Appearance: The boy's physical form is best described as a peculiar amalgam, a fine combination in a body of average proportions, a smooth and soft person made strong and independent by assets that create a sense of empowerment in his figure. Darius Sterling stands at a normal height, neither the tallest nor the shortest of men his age, and the composition of his body is comparable to that of lean cattle - slender, but not altogether thin or underwhelming with a layer of worked muscle veiled by a little fat. Given his appearance, he isn't incredibly strong; however, he can exert a good degree of force when he truly applies himself. His legs are long and muscled whereas his arms are shorter and less strong, but his shoulders are broader than most men's shoulders and may carry their fair share of weight. His back is more erect and stiff in a manner that belies Darius's otherwise dynamic and relaxed posture that shifts his balance to one side of his body when he stands still; this strong backbone of his offers more conviction to his opinions despite his speciously carefree personality.
His basic facial structure detracts from the typical features found in the common man with a subtle level of femininity in his features: high cheekbones, rounder face, and softer skin. The young Sterling's more masculine traits are equally more prominent. A square jawline sets off the round aspect of his face lined with the beginning scruff of a full short-boxed beard, a flat nose with a convex arch sits between his two dark amber-brown eyes, and his thick eyebrows create the large variety of expressions his face is capable of. His lightly-tanned white skin is soft, but not completely clear, and the medium-length, blackish-brown hair on his head is layered into an undercut, parted to the right side of his face. Darius also has a slight overbite, straight teeth, and a set of small, full lips that often must speak up to be heard. As of his arrival in the Cradle of Divinity, Darius's muscles have become more defined, and his skin has become more flushed. His default body heat has also decreased to around room temperature. He also lost his glasses and now wears the clothes he wore when he came to the Cradle, cargo shorts and a plain white tight T-shirt with some simple blue flat shoes.
Personality: Above all else, Darius esteems the virtues of love, charity, patience, kindness, and humility. These virtues rule most aspects of his beliefs, his philosophy, and his personality. They, along with rationality, govern his positive actions. His fits of anger and depression, stubborness, melancholy, procrastination, and low self-esteem may cloud his vision at times and prevent him from making good choices; in sweeps of negative emotions, Darius often loses sight of his most precious virtues. Regardless of his bouts of emotionally-distressed irrationality, his intelligence and mental fortitude are high, beheld above the common man and humbled below the genius.
He is inclined towards enigmatic unpredictability, defying the expectations of other people and other times exceeding them. He may be analytical and observant of new things, but he is an adventurer at heart who is not afraid to investigate further or pursue something. For this fact, Darius is extremely adaptable to new environments and reacts calmly to most things unless he is enraged, overjoyed, or anxious. Against his constant emotional turmoil, he is an overall jovial and amiable person to be around. His procrastination is just as convicted and tenacious as he is, and this may lead to distractions or losses of focus, a habit of his that Darius continues to try to defeat. His Greek temperament blends the sanguine and phlegmatic aspects.
At the junction of his homosexuality and intense passion, Darius is a questioning Catholic, caught between gnosticism and agnosticism. He feels extremely connected to spirituality above all things, thus seeing all people as interconnected to each other in all manner of ways. This part of himself leads him to high optimism, a belief in the inherent good of humanity, existentialism, and a belief in the purpose of all things. His religious beliefs bring him to see all people as deserving of a level of care, whether he hates them or not. On a moral level, he sees murder as inherently wrong unless it is necessary for the common good to do so for the protection of many people. He understands that lies may protect or harm, but Darius feels that it is usually better to tell the truth. To him, it is wrong to do something to or to violate someone against their will, and he refuses to make promises that he cannot keep.
Biography: Darius Sterling grew up in the ideal suburban town, one of few of its kind in the United States, a small prosperous affair appearing untouched by poverty and hardship. His formative years were full of emotional turmoil and instability under the roofs of divorced parents and the pressure of harsh classmates. Until after his last year of middle school, he was an introverted atheist, seeing the world as an inhospitable, hard place bent on making people like him disappear and go away, an identity shaped by the cruelty of fellow students and a pessimistic, narcissistic outlook on life. Darius had a hard time discerning his purpose, feeling that the odds were against him and that everything that had led to him was a mistake, that he didn't belong. Times changed as the years passed, and before he had begun high school, the young man experienced an extreme shift in his ideals and beliefs while he was on vacation in another country visiting his relatives. In the blink of an eye, he'd transformed from a cold shell of a human being into a living fiber of the great universe, like everything had fallen into place. This positive change in his life caused him to seek individuality in all its forms and beauty in all things, to become a pleasure-seeking individual turned to a postmodern view from the absolutism that once characterized human thought. Although he then looked upon his past with a sort of grateful spirit and continued to see himself in a negative life, things had seemed more positive than before despite more frequent conflicts with his parents and the internal turmoil of adolescence. Since the shift in his life, he had cried more, laughed more, smiled more, frowned more; all that happened allowed him to see the passion he had for life, even with all the depression and the anxiety. But after one of his lowest days, he was brought to the Cradle of Divinity, taken from his wild life, in what has yet to be seen by him as either a positive or negative development.
Abilities: - Cooling touch: Darius may cool any object he touches at will. (Cold) - Water jet: Darius is capable of producing a jet of water from his palms using magic of varying size and strength. (Water, Ice) - Wind gust: Darius can use this ability to make a gust of wind by manipulating the currents in the air. (Air) - Sculpt ice: Darius may sculpt ice into walls, blocks, monoliths, icicles, and the like, but the forms are usually rough. (Ice) - Charged crystals: Darius may generate and preserve different magical energies in ice crystals for different purposes. (Ice, Aether)
What sort of abilities could one get when combining aether with ice or with water? I know what aether may be used for on its own, but not what aether may do when it is paired with another element.
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