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[i]"Why are you talking to me?"[/i]
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[sub][colour=SteelBlue]Shane Benjamin Vanburen[/colour]

[colour=SteelBlue]He/Him   [/colour][b]|[/b][colour=SteelBlue]   27   [/colour][b]|[/b][colour=SteelBlue]   Irish-American   [/colour][b]|[/b][colour=SteelBlue]   6’1ft  [/colour][b]|[/b][colour=SteelBlue]   229lb[/colour]     
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[colour=SteelBlue]Isolation[/colour]
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[colour=SteelBlue]Skills & Talents[/colour][/sub]
[i]"Fucking waste."[/i]
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[sub][colour=SteelBlue][b]Firearms  ⫻[/b][/colour] As a former police officer, Shane is trained in the use of firearms. His experience ranges only as far as a beat cop however so his familiarity is more focused towards pistols and revolvers, he has used rifles before on firing ranges but is significantly less familiar with them.[/sub]

[sub][colour=SteelBlue][b]Boxing  ⫻[/b][/colour] Shane was always something of a fighter growing up but when he began his police training he decided to also refine his fighting further just in case. Shane is hardly any kind of prizefighter but he’s capable of holding his own in a fight.[/sub]

[sub][colour=SteelBlue][b]Track  ⫻[/b][/colour] Shane's proclivity towards getting into fights, particularly where his family was concerned, was an instance where James had to step in as a father beyond giving money to his child. In an effort to mellow him out and use his energy in a more constructive manner, James signed Shane up to do track and field, an activity Shane enjoyed enough to take through the rest of his school life. Although it's not something he's kept up on, even with years of drinking Shane still has relatively good running speed and stamina.[/sub][/hider]

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[i]"Not much to look at."[/i]

[indent]An immediate first glance can tell anyone that Shane is prickly and unwelcoming to just about anyone that merely exists near him for too long. Typically, Shane has a dour or annoyed expression on his face, only slightly placated when he's currently drinking. By regular standards and especially compared to his siblings, Shane is quite pale. Also compared to his siblings he has a more unkempt bordering on 'wild' look, with long dishevelled dark red hair and a tangled beard making him look far more savage than the name Vanburen would imply. His eyes often bloodshot and with dark rings underneath along with some faint scarring along the left side of his mouth only adds to his general thug like appearance.

Shane's clothing reflects his attitude, which is to say it is often very plain, cheap and functional. He tends to wear the same all purpose black boots for every outfit along with a pair of dark blue jeans and an un-tucked shirt, usually flannel, over a plain white or black T-shirt. Being a Vanburen however necessitates the odd high society function much to his chagrin, in which case he wears a fitted black suit and tie over a crisp white shirt. The only formal clothing of any kind Shane owns.[/indent]

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[i]"I've got nothing to say."[/i]

[INDENT][colour=SteelBlue][b]MAIN GOAL  ⫻[/b][/colour] In a narrow and immediate sense of the word ‘goals’ all Shane seemingly wishes to do is drink and forget. Shane’s long term goals have shrunk little by little since he moved back into Araminta and truthfully he has given zero thought to any future plans.

[colour=SteelBlue][b]PHILOSOPHY  ⫻[/b][/colour] Although never fully being much for religion and never considering himself a particularly spiritually intelligent person, Shane held himself to the lessons imparted by his father, in his own way: Help and protect others, family especially. Nowadays he seems to regard this previous line of thinking with contempt for his naivete.

[colour=SteelBlue][b]SEXUALITY  ⫻[/b][/colour] Shane's heterosexual (as far as he's aware). But hasn't made any romantic effort in quite some time. Initially when he first moved to New York he had some plans to find a girl and maybe even start a family of his own but seems to have given up that possibility since his return.

[colour=SteelBlue][b]FEARS  ⫻[/b][/colour] Shane doesn’t really have any traditional fears, aside from being slightly uncomfortable in enclosed spaces. He does carry a degree of inward anxiety and shame around his family however, instead of his boorish and angry personality he [i]usually[/i] tends to be more quiet and cold around them when forced to share the same space, inwardly regarding the situation and himself as pathetic.

[colour=SteelBlue][b]REPUTATION  ⫻[/b][/colour] It is an open secret and subject of ridicule or sadness for the majority of people living in Araminta that Shane Vanburen has become a washed alcoholic since his return to the town. Although he keeps largely to himself, Shane’s past as a friendly and outgoing child growing up and prior to his leaving has left his supporters disappointed and his friends alienated at his current state. Although harbouring no animosity towards his brothers and sisters it is an unspoken fact among them that Shane is difficult to get a hold of and extremely short if they do.

[colour=SteelBlue][b]THOUGHTS ABOUT FATHER  ⫻[/b][/colour] Although still holding his father in some high esteem and thinking of him fondly as both a man and his sole caregiver, Shane’s experiences in life have shaken him to the point where he has quietly begun to wonder if he ever really knew James. 

[colour=SteelBlue][b]FLAWS  ⫻[/b][/colour] Naturally Shane's alcoholism is the primary one, keeping him from getting steady work and using it as a damaging form of self medicating. Shane's incredible caginess and inability to relate to his friends or family anymore does not help in this regard, even possibly becoming aggressive if pushed repeatedly into discussing uncomfortable subjects. Ironically his pre-New York flaws have more or less reversed, where once he was overly defensive of his family and somewhat overbearing he is now apathetic and isolated, closed off and depressed.
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[sub][b][colour=SteelBlue] Backstory[/colour][/b][/sub]
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[i]"Fuck off."[/i]

[indent]James Vanburen was a magnetic man, even disregarding his wealth and countless acts of charity, people couldn’t help but be drawn to him. Naturally this extended to the help on his estate, so loyal to James where they that at times they would place his happiness above their own far beyond any professional obligation. A maid by the name of Cait Ryan was one such help. She had immigrated to America seeking a fresh start to her life and had found James Vanburen, who took her in readily and helped her when she struggled, and believed in her when her own family did not, and said such wonderful things to her. Then she discovered she was pregnant.

They would go back and forth often, James Vanburen offering everything in his power to keep a maid in his life. Cait refused to allow the situation to tarnish James Vanburen’s name despite his protests and even offers of marriage to keep her in his life, but she also could not seem to bring herself to be rid of her son. Eventually, Shane was born and soon after Cait Ryan left in the night, a note left behind apologising to her beloved James and reaffirming her faith in the man that their son would have a better life with him. Cait felt that by leaving she would spare any scrutiny and subsequent hurt on the man she cared so deeply for, but James would have much rather kept her regardless of what it may have done to his name. He had made a few attempts to track her down in the months after Shane was named and made a Vanburen, to no avail. To curb the possibility of Shane being affected emotionally from a lack of maternal figure compared to his siblings, James told his son that his mother passed in childbirth. A fact Shane still believes to this day.

Shane grew up as hoped, happy and curious of the world around him. Looked after by his siblings and his father in spite of none of them knowing who had birthed him besides James. There were the odd murmurs from high society of James Vanburen’s “Bastard” but it did not ever seem to weigh on Shane any. If anything, Shane was significantly more defensive of his family than of himself, usually getting into fights on behalf of his siblings at even the slightest remark from students at the preparatory schools the Vanburens attended. Eventually James had to sit his son down and explain to him that while his loyalty and desire to protect his family was admirable it was something he had to temper with patience and dignity.

Although never quite being able to shed his over-protectiveness in regards to the other Vanburens, Shane did take his father’s words to heart and would start applying himself in outlets that would keep him out of trouble. It was then his interest in track and field grew which would later lead to him seeing his desire to help and protect others as a viable career path, becoming a police officer.

James supported the goal even if he would sometimes gently nudge his son to slow down on his ambition or seek out a career path he could still do good in while being safer, but Shane wouldn’t be deterred. His training regime was seemingly constant and he applied for the police academy more or less the second he finished high school. But, Shane had no desire to coast off his family name and decided to move out to New York state. Tearful goodbyes and a going away party later and Officer Shane Vanburen, was ready to finally make something of himself, help people and apply the lessons his father taught him in a way that would make him proud.

Then, four years later he was back in Araminta. Shane was a stranger in near every sense of the word, distant, quiet, melancholy and a much heavier drinker. Though he lived in the same city as his father he refused to move back into the family home despite his father’s requests. He avoided seeing his family wherever possible and only saw James once when returning from New York, which was when he first arrived back in his hometown. Shane had changed and despite the attempts of family and friends, he refused to divulge anything that happened to him out of state beyond deciding to quit the force.

From there it became a monotonous routine. Wake up in a dingy apartment, do any available odd jobs to earn some money, drink from late afternoon to the dead of night. It went on for the remainder of the year until Christmas Eve, where Shane found himself woken up from his drunken stupor early Christmas morning with the news that his father was dead. It felt like a blur, the news, hugging his family for the first time in years, the funeral. Like some sort of sped up dream that he would wake up from before seeing the conclusion. But there was no conclusion, James Vanburen was dead.

Time passed after the fact, his siblings returned to their homes and Shane was alone once again, drinking, alone and empty. He found himself one night using his key to get into the empty Vanburen Estate. Walking around the halls with the night sky flooding in through the windows and illuminating the white sheets over every bit of furniture that had once been so regal yet welcoming. Shane stumbled to the highest part of the tower, bottle in hand, and when he could climb no more he went up to the nearest window. Opening it as wide as it’d go and letting the cool night breeze wash across his face. He climbed up onto the window sill and closed his eyes. His left leg twitched to move forward before his entire body had some unknown force propel him back into the house.

With some (painful) discovery, Shane would come to learn he had awakened. He had never been the most intelligent of his siblings but the tattoo that appeared on the side of his neck compelled him to comb through his father’s books and records, it was something certain people were capable of doing in extreme emotional situations, it would grant them abilities. In Shane’s case he wasn’t clear, but it gave him the jolt of reality to leave the house before he did something else stupid.

Following that night, Shane found the events rattling in his head more than his usual thoughts while drinking. Noting that no one seemed to care about his new tattoo, normally he’d chalk it up to apathy but the fact that he didn’t even overhear any snide comment of Vanburen’s son becoming even more of a thug was strange. Even still he would have resigned himself to burying it down without a word, before he begun turning to stone like his siblings. After receiving a call from his sister, things became unfortunately clear.

It was time to come home.[/indent]

[sub][b][colour=SteelBlue] Abstraction[/colour][/b][/sub]
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[i]"Still not sure what happened to me."[/i]

[indent][b][colour=SteelBlue]TYPE  ⫻[/colour][/b] Awakened

[b][colour=SteelBlue]ABSTRACTION ⫻[/colour][/b] [i]Guardian Angel,[/i] a light blue sheen that can envelope Shane or appear as a wall in front of him, able to withstand physical pressure and explode it back at attackers. The Awakened tattoo appears as a [url=https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSjnwCkzbM0j198QU6FIt0JGcxBIKsG68OYBQ&usqp=CAU]circle resembling a shield[/url] on Shane’s neck. 

[b][colour=SteelBlue]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION  ⫻[/colour][/b] Shane’s abstraction enables him to surround himself in a light blue aura which can soak up damage from attackers and throw it back in a kinetic blast when it accrues enough physical trauma, this technique is called a Guardian Release. The shield can be altered to take the form of a translucent blue wall which can be held up by Shane and enables others to hide behind it if need be.

The more damaging/greater amount of trauma Shane or the wall receive while active will determine how powerful the Guardian Release becomes. At its lowest being essentially a knockback to being powerful enough to throw enemies through solid objects with ease.


[b][colour=SteelBlue]AURA SENSING  ⫻[/colour][/b] Shane can feel the aura of those about to be struck by physical damage, supernatural or otherwise, a few moments before it happens. The range of this sensing is short however, around ten feet before this sensing begins to fall off.

[b][colour=SteelBlue]LIMITS  ⫻[/colour][/b] The barrier can only manifest on Shane and thus cannot be used to protect someone. The kinetic blast can travel around twenty or so feet ahead of him. The barrier can only absorb physical damage and so attacks from energy such as fire, electricity, are not absorbed - but are still blocked. The barrier can expand to around thirty feet. However, there's only so much that the barrier can take and if it absorbs too much energy then the barrier will explode - injuring Shane in the process. Shane's barrier also can't do much to save him from being grabbed and other low kinetic energy attacks.

[b][colour=SteelBlue]WEAKNESSES  ⫻[/colour][/b] Shane's barrier takes extra damage from any non-physical/energy-based damage. A constant barrage of damage will pin Shane in place and force him to stand still... which may expose him to even more damage. Now, taking too much energy into his barrier can be dangerous as he can overload and cause all that kinetic energy to explode out. Injuring himself and anybody around him.
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[sup][b][colour=SteelBlue] Other[/colour][/b][/sup]
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[i]"Can’t wrap my mind around half of this shit."[/i]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Surprised she's held up this well, considering."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]Despite his irritable shift in attitude, Shane still feels some measure of his old affectionate protective instincts towards Sabrina. At least more so than his other siblings. Growing up, he often found himself beating the hell out of other schoolkids that mocked his sister and while he is happy to have seen her grow into a happy and confident woman, he can never shake off the perception of her being more emotionally fragile than the rest of the Vanburens. Though, with everything that's happened since their father passed, Shane has begun to rethink that assessment.[/cell][/row][/table]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Things'd be a lot more complicated if Oscar weren't around."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]When they were growing up, Shane and Oscar often looked out for one another, perhaps more than any of the other Vanburens. Oscar usually lending a hand academically whenever Shane needed it and Shane taking it upon himself to "deal" with anyone who hassled his brother at school. Not that Oscar would've minded either way but Shane had always tried to stress to his brother to take things more seriously. As with his other siblings, Shane has grown apart with Oscar in the intervening years but his laid back attitude does at least make him the easiest sibling for Shane to talk to.[/cell][/row][/table]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Quiet Trisha, still getting dragged into the family's mess."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]Despite, or perhaps because of, her abrasiveness, Shane has often held some quiet sympathy for his little sister. While he (at the time) disagreed with her thoughts on James, he has always recognised the unfairness of her situation and how she was caught between some bizarre pissing match between two parents. He has, over time, come to privately agree with some of her distaste for Father but it's not like they have voiced it to one another. If anything, Shane and Trisha seem to have an unspoken agreement as the two "difficult" Vanburen children to stay out of each others way, an arrangement that suits Shane just fine.[/cell][/row][/table]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Little Georgie. All grown up."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]The thoughts of a young Georgie growing up, annoying her siblings and doing all manner of things for attention are one of the few memories in Shane's ruminations that bring a small smile to his face. One that disappears just as quickly considering their relationship now. While he has always considered himself the least intelligent Vanburen, Shane's struggle to ever really "get" Georgie is one that still frustrates him. He is happy enough that she's making something of herself but her adopted attitude is slightly confusing to him. Whilst he can feel her contempt it's one of the few changes that doesn't really bother him. But as far as he is concerned, with her quiet sophistication and guarded expressions, his sister may have always been an island to him.[/cell][/row][/table]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Gonna take some real work to make this mess go away, Golden Boy."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]Shane has complicated and often conflicting thoughts on his oldest brother. The way both of them were treated by James is something Shane has only recently thought about. How Ezra was denied getting into sports by James on the grounds of it being a "waste" while Shane was outright encouraged to do so, one of the many things that makes Shane wonder about his father. He begrudgingly respects Ezra's commitment to protecting the family out of principle but quite easily recognises his weariness at doing so. In Shane's mind, he would rather Ezra simply let go of the reins all together if he's so put upon by the responsibility and finds Ezra to be an effort to talk to even back when Shane was more hospitable. Frankly, they are more alike than Shane would probably like to admit.[/cell][/row][/table]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Stuck around like a ghost from the past."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]Shane had made a few attempts growing up to get to know and befriend Arabelle, all of which were summarily rebuffed. It had confused him then but he understands it more so now, more than likely being the one who took up the most of her mothers time. Shane was ostensibly the only Vanburen without any knowledge on his mother beyond her formerly having the same position Arabelle's mother did and that she apparently died giving birth to Shane. All the times Arabelle's mother fussed over his bruises when he'd get into a fight, it's little wonder to him now where her daughter's dislike comes from.[/cell][/row][/table]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Sure be nice to be able to toss out claims like hers. Thanks dad."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]Shane has very little opinion on his new "sister". On one hand his investigative instincts are pretty sure she's full of shit but on the other he's too apathetic to hold her under any degree of scrutiny. He's pretty indifferent about crap like inheritance and truthfully James [i]did[/i] get "around" a hell of a lot.[/cell][/row][/table]
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[sup][i][colour=SteelBlue]"Probably my favourite parasite. Wait, no, ringworm. Oh wait, rats with the plague. My third favourite parasite."[/colour][/i][/sup]
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[color=2e2c2c]...................................................................[/color][/cell][cell]Unsurprisingly, Shane has little patience for his youngest brother. Even when he was more sociable he would not likely have much enjoyment for Junior's presence let alone now where he makes his dislike more than open. Before his leave to New York, Shane really only knew Junior as a baby. By the time he returned, Junior was already a mouthy and obnoxious brat to anyone that wasn't James. A particularly memorable interaction was once when Junior arrogantly pried too closely into Shane's time as a police officer, to which Shane very bluntly told Junior to fuck off.[/cell][/row][/table][/hider]