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Samuel Bates

Name:
Samuel Bates
Nick Names:
Alias:

❧Physical Characteristics
Age:
18
Hair:
Black, mid-length
Eyes:
Gone
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Scars, Birthmarks, Tattoos:
Scars all over the area around his eyes, from when his fosters tore them out.
Height:
6'
Weight:
170
Marital Status
Single
Orientation:
Straight

❧Personal Info
❖Transcripts:
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral
Current Occupation:
Wandering necromancer who puts spirits to rest.
Family:
Gone
Lovers, Friends, and Others:
The ghost of a small child who follows him around, whom he's named Lily

❖Personal:
Personality:
He's a bit of a sarcastic d**k if you say anything stupid. He can be a nice guy if he thinks you deserve it... Or if you're pretty enough. Even if you're a straight 10, though, he'll be a d**k if you're stupid or mean. His favorite pasttime is ripping into people who deserve it.
Fears:
He has plenty of fears, most of them involving bodily harm. He's not a fan of physical pain, although he is no stranger to abuse. He's also afraid of losing people he cares about.
Favorites:
Loves food. Food is great. And rock music. Really, any kind of music. But mostly rock.

❧Skills,Abilities, and Powers
Skills:
He's quite a good cook, and can read Braille. Only braille, unfortunately. He's also quite adept at improvising medical procedures with dark magic.
Abilities:
He's a decent fighter with his staff. Has pretty good instincts and his reflexes are a lot faster than most people's.
Powers:
He's a natural sorcerer, so magic in general comes naturally to him. His specialties, however, are the following:

Necromancy- the ability to reanimate a lifeless body. The body's soul is still gone, however the body itself retains most of the soul's personality for unknown reasons, called the "Echo Effect." If the body's Echo is strong enough, it might even resist the necromancer who summoned it.

Umbrikinesis- the ability to physically manipulate darkness in a manner of ways; being an undefined state of matter, darkness can take on more or less whatever physical properties suit his purposes. Within reasonable limits, of course. While he could turn his own shadow into a bullet-proof shield for a time, even with all the shadows in the world he wouldn't be able to save himself from a nuke.

Mediumship- the ability to see and communicate with ghosts.

Atmokinesis- the ability to influence or directly manipulate the weather and/or atmosphere. In Sam's case, it's very slight and he can't do much more than summon up a stray lightning bolt every once in a while.

Conjuring- the ability to summon beings from other planes of existence, usually spiritual or demonic.

Dark Foresight- while in darkness, not only is Samuel's sight returned to him... He's granted glimpses of the future. Vague, of course, and mere flashes that are often meaningless... But still. Can be useful.

Weaknesses:
His abuse left him with lots of trust issues towards everyone, but women in particular. However, his own subconscious defense mechanism is to hit on everything female.
Technology/Weapons/Pharpenilia:
His staff, any shadows in the vicinity, and of course his precious iPod.

History
Bio:
Samuel was born in North Carolina, but on the way home from the hospital the night of his birth, there was a terrible accident that killed both his parents. He was the sole survivor of the crash, and some time later was adopted by two lovely foster parents. And by lovely, of course, I mean abusive, drug-peddling hoodlums who were using him to get government money. And then, when their drug-running got them into a touch of trouble with some gangs, they fled the country. Went to Spain. At this time, Sam was eight.

Their life in Spain wasn't too bad- the abuse continued, but at least now there was a lot less danger of being murdered by a drug-lord finding out he was being cheated. Considering no one in the family knew Spanish, they were mostly left out of a lot of things, and life was a little tougher that way. But then the drugs started back up; this time, it was his fosters being the users. And it was serious s**t too, PCP and the like. One night during a particularly angry series of drugs, his father, fork in hand, paid Sam a visit in his room. Screaming various obscenities, he jabbed out one of Sam's eyes with the fork. In the process of running away, his mother managed to put a sizable gash into the other eye with a steak-knife, effectively blinding Sam. As a result, he wandered the world without sight. Blind, he met up with some friendly people who helped him around. With his friends, he survived without sight.

Until his thirteenth birthday. On that fateful night, he was granted sight for the first time in years- just in time to watch his friends, who he'd been traveling with for some odd five years now, die right in front of him... At the hands of his deranged fosters, who'd hunted him down to keep him from ratting them out. Which hadn't even been a part of his plans- but their drug-addled minds drove them to commit that horrible atrocity, murdering the only friends he'd ever had. He ended them swiftly, without mercy, driving a spike through his foster mother and then resurrecting her and ordering her body to murder his foster father. He saw his friend's souls watch his moment of triumph, and fade into the afterlife. Since then, he's wandered around, putting to rest any soul that can't move on, and just trying to get along. Mostly nocturnal, since that's the only time he can see.

...For the second time!

Profile will be relocated to the Approved Profiles subforum. And quit looking so hot, Samuel! xd