BASIC INFORMATION:
Name: Allan Denton
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Race: Nephilim
Allegiance: Neutral
APPEARANCE:
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Deep Dark Brown
Description:
This guy is sort of a tall lanky fellow. He stands with a forward slouch and generally dresses down, his aim more for comfort than style. As a matter of fact he tries not to stand out by generally wearing plainer colors such as black, grey and white. Overall people who know him would describe him as a rather miserable looking guy. He rarely smiles and he keeps his eyes mostly down to the floor more often than not.
Combat Attire: Whatever he's wearing at the time, usually a plain t-shirt and beat up blue jeans.
Accessories: If he knows he's going to be in a fight he'll wrap his hands in long thin white cloth or rope in the more traditional Muay Thai style to protect his hands better.
STATE OF MIND:
Personality:
It wouldn't be wrong to call him apathetic. It also wouldn't be wrong to call him pathetic, though maybe less so depending on circumstance.
The most notable attribute of his is that he is dispassionate. This is very often mistaken as laziness as he rarely likes to put any effort into day to day things. He isn't truly lazy as when he believes in something or wants to truly accomplish something he'll work tirelessly at it. The simple matter of fact is that he has almost nothing to work towards. His only real goal in life is to continue living each day, never making any real impact in anything besides the occasional street sign.
A contributing reason to his lack of passion is that he is shy. He doesn't like talking with people in general. Large crowds bother him and the more frequently people talk with him in a day the worse he feels. He is anti-social without a doubt. He can overcome this shyness to function in a human society but he will avoid contact if at all possible.
Due to his frustration with society he is just a very unhappy individual. He doesn't smile often and gets annoyed quite easily. He does have a temper but perhaps a quality of his is his ability to think through stress. No matter how agitated, how angry or how much in pain he is in his brain will always be thinking. He tends to think a lot, spending most of his days in his head just thinking about things. It is one of the few things he enjoys doing.
Though he may be a generally unpleasant character towards people he has a kind side to himself as well. He believes the world is hard enough already without people going around making peoples lives harder. If someone is in trouble he'll help out, even if he isn't happy about it. He likes to help people out in general too but he often doesn't because he dislikes the attention from others more.
A notable trait of his is that he rarely ever lies. He believes that honesty is a quality best not squandered. Well, that and he is a terrible liar. He's never lied once in his life and gotten away with it. He can keep a secret well enough but if he's forced to deceive someone he almost always fails somehow, sundering his faith in his ability to lie. Being that he doesn't believe he can tell a convincing lie he's opted to be honest and turn a personal failing into a quality.
A real quality that's buried deep down in him is a sense of humility. He doesn't see himself as higher or stronger or even better than everyone else. To his eye he's just a guy with a neat trick in a world of people with various stuff, many of which is probably better than what he's got. It can be argued whether his shyness drives his humility or if his humility spurs his shyness but not even he can really answer as to which aspect came before the other. He'd probably say shyness since admitting to being humble would just seem arrogant to him.
In the end he doesn't want any part in this war of heaven versus hell. He doesn't want to be bothered by these factions trying to coerce him into doing their bidding and finds both sides undesirable for various reasons. If a major fight were to break out between the two groups then he'd fight them both to drive them back into their respective realms and protect the people living in the city. He'd take on all the angels and all the demons himself if he had to even though he knows well that it would only end badly for him.
Likes:
- The night
- The cold
- Rain
- Working with his hands
- Solitude
- Birds
- Spicy Foods
Dislikes:
- Sunlight
- Conflict
- Heat
- Righteousness
- Arrogance
- Fish
- People who fight at a range
Preference: Straight
What do you think of your angelic parents?: "Guy left my mother and didn't pay his alimony for eighteen years.
In my opinion he's kind of a jerk."
EQUIPMENT:
Weapons: His body, anything he can use around him.
Close-Range: His style of combat begins right around this range. He's quite competent at Muay Thai giving him powerful kicks and a host of devastating short ranged attacks he can use to brutal effect. On top of that his abilities imbue him with massive strength, allowing him to punch holes through solid concrete and bend solid steel bars. Fairly good at blocking attacks to begin with thanks to his martial training his he can also draw on his internal energy to make himself tough enough to stand toe-to-toe against most weapon users and still come out with little more than scratches and bruises. To top it all off if he does get seriously injured he can always channel his divine energy and heal himself within a short period of time.
Fighting Style: He typically doesn't like to fight so he's rare to initiate but if he did have the choice he'd start his battle at close range as detailed above. If forced to he can fight at a distance but without a gun or any sort of ranged weapon his options are very limited in this field. Since he doesn't carry a ranged weapon commonly his only other options is to close in to his target as soon as possible and change the fight back into his favor or run away if he can.
Abilities:
Allan's main power is that he possesses an internal reservoir of divine energy which functions to empower him, giving him enhanced physical abilities and even the power to heal himself. This power's main restriction is it's "Inner Focus", a facet of the powers nature which amplifies it's power whilst inside him but weakens by at least half it's potency if not more when externalized. Besides enhancing himself he can imbue others with his energy but the strength of the effect would only ever be half as much as his own. The further away from him the target of the effect goes the lesser it's power becomes. This energy replenishes itself over a period of a few hours.
Divine Might:
His main ability, he channels his power into his fists giving them a divine glow. This grants him superhuman strength and one other particular effect. This effect is that his fists cause anything with demonic taint far greater damage than anything else because of the energy present. In addition, he can channel this ability into any weapon he holds, enhancing the qualities of the weapon based on how he wants to use it. By channeling this power into a weapon however it weakens the strength of the enhancement as well as the extra damage towards demonic forces by half. Given very special exception, he can do more damage with his fists than he can using any other weapon. He can extend this power to someone else's weapon but the strength of the effect begins at half it's original value and only goes down the further away from him the weapon is.
Divine Protection:
This ability grant's him enhanced toughness, making him harder to wound. All his flesh in this state is as tough as hardened leather and his bones become as strong as iron. Most weapons find difficulty even drawing blood from him while this ability is active. The only weapons that pose a real threat are ones known for their piercing capabilities, most notable of which is guns. Even guns of lesser calibers might have trouble hurting him should the rounds hit his bones. Whenever he takes damage and this ability is on it draws in more divine energy due to the effort his ability needs to exert. This ability is on passively since it consumes very little energy when it's not being stressed. Like his Divine Might, he can extend this ability to another person giving them about half the durability that it would give himself while still exacting the same amount of energy from his reserve. Just like his Divine Might this ability also wanes in potency as the target moves away from him.
Healing
Perhaps his most important ability. This ability draws on his internal reserve to mend flesh and purify ailments. The greater the wound or ailment the greater the energy cost as well as a the time it takes to fully heal. Scratches and bruises as well as basic illnesses take seconds to heal and do not require too much energy. Deep cuts and serious illnesses require larger amounts of internal energy and take minutes to fully heal. Lost limbs, fatal wounds and mystical afflictions require exorbitant amounts of his internal reserves, his complete undivided attention and it takes hours to be fully healed. The best part of this power is that it can be transferred into other people by touch. The cost of the healing is doubled as well as the time it takes to fully heal but the result is ultimately the same. Unlike the other abilities he absolutely has to be touching the target he wishes to heal in order to heal them. He CANNOT resurrect the dead using this ability.
It is possible that he has more abilities but he has yet to be made aware of them.
HISTORY:
Personal Background:
From the beginning Allan's life was a hard one. He was raised an only son with only a mother to take care of him. From an early age his mother had to dedicate more time to the flower shop she ran in order to keep the family afloat. He only really ever saw his mother early in the morning before he went to school and even then she was much too busy to properly take care of him. He did everything himself since he was forced to take care of himself since his mother was simply too busy to help.
Life at school was no easier. Being as shy as he was he never really made any friends and many of the other students took great delight out of tormenting him as well as anyone else who was unlucky enough to not fit in. He learned very little in the classrooms but out in the playground he learned to be hard, to be tough and to survive. Needless to say the days of his life when he was supposed to be enjoying life and having fun were spent in misery, fear and social isolation. Still, despite all the terrible things the people around did to him he vowed never to become like his tormentors.
Many years of this life he spent like this, resolute on trying not to become the scum of the earth which he had to endure the company of in the hallways and streets. It was at this point he started to realize he had strange powers he wasn't aware of. He went to the places he usually went when he wanted to be alone, places no one else typically went to such as abandoned junk piles, abandoned buildings and the sort. Outside the prying eyes of his peers he practiced, examining these strange new abilities he could now wield. In these places he practiced, testing the boundaries of his strength and improving them. Even with these new gifts he still continued on with life, keeping the power he wielded as a secret only he knew, or so he believed.
Eventually he was starting to come around to an age where he needed to worry about his future. After some web researching he figured his best course of action would be to take the security guard license test online and become a certified security guard. The test was insultingly simple and with a bit of searching he found himself a security company willing to hire him. When he arrived to the job orientation class he found that the teacher there also ran a Muay Thai class over at his studio.
Allan was quite interested in studying this since learning more about how to control his body in combat might help him understand his abilities better. Plus the fitness involved was also useful. He trained and practiced but he made sure never to use his powers in the studio or anywhere else where he could be seen in order to keep it a secret. He would just go back to his own hideouts and practice what he learned with his powers on his own.
About a year or two later and he's been keeping a steady pace in his life. He's no master at Thai Boxing and he still trains there but he's grown to be quite competent at it. His job has him working as security for the local mall on the night shift. Within recent history, just before the starting point of his story, he has managed to save up enough money to rent himself a place of his own: A single room apartment with a bathroom. He's got himself a futon to sleep on and a laptop with a charger. That's about it. This is where his tale begins.
Friends:
- His Muay Thai teacher
Family:
- His Mother
- His Father currently unknown
Enemies: None yet.