[hider=Balthazar][b]Name:[/b] Balthazar

[b]Character concept:[/b] Half demon, half... what ?!

[b]Physical description:[/b] There's little to suspect anything unusual from Balthazar as seen on the open street. Sure, he is tall enough to quite stand out of a crowd, but his trenchcoat and blue jeans are just as boring as most other people's clothes. Things become a tad more interesting once, if, he takes off the sunglasses as his eyes are... well one is obviously rather dysfunctional and the other appears like a featureless black hole all the more eager to absorb light. He's bald, his skin features a significant red hue (that can be worked against using cream) and appears quite rough and thick. He also wears shoes obviously too large for his size, but that is for the same set of sharp and pointy reasons he prefers not wearing any shoes at all whenever possible.

[b]General background:[/b]
Balthazar once was just a demon and a pretty petty one at that. He went after small-time jobs to make a more or less humble living and ventured into the most shallow depths of street crime because... well you do things if you're really drunk even as some otherworldly entity.

What came next was no traditional, self-induced blackout however, but a deliberate attack on the back of his head. The scar's still there from that, but so are most of the other things that were subsequently done to him. [i]Somebody[/i] or [i]something[/i] tried to alter his very nature, to induce traits of a werewolf into him. Up to this day Balthazar has no real clue about who the culprit really is, only dead ends and mere suspicions. Somebody with a shitpile of money, scientifically talented underlings and some shady building to hide god who knows what kind of magical machinery in ? An unscrupulous megacorporation ? Or was it the lone, crazy madmage who could even try and pull this off all on his or her own ? Whoever it was and how it was done, the memory is just not there.

To give some credit, calling the ultimate outcome a complete disaster zone would be an overstatement. The sad thing is he doesn't even know how many failed prototypes before him it took killing before things worked out as haphazardly as they do in him.

[b]Powers:[/b]
[u]Infernal heritage:[/u] Fire's fun and while he's in no way immune to it, it takes a rather excessive amount of heat to really hurt him. That being said, he can be a magical pyromaniac himself if really needed. The equivalent of a jerrycan and a box of matches that both refill themselves when shaken.

[u]This is my major malfunction:[/u] Balthazar suffers from seemingly random bouts of pain that stem from the fact that the two components of his new self still aren't integrated into another very well. A design deficiency so to speak, but on the plus side, when it is night and the moon's bright, he is considerably more of a formidable opponent as during daytime with heightened senses, increased ferocity and a lot more strength.

[u]Quick fix[/u]: The occasional, spontaneous pain out of nowhere isn't the only symptom caused by the semi-failed state of the experiment. Whoever made it already expected a steady stream of internal damage that needed to be plugged up just as continuously by additional components. Taking a heavy hit or even a shot wound hurts as usual, but still is only an additional to an already existing pile that is regenerated speedily.

[b]Fear:[/b] If somebody is behind his present condition and thus perhaps made a serious investment, then why is he still walking around freely ? Is he part of a manhunt he can't even remember having triggered or is his 'performance' monitored all the time without him even noticing ? Or are they dead by now, with him even being the killer maybe ?

[b]Desire:[/b] He wants to know the truth, even if it is a shitty one. All the better if the truth would include the possibility of reverting him to his prior state, maybe even using the same tools that did this to him in the first place.[/hider]