The consequences of anger far outweigh the causes of it
Name: Rhys William Celtin
Nickname: N/A
Age: 20
Sexuality: Straight
Hometown:Detroit, Michigan
Element: Fire
Studies: Sports Education
Likes:
Solitude, Walking, Playing sports, Pizza, loud music, reading, water
Dislikes:
Violence, anger, vegetables, himself, competitive sports, aggressive people, getting into fights, fire
Fears:
Hurting people, his own power and getting too close to people.
Quirks:
Element: Fire
Powers: The only thing to do with fire the Rhys really is any good at is heating the temperature of the air around him. He can heat the air temperature to a point where everything around him melts and burns. He can do a little of the other stuff like conjuring a small flame and heating liquids a few degrees as well but he has no control over fire.
Rival Element: Water, though strangely Rhys actually prefers the company of water students than any others. He hates water but he feels more comfortable around them because is his powers get out of control, water can cancel out his powers.
Weaknesses: His mood, though more specifically his temper, his powers are most strongest when he is angry or annoyed, accordingly when he is in a good mood the most he can do is conjure a tiny flame and heat things a few degrees. When he is in a bad mood though he loses all control and the air around him will heat up rapidly to dangerous temperatures unless he can put a lid on his anger. He is working on gaining more control of his powers but at this stage he still struggles to control them when he is angry.
Strengths: Rhys is really athletic and naturally sporty, before he moved to Eastern Gradon Academy he was in almost all the sporting teams and even captain of a few. He was the type of guy who could start playing a sport and in the same day already be beating you at it.
Heâs also a really quick reader
Personality:
Naturally Rhys is a people person, heâs just someone you want to be friends with. Heâs kind, jovial and incredibly friendly, going out of his way to befriend everyone and seems to always be the centre of attention. Before he gained is abilities he was always the centre of attention and was in almost all the sports teams. He could be cocky and almost too joking and tactless as time, but all in he was a great guy that was incredibly well liked. He wouldnât intentionally hurt anyone unfortunately though, he lives to extremes, when heâs in a good mood heâs on top of the world, but when heâs angry or frustrated heâs like a totally different person. Worse still while it doesnât take much to put Rhys in a good mood the same can be said for putting him a bad mood.
Rhysâ father had serious anger issues, and the alcoholism didnât help. Unfortunately this trait seemed to be passed down in the Celtin family and unfortunately this meant that this trait was passed on to Rhys, combine that with the natural temperamental nature of fire elementals and you have a guy ready explode at the drop of a hat. He hates this part about himself, especially that his episodes of anger as so much more dangerous as he loses control of his abilities. He can get angry at something as simple as not being able to find something. This causes him to get in a lot of fights, and often times he tries to pick fight with his friends, though his close friends always knew that sometimes he just got in a bad mood.
Rhys wants to desperately change the extreme nature of his mood, and so he has tried ever since arriving at the academy to balance out his personality. Now only people very close to him ever see get to see bits of the person he used to be, because he thinks if he keeps his moods relatively normal, if he actively stops getting into such good moods, the bad moods wonât be so bad. This is why out of everyone he prefers the company of water people, they are easy going and very balanced, he kind of hopes that by spending time with them they might rub off on him.
Because when Rhys gets angry he loses control of his abilities he tends to stay away from people, not wanting to hurt them. So in the Academy he has kind of adapted a status as a bit of a loner not wanting to get too close to anyone, always having his guard up. After all he came to the academy to learn to control his abilities not make friends. He also thinks that the less people he hangs around the smaller the chance of someone getting him angry. Though a there are a few people in the academy he lets his guard down a little when around them.
Since he keeps his distance from people, to people who don't know him well he comes off abrassive and cold. Which is an outer image he actively tries to give off, if people think badly off him then they won't hang around him and then they'll be safer. This also makes him a very hard person to get close to because he always has his gaurd up.
History:
Rhys believes his parents were seriously screwed in the head to ever think they could successfully raise a kid. His father was an unemployed drunk with underlying rage issues and his mother had chronic depression that she slipped in and out of all through Rhys childhood. He has no good memories of his father, and only a few of his mother when she came out of her depressive state. The only thing Rhys was glad of was that he never inherited his mother depression. Despite neither of his parents being employed, money was never an issue and the lived in a big house on a large lot because his mother was essentially an heiress.
Rhysâ parents werenât too bad though, they made sure he got feed and had clothes and went to school, and he always looked forward to school. He became a bit of an attention hog at school, always soaking up the attention that he never got at home. Itâs the reason he ended up such an introvert at heart. He also joined as many sports teams as possible so that he could make plenty of friends and so he had a reason not to spend too much time at home. This was where he love for sports was found.
His home life never got any better, but it never got any worse and so he just accept it as part of his life and grew up this way. As he got older he developed his fatherâs issue with anger though, he tended to get into fight with people, but a lot of the time his friends looked out for him, keeping him from getting into too much trouble.
When he was fifteen though, he started dating a girl from school, and it got quite serious, if you asked him he would have said they were in love. One weekend he wanted to surprise her and so he went around to her house only to find her with another guy. Just the sight of them together turned his vision red and he started beating the guy to a pulp. She tried to pull them apart but he paid her no mind until he heard her scream from somewhere behind him. Turning around he saw her skin blistering and turning red, the same for the guy he was beating up, he could feel the heat of the air and all around him the plastic things in the room were melting. He didnât think he just ran. And ran. Somehow he ended up back home, and he locked himself in his room for the next few days/ He never heard anything about what happened to the his ex-girlfriend and the guy he had beaten up, but a few days later people from the Academy showed up to explain his powers and forcefully invite him to study at the Academy.
And the rest is history.