Name: Brandt Knute Erling 
(AKA Brandon or Brad)

Alias in the DgtWld: Celtic_Knot 
(AKA Celtic or CK)

Age: 21

Average Appearance: Brandt is usually slouching slightly, but still measures six feet tall and onehundred seventy-nine pounds. He has dark hair and blue-grey eyes. He prefers dark, unadorned clothing and sometimes wears thin, simple silver chains around his neck or wrist. He tries to keep the numerous scars on his hands covered with gloves, but does nothing to hide the star-shaped scar over his left cheek bone or the smaller one adorning his right eyebrow. He has several tatoos on his chest, back, and shoulders, each featuring a different design of celtic knot or rune script.

[hider=Average][img]http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae280/rysmarin/CK1_zps18c14d12.jpg[/img][/hider]

Corrector Appearance: In the DgtWld, Celtic_Knot stands with his back straight at his full height. This fact combined with the horns adorning his avatar making him look around 8 feet tall.

[hider=Corrector][img]http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae280/rysmarin/CK2_zpsf205dc25.jpg[/img]
(Please disregard the staff.)[/hider]

Weapon of Choice: A pair of long, bladed tonfa with rune script along the blades.

[hider=description of Tonfa]What most americans call a police baton is also called a Tonfa. Most look much like a long, blunt stick with a handle jutting out of the side. The weapon is held by this handle with the shorter edge jutting out inches above the fist and the longer edge held perpendicular to the fore-arm. Celtic's Tonfa are longer than usual, and are more like straight swords than sticks. The flat of these dual-edged, serated blades rest against his fore-arms.

Normal Tonfa:
[img]http://www.karatemart.com/images/products/main/black-hardwood-tonfa.jpg[/img][/hider]

Cell Phone:

[img]http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae280/rysmarin/BraceletPhone_zpsdb2614d9.jpg[/img]

Personality: 

+Poised
+Intelligent
+Loyal
+Kind
-Stubborn
-Secretive

Background: 

Brandt is the son of a Japanese woman and a man descended from Norsemen. He is the eldest sibling of a brother and sister, as well as two half brothers after his parent's divorce and remarriage. For a few years, he and his full brother and sister were raised as patriotic, christian Americans... However, somewhere along the line, Brandt lost a measure of his respect for that way of life. Because of this, when he was old enough, he chose to return to his mother in Japan and free himself from his father's stringent sense of morality. For years, this caused issues between him and his father... But eventually, the man came to accept that he could not change his son, and came to respect the boy's decision in spite of his inability to understand it.

The rest of corrector's youth was often just as difficult as his home life. He was often picked on for his thin frame and poor eyesight, causing him to become severely introverted. This made the boy bitter and jaded long before he should have been, but eventually, he met a girl that brought him out of his jaded views and icy shell, as a few young boys are fortunate enough to do. She was new in town, and didn't know the boy's unfavorable, sometimes violent reputation. Instead, she came to know him as the kind soul he hid behind the cold facade others knew.

The two were inseparable for those few short years they were together. Soon, though, the girl had to suddenly move away with her family for reasons neither child understood, leaving the boy behind. For a short time, the boy felt betrayed by the world. Hell, perhaps this was even the reason he grew to spite his father's country and religion, sparking his desire to return to Japan and declare his citizenship therein... but that has long faded into obscurity.

It wasn't until after the girl left that he was properly introduced to and intrigued by cellphones and the internet as a whole. He got his first cell at the age of 12, and learned that he already possessed an MChip. With the internet at his disposal, and a vent in the form of music, (both writing and listening,) the onset of what might have evolved into depression was prevented.

Years were spent in the therapeutic embrace of music and knowledge. Naturally, this led to his pursuit of his own musical ability. He taught himself how to operate a synthesizer, and earned the money to buy one himself. He joined his middle and high-school bands. It might have been this connection to music that brought him to the attention of the Japanese GVM, or it might have been his ability in various sports and martial arts, but he neither knows or really cares. Now in college, he further pursues music, hoping to better his own rhythm, tempo, and melody, and get his music noticed.

[hider=Other info]
[b]Do you want our characters to already know each other?[/b]
It would likely help if they knew of Celtic, but perhaps not Brandt. Whatever works, however.

[b]Do you often frequent an OOC of a RP you're in?[/b]
I try, but sometimes, no. As a general rule, I get nervous when speaking to others rather easily.

[b]How active can you see yourself being in this RP?[/b]
I intend to be somewhere between fairly and extremely active.

[b]Any questions you have for me?[/b]
When do you want me to jump in?
Edit: Assuming I'm accepted, of course...[/hider]