Name: Sebastian Tharl
Nickname: Seth
Role: Oneiroi
Age: 17
Occupation: Unemployed/Con Artist
Human Appearance:
Hair: Black/Dark Grey
Height: 5'9
Weight: 140lbs
Build: Sleight, barely any muscle.
Other Human Traits: The tip of Sebastians left pinky finger is missing. He has various scars along his left arm, the longest being around 3 inches long.
Other Appearance:
Personality: Sebastian reveals little, but has a remarkable ability to get a lot out of someone else. Selfish and manipulative, the only loyalty he feels is his love of himself, he will only ever do something if there's something in it for him and has no concept of charity. Despite this however, Sebastian can hide his true feelings for other people well, pretending to be friendly, inviting, or even loving for just long enough to get what he needs before dumping his victim in the dirt when they no longer useful. One must never trust Sebastian, no matter how sincere he may seem. As you might have guessed, he does not make friends easily nor does he want them.
Sebastian is not the fighting type, preferring to use psychological attacks, verbal abuse, and his own abilities to take someone down. If it did come down to it, Sebastian would almost certainly not come out on top without resorting to underhand tactics, as he is physically weak. If someone did anger him, he would not go charging into battle, but instead sit behind the scenes, waiting and plotting for the best moment to strike in revenge for the offending act.
Sebastian also suffers from Chronic Fatigue, an irony that is not lost on him, meaning he is almost constantly tired, and no amount of sleep seems to remedy it. This condition amplifies Sebastian's apathy towards anything that does not concern him, as he is simply too tired to care. Any straining physical activity can leave Sebastian exhausted for a full 24 hours after the event, so he avoids it as much as possible.
Likes: Himself, Manipulating others, Dreaming, Horror movies, Sleeping
Dislikes: His condition, Social relations, Physical activity, Bright colours, Cinnamon
Early-History: Sebastian's Oneiroi father was Phobetor, worshipped by the Ancient Greeks as one of three brothers who shaped dreams. Phobetor specialised in nightmares, tending to appear himself as an animal or monster, he could tear a person apart from the inside, driving them insane by constantly feeding them their worst fears and phobias. However, there was one British woman who reacted differently than the others. Oh, she still went insane, but rather than responding with fear she embraced the darkness, and the intrigued Phobetor along with it. Ninth months later Sebastian was born in London, and was quickly taken away from his mother as it was quite clear she was unfit to care for a child. It is thought that she committed suicide later on that month.
Sebastian's condition blossomed fairly early, and his apathy quickly after that. By the time he was ten, he was noticing that whenever he did sleep for the night he would experience lucid dreams; controlling them with ease. While exploring in this lucid state he found what could only be described as the boundaries of his dream and pushed through it into someone else's, stumbling upon his abilities completely accidentally. He quickly found out what he had a talent for, and used it to his advantage against anyone and everyone he didn't like. He discovered that he could actually be damaged while in the dream state when he got too close to one of his victims and they attacked his arm, biting his pinky off. Sebastian killed him in return, murdered a eleven year old boy for fighting back, at only age twelve himself. He was never caught.
Recent History: Skip forward a few years, to age 16, Sebastian had practised his abilities, discovering his other form and the fact that he could create hallucinations while someone is still awake. He had not committed any other murder, and was careful not to permanently unhinge anyone with his experiments. It wasn't that he felt sorry for them, he just wanted to cover his tracks. But his patience was being tested, by someone who thought the secretive and mysterious type were 'Cute' and that Sebastian was the ideal partner for her. She showed his affection for him dozens of times, and every time she was rejected in the most brutal way possible along with a stream of insults, but that only seemed to encourage her. Encourage her so much, in fact, that she proceeded to claim that her and Sebastian were already a couple and had been for a while online and with her friends. When word got to Sebastian, he was furious. This immature hormonal piece of filth had taken it too far, and he was going to show her and all of her idiotic friends just how 'Cute' he could be.
Sebastian proceeded to attack her dreams for weeks, slowly but surely working her fears into them until every single one was a nightmare filled with hate and despair. He made her nights a living hell, but he wasn't finished yet. When the girl was sufficiently paranoid and fatigued, Sebastian made her hallucinate, adding the monsters he made in her mind into the real world as well. She could no longer tell the difference between the Nightmares and real life, she started packing a knife in her bag as a type of defence against the monsters she thought were surely coming to get her, Sebastian's plan was almost complete. After school one day soon after, he released a full blown waking nightmare onto the girl he despised at a time when he knew she would be around all of her close friends. She saw the monsters all around her, screaming in her ears, with sharp claws and teeth that were ready to devour, but she still had her knife. So she fought back! Fighting against the evil and stabbing them until they fell to the floor, she was victorious! Then Sebastian let her wake up. Instead of seeing dead monsters at her feet, she saw her best friends, with stab wounds that SHE made all over their bodies. Not a single one was alive and it was her fault. Realising what she had done, any sanity she had left was taken from her, she let out mixture of screaming and laughter, not stopping until police arrived on the scene and subdued her.
However, she was not alone, this whole procedure had almost killed Sebastian, he had never worked on someone for so long and the waking nightmare he had created took enough energy to produce that it could have been fatal. This combined with his Chronic Fatigue meant that Sebastian was hardly thinking straight, and he was found just across the street laughing along with the girl who's life he had ruined, looking almost as mad as she was. It took him several weeks to recover, and then he was sent to Teratogen.