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about.
Name Fabian Levasseur
Age 27
Born December 25
Sexuality Bisexual PB Luca Marinelli
Sexuality Bisexual PB Luca Marinelli
First impressions.
Visual. Tall, skinny, long arms, wide shoulders, big nose, sad face.
Fashion. Mostly dresses for comfort, lots of cargo pants and hiking boots and hoodies with plenty of pockets. In winter he might go for a thick knit sweater, in summer it's a plain t-shirt or something with a weird slogan on it that he got from a thrift store. It is almost impossible to imagine him dressing fancy, but he does consistently wear a little gold hoop in each ear.
Demeanor. Slouched shoulders, hands in pockets, rarely smiles, speaks in a flat monotone. His temperament is generally even and fair, even in arguments, so when he gets visibly and loudly angry you know you've really fucked up.
Abilities.
Skills. Well-versed in several forms of melee and distance combat. He's also intimately familiar with the workings of modern fare like guns and rifles, and prefers long-distance weapons, with which he's extremely deadly. He also knows a whole host of languages (some less than others, since he's mostly forgotten the older languages he no longer has to speak) and is very good at paper folding.
Superpowers. Necrokinesis, specifically the ability to manipulate dead tissue. Fabian was born with this ability. When he was younger, he was able to reverse necrosis in humans, animals and plants, though for reasons beyond his understanding he has lost that ability. All he has now is the ability to cause necrosis, which can eventually lead to death – by touching someone or something living, he causes dead tissue to spread out from the touch. In itself, this can be dealt with, though extensive damage can only be solved by removing the afflicted areas entirely (e.g. a limb with significant fully dead tissue would have to be amputated), but someone with supernatural healing abilities could reverse this entirely. Someone experiencing extended exposure to Fabian's touch will eventually die, though he can 'burn out' on the ability due to overuse. The power is something he has full control over so it only happens when he wants it to, though he finds it repulsive and hates to use it.
Limitations. Besides his power and the the fact that when he dies he's reborn into a new life, he's entirely mortal and equivalent to a human in every other way. He can theoretically be hurt or killed in any way a human being can.
History.
A long, long time ago a group of knights, all of whom had been born with supernatural abilities, set out on a quest to find and destroy the Book of the Damned, a tome with the potential to destroy their world. However, upon finding the book, one of their number betrayed them, taking the Book for their own to further their own goals. The rest of the knights made a pact that they would stop the betrayer by any means possible, even if they had to stop them in death; unbeknownst to the group, they had made the pact on sacred ritual grounds, imbuing their pledge with power.
As they chased their betrayer, the knights slowly began to fall in the fight, until there was only one left – and when the last died, the pact triggered, and a new cycle in a new world was begun. The knights were reborn, again and again, and their only solution was to find each other, attempt to find their betrayer, and die in the process.
Fabian was not highborn like many of the other knights; instead, despite his lowborn status, he was welcomed into the group because of his skills in battle, and forged relationships with the others in fire. He began with determination and principle, but over the many hundreds of years and due to many losses he has steadily become more and more misanthropic, resentful of the task he and his friends have been tied to for so long. In his current life, he was raised by a single mother and fell in with a bad crowd as a teenager to support them both financially. He still keeps in contact with her, even now that he's found his friends again and they've set off in search of the Book once more.
As they chased their betrayer, the knights slowly began to fall in the fight, until there was only one left – and when the last died, the pact triggered, and a new cycle in a new world was begun. The knights were reborn, again and again, and their only solution was to find each other, attempt to find their betrayer, and die in the process.
Fabian was not highborn like many of the other knights; instead, despite his lowborn status, he was welcomed into the group because of his skills in battle, and forged relationships with the others in fire. He began with determination and principle, but over the many hundreds of years and due to many losses he has steadily become more and more misanthropic, resentful of the task he and his friends have been tied to for so long. In his current life, he was raised by a single mother and fell in with a bad crowd as a teenager to support them both financially. He still keeps in contact with her, even now that he's found his friends again and they've set off in search of the Book once more.
Personality.
At first one of the most principled and idealistic of the knights, Fabian has over the years become prone to misanthropy and disillusioned with their task, as the memories of his past lives have become memories of his failures. He was born with the ability to cause and heal necrosis in living things, though over the years his ability to reverse it has waned almost entirely through overuse of its other half; all he can do now is cause damage and decay, something he realised much too late after he attempted to heal his then-wife, Magda, in an earlier cycle and instead caused her death. Since then he's been distant, detached and miserable, prone to alcoholism and recklessness, and often more of a thorn in the side of the group than anything useful. The pain of remembering his previous lives and once again enduring the agony of loss at his own hands grows steadily more intolerable for him, pushing him further and further into depression, which can sometimes spear off into resentment of his friends. On several occasions he's even vowed to forget the task he pledged to fulfil all those years ago, though in the end something always brings him back.
Fabian's biggest stumbling block, despite the veneer of uncaring misanthropy soused in alcohol that he projects to the world, is that he cares too much. He's often one of the first (or only) of their group to forge relationships with mortals in each new life, because he loves easily and loves hard, and he never seems to learn his lesson. Magda's death was a turning point for him, since it turned his disillusionment in the goal into burning self-hatred – but he also hasn't really learned from it, since he still holds onto attachments from each new life and finds it difficult to shed them once he remembers his true self. He still, for example, deeply cares for his mother in the cycle he's living now, and has fond memories of previous family even when they should be irrelevant to him.
On a surface level, Fabian's motivations are in theory to find the Book and then destroy it. In practice, he often deviates from this motivation and has done so repeatedly over the years – on several occasions, including the life where he was married to Magda, he at first refused to join the other knights even when they did find him, essentially giving up on the task. When he does return to them, it's either because he has nowhere else to go or because he's so miserable that he's convinced himself that joining with them again will possibly lead to a swifter death for him. And sometimes, when his resentments are particularly strong, he will turn them on his friends, begrudging them for their privileges and their idealism.
In spite of all that, Fabian is more than just his misery. He has a very dry, caustic wit and loves to banter, and he's often relied on to make critical judgements on face value without being rude or cruel about it. He doesn't have a deceptive bone in his body; what you see is what you get with him. In that sense he's very uncomplicated and easy to understand: he wants love, safety and comfort. It's all he's ever wanted, really.
Fabian's biggest stumbling block, despite the veneer of uncaring misanthropy soused in alcohol that he projects to the world, is that he cares too much. He's often one of the first (or only) of their group to forge relationships with mortals in each new life, because he loves easily and loves hard, and he never seems to learn his lesson. Magda's death was a turning point for him, since it turned his disillusionment in the goal into burning self-hatred – but he also hasn't really learned from it, since he still holds onto attachments from each new life and finds it difficult to shed them once he remembers his true self. He still, for example, deeply cares for his mother in the cycle he's living now, and has fond memories of previous family even when they should be irrelevant to him.
On a surface level, Fabian's motivations are in theory to find the Book and then destroy it. In practice, he often deviates from this motivation and has done so repeatedly over the years – on several occasions, including the life where he was married to Magda, he at first refused to join the other knights even when they did find him, essentially giving up on the task. When he does return to them, it's either because he has nowhere else to go or because he's so miserable that he's convinced himself that joining with them again will possibly lead to a swifter death for him. And sometimes, when his resentments are particularly strong, he will turn them on his friends, begrudging them for their privileges and their idealism.
In spite of all that, Fabian is more than just his misery. He has a very dry, caustic wit and loves to banter, and he's often relied on to make critical judgements on face value without being rude or cruel about it. He doesn't have a deceptive bone in his body; what you see is what you get with him. In that sense he's very uncomplicated and easy to understand: he wants love, safety and comfort. It's all he's ever wanted, really.
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