"Oh, the water king is dead? That's a bothersome development."
Name
Xerxes Johannes Aristotélēs
Age
24 - Born September 15
Description
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Xerxes is a tall(5'7") male. He has blonde hair that is cut short and reaches as far as his neck on the back and as far as his ears in the front. He has eyes the color of amber that seem to simultaneously hold genius and boredom. His mouth seems to be perpetually in a sate of hinting at a smile, but never quite doing so. He has skin void of any sort of blemishes and has no tattoos or piercings on his body.
Sexuality
Asexual || Panromantic
Protector or King
Xerxes wears a metaphorical Crown - King
Power
Air
Abilities and strengths
Xerxes is the sort to prefer using intelligence, manipulation, science, and magic to his advantage in a fight rather than brute strength.
Overall, Xerxes has a powerful control over the air. He uses the air like an artist would use a brush, with creativity and unpredictability. He will move the air out of an area should someone, an enemy of his, be falling to the ground, effectively reducing friction and allowing them to accelerate quickly. If someone were to attempt using plant-like objects against him, he'd use blades of wind against them.
As for weapons, if needed, Xerxes prefers to use rapiers. They can be moved quickly and he doesn't have to expend much energy to use them. Xerxes however, mostly uses weapons as a last resort. Otherwise he'd get tired quickly.
Weaknesses
While Xerxes is intelligent, he isn't very strong. You could most likely physically overpower him if you aren't weaker than the average person. You wont see him throwing buildings with his bare hands, you'll see him making others do it for him.
As for weaknesses regarding his abilities, air is not a very powerful thing when facing heavy objects. Sure, he can move heavy objects with wind, but it'll take a more energy for him to do so. Cutting up vines and biological matter is easy enough, but cutting through rocks and the such is harder.
Xerxes is able to use swords, but he isn't exactly the best at doing so. You wont see him beating professional swordfighters solely while using a sword.
What other characters should know about yours
Xerxes is not, nor has he ever been, an idiot. In fact, he can be considered one of the greatest minds on all of Iveir. He is known to have, literally, millions of books in his place of residence. He's known to be a scholarly king that spends most of his time reading and doing the things a king must.
It is a well-known fact that he doesn't often truly smile, yet he still holds the reputation of being calm and serene. If you were to ask someone about the air king's personality, you'd get that he was simply a scholarly king.
What other characters wouldn't know about yours
Xerxes is by no means a 'hero', but he isn't necessarily a villain either. He's simply a person that will do whatever it takes to survive. He doesn't hold qualms over using others as toys and will do so. Most people imagine that he wouldn't kill another to let himself live, but he'd do so easily.
Personality
Xerxes is your typical selfish person. He'd save innocent people if it was convenient and didn't prove any danger to him. He'd save horrendous villains if it meant his survival and didn't pose a threat to him. He's, to say the least, a person with others' best interests not in mind. Everything, in his mind, revolves around him and the other kings surviving. He wouldn't save another kind necessarily out of loyalty, but he'd do it because he would be put in danger if they're dead.
Xerxes puts on the appearance of a calm, serene, and benevolent king. He seems to be willing to help others and is seen as a 'wise' person. He is mostly either found in a library or his own place of residence.
Xerxes does not forget things, hi mind is a trap of knowledge. He could recite to you the whole of the Meridian(Made up name) plays word for word, but he wont have any reason to. He uses his knowledge gained from reading while using magic. He uses air pressure, chemistry, and physics when dealing with wind. He'd remove the air out an area if he wants to fall faster. He'd concentrate air under him if he wants to fall slower. It all depends on the situation.
History/Bio
Xerxes, the king of Air, was not always as he is now, but we'll have to start from the beginning.
Xerxes was born to the previous king legitimately, meaning that he wasn't born out of an affair or not of the royal bloodline. This meant that his position as heir was not challenged by nationalists and that he easily inherited his father's affinity for manipulating air.
Xerxes was a shy person throughout his childhood. He didn't talk much to others and seemed to try shrinking into himself. He wasn't picked, due to his ancestry, but he wasn't talked to either. He was just left alone by other children. Not that he actually cared. The young Xerxes preferred books to people and studying to talking. This meant that he didn't build up a routine for physical exercise, otherwise he would have ended up much stronger than he is now.
This percieved flaw, his shyness, was to be weeded out. His father forced him to leave the castle for a day, while monitored by guards, and speak to people. The young Xerxes hid in a park, under the roots of a large tree. This happened again the next day, both him hiding and being told to speak to people. The third day of this Xerxes was told he could not hide. As such, he did not hide, he simply sat down at a bench. He had not been, through a lapse of concentration, told to speak to anyone. He used this to his advantage and did not speak to anyone. The fourth day, Xerxes was told that he must not hide and that he must speak to someone. Xerxes, having already decided that he had tested his father's temper too much, complied.
To his disdain, Xerxes choose the wrong person to speak to. They were, in layman's terms, a bully. The boy, named Aleck, did as most bullies would when faced with a nervous and fidgeting person. Aleck stupidly decided to attempt bullying Xerxes. The boy was found in the nearby hospital, Aleck that is. Xerxes had not stopped with retaliation. He had gone beyond. He had decided that simply retaliating would not suffice. He had to be seen as an animal by Aleck, because people feared animals.
Xerxes had not been shy from that day on. Although he did stop smiling as much as he did before.
Xerxes does remember his father vividly, but he doesn't particularly care about the previous king. As for his mother, she died at his birth.
Xerxes at age 23 heard of Kanan, the person that was to be one of his protectors. His father, the previous king, had after naming Kanan a protector, given up his place as king to Xerxes. It was a shocking thing, to be crowned king, but Xerxes adapted quickly. Thus, Xerxes started his life as a king.
Crown
