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PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Steph 2.0
AGE: 22
CONTACT: susrien
CHARACTERS PLAYED: Davina Claire

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Elliot Jude Richards
CANON: Original Character: Boys And Monsters Flavour
AGE: 25
CANON POINT: Directly after the removal of Nyaminyami.

BACKGROUND:


BASIC WORLD INFORMATION
—in the land of gods & monsters—



INFORMATION | THE HISTORY OF BCR | BONUS DEETS

Somewhere up north, somewhere cold, is a school for boys possessed of a certain kind of magic. This school doesn't teach how to read the future, or how to walk through walls. This school teaches math, and languages, and how to bring monsters to heel.

Welcome to the Barrett-Crowley Reformatory, and mind the claws.

— all info above written-up by manual.

But that's not where we're going this time, not exactly, whilst, Elliot is from the same verse as the Barrett-Crowley Reformatory, he doesn't and has never attended it. No, this story takes place somewhere a bit older: Africa.

—here's your introduction to destruction—


"The JoBurg Collective — Less of a physical institution so much as a network of private educators, the South African institution actively seeks out magic users to educate and train individually. The collective maintains a three-floor office building in Johannesburg as a de-facto headquarters and containment facility." - manual

Unlike BCR, the JBC seeks out magic users starting in their teens and upwards and groups them by age to form "classes." This often means that graduating classes often aren't large but are focused on intensively more like an alternative school or private school vs a public school. Mostly they are educated and trained individually but are also given group situations to enhance the learning experience and show the importance of networking and working with other magic users.

It's basically like a more personalised Quantico for magic that share many of BCR's beliefs in teaching if on a more harsh scale.

►Childhood | I am Elliot's medulla oblongata◄

▸ Born to Elaine and Grant (sr) Richards in London not much prior to Grant (jr)'s birth. Elliot is the Alpha Twin by like five minutes. His parents were (and are still) very much in love, having met on a mission or a "business trip" as he says, that they both took part in, which lead to an interesting couple of nights in Africa which his father has no issue sharing - leading both Elliot and Grant when he was alive to plug their ears going "LA LA LA. CAN'T HEAR YOU."

▸ Elliot and Grant had somewhat of a posh upbringing, often invited to important parties due to their parents' important connections. This led to a more strict childhood, one that unfortunately didn't really involve both parents that often. The twins were mainly raised by a nanny until and had a rather normal (as normal as rich childhood is) childhood. Never really wanting for anything except more attention from their parents.

▸ As they grew older they attended a private school in London, that's where Elliot's interest in theatre and gymnastics began to really take root. His brother dutifully followed alongside him into his newfound hobbies, despite being the more introverted twin. When the focus was on Elliot, he seemed to excel, loving to be on a stage of any kind, be it for ballet or for school plays.

▸ @ 10; The twins' powers began manifesting in different ways: Grant began seeing ghosts and Elliot began seeing the energy that surrounded things that surrounded those spirits his brother saw, that surrounded the dead and the dying. This came as no shock to their parents as they both are magic users themselves; Elaine a spectral and Grant (sr) a necromantic.

Not much changed in their lives with their new powers, Elliot became a bit more solemn, not liking that he could see the death around people in hospitals or around his ill family members that he knew wouldn't make it and his brother became a bit more strange as he befriended people that weren't exactly people any more. There was also the change in nanny to someone a bit more qualified to help them embrace what they were.

Their lives continued on, quietly and normally, as they continued to go to their private school, keeping their powers to themselves, feeling more and more alone even when they had plenty of friends.

▸ @ 13; It wasn't until Elliot was thirteen that things went awry, his brother met his first not so nice spirit, one afternoon during third hour. To everyone but Elliot he looked like a madman, having some sort of panic attack or meltdown in the middle of class. The malicious spirit in question wanted what it no longer had - life and power. It was that same day that Elliot learned he could interact with the dark energy he witnessed around and in the spirits that his brother saw. With enough panic, he learned he could tear a spirit apart, joining his brother in looking like a complete whacko whilst he tried desperately to keep his little brother safe.

Embarrassed and ashamed, the Richards and their nanny were forced to pick up and move their children, not really wanting to deal with further judgement from the rest of the family they glossed over Yorkshire entirely and chose Africa - always seeming like a second home to both Elaine and Grant (sr). Their mother promised she'd meet up with them once they settled in wherever their father brought them. Grant (sr) took the children to Johanessburg and set them up there in a house, taking a "smaller job" and seemed to disappear shortly after, once again. Unsurprisingly they never saw their mother, at least, not until they were fifteen, plied with excuses about how work had gotten out of hand, despite brief instances of seeing their father.

They were plied with a new nanny whose son, Ezra, they became close with almost immediately. They were home schooled and taught Afrikaans after Elliot all but insisted their nanny teach them it. The trio became inseparable and where Ezra went, the twins were always nearby. This friendship lead to many shenanigans and the twins getting what they've always been deprived of, human compassion within a family unit.

Once he learned that Ezra was a magic user, they found solidarity in a way they never expected.




►Schooling | I am Elliot's broken heart◄

▸ @ 14; At age fourteen Elliot was recruited into JBC with his brother, and Ezra upon demand. Knowing the other boy didn't really have enough money to fund anything, they were sure to take care of any monetary problems JBC might bring up.

Elliot's first year of training went smoothly, especially once he was classified as a necromantic, seeming to absorb information taught to him like a sponge, he was a natural. The older twin seemed to flourish in a place where he could express the magic that had ruined his life a year ago, turning it into something positive as opposed to something negative.

Life was going well and he seemed to have found something good with the training and the friendship he had with his brother and Ezra.

Seemingly in the wrong place at the wrong time, Elliot met a pickpocket, who he ended up befriending over the span of the months that he was staying in Africa. A few weeks into their odd but cheery friendship, Elliot learned that not only was the man a pickpocket but he was one of the finest, consulting for both the police all around the world and for various movies and shows. Star-struck, Elliot managed to convince him to teach him how to pickpocket and found it was a lot like the acting he had grown to love when he was younger. The fact that he could put on a show and manipulate people's focus made him rather fond of it and a quick learner.

His first "fieldwork" ended up in him almost getting arrested a couple times, but when he learned how to improvise in the situations to make it work, he impressed even his 'tutor.'

▸ @ 15; Elliot became more and more interested in his new hobby and the more psychological parts to it as well. Playing brain games of focus became the bread and butter of his life much to his brother's dismay. Staying in touch with his pickpocket friend even after he returned to the United States, Elliot onl got better at the mental manipulation of others, less because of the adrenaline rush it gave him and more because he became highly interested in the way the minds of others work.

When the holidays and his birthday rolled around, Elliot and his brother returned to England, finally seeing their mother again for the first time in a little over a year. While Elliot hated the entire experience, trying to keep himself withdrawn from his mother for feeling as though she abandoned him, his brother and his father she refused to let him. If anything Elliot found her even more clingy and loving that he'd ever seen her in his life, and much to his annoyance, it was aimed at him as opposed to both him and his brother - who he felt protective of and disgusted for since there was obvious favouritism playing in his mother's behaviour.

Then things got worse, a couple days before turning sixteen, whilst Elliot found himself being latched onto by his mother, his brother was murdered in a mugging gone wrong. This shook him to his core, and drained any happiness about his sixteenth birthday from him. Blaming himself for sending Grant (jr) out to the shop for seemingly needless items now.

His whole family seemed torn up by what happened and his mother seemed to take it out on Elliot, only giving his case of survivor's guilt a boost. Destroyed by her treatment and the loss, Elliot demanded to be returned to his house in Africa, refusing to even attend his brother's funeral.



▸ @ 16; The year that Grant was gone was the hardest Elliot had ever spent alive. His grades went from As to Cs immediately, and it was obvious that his mind was elsewhere. His attention was lost, working on hunting down who killed his brother, barely getting any sleep, barely eating, and hardly interacting with the people he'd once considered his friends. During a short holiday break he returned to England, struck by grief he took his rage out on their once mutual friend Ryan, the one that had been with Grant the night of his death. He found a rather awful spirit and shoved it in him, locking it in him, with his newly practiced ability. After terrorising the boy for a while, he found that Ryan had turned tail and ran when he saw the gun, leaving Grant there by himself, despite pleading and begging, instead of showing mercy, Elliot let Ryan die.

Later on, after returning to Africa he met a witch doctor who seemed to know what he was and showed interest in his powers, interested in him due to what he'd heard from Nyaminyami of what would happen in the future. Instead of letting the idiot necromantic boy die, he helped him by way of spellcast tattoos. The first being a very dangerous, but demanded tattoo that linked his brother's spirit to his. It allowed him to see his brother but also left him open to possession, something he found out in the upcoming years of his life.

When the JBC began group classes, training multiple people in situations that they would need to work together, Elliot met a boy named Kit. They got along like cats and dogs, especially after Kit punched him in the face and bloodied his nose. That lead to a rather nasty brawl, seeing as Elliot was physically weaker than the larger boy but fueled by rage. The fight ended when Elliot tried to stab Kit in the spleen with pocket knife and Ezra intervened, keeping the smaller boy from digging his grave deeper.

Both the boys were forced to partake in a ridiculous number of hours of "community service" and Elliot found himself actually drawn in interest to the boy he had considered an enemy at first. When Elliot learned of Kit's troubled family life he was instantly inspired - not at all liking that he had it even worse than Elliot did. Much to Kit's dismay they came out of the situation with Elliot deciding to attach himself to the other boy, almost forcefully befriending him and becoming instantly protective.

Oddly enough, Kit became fond of the other boy as well and was drawn into Elliot's life.

Before turning seventeen his brother convinced him to get Emma, his lovebird. Telling him that she was a way to keep himself healthy and remember to take care of himself whilst he continued to hunt down his brother's killer - despite his brother's disapproval.

When Elliot found his brother's murderer, he was in England once again, on holiday break once again, never wasting any time for play. The lead ruined the time that was meant to be spent with his then girlfriend of just under a year - Nyeleti who joined him and his family for Christmas. Instead of spending the holiday, his seventeenth birthday, and the new year with his then girlfriend and family, he spent it hunting down his brother's killer and torturing him by the same method he'd used on Ryan earlier in the year.

▸ @ 17; This behaviour put him at odds with his family, disgruntled with the fact that he'd disappeared for three of the most important times of the year, and not only that but leaving his girlfriend there. His girlfriend who also was put off incredibly by the behaviour, and broke up with him shortly after they returned to Africa.

Once Elliot's plot for revenge was finished he lost all motivation in life and tried to kill himself by slicing one of his wrists open, pretty deeply. He woke up in the hospital with Ezra at his bedside and about thirteen stitches in his wrist with the official documentation saying he checked in saying it was a power tool accident - and still to this day isn't sure how he ended up in the hospital. Near death, unknowing to him, his brother used the tattoo that linked them and possessed him, taking control of him and took him to Ezra, pleading for him to take him to the hospital. Grant never outed himself to Ezra, nor did he ever tell Elliot what he did.

This lead to the start of a shaky year where Elliot began to try to find a real place in where he belonged in the world. Surprisingly, Grant's ghost and Ezra managed to inspire something other than apathy and hatred out of Elliot, drawing him into an interest in helping with local problems around city pertaining to the supernatural and ultimately, trying to help Kit Myers with his inability to stay away from corruption.

It was summer when he was possessed by a rather nasty spirit that nearly killed him, and had it not been for the witch doctor he'd befriended, he probably would have died. After that experience, he was easily talked into getting his polarization lines to deter possession. This only lead to him further enhancing his skills with various other tattoos.

▸ @ 18 - 19; The Johannesburg Collective sees community as something that's needed in order to continue; because they are not as large as their sister schools, they focus on this ideal whilst also strengthening their students. Graduation takes places for the senior class at midnight. The students are required to ingest a mysterious liquid given out by the faculty. The liquid in question has a sludgy black consistency and nerfs the student's powers whilst also giving them the affects of feeling drugged, various effects that affect everyone differently. This makes it so the idea of relying on one another is preferred - of course, not everyone always follows along. Once this is done, they are dropped into the middle of an African jungle, armed with nothing but their wits, some bottles of water and some snack bars.

The rules are simple: Stay alive, kill as many spooks as possible, and make it out of the jungle. Trophies are used to rank the class.

Elliot took to graduation just fine at first, working in a group with ease. Of course, nothing is ever so simple for Elliot, halfway through, witnessing one of his classmates die right in front of him, he had a bit of a meltdown. Reminded of what he'd lost and who should have been there graduating. That brought back his bad tendency of losing interest in his safety and putting a strong interest in putting himself at a high unnecessary risk. After being abandoned by most of his working group, he had to be dragged back to safety by his best friend Ezra.

Once they made it out of the jungle, and the results were released to the class, he found he placed at the top of his class due to the lapse of good judgement. This got him a couple job offers and despite Elliot's fondness of helping people, he kept his head low and simply stuck to helping Ezra and Kit whilst trying to find a way to bring Grant back.




►Post-Graduation | I am Elliot's wasted life◄


▸ @ 20 - 22; His mission of trying to bring Grant back took first priority for a couple years, taking him all over the world in any attempt to research many of the dead ends of bringing people back to life as themselves. Whilst he traveled he worked on cases too, helping any locals he met with cases of spooks and monsters plaguing them.

Much to his dislike, he began to notice how it was becoming more and more common and his main focus shifted to helping people from the horrifying world of magic and monsters. He never gave up on trying to bring his brother back or fix Kit, often times taking up cases that he felt could lead him in any way a step closer to solving either problem.

What he found was not so encouraging, with the rise of monster problems, he also found that everything to do with bringing someone back from the dead ended up being a dead end, while this frustrated him, he did learn more about Kit's struggle with corruption. When he returned to Africa he found that Kit's state was far worse than he ever expected. This lead to Elliot dragging the boy on all kind of adventures with him and occasionally Ezra, so not only could he keep an eye on him, but try to find a way to fix him.

▸ @ 23; One of the adventures Elliot found himself on was in Italy where he'd dragged Kit along, looking into people that might be able to help Kit's corruption. Unfortunately, Elliot couldn't keep himself from his usual pickpocket bullshit, and ended up lifting off an Italian Mafia son - Dante.

Things that this could be considered: very fucking bad.

It lead to shenanigans of him getting tangled up in a bunch of Italian bullshit he didn't want to be tangled up in due to the son's interest in his pick-pocketing abilities. He'd sent Kit home the moment it began so he didn't get tied into whatever it was Elliot was stepping in.

It was months before Elliot managed to flee Italy and vowed never to step foot back into the place, even if he'd decided Dante wasn't a complete shitbag.

▸ @ 24; Elliot was 24 and living on his own, well, with the occasional ghost of his dead brother and of course his love bird Emma when he met Maxwell Kieser. The stars aligned in some bullshit fashion that poked holes in the already shredded thing Elliot oh-so-graciously called his Kharma. Probably her most violent metaphorical kick to the pants for Elliot. As per usual, he was preying on the tourists that ended up in Joburg, much to the locals disgust, including his own. The typical fast talking, mental manipulation of knowing just how to draw someone's attention right where he wants it whilst he robs them blind in full daylight. The usual spiel of a dead family member having a message, one that he's now decides is "Maxwell can get bent." and talking long enough and letting the person fill in enough to let them believe he knows what he's talking about, when there's more of a possibility that their dead aunt isn't communing with him because he probably ate her.

Of course, Max was an easy victim for the fast talking, nimble fingered boy that looked no older than some local boy playing some stupid prank on the tourist. If the greeting in full on Afrikaans didn't give it away that he knew a thing or two about where he lived.

A simple picking, an easy day, tourists robbed, wallets snooped through, stolen cigarettes smoked. Easy peasy pumpkin squeezy, right?

Wrong.

Unbeknownst to Elliot, Max was there on a mission to remove some dangerous artefacts that were rumoured to be in a tomb that had recently been unearthed nearby. That lead him to Elliot's old school, The JoBurg Collective where he managed to charm his way into getting some of the graduated student records. This wouldn't have been a problem, other than the fact that Elliot was one of the top of his graduating class and Max was smart enough to put two and two together that the fast talking kid that invaded his personal space on occasion was the one that stole his stuff.

Cue Elliot having to run like he's in The Maze Runner or some crap because there's a massive German man chasing him trying to get his stuff back. It doesn't end there of course, oh no, that'd be too easy, the massive German man also looks inhuman - something like one of H.P. Lovecraft's fuckchildren - because he can vessel demons and spooky things.

After what was probably an hour of running through Johannesburg in the middle of the night from this dude tryina murder him, Elliot finally got cornered in an alleyway and a fence that fell on him when he tried to climb it, which in all honesty was probably a lot funnier to anyone but Elliot (seriously think some hilarious Simon Pegg bullshit, what have you never heard of shortcuts???). Not yet ready to come to terms with dying, Elliot - in one final ditch effort - attempted to flee again only to get a firm fist to the stomach.

After returning Max's things to him, well, more like wheezing and shouting in Afrikaans and tossing his things at him before trying to bail again; despite Elliot's great offense, Max managed to recruit him to help with the job of the tomb.






►Later Years | I am Elliot's utter lack of surprise◄

▸ @ 25; Elliot met up with Max again when he was twenty five, his ways staying the same: pick-pocketing and fake mediumship. Max who has gotten reckless and a bit dumb with the loss of Marco ended up recruiting him for yet another tomb raiding job. The job took place in a recently unearthed tomb in Zimbabwe and was going fine until Elliot found a relic near a description of the underworld, intregued he snagged it to see if it could be any use to him.

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The moment Elliot stepped outside the tomb with Maxwell, he was possessed by an ancient river spirit, Nyaminyami. This became pretty obvious when he passed out the moment they stepped foot outside. Nyaminyami possessed him in an attempt to get to the other side of the dam that split his river, this of course was unknown to both Elliot and Max. The latter of which aggressively tried to yank out any intruders within Elliot.

In an attempt to get Max to fuck off, Nyaminyami pulled a demon inside of Elliot to let the demonic boy pull something out of Elliot and use it as a scapegoat as Nyaminyami hid in dormancy. When Max was content that Elliot was no longer possessed, he went back to his life and Elliot continued his.

It was a week after Maxwell left when Elliot realised things weren't okay. First the dreams started, of hurricanes, of corpses in trees, and Elliot's least favourite: of drowning. Next came the more morbid thing, water that Elliot got within a foot of turned to blood or something worse - something black and thick with the scent of decay.

Elliot continued like this for a couple months, looking for a solution to his problem. In the end, he payed America a visit in an ailing state, near death and looking like he was a breath away from death, with pale skin and thick black veins and a constant fever that left him far too hot or clammy and cold. He was in search of Max, and ended up finding his friends instead - Gus, Harper and briefly someone who looked to Elliot like a cherub. It all felt like a hazed feverdream however, unable to really pay much attention to anything as Max's friends kept Elliot from kicking the bucket.

When Max showed up, he decided he needed help from one of his ancient relatives - Paya. The woman being an immortal spectral. She sussed out what was wrong with him, and they took Elliot back to Africa, realising it'd be better for his health instead of further angering the spirit by being so far from his river. Ultimately she intended to shove the spirit back into the relic from the tomb but once Elliot learned what the spirit wanted which was to be reunited with it's spirit wife in the other side of the dam, Elliot refused that option and demanded they bring it to where it wanted to go.

Pulling Nyaminyami back out of Elliot nearly killed him, and involved drowning him near to death, it was painful in every way and Elliot's sure it's the worst pain he'd experienced aside from the pain of Grant's death. It required Max to be tethered to Paya to get the magical oomph to push Nyaminyami back into the river but ultimately it solved the problem.

Once Elliot assured Ezra and Kit he wasn't dead, Max, Elliot and Paya headed to London, feeling there wasn't enough room back in his flat, Elliot brought them back to his family estate in London where they took their time recovering from the ordeal and drinking Paya's weird concoctions.

Current Canon point takes place whilst he's recovering with Max.



PERSONALITY:

Elliot is good by his own opinion of the world, whilst his morals are sketchy to most, his heart is normally in the right place. Generally he spends his time working on local monster problems, helping both the humans and the monsters of Africa when they deserve it. He'll fight to protect those he considers innocent, and protect them from harm. The urge to help those less fortunate than him is pretty strong, and he has a bad habit of mothering those he takes an interest in helping. This nature of wanting to help others often comes into play with Kit's corruption and Ezra's poor monetary state. This behaviour also comes into play with Elliot's little "missions" with Ezra, helping the local spooks that aren't exactly bad but need to be relocated, or helped in a way.

Throughout the years one thing has stayed the same - Elliot is loyal, even to a fault. It's probably one of his defining personality traits; if he takes the time to befriend someone, they have a strong ally that will fight to the death for them. While this is a trait that's gotten him in trouble when he was younger, he's learned to slow his pace and guard himself before befriending people and letting them in. He sees loyalty as a big factor of whether or not someone is worth his time, and because of this, it matters a great deal to him to uphold as well. Loyalty became especially important to Elliot the night that his brother was abandoned by his friend whilst being mugged. The few friends that Elliot has, he would easily lay his life down for because that's what a friend does in his opinion.

Because of Elliot's strong opinion on what a friend is and how they should behave - being always loyal no matter what, he is a very spiteful person. If he feels he's been betrayed, he'll often react rather violently, be it physically or vocally. Once he's found himself betrayed, he's nearly impossible to win back over. This becomes a problem with misunderstandings because he will lash out and stick to his guns until proven otherwise. If his trust is betrayed, it's near impossible to win him back, finding the act deplorable despite how often he lies to begin with. Betrayal is a damning action that inspires his ire from the deepest parts of his heart.

Another personality trait of Elliot's is his dependency on his friends, he's a very cuddly person and with this comes a gentleness. Elliot cares for people and with this finds it very easy to form physical relationships with those he spends his time with. Aside from the relationships that really matter, he is a bit of a flirt when it comes to people in general. Though despite his flirtatious behaviour, he isn't pushy about it, or uncouth. It is actually quite the opposite, he seems to appreciate physical relationships even if they're one night stand kinds, long lasting relationships or friends with benefits, simply liking the feeling of connecting with someone no matter how brief it is.

Elliot steals to mainly donate to children's relief funds in Africa, he also gives a good portion of what he makes to Ezra because he doesn't like his friend being in a worse place than him. Whilst this is very Robin Hood, he doesn't really see it that way or do it to make himself feel better about it. Elliot does what he does because in his eyes money is a downfall to good nature. These thoughts came from the deep seeded jealousy of the closeness that families with no money have; the lack of his parent's presence in his childhood due to their jobs made him hate the idea of simply dedicating one's life to making money. Because of this, he tries to help those that are worse off, and tries to avoid being materialistic, choosing to live in a shitty little flat in JoBurg as opposed to something ridiculously posh that he could certainly afford with his family's income. Quite often, his friends think that he's pretty skint with the way he lives and thieves, only two of them actually know that he's pretty well off.

Elliot was raised a gentleman even if he doesn't show it, because of this he is very respecting of boundaries and privacy. Unlike a bunch of the BCR boys, Elliot has no issue with giving people space, this of course may come across as him simply being cold or guarded, but it's how he was raised. With an introverted brother, he's well aware that some people just don't "people" sometimes, and this doesn't bother him at all. Whilst the living twin likes situations where he can socialise with people, and has no issue talking to strangers on the street (often to rob them), he also can take a hint. There have been many situations where he's decided not to rob someone due to learning a little about them - about what makes them human. Because of this odd honour, Elliot doesn't touch jewelry when stealing because he knows that it often has significance to it, emotion and feeling attached.

He is also a very motivated person despite his occasional depressive and self-destructive moods. Often he is busying himself with something to obsess over, be it the overall obsession with trying to bring his dead brother back or trying to save Kit from his own stupid downfall. When he sets a goal, he often completes it, or gets very close to completing it. This trait makes him both a dangerous enemy to have and a great ally in whatever someone is trying to achieve. Despite his habit of observing situations and seeming unmotivated the entire time, often his brain is working a mile a second trying to figure out how to sort something out, if there are loopholes and how to exploit whatever situation is in front of him to make the turnout worthwhile. Elliot doesn't hesitate to act often, and when he's figured something out in his head, he's an unstoppable force and an immovable wall.

Elliot's mental health is obviously not all that great, with lingering depression, and moments of manic focus on goals, he is a mixture of extremes. This of course, leads to bad habits such as smoking, and escapism. The situational sociopathy is also a problem because it leads him to feeling incomplete and incompatible with people which sends him all over the place emotionally. In a world with monsters and death around the corner, this isn't uncommon amongst magic users but Elliot could easily be classified as one of the dangerous loose canons. Which in itself is true. Elliot can be dangerous to himself and those around him without even realising it.

He's self sabotaging with pretty bad kharma, not that he ever lets any of that stop him. When he feels something failing, such as a personal relationship, he sort of manipulates the situation into ending badly without even noticing. This comes from a mixture of his survivor's guilt and not feeling he deserves what he has and also his spiteful behaviour. Often, he'll see an outcome that he doesn't want and focus so much on trying to prevent it, he'll cause it to happen. He metaphorically shoots himself in the foot all the time. When he gets a thought in his mind, like someone is about to abandon him, he'll push them away until they have no other choice to pull away or start a fight.

However, Elliot isn't all bad, he can be a fun loving playful little shit too. He's got a good sense of humour about him and doesn't hesitate to show it. Too often he doesn't take things as seriously as he probably should, and attempts to have his own fun. While this can get him into a lot of trouble it also makes him an entertaining person to be around. When in a good environment he can be the life of the party, seeming to enjoy attention and games. This has evolved through the years into somewhat of a rush habit - being an adrenaline junkie.

Being an adrenaline junkie is dangerous with how often he find himself lying simply to see other people's reactions or to entertain himself. This is even more dangerous with how cheeky he gets when it comes to his stealing. In Italy it got him into quite a problematic situation with the Italian Mafia, both drawing their ire and interest in his bad habit of having sticky fingers. Quite often, he does things simply for reactions. An example of doing something simply for a reaction would be his inability to be around Max without robbing him blind despite knowing that he no longer keeps anything worthwhile on him. It's all fun and games to him.

Elliot believes in spiritual cleanliness, and by this, it means he feeds off ghosts quite often. This has made him somewhat bitter towards religion, and life and death in general. He's pretty numb to all things that relate to respecting the dead and this obviously comes from his necromantic tenancies and he often shares just how much of a bastard he is when it comes to the sanctity of human death. The only exception seems to be his brother, and later on Marco. With people he knows, his heart seems to stay open even after death. So is the life of a soul eater, and death exploiter.

INCENTIVE:

Elliot's incentive would be to bring his brother back from the dead. It's been his sole purpose for years and he wouldn't hesitate to ask. Grant was his best friend since birth and being separated from a twin is a painful existence. So the representatives would offer to bring Grant back from the dead.

FIT:

Elliot is a very physical and sexual creature, even if he keeps that private. He's completely in touch with his sexuality and is quite the flirt. Often he cuddles his friends or has further physical relationships with a few of them (see: Max and Kit.) He's respecting of others which means he's not dangerous to have in the city and will not hesitate to fulfill his contract. Elliot is generally a peaceful fun loving person, so he fits in with the other citizens rather easily.

SAMPLES:

Does it almost feel like nothing's changed at all? [action spam]
And if you close your eyes... [text & action spam]
Does it almost feel like you've been here before? [text]
How am I gonna be an optimist about this? [prose]
We were caught up and lost. [prose]

ANYTHING ELSE?

Inventory
→ various pairs of clothes, a mixture of his english wardrobe and his south african wardrobe.
→ a golden chain necklace.
→ an ipod with a ridiculous amount of music on it.
→ a samsung glass phone that isn't even supposed to be in production yet.
→ earbuds.
→ dagga. smoke weed erryday or some shit.
→ loose tobbacco & rolling papers.
→ money, lot of it stuffed into various places smuggling pockets in his clothes.
→ as much money as he could manage to bring.
→ his motorcycle.
→ a motorcycle helmet because he is a good boy.
→ emma, his pet love bird.

Abilities

Key:
❚ nerfed
❚ retained

→ INSIDIOUS TOUCH | Elliot has the ability to draw spirits into his body and either feed on their death energy or he can force them into other organics: people, skeleton crew, other vesselers. This is his main go to, despite the dangers it poses to him, he's got tattoos to sort of ward against the spooks taking full control of him and normally does the job of sorting them out before they can do much damage to him.

→ VESSELAGE | Elliot can hold spirits in him, normally this would be a problem as spooks don't like to be the ones not in charge, especially as a little shitlord is feeding off their energy but due to a mixture of experience, Paya's tea and various tattoos from a witch doctor, he's usually got the spirit thing on lock. However, if he holds them in him for long amounts of time without tearing them into energy they can become dangerous and take over. Basically it can get bad and he can get pretty not okay. That said he's got a couple walls of defense against it.

→ LICH'S DREDGE | Elliot likes to bring creatures that resemble things of the once living back to "life" for short amounts of time. They're better used as meat shields or distractions because of their short expatriation dates. They last a little longer when he shoves spirits in them, but are harder to control. Because of this, he seems them as utterly expendable assets and often sacrifices them himself for the left over death energy if he can before they're useless.

→ SPITEFUL BIND | So, Elliot can force spirits into other people, and he can lock them in place with a tricky little hex, it's nowhere near unbreakable, but it's a pain in the ass to tackle. Sort of like an extra proxy to an already tricky spirit removal. This of course spells out trouble for whatever poor asshole pissed Elliot off and brought this upon them-self. Any heavenly or demonic class shouldn't have too much trouble getting past it, but if not expected it can be a shock and a pain in the ass.

→ AWAKENED SIGHT | Elliot can commune with and see the dead, well, more like death energy. Seeing spirits is more tricky and whilst death energy surrounds spirits he can see them with a little focus and a headache later. Of course, he has a tattoo to allow him to see his twin's spirit whenever, located on his spine.

→ HEALING | Elliot may also use the energy gathered from the dead to heal injuries or the work against the damage that vesseling does on his body, normally it's used for the latter, since vesselage is hard on a human body but in dire situations he'll turn it to patching himself up.

→ SOUL THIEF | Elliot can take death energy from things, dying things, recently deceased, spirits (though he usually just yanks spirits into him and eats them for all they're worth), vampires, zombies, etc. Normally in his world it would just be a 'this is mine now' situation, but in Eudio he will require consent to interact with death energy.

→ BORROWING & SPELLCASTING | See Below.

💀 NECROMANTIC CLASS;
The necromantic class controls magic that affects those that cannot be seen, and are tied to all that has died or has been corrupted.
EUDIO NERF: Here

💀 RELATIVE PLANES;
Relative planes are compatible magics; their lines intersect with each other. Dissonant planes are incompatible; their lines run away from each other.

— UNNATURAL | The unnatural class possesses magic that can control anything that unnatural and alive. Basically the bad/dark magic so think of the messed up shit. (lmao more messed up than what Elliot does... but there's a reason it's the top thing he can borrow from...)
EUDIO NERF: Any biological changes to another require consent and any damaging skills are limited to a car sized area.
— HUMANE | The humane class possesses magic that can control anything that is humane and alive. Basically human shit, like pertaining to human beings.
EUDIO NERF: Any biological changes to another require consent.

Possible Sharesies:

— SPECTRAL | The spectral class controls magic that affects those that cannot be seen, and are tied to the humane plane. Ghosts and stuff ok.
EUDIO NERF: Right here.
— DEMONIC | The spectral class controls magic that affects those that cannot be seen, and are tied to destructive spirits. Elliot actually avoids playing with demons so just... don't even worry about this.
— HEAVENLY | The heavenly class controls magic that affects those that cannot be seen, and are tied to benevolent spirits. Actually he doesn't really play with this plane either that much so like.......... yeah maybe some protective stuff here or there or something but yeah not,,, much else....

Dissonant Planes:
— NATURAL | The natural class possesses magic that can control anything that is natural and alive.
— MECHANIC | The mechanic class possesses magic that can control anything that is inherently material and/or man-made and does not possess life, or has possessed life previously.

more character notes can be found here

— played by Thomas Brodie Sangster

►and the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love. great clouds roll over the hills bringing d a r k n e s s from above◄

►but if you close your eyes...◄