Axel Van Eadric [DONE]

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AXEL VAN EADRIC


Wise / Cunning / Passionate

BACK TO BASICS ' '

Full Name: Axel Van Eadric
Significance of Name: "Axel" is the Scandinavian form of Absalom, meaning "my father is peace." Odin was always deeply concerned with avoiding the Ragnarok, (Apocalypse) and thus always strove for peace. One of the meanings of "Van" is the front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle. Odin was a warrior first, ruler second. He's also the leader of the Wild Hunt, a noisy, bellowing movement across the sky, leading a host of slain warriors."Eadric" is another Anglo Saxon meaning “wealthy ruler". As the King of the Norse Gods, Odin is a "wealthy ruler".
Nickname(s): N/A
Age: 16, born December 28th
Gender: Male
Orientation: Bisexual
Grade: 11
Celeb you're using: Zachary Quinto
Deity: Odin - Norse
Title of your deity: All-Father

STRIKE A POSE ' '

Physical Appearance:

Hair

Axel's body hair can get a little overwhelming. He has no idea why he got stuck with this end of the genetic pool, but for some reason his eyebrows, facial hair, and general body hair can get out of control without proper grooming. It's also a very dark brown, and it makes him look like a big werewolf.

Body

He's relatively tall and very much in shape. Axel comes off as a gym rat, and for good reason. Every one of his muscles is defined and used often. He hangs on this border of being lanky and brawny which comes off as just awkward.

Face

Dark brown eyes and angular features come together to produce a very intense person. He also wears glasses occasionally due to astigmatism, which manages to not only make him look like a nerd but somehow even more serious.

Clothes

On a casual day, you'll probably see him in jeans, flannel, and flip flops. He's also a fan of deep v-necks, cardigans, and toms. When he has to be professional, he goes all out. Axel's suits are elegant and refined top of the line Versache and Gucci suits. No matter what he's wearing, however, he always has his jewelry a fedora on. Jewelry wise, he has a watch that his youngest brother gave him when he was released from prison that is solid black with gold trim that he wears on his left wrist, and a ring that he wears on his right ring finger that is simply a large onyx stone. This was passed down to him through his mother's side of the family- it was his grandfather's.

Traits

Always stands straight, no matter who he's talking to or what is going on. Axel also walks like he's in formation, as if he can't ever shake that military training. His facial movements are contained and subtle, which makes it hard to read his emotions. When he talks, Axel takes his time. He doesn't feel a need to rush a conversation.

LET'S GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER ' '

Personality Description:

Aloof

The atypical loner, Axel distances himself from people very naturally. It's not rude, or out of spite, it's simply how he prefers to be. Often instead of engaging others, he will simply observe instead. Axel also has a hard time being open about himself, his motivations, or his feelings. Because of his nature, if he has let you in, and you disrespect that trust, his reaction is to cut you off completely and suddenly.

Thoughtful

Nothing that this boy does is done without proper planning, organization, and foresight. He loves strategy, but it's more than that. It's an obsessive tendency that if not fulfilled will make him very anxious. Axel likes everything to make sense, and often will spend weeks planning something that only takes him ten minutes to do.

Cunning

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"The end justifies the means," could be Axel's personal motto. He will tell any lie he has to in order to get what he wants, and he has absolutely no moral qualms about it. His actions are often tricky, and have a cleverness to them that surprises his peers. Axel might be lying to you now, but you'll never know until it's too late.

Organized

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He spent his childhood in military school, and it definitely had an impact on his personality. Axel has a very rigid schedule, understands basic combat, loves order and routine, and likes things to be clean and "perfect". He also applies this to himself- he needs to be clean and healthy. Axel also loves a good fight, but he almost never starts the fight... he's the who ends it.

Artistic

The young man enjoys poetry and prose extremely, and spends a large portion of his time putting pen to paper. Writing is his passion, and words tend to flow through him as if fueled by something else entirely. Axel has stacks and stacks of notebooks full of poems and short stories. While most are fiction, or at the very least an elaborate retelling of the truth, his best works are always the more personal ones.

Likes:
- Philosophy: He'll quote philosophers on a whim.
- Chess: The complexities of the game fascinate him.
- Nature: He'd rather be outside than anywhere else.
- Puzzles/Riddles: His rubric’s cube is his best friend.
- History: Anything that happened before will happen again- something Axel is keenly aware of.
Dislikes:
- Drugs/Alcohol: Holds his body as a temple, and refuses to pollute it.
- Stupidity: Understanding what is logical and doing the irrational is unacceptable.
- Harming the environment: Hates anything that could harm the planet and destroy it.
- Personal failure: Holds himself accountable to an unrealistic degree.
- His family's business: He considers it disgusting and wants it destroyed.
Strength:
- Passionate: When he believes in something, he throws himself into it.
- Witty: He has a way with words.
- Good with strategy: Axel understands situations from all angles.
- High IQ: He has an IQ of 182
- Physical prowess: At 5'9'' and 162 lbs of muscle, Axel can handle himself in a fight.
Weaknesses:
- Arrogant: He thinks he's smarter than everyone else, and ends up underestimating others as a result.
- Obsessive: Can become so entranced with an idea that it becomes his life.
- Stubborn: Everything is his way or the highway.
- Socially stunted: Doesn't understand how to interact with people normally.
- Indecisive: Takes a long time to come to decisions.
Fears:
- Developing a mental disorder.
- Hurting someone else because he didn't plan well enough.
- Losing his humanity as he gains more power.
Goal:
- To add as many runes to himself as he can.
- To learn as much as he can about the universe.
- To understand mortals better.
- To save the world. (literally)

Power/Ability:

Runecraft- Odin was the God of Magic, so it's only appropriate that Axel be a Sorcerer. How his magic works is through runes. These runes must be carved into his skin with a special athame he has blessed (named Gungnir) and then the wound must be filled with the appropriate substances. The substances vary depending on the rune. He must then recite an intricate spell in Scandinavian (Which he's still learning) in order to complete the ritual. The ritual is complex, irreversible, and painful. He must also give a sacrifice in order for the rune to work. He can only use powers that have been inscribed on him- he can't simply write it down or say it aloud.

He has these inscriptions:

- Pertho (Precognitive Dreaming) - on his left eye

Users have the ability to foresee possible futures and observe what may happen. As knowledge of the future invariably causes that future to change, visions of the future are subject to frequent shifting. While not being able to select futures or travel through time, these visions may assist in possible courses of action.

For Axel, this is a magical process. It is very limited, however, by only coming to him in the form of dreams. Even then, the dreams are incredibly vague, and he often has a hard time understanding their meaning until the event has already passed.


- Isa (Cryokinesis) - in his right hand

"The user psychically reduces the kinetic energy of atoms in order to reduce temperature. Some can generate snow by affecting air molecules. Users may even become capable of generating and sending forth a freezing beam. Due to the amount of water on Earth, they have a virtually unlimited supply of moisture since it is always present in the surrounding air or environment. Even desert air has sufficient moisture content for higher-level users to make temporary practical use of; however, the mental effort needed to employ such power under these circumstances could eventually fatigue them and render any freezing ability temporarily dysfunctional."

Axel can use this ability at it's highest level. This is the only ability he understands completely, which causes him to have the utmost level of control over it. He can shoot blasts of ice, create weapons from ice, freeze the water in the air to cause a cold snap, create shield of ice for protection, and even coat himself in ice for use as armor. However, he does not have any control over h20 when it is in its liquid state. Also, pyrokinetics or hydrokinetics will have a natural resistance to his ability due to their own elemental energies. Fire, obviously, is his main weakness. Also, as a side effect of being brittle, some sound abilities will shatter the ice he can create around himself.

Intuitive Aptitude

The ability to see and understand patterns and systems. His mind is constantly processing through millions of thoughts and he cannot turn it off. Axel's main use of this ability is to be able to see all probabilities clearly, and act accordingly. Not to be confused with Probability Manipulation, as Axel can not magically change the inherit probability of a situation. Rather, he simply understands the situation so well that he can work within it to obtain a certain objective. Yes, he can learn things and understand them innately. However, he does not receive this information through "divine intervention," or any other sort of magical providence. He has to read the book, watch the movie, talk to the person at length, in order to understand the skill/person. The "inateness" of this ability is expressed by his capability to understand, not to know. He also cannot understand "powers," because reincarnate abilities are magically tied to their god, and not a mental process. A side effect of this ability is the development of psychopathy; Axel has developed a lack of empathy and remorse. His emotions have become very shallow, if he feels at all. He also starts to become very egocentric as well, feeling superior to those around him.
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WELCOME TO MY LIFE ' '

Place of Origin: Lubbock, Texas
History:

Childhood

Born on December 28th to a wealthy oil tycoon and his wife, Axel Van Eadric spent his early childhood getting everything he wanted, but mostly ignored. His brothers were the respective focus of his parents, and often as the middle child his personal needs were ignored and sated with money rather than feeling. Because of this, he started acting out at a young age. At 8, he got into a physical conflict with a fellow student, and because of this was sent to military school as a punishment for "disgracing the family." This ended up being a mistake, however, as Axel only grew to be even more frustrated with his family, specifically, the oil business. He began to realize how detrimental the business was to the environment, and couldn't sit ideally by any longer.

The Mistake

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When he came home for the summer of before his freshman year, he was absolutely determined to deliver a blow to his father's company. Axel had decided the he was going to do this by blowing up one of his father's oil rigs with explosives. This, surely, would get his attention. The goal was to cause so much damage that it would force his father to lose enough money that he would back off on drilling in the gulf... but unfortunately, it didn't work that way. He spent his entire summer learning about explosives and planning everything out as intricately as possible, but he couldn't have predicted that one of the workers would stay behind to look for his wallet. The building was supposed to be empty, but he ended up blowing the poor guy up with the rest of the rig. He was quickly caught, and even though he was a minor, Mr. Eadric was so furious that he did everything within his power to get his son tried as an adult. Axel ended up being sentenced to life in prison as a murderer.

Awakening

The middle son of the biggest oil tycoon in the nation was possibly the worst prisoner of all time. He was barely a teenager, and his life was already over. Axel spiraled into depression, every day being harder than the last. Eventually, he decided that he would rather die than live the rest of his life in captivity. His poison of choice? Axel hung himself, thinking it'd be the quickest and easiest route to hell. This was the turning point- he spent a total of five minutes dead, and then he suddenly awoke to absolute pain coming from his left eyelid. The young man had never felt anything like it before- a cold burn, like frozen hell. He slipped through the noose as if he simply tied it wrong, hitting the floor hard. It was a miracle, and he took it as a sign that he wasn't meant to die. Axel went to bed that night, suddenly exhausted, and had the most surreal dream possible. In this dream, he was reading a book with strange symbols in it. Or rather, he was watching himself read a book with strange symbols in it. Dream Axel was making notes in a notebook, which seemed to describe what the symbols meant. The dream then shifted to watching himself conduct some sort of ritual, he cringed as dream Axel carved a rune into his hand, then filled the wound with some blue substance. It shifted again, and he was reciting some chant out of a book in what sounded like.. Scandinavian? When he woke, Axel was more confused than ever. The first thing he did was check his eye, however... and of course, there was a symbol there, black as night. He spent the rest of his time researching the dream, the symbols, the language...trying to figure out what was going on. He came to the conclusion that it was "runes" and that he had been speaking Scandinavian, but he couldn't remember the words themselves. The symbol on his eye? It meant "all seeing". He had no idea what it meant, but the dreams just kept coming. He dreamed that his father was seeing things. He dreamed that his older brother was becoming an alcoholic. He had a dream of his mother crying to his younger brother. None of it made sense, but they all had this eerie surreal feeling that the first dream had.

Release

Little did he know that Sam had been approached by Pantheon Academy. After speaking with Mrs. Eadric, they realized her other children may have abilities as well, and investigated them. For Axel, this meant that mother used some of the money from the business to get grease enough palms to have him released on probation to the Academy. As far as the courts know, Pantheon is a "reform school," and Axel could barely believe it. When he got out, he realized very quickly what his dreams, and thus the rune, meant- he could see the future through his dreams. His father was crazy. His brother was not only an alcoholic, but overworked and stressed as well. His mother seemed to be becoming more and more anxious by the day. He was told that he possessed the soul of Odin, King of the Nordic Gods. With this knowledge, everything suddenly made sense. The summer before he began at the academy, he focused all his energy on putting his knowledge into action. He gathered the materials, did the ceremony, and found an adequate sacrifice- he gave up a quart of his blood to give himself the ability to control the cold. The rune was carved into the top of his right hand, and because it was larger and self-inflicted, it hurt far more than the first. He then poured what looked like liquid ice into arm, solidifying the ritual. As he enters Pantheon, the wound is still healing.


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CONNECTION TO THE MYTH ' '

- Odin Hung himself and received the knowledge of runes, Axel did the same.
- Odin was the God of magic, Axel is Sorcerer.
- Odin spent all his time working to avoid the Ragnarok, Axel is an extreme environmentalist.
- Odin was "wise" and loved "strategy", Axel understands things with ease and loves puzzles.
- Odin was known as "deceptive" and "tricky", Axel prefers to lie and manipulate to get what he wants.
- Odin was always separate from the other Norse Gods, Axel is a natural loner.
- Odin was a God of war, Axel went to Military school as a kid and is a natural fighter.
- Odin owned a magical spear name Gungnir, Axel uses an athame that he blessed named Gungnir.

ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE ' '

"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. - Carl Sandburg"


He hated the Pit, to be honest. When he was a simple warlock, going into the Pit was like asking for death. He'd avoided it as much as possible, and even now he'd usually send an underling instead of going there himself. This was different though- he needed to find someone, and he couldn't let just anyone handle this either.

Lilith wasn't like him, in the most basic way. She was an upper level demon, which would usually mean her status was above his, but because she was also half human that became less of a plus and more of a curse for her.

The Source did understand curses.

He'd consumed almost too much power in the wasteland, he thought. It was as if he couldn't even move without the walls moving in the Pit. Briefly he wondered where Alastair was, and if he was enjoying his week off or not. If there was one person that this Source wouldn't fuck with, it was Alastair.

The warlock turned a corner, and nearly tripped over who he was looking for.

"Well hello, just who I was looking for."


"My liege."

She bowed, though the Source wasn't sure what to think of it. It was still odd to him to have people giving him this kind of respect, not that he didn't think he deserved it. He just wasn't used to getting it. I mean, a couple of years ago, he was the warlock going after familiars as a way of getting rid of witches. His fellow warlocks had given him the nickname "Kitten Killer," which to be honest still haunted him.

"I am at your command."

It was easy to tell that she wasn't being truthful, but he didn't really care. She would do what he said regardless, that much he was sure of.

"You're lying, but I don't care. I have a job for you."

It was time for him to start pushing to get the Nexus in his control, but he still had no idea where it was or how to form it. What he did know was what The Seer had told him, which was that this... demon was a major part of it.

So he was going to put her to work, to test that theory.

"I'm sending you to San Diego California. There is a family of witches there. They're... not the Charmed ones, but. Well, consider this a test."

"You wish to test me, I'm not sure if I should feel honored or insulted."

He smirked, as her indignation was thoroughly amusing. While yes, he was a warlock, she was no better on the social ladder... whether or not she wanted to admit it was not his issue, and he did not even pretend to put up with her attitude.

"Insulted sounds like the right word, half-breed."

The Source knew she'd get the jab, there was no reason for him to be catty about it. He ran his hand through his hair, and then created a portal with his other hand.

"Who is this family and what threat do they pose to you?"

There was no way in hell she was going to know the truth of it, or that she was actually a lot more valuable than she knew... no, he was content with her thinking this was a simple mission.

"Nothing in particular. Must we need a reason to kill good witches?"

She very obviously did not like his responses. Not that he gave even half a shit. This was his Underworld, and he would run it how he see fit. Beyond that, this halfbreed had more power than she probably deserved... though that's what most were saying about him, lately.

Lilith also seemed highly annoyed at his portal, but he'd opened it for a reason. While he thought very little of her, he had no intention of letting her get killed. The Seer had insisted she go after the youngest first, as she was the easiest target.

The Source sided with her wisdom, though keeping in mind how the previous source had been deceived by a Seer before. He wasn't so sure he should be listening to her, but with Leviathan and the rest of the upper level demons clawing at his back... well, he wasn't in a position to be ditching allies.

"No sir."

He nodded, motioning towards the portal.

"The youngest awaits you. Report to me in Illusion when you're finished."

With that, he blinked away in typical Warlock fashion.

BEHIND THE SCENE ' '

Your name: Chase
Age: 22
How long have you been RPing? 10 Years
Where/How did you find us? Suggested and encouraged by Samael. (Larry)

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