<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">retired</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/cNuLRPH.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Deston Markus Brooks</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>AGE:</strong> 24<br/><strong>GENDER:</strong> Male<br/><strong>SEXUALITY:</strong> Demisexual | Hetero-romantic<br/><strong>BLESSED BY:</strong> Poseidon<br/><strong>NICKNAMES:</strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">"My name is Deston. Use it."</span><br/><br/><br/><strong>LIKES:</strong> Any body of water | Dancing | Meditation | Sparring/Boxing | Artwork | Instrumental music | Swimming | Action movies<br/><strong>DISLIKES:</strong> Rudeness | Loss of control | Squeaky voices | Arguing | The color orange | Completely dark rooms <br/><br/><br/><strong>SKILLS &amp; POWERS:</strong> <br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Skills</span><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Boxing/Brawling:</strong> <span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">"Throw hands or go home."</span> Deston began boxing in elementary school as the controlled violence of the sport soothed his need to lash out. He is at Olympic level for his weight class which is Middleweight.</li><li><strong>Swimming:</strong> In fact, he lettered in it, at both high school and college levels.</li><li><strong>Physical Rehab:</strong> His work as a PTA has imbued him with knowledge as to how the body works and gifted him with the ability to help others heal.</li><li><strong>Plays Violin:</strong> Has played since he was seven years of age and is now learning to write his own music.</li></ul><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Powers</span><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Healing Water:</strong> Specifically he has the ability to heal himself if he can get to water of any kind: a stream, a sink, an ocean, a rain storm. This will not fully heal grievous wounds but has been useful in prolonging his life a time or two.</li><li><strong>Aquatic Breathing:</strong> He can breathe in water as easily as air.</li><li><strong>Water Generation:</strong> Specifically, he can make small streams of water from nothing and use it to improve his defenses. However, doing so for longer than a few minutes at a time leaves him weakened. </li></ul><br/><strong>Note on Powers:</strong> His water based powers can be opposed by ice, fire or magma based powers and he is susceptible to electrical based attacks.<br/><br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> Deston is all lean muscle and high cheekbones. Standing at just at 5'9 and weighing in at 162 lbs, he looks deceptively light and hits like a truck. His gaze is forthright and intense, partially due to the lightness of it and he tends to dress for comfort, not class. In water for prolonged periods of time, his hair turns a golden blond however it is normally black and cut low. No tattoos mar his skin but he does have scars on his hands and arms.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong> Introverted and quiet, Deston spends a LOT of time, when he isn't at work, alone. He does not trust easily and harbors a deep well of anger that he hides behind drawn out silences and music. Though he loathes rudeness in others, he uses biting sarcasm to keep people at bay and very rarely indulges in things just for fun. Secretive and calm under pressure, he has an analytical mind which makes romance something he truly does not understand.<br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER BACKGROUND:</strong> A child of mixed heritage, Deston was raised by his grandparents after the accidental overdose of his mother.  Surrounded by people who looked nothing like him and deeply scarred by loss, the young boy grew up with a quick temper and faster hands. It was his grandfather who turned him toward the boxing ring when he was still in fifth grade and it was his grandmother who developed his love of classical music, playing piano for him when he was sad and finding a tutor for him when he fell in love with the violin in second grade.<br/><br/>A natural in the water, Deston spent many a summer playing in the creeks and rivers near his home and that soon developed into a need for competition. This was also encouraged by his grandparents and he spent most of middle school and all of high school on a swim team. Just before he was due to begin college, he lost his grandparents to a house fire. Between the money from insurance and a scholarship based around his athletic endeavors, the young man attended college and received his Associate Degree in Physical Therapy before becoming certified and licensed as a PTA to work with those who required aquatic rehabilitation. <br/><br/>During all of this, Deston grew and changed and not always in ways he recognized. Things that should have left scars behind (Like when he put his hand through a plate glass window) didn't, not if he ran the wounds under water. However, it was the fact that he could breathe underwater that truly caused him to understand that he had been blessed in some way...and then he received a letter. So, after putting in his notice at work, he left to find out just what was happening to him.<br/><br/>He knew where to go...and he knew he wouldn't rest until he got the answers he needed. If he could help others in some way without getting too close? Well, that would be a bonus.<br/><br/><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong> Dudley O'Shaughnessy<br/><strong>WRITER:</strong> Wolfling72 | Wolfi<br/><br/><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Couple more pics</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.imgur.com/yAWCQ4N.gif)(https://i.imgur.com/HZc3QVm.jpg?1)</div></div></div>[/retired]</div></div>