โTry not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.โ - Albert Einstein
Julian Garret Klein
|Nickname|
None
|Age|
24
|Race|
English/Irish
|Sexual Orientation|
Heterosexual
6'1"
|Build|
Coltish
|Skin Tone|
Beige
|Hair Color|
Brown
|Eye Color|
Blue Grey
|Scars/Tattoos/Piercings|
None
He taps his fingers when he's annoyed/Always tilts his head and scratches it when he's nervous or anxious/Whistles when he walks to places around the city/Loves the feeling of clothing buttons
|Abilities/Skills|
Electricity Manipulation/Speaks Russian/Well coordinated/Natural speaker/Appliance and electronic maintenance and repair/Flawed knowledge of World History
|Likes|
Flannel, People, Pizza, Nighttime, Storms, Showers
|Dislikes|
The idea of fate, Seeing people cry, Greed, Impatience,
|Fears/Secrets|
Breakdown: Julian is waiting for his inevitable breakdown. It hasn't happened yet, in part due to his friend's interactions with him. He has a hard time dealing with his life and usually bottles it up, which he knows will lead to him imploding one day.
Roz: Rhoswen is the only person Julian truly cares about as she's the only person who really knows him. This of course makes her the only person he worries about. He of course knows what she thinks he is and has tried to convince her otherwise, but she won't have any of it. He worries if he ever were to be incapacitated, would she be alright without him.
Julian nowadays is a very laid back, humorous, and nonchalant man going through the motions. He feels that the world he lives in now isn't where he's supposed to be and this gives him a sense of freedom he didn't have in his old life. A wanderer by choice, he enjoys meeting new people, although he dreads saying goodbye as more often then not, he is quickly forgotten due to being a Drifter. This however does afford him plenty of second chances with people as well as an opportunity to mess with them, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
Although he is confident with himself and tries to be content with the life he's been handed, he resents the seemingly random act that placed him in another world. His only solace is the possibility that he was put there for a reason and that maybe he can do some good even under these circumstances. He is also very protective of both himself, his values, and the very small list of friends he has now and is not above physical violence to protect the things he cares about, although he draws the line at using his powers towards these ends.
On a typical stormy afternoon, Johnathan Klein checked his pregnant wife into a London hospital. That same day, Mr. Klein said hello to his son Julian for the first time and sadly said goodbye to his wife for the last. At first, John resented the baby he had brought home, thinking it as some sort of burden he didn't deserve to face alone, but eventually, his anger dissipated and he became a proper father to his son.
Julian was a bit of a sad child. His father often worked to support him and during most days he was left in the care of his Aunt Eliza. She could see that Julian was missing a mother figure and so she obliged the best she could, playing with him and teaching him what was good and what was bad. This made it all a bit easier when Julian was seven and his father married Eliza. Everything seemed perfect at first as he saw his dad more often and Eliza was living with them. It all crumbled in Julian's mind however when he learned about his actual mother and how she had died giving birth to him. Racked with guilt, the child ran away. He was gone for a whole day before his parents found him in the cemetery staring at his mother's headstone. It took some convincing, but eventually he returned home, although changed greatly.
Now in his teen years, Julian began to do what a lot of teenagers do; rebel. He went out and partied with other kids his age, but even then he could tell it wasn't right. So, he buried his head in school books and aimed for a college scholarship. Over time, he straightened out his personality and finally realized who he wanted to be; someone his mother would be proud to call her son. At the age of 17, he graduated high school a year early and received a full scholarship to a NYU where he studied World History for three years. It was when he was walking towards a subway station late one night when he saw an alluring arrangement of lights. Unable to stop himself from investigating it, he was entered the portal and after what felt like seconds of seeding through nothing, he merged on the other side. He quickly realized that both he and this world were different from what he knew. At first panicking about his situation and falling into a deep depression, he became a vagrant. Eventually accepting the situation and figuring out the basics after a time, he met a disturbed woman named Rhoswen who he formed a fast friendship with.