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Thu May 20, 2010 9:24 am
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Name: Orion Faulk

Age: 23
Age Appearance: 23

Gender: Male
Species/Race: Blade Master

Appearance:

Fullbody
At 6'4" (193 cm), Orion's a tall sucker, but he's mostly muscle, and not the kind you get from benchpressing weights in the gym; it's all lean muscle produced from use. For what it's worth, he was born with coppery-blonde hair and green eyes, though now his hair seems to spend a lot of its time being black and rather boring.

He has a tattoo on his stomache, that meanders down past his pants that he got when he was rather drunk one night (he's since sworn off drinking) and several faint scars, courtesy of his career choice and the others' will to live, though none of the marks are very noticable unless one is looking for them or is quite close.

Orion wears a lot of black (a ton, actually.), shades of grey and the occasional bit of color. His clothes are simple for practical reasons (You can blame The Incredibles NO CAPES FOR YOU. >: ROFL); it's hard to assassinate someone while worrying about whether your belt's too jingly for you to surprise your target. But it's fashionably practical in its simplicity; steel-toed dress shoes, clingy but flexible tops, black pants that are also flexible and a leather overcoat. Because he thinks it's badass, yo. c:

He also carries with him a katana and kodachi for, again, practical reasons. The katana gives him range and a good offence, while he can fall back on the kodachi for defense (the kodachi is slightly shorter than the katana, but not as short as the Japanese equivalent of a short sword known as the wakizashi. It has a shorter range [basically, the distance one can reach with one swing] but due to the reduced range, it also has a smaller blind spot). Why Japanese swords? They're quite balanced (moreso than most European weapons) and he loves the look and feel of them (he also favors dirks, European daggers with a significantly lengthened blade). They also snap less often than a sabre or a rapier.


Personality: Orion is an odd mix of several personality types, partially due to being bipolar. Though it's not a serious condition and he spends most of his time in the middle, in what can be called 'grey area', he has definite periods of black and white. During his good days, he's not exactly what you would call outright 'friendly', but he's polite enough and won't seek to pick a fight where it's not wanted. On those rare off-days, however,, it's hard for him to cope with being who and what he is.

He loves fighting, loves killing and takes a horrible kind pride in being as deadly as he is, but he also loves passionately. Not a terribly social person by nature, Orion rarely goes out of his way to meet and keep new friends, but those he does take an interest in he is very loyal to. Lovers, especially, he treats with reverence, though some of his rougher tendencies still sometimes come out in the bedroom.

History: Orion's background is fairly uninteresting - he was born to parents who cared deeply for him and he grew up being loved. By eight, he was aware that in addition to having an uncanny knack with blades of all sorts, something was wrong with himself; his mood swings were too frequent and unpredictable to be entirely natural and by ten, he was certain that this 'disease' was a major personality flaw. Knowing what it finally was came as a sort of relief; he would never be rid of it, but he could arm himself with knowledge to combat it.

His parents supported him, but it was certainly a strain to have an emotionally unstable child (especially one who had precise aim with throwing knives) in the house and Orion could certainly tell. He left home when he was seventeen, hoping to alleviate the stress on his mother and father.

Unable to secure a steady job, he turned to working as a mercenary, relishing in the escapism and anonymity of the job, how he was allowed free reign as long as he fought and killed. When he returned home three years later, he found his mother had died of an illness and his father's health was also failing. At his father's request, he stayed until he died, selling the family property and taking with him only what he needed, travelling for the better part of two years before finding and buying a spacious property to consider home.

Occupation/Job: Orion's rather a jack of all trades, you name it, he's tried it. The only constants are his availability for assassinations and mercenary work. Aside from that he's been a florist, an artist, a writer, a horse trainer, and unemployed, which he likes least.
Currently, he owns a small bookshop.
Interesting Facts/Quirks:
-Bipolar.
-Sadomasochist (slightly more masochistic than sadistic).
-His hair seems to change colors with his moodswings (eg. depressed state = dark blue, violet, grey or black; manic state = blonde or red, streaked with gold, copper, neon colors, etc.; most of the time it's simply a shade of brown, auburn, copper or dark blonde)
Hobby/Hobbies: Reading, napping in the sun, sex (LOL), lounging about in his bookshop, going out for trail rides on his horse

Likes: Horses, birds of prey, raspberries, rough sex, pain, combat, bladed objects, rain, blood, reading, Asian teas, smoking, cats, citrus fruits and mangoes, music, autumn, the smell of forests after a rainstorm
Dislikes: Religion/religious people, politics, ignorance, incompetence, white chocolate, dogs, vanilla, hot humid days, summertime, children, wet feet, wide open spaces with no cover

Strengths: He's a realist who adapts immediately to sudden (and gradual) changes. He's lithe and agile, with remarkable stamina and - though he'd never admit it - a[n insufferable] stubborn streak (tho' I'm not too sure why this is a strength). He's also quite reliable, especially in a pinch.
Weaknesses and flaws: He has oh-so much difficulty in giving voice to his actual emotions - who doesn't? He also considers his being bipolar to be a serious personality flaw, one that makes him worthless. And apparently magic.



Roleplay Sample: He tapped the pack of cigarettes, sliding one out between his trembling fingers. Twirling it, his eyes never left the road, straining to see through the curtain of rain; the storm was getting worse. He forced himself to take a breath, then another, taking the thin cylinder between his lips and flicking open his lighter. He toyed with the flame and the idea that maybe – just maybe – Jayce wouldn’t be coming back. Maybe that really had been the end of it, the single shared moment on the dock, staring out over the water toward where the horizon met the sky and infinity blended into reality... Maybe that was really the end of all the things that he had come to take for granted.

He hissed in pain, his eyes narrowing as he flinched back from the burn of the flame, a welt already forming on his palm, the skin slightly charred-looking. Ruefully, he shook his head and licked the wound, opening the window ever so slightly and slipping his hand out, catching the raindrops on his burned palm. The cold soothed the throb into nothingness and in the distance, a car approached. He smiled.
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Thu May 20, 2010 4:27 pm
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*blinks and zooms* Cool!
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