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Name: Edmond Nihls

Nicknames: Nihls

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Fav. Food: Baked Potatoes with everything.

Hated Food: Spicy food. ((Low tolerance for spicy food.))

Gift: The Parrot- While a lot of people would probably put a call that Nihls gift with the violin is what brought him to the school, it's not actually his greatest ability, and a little bit of study will actually reveal that his only skill with the violin is to parrot the masters. To a trained ear, his playing is lovely.... but is as soulful as if it were being produced by a machine.
His real gift is his ability to listen and observe. Quiet and reserved enough to occasionally be mistaken for outright cowardice, Nihls would rather think than fight, and he does that very well. Although he doesn't necessarily understand everything he sees, he has a well trained memory and can, similar to his performance with the violin 'parrot' things back later for someone who might actually be able to make sense of them. This also serves him very well in school, being able to recall trivia and cough it back up, more or less on command, though he may not even fully understand exactly what he's providing. Still, he's discovered that in most cases, people make an broad assumption that of course you must be able to understand what you can recite perfectly....

Virtues:

Gentleman Nihls is a rare creature these days. Among the headstrong, the stubborn, and the outright attitudinal, he's practically victorian. He'll open doors (unless protests are made), walk people home, always call his seniors and superiors Sir or Madam... and otherwise be as polite as possible, regardless of what he's -actually- thinking. After all, he's not the most physically powerful person out there, and the best defense is to be mistaken for being totally harmless.

Rapid Mimic: Nihls skills at mimicry cover a broad range, everything from language or conversations, to mannerisms, although he uses most of these to put up enough facade to be sufficiently average enough to vanish into the crowd. Simple traits may only take a few moments, enough to make a quick parody out of someone's actions, other more peculiar traits and behaviors may take more observation, but generally speaking, he can get there eventually.
His greatest downfall with this ability is Color. ((See below.))

Saint Francis While he'd rather vanish among other people, Nihls tends to get along well with animals. Maybe it's because they don't talk, or maybe because, generally speaking, most animals ((With a few small, whiskery examples he's never met...)), their motives and behaviors are much simpler to understand and infinitely less political. Animals are his great unwinding point, and he would happily turn his own dorm room into an animal sanctuary if he thought he could get away with it. He's occasionally been asked if he's ever considered becoming a Veterinarian, but the answer has always been no, he's not so keen on the sight of blood.


Flaws

Anachronistic Nihls was raised old fashioned.... and it shows. He's almost hopelessly out of touch with a lot of particularly modern things. He doesn't have, or know how to use, an I-pod. He can limp along with a computer... but he'd really rather use a pen or a typewriter, and the web... especially "Facebook" "Twitter" and "Live-journal"... well you might as well be speaking greek. Even his mimicry skills only limp him along so far regarding these contraptions, because frankly he's been convinced that they're not worth the effort to bother with.

Fashion Blind: Given his anachronism and Victorian Gentleman behavior... you'd really think that Nihls would have at least some vague sense of fashion, even if it tended to look a hundred years out of date, minimum. ...
He doesn't. The uniform is his saving grace, because outside of it, and outside of school regulations, everything goes to hell, and his clothing becomes a jumble of whatever happened to be on hand at the time. Much like trying to explain the appeal of facebook, any lectures on this sail neatly over his head.

Fully Colorblind An extremely rare condition, there are two actual versions of being fully color blind, but both leave the subject unable to see the world in terms of anything but gray-scale. This contributes to Nihls total lack of fashion sense, and occasionally frustrates him, because certain colors, rendered gray scale, appear black. For Nihls, 'colorful' is only for music... and occasionally other peoples language skills.
Unfortunately this condition is made even more difficult by rendering him night blind. Familiar locations aren't a problem, but he finds it frustrating... and undoubtedly will come to find it outright dangerous, to be navigating by what lights are available at night.

Current RPs:
-because "Cram Session has a 'special guest', I'm leaving these somewhat order ambiguous.

Cram Session: Vera and Nihls- with a guest star: the CREEPY DOOM RADIO.
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CrammingElle and Nihls
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Strays: Sue and Nihls