Post by Matthias on Jul 16, 2017 7:41:08 GMT
Name: Matthias Ezer Omri
Nickname(s): Ezer
Played by: Lia-m
Age: 20
Date of Birth: August 5th
Sexuality: bisexual
Practice: half dragon, half Scholar and Sky Mage each.
Loyalty: None
Status/Occupation: mercenary, ex-slave
Abilities:
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Inkstone: Ability to turn one ink into any other type of ink.
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Replicated: Ability to create perfect forgeries of documents or drawn artwork.
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Doodle: Ability to animate or otherwise move drawings over a surface.
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Facepaint: Ability to completely disguise the appearance of someone by painting their face to look like the desired disguise.
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Animate Reality: Ability to make drawings of objects into real, permanent things. For instance, the drawing of a plate could be made into a real plate.
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Artistic Realism: The ability turn non-living, non-magical objects into ink drawings. The character must have a surface to project these on to.
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Replicate: Ability to 'bring art to life'. Art shaped like humanoids or animals can be animated and given simple tasks. They have no sentience and once their designated task has been completed they return to their 2D form.
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Self Portrait: Ability to turn oneself into a 2D image and move around surfaces.
Appearance: Matthias is a strong man, somewhere between being brawny and skinny and standing at 6'11”. He has moderately tan white skin unmarred by scars thanks to his healing factor but decorated heavily with tattoos. His face is heart-shaped with gentle features, at odds with his generally dower expression. He has dark gray eyes shot through with flecks of deep blue under heavy eyebrows. He has blond hair streaked through with white that Matthias usually keeps long enough to be tied back into a short ponytail. His face is naturally pretty hairless but he had a near-invisible fuzz of platinum blonde sideburns. The hair on his chest, groin, arms, and legs are all of a matching near-white as the hair of his beard.
Since he is a half dragon he has draconic claws, blood, and a tail. 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 of the same coloration as the rest of his scales large enough for him to fly with at will, thanks to a gift from the goddess Earwin.
Tattoos:
A braided leather whip down his spine.
A swordbreaker dagger across the back of his right upper thigh.
A fancy saber down the front of his right leg with dragons carved around the hilt.
His artifact, a brilliant red feather quill, is tattooed across his left index finger and out to his wrist.
Personality: Matthias is a cold person. He's inexpressive, stubborn, and more often than not impulsive to boot. He's unfriendly and finds it hard to adjust to new people, and generally he considers most people to be hazardous until proven otherwise. And, frankly, he has good reason to. He was a slave and then a prisoner and those aren't really conditions that breeds kindness, and old habits die hard. He's standoffish by default and slow to trust, usually assuming someone has an ulterior motive.
Matthias is practical, and ruthless when called for. He is trying to be kind man because of his admiration of Rosalind but he's no healer. Instead, Matthias has decided he's going to save as many slaves as he can. He uses his powers to forge documents of freedom and cover brands. He's fought vampires to take their food-slaves and killed the drivers of slave caravans. That's his mission, his way to make the world a better place. And he's willing to die trying.
He has a long standing fear of both dogs and horses.
Pets:
Anoki the quetzalcoatl. He's 35 foot long emerald green snake with bright red eyes. The feathers of his wings and grown are a mix of yellow, teal, and pale green.
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 friend of Lidia’s slaver – one Mr. Landon Thompson. 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. His half-brother.
Matthias shared many things with his brother. A same wet-nurse, a same face, a same voice . . . aside from Clive's green eyes to Matthias' gray and dirty blonde to golden blonde they might well be identical twins. But one was the heir to wealth and the other was a slave. Whatever comradery they shared as infants was gone by the time they were toddlers, and had grown to a tremendous dislike by the time they were five. Clive's mother, and shortly following Clive himself considered Matthias a threat.
They 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 managed to form something of a friendship with the only other young slave in the household, a shifter named Pontius a few years his senior.
It was easy to be dutiful when you had to be, and Matthias knew the alternative was so much worse. He was smart and cunning, and determined to survive.
At least until the day he was thrown from a horse and cracked his head.
After that he wasn't really himself anymore. It was only because of the quick actions of a nearby sorcerer that he even survived at all, and he drifted through his life like a child dead already.
There was no light in his eyes, he was unresponsive and tired more often than not, his head always hurt, his ears were always ringing, he kept forgetting things . . . and he always felt so angry. He snapped at others and was beaten more often as a result. He was fed less too, and when Pontius was caught slipping him kitchen scraps he shared in Matthias' punishment. It was in that year that Matthias stopped looking like his brother. He was too gaunt and small, color faded from his skin and white began to streak his golden hair.
Matthias doesn't really remember what made him so mad at Clive. What he does know is that one winter night when they were nine Matthias took the poker he was using to tend to the fire and beat Clive's head with it until his half-brother stopped moving.
Pontius caught him and told him to run, but Matthias' head hurt and he was barely responsive, which ended with the both of them getting caught. Pontius was sold off to a lumber camp and Matthias was sent to prison until such a time as he was old enough to be executed publicly.
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. He was child, and a beautiful one at that locked with people waiting to die. And he didn't need to be kept well enough to serve and aid a master. Things were a living hell.
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 easy enough to slip past. 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 followed after 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 he didn't move round much and Matthias needed to move. He needed to explore and find food and he needed to see Rosalind fairly regularly. And . . . one day Derrek was no longer there. He wasn't anywhere. Matthias looked for years until he found and freed Pontius. He decided that if Derrek was gone then he needed to focus one what he had and very soon took on his childhood companion as a lover.