Post by Charon on Aug 9, 2013 20:38:47 GMT -5
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NAME: Charon
Appearance: Charon stands at roughly one hundred ninety centimeters and maintains a rather healthy weight. Or so he firmly believes. Being in the possession of quite a lean and athletic body, he worries not about his weight, as he has much muscle and little fat. This muscle was gained from countless years of rowing the newly dead across the Styx and the several occasions he had to fish someone out of the river because they fell or jumped overboard. His skin is relatively pale, still. Due spending such a long period of time in the murky darkness of the Greek underworld his skin had lost most of its colour. In his time in the mortal world, though, his skin has gained more colour, though it remains rather pale. He seems to burn easily and tan rarely, so he doubts his skin will grow any darker in colour. He doesn't mind, though, as he feels that if his skin were much darker, it would contrast too unpleasantly with his salmon coloured hair. Personality:
History: Charon spent most of his days working, ferrying people into the Greek underworld. As man waged war after war, though, people rapidly began piling up on the shores of the river. They had rapidly run out of room and Charon was just one fellow with a single boat. He couldn't ferry them across fast enough. For every boatful he took, four or so more boatfuls would pile up on the shore. Eventually, he couldn't take it. He needed a break. So he told them to either wait around or swim to the shore and pray that nothing unfortunate happens along the way. In all his years, he'd never taken a vacation. He would admit, though, that he had indeed chosen a very poor time to take a vacation, but there was little that could be done about it now. For his vacation, he went to the human world, Earth. Now, maybe it's inaccurate to call it a "vacation", because what it truly was Charon looking for someone to bitch to about the situation he was having. After all, it seemed that others in charge of the dead had their hands overflowing as well. Soon after he left the underworld, though, attacks were launched on the gates, to his extreme displeasure and irritation. Now, Charon didn't care much for war, so after finding himself stranded he took to traveling and investigation other religions. Being cooped up in the underworld meant that he didn't exactly know a lot about the human world anymore. He might've known more had those who ended up on the shores of the Styx were not so busy mourning their own deaths. By the time the war had come to an end (or rather a stand-by, as he believed) he had gathered quite a bit of knowledge about the going ons in other religions and with the other gods. With much of the world destroyed, however, and he still unable to return home, he retreated to Jia where he put his knowledge newly gained to get a job as a priest of sorts. The job pays poorly, but Charon has always had plenty of money. He he's never had a shortage of coin, so he doesn't mind at all the low wages. Abilities: Charon has strength and stamina that surpasses that of a human's, as to be expected of him considering his previous occupation. On top of that, he is able to see the lifespan of others, down to precise fraction of a second. He is also able to see and communicate with spirits. Really, he doesn't have very many interesting abilities. The most interesting ability he has is probably the things his brain does. His brain perfectly records everything he sees and stores it in exact chronological order, leaving out absolutely no detail. In recounting his memories, it is possible for him to count the number of raindrops falling from the sky or the leaves on the trees. And he never forgets anything, which is something he personally considers quite the curse. His brain also has amazing calculative and pattern recognition abilities. On the other side of his pattern recognition abilities, he is also quite skilled at noticing even some of the most slight changes in patterns. Faceclaim: Watase Sanetoshi, MAWARU PENGUINDRUM Made by: Aswil |
