Post by BAT WALRUS on Jan 26, 2012 19:26:58 GMT -5
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Positive Personality Traits
✶ Assertive – He’s focused and switched on, he rarely day dreams.
✶ Thorough – He puts effort into everything he does. He makes sure he does the best job possible.
✶ Loyal – To those he respects and cares about
✶ Persistent – He never gives up on anything, sometimes to a dangerous level.
✶ Motivated – He’s ambitious, and he knows where he wants to get to in life.
✶ Early Bird – He isn’t one to laze around in bed, he tends to wake up early and make the most of his day.
✶ Rational Thinker – He considers the information at present, rather than jumping to conclusions.
✶ Formal – He knows etiquette, and can get around in the higher ends of society.
✶ Business Minded – He rarely takes a relaxed approach to things, he’s always playing the game.
✶ Protective - Of those he cares about, such as his partner.
✶ Active - He likes to keep himself busy, rather than wasting the day doing nothing productive.
✶Respectful - To those he looks up to, or those who earn it.
Negative Personality Traits
✶ Emotionally Repressed – He doesn’t like sharing his feelings, so he appears emotionally shallow a lot.
✶ Misanthrope – He generally hates everyone.
✶ Arrogant – He believes himself better than everyone, so he comes across overly arrogant a lot.
✶ Smug/Cocky – He likes to joke around with people.
✶ Short Temper – He’s quick to anger, he’s got a very short fuse and it’s attached to dynamite.
✶ Unpredictable – He tends to act based on how he feels at the time, and he doesn’t care much for rules or feelings.
✶Cold – He doesn’t really care about bonding with people, or the consequences of his actions.
✶Selfish/Inconsiderate – He doesn’t care about anyone but himself, or he rarely does.
✶Faithful – He doesn’t care about bonding with people, but when he gets attached to a particular person, he tends to stick around them a lot.
✶Masochistic - He takes pleasure in his own misery and suffering, to an extent.
✶Self Destructive – He intentionally does things which are detrimental to his own situation.
✶Narcissistic – He has an inflated ego, and he believes himself above everybody he meets, regardless of their social standing.
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[/style][/td][/tr][tr][td][atrb=vAlign,top][style=text-align: center; background-color: #101010; color: #f9f9f9; width: 104px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Candara;]Personality[/style][style=border: 2px solid #101010;][/style][/td][td][style=width: 350px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Candara; border-top: 2px solid #101010; padding-bottom: 7.5px;padding-left: 5px;]Nathaniel doesn’t look like the most muscular boy from the clothes which he wears, yet in actual fact, he is quite athletic. Whilst he doesn’t hold any considerable muscular bulk, his muscle mass is easily above what is average for his age, and his muscle tone and definition are also something to brag about, having been in active training since a young age. He has almost no body fat to speak of and any that he does have is probably healthy. Standing at an average 5 foot and 10 inches, Nathaniel is capable of combining his height and physical state in order to become a dominant force in whatever he does. His long legs yet slender body gives him a very nimble manoeuvrability, making him expert at speed and stealth.
Whilst his physical body does indeed have its strengths, it is not without its imperfections. Small scars cover his body and are located throughout, in various different spots, most noticeable are the ones running across his right hip area which are deeper and more numerous in quantity than the rest of his body.
Appearance wise, Nathaniel's has quite long, usually messy hair, which is raven black in colour, and hangs down to about the length of his chin and bottom of his neck, with bangs which hang down over his forehead, covering his eyes only slightly. (See reference sheet for example.) Matching his raven hair are deep, azure hues, mysterious and enigmatic in their gaze and skin which sits not tanned, but not too pale either. He has a fair complexion.
[/justify][/style][/td][/tr][tr][td][atrb=vAlign,top][style=text-align: center; background-color: #101010; color: #f9f9f9; width: 104px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Candara;]History[/style][style=border: 2px solid #101010;][/style][/td][td][style=width: 350px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Candara; border-top: 2px solid #101010; padding-bottom: 7.5px;padding-left: 5px;]As a child, Nathaniel was a typical boy, raised in a loving yet strict family of noble aristocrats. His family was typical, and he was a happy, carefree boy who spent his days lazing around the grounds of the Cross Estate. He was playful and a prankster, always trying to be the best at everything and joking around, he didn’t take anything seriously and his light hearted, carefree approach to life was something which those around him admired. He didn’t care much for school, but always did his studies when told to.
Then his life was stolen from him.
Over the years, Nathaniel slowly began to lose the love for life that he once openly expressed each day, watching those he loved slowly decay and perish. He never coped well with his situation, and faced with the reality of his altered existence, he slowly began to lose his grasp on society, and he withdrew into a deep, dark, endless cave of emotional depravity. Now, the only thing left of Nathaniel’s past self is the occasion cocky or smug comment he will make at people. He is stoic, emotionless, rarely expressing any form of humanity outside of his own home. He holds darkness in his heart, and he is consumed by a deep hatred for his own kind, and to this day still searches for the creature that took everything from him and turned him into what he is.
Generally, Nathaniel comes across as a very scornful, spiteful and arrogant person, the thing he hates more than anything is religion and irrational thinking, and he tends to look down on those who are unable to consider the situation and draw logical thoughts from it, and he tends to ignore the existence of those who fail to do so. More than anything however, he simply does not care for anything, he has no loved ones, and nothing he cherishes. His actions are completely selfish. He does whatever he needs to do to keep himself alive, regardless of the implications for other people. In short, he has very little humanity left, and his daily life is based upon an instinctive and animalistic need for survival at best. Other than his pokemon, Larxcen, there is nothing else he cares about.
[/style][/td][/tr][tr][td][cs=2][style=font-family: Candara; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; ]Template by Zenoske of On the edge.[/style]As a child, Nathaniel lived an ordinary life. His family were strict, yet loving. His mother doted on him and his three siblings, and his father remained strict, yet caring as he raised them, teaching them in the field of politics, and other such academics skills. The guards of the large estate and the many Pokémon which were kept ton the grounds kept them safe, and inside its grounds, the family were secluded from the outside world, care free. Nathaniel spent his days lazing around, play fighting with his brothers and getting whatever he wanted from the manors servants. He had no care in the world; utterly care free in his safe haven and the Pokémon which resided inside it. This style of life continued until he turned seventeen, then everything changed.
It was on the day that he was to finally receive his first pokemon, as a gift to prepare him for coming of age when he turned eighteen in the next year. He woke early that morning to a cold day, frost covering the grass and windows of the estates grounds. Yet something unusual stirred on that day, and as he rubbed his eyes, slowly adjusting to the sunlight, something was terribly wrong. Lazily wandering out of his room, he was met with the site of the servants and other workers running around frantickly, screaming in fear. Smoke had slowly began to fill the house and a blazing heat lingered in the air.
He wasn't sure how it happened at the time, but it later became known that the Cross estate, and the town which it resided in had been hit by a Pokémon raid, and housing a large number of rare pokemon, the Cross estate was an obvious target for such an attack. Nathaniel rushed out of the house, trying his best to rescue as many remaining Pokémon and people from within the house as he possibly could. Those who could gathered outside the manor, watching in horror as the inferno slowly brough the building to the ground. Yet it was clear, from inside the burning blaze, people still remained, everybody knew it, they were simply powerless to do anything about it.
For the servants who stood watching, most of them had worked for the Cross estate for most of their lives, it ewas a cherished place for them, but when the day ended, it was still nothing more than a place of work. For Nathaniel, this was his home, and more that that, the rest of his family were still missing, still inside the blaze perhaps? He would not wait in faith of his family being okay. With such a thought, he rushed inside the building, careless of the dangers of doing so.
Holding his sleeve over his mouth and nose, he made his way through the burning mansion as best he could, keeping low and moving fast. He found his way to the main hallway, where his elder brother lay collapsed under a fallen beam, too heavy to lift on his own, and far too hot. His back was crushed and the little life left within him was slowly leaving him. By his leg, was one pokemon, a small Shinx, who was biting on his brothers trouser legs, in an attempt to wake his master, yet to no avail. In his dying breath, Nathaniels brother gave one very simple request, "Leave me, and save Larcxen." He soon fell to darkness after that.
Nathaniel had little choice, he took the pokeball from his brothers corpse, then grabbed the Shinx by force, before running for the exit. The Shinx dug its teeth into Nathaniel's wrist in protest, yet he ignored the pain of the bite as best he could. He made it to entrance of the manor before he collapsed. When he came to, he was in the hospital, the Shinx still by his side, rather than running away to find its master. Both had sustained burns that day, and their bodies would show it for the rest of their lives. Nathaniel too had gained another kind of mark, the mark of his Pokemon, Larxcen the Shinx.
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