----Basic Information----
Mind behind the Character: Nebbia d Argento
Name: Virgil Byron Grindley
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Personality:
Virgil lives for the hunt as many other hunters. Yet his prime rules or goals in life are 3 and quite simple yet by no means easy.
[1] To achieve inmortality.
Immortality itself is a vague concept, yet the goal he seeks rather than living forever is that his legend lives on forever. To become immortal in the minds of all races. To live on in tales of thrill and glory.
Aiming always at the top/ toughest trial he could have at hand. Usually takes on higher risk jobs, even if they pay less than completing 3-100 easy jobs. only when nothing's available or that he's wounded enough to make a simple job challenging, Only then he goes for simpler jobs.
[2] To acquire wealth,fame and glory
Speaking of monetary value, it is worth mentioning that wealth does not overcome fame or glory. He wishes to build his empire on the spoils of worthy contracts. Yet Glory and Fame do overcome monetary wealth.
Calm in most of the time, at the very least while there are no jobs around worthy of his time, however as a challenge rises, he becomes anxious. The higher the challenge, the higher the hype for it. Yet he's smart enough not to bite more than he can chew. Should the challenge surpass him he'll instinctively start building himself until he's strong, smart or keen enough to undertake the trial. There's no glory in dying too early.
Grindley is rather confident in his skills. Confident enough to see their limitations, knowing how much is he reliable for the goal at hand given enough information.
Speaking of information, he's not the type of jumping "guns blazing" at the first sign of a worthy job. Should the chance arrive he's as meticulous as one could be. He doesn't want to get the job done he wants to nail it and stomp it like a pro.Because of this, the start of his jobs is rather slow given how thoughtful he is, considering all the details he might face. Mosty likely what could go wrong and what could fail him at any given time. This sets him to think quickly and improvise should the need arise.
However, once the preliminary process is done, things go rather quickly as if going down the hill. He's rather daring and adventurous once he's on the hunt. Reckless from time to time, but only cause he already prepared himself for the situation, and because he's fully committed into it, willing to face the consequences of underestimating the situation, only to test his ability to adapt and improvise.
Regarding his social skills, Virgil is rather adaptable, not the most talkative person if the topic does not fill his line of interest but if it's needed to obtain something, he'll go with the flow. Given the hunter's lonely nature he was able to fit with the clan with rather ease given people there only look for themselves. And exchange as little as they could about personal information.
As for serious relationships, being at work, with other clans or within his house. Virgil is rather formal in most places. Yet, when in need, he would adapt his personality should he need it on a mission. this had backfired at him plenty of times given some co-workers seemed to find funny to give him roles that put him out of his usual self. A player, a motivational speaker, the oddest job he had ever had to go through was a narcissist salesman in order to obtain intel of a fortress they were to invade. Most, odd experience in his life so far.
History:
Virgil was born in the netherworld. A humble mid class demon family. 4 brothers, 3 sisters, He was the one standing in the middle as number 4. Many siblings also meant many mouths that must be fed every day. So Her parents worked hard to provide for the family.
Sr. Byron Grindley was proud of the strength he was blessed and imbued every son he had to continue the path of the strongest. Forging them since kids to harness this power and exploit it. Which earned them enough credits to work on construction and manual labor. Especially when the manpower was easily covered by Sr. Byron Grindley alone. The sons, however, did haste the process.
Not much happened during Virgil's early life. Sure they were all famous but it was because of his father's name. Every kid in the family wished to make a name of their own, as to honor the family tradition imposed by Sr. Byron Grindley. Soon they were able to buy a terrain for their own. And build a castle out with their bare hands.
Sr. Byron Grindley and Virgil however, constructed Mrs. Grindley's garden. Strong walls on every corner, enough to protect the garden from the fury of the elements. In which Mrs. Grindley planted a different flower for each son and daughter.
While Virgil didn't think he had a meaningful task, given his brothers took much cooler roles like building an armory, training room and catacombs, Sr. Byron Grindley took his son to the terrace so he could witness the desolate land that surrounded the castle.
"Look around you" - Said Sr. Byron Grindley.
"We've conquered this desolated land with our hands. Your brothers had provided us with great assets but your task was nothing to be ashamed of. Look down, son. Beneath us lays your mother's garden. There is life in this dead land. Your hands build a fort to keep them from the storm and winds. And working this land to make it able to bear life. The strength of a man is nothing but brute force if it's not able to protect what's important for them... to protect the weak. Your loved ones, Your legacy. And with this garden, your mother's smile."
This talk had quite the impact on Virgil on different levels. Shortly after he started working on ways to improve himself but he never let his father's words go to waste. He would make a name for himself, a Legacy worth telling.
Becoming part of the Lumen hunters, he expects this new alliance would bring him closer to his dreams.
----General Information----
Race: Demon
Family:
NPC Occupation/Role: Lumen hunter, Intel gatherer, Botanist.
DWMA, DMA or Netherworld: Netherworld, yet as a hunter, he has many contractors from different alliances.
----Abilities and Techniques Information----
Mark of Lumen
- Each member has this ability, its shown from the symbol placed on their body. This mark allows the Lumen to locate each other as well as talk to each other telepathically, Grindley's mark is located above the left shoulder.
Flame Lance
- His lance is empowered with the fire element. Every slash and thrust is followed by a fiery explosion.
Freeze lancer
- His lance is empowered with the Ice element. Every slash and thrust is followed by ice chards that burst through on the attack's direction.
Engrave
- His lance is empowered with the Earth element. Making every move and earth-shattering blow. Which is slow at the start but with devastating consequences when landing.
Thunder Lance
- His lance is empowered with the Lightning element. Making every slash and thrust charged with powerful electricity, and summoning a powerful thunder to fall on the place the blade hit.
Specialist
- Grindley usually must wait for 5 posts before changing the element of his lance.
This move allows Grindley to summon up to 4 elemental lances, each with a different element which he can use freely with no restrictions (meaning fast Earth Lance) for a total of 5 posts per lance (each lance can only be used for 5 posts before disappearing.)
Specialist has a 50 post cooldown. ( can't be used at the start of the battle)
However, for every successful UNIQUE spear rotation (changing spears) the cooldown is reduced by 10 posts.Meaning up to 40 post cooldown reduction should all the spears are used in quick succession.
Once specialist is triggered, it's cooldown is reduced to 10 seconds (for mathematics/logical reasons)
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----Miscellaneous----
Hobbies:
- Raiding with friends (a fortress invasion game from his region)
- Take care of the Grindley family's garden.
Likes:
- Challenges
- Worthy opponents
- Camping
Dislikes:
- Overcrowded teams
- Uneven fights (in his favor)
- The Void.
Dreams & Aspirations:
- To become a Legend.
- [3] He has this dream to settle down one day, and have a family that could continue his legacy. However, to sustain such lifestyle, there's a need for a vast amount of resources in order to provide his family with all they need to achieve their greatest potential... that's why he's gathering his wealth.
Other:
He got his nicknames "Flower boy" and the most notorious "Anemone" because he always leaves an Anemone at the crime scene. It became his signature. It all started with flower boy since, well who brings flowers to a hunting? but given the fact he always carried and placed the same flower, a brilliant mind came with the flower's name as the nickname.
As for why the anemone? Well, there are clues on his Bio. Of course, he doesn't talk much about himself so In Character it's still a mystery why the Anemone... unless of course, you've visited Grindley's Castle.
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