Gabriel Iris Eadric

[sansdelilah]

artistic, fickle, athletic

BACK TO BASICS ' '

Full Name:Gabriel Iris Eadric
Significance of Name:
-Gabriel: In Christian Mythology, the Archangel Gabriel serves as God's messenger, which is fitting with Hermes' role as the Messenger for the Olympians.
-Iris: Iris shared the responsibility of Messenger with Hermes. She was also goddess of rainbows, which is somewhat fitting with Gabriel's sometimes garish clothing. Additionally, Gabriel's ability mostly manifests visually, so the anatomical nuance of the word is also fitting.
-Eadric: A family name meaning "wealthy ruler."
Nickname(s): Gabe
Age: 15
Gender: male
Orientation: homosexual
Grade: sophomore
Celeb you're using: Ryan Ross
Deity: Hermes - Greek
Title of your deity:The Messenger God, Lord of Liars and Thieves, Bringer of Dreams and Harbinger of Death

STRIKE A POSE ' '

Physical Appearance:

face

Like his hair, his wide innocent eyes are such a dark brown that they border on black. His face curves its way down to his square chin, which in juxtaposition with his heavy lips gives him a bit of a cherubic countenance. This is aided by the rosy flush usually present on his cheeks which is matched by the dark red of his lips.

hair

Gabriel wears his dark brown hair at a medium length, falling somewhere between his ears and shoulders. It has a sleek shine that catches the light in a very eye-catching way. As he is young, facial hair isn't yet an issue for him, and he always appears clean shaven.

body

Gabriel's years of Track have given his tall body a lean and defined look. Constantly being outdoors, his skin has a sun kissed glow hovering around a shade of olive.

clothes

Gabriel's wardrobe consists of a collection of button-up shirts, vests and slacks with clashing, garish patterns. It's very rare that his outfits match, and Gabriel is often spotted wearing paisley, argyle and pinstripes all at once, finished off by a non-descript pair of slip-ons.

LET'S GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER ' '

Personality Description:

imaginative

Gabriel's ability manifested at an early age, encouraging him to have an active imagination. Gabriel has always excelled in creative arts like painting, drawing and music.

artistic

As previously stated, Gabriel excels in creative arts, and not just visual ones. As his ability can also manifest in auditory ways, he has become quite accomplished as a musician. His favorite instrument is the guitar, and he is quite masterful with it. He can often be found sitting alone, projecting complex and beautiful music.

sneaky

As he enjoys his solitude, Gabriel also tends to be very private about his personal beliefs and opinions, as well as his past. This leads to the perception among his peers that he is hiding something, a perception he doesn't do a great deal to correct.

suspicious

Gabriel has an immensely hard time trusting others, as he is very scrutinizing of social undercurrents and motivations. As his peers often find him untrustworthy, he returns the feeling.

visual

Gabriel will often find himself awestruck by visual phenomena such as art, beautiful flora, and the sky. He is obsessed with form, and creating beauty.

fickle

Some would say that Gabriel displays hyperactive or attention deficit issues, and they might be right. He has great difficulty focusing on one subject for long periods, and rarely finishes projects.

athletic

Gabriel's mercurial spirit manifests quite clearly in athletics. He excels in soccer, swimming and lacrosse, though his true talents lie in Track and Field. Undefeated in any such event that he has attempted, Gabriel has been approached by the US Olympic Track and Field team due to his habit of shattering world records. Gabriel also achieved the rank of Black Belt in the Capoeira fighting style shortly before attending Pantheon.

Likes:
-Art
-Solitude
-Running
-Dance Music
-Travel
Dislikes:
-Tight spaces
-Rudeness
-Rainy Days
-Unhygienic people
-Nosiness
Strength:
-Imaginative
-Quick-witted
-Persuasive
-Fleet-footed
-Adaptable
Weaknesses:
-Fickle
-Short attention span
-Air-headed
-Rash
-Claustrophobic
Fears:
Claustrophobia- Gabriel has an intense fear of tight spaces, as he feels that his liberty is being taken from him. He will collapse, unable to function, imagining a more pleasing reality for himself.
Goal:
-Gabriel has realized that his irresponsible use of his ability has hurt people, so he is quite intent on understanding and increasing his control over his ability.
Power/Ability:

primary:

illusion

Gabriel has the ability to project three types of illusions:

light-based illusions

This aspect of his ability allows him to bring any light or sound based illusion into objective existence. This allows him to create complex three-dimensional light-based illusions including, but not limited to, small objects, animals, light sources, and people. He must focus intently to create large light based illusions. A person, for example, would take all of his focus, allowing him to do nothing else. any light-based illusion larger than a person, would be intensely straining, and though Gabriel has never tried it, he theorizes that the illusion would fail quickly. Any light-based illusion he creates must be based on someone he has seen before. He is not skilled enough to make original people.

sound-based illusions

He can also project any sound he can imagine as a sound-based illusion. This can be anything from music, mimicked human voices, or animal sounds, to stranger effects that Gabriel has imagined himself.

sense-based illusions

Gabriel is also able to affect the minds of those around him directly. Illusions he creates in this way can only be perceived by the specific person(s) that he designates. Creating sense-based illusions is much less stressful for Gabriel, and he is able to fool the senses of several people at once. In the past, he has projected a single sense-based illusion into the minds of as many as six people, and different sense-based illusions into the minds of as many as three people with no real difficulty. Gabriel has never fully probed the limits of this ability, though he theorizes that his illusions will begin to break down if he does.

The illusions he can produce in this way are limited only by his imagination and his own adeptness. Gabriel is quite skilled in fooling the senses of sight and hearing. He is also fairly adept at fooling the sense of touch, though not quite as much as sight and hearing. The nebulous senses of smell and taste are significantly harder for Gabriel to approximate, especially in conjunction with other senses.

Gabriel can project sense-based illusions in either of two ways:
-The easiest way is to project an illusion directly into another's mind. This allows for maximum complexity, but anyone else in the vicinity, unless also targeted, will not perceive the illusion.
-Through immense concentration, Gabriel can project an illusive field. The larger the area affected, and the more complex the illusion, the more difficult the illusion is to maintain. Anyone entering the field will perceive the illusion.

secondary:
necromancy

Gabriel's necromantic abilities manifest in two ways:

soul summoning

Gabriel can summon the souls of the departed to his side, tugging them back from the underworld. These souls usually retain their personalities and memories from life, but some older souls have spent so much time in the underworld that they've forgotten their past lives, or indeed, that they were once human at all. These souls are quite powerful and amoral, and will follow Gabriel's commands without question. The souls summoned, while incorporeal, have enough of an ectoplasmic presence to affect physical objects, making them ideal companions in battle.

necromantic energy manipulation

Gabriel can also transform the souls of the dead into a raw magical energy, which can then be used as a power source to achieve a variety of effects, such as the ability to fire bolts of concussive force, telekinesis, and the reanimation of any once-living thing. Gabriel can also channel the necromantic energy into his own body, increasing his strength, stamina, speed and agility for a limited time. Gabriel can transform souls he has already summoned into raw magical power, or channel the energy directly from Tartarus by forming a conduit from himself to the underworld. The longer this conduit remains open, the more unstable it becomes, and if it were to backfire, Gabriel theorizes that he would risk being pulled into the underworld himself.

WELCOME TO MY LIFE ' '

Place of Origin: Lubbock, Texas
History:

childhood

As long as he can remember, Gabriel was his mother's favorite child. Early on in life, she shielded him from the worst of his father's abuse, which unfortunately fell on his two older brothers. Gabriel thus grew up in a bit of a bubble, not having much to do with his older brothers, who, at least in Gabriel's mind, hated him for perceived preferential treatment. If Gabriel wasn't out shopping, or at home listening to music with his mother, he was alone, and happily so. He would spend hours outside, running across the open plains outside their Texas estate, and when the sunlight finally faded, he would retire to his room and listen to music until he fell asleep.

mounting tensions

Around his tenth birthday, Gabriel's father had begun to take a bit of a negative interest in him. On an elaborate public relations stunt of a hunting trip, Gabriel had embarrassed his father by refusing to kill anything. The oil tycoons and journalists in attendance laughed it off, but Gabriel's father took this as an insult. He began scrutinizing his youngest son's behavior, calling it unmanly. The gibes grew into abuse as his father began referring to Gabriel with female pronouns, and venomously calling him "his little lady." Gabriel was infuriated by his mother's silence, as she had always shielded him from his father. But she had of late pulled away from him, and he would find her in her room, sobbing silently. When probed on her depression, his mother would always deflect, finding something for them to do together, but not really participating.

whispers

Gabriel began to wish for nothing more than for his father to leave him alone. To not even know he existed. Whenever he and his father shared a room, Gabriel wished as hard as he could that his father wouldn't notice him, so as to avoid the constant abuse. And to his pleasant surprise, his wish came true. In fact, he discovered, he could make his father see or hear things that weren't there. Gabriel began using his newfound ability to play tricks on his father, making him hear eerie, whispering voices as he was trying to sleep, even going so far as to make his father feel snakes wriggling in his bed. This continued for several months, until Christmas day when Gabriel was eleven.

the gift

One of the few occasions on which the Eadric family came together happily was Christmas. One day a year, all petty squabbling and anger would be set aside, and they would just be a family. This year, however, would be different. Samael and Axel opened their presents joyously, and as the youngest, Gabriel eagerly awaited his turn. He ripped into a box, finding a card addressed "to my little lady." Removing the tissue paper from the box, he found an evening gown. His father and his oldest brother began to roar with laughter. And Gabriel's innocent trickery ended that day. He began using his ability to sneak unnoticed into his father's office, watching him open the large combination safe, in which he kept large amount of cash and and gold bars. He would come back later and steal from he safe, lying in wait for his father to come back. When he did, Gabriel would project his eldest brother leaving the room, not out of character for Samael. When his father discovered the money missing, he would immediately accuse Samael wildly of attempting to steal his fortune and company out from under him, only to find that Samael had an airtight alibi. Gabriel continued projecting whispering voices and snakes into his father's mind, and continued to steal from his father's safe, only to burn his gains.

a brother lost

Gabriel slowly began to notice that his father had begun to see things when Gabriel wasn't using his ability. He became paranoid, and began to babble alone to himself that his sons were trying to kill him. Gabriel began to see that he had eroded his father's sanity through repeated use of his ability, and ceased immediately. But it was too late. His father would regularly fly into angry, violent rages toward his sons and his wife. This continued until Gabriel's older brother Axel accidentally killed a man while attempting to sabotage one of their father's oil rigs. Their father made certain that Axel was tried as an adult, and he received life in prison. After this, Gabriel's father became much more insistent about Gabriel's perceived effeminacy. To placate his father, the youngest Eadric enrolled in Capoeira classes, a South American martial art straddling a fine line between dancing and fighting. Gabriel excelled quickly.

a titan dethroned

Two years went by with Axel in prison, and their father's mental state continued to deteriorate. One day, their father flew into a paranoid rage, and attacked Gabriel and Samael. Their mother had no choice but to hide her remaining sons in the extensive network of tunnels beneath the estate. Samael refused to stay hidden, and ventured upstairs to confront their father. Gabriel and his mother remained in the tunnels, until they heard the men from the asylum come. They returned upstairs to see the taillights of the van drive off the estate.

a new beginning

Soon after their father's departure, a woman came calling to the Eadric estate for the remaining sons. She told him that she believed that he held the soul of Hermes the Trickster within him. She cited his many awards and medals for Track and Field as evidence. Gabriel then informed the woman of his ability to project illusions, and she seemed surprised. Gabriel inquired about her change of demeanor, and she said simply that her employers had not expected his ability, but that they would nonetheless help him understand it and control it. She offered him a place at Pantheon Academy, and he accepted. After a tear-filled goodbye, his mother gave him a necklace shaped like a caduceus, saying that it once belonged to his father. He then left with the woman, off to the Academy.

CONNECTION TO THE MYTH ' '

-Hermes was the god of liars and thieves, and Gabriel's ability is based around fooling people.
-As the messenger god, Hermes was capable of moving incredibly quickly, and Gabriel is a track star without parallel.
-Gabriel, unbeknownst to anyone but his mother, is an illegitimate child, born of an affair she had with a doctor working with Doctors without Borders. Hermes was the illegitimate child of Zeus and Maia.
-Upon Hermes' birth, his mother hid herself and her infant son in a cave from Hera. Gabriel and his mother hid in tunnels under their estate from his father.
-Hermes, on his first day of life, stole Apollo's sacred cattle and sacrificed them by fire. Gabriel began stealing at a very young age, burning the money he stole from his father.

ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE ' '

Anto inched along the corridor. His well-practiced feet made barely any noise on the ancient stone floor. Unfortunately, his students did not have 500 years of experience under their belts, and one of them tripped over his own foot, not only falling, and making quite a racket, he also lost concentration, and dropped his Force Cloak.

Anto was an adept of the Force Cloak technique, a method of redirecting light that, in effect, rendered the user invisible, among other things. He taught it to all of his recruits. Anto was the leader of a team known as the Order of the Ah Zhirr, comprised mostly of Fallen Jedi and Ex-Sith. The team was little more than a glorified mercenarial squad, which didn't bother Anto one bit.

These days, if you were a mercenary, you were most likely employed by the Sith Empire, which was indeed true in Anto's case. The Order worked for the Empire on a job by job basis, but it was generally accepted that if there was a tough job the Sith needed done, especially one requiring stealthy infiltration, that the Order was their first call.

Anyway, back to the situation at hand. One of Anto's newer recruits, tripped and dropped his Cloak. This might not be so bad, except for the fact that they were in the tomb of an ancient Sith Lord, and a particularly nasty one. This tomb happened to be equipped with impenetrable webs of laser sensors, which, given their skill with redirecting light, wasn't a problem.

WASN'T a problem. Unfortunately, the impenetrable web of laser sensors extended for the entire main corridor, which still had about twenty feet until they hit the Sarcophagus Chamber. Swarms of droids, armed to the proverbial teeth with deadly ancient blasters came from every direction. Anto decided to improvise.

"Drop your Cloaks, these droids rely on infrared sensors, you can't waste your energy. Sabers, now!!!" A collective "zzzzz" sound resonated throughout the entire tomb, and a field of indigo lightsabers flickered to life. "Spread out!!" Anto barked.

The highly trained team fanned out, lightsabers whirring, cutting down droid after droid. "Stay clear of me!!!" Anto commanded, and he activated his dual curved sabers, twisted them together, and began to chop down droids. Anto became a whirlwind of indigo light. Any droid within 10 feet was hacked into dozens of pieces, quickly followed by those at 20 feet.

Anto was caught off guard by a burst of electricity from one of the droids, equipped with a shocker arm. Anto fell to the ground immediately, siezing violently as his neuropathways fried. His students took out the few remaining droids, and rushed to his aid.

One pupil, a Nautolan named Un Toso, was particularly skilled in healing, and pushed his way up. He laid his hands on Anto. "Most of his nerves are fried, and he suffered a fractured wrist and a broken ulna while seizing."

"Can you fix it?" A particularly impatient student stammered.

"I think so." Un rasied his hands a few inches above Anto's body, and closed his eyes. Light began to stream from Toso's hands to Anto's body, Un ran his hands over most of his body. Upon reaching his head, Anto siezed back to life.

Anto gasped for air, and saw his pupils standing around him. He stood up. All of his students watched him intently.

"Shall we continue?" He strode toward the Sarcophagus Chamber. Anto heard footsteps from an adjoining corridor.

That had better be him, he thought. If that Sith Lord is dead, I'm not getting paid, and that won't be a good day for anyone.

BEHIND THE SCENE ' '

Your name: Sans
Age: 20
How long have you been RPing? 6 years
Where/How did you find us?

Via Samael, aka Larry.

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