ACTIVE Adonis

[Soran Nightblade]

1) Name: Adonis

2) Gender: Male

4) Race: Unicorn

5) Job/Class: Black Mage

6) Appearance: Adonis’s true form is that of a black Arab stallion, 16 hands tall, with a long, pitch black mane and tail and black hooves marbled with ivory. His horn, however, no longer appears, covered instead by a sharply cut obsidian stone in the center of his forehead.

Though this is his proper form, Adonis chooses to remain in a human form: a thin man of about six feet, neither muscular nor weak, with fair skin. He has waist-length ebon hair which is half the length in the front. The front hangs loose, while the rest is tied back tightly. A thin gold band with the same obsidian stone in the center is worn across his forehead. His eyes are brown-black and strangely alluring, making others instinctively want to open up to him, but they also contain a dark hardness, even viciousness. His other features are delicate and sharply angled.

He wears a long, unusual black silk shirt with a mandarin collar that hangs open in a V down to the center of his chest, ‘laced’ closed by thick knifelike steel pins. The sleeves have jagged cuts running from the shoulder down, resembling bolts of lightning, held closed at several points by more steel pins until they fall open below the forearm. A similar jagged cut runs down the left front of the shirt, beginning below his pectoral and hanging loose past his waist. He wears loose brown slacks below this and black boots.

7) Power: Adanis’s healing powers were cut in half after performing the once-only ritual of bringing a human being back to life. After that, he lost his healing power completely by corrupting his soul through the practice of forbidden magic, and can now only heal himself. He retains the ability to detect strong emotions in others, and his speed and agility are significantly higher than those of a normal human.

Despite his loss of the Forest Goddess’s blessing, he possesses great magical potential, and has channeled this from its original purpose to that of black magic. He has the ability to cause a deadly and rapid illness that kills victims, be they man or beast, with a very short time, with no external symptoms. The curse causes disorientation, faintness and body aches, paralysis, and finally death. He also has the ability to commit acts of violence or restraint upon enemies without actually touching them by acting out the attack from a distance, though the effectiveness of this attack depends on the strength of the target’s will to break free of the magic’s hold. The chance of escape through willpower, however, is decreased by his charisma and manipulative ability, making the latter powers his most dangerous. He would normally be limited to the magical power absorbed from the forest, but has located a new source for his power – the stone he wears on his forehead.

8) Weaknesses: Adonis’s fate is bound to that of the human he revived, who now possesses half of his own life force. Whatever happens to him, happens to Adanis in terms of life force. He can be injured like anyone else, healing himself only slowly. He retains the unicorn’s weakness against blood, and becomes dizzy, ill, or even paralyzed in its presence. He is unskilled at hand to hand combat and normally gets a human to deal with such things in his stead. Another weakness he struggles to destroy is his persisting instinct to protect. Witnessing harm coming to others is traumatic to him despite all he has done to destroy such inclinations, and their refusal to abate increases his hatred for humanity all the more.

9) Biography: Adonis was born in the same part of the forest as Telanis, and though they were approximately the same age, Telanis took the role of an older brother to Adonis. They were always together, both pure and innocent of the pains of the world, protecting the forest and all who dwelt in or passed through it. Many, many years passed this way until Adonis met a human man lying in the path unconscious. He and Telanis aided the traveler, who was named Erik, but the young man they’d helped was not interested in proceeding to the village like the others had been. He had come not to seek travel, but a source of excitement separate from the human society he was used to. Adonis was exactly the miracle Erik was looking for, and he immediately became attached to the unicorn. The two unicorns, who had helped humans but never made permanent companions of them, were not sure what to do with him at first, but Erik’s personality was friendly and spirited, and he became like a second brother to Adonis.

It happened one day, however, that while they were walking over a high ridge they often passed through, the ground gave way and a landslide sent Erik down amongst heavy boulders to crash into the river. Adonis and Telanis searched for him for some time, and when they finally found him being swept along in the current and pulled him out, he was at his last thread of life, and died quickly despite Adonis’s attempts to heal him. Adanis was overwhelmed with grief and without hesitating or discussing it with Telanis, he performed the life-giving ritual that would cripple his powers for the rest of his life and nullify his immortality.

Things almost returned to normal after that, but Erik became more and more unsatisfied with life in the forest, and wanted to return to the village. Torn between Erik and Telanis, Adonis chose to go with Erik and pursue a life in human form. Unfortunately, Erik quickly forgot his bond with Adanis after returning to the village, indulging in a reckless lifestyle of alchoholism, promiscuous private life, and complete refusal to settle down to a job. The once-pure Adonis was forced to endure all these things with his literal soulmate, their experiences connected, and both their lives became weak. Erik saw Adonis as a sort of pet, with whom he could do as he pleased. Finally, Erik crossed the line by attempting to pawn off Adonis to a mercenary group as an on-site healer, all for the sake of a gambling debt. Terribly weak against blood and disliking the mercenaries’ customs, Adonis could not bear to take up this profession, and for the first time he was forced to refuse Erik his wish. Erik was infuriated by this and drew a sword against Adonis, and this act of betrayal finally broke the unicorn’s sanity.

Horrified by human beings and their traitorous natures, he took control of the situation and locked Erik away, consumed by hatred against all humans. Why should they exist to protect such disgusting beings? The only way to end their parasitism on unicorns was to destroy them all. He decided to recruit his brother to assist him in this mission, but Telanis was unwilling, saddened by his brother’s changed personality. This final betrayal hurt Adonis the most, though he had been the one to leave Telanis alone in the forest, and Adonis took up a second mission. He would destroy mankind, but only after he proved to his brother what they truly were. For this purpose, he bargained his soul to a powerful enchanted stone (the one on his forehead) in exchange for the power of black magic and began systematically turning villagers against Telanis with disgusting ease by causing plagues, harming crops, and instigating rumors. He knows Telanis better than anyone else, and will stop at nothing to bring his lost brother to his side, even if it means subjecting him to pain and misery.

10) Personality: Adonis is extremely charming and charismatic, and people feel a natural desire to believe in him and follow his advice. His heart has been twisted by betrayal, hopelessness, and hatred, but these elements of his personality are remarkably well hidden beneath a calm, friendly exterior.

[Kyosuke]

Whee, I approve of this character.

[Emora Deen]

I totally approve!!!