[@Lyla] Here you are. Feel better :) [hider=Patroklos] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/zFcJioy.png[/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/Nrk8yTw.png[/img][/center] [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Character Summary[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=B1934D]Name:[/color][/b] Patroklos. [b][color=B1934D]Aliases:[/color][/b] None. [b][color=B1934D]Titles:[/color][/b] The Magician's Creation, The Doll of Cespheus, The Doll, Lover Beyond the Mist, He Who Beckons You. [b][color=B1934D]Age:[/color][/b] 25 [b][color=B1934D]Place of Origin:[/color][/b] Delphi Island. [b][color=B1934D]Kingdom:[/color][/b] Sinth, The Empire of the Glass Sea. [b][color=B1934D]Gender:[/color][/b] Male. [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Physical Attributes[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=B1934D]Eyes:[/color][/b] Ghostly-Green. [b][color=B1934D]Hair:[/color][/b] Copper. [b][color=B1934D]Day To Day Attire:[/color][/b] His attire, as is the attire of most people who originate from Delphi Island, consist Greek-like garments. Soft, airy garbs and togas, often accented by jewelry, diadems, laurels, or wreaths. His most notable and unusual feature is the strange glyph on the back of his neck, the mark of his creator. [b][color=B1934D]Strengths:[/color][/b] Manipulation, Deception, High Pain Tolerance, Empathy, The Perfect Mate. [b][color=B1934D]Weaknesses:[/color][/b] Vain, Obsessive, Allergic to Metal, Susceptible to the whims of others. [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Psychological Attributes[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [i][color=B1934D][center]Empathic * Mysterious * Vain * Impressionable * Deceptive[/center][/color][/i] [b][color=B1934D]Sexuality:[/color][/b] Fluid. [b][color=B1934D]Relationship Status:[/color][/b] Single. [b][color=B1934D]Personality:[/color][/b] As was the purpose of his creation, Patroklos was created to have an increased empathic ability and a natural desire to please others. This often makes him seem like the "Perfect Mate", as he is more easily susceptible to the desires, feelings, and emotions of others. In a way, he was designed to be impressionable. When he is not behaving like his typical self, his enhanced emotional awareness makes it so that he can naturally change his persona and behavior to meet another being's emotional requirements. This makes him quite a chameleon, as he can easily integrate himself with other cultures and people. There is something quite mysterious about the way he carries himself. He can sometimes leave people confused due to his ability to completely shift his personality, and yet he can often be seen lingering off on his own, with eyes that can seem surprisingly emotionless and doll-like. There is something rather vague about his expression, lifeless almost. Even when he speaks, there seems to be a lack of detail in his words. Patroklos can also be quite vain. He takes pride in how he presents himself due to his natural tendency to want to please others. From his posture, to the way he walks, each detail is carefully crafted and almost methodical in order to seem the most pleasing. Because of this, he can appear to be somewhat sophisticated and refined. But it is also his natural empathic ability, that allows him to easily deceive and manipulate others, completely changing his persona to match their own and thereby, becoming far more convincing and believable. This is especially useful when he has objectives he is trying to achieve or needs to rid of himself of sticky situations. [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Skills[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [color=B1934D][i][center]A listing of skills, such as horseback riding or cooking. Levels include novice (0.5 pt), apprentice (1 pt), journeyman (2 pt), expert (3 pt), master (4 pt), grand master (5 pt). Each character can spend 21 points & only two skills can be mastered and one grand mastered. If your character knows magic, it counts as a skill.[/center][/i][/color] [list] [*] [b][color=B1934D]High Pain Tolerance (Expert):[/color][/b] After years of training in the circus and being used for his entire lifetime as a puppet by his creator, Patroklos developed a unnaturally high tolerance for pain. Due to this, it is very difficult to outright torture him for information or other purposes. Though he has been known to feign pain, in actuality, he feels little to none. [*] [b][color=B1934D]Contortionist (Expert):[/color][/b] Years of training and discipline in the circus have provided him with a malleable skill that allows him to control his body in ways not possible for normal people: moving bones out of the sockets, distorting the physique in lots of horrible ways. He can escape from ropes, chains, or other bonds and squeeze through ridiculously narrow openings. [*] [b][color=B1934D]Sailing (Journeyman):[/color][/b] Due to the nature of the circus, Patroklos is familiar with the nautical tasks and terminology and is used to the hardships of the sea and the responsibilities of an aquatic life. As well as being able to handle small boats and sailing craft with ease and safety, he can work as an ordinary crew member on a larger ship. [*] [b][color=B1934D]Swimming (Journeyman):[/color][/b] Due to his time on the sea, and living in a coastal city, he is an adept swimmer of moderate skill and capability. [/list] [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Magic[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [color=BDBDBD][i][center]A listing of favorite or unique spells, if any. Maximum of four.[/center][/i][/color] [list] [*] [b][color=B1934D]Empathy (Grandmaster):[/color][/b] This is a telepathic-based magic that enables Patroklos to sense the emotions and feelings of others, including animals. In addition, he can broadcast his own feelings in order to subtly influence other people's emotions. Due to this magic, it can be difficult to discern what emotions are his own or merely the emotional impressions of others. [*] [b][color=B1934D]Empathic Metamorph (Master):[/color][/b] In combination with his enhanced empathy, this shapeshifting magic allows him to naturally change his persona and behavior to meet another being's emotional requirements and sexual desires. But this magic goes a bit further, as his body will actually change in response to the emotions around him, becoming more beautiful when he feels loved and desired, or hideous when he feels fear or anger. This can be used to mimic the appearance of other people and animals as well. [*] [b][color=B1934D]Magical Awareness (Journeyman):[/color][/b] As a human created from magic, Patroklos has the natural ability to sense the presence and rough direction of any other magic-using creatures or characters within one hundred yards. The function or purpose of the magic will not be revealed, only that magic is present. This feeling is amplified through touch, such as shaking someone's hand. [/list] [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Artifacts[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [color=B1934D][i][center]A listing of acquired artifacts. Maximum of three.[/center][/i][/color] [list] [*] [b][color=B1934D]Golden Laurel:[/color][/b] A golden laurel often seen on his head. The golden accessory is laced with a number of jewels. However, its beautiful appearance is only part of it. When wearing the laurel, Patroklos can transform his body completely into gold, gaining the durable malleability of the substance. While in his gold form, he is virtually immune to mental-based magic, but his own empathic abilities are suppressed as well. [*] [b][color=B1934D]Seppia's Dagger:[/color][/b] This dagger belonged to Seppia, a performer in the circus. On the night of her death, this dagger was found near her corpse. It's capabilities are currently unknown, other than being used as a weapon. [*] [b][color=B1934D]The Enchanted Quill:[/color][/b] This quill moves about on its own and behaves in a semi-sentient fashion. When Patroklos needs to write something or send a letter, this quill will automatically write down what he is speaking and can adjust itself upon hearing his simple commands. [/list] [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]History[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=B1934D]Myth / Legend:[/color][/b] The tale of Patroklos begins not with himself, but with his creator, Cespheus. The man was known as a kook in the City of Sinth. He was a man of great creativity, and ambition, but fell short of praise when it came to his way of life. He was profound in the use of magic, something only few individuals had access to. And it was with this very magic that he crafted a "Floating Circus", a collection of connecting ships that, when not performing for other kingdoms, drifted idly off the shore of Sinth. He crafted creatures of all forms(mostly non-humanoid) to perform in his Floating Circus and for a time, he and his magical creations were finally gaining recognition. That was until his ambition took hold and he came upon the idea to have an act that was more "real". Using 3 core ingredients, he crafted Patroklos, a beautiful man with a heightened sense of empathy and natural desire to please others. The young man instantly became the star attraction of the Floating Circus, utilizing his empathic magic and beauty to beguile and lure more and more townsfolk to the Floating Circus. Many townsfolk, compelled to attend the Circus for days on end, eventually began to wither away and starve to death. This began the Era of the Cursed Circus and it became well-known that it was Patroklos(under the control of Cespheus) that was luring the townsfolk to their untimely demise. Yet none stood powerful enough to end the Magician's magic, that was until another creation had been created, Seppia. Eventually freeing Patroklos from the Magician's hold, Patroklos, for the first time in his entire life, was finally able to feel his own emotions and act upon his own desires. After Seppia's death and feeling the memories of the pain and death he had caused so many in Sinth, Patroklos turned his own magic against his creator, luring himself and the magician to their watery graves below. Shortly after, the Floating Circus sunk with them, and the townsfolk of Sinth were finally freed from the "curse". It is said that the remains of the ship can be found at the very depths of the bay. [b][color=B1934D]Parents:[/color][/b] None technically. He was magically created by the Magician known as Cespheus, via the tears of a widow, the bones of her late husband, and the petals of an Amortensia flower. [b][color=B1934D]Siblings:[/color][/b] None technically. However, Seppia, another more humanoid creation of Cespheus, was like a sister to him. [b][color=B1934D]Childhood:[/color][/b] Didn't have one. He was crafted to begin life as an adult. [b][color=B1934D]Adulthood:[/color][/b] Even amongst the creations of his circus, Cespheus was lonely and ill-equipped to handle the emotional rollercoaster of real people. So he crafted Patroklos as his lover, whose natural empathy and ability to empathically meta-morph made him the perfect mate, capable of bending his own personality and appearance to match the desires of his creator. For a time, Patroklos did not participate in the Circus at all, he simply remained by the creators side, fulfilling all his wishes when they were required. However, seeing the potential in Patroklos, he trained the beautiful man as a contortionist and set him up to perform in the circus. The young man became an instant hit and would spend much of his time performing, having no control over it regardless and having little time for anything else. His natural empathy allowed him to form close bonds with the creatures of the Floating Circus, especially Seppia, with whom he spent most of his time with when he was not performing or fulfilling the beckoning desires of his creator, Cespheus the Magician. Seppia's death and the return of his memories would ultimately be the trigger to the end the chaos. [b][color=B1934D]Special Moments:[/color][/b] The first day he was created and finding Seppia's dead corpse, her dagger(which was meant to be used against Cespheus) lay bloodied beside her. [b][color=B1934D]Current Events:[/color][/b] ???. [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Relations[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [color=B1934D][center]* ☠ Enemy * ⚜ Unfriendly * ☯ Neutral * ☮ Friends * ღ Ally * ♥ Crush/Significant Other * [/center][/color] [list] [*] [b][color=B1934D]Name:[/color][/b] Description [*] [b][color=B1934D]Name:[/color][/b] Description [*] [b][color=B1934D]Name:[/color][/b] Description [*] [b][color=B1934D]Name:[/color][/b] Description [*] [b][color=B1934D]Name:[/color][/b] Description [*] [b][color=B1934D]Name:[/color][/b] Description [/list] [h3][b][i][color=B1934D][center]Extras (Optional)[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=B1934D]Character Quote:[/color][/b] "I am sustained by the desires of others. Without another, I am left incomplete." [b][color=B1934D]Theme Song:[/color][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0sSDGjt2t8]Whispers of a Mermaid[/url] [b][color=B1934D]Aura Color:[/color][/b] Gold. [b][color=B1934D]Scent:[/color][/b] Changes based on others' desires. [b][color=B1934D]Anything Else:[/color][/b] [url=https://i.imgur.com/WUtV7r7.jpg?1]Seppia[/url] [/hider] Cheers!