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[color=#ffa31a][h3][b]Arin Reyes | 16 | Male[/b][/h3][/color]

[u][b][color=#ffa31a]Appearance:[/color][/b][/u]

Arin stands at a fairly average height of 5'10" and has a nice slim yet fit build, with slight definition to his muscles, at least enough to allow him to look good in a muscle shirt. He likes to keep his deep brown hair parted nicely on the left, but the rest is free to be a disheveled to a degree. His black eyebrows are a little thick and his skin is fairly tanned, due to his mother coming from Puerto Rico and his father from Brazil. His eyes are a nice shade of light brown that looks orange-ish. His hands have burn scars scattered across them, which he often tries to hide via a pair of fingerless gloves.

[u][b][color=#ffa31a]Powers:[/color][/b][/u]

Fire Manipulation: Arin has the ability to use his body's energy to generate flames. He can project them in two ways: either by expelling it from his skin and lighting certain parts of him (such as hands or feet) aflame, or by shooting a jet of flame from his mouth. He can use the former in short bursts simply adding a certain oomf to his hits or lighting a fire, while the other can shoot up to 15 feet. He can expel more energy to make the flames bigger or hotter.

[u][b][color=#ffa31a]Weaknesses/Limitations:[/color][/b][/u]  

What you'd expect from lighting yourself on fire. While he has gotten used to it to a degree and is slightly better at control now, if lights himself up for more than a few seconds (depending on the part) it can result in burning his flesh. The longer he keeps the flames or the bigger they are, the higher chance of him burning himself there is. If he simply lit his thumb up it could last fairly long without serious damage, but his whole hand would have about ten seconds before it gets bad.

As for shooting a jet of flames from his mouth, this burns coming all of the way up and can damage his esophagus. He can only do this two or three times before he starts coughing up blood and needs to stop.

He can't control what he does and doesn't burn, which seems obvious but that means his hair is singed off where the fire is and his clothes burn up as well, so he has to be careful.

This also requires a lot of energy, so doing it a lot will leave him totally drained pretty easily. This also means he has to eat a lot to keep it going.


[u][b][color=#ffa31a]Personality:[/color][/b][/u]

Arin is fairly chill and outgoing. he loves cracking a joke and a smirk. He is energetic in a way and gives off a lot of open body language, instead of closing himself in. He is sarcastic and deadpan to a fault at times, but really is nice. He does care about others, especially anyone who bothers to care about him. He remains mostly calm and chill, until a chord is struck with him. There are a few things that set him off, but attacking his friends or the innocent are the biggest ways to get to him. When he is angered, he shifts. His sarcasm ramps up and becomes more callous, and he is easily provoked into a fight. That being said, he isn't morally perfect. He used to steal to get by and wasn't exactly a stranger to drinking or smoking, but he has his own ideas of right and wrong.


[u][b][color=#ffa31a]Backstory:[/color][/b][/u]

Arin was born in Puerto Rico and lived there for 6 years before being moved to and raised in Spokane, Washington. His family wasn't very rich as it were, living in a small apartment, lucky to have food on in the pantry. They made due of course, and Arin never resented them for this. They tried their hardest to take care of him and put him first and he loved them for it. Of course, when you live on the lower end of the social spectrum you make friends there too. This led to Arin getting involved with some drinking and smoking. He was never excessive on it, but it was an escape from reality and he enjoyed it so he never thought it as a problem. While he did steal, it was only ever when he needed to. Desperate times and desperate measures, and starving definitely counted as desperate to him. Despite all of this, he did decently in school and teachers tended to like him. He wasn't perfect, but he was interesting and that was enough. 

He avoided getting in trouble with the law by not being dumb about what he did and being smart about how he did it, but eventually luck tends to run out. He eventually got into serious trouble with the law, but it wasn't the stealing or the drugs. It was something far less controllable than that. One day he found he found that he could generate heat if he tried, feeling his hand grow warmer. He concentrated at it until he surprised himself when his hand burst into flames. It obviously scared it him and he put it out very fast, but he knew what it meant and that was terrifying. He knew he was wanted, but if he was wanted he might as well be good at what he's wanted for. He practiced it as often as he could until his hand was burnt and he was practically passing out into a coma at the end of the night from lack of energy. Eventually the annual test came around, and though he tried to skip out he was caught playing hookie and taken in for it. He tested positive on the Test, and before he even had a chance to say goodbye to his parents, he was dragged away and hauled off to TEF-149. 

[u][b][color=#ffa31a]Talents/Skills:[/color][/b][/u] 

He is very artistic and especially good at drawing. He is also highly adept at sleight of hand due to his past.

[u][b][color=#ffa31a]Quirks/Habits/Other:[/color][/b][/u]

Due to his abilities his body always feels warmer than that of a normal humans, but not by too much. If there is one thing he is an absolute sucker for, it's sour candy. He could eat that shit all day.

[u][b][color=#ffa31a]TL/DR:[/color][/b][/u]  

An outgoing, sarcastic kid from the streets that's almost as likely to burn himself with his power as he is you.
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