[@Hydrophobe] Here is mine finished. 

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[b]Name: Charles Pickman[/b]

[b]Sex: Male[/b]

[b]Age:[/b] 20

[b]Appearance:[/b] Charles stands at about 5’ 4”, though it is hard to tell as he usually has a slouched demeanor, and such a slender build one would think he is nothing but skin and bone. He has pale skin and hair as dark as night. At first glance, the most notable feature would be the myriad of seemingly unnatural scars that virtually covers his body and are at various stages of healing.  Less noticeable in the day and in lit rooms is his veins which illuminates a dim yellow.

 
[b]Personality:[/b] Due to being uninterested in socializing, he has  seemingly become somewhat apathetic and awkward at judging others moods or intentions. Secretly, he hides the fact that he generally cares for others and hates to personally injure another if he can avoid it.


[b]Background:[/b] Charles Pickman lived a fairly solitary life. With no siblings and living near the forest, he elected to explore the woodlands at every available opportunity. During one of his early trips he encountered a family of deer in one of the clearings, while this would normally be uneventful, one of the fawns was interested in Charles when it sensed some berries he had, and Charles being a compassionate person offered it to the fawn. Over the following months he and the deer (which he nicknamed Spots due to its birthmark of a black ring over its eye) became more trusting of each other and the closest thing to a friend for Charles. Eventually, Charles would rarely go a day without seeing Spots.

Then there came the day Charles found Spots dead, ripped apart and partially devoured but enough left to recognize the rotting carcass. His heart broke leaving him in mental anguish as he lost his only friend. In retrospect, it seems quite peculiar his affinity would reveal itself at this moment, but Charles barely noticed as his mental pain became more and more physical and was shocked when he realized the corpse moved seemingly of its own volition. That was when his already vulnerable mind shattered further.

Charles does not remember much between that moment and when the letter came. Ever since, Charles never ventured to make another friend for fear of further heartbreak and that moment still occasionally haunts him in his dreams and even less frequently in his awaken moments. To this day, they say that spot where the abomination existed briefly, is a spot where living animals feared to tread, where plants refused to grow. A spot reserved for death.


[b]Affinity Link:[/b] Reanimation. Charles is capable of animating and taking control of dead or decaying organic material. By simply touching a carcass, it can be revived and mobile (albeit, still rotting) within seconds or he can do it over a longer period at a distance if direct contact is not possible. This comes at the cost of part of his own life and concentration. Animating a corpse creates a visible bond between Charles and the reanimated in the from of a scar on his body violently erupting and bleeding his yellow blood into the corpses own veins, reanimating it, before clotting. Then Charles will have to mentally stimulate the joints of the corpse, like he would his own, in order for it to accomplish whatever task its wretched existence is for. As a result, he is only capable of animating a handful depending on the overall size of the individual corpses in question and if he were to ever lose concentration for any reason, such as from a suitable injury, the animations would collapse almost immediately (though larger specimens have been noted to remain standing, but unresponsive, for a longer period) and each corpse would only be an extension of Charles’ will, incapable of independent action. 

Through some practice, Charles developed the ability to deconstruct and reconstitute tissue and fiber to a limited degree which with further training would theoretically enable him to combine two or more corpses into a larger abomination.

Charles prefers to animate corpses conservatively as he fears excessive use could kill him although he is capable of absorbing the life of any living material (including plants) by direct contact which could theoretically allow him to animate more corpses at a time although he is still restrained to the mental limit of only controlling a few at a time.  This process will manifest visibly as color draining from the victim, and in the case of animals, the skin bursting open with blood oozing out and mingling with Charles’ own and creating another corpse for reanimation. This process is relatively long (the duration depending on the size and constitution of the victim) and direct contact must be maintained throughout for a continued effect.  This is a process he has to be willing to do, he is capable of direct contact with others without any effect and Charles prefers not to. While he has become desensitized to animating, absorbing the life of an animal or person still distresses him and in a combat encounter he would prefer to avoid close contact when possible.

[b]Other:[/b] The bond Charles shares with his abominations allows him to sense what his corpses would sense should they still possess the required faculties. He could for example, reanimate a condor and command it to give Charles a view from a higher angle.

Suffers from underlying insanity, while capable of sane and rational thought, if he suffers enough stress he might become erratic in his manner for a brief period.

Secretive of his past.  Other characters would probably not know of his history prior to training IC. 


[hider=]Questionnaire: 
Do you want to start in training, or post-training? 

I think it might be interesting to start on the last day of training, to have the final test. Otherwise post-training then.


Do you want several, smaller squads, or 1-2 larger squads?

Indifferent. I’m good with whatever is decided upon.

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