Jericho "Echo" Vessa
Age: 200+
Race: Hellhound/half human- A class ranking
Personality:
A quiet person, Jericho is someone who rather observe, after all in their long life, they've learned actions scream while words, words are barely a whisper. Along with being silent an intimidating aura follows them; perhaps it is their demonic bloodline, perhaps it is the often blank or bored expression played upon their soft face. In a constant state of survival, they aren't the most trust worthy and often only trust theirselves to deal with more serious issues, once could say they have a soft spot for the humans in their gang. Another could say that they simply saw the usefulness of their humans, and treated their tools with respect, if you'd ask them, they probably wouldn't give you a straight answer.
Despite this, to those Jericho calls in their gang, they would be met with a small friendly smile, and treated with the respect that Jericho is given. They'd consider themselves fair, perhaps a bit strict, but fair. Jericho keeps their fire abilities to themselves, or other demons- however, they don't pull back their intense speeds and strengths- due to this they have a slight street name, The Judge of the Redlight district, after all, they did run the majority of the Red light district, sometimes being called the Underground.
Most would say there was a disconnect from Jericho and those around them. As if there is an invisible wall between them and those they talk too. Perhaps it is because of their ambiguous gender, which was an easy target when they first stepped in the criminal networks, perhaps it was their power, mostly it was their self awareness.
To be neither human nor demon, to stay arms length from those around them. Keeping secrets from those who feel they are the closest to them, as if constantly ready to dance to alarm bells.
Appearance:
Jericho hold's many traits of their mother, their skin olive toned, with deep bags underneath their hetrochromatic eyes, one eye being their mother's pumpkin orange, the other being their father's dark black. They have sharp features, with various black peircings along their ears, deep- black stone plugs in their ears- stretched to about an inch. A layed wolf cut, frames their face and falls just a little past their shoulders. Their hair often disheviled and wild looking.
Often a lit cigarette or joint, hanging from their mouth depending the situation and who's around them, smoke constantly dancing past their words.
They stand at 5'7, their body being muscular and well toned, often they are dressed in black baggy harem pants, and a hooded croptop, bandages often around their hands and legs. When they activate their abilities, they often burn through alot of their clothing, because of this reason they made sure to often carry spares of their clothes, although at this time they had mastered the ability to stop the flames from eating through the majority of their clothes, often stopping at turning their croptop into a tubtop and their harem pants into shorts.
Their eyes often glowing as if on fire, the sides of their mouth and claws often decorated in a rather theatrical looking spiritual flames.
Background:
Jericho is the only child to once a powerful s class demon, he had no name and only went by his race, Hellhound. Hel for short if need be, but only a very few could speak his name so informal without incurring his wrath.
Hel typically helped guard the barriers between the human world and the demon world, it had many names but he wasn't one to care for names. During one of these patrollings is when he would sense a powerful psychic energy, and his curiosity would get the better of him. Watching from afar is when he would first see her, the only name that meant anything to him. Robin Vessa, she was different looking that anyone he had seen before.
Orange eyes for a human, and sun-kissed tan skin, hiding the rest of her form under hoods and bandages. Hel would find himself almost hunting her every chance he could get, and getting a glimpse of her was more than enough to satiate himself.
During one of these hunts, is when he decided he would save her, normally he'd watch if she was losing a fight, and she was, breaking the barrier just enough to save her from death, he'd take her deep in the spirit world with him, nurturing her back to health.
At first, Robin was thankful, until she realized she couldn't leave, he would never tell her, but he didn't allow her to leave. The two would start a reluctant relationship, and eventually, Jericho had been born, Robin was the child's closest friend, next to a flayed man- a corpse-type demon named Morgue. Hel simply only wished to harden what he saw as his weak child. After all, they were half-human, even if their mother was a strong psychic at one time.
Jericho wanted nothing but freedom, perhaps it was something they picked up from their mother, and long after the mortal death of their mother, they found out their father's secret, his selfish plot. In a rage, she destroyed and devoured her father, fleeing the barrier with ease- after all, she was a half demon.
The human world at first was a shellshock to them, all they did was devour humans and get stronger, the rage of their father's sins pumping through their veins like hot gold. Through these younger days, they took up the name Echo, enjoying playing with their victims.
As the years went by, Jericho would slow down, targeting those who they deemed deserved it, to eventually looking to their humanside, by this time they had amassed a large human following, with money to even pay off law enforcement, or buy legal ways to get by. Unknown to Jericho, the spiritual powers of their humanity would offer itself up as a way to feed Jericho, so they don't starve.
They don't see any of their human team mates as close friends or family, however, they are rather protective of their members, and when demons started picking off their members, Echo would step back out, investigating on their own, to only discover that the barrier itself had been completely destroyed.
Jericho wasn't a holy being, but they didn't want the world to end- and well, a bigger fish had stepped in their pond, and they needed help; with this they'd go to the spirit world, in an attempt to find any sort of authority to help.
Abilities:
*Demon level strengths, and speeds
*Hellfire abilities- This is magical fires that burn as long as Jericho is awake and conscious, the fires often at their mouth, and claws- their main weapons. The fire can burn through most human metals, and the best way to combat it is with spiritual weapons or other demon magic weapons. The fire has three different colors, each color having a different power. A deep silver blue burns, slow and steady. A blinding white, that creates a magical darkness around it, Jericho often uses this for escape- the darkness however creating an echo of even the slightest sound, thus her name. Finally a neon green flame, that they can use heal minor wounds- it is painful and can close certain wounds that would need stitches, fatal wounds they can only help to an extent.
*Starved- due to her refusal to devour humans, or demons even anymore, Jericho eats human food as a hobby, unknown to them their psychic powers have been sacrificing itself to feed them, aren't aware that demons often need to devour humans the stronger they are.