Post by Taylor on Dec 15, 2009 18:52:52 GMT -6
TECHNICAL
Username: Taylor
Character Text Color: FF0E1E
Profile Type: Teacher
THE BASICS
Name: Vanyel Gerard Kyzel
Nicknames: Van
Gender: Male
Date of Birth:September 11th 1984
Current Age: 27
Western Zodiac: Virgo (kind of ironic for him… virgin my ass)
Place of Birth: Buffalo, NewYork
Nationality: American
APPEARANCE DETAILS
Appearance: Vanyel is an attractive man if you asked him, and you would believe him whether he fit into your narrow view of beauty or not. He keeps his hair long in a ponytail trailing down his back; it frames his pale face with a stark contrast. His hair ends, midway down his back, about 5’2” off the floor about 8” from the crown of his head. A stray strand never escapes unless he has removed his hair tie… then it’s just a mess. His eyes are never hidden, not by hair, glasses or anything else conceivable, if he can’t stare into your eyes with his faded blue ones, he wouldn’t be able to use his ability on you.
He has a body lacking in physical prowess, but or at least visible muscle. Whether that means he is weak is up for you to decide. He holds himself as if he is better than most people around him, he thinks he is. His perfect posture and a tendency to look down on others, whether they are shorter than him or not, only adds to the impression.
Clothing Style: His clothing is almost always immaculate, with suits, ties, and dress shirts. He only makes the occasional foray into the world of casual dress, at most wearing a T-shirt. There isn’t much to say about his clothing, only that it is ever formal, and always perfect
Special Accessories: The only piece of personality that adds to his appearance is the silver hair-tie he always wears, a gift from an old lover, it has painted white horses on it.
PERSONALLY
Over-all Personality: Vanyel is a bit of a stuck up bastard, he does as he wishes when he wishes it, and if you don’t like it… well, he could care less. He teaches because he enjoys being superior to his students, the worst type of teacher. When you ask him a question, he treats you like an idiot, when you offer an excuse he scoffs and ignores you. He is the teacher that mocks some students to tears and enrages others, though he does, on occasion, actually bestow pearls of knowledge on his students.
With his colleagues, he is a little less stiff, and a fair bit less condescending, even if he is more aggravating. With that said, he occasionally shows a soft side, if he wants something. He is fairly scrupulous about using his gift, after all, people are more willing to give something to someone they like. Which works just as easily on him, with constant praise a student is more likely to get better grades in his class, even if it isn’t by much. And if a question is phrased with the proper deference, there is likely to be less mockery involved.
When he isn’t insulting students or teachers, he is sizing them up. He watches their moves and analyzes them for potential threats. He has a mild paranoia that keeps him on his toes whether in private or public.
he only eats foods he prepares, never enters a room without marking any possible exits or threats first… ect.
Likes:
-Control
-Praise
-Feeling superior
-Physical pleasure
-Poisons
Dislikes:
-Doing things for himself
-Mockery
-People who ask too many questions about him
-People being behind him
-messy deaths
Fears:
- Other people…
Habits:
-He never lets anyone stand behind him
-He never eats food someone else provides for him
-Whenever he enters a room, he checks it for exits and possible threats
Sense of Humor:
-He doesn’t have much of a sense of humor, and what he does display is rather dark.
Goals:
-to stay at the school long enough for his past to fade away.
SCHOOL/OCCUPATION
Faculty Form –
Subject: Mental Gifts
BACKGROUND
History: While growing up, Vanyel had only sporadic control of his abilities. And only at times could he even turn them off, he was obviously the cutest baby in the world. His ability to glamour himself made it easy for him to get what he wanted. His mother would look at him, see her little angel and give in. He completely corrupted his powers at a young age, by the time he went to school he knew enough to realise there was something odd about the way people treated him, but as a child, just thought it was cool. He got better grades, better luches, better seats. It didn’t matter if he did something wrong, he would get sent to the principals only with regret, and the principal would just look at his beautiful and pitiful eyes… and let Vanyel off with a warning.
Reaching the age of 15 he had his own personal group of sycophants, people who thought he was cool, liked him despite his cruelty. But as he went through puberty, and growth spurts, his powers grew in leaps and bounds. He couldn’t limit them at all. He got more attention than he wanted. In a fit of desperation, he skipped school and wandered around downtown, not heading home till late. He felt safer there, away from the people he knew who couldn’t quite control themselves. With his hood up, in the ever so common day to day routine of life… he felt ignored. So, whenever life got to be too much, he would escape from the suburbs and walk the streets of the city. For a while it worked, but as his powers peaked, apparently his hood wasn’t enough.
At the age of 16, Vanyel was mugged, mugged, and then raped. He handed the man his belongings, but when the… creature glimpsed his face, the man felt the need to do something more with the boy that was isolated and alone, walking the streets. Vanyel took a long time to get over it. He couldn’t face his mother… his teachers… his apparent friends. So he didn’t he skipped out on his mom, his school, he left. Went as far as he could make it on his own. He made it to New York, lived on the streets a while… joined a gang, traded sex with the leader for protection. After the first brutal time, sex never felt the way it should, for Vanyel it was never intimate, it was a way of receiving or giving pleasure… though he didn’t manage to accept the former until much later.
He eventually started taking on jobs with the man, instead of just being his slut. First it was small things, distractions… lookout. Eventually he was revealed to have a talent for getting close to people. He was given assassination jobs. He could walk up to a rival, smile at them… and drive a knife into their heart… walking away before someone could point to him. He quickly developed a reputation, but with his ability, he learned to change his face, no one… could ever recognise him.
After a year of this, as his reputation expanded, he was approached by professionals, offered payment instead of protection. At that, Vanyel learned he didn’t need protection, he was his own protection. As his powers came under his own control, he could do as he wished. So he went with the so called professionals, and allowed his old boss to live on a whim. Although he did leave him with a little something to remember him by… or rather, without something.
He learned how to take real jobs, how to cover his traces, how to become a ghost. He was good at what he did. With a little training, he learned never to leave evidence; never let the police catch onto him, and to never let anyone get close. He was one of the best at what he did. He walked among his victims, the sheep that they were, and made a point of leaving behind a message, this person had made an enemy… and they had picked the wrong one.
But living as he did, he made enemies. Enemies with powers like his… or at least powers. After a while he realised that one of them had more than just bad blood between them. In fact… he discovered that the man had ties to his past. He was in the pay of the first man Vanyel ever worked for. A man who had moved up in the world, who could afford to put people into his pay. Apparently He had held a grudge for losing his manhood. With enough money to make sure that he could see Vanyel dead.
So Vanyel slipped into hiding, slipped away, out of the eyes of the underworld, and became a teacher. It was the farthest thing possible from his former profession. Now he teaches at T’zenshin, at the only thing he knows, mental gifts.
Secrets: He is a former assassin, and fully intends to return to his former profession the minute he can find a way to kill the man threatening him.
Gift: Glamour, Vanyel can change his appearance at will, the ability is part illusion, part mind games. His appearance is entirely illusion for most of the time, it changes to suit his mood. No one has seen his real face since he was 18. The mind games come in later, and only when he makes eye contact… He can inspire a mockery of love in someone, or a powerful lust, or his favourite, fear enough to freeze someone in their tracks. These emotions can last up to a minute or so after breaking eye contact. Though with repeated use his appearance is much like the Pavlovian effect, with repeated use, a person might come to believe that simply his appearance invokes the emotion. Once you know it’s him and know what he can do, it is easier to isolate and exclude the emotion, but it is harder for those who don’t have a good hold on their emotions in the first place.
RELATIONSHIPS
Marital Status: N/A
Best Friends: N/A
Relatives: His father left his mother before Vanyel was born, his mother doted on him, but he hasn’t seen her since he was 16.
