Name: Jace Beleren
Universe: Magic: The Gathering
Appearance: "Why fight the body when you can dominate the mind that rules it?"
Personality: Jace is calm, collected, serious, and dangerously intelligent, though occasionally decadent and troubled by mistakes of the past. He's also pragmatic and an opportunist, making him a very dangerous fighter entirely unafraid to tip the odds in his favour. He is always planning and coming up with strategies, but is not opposed to improvising if needed and working on the fly. He has a penchant for being deadpan and understated, which combined with his serious personality can lead him to unknowningly say some very funny things.
Jace is focused on living the life of an individual as opposed to being just a cog in a machine, and very secure in the knowledge that he is a very clever person, tending not to respect those who cannot challenge his mind. This can often lead to him becoming dismissive, condescending, or just an outright prick to said people, or if they're just annoying or boring him. If given a duty, he will perform it as long as it's need if it doesn't interfere with his desire to remain an individual, even if he chafes under the responsibility.
Powers/Skills:
Inborn Telepathy - Jace was born with the ability to read and manipulate minds, but had to train for many years to be able to filter what he was hearing. As it has been many years since he mastered it, he is able to read surface thoughts and dig for information in the minds of all but the most strong-willed individuals. This can backfire on him, as reading a mind too powerful or too alien can cause him serious mental damage, so he uses the ability cautiously.
Mind Mage - Jace is an expert on mental manipulation, counters, illusions, and all around magical trickery. This results in a very strategic and precise form of spellcasting that often results in an opponent being completely blindsided as they're hit with their worst fears, fighting an enemy that isn't there, or find their spells fizzling before they reach the planeswalker. There's no such thing as secrets to Jace, only ammunition. It is possible to disrupt Jace's spellcasting by provoking an emotional response, as the blue mana he uses is hampered by emotion, but he tends to keep a very cool head.
Planeswalker - As a planeswalker, Jace is natively capable of moving between planes. As he is also a very powerful mage and has had his spark activated for many years, he is capable of moving other living things between planes as well, though it requires significant amounts of concentration. Despite being trapped on the island, it is made up of a patchwork of planes and Jace is able to planeswalk between each represented universe, though not from point A to point B within the same one. It is worth noting that his planeswalking ability is not magic so much as an innate ability, and cannot be prevented by anti-magic beyond what is trapping him on the island.
Brief Bio: Jace Beleren was born on the plane of Vryn, where his telepathy caused him no shortage of problems straight from the outset. Quickly he was apprenticed to Alhammarret, a wise sphinx and an expert on blue mana where he learned to both control his mind and control the precise form of magic. However, Alhammarret was not the mentor he claimed to be, and was using Jace as a tool to steal information and sell it, wiping his mind of the event afterward. Jace himself had awoken to his planeswalker spark years ago, but Alhammarret had wiped his memory of that event too. When Jace found out, he selectively started wiping his memory and keeping physical notes so Alhammarret could not take the knowledge. Eventually, they reached a breaking point and master and student fought. Jace, as a prodigy, destroyed Alhammarret's mind so thoroughly that the sphinx forgot how to breathe, and Jace sacrificed most of his memories of the past in the battle.
The trauma of this duel caused his planeswalking power to react automatically and he was dumped on Ravnica, far from Vryn, remembering nothing but his name and the power he wielded. Ravnica soon became a second home to the young man, and he spent many years working as an operative for the Consortium and another planeswalker named Tezzeret doing dirty deeds dirt cheap. Though he spent much of his time on Ravnica, he spent many years on other planes for all manner of business. Eventually, he broke from the Consortium after Tezzeret pushed his morals one too many times and he became a wanderer.
It was at this point, before his arrival on Zendikar, that Jace was snatched and dropped on the island.
Equipment: Jace only carries with him the clothes on his back. Everything else he obtains as needed.
Universe: Magic: The Gathering
Appearance: "Why fight the body when you can dominate the mind that rules it?"
Personality: Jace is calm, collected, serious, and dangerously intelligent, though occasionally decadent and troubled by mistakes of the past. He's also pragmatic and an opportunist, making him a very dangerous fighter entirely unafraid to tip the odds in his favour. He is always planning and coming up with strategies, but is not opposed to improvising if needed and working on the fly. He has a penchant for being deadpan and understated, which combined with his serious personality can lead him to unknowningly say some very funny things.
Jace is focused on living the life of an individual as opposed to being just a cog in a machine, and very secure in the knowledge that he is a very clever person, tending not to respect those who cannot challenge his mind. This can often lead to him becoming dismissive, condescending, or just an outright prick to said people, or if they're just annoying or boring him. If given a duty, he will perform it as long as it's need if it doesn't interfere with his desire to remain an individual, even if he chafes under the responsibility.
Powers/Skills:
Inborn Telepathy - Jace was born with the ability to read and manipulate minds, but had to train for many years to be able to filter what he was hearing. As it has been many years since he mastered it, he is able to read surface thoughts and dig for information in the minds of all but the most strong-willed individuals. This can backfire on him, as reading a mind too powerful or too alien can cause him serious mental damage, so he uses the ability cautiously.
Mind Mage - Jace is an expert on mental manipulation, counters, illusions, and all around magical trickery. This results in a very strategic and precise form of spellcasting that often results in an opponent being completely blindsided as they're hit with their worst fears, fighting an enemy that isn't there, or find their spells fizzling before they reach the planeswalker. There's no such thing as secrets to Jace, only ammunition. It is possible to disrupt Jace's spellcasting by provoking an emotional response, as the blue mana he uses is hampered by emotion, but he tends to keep a very cool head.
Planeswalker - As a planeswalker, Jace is natively capable of moving between planes. As he is also a very powerful mage and has had his spark activated for many years, he is capable of moving other living things between planes as well, though it requires significant amounts of concentration. Despite being trapped on the island, it is made up of a patchwork of planes and Jace is able to planeswalk between each represented universe, though not from point A to point B within the same one. It is worth noting that his planeswalking ability is not magic so much as an innate ability, and cannot be prevented by anti-magic beyond what is trapping him on the island.
Brief Bio: Jace Beleren was born on the plane of Vryn, where his telepathy caused him no shortage of problems straight from the outset. Quickly he was apprenticed to Alhammarret, a wise sphinx and an expert on blue mana where he learned to both control his mind and control the precise form of magic. However, Alhammarret was not the mentor he claimed to be, and was using Jace as a tool to steal information and sell it, wiping his mind of the event afterward. Jace himself had awoken to his planeswalker spark years ago, but Alhammarret had wiped his memory of that event too. When Jace found out, he selectively started wiping his memory and keeping physical notes so Alhammarret could not take the knowledge. Eventually, they reached a breaking point and master and student fought. Jace, as a prodigy, destroyed Alhammarret's mind so thoroughly that the sphinx forgot how to breathe, and Jace sacrificed most of his memories of the past in the battle.
The trauma of this duel caused his planeswalking power to react automatically and he was dumped on Ravnica, far from Vryn, remembering nothing but his name and the power he wielded. Ravnica soon became a second home to the young man, and he spent many years working as an operative for the Consortium and another planeswalker named Tezzeret doing dirty deeds dirt cheap. Though he spent much of his time on Ravnica, he spent many years on other planes for all manner of business. Eventually, he broke from the Consortium after Tezzeret pushed his morals one too many times and he became a wanderer.
It was at this point, before his arrival on Zendikar, that Jace was snatched and dropped on the island.
Equipment: Jace only carries with him the clothes on his back. Everything else he obtains as needed.
