"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
♦ Name : Keith Cadwell
♦ Side : Ashes
♦ Gender : Male
♦ Height : 5'6"
♦ Eye Color :
A tranquil icy blue shade that often mesmerizes others accompanied by thick long lashes that women often envy.
♦ Hair Color :
A bleach blonde color that is slightly on the long side. His gorgeous locks fall just below his ears and side swept to keep out of his field of vision. It almost appears white at times when in sunlight because of how light it is.
♦ Appears to be :
Fourteen years old.
♦ Face Claim :
Alois Trancy
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
♦ Power :
"Can't you feel their very breaths? The world speaks to me." He blends in the forest, shielded by the thriving brush and leaves dangling off the branches of trees. The flowers grow as he sits in the meadow and envelope his body. As he rests in the beautiful blossoms the birds and rabbits flap and hop to his side. The birds sing to him and the squirrels bring him tree nuts. The busy honey bees dance around him and the butterflies tickle his nose. The deer nuzzle his hands and the wolves keep watch from the forest for any signs of danger. He wields the power granted to him by the hard and soft ground. With a few twirls of his fingers he can make the plants around him grow tall and large. He can even make them wilt or flourish at his will. The trees lend him their strength with their broad trunks and sheer physical force. Their roots and branches can hit quite hard and they constantly enlighten him with their knowledge. He can trap you in thorns or cushion you with flowers. Maybe he'll summon his animal friends if he so desires. He can communicate with the nature around him and manipulate plant life to his advantage. He is able to understand animals and send them spying for favors in return. Not all creatures respond to his command unless they deem him worthy. He has many animal companions that come and go, constantly protecting him or warning him of danger. The same goes with the plant life. Not every plant responds to his call, especially the trees. The trees are what you'd call wise folk for their many years of life and experience. They've seen many things and contain many secrets that only Keith can access. He is what they'd call the nature boy, one who dwells in the wild.
"I find there is an art in deception."
♦ Personality :
Keith has a very complicated persona. When the eight disciples were whole he was known to constantly play pranks on his friends and constantly annoy people with his condescending demeanor. He is extremely intelligent and constantly reading books or trying to challenge himself. Many feel mesmerized and comforted by his strange, yet beautiful appearance. He gives off a positive aura and with one long gaze it's as if he's staring directly into your soul. People feel captivated by his gaze and outstanding charisma. Before the divide he was a very gentle person due to his connection with nature. He is also so knowledgeable about just about everything that you believe almost anything he says and many feel as though he can be trusted. However, no one knows better than the other seven disciples that he is not to be trusted unless the smirk on his face has vanished. But his twisted sense of humor makes him spew out nonsense constantly and lies mixed with the truth because he knows others will believe him and he thoroughly enjoys measuring up their intelligence/stupidity. He also thoroughly enjoys messing with people's minds, personal beliefs, and can often go too far in what he says and may terribly insult you though that's not always his intentions. He's just a bit of an awkward person. Keith also has a low tolerance for ignorance. He can't stand when people make arguments based off of beliefs rather than facts. If you don't research what your arguing with him, don't even bother trying because Keith won't hesitate to make you feel stupid or make a sarcastic remark about how you don't know what you're talking about. Aside from his twisted humor, he is extremely conceited and his deep rooted desires are dangerous. He has never been physically built or on the strong side, he is quite frail in fact. This has always made him desire power over others. He knows he has the wits and knowledge, but not brute strength.
Keith's connection with nature has always been a lovely sight to see. He is constantly napping beneath the trees with fluffy animal friends resting beside him. He is always feeling intoxicated by the knowledge the tree's provide him and amazed by the secrets the animals can tell him. He speaks in a different tongue to communicate with the forest and animals through the soils and touch. He cannot speak to anything without plant life around him for he has to be touching what he's speaking to. But he can always have other plants or living creatures send the word to who he needs. Keith cannot command every plant or animal he sees however. In order to do so, that plant or creature must deem him worthy of their time. It takes him so much concentration and a balanced self in order to effectively speak with wooded lands or the grass. He trains with the trees and wild beasts constantly. He can even communicate with insects for their animals too. Keith is always gentle and clear headed when it comes to using his powers. He cannot play jokes or deceive nature for nature will smite him in return. He learned this the hard way in his early days. Nothing peeves him more when those who are defenseless are attacked or killed. It creates a strange relentless rage inside of him. He doesn't even hesitate to stop someone from harming a fellow creature or destroying the wildlife in which the plants flourish. However, once he stops them he'll heave a sigh and calm himself with a few deep breaths. Before he fell victim to his own desires, he was known for walking with men in the woods resolving conflicts that stirred inside them. Keith felt that man's attempts to harm others or wildlife stemmed from their own pain in their lives. He is good at picking and prodding at one's mind and deciphering one's life with only a few questions he'll ask. By the end of the person's walk they always feel enlightened and touched in positive ways after having a one on one conversation with Keith. They'd always feel that all was well in the world again and that happiness awaited them in the near future. Keith had also always viewed the general human population to be a weak and defenseless race whose emotions render them useless almost all the time. He is aware of man's greed and how they have the potential to destroy the world. This often angers him, but he's also aware there's a lot of good people in the world too hence why he'd take the time out of his day to resolve their conflicts when he encounters humans. But after centuries of immortality, the good seemed to have drowned out in the bad. Especially when the world fell into chaos after the Goddess's death, he saw an opportunity to finally seize power and teach regular humans to learn their place in this world. When the disciples divided, he felt no regrets leaving. He found it rather distasteful at the other five disciples lack of action. It angered him and made him view the others to be ignorant and not worthy of his time. However, he always had such a deep connection with each disciple because of their shared immortality. He grew angry and bitter over their great divide. But deep down inside he felt he would finally have a chance to overpower his friends and prove to himself and everyone that he is very powerful. He often denied to himself of his dark desires and at first had good intentions to just protect the world and place it back into balance with nature. Nature cried out to him in a great pain and sorrow that he was especially overwhelmed by when the Goddess died. The sorrow and disarray of the humans spiraled nature out of control and all he could constantly feel was nature's pain. When he and the other Ashes members finally obtained the Goddess's ashes, he felt such a strong lust for power that continuously surged through his veins. It was not surprising when he lost sight of his original intentions and set his eyes on darker goals. But he always kept up his appearances as a sweet little boy who thoroughly enjoyed life and playing pranks on his friends. Sometimes it can even be hard for the disciples to see through his facade and what he's truly after. But his lust for power and the sorrow of nature slowly drives him mad.
♦ Appearance :
Keith loves to wear different styles of clothes and match whatever he wears. However, he usually has a preference for fancy shirts and loosely fitted pants so that he is free to move however he pleases. He enjoys dressing up for special occasions and even loves to dress up his friends. He has a preference for darker colors however. Usually he'll be seen wearing blue, green, purple or black colors. He also carries a small wooden flute with him wherever he goes. It was given to him long, long ago in his naive years by a dear friend of his. That friend has ceased to live centuries ago.
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."
♦ Likes :
- Flowers
- Trees
- Animals
- Traveling
- Reading
- Learning
- Writing
- Making jokes
- Playing pranks
- Music
- Warm weather
♦ Dislikes :
- Ignorance
- Death
- His immortality
- Clutter
- Tight spaces
- Being outsmarted
- Conflict
- The cold
- Burns
- Lots of wind
♦ Strengths :
Keith's charisma and charm with people makes him a very likeable person. He is extremely intelligent and always looking for new things to learn. He is also a trickster and a master at telling lies or talking around the truth. Though so many people are infatuated by his charm he usually gets away with the lies he tells. He always sounds believable and his intelligence makes others doubt themselves if they are not perceptive of his mind games. He is very nimble and flexible in fights making him a hard target to reach. He also has a fierce determination whenever he sets his mind to accomplish something. He has a very soft, caring side to him in regards to nature where he will always defend the weak or those who cannot protect themselves, plants, animals and at one time humans too. He has a lot of stamina as well so you better be able to match his endurance in a fight. Since he is able to command a lot of life he hardly ever has to use too much energy. However, at times he feels uneasy facing the remaining five disciples in battle for he knows they can match his strength.
♦ Weaknesses :
While Keith's smarts allow him to thrive in battle, his body is actually quite frail. A few hard hits and he'll be gasping for air and being thrown off his game, if you can catch him that is. Beating on smaller creatures that are not as strong infuriates him and causes him to lose sight of his goals for the most part. Though he has a great deal of confidence, it is also his downfall because he often believes he is invincible when he's far from it. Due to his atonement with nature, someone who can frost over the plants or burn down the trees deeply effects him. Storms make him even more weary for strong winds can uproot the precious life that lives within the ground's dark soils. He gets his energy from the plant life surrounding him and without it he is rendered powerless and afraid. While he also feels a lot of anger towards his former friends in the Originals, he also can't bring himself to actually kill them. He's not sure where the battle to come between them will lead. He's supposed to preserve life, not destroy it which causes a conflict within him. Ultimately that conflict will also be another of his biggest downfalls. Once his foes realize his inability to complete such tasks they have the advantage in the battle.
♦ Fears :
Keith truly fears failure more than anything. He feels these huge obligations to the world keep it in balance. If he cannot even accomplish that with his powers, he's not sure at all why the Goddess even chose him for the job. He doubts himself more and more as he falls deeper into his own darkness and eventually no longer feels his role is to protect or save the world. He always saw himself to be the weak and fragile one amongst the disciples and constantly feels this need to prove himself to everyone. He also fears his selfish desires at times. He sees them as dangerous and occasionally struggles with his new found power from the Goddess's ashes. It throws him off balance more than he had anticipated. He also fears the consequences that might come with using the Goddess's ashes.
"Please enlighten me on your so called facts."
♦ Relationships :
|| Louie ||
Keith always had respect for Louie and his intelligence. He always acknowledged Louie's natural gift with medicine and sometimes he likes to create puns for him.
|| Yvette ||
Keith's feelings towards Yvette are a mix of fascination and distaste for her impulses and stubborn qualities. He dislikes how she doesn't think before she acts in battle. Generally, the two dislike each other especially now after the split. Though before the divide, they did tolerate each other and very rarely did they work together.
|| Henrietta ||
Keith currently views Henrietta to be a genuinely stupid person. She was always easily influenced by his charm and wit and much too quick to trust. Though before the split he'd often challenge her mind and make her think hard in hopes she'd open her eyes a bit more to her surroundings. He came to understand after awhile that she was never actually stupid but let her emotions get in the way of too many opportunities. She'd always put others before herself which he found to be admirable, but much has changed since he left the Originals and the idea of emotions clouding one's judgement makes a person stupid in his eyes.
|| Iraa ||
Before absorbing the ashes, Keith and Iraa were pretty good friends. Keith often would challenge Iraa's intellect by constantly giving her riddles to solve that would frustrate her a lot and make her walk away. But he's always been most impressed at how Iraa would always come back to learn the answer and why, which he has found many people don't do. This made him rather fond of her and almost like his own student. He enjoyed sharing his knowledge with her and how eager she was to learn. Not to mention they both had a lot of fun times together. But after the split, it's almost as if Keith lost his fondness for anyone and currently finds her lack of wit to be a nuisance.
|| Neris ||
Neris and Keith used to be very good friends. They'd often have lively debates and study together constantly discussing a variety of subjects. Keith thoroughly enjoys Neris's intellect and diplomatic demeanor. She never seemed to mind him prodding at her mind in the past. However, when they obtained the Goddess's ashes, Keith's character started to change in sinister ways and the two seemingly drifted apart. Though their past bond is still there.
|| Carter ||
Keith has always found Carter's qualities admirable. They have a similar sense of humor and Carter never seems to mind Keith's constant amusement and need to make things more interesting. In return, Keith has taken a liking to Carter though he knows Carter does not want to be friends with him or anyone for that matter. Keith is perfectly fine with that, and if anything, it makes him have more of an interest in Carter.
|| Alice ||
In the past Alice and Keith had a romantic relationship with each other. Keith was always fond of how smart and witty Alice is and how she can almost always see through his mind games and riddles. In fact, he found her to even enjoy them. What made him really fall for Alice was how she could understand how nature is not an element, but full of many entities. He was always able to understand what she meant by fire also being an entitiy. They both have similar interests and Keith has always enjoyed her company and has a weak spot for Alice. He avoids encountering her at all costs, she's the one person he was never willing to hurt.
|| Seishin ||
Currently, Seishin and Keith outright do not get along. They view each other solely as enemies and Seishin has no tolerance for Keith's betrayal. In turn, this causes Keith to have a very sarcastic and condescending behavior towards Sei and hopes to continually piss him off. In the past, they were a great match as teammates being able to connect with nature and Sei with spirits and decent friends. But much has changed since.
|| Louie ||
Keith always had respect for Louie and his intelligence. He always acknowledged Louie's natural gift with medicine and sometimes he likes to create puns for him.
|| Yvette ||
Keith's feelings towards Yvette are a mix of fascination and distaste for her impulses and stubborn qualities. He dislikes how she doesn't think before she acts in battle. Generally, the two dislike each other especially now after the split. Though before the divide, they did tolerate each other and very rarely did they work together.
|| Henrietta ||
Keith currently views Henrietta to be a genuinely stupid person. She was always easily influenced by his charm and wit and much too quick to trust. Though before the split he'd often challenge her mind and make her think hard in hopes she'd open her eyes a bit more to her surroundings. He came to understand after awhile that she was never actually stupid but let her emotions get in the way of too many opportunities. She'd always put others before herself which he found to be admirable, but much has changed since he left the Originals and the idea of emotions clouding one's judgement makes a person stupid in his eyes.
|| Iraa ||
Before absorbing the ashes, Keith and Iraa were pretty good friends. Keith often would challenge Iraa's intellect by constantly giving her riddles to solve that would frustrate her a lot and make her walk away. But he's always been most impressed at how Iraa would always come back to learn the answer and why, which he has found many people don't do. This made him rather fond of her and almost like his own student. He enjoyed sharing his knowledge with her and how eager she was to learn. Not to mention they both had a lot of fun times together. But after the split, it's almost as if Keith lost his fondness for anyone and currently finds her lack of wit to be a nuisance.
|| Neris ||
Neris and Keith used to be very good friends. They'd often have lively debates and study together constantly discussing a variety of subjects. Keith thoroughly enjoys Neris's intellect and diplomatic demeanor. She never seemed to mind him prodding at her mind in the past. However, when they obtained the Goddess's ashes, Keith's character started to change in sinister ways and the two seemingly drifted apart. Though their past bond is still there.
|| Carter ||
Keith has always found Carter's qualities admirable. They have a similar sense of humor and Carter never seems to mind Keith's constant amusement and need to make things more interesting. In return, Keith has taken a liking to Carter though he knows Carter does not want to be friends with him or anyone for that matter. Keith is perfectly fine with that, and if anything, it makes him have more of an interest in Carter.
|| Alice ||
In the past Alice and Keith had a romantic relationship with each other. Keith was always fond of how smart and witty Alice is and how she can almost always see through his mind games and riddles. In fact, he found her to even enjoy them. What made him really fall for Alice was how she could understand how nature is not an element, but full of many entities. He was always able to understand what she meant by fire also being an entitiy. They both have similar interests and Keith has always enjoyed her company and has a weak spot for Alice. He avoids encountering her at all costs, she's the one person he was never willing to hurt.
|| Seishin ||
Currently, Seishin and Keith outright do not get along. They view each other solely as enemies and Seishin has no tolerance for Keith's betrayal. In turn, this causes Keith to have a very sarcastic and condescending behavior towards Sei and hopes to continually piss him off. In the past, they were a great match as teammates being able to connect with nature and Sei with spirits and decent friends. But much has changed since.
