[OOC] Imaginary District: Youkai, Magic, and Youth, An Urban Fantasy RP (Page 54)

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Second character, i am crazy. Here's Rickie Remixed. Also tell me if i have to change something about demons.

Name: Ricardo Caballero "Rickie" Ph.D.
Age:30
Gender: Male
Race: Hooman
Appearance:  (OOC: Can't find a decent pic) Rather tall and broad- about 1.85 m (that's 6ft for non metric), with a certain pudgy appearance. Brown eyes, olive tan skin, an awesome bandido moustache which some people ridicule and scruffy short hair. He has a cut scar in the side of his forehead. Ricardo usually dresses in comfortable shirts and jeans. He also carries a longcoat with lots of pockets to hide foodstuffs and various notebooks and implements.
Personality:Ricardo is a guy who likes his personal space, so he doesn't like crowds, and excessively pushy people. He even hesitates when he has to adress strangers. He possesses slightly depressive traits and low self esteem, however he is kind and usually takes jokes well, and often makes japes. Ricardo is a big fan of science, as well as mythology, with a side of history and tales of chivalry. He is also a man of honor, and upholds his given word as much as he can even if that would go in his detriment. He suffers no cheaters nor liars and despises malicious people. However, Ricardo also houses a darker side when angered and he can be pretty vindictive with people that try hard at crossing the line.
Abilities:
Affinity:Unknown - He still has to discover it.
Mimicry: Mimicry, the ability of imitation. Ricardo awakened to this ability recently. It allows him to discern and replicate mundane skills and knowledges after seeing it only once or twice. It also works on supernatural spells aswell. Although this doesn't means that he'd become a master in martials arts after seeing one. One thing is to know how it works, and the other do the actual worked. Hencefort, not all the actual spells and skills he can copy would be able to be employed by him, as he probably lacks the body conditioning or supernatural nature (even though he has good reserves of mana) . Even successful copied abilities are shoddy and cobbled together when first used, but they can be quite the trumph card if used well. It's specially great to learn new languages and technical skills, tho.
Skills:
Basic Forever Alone Life Skills: Yup, he can do his own chores acceptably. His food is "military rations" grade, though.
Scientific Method: Being a Ph.D. in Physics means that Ricardo is actually very knowledgeable about the human science, and ever since he awoken his mimicry ability, this is rapidly expanding into chemistry, biology,medicine, and forensic science. He's the go-guy for techy talk.
Tech Whizz: Similarly, his computer and electronics skill seem to go by hand with the previous statement. He can not only hack and disable electronic and computers, he can make them. And Improvised Explosive Devices too but you'd really need to make him angry by stealing his manga or something.
High Threshold: Rickie has a remarkably high pain threshold.
Drunk Karaoke Master: The guy is just that good with the alcohol and mic in his hands. For human standards. And only on western songs. Um. He's not that good.
Equipment:
Notebook and pen
Lighter
Small switchblade
Chocolate Candy Bars
Cellphone and wallet- Currently Stolen
Brief Backstory:
 Ricardo Caballero was once a somewhat bright student in Physics in Europe. He studied hard, was a total D&D nerd, had good grades and brilliant dreams, and travelled half across europe. But the academic world was not what it seemed, and he was backstabbed by his own project director, in order to keep the status quo. Ricardo took a blow to his personality, and decided to travel a little more, see more places to forget about the distasteful event.

It was then when he met his girlfriend, a fellow french scientist named Jeanne, and he seemed to be happen to mend his life little by little. Although Jeanne, one day, somehow, seemed to change, and became more paranoid and obsessed with a certain something. That she'd not tell to Ricardo. She even slammed the door on him and told him to get out of his life, effectively ending their relation. Ricardo was hardly the only one hurt and concerned about it. Jeanne's parents had confided that she was involved in strange meetings, that reeked of a sect.

So, not heeding his girlfriend's last words, he tried to enter the building. After a few embarassing attempts getting stuck at windows, he finally managed to do so.

He should've turned his back and stayed home. The place was crawling in literal demented demon worshippers, who chased the poor man's chubby ass throughout the entire mansion. In the wild goose chase, Ricardo stumbled upon a forbidden ritual, designed to actually bring a demon forth. And his ex-girlfriend was standing in the middle, in a species of trance.

His words never reached her, as she plunged a dagger into her own heart, dark energies crackling. The ritual was working. Ricardo was cornered, desperate. He had to run away. He was the only one who could tell the tale. But he couldn't, as his pursuers closed on him. He wanted to curl up in desperation, as the beast manifested, toying with her girlfriend's now limping corpse as if it was some kind of grotesque doll.

It didn't help that it also had a beatiful singsong voice, and was actually singing freaking nursery rhimes. 

Ricardo snapped. And in that moment, he knew. As if yawning from a never ending dream, he got up. Something had changed. He made a dash for a ritual book. He skimmed through the pages. Flawlessly, like it had never happened before, the knowledge flew into his head. He knew. He understood how to do it.

Mana.

Magic.

It was real. And so was his magic aswell. The spell of banishment was half baked, and took it a couple of tries, in which he was stabbed and tossed across the room, but he eventually succeeded. The demon was defeated. And he survived. But... he had changed. He now knew. He now was learning so much more in so little time. His own world had been turned upside down.

And he ran once more, trying to soothe his heart. Towards the least likely place, Japan (thanks to his fast-learning of Japanese). He picked the city at random. And its name was Miura city.

¿Did I mention that he has not the best of luck?

@AtomicNut: Like I said over PM, demons are a bit more complicated then that. ^^;

For one thing, yes you can totally summon them, but they're mostly in the world already. They're not really fond of Hell(given Hell is a warped, twisting hole in reality caused by Lucifer[the archangel's] fall). It's not a very fun place to be.

They're also all former humans who became demons due to Lucifer's fall around 1000 years ago. Well, the originals are, the child of a demon is always a demon, they just have very low birth rates.

They look human but in some cases have features like wings, tails, horns, or even some animal features.

There's totally spells to summon them(fairly involved ones given you need to set up a whole room for it), but they don't possess people unless it's an actual ability they have.

That being said, there's malignant spirits and stuff. It just wouldn't be an actual demon.

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