Post by xunzar on May 31, 2011 17:26:35 GMT -5
DEMON APPLICATION
Name: Kaspir (Kahsp-eer)
Nicknames: Kas
Gender: Male
Age: Two hundred, give or take a decade
Height: Six feet
Weight: Two hundred and fifty pounds
Element: Darkness/Fire
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Appearance: Kaspir is six feet of muscle kept that way by a habit of exercising when bored. With his broad shoulders and heavily muscled body, he could easily pass as a heavy-weight boxer. His hair is straight, black and hangs down to the middle of his back. His face is angular and has a certain edge to it. He doesn’t have a mouth full of fangs, but his eyeteeth are just a little longer than human. His fingers are each tipped with a small, black claw. His eyes are perfectly normal at first glance, just blue eyes. A second glance reveals that they are swirls of gray-black smoke. When he speaks, smalls wisps of smoke float from his mouth scented like woodsmoke and blood. His skin is rather pale, especially for the Japanese Islands.
Kaspir wears one of two sets of outfits, depending on the time. When he is out in the world, he wears a perfectly tailored Italian suit, black of course, with a white silk shirt. He could pass for a very well built undertaker. At home or anywhere he doesn’t need to be formal, he wears a pair of black silk sleeping pants. He always has his hair held back by a small black band.
Personality: Kaspir is arrogant and knows it. He built a business up from scratch while pretending to be human and feels that his success was earned. He treats others with only the respect he feels they deserve, those who do good work are treated well, those who do not are berated or fired. He has a sadistic streak that he is able to express only in the viciousness with which he fires people. He hates people who disobey him, especially employees.
Kaspir has a certain level of insecurity when it comes to people he’s close to. He becomes dependent on their attention and emotionally invested in the relationship. He tries not to care, but if he got close to someone, he could easily be hurt, which is part of the reason he tries not to get close to anyone. When he is rejected initially he just gets mad and buries the anger inside. If he gets hurt later, though, he can fall apart. His obsessive personality means that he spends days wondering what he did wrong and if he could have done something differently. He always promises himself that he won’t do that the next time, that he won’t have regrets, but he can’t help himself.
He is attracted to beautiful things and people. He collects rare and interesting pieces of artwork and sculpture without any regard for specific times or places. Kaspir enjoys the few times he finds someone who actually interests him on any level and goes out of his way to continue to interact with them.
By the same token as art, he enjoys good food. He is grateful for his money because it means he can enjoy the most exquisite foodstuffs.
Essentially, Kaspir is a moderate hedonist. He likes to indulge in the best, but he doesn’t spend his life wallowing in it. He enjoys working and the satisfaction of success too much to lose himself in sensory pleasures entirely.
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Background: Kaspir arrived in Edo during the last part of the Tokugawa Shogunate. He was quickly enamored with the pleasures available in the large city and with the wealth that could buy them. He wanted to be able to enjoy those things himself. His strange, foreign looks meant that he was not trusted enough to get hired by anyone, though. Because of that, Kaspir used some of his power to quietly build up a small trade business in the back alleys of the city. It took him years to gather enough capital to move into the streets themselves and set up a legitimate operation.
At the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Kaspir was fighting on the side of the Ishin Shishi for the Meiji Emperor. He saw the closed borders of the Tokugawa as a barrier to expanding his trade business. He also had a falling out with the daughter of a Tokugawa official. He turned the sadness into anger and used it to drive himself to attack the regime. Kaspir’s business was used to smuggle goods to the Patriots across the country. Kaspir himself was involved in several battles. Stories of inhuman warriors were based on many things, Kaspir being only a small part of them.
After the Restoration, Kaspir settled himself into the new capital of Tokyo and worked to rebuild his business. It had been devastated by the war and its use as a smuggling operation. It took him another decade just to restore it to where it had been before the revolution. It would take him twenty more years to reach the point where he could send out a ship to do business with the rest of the world. As the years passed, he steadily, and quietly, grew his trade empire, spreading through the world.
About fifty years ago, he decided that he was tired of living in Tokyo and so bought himself a house in Osaka. He used telephones and mail to run his business. Thanks to the creation of the computer and the internet, he has been able to have less and less contact with the world. He is beginning to regret that, though, as he has started to feel the effects of two centuries without a bond with another being and almost as long without a real relationship even without a bond.
Not only that, but his powers have begun to wane and he has no way to recharge them. He hates failure and sees weakening as an imperfection that he refuses to let happen. He has started to look for someone to fill the voids and he thinks he may have found them...
Roleplay Sample: Kaspir closed his eyes and felt his power reach out, searching for a compatible individual. He returned to the one he had found before, each time he got a little closer to her. This night he let himself flow to her dreams, touching them and sliding into them.
It took him some time to sort out what was happening in her mind. The message he was trying to send was garbled at first. But he was finally able to see the person he’d been circling for months. She was beautiful. He smiled slightly and knelt down beside her sleeping form.
“Look at me,” he purred into her ear. His eyes focused on her face, watching for changes. Her inner eye was looking at his dream-form. “I’m glad I found you, little one. I have been searching for a very long time for one like you.” His voice was soft, with a commanding edge.
“Soon it will be time,” he continued. His fingers touched the cheek of her dream-self. “I want you to help me, little one.” He searched her mind, looking for a name. In this vulnerable state he was able to reach limited parts of her mind. “I need you to help me.” He felt a shuddering roar in the ether and looked up to see a group of horrifying, red eyed beasts pour forth from the Demon world.
His voice took on a certain urgency as he managed to go on. “If you don’t help me, all of us may die.” He didn’t want to rush into this, but if he didn’t both he and the beauty he was with would be dead. “I need you to agree to bind yourself to me.” He was sure that his words were reaching her, but he suspected they were slightly altered. He didn’t have time to check. “It’s an ancient thing, older than you could ever know. It binds our souls forever. This bond will give me great power, little one, but with it will come a duty to you. I will protect you and care for you. We will be together, side by side.”
Kaspir looked around, the beasts were closing in. “Will you take this bargain? Bind us body and soul forever?”
Her voice was faint, “I will.”
He felt power crackle through his body as he rose up and tore the creatures apart moments before they could strike. He noticed that she had been awake this entire time and wondered what that meant. “Sleep, little one,” he murmured.
OOC
Name: Xun
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Roleplay Experience: On and off for ten years
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