Devin ✣ Vincent ✣ Sinclair
Age: 25
Race: Severely Tainted Human
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Job/Profession: Hitman
Fighting skills: Proficient with a pistol and a switchblade; also versed in hand-to-hand combat, particularly in takedowns.
Supernatural ability: Connection to a guardian Lesser Demon; he bears the demon’s mark, some sort of arachnid, on his right shoulder. The connection causes him to give off a dark, unsettling aura, and has resulted in several unusual handicaps as he’s aged, including a severe contact allergy to glass, putting out light sources he comes too close to, an inability to comprehend any sort of time-telling device (though he still understands the concept of time), and most recently developing selective mutism, occasionally becoming unable to speak until the person he is conversing with says the correct trigger word, which seems to be constantly changing (he can still communicate non-verbally), or until the conversation is over.
Other skills: List at least three
Never forgets a face once he’s seen it, nor where he saw it; this includes photos.
Efficient at covering up crime scenes or other such unpleasantries.
An excellent intimidator, even of non-human entities. He can't intimidate everyone, though; he's only human, after all.
Description (with words): Devin is a tall, lean man of about 6’4’’. His hair is artificially dyed a metallic silver, though it is naturally blonde, and falls down to his chin, his long bangs commonly falling in front of his face. His grayish-blue eyes are often far more expressive than the rest of his face. There is a large black tattoo-like mark on his right shoulder of some sort of arachnid, though it’s definitely not anything that exists on Earth. His clothing of choice is usually jeans and a casual button-up shirt covered with a long-sleeved jacket.
Personality: Devin is a quiet man who largely keeps to himself; whether this is out of preference or due to his dark aura pushing people away isn’t entirely clear. He has no respect for traditional authority; his respect is earned. No exceptions. He has little regard for human and non-human life, but at the same time he takes no particular pleasure in killing; it’s simply part of his job.
Devin may become violent when provoked; how much it takes to provoke him really depends on the day and the situation. His violence can range from attempting to choke the person who provoked him to outright drawing a gun on them. He is, usually, slow to anger, but he is also slow to calm down afterwards; he may literally need to be pulled off of someone before he’ll finally begin to calm down.
Despite his somewhat tough demeanor, Devin is somewhat insecure when it comes to dealing with others; he knows how fragile his human body is compared to other creatures, and often gets nervous when traversing through the Shade, despite him doing so on a regular basis. As a result, he is most comfortable when he knows his guardian demon is nearby, relying on the mental connection the two share to comfort himself in dangerous situations. He may become very nervous if for whatever reason he cannot feel the connection between himself and the demon, or otherwise senses that the demon is not nearby.
Backstory: Devin’s connection with his guardian demon began at birth, a condition of a contract his parents signed with the demon: Their child would be protected from the threats of their very dangerous neighborhood, but in return he would also gain a mental link with the being that would grow stronger as he aged. The contract was not particularly specific as to what this mental link would mean, but it became evident as Devin got older that there was something…off about him. Other children seemed to fear him without cause, he unnerved his teachers despite never having acted up in class, and most perplexing he would scream in agony if he so much as touched anything made of glass. These issues eventually got severe enough that Devin had to be homeschooled, further isolating him from others his age.
Devin became actively aware of the demon that walked in his shadow when he was ten years old, when it began speaking to him in his mind and visiting him in his room soon afterwards; while he was initially terrified by the being, he eventually began to view the demon as a comforting presence, as well as the only human or non-human that didn’t seem to be bothered by his own presence. It was around this time that his unusual handicaps began multiplying: putting out lightbulbs and candles at age ten, losing his ability to understand clocks at age eighteen, and developing his selective mutism at age twenty-four. The whole time, his dark, unsettling aura continued to intensify, to the point where his own parents couldn’t stand to be around him anymore due to powerful feelings of uneasiness. His guardian demon became his only consistent company, and he gradually became more dependent on the dark being as his handicaps got worse.
Devin’s job as a hitman started when he was nineteen, oddly enough after answering to a classified ad in a less-savory printed publication; he now advertises his services via subtle fliers in the parts of town where they’d be appreciated. He does not deal with his clients in person; the only contact he ever has with them is over the phone or in writing. He has been known to do jobs both on the surface and within the Shade, and as a result he is quite familiar with the types of creatures that linger beneath the city.
Fears:The day when his guardian demon’s influence over him overwhelms his free will.
At the same time, fears his guardian demon not being there when he needs it.
Flaw: Aside from his various taint-induced handicaps, Devin has a hard time conversing with people in a calm, rational manner once he’s become provoked, preferring to express his displeasure with a hand around the other person’s throat rather than words.
Miscellaneous: Devin has been slinking around in the Shade a lot more often than normal in recent months, at the request of his guardian demon. He has no idea what it is the being wants him to look for; it only tells him “he’ll know it when he sees it”.
Devin's guardian demon has been described as a mixture of humanoid and some sort of alien arachnid. It wields a form of magic that resembles shadows and dark wisps of energy, which may manifest itself around Devin when it is particularly close; Devin cannot, however, actually wield whatever manifests around him - this is just the demon projecting some of its magic around the young man, using Devin as a form of focus. Even if the demon does not project its magic when approaching, Devin may begin to act very oddly when it draws near; his eyes may go oddly out of focus, his speech patterns may become erratic, or he may begin to shake violently for no apparent reason.
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