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Name: Virgil (Refuses to use his given last name)
Age: 18
Age Appearance: Slightly older-looking

Gender: Male
Species/Race: Element User (water)

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By ashbrie at 2010-12-13


Personality: Virgil has always been a bit of an odd one. He is blatantly sexist, but not in the usual way—he loves to talk to and be around women, but generally ignores other men completely. If he –absolutely- has to talk to another male, he is blunt and uses as few words as possible. With women, he is nothing but a total sweetheart—still a little quiet, but extremely friendly and polite.

He is homophobic too, but only toward male couples—he generally will not act out against them, but strongly avoids being around such couples and is even less comfortable around men he knows are gay then those who aren’t. Nobody really knows what to make of his odd behavior. However, despite his rough, seemingly two-faced behavior, Virgil is actually a rather sensitive soul.

While his unsociable behavior left much to be desired, Virgil was nonetheless considered a valuable asset to the Zodiac Monks as a great fighter and amazing healer with his working knowledge of herbs and plants.


History: With his blatant aversion to other men, it should come as no surprise that Virgil had many negative experiences with men in the past. He had a cruel father, a cruel older brother, and went to an all-boys school where he was teased and harassed by, of course, other boys.

Virgil never learned what it was that caused his father to be such a violent person, but he witnessed all of his worse crimes. He frequently beat Virgil’s mother, which despite his mother’s wishes, often caused Virgil to act as a scapegoat to distract from his mother and take the beatings instead. The worse beating he ever received was shortly after he hit puberty, and was caught experimenting with another boy. His father and brother both beat him senseless, and then his brother spread the information around their school so that his schoolmates would harass and beat him as well. Virgil could not deal with the harassment very well at all, and tried to force himself to not find males attractive anymore. His attempts to drastically change his own sexuality, not to mention being surrounded by nothing but horrible males with not a single good male role model, twisted into what is now a deep-seeded hatred and fear of other men.

When he was young, his mother did finally flee from the abusive household, taking Virgil with her. Sadly, that brief period of happiness in Virgil’s life was shortly lived when his father found and killed his mother—and got away with the murder, too. He fled as far as he could from his home, going to an entirely other continent to escape his horrible father and brother.

With nowhere to go, Virgil lived homeless on the streets of the City of Vorrian for a long time—trying to find some sort of stability and purpose in his life. He finally found inner peace when he found religion, and that caused him to make the decision to become a monk. Even though it meant being a part of a group with other men, Virgil rationalized with himself that he could tolerate being around them as long as he was worshipping his God. Becoming religious has helped a lot of with Virgil’s inner demons—but nothing has managed to reach that hatred for men quite yet. But…he’s still young. Perhaps things can change for him.

Like the rest of the Zodiac Monks, Virgil was inevitably killed by Raven. Like most of the other Zodiac Monks, his soul was locked away, but eventually freed and he was reborn in a river as an Elemental User.


Occupation/Job: Monk, Healer
Interesting Facts/Quirks: He is very clingy to the female Zodiac monks. He treats Sara like an older sister, who in turn quite likes having a little adopted ‘brother’.
Hobby/Hobbies: Studying plants. He also likes to swim in cold water, and finds sitting under waterfalls relaxing.

Like: Water, cooking, plants, women (although he never shows sexual attraction toward them—strictly friendship), quiet, reptiles.
Dislikes: Other men, crowds, violence (but trains himself in fighting for when he absolutely has to), horses (they’re big and intimidating and freak him out), actually he doesn’t really like big animals in general.

Strength: Virgil has an impressive knowledge of herbs and plants. He is capable of concocting the strongest of medicines—or the strongest of poisons. He is also very skilled in fighting with a staff and sword, and as a result of being bullied so much in the past, he trains himself very hard and is now a much stronger person then he used to be. Of course, he has the element of water on his side, as well.
Weakness/Flaw: I’d say the androphobia/misandry is a pretty big flaw…

Other than that, he is on the shorter side for a boy, and while he is strong, that means he will never be as physically-imposing as he wish he could be.


Anything else to add: When he was reborn into an Elemental User, the marking of the zodiac animal he worships, the snake, was placed on his chest, over his heart.

When he was human, Virgil always wore a wrap around his head to hide scars inflicted by his father. Those scars vanished after he was reborn into an Elemental User, but he still feels more comfortable wearing the wrap.
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