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PLAYER

NAME: Heather
CONTACT: discord: vikael
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: I can be very slow, but I try to get to my tags at least 3 times a week
BRACKETS/PROSE: Either is fine, but prose will take me a little longer
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS TO AVOID: I will not play out a rape/non-con plot. I'm fine with discussion in character with warnings

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: You have no idea how awkward he'll be, but you're welcome to show him physical affection.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: He can a a right bastard and it's to be expected people will want to punch him. Be prepared for him to punch back.
RELATIONSHIPS: He is Nadya-Sexual, but if you want to develop a crush what is wrong with you go right ahead
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: He doesn't have any protections against it, but his mind is a very chaotic, broken place so we should discuss what they would hear/see/feel
MAGICAL INFORMATION: He will not have access to any of his magic or god abilities, but he might regain some of them in a small way
MEDICAL INFORMATION: He's am amputee, missing the lower half of his left leg just below the knee. Otherwise, he's also prone to anxiety and picks at his cuticles to the point of bleeding pretty regularly
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CHARACTER: Child experimentation, body horror, bloodletting, violence, murder, cults

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING: I am a queen of backtagging, so it is always welcome
THREADHOPPING: I prefer a warning and an asking first
FOURTHWALLING: Please no
NOT INTERESTED IN: anything goes outside my exclusions above

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL:Striking, sharp features, he's described as tall and thin. His movements are birdlike at times, and he has the eyes of a predator. He has black, unkempt hair, eyes so light blue they're nearly colorless, and three vertical black lines tattooed on his forehead.
AURAL: His voice is described as distinct, slightly condescending, and rich. I imagine it's a deeper baritone.
OLFACTORY: In his own world, he would smell like blood and ash, but here, mostly like he doesn't bathe quite often enough.
DEMEANOUR: Birdlike, but he also moves with a languid sort of motion, as though he often has all the time in the world; then other times like there is no time for anything. He can be frenetic both in mannerism and in outward demeanor. He can also have a casual cruelty that makes him seem like a monster, or be a charming conversationalist. It really depends on his mood and what his intentions are.

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Lab of Nature | Application

OOC INFORMATION
Name: Heather
Contact: discord: vikael
Permissions: here!
Age: Well over 18 (40)
Other characters?: n/a
Who Invited you?: ta da~

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Malachiasz Czechowicz
Assigned Nickname: The Black Vulture
Age: 18
Canon: Something Dark and Holy trilogy by Emily A. Duncan
Canon point: the Epilogue of Book 3, Blessed Monsters
Character Information: A wiki, but it's lacking. I'll touch on the major plot beats here:

In Ruthless Gods, Malachiasz struggles quite a bit with the literal god he's become, Nadya and the others travel to the forbidden forest of the gods in order to stave off the Old God, Chyrnog, Nadya accidentally awoke in Tranavia along with Malachiasz who they need to open the way to the forest because of his divinity. Nadya, manipulated by her own goddess, destroys Blood Magic, eliminating Travania's source of power and weakening them immensely. Out of revenge and a desire to free Nadya from the yoke of the gods, Malachiasz kills Marzenya, Nadya's patron goddess. Chyrnog manipulates Serefin into stabbing Malachiasz with a relic blade capable of killing a god in order to offer the chaos deity an deal he can't refuse. Malachiasz is so hungry for power, though, that he doesn't take that much convincing to be resurrected as Chyrnog's vessel.

Blessed Monsters sees the Gods of the Pantheon using the godtouched Nadya to help free a resurrected Malachiasz from the clutches of Chyrnog before he's able to devour the world and everything, god and mortal alike, in it. In the course of this quest, Nadya learns that she has to find Malachiasz soul and return it to him, cut Chyrnog from his spirit and being, and return his soul to him. After a triumphant defeat of the world devouring entity which left both of them with missing pieces both figuratively and literally (Malachiasz is missing the lower part of his left leg below the knee for example), they returned to Tranavia, with Nadya hoping to foster peace between their nations, and Malachiasz returning to his Vultures and helping his brother, the king, to bring together the dwindling threads of magic in their kingdom and hopefully to return some of its former glory.

Personality: You may pick five words from the list below to expand upon as your personality section of the application. Elaborate on what this word means to your character, specifically their thoughts about it. Keep the word count to 100-300 per choice, please!

► Power

Power is the driving force in many of Malachiasz's decisions, be it the power to protect Tranavia, the power to overcome the gods of Kalyazin, the power to destroy the gods themselves, the power to become a god, or something power for power's sake, always he has sought more. His curiosity often borders on obsession, and even more often surpasses it, leading him through doors best left close, into books best left unread, and across borders best left uncrossed. There is no limit to the extent he will go to attain more power, save one: with his soul restored, he is no longer willing to sacrifice Nadya to achieve his goals. In all else, he will do whatever is necessary to seize the power he seeks, if for no reason than to know, even if the knowing is akin to madness. He would argue madness claimed him long ago, in the absolute dark of the Salt Mines, where pain became his first power.

► Regret

Regret is something with which Malachiasz is intimately familiar. He regrets introducing the idea of godhood to the king of Tranavia, catapulting the entire downfall of Blood Magic and even the knowledge of it in the first place. He regrets becoming a god of chaos, making him attractive to Chyrnog. He regrets his own overconfidence at the idea he could control the Old God of entropy and resist the urge to devour everything until there was nothing left. He regrets deceiving the beautiful and infuriating Kalyazi girl and betraying her trust. He regrets discarding his soul like a useless accessory, he even at times regrets allowing himself to grow fond of her, though he wouldn't take it back either. Regret is a complicated thing for him. He feels remorse for his actions, but wouldn't change them, even if it damned the world.

► Family

All rules have exceptions and for Malachiasz, that exception is Family. He would betray anything, anyone to achieve his goals, except those he has pulled closest to him. For a while, that only numbered the Vultures, the cultish clan of assassins he was restructured into. They and the Salt Mines in which they were mutated, tortured, and reborn were all he'd known and all he'd held loyalty to. Since regaining his soul, finding love, however tenuous, with Nadya, finding his blood brother and friends in two foreigners who'd trusted him when they'd really had no business to, that umbrella of concern has grown and he would do anything to see them safe, even if means deceiving them for their own good (at least what he believes is for their own good). He can be devilishly stubborn when he thinks he's right, which is most of the time.

Family is the fulcrum he uses to center himself when his madness spirals out of control, it is the compass that steers him back home when he's gone astray. Without family, Malachiasz is lost.

► Death

Death is a transient concept for Malachiasz and it always has been. He has only hazy memories of life before the Salt Mines, the perfect dark in which new Vultures are born and those who fail to change perish. His earliest memories are of the screams echoing through those chambers, of blood, and smells of worse, of pain and release. He's died himself, twice now; once to be reborn a god and a second time to become something worse: a creature of hunger fighting for control of a body of chaos. To Malachiasz, Death is a transition, from one state to another, and an awakening, to knowledge, eldritch and mysterious and all the more desirable for its enigmatic nature. It is also beauty, perfect in its finality and its brutality. Death is blood and ash and all things that come at the end but it is also rebirth into another form or some unimaginable next life, not because of the gods, but to spite them.

► Monsters

Monster is a term with which Malachiasz is intimate; he did become one. But what is a monster? Is it a being willing to sacrifice the small to further the ends of the great? If so, then any clergyman so devoted could be labeled thus. Is it a creature so lowly it cares not who it consumes for want of satisfaction or simply stimulation? So many beasts of the forest would be called monsters if it were so simple. No, monster is a label thrust upon another, an all-encompassing moniker to denote what one sees as vile, corrupted, callous and unfeeling perhaps, but ruthless certainly; to describe a creature whose motivations they cannot fathom, and who would destroy them if given the chance. It is a label given to objects to be feared, to rulers to be reviled, to gods to be cast down or cast out, to rots needing excision, to give a target to the vilified. So simple and so dismissive to label someone or something a monster.

Roommates?: I would prefer only one, but two is fine also!

Triggers/sensitive topics you'd like to avoid?: Nonconsensual things of a sexual nature, and Cancer makes me really uncomfortable so being forced into a plot with it would not be fun. I'm fine if it comes up in tags, though, I just don't want to play out something with it in game.

RP SAMPLES: One and two because the second one has responses