Esterdi

After Entropy

The Medic, {Karona}

Demon//267//Female

Bisexual//Hell//Chaotic Evil

Anatomy

Karona looks like a tall, 5'10" caucasian female in her late 20s-early 30s. She has blonde, long hair, which she usually wears in a single ponytail, and very beautiful, exact and perfectly symmetrical features. Her physique is both slender and athletic, not immediately apparently muscular at a glance when fully clothed, but with clearly toned musculature to the touch. She never wears make-up. While no stronger than the average female olympic athlete, Karona is much more resistant to fatigue, being able to perform physical tasks of average difficulty and to sprint indefinitely. Normally, she does not care for cold or hot weather, and does not need to eat, nor sleep (but see abilities)*.

Mentality

Karona has a paranoid, self-loathing and misanthropic personality, created by the conflict between her desire to subdue humans and see them suffer, and her conservation instinct, which pushes her to protect them (see abilities)**. Due to this, she has little patience and it doesn't take much for her to break down into tears or fits of anger (which, again, since she is barely as strong as the average athlete, don't amount to much damage). However, while Karona can be difficult and choleric at times, as most demons, she is a very intelligent and scheming being, and is perfectly aware that the current state of affairs and her actions are necessary for her power retrieval. She considers herself a victim of an unfair universe, but, despite complaining all the time about everything, is ready to act appropriately in dire circumstances. She is extremely arrogant and disdainful towards humans, who she sees as inherently stupid, inexperienced and foolish, but does at times ease up to someone who has proven their intelligence. Lastly, she is sometimes deeply nostalgic about the might she once had (see abilities)***.

Abilities

Karona is one of the very rare demons known as Succubi. These demons use their charms and allure and powerful shapeshifting, illusionism and mindreading to trap hapless men and women alike and force them to fulfill their desires, turning them into eternal slaves or tossing them away when "the toys get broken". Succubi, however, have a unique trait that separates them from all other demons: they do not derive their powers from the everburning pits of Hell, the shadowy plane of Asphodel, or from within; instead, they get their power from the vitality of humanity. In other words, the greater in numbers, healthier and happier the human population is, the more powerful Succubi become. ***In fact, since the baby boom that followed the second World War, Karona, albeit young, had grown stronger and stronger with the newly empowered humanity. At that time, she rivalled even Diablo, both in power and cruelty. Her craving for pleasure was bested only by her craving for bloodshed, as she often offed the people she slept with, delighting in their terror and suffering. Everything changed after D.A.I.sy happened. With the world population getting halved and then quartered, living in miserable, post-apocalyptic conditions, Karona, as well as her sisters, fell from their hellish dominance, becoming no more than shadows of their former selves. Karona can no longer shapeshift at all, she is fixed with her current appearance, the only advantage being that she can't actually age. From the mind reading and mind control of her golden years remains only a weak affinity to humans, which Karona can use to feel others' emotions, and tell if they are distressed, aggressive, or lying. This empathy is completely useless against other demons, androids, AI units and shades, half-effective on cyborgs and half-demons, and fully effective on humans and mutants. She can heal others and herself by touch, but it is a long process which relies on the resources of the one being healed. In other words, it just accelerates the process. If the wounded can't fully heal naturally, Karona can't do much about it with her magical ability alone. Hence, she can't do things like regrowing stumps or removing toxins. *If she pushes herself too hard, as in, she spends too much time with her power healing someone else or herself, Karona will become extremely fragile, and will require sleep, food and reasonable temperatures to recover. While in that state, she is actually weaker than a human. As for nonmagical abilities, Karona is quite proficient at providing normal first aid and care to the ill, whether because someone on the team is afflicted with something her powers can't solve (like poisoning), or because she wants to preserve their use at a time when she cannot afford to become frail. **Karona knows that the only way to get her original, empowered form back is to save and protect as many humans as possible, and pushes herself everyday to do her best in that regard, in spite of her desires.

Possessions

The then-equivalent of $500 today.
A formal, black suit.
Four white, buttoned shirts.
Two pairs of white sports shoes.
Three pairs of black trousers.
Two first aid kits with bandages, thread for stitches, scalpels, disinfectant, various pills and five local anaesthesia syringes.
Five packs of 20 cigarettes each.
A large, black hiking backpack to fit everything in.

Function

In this time of chaos, you can't afford to stop when someone in your group gets hurt, and trained professionals are a rare resource. Same, the other way around: Karona is not aware of other groups quite like Nguyen's. Although the scientist is aware of Karona's murderous past and that she will totally retake her proper place as a murderous Succubus once humanity is safe and populous again, for the time being they have a common goal, and need to learn to coexist and rely on the expertise of one another. Also, it's helpful to have someone who never sleeps to keep watch during the night.

Character theme

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Color: Pure red, #FF0000
Timezone: GMT+2

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

Quick mention, because it might not have been immediately obvious: if someone is not familiar with the underworld/interlope world/black market/mafia, it is very unlikely that they know Olivier is The Contractor. IC accordingly.

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

Appearance:

Hider

No especially unusual features except for his Darkness Wielder glove and his signature pen and scalpel.

Name: Olivier "The Contractor" Chian

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Birth place: Galio

Weight: 175 lbs/ 79kg

Height: 6.1 ft/ 1.84m

Personality: Olivier is a soft spoken and formal individual, with a penchant for being condescending. Hard to surprise, frighten, or excite, he keeps a stiff upper lip about most anything. He is a determined person who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it, and won't be swayed by petty things like empathy or remorse (although he does possess the former, it's just that he prioritizes himself to the point where the feelings and even lives of others become background noise). When someone else starts becoming a key component in one of his schemes, he will adopt the behaviour most conducive to luring that person in. As a result, Olivier has developed a high proficiency both with lying and knowing when he is being lied to over time. He can be very patient and friendly if someone is of great importance to his machinations, and might even develop feelings over time, but he will always be out for himself first and foremost. Lastly, Olivier is both amused and angered by gullible people.

Bio: When he was a young boy in the city-state of Galio, Olivier was thought to manifest an affinity for fire wielding, and was trained appropriately. He was quite mediocre at the art of bending the flames, however, much to the chagrin of both his mentor and himself. Olivier just seemed to have plateaued hard after easily mastering beginning techniques. Eventually, the school for young wielders where Olivier was then studying had to endure some budget cuts in light of the new war tolls, and the number of students had to be reduced accordingly. This was done in a series of one versus one fights where students that wielded the same element were pitted against one another.

Olivier had to fight against one of his old friends. None of them minded that a loss meant being expelled, they were both highly competitive. Even before the battle started, they mockingly decided it would be a "battle to the death" and shook hands over that. After half an hour of thrashing, where Olivier won purely on the grounds of superior stamina and tactics rather than wielding, his exhausted friend conceded. Then, "The Contractor" was born.

The moment Olivier's friend conceded, shadowy arms started coalescing around him, tearing him apart with numerous amorphous mouths with razor-sharp teeth. It was a massacre. Even as the teachers tried to intervene, the shadowy appendages consumed the student whole, as though immune to the teachers' wielding. After there was nothing left to be devoured, the shadowy arms faded away.

A disturbed Olivier was quickly moved to the Principal's office, where the latter explained to him all about the advanced Dark wielding type and the way his special power worked. He was thereafter made to promise never to consciously make use of that power again, or even speak about it. Even at that age, Olivier was considering his new-found abilities with curiosity and apprehensiveness rather than abject horror, so, when he did accept the Principal's demands, it was not sincere.

Then followed years of honing his skills, both general-Dark and related to his unique talent, leaving many dead or scarred in his wake. In the interlope world, he became known as simply "The Contractor". Amused by this moniker and his call to Fame, Olivier decided to give himself a distinguishing feature: As such, wherever he travels, he wears a black suit with a small, white notebook protruding from one of his front pockets, next to a sharp, thin scalpel.

Olivier decided to follow Rohad Academy for the specific reason that he had gotten intel from his various sources about the oncoming war, and sees participating in that event as a way to further push the limits of his power.

Wielder or Dual Wielder: Olivier knows a tiny bit of fire wielding through sheer repetition, which has gone down from lack of use over the years. Now, without straining himself, he can barely light a cigarette. So, for all intents and purposes, he's almost completely a Darkness wielder.

Element: Darkness. He uses Darkness wielding in two ways:

1. His unique power, Contract. Once he strikes a deal with a person wherein whomever loses has to give up either their life, a limb, a sense, or years of their life, the contract cannot be interfered with. The catch is that the people who enter in contracts with Olivier have to do it willingly, of their own accord. Now, if there is a breach of contract, the penalty will be exacted by horrors of Darkness, greatly empowered by the Contract to the point where they cannot be defeated, not even by Darkness wielders with more power and experience than Olivier himself. The contract can be two-sided (like a fight to the death) or one sided (like Olivier going on a quest for someone or vice-versa). For the sake of drama and to give himself authenticity, Olivier often makes small cuts with a scalpel on the fingers of himself and whomever he is making a contract with, and having the contract meticulously written down in his notebook with a pencil and then signed in blood. This is however optional (something which many people do not actually know about The Contractor, and a way in which many have lost their lives). It is said that The Contractor himself never lost any of his own contracts, but whether this is genuine truth or hyperbole, nobody knows.

It is important to note that over half of the people who make contracts with Olivier (aside from two-sided ones) DO NOT lose them. This has helped him become quite respected and trusted with the black market folks and the criminal underworld, not just feared and avoided.

2. Other more normal Darkness powers. He can envelop targets in darkness, jamming their senses, elongate his fingers into blades of darkness useful for both slashing and piercing, tap into the surrounding darkness at night to improve his senses, and create illusory eyes to spy at a distance. Whenever Olivier wins a contract that results in a death, or wins a number of contracts that total up to a death in a weird way of Dark mathematics (for example, having three people bet their eye sight away is equivalent to having one bet his life away), his normal Darkness powers improve by 0.5%. Olivier is currently 47.5% more powerful than the normal Darkness wielder of his age and experience, having killed (or equivalently maimed) 95 people with his contracts.

Weapon: His wielding and he sometimes hires henchmen, either with money or secrets.

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

@Esterdi

I love the character and his abilities. He does not seen inherently evil for a darkness wielder though. His Contract power, does fit it's forbidden Wielding requirements, unnatural. Accepted, you can post it in the character to if you wish, oh an I updated the CS, just add an appearance.

@LokiLeo789

He intentionally uses trickery, turns of language, rules-lawyering and subterfuge to ensure that some of the contracts go the way he wants. It's not that the ones who fail have been given an honest shot (except, again, he has to give a fair shot and fair contracts to most people to keep his reputation good overall).

Feels evil enough to me.

Hogwarts roleplay?

Sounds cool. And it would be also cool to have half or quarter-races. Like, I'd love to play as a dude who is 1/8th goblin (however that happened) and has a very low ability to perform wandless magic. That and pointy years and a tendency to hoard gold.

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

Mine's a bit... longer, but the ability is quite complex and I had to contextualize and explain it clearly.

Appearance:

Hider

No especially unusual features except for his Darkness Wielder glove and his signature pen and scalpel.

Name: Olivier "The Contractor" Chian

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Birth place: Galio

Weight: 175 lbs/ 79kg

Height: 6.1 ft/ 1.84m

Personality: Olivier is a soft spoken and formal individual, with a penchant for being condescending. Hard to surprise, frighten, or excite, he keeps a stiff upper lip about most anything. He is a determined person who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it, and won't be swayed by petty things like empathy or remorse (although he does possess the former, it's just that he prioritizes himself to the point where the feelings and even lives of others become background noise). When someone else starts becoming a key component in one of his schemes, he will adopt the behaviour most conducive to luring that person in. As a result, Olivier has developed a high proficiency both with lying and knowing when he is being lied to over time. He can be very patient and friendly if someone is of great importance to his machinations, and might even develop feelings over time, but he will always be out for himself first and foremost. Lastly, Olivier is both amused and angered by gullible people.

Bio: When he was a young boy in the city-state of Galio, Olivier was thought to manifest an affinity for fire wielding, and was trained appropriately. He was quite mediocre at the art of bending the flames, however, much to the chagrin of both his mentor and himself. Olivier just seemed to have plateaued hard after easily mastering beginning techniques. Eventually, the school for young wielders where Olivier was then studying had to endure some budget cuts in light of the new war tolls, and the number of students had to be reduced accordingly. This was done in a series of one versus one fights where students that wielded the same element were pitted against one another.

Olivier had to fight against one of his old friends. None of them minded that a loss meant being expelled, they were both highly competitive. Even before the battle started, they mockingly decided it would be a "battle to the death" and shook hands over that. After half an hour of thrashing, where Olivier won purely on the grounds of superior stamina and tactics rather than wielding, his exhausted friend conceded. Then, "The Contractor" was born.

The moment Olivier's friend conceded, shadowy arms started coalescing around him, tearing him apart with numerous amorphous mouths with razor-sharp teeth. It was a massacre. Even as the teachers tried to intervene, the shadowy appendages consumed the student whole, as though immune to the teachers' wielding. After there was nothing left to be devoured, the shadowy arms faded away.

A disturbed Olivier was quickly moved to the Principal's office, where the latter explained to him all about the advanced Dark wielding type and the way his special power worked. He was thereafter made to promise never to consciously make use of that power again, or even speak about it. Even at that age, Olivier was considering his new-found abilities with curiosity and apprehensiveness rather than abject horror, so, when he did accept the Principal's demands, it was not sincere.

Then followed years of honing his skills, both general-Dark and related to his unique talent, leaving many dead or scarred in his wake. In the interlope world, he became known as simply "The Contractor". Amused by this moniker and his call to Fame, Olivier decided to give himself a distinguishing feature: As such, wherever he travels, he wears a black suit with a small, white notebook protruding from one of his front pockets, next to a sharp, thin scalpel.

Olivier decided to follow Rohad Academy for the specific reason that he had gotten intel from his various sources about the oncoming war, and sees participating in that event as a way to further push the limits of his power.

Wielder or Dual Wielder: Olivier knows a tiny bit of fire wielding through sheer repetition, which has gone down from lack of use over the years. Now, without straining himself, he can barely light a cigarette. So, for all intents and purposes, he's almost completely a Darkness wielder.

Element: Darkness. He uses Darkness wielding in two ways:

1. His unique power, Contract. Once he strikes a deal with a person wherein whomever loses has to give up either their life, a limb, a sense, or years of their life, the contract cannot be interfered with. The catch is that the people who enter in contracts with Olivier have to do it willingly, of their own accord. Now, if there is a breach of contract, the penalty will be exacted by horrors of Darkness, greatly empowered by the Contract to the point where they cannot be defeated, not even by Darkness wielders with more power and experience than Olivier himself. The contract can be two-sided (like a fight to the death) or one sided (like Olivier going on a quest for someone or vice-versa). For the sake of drama and to give himself authenticity, Olivier often makes small cuts with a scalpel on the fingers of himself and whomever he is making a contract with, and having the contract meticulously written down in his notebook with a pencil and then signed in blood. This is however optional (something which many people do not actually know about The Contractor, and a way in which many have lost their lives). It is said that The Contractor himself never lost any of his own contracts, but whether this is genuine truth or hyperbole, nobody knows.

It is important to note that over half of the people who make contracts with Olivier (aside from two-sided ones) DO NOT lose them. This has helped him become quite respected and trusted with the black market folks and the criminal underworld, not just feared and avoided.

2. Other more normal Darkness powers. He can envelop targets in darkness, jamming their senses, elongate his fingers into blades of darkness useful for both slashing and piercing, tap into the surrounding darkness at night to improve his senses, and create illusory eyes to spy at a distance. Whenever Olivier wins a contract that results in a death, or wins a number of contracts that total up to a death in a weird way of Dark mathematics (for example, having three people bet their eye sight away is equivalent to having one bet his life away), his normal Darkness powers improve by 0.5%. Olivier is currently 47.5% more powerful than the normal Darkness wielder of his age and experience, having killed (or equivalently maimed) 95 people with his contracts.

Weapon: His wielding and he sometimes hires henchmen, either with money or secrets.

After Entropy: Decline into Disorder {5-7 players}

No double characters. I just want my demon guy.

Rohad Acadamy School of the Element Wielders

Cool. You giving us a template for the CS or shall we just make them as we see fit?

Rohad Acadamy School of the Element Wielders

If this is still open, I'd like to go for a very pragmatic and selfish Dark wielder that is not evil per se, just in it for himself.

After Entropy: Decline into Disorder {5-7 players}

Interested if I could run my own take on a neutrally chaotic demon.