<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Character profile:</strong></span><br/><strong>Name: Graven<br/>Concept: Escaped hunter-demon<br/>Age: By human standards, very, very old.<br/>Gender: Male<br/><br/>Powers/skills/abilities:</strong>Graven possesses many beastial traits, including enhanced physical capabilities, heightened senses, as well as the abilities common to demons.  He has wings that allow flight, claws/fangs, and the ability to appear human (although he is not highly skilled in that ability, and it can be disrupted easily by combat or by provoking him.)  Graven's body is resistant to damage, and adapted to the harsh conditions of the Netherworld.  He is an accomplished survivalist, manhunter (demonhunter?), and fighter, as well as being fairly sneaky when the situation calls for it.  Because long-range flight is exhausting and conspicuous, he has learned to drive a motorcycle.<br/>Appearance: Graven in his human guise looks like a tall, muscular man with long black hair, near-black eyes and outfits common to bikers or metalheads.  For preference, he wears only a black leather vest instead of an actual shirt, because a shirt will be torn to shreds if he loses his guise and his wings unfurl.  He prefers sturdy fabrics and leather, since he often spends long periods of time away from civilization.  He usually seems to have just slightly larger and sharper canines than normal, even when human.  When his guise falls away, he is revealed to have claws and more obvious fangs, small horns, and glowing red eyes.  His skin becomes much paler, almost like white marble, and his wings unfurl from his back.  He also appears a few inches taller and even stronger than before.  It is probable that someone who had closely seen one of his appearances could recognize him in the other, unless they were in denial.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Graven was born many sons down the line in a noble house of the Netherworld.  Because of his birth he was well-fed and well-trained, and his bloodline made him powerful.  Because of the rules of primogeniture, however, he would never be much more than a prized servant of the house.  He bore the rank of a Knight of Hell, but had no choice in his duties.  He was sent out to Earth on missions to "recover" escaped demons.  Although he was a brutally effective hunter, his rewards would never be more than empty praise and useless medals of rank.  He would never have his own house, any freedom, or real power.<br/><br/>He decided to escape.  While on missions out on Earth, he started to surreptitiously leave notes on how to summon him in occult books in bookstores.  He didn't understand the new technology well, but after the internet was explained to him he made a few posts in online occult forums.  It wasn't more than a few years when a teenage girl with a smattering of real talent managed to say the words right, and ripped him free of the Netherworld.  This was exactly what he wanted.  If he hadn't been sent on a mission through one of the approved exits, they couldn't track him.  And he got to enjoy his first few hours on Earth in the company of the sweet, pretty girl who had called him up.  He'd lied egregiously about how to make a binding circle, of course.<br/><br/><strong>Motivation/aims: </strong>Graven has no idea what to do.  He's been on holiday on Earth ever since he escaped.  After the first few years, he'd figured the heat on him would die down, and he'd be able to live out his life in what was a near-paradise to him.  Now everything is falling apart.  There are far too many demons running around for him to kill, nor does he know how to stop them from coming.  He's looking to have a good time while the good times still last, and escape death/torture/imprisonment at the hands of his family and former associates.<br/><br/><strong>Character creation questions:</strong>Feel free to go into as much detail as you like.<br/><br/>1, Where was your character born? (What part of the city of Babylon?)<br/>Graven was born in the Netherworld, in a great fortress-compound carved from living granite and black basalt<br/><br/>2, What is your character’s main motivation?<br/>Stay out of the reach of the forces of Hell.  At least, anything he can't kill.<br/><br/>3, What is your character’s greatest strength? Greatest weakness?<br/>Graven's greatest strength is his raw physicality.  His power is completely disproportional to an Earth environment, and he was trained to kill other demons and make sure their souls landed back in Hell.  He would think nothing of running all night, ripping apart a car, and then killing a group of lesser supernatural creatures afterward.<br/>His greatest weakness is that he denigrates intellectual pursuits.  He's clever and cunning, but has little interest in the bigger picture or formal education.  He simply doesn't know as much about what's going on as he should, because he neglected those parts of his training.<br/><br/>4, What is your character’s greatest hope? Greatest fear?<br/>Graven isn't a big hoper.  He doesn't think much beyond what he can personally do, and doesn't see the point of daydreaming.  He'd like to either escape to yet another parallel world, or somehow cut the other Demons out of this one.  Neither seems likely.<br/>His greatest fear is being recaptured and punished for what he's done.  He's killed a number of hell's scions over the year who were trying to bring him in, and the consequences for his escape and resistance would be very severe.<br/><br/>5, What are your character’s favourite and least favourite things/possessions?<br/>He doesn't think a lot about this stuff, since he usually just takes what he wants.  He likes his motorcycle, and he used to own a powerful broadsword of infernal craftsmanship that he took with him on missions to Earth.  It's quite a weapon, but he wasn't carrying it when the summoning happened and he misses it sometimes.  His least favorite is when he's required to dress up for reasons of blending in, or any time he has to think too much about equipment and logistics.  He likes large stacks of money (which can open up possibilities for entertainment) but rarely likes screwing around with "nickel and dime bullshit" because it bores him.<br/><br/>6, What about your character’s emotions? Is there anything that ‘pushes his/her buttons?’<br/>Graven has many buttons, and they are all huge and red.  His most comfortable emotions are are a kind of greed or lust, and anger.  He wants things that give him carnal pleasure, and that includes fighting.  He especially hates useless, annoying chatter about interpersonal problems.  If he were ever for some reason in the audience of a Jerry Springer show, he would probably knock Steve unconscious (Steve is a cool guy, after all) and proceed to beat the interviewees and much of the audience to death with a chair.  Perhaps connected to this, he hates being disrespected by presumptuous beings he considers his inferiors.  He's likely to teach them a lesson on the spot.<br/><br/>7, Is your character aware of the demonic in the world? If so, why?<br/>Yes.  He IS the demonic in the world.<br/><br/>8, If you could, what advice would you give your character?<br/>Read a fucking book once in a while.  Also, maybe if you told the human military some of the stuff you know (you know, knowledge?  All that junk in your brain that you have from ACTUALLY GROWING UP IN HELL and being in close contact with the infernal military for your entire career?) they'd have a better chance of stopping the invasion, and you might not spend the rest of eternity locked up in a Brass Box of Torment.<br/><br/>9, What is your character’s sexual orientation and sexual proclivities?<br/>Graven is a hetero male, and he enjoys using sex to punish and to transgress.  He's quite capable of enjoying normal consensual sex if he likes his partner, but he really enjoys fucking someone he shouldn't, or when he can use sex to hurt or frighten someone (the person he's having sex with, or someone else.)<br/><br/>10, If your character had one wish, what would he/she wish for? (Pre demon invasion)<br/>To never meet another powerful demon again.<br/><br/>Note:  I'm terrible at finding good character pics.  I probably won't ever post one unless some charitable soul suggests a suitable one.  Mea Culpa.