, his temper often becomes short and sporadic, allowing himself to curse at times and express his true feelings towards things.
That isn't all that is hidden under the surface. Hades has a very possessive personality, and when he decides something or someone is worth his praise, he'll go to great lengths to both honor and preserve it. So much so, that many would claim he becomes obsessed with them. Most of those obsessions tend to be attached to people. Those he likes to watch and observe until one day, they just disappear. Most of the people he obsesses over have something about them that admires and wishes he could have. For example, his current obsession he admires how bold and fearless the man is. Hades found himself to be too quiet, always hiding in the shadows instead of displaying his work in front of the world. Something he hoped he could change about himself someday if he could ever overcome the fear holding him back.
There are a few personality traits he doesn't hide from the general public. One of the most notable would be his obsessive-compulsive disorder. Though it doesn't require treatment, he does engage in many of the common activities pertaining to it. He often watches his hands, cleans without realizing it, often checks the time and requires everything to be neat, and organized at all times. Others traits are small things such as focusing on watching other people for too long, overworking and drifting off into thought at random times.
History
Hadrianus was first and only child born into the Demos family, a wealthy, high-class family located in Caravella City. His birth had not been an easy one. Complications arose, almost killing both the mother and child. If it had not been for both luck and the best care money could by, neither would have survived. The miracle should have been a joyish time, leaving both parents grateful for their son and proud of the mother. Sadly, that was not how things went. The incident had been used as the first of many excuses for his father to hate and abuse his mother. He claimed she had been weak and had compromised their son. From the day he was born, anything wrong with Hades was blamed on the birth. What made things worse, there had been something 'off' about the child which was noticeable at a very young age. It was never clear exactly what it was, though as he aged he slowly began to understand it himself. On top of that, all other issues began to arise within him. Most were issues caused by his fathers abusive and violent tendencies towards his mother, though not all were caused by that.
At a very young age, Hades showed signs of an obsessive-compulsive disorder. He always kept his things neat and tidy. He was relatively clean for a child, and he rarely enjoyed going outside to play with the other children. Had it not been for the strict lively hood of his parents, the disorder likely would have been very noticeable. Sadly, his tendencies seemed to be something that ran through his father's side of the family. Those behaviors were not only accepted but expected from the boy. Along with that, he was expected to take over the family estate, which meant he had been homeschooled by private tutors and teachers all his life. Many would have seen such a life as both lonely and boring, however, Hades never truly minded. At the age of ten, he received his first pokemon, a Swablu. He learned to care for and raise it so that someday it would become his protection and one of the creatures he could fully trust with his life. Throughout his life, he collected a few more pokemon, making them his closest and truest friends.
Though he had very few real friends aside from his Pokemon, he was with people almost every moment of the day. He had been expected to learn how to read people, manipulate them, and gain whatever they had to offer. A task Hades was miraculously good at. Though he appeared to be a quiet and shy boy, he had an uncanny ability to persuade people with few words a soft smile. Little did anyone know, this and the odd feeling that something was 'off' about the boy when he was baby, were connected. He had been born with a unique ability to read and feel other peoples emotions. An ability that with time and age, continued to strengthen to the point where he was able to project certain feelings onto the person he was speaking to. When Hades was younger, he considered it a curse. After all, he believed it was because of his unnatural ability that his mother had been forced to suffer for so long. On top of it all, he could feel his mothers suffering. He could feel his fathers uncontrollable rage. It hurt him in ways that screwed with his own mind to the point that began to lose the empathy he once held for other human beings. With the lose of those feelings, he began to realize other, darker, emotions swelling up inside him. He was more like his father than he had ever wanted to be and yet, he welcomed those feelings.
As Hades began to learn how to control his powers, he began to see his ability as a gift. At times, he was able to figure out how to avoid his father anger from spiraling out of control. He was able to comfort his mother, soothing her pain. It wasn't just his ability that helped him. As time passed and he aged, he began to learn how to actually change emotions slightly. His father became less and less of a problem, but by then, the damage was already done. Hades had grown apart from his mother, enjoying the pain she was in instead of hurting alongside her. It was his own cold interior caring for only his own selfish desire and no one else that caused his mother more grief than his father could have ever condemned upon her. In the end, drove her mad. It was with that madness, that Hades began to discover a calling. He had caused that pain. A fact he should have been ashamed of, and yet he revealed in it. It brought him more excitement, more joy than he could ever imagine. From that day on, the darkness within Hades took a turn and finally he took his life into his own hands.
His father was in the way, so he got rid of the man. It had been a lot easier than he expected it to be, and the police wrote it off as a suicide. With that taken care of, Hades was able to branch away from the family company pursuing one of the best universities in the region for studying psychology. Years later, he graduated with honors and was placed in one of the best institutes known to the region. Why had he chosen this path? All because of his mother and how he had affected her. He had become obsessed with it, finding others he could play with and torture as well. His targets or rather, his obsessions were always those he saw potential in. They were never the same potentials, each one having different goals in Hades mind. He also never got too close to them within either his professional or community. It was a hobby he conducted from the shadows, keeping others from ever being able to tie him to them. The only thing they all had in common? They all eventually ended up dead. So how did his new profession aid his hobby? Patients talked to him. They trusted him and told him everything he wanted to hear. It was through them that he found his new targets.
As time passed by, Hades grew bored of his position in the institute, finding his patients were usually too far gone to truly be useful to him. So left the institute and opened up his own small clinic in Sinclair city, an ever-changing atmosphere upon a large train. It was perfect. He saw new faces nearly daily, and with them, new tales to lead him to new targets. It was after this move that Hades began to hear whispers of a man with a heart almost as cold and dark as his own. It intrigued Hades enough that began to dig up and research nearly every lick of information on the man as he could. For a while, that task was nearly impossible. Some of the information he gained had been wrong, while others were only partly true. He felt as if he was chasing after a ghost, which oddly made it all the more exciting. His only true lead had been an incident that occurred during a troubling time for many of the towns in the region. He had begun calling it the 'pillar of light' incident but it still nothing solid.
Then, only a year ago, Hades had found himself in a hostage event. It was an odd experience for him as he had never been the one threatened before. Yet instead of fighting it, he had taken great interest in the turn of events, allowing himself to become a victim among many other hostages. It had been quite possibly one of the best decisions of his life. During this so-called, villains event, 'he' showed up. The ghost he had been hearing whispers about for what felt like an eternity. Oh, and the man was more than he could have ever imagined. Cocky, fearless and so very, very talented. He was everything he wished he could be and more. He danced in and not only attacked his own kind, but he caused a chaos no one could have ever imagined. He let the hostages go, angering those had survived and just like that, he had won over Hades heart.
From that day on, Hades worked harder to track and learn everything he could about the man. He built a shrine for him in a hidden compartment, began taking on some of his tendencies and even built himself his own, personal mask. All for his new obsession. An obsession, that over the next year, had begun to disappoint him. The killings had stopped. At first, Hades believed he just wasn't being credited for them, but as time passed, he began to realize his new obsession was becoming a disappointment. A sad fact that happened to nearly all of his obsessions. It meant it was time for Hades to personally step in and take action. It was time to play.
Pokémon
Pokedex Name: Altaria
Nickname: Jaye
Gender: Male
Ability: Natural Cure
Moveset: Dragon Pulse, Perish Song, Mist, Dragon Breath
Pokedex Name: Glaceon
Nickname: Mavi
Gender: Male
Ability: Snow Cloak
Moveset: Hail, Blizzard, Mirror Coat, Bite
Pokedex Name: Alolan Vulpix
Nickname: Cyan
Gender: Male
Ability: Snow Cloak
Moveset: Ice Beam, Safeguard, Extrasensory, Feint Attack
Pokedex Name: Seel
Nickname: Indigo
Gender: Female
Ability: Hydration
Moveset: Rest, Aqua Jet, Ice Beam, Aqua Tail
Skills (0/11)
Psychic Empathy
Major: Major Empaths are capable of experiencing the emotions of others within 100 square feet (30 square meters). They are also able to focus their attention on specific individuals and focus on their emotions exclusively, separate out those emotions from their own, and/or shut their power down entirely. Skilled Majors can distinguish roughly five or six people or Pokémon with this clarity at once, while trying to exceed this makes things more muddled. Majors may be capable of minor emotional influence, such as easing or stressing others, or inspiring feelings of desire or disgust, though this can be draining when done in greater degrees. An Empath might be able to calm a startled Pokémon or soothe a worried friend with very little effort, though often this will only set them on the path to calming down as opposed to being a full cure. Calming an entire room of panicking individuals or stirring a room to riot, on the other hand, is possible but incredibly taxing, requiring active focused effort that may cause headaches and generally requiring time to rest afterward.
Hades generally uses his skill when talking to a patient or hunting down someone he's been obsessing over. Every now and then, he has had to use it for other reasons, such as protection. He was born with the talent and gradually becoming stronger with it as more time passes.
Other Information
Faster reader - Hades loves to read just about anything, just can read through things at quite a fast pace.
Daydreamer - When not concentrating on something, Hades very easily gets lost in his own mind. When daydreaming, it usually takes a few times calling his name or a light touch for him to snap out of it.
Fear of large crowds - It's almost a phobia for him as large crowds make him nervous and anxious. Usually, he'll start fiddling with something until he can no longer stand it and is forced to leave.
Dislike of being touched - It ties in greatly with his OCD, and while he won't do anything rash over being touched, he doesn't enjoy it unless it's someone close to him or he initiated it first. Most of the time it's only noticeable by a faint look of disgust or the sudden need to clean his hands.
RP Sample
Yet another bust. It was getting frustratingly annoying running into dead end after dead end. If he was able, he'd have frozen every lying bugger he crossed paths with until one finally opened their pathetic mouth. Alas, he was not able to commit such a crime. It was beyond his power for as long as he was nothing more than a pawn. Someday that would change but that day was not today.
Thankfully, he had already relieved himself of his frustrations as he made his way down the mountainside. Following beside him was his Glaceon, Mavi. They were the only two out of five who had gone up part of the mountain that evening. The other three would sadly not be coming back down. Of course, you wouldn't know this by the look on the white-haired man's features. He wore a very soft, kind smile upon his pale lips and appeared to be nothing more than a trainer traveling with his pokemon in light of the pale moon. It was almost magical how snow reflected the sky to make the path ahead glow enough to see without a premade light. He was taking a small risk walking in the dark on an unmarked path but he didn't seem concerned. For some reason he found it relaxing and almost soothing. Not even the bitter chill of the winds seemed to bother him.
"I hope you know where we are going," his shift voice hummed to his companion in an almost teasing manner. "Because I'm utterly lost." The Pokemon simply huffed, sticking his nose in the air as if insulted that Chase could even think of asking such a question. It caused the pale man to chuckle, but he said nothing more on the subject. The rest of the walk likely would have been just as quiet had Mavi not suddenly stopped, his ears lifting high in the air. It caused Chase to come to a halt as well, golden eyes falling on the ice pokemon before lifting to scan the darkness ahead of them. "Do you hear something, Mavi?" He couldn't hear anything but he trusted his Pokemons senses much more than he did his own. Something else was out there, but what was unknown to him. For now.
OOC Information
OOC Name: Leaf
Player Pronouns: she/her
Face Claim: [b]Touken Ranbu[/b], Tsurumaru Kuninaga [i]Demos, Hadrianus[/i]
Continuity: Original
Starter Items:
Civilian
5 PokeBalls, 2 Move Techs, 1 Big Nugget (100 muns)
made by Wolf of GS