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[i]"Nobody forgets. Nothing gets forgiven."[/i]
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[sub][colour=SteelBlue]He/Him   [/colour][b]|[/b][colour=SteelBlue]   28   [/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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[color=SteelBlue]Skills & Talents[/color][/sub]
[i]"There's a lot I'm capable of. None of it good."[/i]
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[sub][color=SteelBlue][b]Firearms  ⫻[/b][/color] 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.

[color=SteelBlue][b]Brawling  ⫻[/b][/color] Shane was always something of a pugilist 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 his size, experience and aggression ensure he's more than capable of holding his own in a scrap.

[color=SteelBlue][b]Cardio  ⫻[/b][/color] 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.

[color=SteelBlue][b]Handy  ⫻[/b][/color] As one of the Vanburens familiar with getting his hands dirty, Shane is something of a handyman. Able to maintain and repair most everyday household objects without issue. A skill he founded during his youth through one of the subjects he actually had a natural aptitude for and one he further developed later in life out of financial necessity. Like most, he's possessive about what little tools he does own.
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[/cell][cell][sub][b][color=Steelblue] Appearance[/color][/b][/sub]
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[i]"It's not a secret I didn't get these scars fallin' over in church."[/i]

[indent]An immediate first glance can tell anyone that Shane is prickly and unwelcoming. Cold blue hollow eyes and with a perpetual frown on his face, only sometimes placated (or exacerbated) when drunk. Despite his known to be well-off family he's generally seen as plain or unkempt, with long dishevelled dark red hair and a tangled beard making him look far more savage than the surname 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 is tall and quite stocky, especially compared to his siblings. Owing largely to his prior career and often taking on the odd labour based job around town. That said, his midsection has softened more than it should at his age due to the frequent alcohol intake. 

Shane's clothing reflects his attitude, which is to say it is often very rough, cheap or 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.[/indent]

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[i]"People don't change. They just become more of who they really are."[/i]

[INDENT][color=SteelBlue][b]MAIN GOAL  ⫻[/b][/color] 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 beyond moving on to the next day. With his lack of communication and separation of himself from his family, despite having moved back to their home town, it would seem Shane's primary goal is to keep himself dethatched from the people he cared most about. A goal that current circumstances have made difficult.

[color=SteelBlue][b]PHILOSOPHY  ⫻[/b][/color] Shane was never much for religion nor does he consider himself a particularly spiritually intelligent person, instead 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. Though his own isolation could be considered a manner of protecting in its own way. Shielding his family from the man he's become.

[color=Steelblue][b]SEXUALITY  ⫻[/b][/color] Shane's heterosexual (as far as he's aware). But hasn't made any serious romantic effort in quite some time. There's been the odd fling now and then however, especially nowadays with the lowering of his inhibition and the abundance of his apathy. Not to mention that, bitter alcholic or no, certain people are still well aware Shane's family is loaded. But as can likely be put together, there's been nothing genuine on Shane's part.

[color=Steelblue][b]FEARS  ⫻[/b][/color] While not a fear in the traditional sense, Shane is openly disdainful and distrusting of most figures of authority. Cops especially. It's generally masked under his standard cold demeanour, but their presence puts him on a much greater edge than he's normally on. Examining himself with harsher scrutiny.

[color=Steelblue][b]REPUTATION  ⫻[/b][/color] It's 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 person 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 family, it is an unspoken fact among them that Shane is difficult to get a hold of and extremely short if they do.

[color=Steelblue][b]THOUGHTS ABOUT FATHER  ⫻[/b][/color] Shane has mixed feelings towards James. He'd generally patterned his life around the ideals and principles of his father but nothing in his life turned out the way he'd have liked it to. Shane, personally, didn't have much of a relationship with James, due to how often his attention was focused elsewhere. It's not something he's especially broken up over, but it has caused him to examine the man with greater scrutiny in his now more cynical state. Wondering how much he'd emulated an idea of his father than the person he really was.

[color=Steelblue][b]FLAWS  ⫻[/b][/color] Naturally, Shane's alcoholism is the primary one. Keeping him from getting steady work and using it as a damaging form of self-medication. Shane's incredible caginess and inability to relate to his friends or family anymore does not help in this regard, even potentially becoming aggressive if pushed repeatedly into discussing uncomfortable subjects. Ironically, his pre-New York flaws were 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][color=Steelblue] Backstory[/color][/b][/sub]
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[i]"One thing I learned on the job, don't ask questions you don't wanna know the answers to."[/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 Caitlyn Ryan was one such help. She'd immigrated to America seeking a fresh start to her life and had found James Vanburen, who took her in happily, helped her when she struggled, believed in her when her own family did not and said such wonderful things to her. Then she discovered she was pregnant.

Unlike many of his "encounters", Caitlyn was fiercely loyal to and protective of James. So much so that she willingly removed herself from the situation after their son was born. Unable to risk further scrutiny on James reputation with the potential scandal of having a child with a woman "below his station". She left, receiving a sizable amount of money from her beloved Vanburen to go and start a proper life elsewhere. James never shared anything about Shane's mother to either him or anyone else in the family. Merely saying that she'd passed away to prevent the risk of her son tracking her down. A lie 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 never seemed 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 pragmatism.

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. 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 James' 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, 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 return home.[/indent]


[sub][b] [color=Steelblue]Abstraction[/color][/b][/sub]
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[i]"Like a bad dream I can't wake up from."[/i]

[indent][color=Steelblue][b]TYPE  ⫻[/b][/color] Awakened

[color=SteelBlue][b]ABSTRACTION  ⫻[/b][/color] [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. 

[color=SteelBlue][b]ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION  ⫻[/b][/color] 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.

[color=SteelBlue][b]AURA-SENSING  ⫻[/b][/color] 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.

[color=SteelBlue][b]LIMITS  ⫻[/b][/color] The physical barrier can only manifest on Shane and thus cannot be used to protect someone unless it's being used as a stationary wall. The wall only being active for as long as Shane stands and holds it up 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 - though are still blocked from harming the user. The barrier expands to around Shane's body, appearing like a blue sheen. 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 moved around by something strong enough.

[color=SteelBlue][b]WEAKNESSES  ⫻[/b][/color] Shane's barrier weakens quicker 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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[i]"I think I'm pretty much done."[/i]
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