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This is one of the characters I use most often.

Name:Shade
Race:Human
Age: not specified (appears to be around 20 to 30.)
Height: 5' 10"
Appearance: Silver blue hair, usually worn long. His eyes are the color of mercury. Voice sounds like the wind blowing through the leaves in autumn. Usually wears cloths in blue, black, or gray. Always wears a long gray coat with no pockets. He has a tattoo of a saphire dragon coiled around a moon the color of blood on the inside of his left arm.
Personality: Shade has a strong desire to help those who ask him for it. He generally treats battle as a game, and generally will not lose his temper, unless someone does something he percieves as "cheating". Should he fail to protect the ones he has chosen to guard he will relentlessly hunt down the ones responsible for causing them harm.
Powers, abilities, weapons, ect.: Shade uses the substance of shadows to form weapons and objects he needs. He also can use shadows to see, hear, touch, and travel to distant places or objects. This ability is limited by his stamina and how many people he takes with him. When he is fully rested he can travel through shadows on an average of six times in one day. He cannot use any of these abilities without a source of light, as shadow essance is not the same as darkness. This makes it hard for him to travel or fight at nighttime.

This is the short version, I will try to improve on it later. I would include a history, but I am still working on it. Your comments are appreciated, thank you for your help. I wouldn't mind some critique as it would help me improve my characters.

Gaia Name::: Shade264
Character Name::: Jack Spades
Age (12-25)::: 22
Gender::: Male
Position:::
Personality::::: Quiet, soft spoken, loyal, dangerous when angry.
Years at Sea::: 12
Weapons (Sword, pistol, dagger type of things. Max of 3)::: Staff, daggar, sword
Hometown (European or African country)::: England
Power or Alter Form (element, mind power, wolf form, ect. ONLY 1)::: He can alter the odds of almost anything in his favor or in the favor of another within 10' of him.
Biography::: His father was a well known gambler, and very good at it. A bounty was put on his head when a brawl over a debt owed to him resulted in the death of 12 men and the burning down of half a block of buildings. Having no choice, his father took his young son and a small fortune and fled to the sea. The ship they were on was soon attacked by pirates. Jack miraculously survived the attack by hiding in a barrel which was knocked overboard. He was found a few days later, by a different group of sailors and has been with them ever since.
Appearance ((Picture (URL please) or really good description.) :::Jack has short black hair, piercing gray eyes, and a short beard. He is tall and well muscled from working aboard, but is lean rather than musclebound. he wears a white fencing shirt, a thick leather vest, black pants and tall leather boots.
Anything Else?:::Learned how to gamble from his father. His ability to alter the outcome in his favor makes him very good at it, but he never uses it against the other sailors on the ship. He prefers to fight with the staff, an unusual weapon for a sailor.

This is a character I thought up on the spot for the Blue Diamond rp. I don't think he turned out too bad.

Shadow... That's unique. I don't meet many shadow elementals. It's good that you include his weaknesses and limitations. I wish I could come up with better comments, but it appears that my imagination is broken. -_-;

Lex

I got a friend of mine (who's not on Gaia... I think) to check it out. He says:

Purifier777 (11:00:58 PM): sounds cool, pretty archtypical shadow char.
Purifier777 (11:01:09 PM): I wanna know what madehim decide to protect people though
Purifier777 (11:01:20 PM): that's odd behavior, even if it is pretty cool.
Purifier777 (11:01:35 PM): and what defines these protections? why does he enter into them, why does he leave them?
Purifier777 (11:03:02 PM): Jack spades, on the other hand, is new. that "alter odds" power sounds like it could be really fun to use, but possibly overpowered and prone to god-moding.

Lex

Your characters are very original I must say Shade, and I commend you on your imagination on creating them. What you could add though, as a personal suggestion of mine, is really what fuels your characters to do what they do or have done. Jack Spades...as I can see from an earlier post, yeah sure that altering odds could be considered God-moding, but it's all how you interpret it. You might want to define it more with lovely adjectives and verbs. I think it's quite nifty myself, and I see it as Jack becoming luckier than his opponent. Like getting in more blows or able to get a fatal hit somewhere along the way. It's interesting really, and with the dice action available here on Gaia, it works out very well.