<div class="floatleft">(https://edelscope.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/edunss12_ad_campaign_beautiful_rebels_edelscope_71.jpg?w=800)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Alter Noah Keller</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>AGE:</strong>Twenty two<br/><strong>GENDER:</strong>Male<br/><strong>SEXUALITY:</strong>Pansexual<br/><strong>BLESSED BY:</strong>Dionysus<br/><strong>ROLE:</strong>Blessed<br/><strong>JOBS &amp; RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong>None at the moment, but might be interested in becoming a librarian/researcher.<br/><strong>NICKNAMES:</strong>Noah<br/><br/><br/><strong>LIKES:</strong>Learning, reading, touching and smelling objects, eating, sensory immersion, socialization, experimentation<br/><strong>DISLIKES:</strong>Restraint, unfair rules, injustice, loneliness, loss of knowledge<br/><br/><br/><strong>SKILLS &amp; POWERS:</strong><br/>Skill:<strong>Quick Study:</strong>When researching a subject or learning a new skill, Alter's past and his powers allow him to absorb information more quickly and efficiently compared to his peers.<br/>Skill:<strong>Observant:</strong>Years of watching and listening have heightened Alter's senses to open up his awareness of his surroundings. It is more difficult to catch him by surprise.<br/>Skill:<strong>Intoxication Resistant:</strong>While his body can become intoxicated, Alter can choose whether or not a substance will affect him in one way or another. For example, he can get drunk and feel the happy, good feelings, but ignore the unhappy side effects. He can, at will, dispell the effects of intoxication at any time if he so chooses.<br/>Skill:<strong>Sleep Standing Up:</strong>Alter has trained his body to be able to rest in any position. When he astral projects (see below), Alter's body will maintain the position it was left in, unless someone physically moves it.<br/><br/>Power:<strong>Astral Projection:</strong>By focusing his intention, Alter can force his spirit to leave his physical form. While projecting, Alter can freely fly, pass through objects like walls, is invisible to those that cannot see magically, and affect people with his Blessed powers. During this time, his physical body become rigid and un-moving, and he cannot sense his body's . When Alter goes to sleep, his astral projection can wander freely while his body gets rest, so he can be "awake" at all hours of the day. His astral projection cannot interact with physical objects or organic matter through touch, smell, or taste. Those that can see his spirit, if possible, notice that his spirit from sprouts horns from the top of his head that curl to the back. Whenever Alter is ready to go back to his body, he can immediately snap back and re-inhabit it.<br/>Power:<strong>Incite Madness:</strong>By extending his spirit into the minds of others, Alter can bend the brains of those around him to his will. This can take many forms, including intoxicating the target(s) with drunkenness, hallucinogenic effects, depressants, stimulants (with the choice of if they will feel aftereffects), affecting their senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight, granting visions, dreams, and thoughts, and changing one's mental or behavioral patterns. Any effects that Alter places in a person last until a full night's rest, or until they are resisted by the target. It is much easier for Alter to affect those that give their consent to be targeted, and has to struggle to affect those that don't. However, if a person is already intoxicated or experiencing symptoms of insanity, Alter can more easily affect their mind. Multiple people can be targeted at a time, but increasing the number of people and the resistance to the effect makes it much more difficult. Alter can use this power without astral projecting, but it is much more powerful if he does.<br/>Power:<strong>Possession:</strong>While astral projecting, Alter can force his spirit into the body of another person, temporarily diminishing their soul. Alter can then use that person's body as their own, and in the case of Blessed, he gains their abilities while occupying their body. It is much easier for Alter to affect those that give their consent to be targeted, and has to struggle to affect those that don't. However, if a person is already intoxicated, experiencing symptoms of insanity, or is sleeping, Alter can more easily enter their body. While possessing a Blessed's body, their consciousness is maintained and can choose to actively resist the effect, communicate with Alter, and maintain their awareness of their body's senses. Alter can only maintain this effect for fifteen minutes, after which his soul is snapped back to his physical body. While using this power, Alter's spirit leaves his body, which becomes rigid and un-moving.<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong>Alter is a white, Caucasian man that stands at 5'11". He has lean, less defined body composition. Currently, he sports medium length brown hair that covers a tattoo that wraps around his skull of a laurel wreath. The most prominent tattoo he has is one on his forehead which reads: "war inside my head". He has a number of tattoos from the neck down in varying art styles, traditions, and colors.<br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>Most people would call Alter an odd duck. He is often found wandering, lost in thought and talking to himself. Often, he will talk to himself with others around, not realizing that they can hear everything that he is saying. Habit dictates that he stays in the back of groups, watching and listening instead of engaging with them. It is much more natural for him to have his head stuck in a book rather than being with people. When he does try to talk with others, it can come off as clumsy, at the very least. However, underneath the outside appearances, Alter tries his best to be a sweet, caring person.<br/><strong>CHARACTER BACKGROUND:</strong>Tell us a bit about your character, how they became blessed? How do they feel about it, how do they feel about living in the village.<br/>Alter was involved in a hit and run when he was 12 years old, leaving him in an induced coma. However, during his time, the boy's spirit was not bound to his body, so he wandered out of the hospital and started to explore the world without mortal needs or consequence. He learned many, many different things by simply wandering, watching, and listening. After six years of uninterrupted time to himself, the boy turned 18 and his spirit was snapped back into his body as a vision of a man with horns and a glass in hand looked on. Opening his eyes, Alter's body shot up to the surprise of everyone. Even more surprising, the doctors were astounded to find that the boy had not stayed at the same developmental mental stage that he was when he had gone into the coma, had increased intelligence, and was knowledgeable of current events. He eventually went home with his parents, but found that his time wandering the world had left him unsatisfied with a sedentary life. Setting out on his own, the boy wanted to physically experience the world, missing a very important letter in his family's mailbox... After four years of travel, he was approached by a representative of Blessed Falls Village who had finally managed to track the man down. Wanting answers for the strange events that had happened to the man in his lifetime, Alter decided to go to the village to learn more.<br/><br/><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Bradley Soileau<br/><strong>WRITER:</strong>Milern