<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>EURUS</strong></span></div><br/><br/><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Eurus<br/><strong>REAL NAME:</strong>Ri'Staraa Sayed<br/><strong>PLAYED BY:</strong>SpiralSpider<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>17<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>Homosexual<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>5'9<br/><strong>WEIGHT: </strong>133<br/><br/><strong>APPEARANCE/COSTUME:</strong><br/><br/><div align="center">(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/People/Males/EurusRi_zpsda3c08d2.png)(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/People/Males/boo-boo-stewart-rena-durham-photo-shoot-booboo-stewart-10049713-320-480_zps84fe63ca.jpg)</div><br/><strong>FACE CLAIM:</strong>Booboo Stuart<br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Ri's most mundane ability is his dance talent. It might seem an odd thing to list, but the rhythm he feels helps him in melee combat the same way that a capoeira artist fights hand-to-hand.</li><li>A hard life on the streets in the middle east made him a fair marksman with a rifle, though he greatly dislikes firearms and rarely uses them since he associates them with unpleasant aspects of his youth.</li><li>Street life honed his skill to move quietly and hide in the shadows. He can also pick a mean pocket... but hasn't done so in years.</li><li>His Sikh family has taught him the art of Swordsmanship. While he no longer follows the religion, he does carry a pair of short swords that he uses for close-range combat.</li><li><strong>Aerokinesis:</strong> Ri'Staraa has been recently awakened to his mutant power that holds elemental control over air. It is a fledgling gift and he only knows a few tricks so far. Generally, he can safely muster wind speeds around 30-40mph and for as long as 45 seconds before he loses control. He rarely pushes himself past half a minute and so focuses on shorter bursts until he is able to learn more control.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><strong>Guided maneuverability:</strong> Ri can harness the wind power to alter his acceleration some. If he is falling, he can slow his descent or alternately he can use it like a jet boost to help lift him off the ground during a jump.</li><li><strong>Repulsion:</strong> He can create a ring of air that expands from him at its center, pushing objects or persons away.</li><li><strong>Disorientation:</strong> In very close range, he can direct a small burst of air up someone's ear canal and throw off their balance.</li></ul></li></ul><strong>WEAKNESSES:</strong><br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>The longer Ri'Staraa taps into his new gift at one time, the less he has control over it. If he summons a gust of wind and maintains it over time, it can turn into gale-force wind and knock him out of its center and into danger. The resulting elemental force stands a chance of dissipating at that point, or possibly moving onward into a serious natural force of its own. This is his biggest weakness; he must learn to control his new ability.</li><li>His past has made him a very distrusting person. His street smarts come at a cost of being cautious to a fault. Having his powers backfire on him doesn't help, without being taken into the school he would have been afraid to use them.</li><li>He is very confident about his cultivated skills and has a tendency to act haughty around those he views as brash or ignorant. His new gifts don't help his arrogance, since he now literally believes he is descended from Djinn.</li><li>His pride means he is also prone to seeking revenge when slighted, though he puts a lot of thought into how to get away with it. Once he sets his mind that he wants something, he'll do everything in his power to methodically move through the means to get it. </li><li>Ri is in all purposes a fairly normal teenager with all the inherent weaknesses that accompany that.</li><li>While he had early training in weaponry, his youth works against him somewhat. He could never be the equal of more experienced heroes since he lacks a well-rounded martial education</li><li>Although he has lived in the United States for several years, he retains an accent and so is definitely marked as an outsider. What's more, he has permanent blue hair that developed when his wind control began to manifest. While its easy enough to write it off as a teenage trend of dying funky colors, all these things add up to make it harder for him to obscure his identity.</li></ul><br/><strong>HISTORY:</strong>Ri'Staraa was the second son born to a family of five who lived in a war-torn region of the middle east. Their town was near the borders of three countries and in each and every one of them, those that practiced the Sikh religion were a definite minority. His older brother was a teenager at the time he went missing, and when Ri became old enough to start school, his parents agonized over whether they should take the chance of sending him out for his. Education was a big priority of theirs though, and young Ri was anxious to learn. However, second grade proved to be as far as he could go before his parents' fears came true.<br/><br/>He spent three years in forced military service, drafted against his will to fight a war he knew nothing about at the time. Ri was lucky to make it out alive, and only did so because his family was able to temporarily reconnect with him and sneak him out of the country with a false passport and the help of a sympathetic American couple. Unfortunately, he lost all contact with his family after that and the Americans who brought him into the "land of the free" helped him out only long enough to seek asylum and find a place to live.  By this time he was fully going through puberty and struggling hard to adapt to the new land he lived in.<br/><br/>School in America was always difficult. The difference in language, method of teaching and culture shock was the bulk of the problem, but there was also the fact that he was treated as an orphan and surrounded by questions he could not answer. He ended up being a reject of the foster system and out on his own by age 15. He finally was able to settle in a groove as a city kid living on the streets.<br/><br/>Although most of the turbulence in his life subsided and he was able to stay in school, he was running a year behind his peers and experiencing the late onset of mutant ability. He was merely practicing Gatka - the Sikh martial art form ingrained into him at an early age - one evening when he found out mid-form that he could manipulate the air around him with a slight movement of his arm. It took a while to sink in. And then it was exhilarating, exhausting and terrifying all together to suddenly appear to be the manifestation of supernatural ability that was part of the mythology of his culture. He jumped right into exploring the power with gusto (no pun intended) and although he was dead set on mastering this new talent, he eventually became dejected in his seeming lack of ability to do so. He decided to keep his elemental control a secret, a decision that came easier whenever he found those around him that held virtual torches and pitch forks against the mutants. But through all his secrecy and hiding in the shadows, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were able to observe him and he was eventually placed in the A.C.E. program. As much as he would be loathe to admit it, he is very grateful for a real opportunity to further develop his skill.<br/><br/>It's no surprise to anyone who knows him that he would be arrogant enough to take the name of the God of the East wind as his alter ego...<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>Sly, cautious, proud, focused and snarky. Ri'Staraa is a self-assured and adroit youth who will find a way to seek what he wants in life. He has the ability to see the whole picture, so long as anger doesn't keep him too focused on details. He can be elusive, loving to hold a punch line above the head of those too ignorant to grasp it. Although he is sexually attracted to the same sex, he can be quite flirtatious with just about anyone who can keep up with him. Sex is not a priority in his life.. He likes things structured and such a thing will have to fall into its place only when he makes time for it. He hates being ignored. If he graces someone with a significant amount of his attention, he expects it to be repaid. Ri is also not fond of those who hold positions of authority and do not seem to deserve it. He values stealth and an opportunity figure out the best way to approach a situation, although his hubris can stand in the way of that helpful manner of thinking if he is offended or his interest in something is piqued.<br/><br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong>Two short swords that he holds strapped in scabbards to his waist. They are the only items he keeps from his home land. Other than those, he has only the clothes on his back or what is given to him.<br/><strong>CHARACTER O/O's:</strong><br/><span class="bbc_u">ons:</span><br/>Big, Masculine Men<br/>Cat and Mouse<br/>Being chased<br/>Teasing<br/>S/M<br/><span class="bbc_u">offs:</span><br/>Effeminate Men<br/>Indifference<br/>Women<br/><strong>PLAYER O/O's:</strong>Most do not apply since I'm playing a character very different from myself. (I prefer effeminate men, for instance!) However, I will note the 60% story ratio that I prefer in my roleplays. For more information, please see my O/O thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=103174.0)<br/><strong>NOTES:</strong><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> old, bad personal drawings of Ri</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/Ri.png) (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/media/Ri.png.html)<br/><br/>(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/Snapshot_20120623_2.jpg) (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/media/Untitled.jpg.html)<br/>(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/Snapshot_20120623_1.jpg) (http://s1226.photobucket.com/user/Mostly_roleplay_pictures/media/Snapshot_20120623_1.jpg.html)<br/></div></div>