Name: Gerald Duponte
Race: Revenant
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Gerald is by no means intimidating to look at, if not pleasant. It's not until you notice he's
practically see through does the creepiness of looking at an undead creature start to sink in. Thankfully, he looks (and acts) sweetly enough to curb the churning butterflies in your gut. He's only ever really dressed in the clothes he died in, as they're kind of always there and disappear briefly if he's not wearing them for whatever reason (wink wonk). Under his shirt is a giant scarred area on his chest where he was shot with a shotgun when he died. Otherwise he's got the ghost-powers of being pimple free and without any real blemish.
Magic:
Spirit: 10
Spacial: 8
Mental: 6
Fire: 4
Technique:
-Telekinesis: Unlike popularized folklore, ghosts don't come naturally with this ability, it is instead a magic skill that must be learned. Gerald is at the academy to further his control over spacial magic as his particular race has an affinity for it. He can pick up objects equivalent to his physical strength with his mind.
-Dream-Hopper: Gerald has been studying how to enter and control dreams at the academy, and can currently enter dreams of another person for 15 minutes real-world time. He accomplishes this with his limited mental magic and his naturally incorporeal form .
-Mage Hands: Gerald can conjure ghostly, floating hands to do his bidding, and can currently maintain up to 4. Said hands last up to an hour currently before he loses control over them and they evaporate. As an added bonus, the hands can become invisible for 2 minutes once per use.
-Spirit Fire: Using his spirit magic with fire magic, Gerald can create a spirit-fire that for all intents and purposes functions just like normal fire, but cannot be put out by water or suffocated. He can keep a stream of it from his hands/mage hands for up to 10 second spurts.
Abilities:
Incorporeal Form: As a ghost-creature, Gerald is generally immune to un-charmed physical attacks. Electric, mana, and spirit based attacks are extremely effective on him.
Phasing: Gerald can phase through walls, but can only do so if the wall takes less than 5 seconds to traverse, or else he is shunted back to where he entered it.
Ghost-Sight: Gerald can see other undead-creatures that can't be seen by mortals, can witness souls leaving bodies, and converse with spirits not quite passed but not quite still here.
Mana-Based Lifeform: Gerald's body is completely maintained by mana and his soul's sheer force of will, sufficiently depleting mana sickens him. He cannot enter mana-free areas, and similar to walls, will be shunted through space to the other side if he tried to enter such an area.
Bio:
Gerald grew up in a small town in the southeastern portion of the United States, home to a very stereotypical group of devout conservative churchgoers and small town stores. This, however, is no inclination to who he is in actuality. Gerald never really meshed with those around him, mostly because he was different.
He didn't put much stock in the gods who almost destroyed the world and garnered most of them with loathing, instead leaning more towards Gods nobody speaks of, that many would often shy away from. Gods that let their followers run wild,
"do what thou wilt harm none." Such gods were often associated with lower, darker forms of witchcraft and wizardry that most believed would damn you to hell. These gods were the same gods that the town, even his parents, saw as evil incarnations from hell?
Gerald simply didn't care what the town thought. He went his own way and denounced the blind loyalty that most of the townspeople gave to their so called supreme gods that made the rivers of earth run red with their slaughter of sinners. Gerald sought to be who he was and not let anyone tell him who he should be. That, however, is what got him killed.
Gerald was eventually run down on the side of the road on his way home from school and gunned down with a shotgun. Someone yelling something about the doers of evil belonging in one of the nine hells or something like that. Gerald didn't rightly remember. He just knew that when he woke up he wasn't human anymore, and that his heart burned with vengeance.
Gerald, in a sort of afterlife hangover, stumbled down the road after the man who shot him. Charles was his name. The hick heard something like the shuffling of feet and turned around only to have the color drain out of his face. The shotgun went off again as he tried to defend himself but the bullets just went through Gerald's revenant form. Gerald tore into the man spilled his blood. The body was found the next morning but Gerald's body was missing.
Gerald went on to haunt his old tormenters in town, spurred on by some darkness inside of him that couldn't be named. The town eventually hired an excorcist, a man with intense study behind spirit magic. He hunted down Gerald and attempted to exorcise him, and instead ended up purifying the boy's spirit
Gerald had been resurrected as a revenant by the hatred he had felt for his town and his burning disdain for the ignorance he faced. With the lack of gods caring for a spirit's passage Gerald was one of the ones that had become corrupted by his own lingering emotions and fell through the cracks to wreak chaos on the planet.
The excorcist had seen Gerald didn't deserve his death, so when the man purified Gerald's spirit of the dark energies his loathing had caused, the excorcist sent Gerald on his way to the academy. The hope was that the teachers could stabilize the boy's existence and give him a second chance, even in death.
