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Name: Merle
Age: 30
Personal Journal: merleblue
Contact: greymav (plurk)
Other In-Game Characters: N/A
Character (Original Character)
Name: Jade Banlong
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Canon: OC (Shadow City)
Canon Point: N/A
World History: Excerpt from A Brief History of Shadow City and its Environs, B. Hennessen-Harpur Press.
Character History: Jade was born to luxury. His parents - a storm dragon of the Chinese celestial bureaucracy and a human painter - provided him with all the funds he reasonably could have desired, but as his maturing personality showed signs of dissolution, they forced him out to make his own way and prove his worth. For the next ten years or so, Jade wandered the world, passing for human and working at what jobs caught his interest.
Jade traveled widely, had dalliances on multiple continents, but never more than a casual fling. His childhood was luxurious, but without true friends, and while his parents were loving, neither was particularly adept at showing it to their frivolous son. Jade took readily to the playboy persona - smoothing paths with his soporific mist where his father's riches could not - until the lifting of the Veil.
His father's undeniable power and China's more lenient stance towards certain supernatural creatures extended to Jade as well, but he had fallen in love with American culture. With the creation of Shadow City in New York, the legal options for a supernatural creature in America were sharply curtailed, and Jade found his free existence both legally threatened and a source of tension for the American and Chinese governments.
Jade's suggestion that he be granted a bounty hunter's license started as a pretext; under the new American laws, a supernatural with a bounty license could walk freely in the daylight world without issue. In that, it succeeded in mollifying both sets of diplomats, and he took to it slowly at first. With his family's wealth, Jade had no real need for more funds, and there was not yet any actual requirement that he hint successfully to keep his license.
However, almost despite himself, Jade found that bounty hunting suited him well. Despite his spoiled upbringing and playboy ways, his heart was still that of a predator; chasing down fugitive monsters, outwitting and trapping them, manipulating them into falling prey to his mists, proved more of a thrill than any debauchery. He found himself leaving his old acquaintances behind, spending more and more time challenging himself at his new career.
Jade's only true rival was the vampire Sasha Loloches, whose more brutal style clashed with his own. The two often found themselves in direct competition over bounties, but despite their one-upmanship and even, at times, direct confrontation, Jade found himself enjoying the persistence of his rival. Without ever consciously meaning to, he found himself considering her something not entirely unlike a friend - for the first time in his life, someone who could match him and actually challenge him.
Personality: Jade is the only son of an ancient ocean dragon and a high-society human woman. Raised in a palace at the bottom of the sea, attended by inhuman servants, it is no wonder he grew into a spoiled, vain and frivolous young man. Used to luxury, and not averse to using his will-sapping abilities to get his way with mortals, he is devoted to creature comforts and quite unused to being gainsaid. Though he would say he has many friends, in truth, he tends to surround himself with sycophants and fellow dilettantes without ever making a true friend.
Those few individuals who can stand up to his whims, though infuriating, tend to become objects of fascination for Jade. Part of him simply cannot comprehend someone saying "no" to one of his ideas, and he will fixate on any such resister, not losing interest until they are cowed, or more often will-fogged, into acquiescence. He doesn't really understand how much he depends on his supernatural abilities to ease his way past difficulties, to the point of gross overconfidence while bounty-hunting.
That's not to say that Jade is a coward. He is not at all fond of fighting, but even he isn't arrogant enough to assume that every creature he ever faces will be vulnerable to his charms, and knows some basic self-defense techniques - though he is self-aware enough to use them mostly as a means of expediting escape. Jade is no great martial artist, and he knows it.
Jade considers himself somewhat more straight-inclined than anything else, though he's had his share of male liasons in the past. Beautiful women are a weakness of his, and he has not had much cause yet to consider the less savory implications of his seductions, having taken up his father's views of relationships between mortals and immortals. His mother being an enthusiastic and willing wife, Jade himself doesn't generally stop to think that the women he dates might disapprove of his use of draconic presence to sway them.
On the whole, Jade takes each day as it comes, without much in the way of planning for the future - taking his father's immortal mindset, he's content to let history sweep interesting new things and people towards him, rather than aiming for any particular goal. He has become fascinated with electronics and computers, however, as their potency has become evident over the past few decades, and as they pose a challenge that his supernatural gifts cannot even begin to address, a challenge purely to his intellect.
Third-Person Sample: Writing sample
Mognet Sample:
LOST: My patience. Reward if found. Answers to 'Here, have a nice drink' or 'Care to share this wine with me?' Honestly, people, there has to be somewhere in this benighted world where a decent evening of debauchery can be found.
First round is on me, even. Just point me towards some bar worthy of the name.
-Jade
Crystallis
Moogle Name: Sashalia
Moogle Gender: Female.
First Job: Dragoon
Second Job: Thief
Limit Break: Hypnotic Mist: Jade exhales a rolling cloud of thick, greenish mist which quickly spreads. Any non-dragon organic creature that inhales or is exposed to the mist quickly finds their will sapped and any aggression fading away, replaced by an eagerness to listen to and obey the source of the hypnotic mist. This effect fades over the course of several hours, leaving no lasting ill effects.
Name: Merle
Age: 30
Personal Journal: merleblue
Contact: greymav (plurk)
Other In-Game Characters: N/A
Character (Original Character)
Name: Jade Banlong
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Canon: OC (Shadow City)
Canon Point: N/A
World History: Excerpt from A Brief History of Shadow City and its Environs, B. Hennessen-Harpur Press.
Character History: Jade was born to luxury. His parents - a storm dragon of the Chinese celestial bureaucracy and a human painter - provided him with all the funds he reasonably could have desired, but as his maturing personality showed signs of dissolution, they forced him out to make his own way and prove his worth. For the next ten years or so, Jade wandered the world, passing for human and working at what jobs caught his interest.
Jade traveled widely, had dalliances on multiple continents, but never more than a casual fling. His childhood was luxurious, but without true friends, and while his parents were loving, neither was particularly adept at showing it to their frivolous son. Jade took readily to the playboy persona - smoothing paths with his soporific mist where his father's riches could not - until the lifting of the Veil.
His father's undeniable power and China's more lenient stance towards certain supernatural creatures extended to Jade as well, but he had fallen in love with American culture. With the creation of Shadow City in New York, the legal options for a supernatural creature in America were sharply curtailed, and Jade found his free existence both legally threatened and a source of tension for the American and Chinese governments.
Jade's suggestion that he be granted a bounty hunter's license started as a pretext; under the new American laws, a supernatural with a bounty license could walk freely in the daylight world without issue. In that, it succeeded in mollifying both sets of diplomats, and he took to it slowly at first. With his family's wealth, Jade had no real need for more funds, and there was not yet any actual requirement that he hint successfully to keep his license.
However, almost despite himself, Jade found that bounty hunting suited him well. Despite his spoiled upbringing and playboy ways, his heart was still that of a predator; chasing down fugitive monsters, outwitting and trapping them, manipulating them into falling prey to his mists, proved more of a thrill than any debauchery. He found himself leaving his old acquaintances behind, spending more and more time challenging himself at his new career.
Jade's only true rival was the vampire Sasha Loloches, whose more brutal style clashed with his own. The two often found themselves in direct competition over bounties, but despite their one-upmanship and even, at times, direct confrontation, Jade found himself enjoying the persistence of his rival. Without ever consciously meaning to, he found himself considering her something not entirely unlike a friend - for the first time in his life, someone who could match him and actually challenge him.
Personality: Jade is the only son of an ancient ocean dragon and a high-society human woman. Raised in a palace at the bottom of the sea, attended by inhuman servants, it is no wonder he grew into a spoiled, vain and frivolous young man. Used to luxury, and not averse to using his will-sapping abilities to get his way with mortals, he is devoted to creature comforts and quite unused to being gainsaid. Though he would say he has many friends, in truth, he tends to surround himself with sycophants and fellow dilettantes without ever making a true friend.
Those few individuals who can stand up to his whims, though infuriating, tend to become objects of fascination for Jade. Part of him simply cannot comprehend someone saying "no" to one of his ideas, and he will fixate on any such resister, not losing interest until they are cowed, or more often will-fogged, into acquiescence. He doesn't really understand how much he depends on his supernatural abilities to ease his way past difficulties, to the point of gross overconfidence while bounty-hunting.
That's not to say that Jade is a coward. He is not at all fond of fighting, but even he isn't arrogant enough to assume that every creature he ever faces will be vulnerable to his charms, and knows some basic self-defense techniques - though he is self-aware enough to use them mostly as a means of expediting escape. Jade is no great martial artist, and he knows it.
Jade considers himself somewhat more straight-inclined than anything else, though he's had his share of male liasons in the past. Beautiful women are a weakness of his, and he has not had much cause yet to consider the less savory implications of his seductions, having taken up his father's views of relationships between mortals and immortals. His mother being an enthusiastic and willing wife, Jade himself doesn't generally stop to think that the women he dates might disapprove of his use of draconic presence to sway them.
On the whole, Jade takes each day as it comes, without much in the way of planning for the future - taking his father's immortal mindset, he's content to let history sweep interesting new things and people towards him, rather than aiming for any particular goal. He has become fascinated with electronics and computers, however, as their potency has become evident over the past few decades, and as they pose a challenge that his supernatural gifts cannot even begin to address, a challenge purely to his intellect.
Third-Person Sample: Writing sample
Mognet Sample:
LOST: My patience. Reward if found. Answers to 'Here, have a nice drink' or 'Care to share this wine with me?' Honestly, people, there has to be somewhere in this benighted world where a decent evening of debauchery can be found.
First round is on me, even. Just point me towards some bar worthy of the name.
-Jade
Crystallis
Moogle Name: Sashalia
Moogle Gender: Female.
First Job: Dragoon
Second Job: Thief
Limit Break: Hypnotic Mist: Jade exhales a rolling cloud of thick, greenish mist which quickly spreads. Any non-dragon organic creature that inhales or is exposed to the mist quickly finds their will sapped and any aggression fading away, replaced by an eagerness to listen to and obey the source of the hypnotic mist. This effect fades over the course of several hours, leaving no lasting ill effects.
