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Username: tiny14xx2
Name: Alistair Balthazar Osius
Age: Looks to be 28, but is near 200
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Scarlet
Hair Color: Raven-haired
Hair Length: past his shoulders
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 158.5 lbs
Scars/Tattoos: A bunch if different tribal tattoos on his arms and more noticeably his neck and hands.
Ethnicity: Romanian
Sexual Orientation: Homosexual
Weapon(s): He doesn't carry a physical weapon due to his abilities, but he might joke that his wit and charm are weapon enough.
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Species: Shadow Demon
Abilities: {Had to change the arrows, they came up as some weird coding for me.}
● Darkness Manipulation/Solidification: Alistair can solidify darkness into physical objects that are soft like jelly or hard like metal and everything in between. He can use the darkness in a room to communicate or transport objects. ONLY OBJECTS. Under no circumstances, does he use the darkness to teleport himself, because the destination is unknown. He received this warning from what she says is the voices in the darkness that allow him to use them. Alistair says that they whisper to him when the darkness surrounds him like a cloud, telling him secrets they have learned. Alistair can also increase or decrease the levels of darkness in the room to fit his personal desires.
● Sin embodiment: Alistair only "uses'' this when the shadows have taken over for a brief time and he embodies a demon of specific sins. If he's been around someone greedy for long periods of time and has consumed that greed the most, he will take on the personality trait and his eyes will reflect that color accordingly. It provides no powerups, just affects his personality when he blacks out. It is said that these embodiments are demons of sin that whisper to him in the shadows. Souls unable to take a shape so they possess him for a time. The strongest one and the one you will hear him speak to the most is one he calls Kairo. Embodiment of lust. Most people just think he's crazy.
● Sin Detection: Because of the shadows and their whispers, Alistair can sense a person's greatest sin when he is near them. (In terms of the seven deadly sins, it doesn't mean he can tell if they committed adultery or a crime. Only that he can tell if they are consumed by lust, greed, pride, etc...) Aside from sensing that, it provides nothing special to him.
● Sin consumption: Alistair can consume the sin residing within a person when he is near them for extended periods of time. It is unconsciously done and he has no control over it. If he has managed to consume the entirety of the sin, it might make his shadows a little darker and cause a blackout for him so the sin can take over. The person he consumes from might also feel a little lighter and less afflicted by the sin that was consuming them. Unfortunately, it also goes both ways, the shadows will also be affected by his own sin and even he can cause his own possession. While he can feed off someone else, the shadows only feed from him.
Overall, the sin related abilities are just one big drawback for him.
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Personality: Ali is, for lack of a better word...a total dork. he is playful and eccentric with a touch of what people see as insanity.(Because he is speaking to himself in the dark half the time.) Alistair is a man who tries to live his life out doing good things for others, because that is how he was taught to deal with people around himself. Treat living beings as you would want to be treated. He sure as hell doesn't want people smacking him around all the time so...
Because of the voices that whisper to him in the darkness, Alistair can almost seem a little on the mad side. When they get especially nasty, he can tend to black out. When that happens, it is said that his personality wipes clean and he takes on a different personality entirely. What mood you catch him in usually depends on what color you see his eyes change to. Red is Alistair’s normal self. That is the safe one.
Bio: Alistair was an orphan. At a very young age of two, he was left with an orphanage with no more than his name and a blanket. He would be quickly adopted by a pair who kept him for about a week. They eventually returned him to the orphanage after complaining that "weird things" started happening when they brought him home. This would go on and on until he reached the age of 10. Always being in the same situation. He would get adopted, and then people would claim that weird things were happening around him that have never happened before. Some would last a few weeks and some, only a few days. During all of this, Alistair himself was a quiet and very reserved child. You could rarely get him to even speak a word and he often kept his head down. Rejection was something that he became used to.
After a long history of going back and forth with the orphanage, he was familiar with the staff that worked there. So, with heavy hearts they told him that the orphanage was closing down, and each child will be moved to a different location. He took this like any other day and thought nothing of it until the day of. The orphanage that he was taken to in the area was widely known for being the place where kids who have no hope of finding a home go. It is poorly run with negligent adults and the children who usually go there are violent and crude. It is an understatement that the child wasn't pleased about being there.
It doesn't take long for it all the start. The bullying, the yelling and the beating. Everyday was a new horror and eventually he learned where to hide and how to get by. His favorite hiding spot was a room that was walled off. He found it by accident when he was pushed through the thin drywall they had patched it up with. After he managed to move his bed so that it hid the hole unless you crawled through from under the bed, he started using the pitch black space to hide when there were fights or the caretakers were feeling particularly violent. He was taught rather quickly not to fear the dark when the darkness was what gave him cover and safety from the outside world. That is where he started hearing the voices.
His hiding space and “imaginary friends” stayed his best kept secret for years. Until one of the older kids saw him climbing under his bed early in the morning and looked underneath to see the hole in the wall. A scheme was made.
One day, when Alistair went to hide in his little spot, a few of the children would move his bed aside so that they could start to nail boards into place to trap him inside. It doesn’t seem like much with there being old and not so sturdy walls. But he was malnourished and small. Certainly not strong enough to push through a wall on his own. He was there for days, maybe longer. Forgotten as he grew too weak to even cry out for help anymore. He was certain to waste away in the darkness. Until the voices got louder. Until he saw glowing eyes in that darkness and hands resting on his crumpled body. He barely remembers what happened after he shut his eyes when shushed softly by a pair of violet eyes in that darkness sure to be his grave. He doesn’t remember getting out of that wall, doesn’t remember getting out of the orphanage or stumbling through the forest to a random house.
When he wakes again, he is lying in a soft and plush bed much too big for a child with a damp cloth resting on his head. The room he’s in is dark, but he can see just fine inside of it. A voice calls to him, but it isn’t one of his imaginary friends. It is a real man holding a lit candelabra in his hand. “Ah, you are finally awake”, he had called. An old man by the name of William Osius found him passed out in front of his door, the light peeking through the trees burning his pale and sickly skin. So he brought him into the home and closed all of the windows. There he made sure that he was carefully washed and fed. While Alistair doesn’t remember ever being awake for any of it, the man said that Alistair was awake and ate every meal offered to him. Though each day, his eyes would always change to a different color for every waking and he carried himself differently each time. But he always ate, bathed, moved so that his muscles didn’t deteriorate, and slept. For an entire month. Almost as if he only woke so that he could take care of his health when needed, before he would fall into another slumber for the remainder of the day.
Alistair would come to live with this man named William from here on, and he wouldn’t find out until much later that these “voices” are what got him away from the orphanage and to safety where he was carefully looked after by a solitary old artist. Alistair moved from being another number in the system to Alistair Balthazar Osius, son of William Osius. A painter who lives in the forest to always find a little inspiration to paint his next piece. He would come to live with the man until he passed, when Alistair turned 22. He would continue to stay in that home for over 200 hundred years, never aging past his twenties. Carrying the things he was taught by the closest thing he had to a father for the rest of his adolescent life. He would eventually start to wander through different cities, painting and picking up a passion for tattooing as he went. The more he traveled and became surrounded by people however, the more the voices woke up and became a daily part of his life.
Likes:
○ Body art of all kinds
○ Evening walks in the city
○ Rainy days
○ Gudetama, because he is his spirit animal
Dislikes:
● Buttheads that like making others miserable
● Basically his whole situation with his abilities and the voices
● Sunny days since he has to cover up a lot and stick to shade
● When he is regarded as something monstrous despite his bright and friendly disposition
Skills: Before moving, Alistair was a professional tattoo artist who owned his own shop. He is great at painting and tattooing, can make a mean pasta, and isn't too bad at singing.
Body Type: Alistair is tall and muscular, but not built huge. Just a nice toned body with a healthy amount of muscle. He likes his yum_cupcake okay?
Health: He is very conscious about his overuse of his abilities since it makes him bleed out of his ears and nose, but he is otherwise healthy physically. Can’t really guarantee that applies to his mental health however…
Strengths: Alistair is a great judge of character, though he can't blend in, he's great at adjusting to any environment. He is a very studious person who sticks his ground, albeit a little stubbornly. While his kindness can be viewed as a fault, it is something he considers as his best strength. He was taught that a little kindness can go a long way.
Weakness:Due to him being so heavily connected with the darkness, Alistair has a sensitivity to all kinds of light and will become sick if he stands underneath it for too long. Usually, he will have to sit in the dark parts of the room in order to refrain from being burned by the light. Because of this, he has been nicknamed the dark vampire.(since he feeds on sin)
Another weakness found is that when Alistair overuses/abuses the darkness around him, the voices in the darkness start to scream and cry. When this happens, he can bleed through his ears and nose before feinting. This doesn't affect anyone else and is only a negative impact on himself.
The whole sin issue can become a real problem for him, as it can tend to get him into trouble when he comes to because it CAN bust lights and shroud people in complete darkness. That isn’t usually appreciated…
What you look for in a partner:
♡ Someone who is a-okay with piercings and tattoos
♡ Someone nice would be good
♡ Anyone who can handle his crazy(he's desperate right now)
♡ Just a living breathing person with an actual body he can talk to because he's losing it here.
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Theme Song: The Weapon of the Faithful
Extra: When you hear him talking in the dark, the names you will hear him call often are: Kairo and Iiro. He doesn't seem to know the rest and just refers to them as the shadows. Kairo is the most frequent name and the one that seems to latch onto him more and influence him the most in a more noninvasive way. Feeds enough to get by, but not enough to make him blackout. The rest don't really share the same care. His abilities tie entirely to these shadows.(As explained in bio)
Eventually Alistair was told by Kairo that he had been a gifted human initially, with the ability to see and talk to beings from the shadows. And that the weird things that surrounded him all his life and prevented him from being adopted, were because of that gift. The same gift that allowed them to save his life and carry him to safety where they continued to assure that he was nourished and cared for each day until he could return to himself. That because they latched onto him with the shadows, they were stuck with him and they had to learn to stand one another. Because they cannot live without him and he can no longer live without them. Him crying for help counted as striking a deal with the demons to offer up himself and they answered his calls. A chance to “live” through him. He is on a permanent contract with these demons for as long as he lives. And they make very sure their vessel doesn’t waste away.
He is also a serial cuddler, so beware.
His face claim is Uta from Tokyo Ghoul!
Housing District: 1304 Ombre Housing District
Occupation: The Cut N' Stab Tattoo Artist / Piercer
