Post by Matthias on Mar 28, 2011 23:00:36 GMT -5
We will step outside,
Checking out the coast is clear
On both sides
Checking out the coast is clear
On both sides
Name: Matthias Ezer Omri
Nickname(s): Ezer
Played by: Lia
Age: 18
Theme song: At least it was here by the 88
Date of Birth: August 5th
Sexuality: bisexual
Practice: half dragon, one fourth Scholar and Sky Mage each.
Loyalty: None
Status/Occupation: ex-slave
We don't wanna be seen,
Oh, this is suicide...
But you can't see the ropes
Oh, this is suicide...
But you can't see the ropes
Abilities:
-Jack Of All Trades: Gives the character insight into the tools, weapons, and general culture of all species.
-Speed Reader: Providing the character is literate in the language, they can read and comprehend writing at a glance.
-Overlay: ability to create subliminal messages in the minds of up to five people simultaneously of an image or word.
-Foresight: once a month the character is able to write about or draw an image of something in the future. During this the character will be in a trance like state until the drawing or passage is complete. This ability does not include the ability to interpret the drawing/passage.
-Inked In: The ability to temporarily animate drawings into solid creatures and control them. This power can be active for so long as the user can see the creature, once deactivated they will turn back into a puddle of ink.
-Animate Reality: Ability to make drawings of objects or non-sentient creatures into real, permanent things. For instance, the drawing of a plate could be made into a real plate.
-Artistic Realism: The ability turn non-living, non-magical objects into ink drawings. The character must have a surface to project these on to.
-Forgery: The ability to create imitations of anything written or drawn (legal documents, paintings, etc) that are completely indistinguishable from a genuine.
Don't know where he's going,
I don't know where he's been
But he is restless at night
I don't know where he's been
But he is restless at night
Appearance: Matthias is a gangly young man, somewhere between being brawny and skinny and standing at 5’7”. He has very pale skin and dark gray eyes shot through with flecks of deep blue under heavy eyebrows. He has blond hair streaked through with white due to stress that Matthias usually keeps long enough to be tied back into a short ponytail and he almost never wears it down.
Since he is a half dragon he had draconic claws, blood, and a tail. From his feet up to his thighs and his arms up to the elbow are covered in dark blue scales tiger striped with black and the claws on his hands and feet are brilliant gold and slightly curved like a reptile’s. His feet have also been altered and elongated so he stands with most of his weight on his toes and his knees slightly bent like a cat which makes him several inches taller than he would have been otherwise. His tail his thick and a little longer than he is tall with the same scale pattern from his arms and legs. At the end of it Matthias has four golden spikes about a foot long each that are able to move independently and strong enough to gore through someone’s skull.
Matthias also has the ability to grow draconic wings large enough for him to fly with at will, thanks to a gift from the goddess Earwin.
Weapons
Ignis: Ignis is a sentient sword that Matthias was destined to come into possession of as an adult. The blade is silver-white with a faint flame-shaped engraving along its length and a ribbon attached to the hilt by a golden ring. Ignis can set itself on fire at will, although a side effect of this is that for a period of twenty four hours afterwards Matthias will have draconic fangs, tongue, and eyes like burning coals. He also will grow his wings and be unable to put them away. Matthias keeps Ignis across his back. It was gifted by the goddess Athine.
Derrek’s sword: Matthias was also has Derrek’s old sword that he keeps on his hip. It was gifted to him by the goddess Sekme.
Tattoos
A two-headed dark purple dragon breathing fire on his right breast.
An octopus usually on his left hip or left forearm.
A braided leather whip down his spine.
I don't know what we've done.
But the fire is coming,
So I think we should run
But the fire is coming,
So I think we should run
Personality: Matthias isn’t exactly stable. For the most part he does his best to appear very emotionally ridged and he speaks with a careful deadpan. Years of being a slave is still ingrained in him and he does have a very formal sort of nature, although any time he meets someone that as a slave he would have had to treat as his better Matthias is immediately hostile. For this reason he’s more likely to get along with Shifters or humans of a low social status.
Matthias always wants to be in control, and he would rather be completely alone than around people who expect his obedience. He refuses point blank to do anything that he doesn’t want to do and it takes a lot of coaxing to convince him to act selflessly.
As much as Matthias tries to keep himself in control he still has a hard time dealing with anger. While he’s unlikely to try to kill someone in a fit of rage he might very well become physically aggressive around people he can’t stand. His kindness is tentative and he has a very hard time forming bonds with other people since anyone he meets he expects intend to hurt or abandon him in the future.
He would rather be called Ezer than Matthias and that is how he introduces himself.
As safe as we can
Until we reach the border,
Until we make our plan
Until we reach the border,
Until we make our plan
History: Like many thousands of people in the City, Matthias was born into slavery. His mother was Lidia Omri, a former noblewoman and his father was a merchant man who was a family friend of Lidia’s slaver. Matthias was with his mother for a grand total of two months before he was purchased by the Thompson family with the intention that he would become the personal slave of the family’s then unborn heir, Clive Thompson.
Matthias shared the same wet nurse as Clive, raised in part by her and in part by the slave master of the house. He came up with almost constant contact with Clive who seemed outwardly to be earnest and kindhearted but privately was quite cruel. He didn’t take kindly to the fact that it was an open secret Matthias was his older half-brother, or the imagined assumption that Matthias was at an advantage because of this. From as soon as he could understand inheritance Clive made it his goal to torment Matthias as much as possible, with tortures ranging from asking Matthias to hold embers with his bare hands to setting his pet dog on his slave. There wasn’t really any relief for Matthias anywhere since the slaves in the Thompson household were very dog eat dog and Matthias quickly learned how to shift the blame onto other slaves, since they did the same to him any chance they got.
Even so, Matthias did his best to remain dutiful and did so successfully for many years until one unfortunate day when he fell from a horse and cracked his head. After that he was never really the same again, he had near constant headaches and his ears were always ringing, and Matthias became more irritable as a result. He kept it mostly together until one night when both Clive and Matthias were nine when Clive made a particularly cruel comment and it escalated to the point that Matthias pulled a poker out of the fireplace and beat his half-brother over the head until he was dead.
It didn’t take long for someone to notice what had happened and Matthias was apprehended as he tried to sneak out of the house.
A slave killing their master was a death sentence and that was what Matthias received; it was ruled that on the year Matthias turned fifteen and was a man grown by human standards he would be publicly executed. Until then he was sentenced to a small prison next to the stocks where the rest of those who were sentenced to death were kept. Here Matthias remained for several years, and over time his headaches and the ringing faded, although he was still emotionally deadened over the whole ordeal.
It wasn’t until Matthias was twelve that a guard didn’t lock his cell right and Matthias was able to slip out. Once he was out of the cell the only thing that stood between him and freedom was one very drunk prison guard without any armor, and Matthias snuck up behind him and stabbed him with a knife. After that Matthias fled the City with the aid of a young fire sprite girl, Chiriki who he had run into while wandering the streets.
For about a year he wandered the Litharian wilds on his own, doing his best to stay alive and being moderately successful on his own until, when he was thirteen, he traveled with Rodi, Aylth, and Rosalind to slay the dragon Ka’thak and Matthias used the chance to change himself into a half dragon. After that Matthias was much more successful at fending for himself and even managed to find an animal companion in the form of a Quetzalcoatl, although he didn’t need to fend for himself for very long as he was taken in by the Hound Derrek a few months after his change. For a while Matthias didn’t like the man but after a time he grew to care deeply for the man and stuck around even after Derrek was changed into a shifter. Unfortunately, after Derrek was changed Matthias slowly lost all contact with him once more and he’s now mostly on his own again.
Till we're old and grey,
I don't wanna be alone,
When these bones decay...
I don't wanna be alone,
When these bones decay...