Do Not Fear the Son of Fire

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Applicant Info

Name: Adrien
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Current Character(s): Nyx Ulric

Character Info

Character's Name: Phoenix
Character's Canon: Original
Character's Age: 22
Canon Point: After he’s run away from home, but before he finds help.

Background/History:

Phoenix, born Hai Jinn, is part of a race of fire affiliated humanoids that were once excessively war-like. They migrated in tiny clans, draining resources and killing the earth everywhere they settled before once more moving on. This changed after Phoenix was born as his mother knew that the clans were driving themselves to extinction and she wanted to protect her son. She forcibly united the clans, killing the other leaders when they resisted until one by one they surrendered under her rule. Their people settled in one place for the first time in recent history, claiming the land “Miravon”, and Phoenix grew up in a fledgling village trying to learn how to sustain itself.

It was discovered when he is very young that Phoenix is the mortal embodiment of fire; he’s marked by patches of feathers on his shoulder blades, a physical trait that only those touched by an elemental queen possess. Seeing an opportunity, his mother decided to use his power for her own gains and raised him strictly. Physically pushed repeatedly beyond his limits, and emotionally controlled since his most sensitive age, Phoenix would have become a weapon for his family.

Fortunately, Phoenix was not left alone to his mother’s mercies. As he grew older he discovered that fire could talk to him. It was firm, but kind. It spoke of an element that was as graceful as it was fierce and through these moments Phoenix fell in love. He refused to think of it as a tool to be used, believing that the element was as intelligent and alive as him, and it taught him in return.

Once he understood that the world was bigger than his mother’s vision, Phoenix grew discontent and by the time he turned thirteen he had tried to run away no less than ten times--each attempt was as unsuccessful as the one before it. During his last attempt he met another child like him--Sylph, touched by Air-- and caught his first glimpse of how good the world could be. Sylph and his family were the very picture of the kindness Phoenix had never gotten from his own.

He returned to Miravon willingly, after saying goodbye to his new brother, and accepted that until he got stronger his mother would never stop chasing him. With this goal in mind, Phoenix turned himself into an obedient son in order to learn everything he could so that one day he might be able to escape for good.

At 22 Phoenix has come into his own power. His skill at summoning elementals is nearly unparalleled, and he’s become friends enough with fire itself that it is more than happy to bend to his will. Confident in his ability to defend himself, he decides he’s finally ready to leave and makes his way to a deep, legendary forest not far from Miravon. As stories tell it: nobody that walks into the Griffon’s Forest comes back out alive, and after years of planning he’s certain walking right through it is the best way to lose pursuers.

He’s about to the edge of the trees, running for his life from the soldiers dispatched to find him, when he’s taken from his world.


Strengths:

• Fire attunement. He is one with his element and it’s as simple as breathing to generate and manipulate it. He can summon multiple elementals from the plane of fire without any kind of ritual, and many of them are happy to fulfill his requests. Large elementals take a toll on his energy, and very rarely will they concede to help him, so he usually sticks to common critters when he needs the help.
• Phoenix is pacifistic. He grew up among violent people and developed a distaste for it. The knowledge that he is capable of causing great harm, and that there are people who want to use him for that reason, only makes him dig in his heels. He can accept acting in defense of oneself or the things one loves, but if there’s another option available he’ll try that first.
• He has a willingness and the ability to communicate with, accept, and be accepted by entities that other people don’t even perceive as sentient. This leans more towards anything associated with fire than not, but even if he cannot communicate with other elements and their kin he understands that just because something can’t talk doesn’t mean it isn’t as alive as he is.

Weaknesses:

• Deathly fear of heights. Even the thought of being exposed or unsupported above the ground is enough to make him feel anxious.
• Cold temperatures. While he’s capable of generating enough heat to keep himself warm, the effect is lessened when he’s wet or exhausted, and he’s prone to getting sick when he’s fully exposed to the cold. Excessive cold will kill him if he’s unable to regulate his body temperature--faster than it would a typical human.
• Forced ignorance. Due to an abusive, sheltered childhood, Phoenix has little knowledge of the world outside his village, and less experience holding conversations with other people. Most of his knowledge was fed to him by biased sources, and he has yet to learn how to untangle these misconceptions and habits.

Powers/Abilities:

Spirit of Fire:

• Immune to heat of all kinds
• Generates and controls fire
• Can talk to fire as if it’s a sentient creature.
• Elemental summoning
• Can grow wings big enough that allow him to fly (if he weren’t terrified of it)
• Reads as kin to elementals and other fire based creatures

He has a resurrection clause under his existence contract (as close to being a mythical phoenix without actually being a bird), but he is unaware of this. If given a fatal blow his body will slow dramatically for a few days while it heals, which can be mistaken for a death like state. He is unconscious for the duration. It is possible to actually kill him but it’s very difficult.

Other Noteworthy Traits:

• His people are masters of the forge, and while he doesn’t really wield weapons, Phoenix is an experienced blacksmith. He has yet to find his own style and, as of his entry to the game, he only knows the kind of gear his village produces.
• He is absolutely not an experienced traveller and has never been very far from home without family keeping an eye on him.
• He’s incredibly inexperienced at nuance, and often assumes that there’s something to read between the lines. Subtle sarcasm is lost on him.

Weapons & Other Special Inventory:

• The clothes Phoenix wears are fire resistant and designed to give his wings room to grow from his shoulder blades.
• A Summoner’s Mark: a rose gold pendant with a red emerald signifying his title as a summoner. While others need the stone to summon elementals in the first place, Phoenix doesn’t and carries it out of respect alone.
• A pocket full of metal bits and rings made out of soft gold for easier molding.
• His entire smithing kit, which is big enough that he can't really carry it around because it’s all his tools and what protective gear he does still have to wear. (He’s not immune to bright light. Whoops.

If he can't still have access to elementals here, see below, then could I request four summonable elementals to bring with him as pets? A level 3 that commonly takes on a weasel form, and three basic ones that kinda just look like small torch flames with legs.

Color: Red please. Something close to the middle of the spectrum, not too light and not too dark, with a touch of orange, preferably.

Sample: Sample 1 and Sample 2.

[ OPTIONAL ] World Aspect: Elementals! These creatures live in their own kinda pocket plane of existence, you could say, but are not confined there. There are several different levels of elementals from the smallest, most basic fae-like creatures to elite elementals that are only a single step down in power from the queens. However the largest ones are almost never found in the wild outside their home plane and are probably entirely irrelevant to Awash. Level 3 elementals and above can take a physical form in the mortal plane, usually appearing as some form of animal with a trait to indicate their element, i.e. a fire elemental will still burn in some fashion, whether it's in place of long hair or a smoldering flame in their throat, etc.