Full Name: Arian Ceasar
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Appearance:
Standing at 1m68 with pale skin and short, black hair, at first glance, people may mistake him for a normal, simple 'goth' teenager. However, Arian is anything but normal. He is lean and fast. However, he is a little bit too skinny. His skin is smooth but sickly pale like he hasn't gone under the sun for a long time. It makes him look sicked and tired. On the back of his neck, he has an abnormally large scar that runs horizontally from his left side to his right side. His hair is short and soft. Arian dislikes growing his hair because he's afraid people will grasp it and hurt him. He has sharp gray eyes that seem to look into a person's soul everytime people look into them. They make people unnerved sometimes. He is soft-spoken because he believes a soft voice may carry a greater strength than a loud one. His clothing is quite simple. They make him easy to blend in. A gray or black scarf or a hoodie to hide his scar with a plain t-shirt and jeans are what he needs. He never cares much about fashion and things like that. He doesn't have the time to do so.
Arian is quite...cold. He never reacts much to anything. When he is overly happy and/or excited, he often adds "yeah" at the end of every sentence and he smiles more. He also has a very weak stomach and therefore, when he feels nervous and/or scared, Arian often pukes his gut out. Strangely enough, Arian doesn't react when he is truly angry. He becomes expressionless. His anger only simmers underneath the surface and is deadly when it's released. Therefore, it is a really bad idea to provoke him without a really good reason.
Other:
Disruption: He is sent to the detention center due to several violent outbursts and has shown signs of having an unstable mind...according to the report anyway. The last straw that broke that camel's back is when a group of his classmates witnessed Arian used his power on a fellow student, intending to silent him...permanently.
Power: Shadow Manipulation
Arian's power is Shadow Manipulation. He can manipulate shadow to an extend, travel via shadow and suffocate a person with shadows. To him, shadows are a special kind of matter and he can control them quite easily. However, it doesn't mean he is invincible. He can't disappear into the shadow, only blend in. He needs to have a firm control over his feelings because the more he feels, the less he can control his power. He is also easily tired, a very bad disadvantage due to the fact that Shadow Manipulation requires a lot of stamina and raw power. He is working on improving it though. The longest he can control his shadows is about 3 hours.
Strengths:
- Subtlety. He is silent and deadly. With his power to travel via shadow, Arian can go basically everywhere, within his own power of course but as long as he has enough stamina, knows enough about the place he has to go, he can go to it. This means he can sneak up behind a person and kill them by suffocating them with his power. Needless to say, his power isn't qualified as a 'good' power.
- He can use his power everywhere...almost everywhere to be exact. When there's light, there's shadow. Which place doesn't have shadows? That's right, not a lot. Therefore, he can use his power everywhere he wishes unless he is trapped inside a bright room with no object to create shadow except his own shadow because he can't control it.
- To make up for his lack of stamina, Arian is fast...very fast. He is quick and dodges well. His attacks mainly base on the fact that he can dodge and invade a person's defense and then finish them with one deadly hit.
- Cooking skill: Arian is a good cook. He can't cook a five-stared meal yet but his food is good though it can be a little sweet to some others' tastes sometimes. He doesn't believe his cooking skill makes him girly and continues to practice it even when he was teased mercilessly by his classmates.
Weaknesses:
- His power is a blessing and a curse. When it is used, shadow manipulation needs power...human lifespan. Whose lifespan is it going to take? Take a wild guess. That's right, Arian's. Every time he uses his power, he literally shortens his lifespan, usually, he loses hours but if he strains himself, he may lose weeks.
- His power requires a certain physical fitness in order to use it properly and as you can imagine, Arian is no where near having that raw power yet. Therefore, his power is weak and thus, make him an easy target. Also, he can control anyone's shadow except his own.
- Arian has a very low stamina. Short runs makes him tired easily and long runs leave him breathless. He avoids direct fist fights mainly because he knows that if he fights with his physical power, he is going to lose anyway.
- Even though his power is Shadow Manipulation and Arian has to have a firm control over his emotions, Arian is in fact, terrified of being alone. One may think that just because he has a 'dark' power, is a shadow user and expressionless, he is a cold and heartless bastard with feelings the size of a tea spoon. That is completely not true. Arian hate being alone and abandoned. He also hates being left behind and leaving others behind. It is his emotional weakness.
- Arian has a very unhealthy fear of being trapped. However, it is really strange that only when he is trapped and afraid, his power begins to lash out heavily. No one has managed to find an explanation about that yet but whenever he is trapped, the only exception when he is afraid, he will lose control of his power and start to attack the nearest objects or people he can see. Or if the trapping is only for a short amount of time, he will have a mental breakdown follows by puking and shaking uncontrollably.
Personality:
Like previous information has stated, Arian Ceasar is very calm. He can't afford not to be. He has a great deal amount of self-control and it takes a lot to provoke him. Actually, he doesn't become angry or show signs of having emotions until his brother is mentioned in a conversation. If there's one thing that can make Arian tick, it's insults toward his brother. Other than that, Arian can endure a lot before he reacts. It is a part because of his childhood and another part because he has made himself like that. However, it doesn't mean Arian can't feel. He can, in fact, feel things like a normal people. He just suppresses them to the point that they are merely a side distraction and nothing else.
Also, he is very quiet and doesn't like attention. He has had enough attention when he was young and he thinks he doesn't need anymore of that. He avoids doing something flashy in fear people will notice him. He is silent and he never speaks out loud unless the situation demands so. Hence, he is a good listener. He offers no advice or personal opinion but he also won't tell anyone about your problems, either. He can keep secrets and he has really tight lips. Arian is a loyal friend and even a kinder person but he is no pushover. Yes, he won't fight back unless he has to. Yes, he won't tick unless you insult his brother. Yes, he will stay by your side even when the world is against superhumans but he can and has done dirty works. He has fought, stealed and even killed before. Not out of choice, of course but because he was forced to do so. He values his survival and he can be brutal when the job needs it.
Despite his good traits, Arian has his own flaws. He thinks too negatively and has low self-esteem. He doesn't offer any advises because he doesn't think his opinions are worth anything. It is a mindset he has had since he was young, mostly because he was influenced by his parents when he was young and by his peers when he was older. Between himself and his friends, he will choose his friends. He doesn't try to improve this much because negative thinking can make his power stronger but by only a small degree.
Likes:
- Silence
- People with powers
- Humans that don't support discrimination
- Sweet food
- Windy weather
- Wind
Dislikes:
- Noises
- Attention to himself
- Arrogant people
- People that judge someone before they know them
- Discrimination
- Insults toward his brother
- Sour food
Even though Arian's family may never pass as an 'outstanding and normal' family, his childhood wasn't half-bad. Arian was born on a sunny day of Spring. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Seeing that his power is controlling shadows. His parents are both normal people with no superpower whatsoever. He has a brother who was five years older than Arian. Even though his parents are normal humans, both their children are superhumans. His brother, Richard, can control wind. Arian doesn't remember much about the time when he was young and with his brother. His memories are always somewhat fuzzy and all he remembers are days when he would spend time on a sunny field with his brother flying kites. His brother turned out to be a rebellious child and hates discrimination. Soon, he was sent to the detention center because he fought and had killed people with his power. Arian's beautiful childhood ended there and since then, his brother never came back. His parents stopped mentioning about his brother. Later, Arian discovered that his brother had died in the detention center after a failed attempt at escaping. It was the reason that pushed him to agree escaping with the others.
When he was ten, Arian found out that he was special. At that time, he didn't know any better and kept using his power in front of his parents and the neighborhood children despite his brother's constant warnings. His parents couldn't understand him even if they tried and so, they scowled him and forbade Arian from ever using it. It wasn't as if they feared him, no, they feared for him but their methods were wrong. Instead of making Arian understand, they made Arian feel ashamed of his power. After his brother had gone, Arian began to hide his power. However, when he went to high school, due to an unfortunate accident, his peers found out and as a result, Arian became an outcast. Nobody wanted to play with a superhuman. Even the nerds had each other but he, in a small, unpopular school in an even smaller town, had no one but himself.
For years, Arian was bullied. He never tried to find back, he didn't even try to defense himself because he always thought he deserved it. It was a depressing state of his childhood. He endured everything people threw at him and he became even more withdraw. The thing is...the more he felt, the less he could control his power and sadness is also an emotion. Therefore, because he always felt sad all the time, he couldn't even use his power to probably help himself or at least hide himself. It wasn't until he was 17 that something happened.
It was a usual day at school, he was shoved, pushed into the closet and throughout robbed by his 'classmates'. For some reasons, his classmates had heard about what happened with his brother and they wanted to make him suffer more. They began taunting him. Arian could endure pain, insults, and even rejection but he can't, never, absolutely stand someone insulting his brother. For the first time in years, Arian stood up for himself and began to fight back. At first, it was just defiant silence. That quickly turned into fist fights and to defense himself, Arian had to learn how to dodge. He became a troublemaker, and paid back what people had done to him. The accident where his peers saw him threatening the boy was mostly the boy's fault and not Arian's. He had called his brother names and Arian wouldn't stand and do nothing. It wasn't supposed to make him so angry that he turned emotionless and used his power...but it had happened. He lost control and as a result, he was sent into the detention center. Now that he had gotten out, there was no way he would be sent back in and he would not become people's prey again.