Post by Xazz on Feb 25, 2009 23:59:38 GMT -5
Name: Nikolas Nyx Fern III
Age: 23
Gender: male
Alignment: bad, very bad
Krimzon Guard Rank: None
Personality: On his meds Nik is a very easy going calm person. But it really doesn't take to much to get him pissed off. But he has a reverse anger attitude. Meaning yelling and hollering means you are getting off easy. But if he's got a soft voice and sounds a bit angered... then you're in deep nuts. When he cares about something he’s passionate about it but lately that hasn’t been a lot of things. He can be a tad anal retentive about what he does but nothing serious that could hinder his daily life to much. Nik likes to drink and smoke… a lot. He's not bad enough to be an alcoholic though does tend to get rather chain smokerish at time.
Off his meds Nik is practically a psycho. He cares not for his own life or the life of others and will recklessly put both in danger. He’s super anal off his meds to the point that if something doesn’t go exactly as planned he has to do it all over again, its a major obstacle in his life.
Always in the back of his mind Nik is trying to kill himself, his religion doesn’t allow him to kill himself, so he tries to do something stupid enough to get himself killed. He’s yet to accomplish this despite his best efforts.
Physical Appearance: Dark skinned and shoulder length black blue hair with copper eyes. Nik is very physically fit and keeps his body in good condition, he runs a lot and works out. He’s pretty tall at just around six foot even and dresses comfortably but looks like he could put the serious beat down on you, and he can. In a second. On his left shoulder he has a tattoo of an spider with a skull on its thorax, he often “signs” his “work” with the same symbol and it has been used the city over to inspire fear in people.
He has a very specific outfit he wears when he’s out doing his BD thing. Its a tight long sleeved black shirt, a black leather jacket, black cargos that he stuffs in a pair of old matte black KG boots a pair of black leather gloves and he pulls his hair back. To complete the look he wears a black mask (see image to see what it looks like).
Strengths: is an amazing marksman and expert at the quick draw. He can kill you six ways to Sunday (I don’t know if that’s a strength though XD). He can hold his drink
Weaknesses: When he goes over the edge his rage gets away from him and he will try to kill anyone within arm’s distance. He’s really anal retentive. He’s a crazy drunk when he drinks to much. But even off his meds he doesn’t get to be a violent drunk, he just chills out and offers warped words of wisdom XD
(Sorry, my S+Ws suck so much. I really hate these categories and think they add to little to a characters development. I’d rather show through writing what he’s good at or what he’s bad at >_>)
Brief History: His parents moved from his native city of Taro'e when Nik was a few months old during the time that the city state was in the middle of a massive civil war. And since Haven is the closest city to Taro'e they moved there to get a better life for their family. But as new immigrants they had little. So Nik grew up in the Slums. Thus he was highly influenced by the gang warfare that went on there. As a child he was picked on for being oddly colored compared to the other kids and so had a lot of pent up rage which he would expel in fighting other kids. So first they sent him to the school councilors. But it didn't help, Nik was heavily pissed off with the people he had to deal with at school and wanted nothing more then to murder them. After talking to his parents Nik started going to a shrink because of his murderous intent and they gave him medication to keep him under control. But he never took them.
At the age of 7 Nik joined a gang known as the Arachnids and earned his stripes again and again. The Arachnids were a violent gang by nature and were trying to get back the top spot they used to hold claim to a few decades earlier. He started out jacking zoomers and doing petty theft and cat burglary but as he got older he did more and more. He learned to shoot a gun and took to it like a fish to water. He earned the nick name in his gang of “Blew” because of his favored blue eco pistol, and because he could blow everyone away with his quick draw.
Its unknown what caused Nik to snap the first time, but the outcome can’t be swept under the rug. Nik had always had the flare for theatrics, and one day he was sent to deal with someone who wasn’t respecting the Arachnids. Whatever happened during the meeting is unknown but the person ended up dead. Two days later news-reporters were spewing propaganda about the latest “disease” to sweep through Haven. The bubonic plague. Nik had killed the man and painted them up to look like they had come down with the disease. It was only after investigation that it came out the man had been strangled to death. But the hype was already there. By the age of 13 Nik was being exploited by the Arachnids and they had a killer on their hands, he killed whoever they said to kill and enjoyed every moment of it feeling he was getting revenge on all the people who had made his life hell when he was a child. The media game him the name “Black Death” (BD) which he still wears as a mask of pride. No image has ever been seen of BD.
During this time he was still participating in “normal” gang activities, Like stealing, grand theft auto, drive-bys, extortion, etc etc. And its cause of that that he's actually still breathing. During a zoomer theft when he was 15 they actually got caught and Nik was sent to juvi. His parents freaked out and instead of having him sent to the real prison asked for service hours. Since this is still during the rule of King Damas Mar the magistrate is a lot more lenient and lets Nik go on parol and tells him he has to work for someone for free for a year. He can pick whoever he wants, it simply needs to be approved.
Nik Fern II, his father, picked a repair shop, knowing Nik would pick something easy. He actually wants his son to work. So everyday after his school day Nik toiled in Turks' Auto, being the pick up boy, and the one that cleaned everything. And really, cleaned EVERYTHING, after everyone had left. Needless to say he never had any energy for the Arachnids after that. After a few weeks one of Old Till's men was shot in a gang drive-by and he had no one to pick up the slack. So he picked on Nik and made him learn how to work as a mechanic. At first Nik balked at the idea of having to get all dirty, but after a few days of being forced to do it Nik just decided it wasn't worth the torment and did what Old Till told him. He found he rather liked working with his hands. And at this time he went back on his meds and they helped him calm down so he didn’t feel the need to shoot/strangle everyone he wanted. After that his attitude changed all for the better, he listened more intently, learned faster, didn't backtalk as much, and was generally a nicer dood.
Nik's time of service ends on his 16th birthday, but he doesn't leave. He takes on to be an apprentice and doesn't talk to most of the Arachnids for about half a year after that. Till finally it escalates to the point they come banging on his door at some ungodly hour. More or less they "kidnap" him and take him to talk to the higher ups. There Nik blatantly tells them he's done, he wants nothing to do with them.
Of course, this doesn't go over very well. Even less so when he pulls his dual blue pistols on the people in the room telling them to back the f**k off and leave him alone. That whole thing settled Nik left the Arachnids after they agreed to say he'd been killed. They'd find some body (there were plenty from gang wars) and say it was Black Death. Of course no one can exactly leave the Arachnids.
Nik continued to work at Turk's Auto graduating from apprentice to full on paid mechanic in about a year and a half. Now almost 17 1/2 Nik is really loving his life at this moment. Everything is going good for Nik and Turk's saying he wants to promote Nik again to shop manager. So yeah, life is good. He's also more involved with his family telling his brothers he will "kill" them if they ever join a gang, or hears they join one. And since he joined when he was 10 he knows its never to early to start.
Time passes; Nik's become and awesome mechanic. He sketches zoomer designs and concepts and builds his own custom ride from spare parts at Turks that Old Till deemed unneeded. Nik is 20 when he first meets Jasmine. She's the daughter of one of Old Till's more resent friends. Its one of those "love at first sight" things. When she comes into the shop to give Till something he almost hurts himself as well as drop something very heavy! Jasmine is 4 years younger then him and thus was pretty oblivious to the fact that he was staring at her almost the entire time. He promptly (lie) asks her out. She agrees.
Nik is at this time looking into leaving Turk's Auto to start up his own shop where he can do the kind of stuff he wants to do. He'd been saving up since forever for it. And as a grown man he can! Eventually he does get a place in the Canal area for free. Because of his connections with the Arachnids that he never truly could sever totally. He named his shop Arachne's, which was like an open call that not only was it a shop but also a safe haven for all members of the Arachnids gang, as an Arachnid house was what they referred to as their safe houses. Nik also moved out of his parent's house into the one above his shop. Because of his connections with the Arachnids his shop was instantly busy with him fixing and repainting zoomers. Of course he got paid for it and quickly had to hire four other men to help him with his work.
When he’s 21 he finds of Jasmine is pregnant and wants to marry her. But her parents forbid it, and since she’s still a minor she has to do as they say. Then during the Metal Head invasion of Haven where they come in through the Under Port Jasmine goes missing and its only later that Nik finds out that she was killed during the siege. Like the first time Nik goes over the edge. This time he wants to get caught, so they’ll give him the death sentence (he’s to prideful to kill himself) and goes back to the ways of Black Death. His shop falls into disrepair and he becomes a husk of his former self. Recently the Arachnids had approached Nik again, they want the leverage he has a Black Death to push them to the top tier of gangs in the city. Nik promptly kills the leader and most of the lieutenants blaming them for his misery.
As of right now he’s still out there a freelance serial killer. He’s back in the news fairly regularly though because of his alias no one knows its him. He’s a friend to no one nor an enemy. He thinks himself of an instrument of death. He’s still trying to get caught, but it seems unlikely, he’s to good at what he does.
Extras: Nik has a weakness for animals and has several pets. He has a MASSIVE croca-dog named Brick. It stands taller then his waist and has to be muzzled whenever its outside because he will bite anything that moves. Nik also has to rather large sinewy twin black gator-cats, he calls then Spark and Shadow, and the only way you can tell them is apart is by their eyes. Spark’s eyes are ice blue, Shadow’s are brilliantly amber.
Nik is the oldest of 6 children and before he went over the edge was very prevalent in the life of his siblings, his younger brother even working for him in Arachne’s. But he’s dropped off from seeing them and so they think he’s dead.
Nik only takes his meds when he feels like it. Sometimes he looks like a pill popper because he will often down the piss yellow pills randomly during the day, if you see this happen, it means he was really close to killing whoever he was just dealing with.
Picture: i102.photobucket.com/albums/m87/xazz/hellyeah.jpg This is an image of Nik with his late girlfriend Jasmine
Nik’s mask looks a bit like this (I’m just to lazy to chance the mouth, its more of a half circle >_>) Ericanii.deviantart.com/art/Black-Mastk-89282716
Sample Post: The wind whistled lowly through the street and Nik waited. He’d been waiting since this afternoon, but he could wait some more. The best prey was worth waiting for, he’d learned that lesson time and time again. If you wanted to catch a bug in your web, you needed to have patience, you couldn’t go out looking for it. It’d always get away. It was best to weave your information together then simply let it come to you. He walked a small pocket knife across his knuckles, a trick he’d learned from his friends back when he was in the Arachnids. He did it when he was bored, and when he messed up he gritted his teeth and forced himself to continue on ignoreing the urge to want to do the same pass again.
Then he heard the sound of a steel plated boot on the ground below him. He leaned out the second story window a bit and saw his lovely prey unlocking the door to their two story apartment. A chaotic smile played across his lips and he tucked the blade away and touched the resin mask on his face, assuring himself it was still there. He heard them coming up the stairs. They always came to this room after they were done at the brothel. After all, f**king whores can take it out of a guy. Wearily the door opened and they stepped inside ready to fetch the drugs they hid under their floorboards and light up. Nik knew because he checked. He always checked the floorboards, and under the bed, and in all the drawers, and in the closest and looked for seems in the ceiling and in the walls. It was always good to know what your prey had on hand, it allowed for a more gratifying execution. They halted at seeing Nik, he back was still to them and he was still sitting at their window.
“Hey, who are you?” they demanded. Nik didn’t reply, he could hear the tremor in their voice and he liked it, it sent a thrill through him. He heard them take a few steps toward him but he continued to stay still. “Hey, I said who the f**k are you!” they were closer now, away from the door.
Nik turned and before his prey had a chance to react Nik caught him by the throat and forced him to the ground. They struggled till Nik restrained him. He sat straddling his prey and the man had a look of horror on his face. “Who are you!” he yelled.
“Shhhh,” Nik cooed, “No need to scream,” his copper eyes glittered insanely. Though I’ll tell you who I am. I’m your new best friend buddy, your new disease,” and under his mask Nik smirked. Then in a smooth motion he put pressure on the man’s wind pipe and he tried to struggle, but Nik was stronger. A feeling of euphoria swept over Nik as he felt the pulse in the man’s jugular get weaker and weaker till finally there was no pulse. He got off his prey and popped open a bottle of ink.
Time to make a masterpiece.
Age: 23
Gender: male
Alignment: bad, very bad
Krimzon Guard Rank: None
Personality: On his meds Nik is a very easy going calm person. But it really doesn't take to much to get him pissed off. But he has a reverse anger attitude. Meaning yelling and hollering means you are getting off easy. But if he's got a soft voice and sounds a bit angered... then you're in deep nuts. When he cares about something he’s passionate about it but lately that hasn’t been a lot of things. He can be a tad anal retentive about what he does but nothing serious that could hinder his daily life to much. Nik likes to drink and smoke… a lot. He's not bad enough to be an alcoholic though does tend to get rather chain smokerish at time.
Off his meds Nik is practically a psycho. He cares not for his own life or the life of others and will recklessly put both in danger. He’s super anal off his meds to the point that if something doesn’t go exactly as planned he has to do it all over again, its a major obstacle in his life.
Always in the back of his mind Nik is trying to kill himself, his religion doesn’t allow him to kill himself, so he tries to do something stupid enough to get himself killed. He’s yet to accomplish this despite his best efforts.
Physical Appearance: Dark skinned and shoulder length black blue hair with copper eyes. Nik is very physically fit and keeps his body in good condition, he runs a lot and works out. He’s pretty tall at just around six foot even and dresses comfortably but looks like he could put the serious beat down on you, and he can. In a second. On his left shoulder he has a tattoo of an spider with a skull on its thorax, he often “signs” his “work” with the same symbol and it has been used the city over to inspire fear in people.
He has a very specific outfit he wears when he’s out doing his BD thing. Its a tight long sleeved black shirt, a black leather jacket, black cargos that he stuffs in a pair of old matte black KG boots a pair of black leather gloves and he pulls his hair back. To complete the look he wears a black mask (see image to see what it looks like).
Strengths: is an amazing marksman and expert at the quick draw. He can kill you six ways to Sunday (I don’t know if that’s a strength though XD). He can hold his drink
Weaknesses: When he goes over the edge his rage gets away from him and he will try to kill anyone within arm’s distance. He’s really anal retentive. He’s a crazy drunk when he drinks to much. But even off his meds he doesn’t get to be a violent drunk, he just chills out and offers warped words of wisdom XD
(Sorry, my S+Ws suck so much. I really hate these categories and think they add to little to a characters development. I’d rather show through writing what he’s good at or what he’s bad at >_>)
Brief History: His parents moved from his native city of Taro'e when Nik was a few months old during the time that the city state was in the middle of a massive civil war. And since Haven is the closest city to Taro'e they moved there to get a better life for their family. But as new immigrants they had little. So Nik grew up in the Slums. Thus he was highly influenced by the gang warfare that went on there. As a child he was picked on for being oddly colored compared to the other kids and so had a lot of pent up rage which he would expel in fighting other kids. So first they sent him to the school councilors. But it didn't help, Nik was heavily pissed off with the people he had to deal with at school and wanted nothing more then to murder them. After talking to his parents Nik started going to a shrink because of his murderous intent and they gave him medication to keep him under control. But he never took them.
At the age of 7 Nik joined a gang known as the Arachnids and earned his stripes again and again. The Arachnids were a violent gang by nature and were trying to get back the top spot they used to hold claim to a few decades earlier. He started out jacking zoomers and doing petty theft and cat burglary but as he got older he did more and more. He learned to shoot a gun and took to it like a fish to water. He earned the nick name in his gang of “Blew” because of his favored blue eco pistol, and because he could blow everyone away with his quick draw.
Its unknown what caused Nik to snap the first time, but the outcome can’t be swept under the rug. Nik had always had the flare for theatrics, and one day he was sent to deal with someone who wasn’t respecting the Arachnids. Whatever happened during the meeting is unknown but the person ended up dead. Two days later news-reporters were spewing propaganda about the latest “disease” to sweep through Haven. The bubonic plague. Nik had killed the man and painted them up to look like they had come down with the disease. It was only after investigation that it came out the man had been strangled to death. But the hype was already there. By the age of 13 Nik was being exploited by the Arachnids and they had a killer on their hands, he killed whoever they said to kill and enjoyed every moment of it feeling he was getting revenge on all the people who had made his life hell when he was a child. The media game him the name “Black Death” (BD) which he still wears as a mask of pride. No image has ever been seen of BD.
During this time he was still participating in “normal” gang activities, Like stealing, grand theft auto, drive-bys, extortion, etc etc. And its cause of that that he's actually still breathing. During a zoomer theft when he was 15 they actually got caught and Nik was sent to juvi. His parents freaked out and instead of having him sent to the real prison asked for service hours. Since this is still during the rule of King Damas Mar the magistrate is a lot more lenient and lets Nik go on parol and tells him he has to work for someone for free for a year. He can pick whoever he wants, it simply needs to be approved.
Nik Fern II, his father, picked a repair shop, knowing Nik would pick something easy. He actually wants his son to work. So everyday after his school day Nik toiled in Turks' Auto, being the pick up boy, and the one that cleaned everything. And really, cleaned EVERYTHING, after everyone had left. Needless to say he never had any energy for the Arachnids after that. After a few weeks one of Old Till's men was shot in a gang drive-by and he had no one to pick up the slack. So he picked on Nik and made him learn how to work as a mechanic. At first Nik balked at the idea of having to get all dirty, but after a few days of being forced to do it Nik just decided it wasn't worth the torment and did what Old Till told him. He found he rather liked working with his hands. And at this time he went back on his meds and they helped him calm down so he didn’t feel the need to shoot/strangle everyone he wanted. After that his attitude changed all for the better, he listened more intently, learned faster, didn't backtalk as much, and was generally a nicer dood.
Nik's time of service ends on his 16th birthday, but he doesn't leave. He takes on to be an apprentice and doesn't talk to most of the Arachnids for about half a year after that. Till finally it escalates to the point they come banging on his door at some ungodly hour. More or less they "kidnap" him and take him to talk to the higher ups. There Nik blatantly tells them he's done, he wants nothing to do with them.
Of course, this doesn't go over very well. Even less so when he pulls his dual blue pistols on the people in the room telling them to back the f**k off and leave him alone. That whole thing settled Nik left the Arachnids after they agreed to say he'd been killed. They'd find some body (there were plenty from gang wars) and say it was Black Death. Of course no one can exactly leave the Arachnids.
Nik continued to work at Turk's Auto graduating from apprentice to full on paid mechanic in about a year and a half. Now almost 17 1/2 Nik is really loving his life at this moment. Everything is going good for Nik and Turk's saying he wants to promote Nik again to shop manager. So yeah, life is good. He's also more involved with his family telling his brothers he will "kill" them if they ever join a gang, or hears they join one. And since he joined when he was 10 he knows its never to early to start.
Time passes; Nik's become and awesome mechanic. He sketches zoomer designs and concepts and builds his own custom ride from spare parts at Turks that Old Till deemed unneeded. Nik is 20 when he first meets Jasmine. She's the daughter of one of Old Till's more resent friends. Its one of those "love at first sight" things. When she comes into the shop to give Till something he almost hurts himself as well as drop something very heavy! Jasmine is 4 years younger then him and thus was pretty oblivious to the fact that he was staring at her almost the entire time. He promptly (lie) asks her out. She agrees.
Nik is at this time looking into leaving Turk's Auto to start up his own shop where he can do the kind of stuff he wants to do. He'd been saving up since forever for it. And as a grown man he can! Eventually he does get a place in the Canal area for free. Because of his connections with the Arachnids that he never truly could sever totally. He named his shop Arachne's, which was like an open call that not only was it a shop but also a safe haven for all members of the Arachnids gang, as an Arachnid house was what they referred to as their safe houses. Nik also moved out of his parent's house into the one above his shop. Because of his connections with the Arachnids his shop was instantly busy with him fixing and repainting zoomers. Of course he got paid for it and quickly had to hire four other men to help him with his work.
When he’s 21 he finds of Jasmine is pregnant and wants to marry her. But her parents forbid it, and since she’s still a minor she has to do as they say. Then during the Metal Head invasion of Haven where they come in through the Under Port Jasmine goes missing and its only later that Nik finds out that she was killed during the siege. Like the first time Nik goes over the edge. This time he wants to get caught, so they’ll give him the death sentence (he’s to prideful to kill himself) and goes back to the ways of Black Death. His shop falls into disrepair and he becomes a husk of his former self. Recently the Arachnids had approached Nik again, they want the leverage he has a Black Death to push them to the top tier of gangs in the city. Nik promptly kills the leader and most of the lieutenants blaming them for his misery.
As of right now he’s still out there a freelance serial killer. He’s back in the news fairly regularly though because of his alias no one knows its him. He’s a friend to no one nor an enemy. He thinks himself of an instrument of death. He’s still trying to get caught, but it seems unlikely, he’s to good at what he does.
Extras: Nik has a weakness for animals and has several pets. He has a MASSIVE croca-dog named Brick. It stands taller then his waist and has to be muzzled whenever its outside because he will bite anything that moves. Nik also has to rather large sinewy twin black gator-cats, he calls then Spark and Shadow, and the only way you can tell them is apart is by their eyes. Spark’s eyes are ice blue, Shadow’s are brilliantly amber.
Nik is the oldest of 6 children and before he went over the edge was very prevalent in the life of his siblings, his younger brother even working for him in Arachne’s. But he’s dropped off from seeing them and so they think he’s dead.
Nik only takes his meds when he feels like it. Sometimes he looks like a pill popper because he will often down the piss yellow pills randomly during the day, if you see this happen, it means he was really close to killing whoever he was just dealing with.
Picture: i102.photobucket.com/albums/m87/xazz/hellyeah.jpg This is an image of Nik with his late girlfriend Jasmine
Nik’s mask looks a bit like this (I’m just to lazy to chance the mouth, its more of a half circle >_>) Ericanii.deviantart.com/art/Black-Mastk-89282716
Sample Post: The wind whistled lowly through the street and Nik waited. He’d been waiting since this afternoon, but he could wait some more. The best prey was worth waiting for, he’d learned that lesson time and time again. If you wanted to catch a bug in your web, you needed to have patience, you couldn’t go out looking for it. It’d always get away. It was best to weave your information together then simply let it come to you. He walked a small pocket knife across his knuckles, a trick he’d learned from his friends back when he was in the Arachnids. He did it when he was bored, and when he messed up he gritted his teeth and forced himself to continue on ignoreing the urge to want to do the same pass again.
Then he heard the sound of a steel plated boot on the ground below him. He leaned out the second story window a bit and saw his lovely prey unlocking the door to their two story apartment. A chaotic smile played across his lips and he tucked the blade away and touched the resin mask on his face, assuring himself it was still there. He heard them coming up the stairs. They always came to this room after they were done at the brothel. After all, f**king whores can take it out of a guy. Wearily the door opened and they stepped inside ready to fetch the drugs they hid under their floorboards and light up. Nik knew because he checked. He always checked the floorboards, and under the bed, and in all the drawers, and in the closest and looked for seems in the ceiling and in the walls. It was always good to know what your prey had on hand, it allowed for a more gratifying execution. They halted at seeing Nik, he back was still to them and he was still sitting at their window.
“Hey, who are you?” they demanded. Nik didn’t reply, he could hear the tremor in their voice and he liked it, it sent a thrill through him. He heard them take a few steps toward him but he continued to stay still. “Hey, I said who the f**k are you!” they were closer now, away from the door.
Nik turned and before his prey had a chance to react Nik caught him by the throat and forced him to the ground. They struggled till Nik restrained him. He sat straddling his prey and the man had a look of horror on his face. “Who are you!” he yelled.
“Shhhh,” Nik cooed, “No need to scream,” his copper eyes glittered insanely. Though I’ll tell you who I am. I’m your new best friend buddy, your new disease,” and under his mask Nik smirked. Then in a smooth motion he put pressure on the man’s wind pipe and he tried to struggle, but Nik was stronger. A feeling of euphoria swept over Nik as he felt the pulse in the man’s jugular get weaker and weaker till finally there was no pulse. He got off his prey and popped open a bottle of ink.
Time to make a masterpiece.