Drakesing High Reboot (OOC & Sign Ups)

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Within the Transcendent Realm: The Transcendent Beings reside in Isolation, perusing their vast desire of knowledge. They have vast and great power, but refuse to delve within the affairs of the lesser beings and mortals. Initially they are simply without physical form, and are essences of pure knowledge. The Entire Multiverse bends to their wills. But they are idle.....They have withdrawn from the mortal realms, leaving no trace or memory of their presence, as they sense the mortal world is about to be plunged into darkness. For Eons, no Transcendent being has set foot in the mortal planes.....for they think that mortal kind is hopeless and corrupt, and so they easily await its destruction, for they fear not evil, but war.

On Earth: Magic, Demons, Monsters and Mythical Beings have been revealed to human society, for several centuries now. The world is in a state of peace, and all seems to be well, but in the dark corners, a dark organization is rising, one that threatens to end all life on earth....

The now mingled Societies of Man, Monsters, Demons, and Mythical beings have created several schools that have lasted for 73 years now. Here, students come to learn at the highest degree about the world around them. One such school is the renowned, Drakesing High, a wealthy campus with much drama and spirit as any other average high school, perhaps maybe more..... A new secret Organization called the Blood Sparrow has been recruiting several students, usually those of miscreant behavior, for mysterious yet sinister means....They have only just begun their sinister recruitment at Drakesing High, but what they plan is still unknown.

Plot: Kaez'rii'tia is a Transcended Being. But she never agreed with the ways of her people, and when her father forbids her from the mortal realms, she runs away. She has always enjoyed watching and fantasizing about the mortal plane, especially the concepts of young love and "school". Often she would watch the hopeless romances, the strange fights, and the strange subjects that mortals had for local Gossip, such as "Boyfriend" "Lunch" "Mrs. Gaiastone" or "Nerds"---These were concepts she was clueless about. But after she ran away, she decides to manifest herself physically and hide in the mortal realms, and also signs herself up at the Drakesing High as a human named Kate Illisia.....Things get out of hand almost instantly, as she finds that the mortal realm and her fantasies are vastly different, and she also unwittingly stumbles into the plot of Blood Sparrow. Now, not only does she have to keep her identity secret, but also put a stop to evil plans of Blood Sparrow...and worse, she has to survive High school.....
But there are other problems occurring as well. Students are disappearing, fights break out all the time, and the Teachers are acting strangely.....the students wonder what they could be hiding...

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Rules:
1. No Godmodding.
2. In Fight scenes with other players, be fair and respectful.
3. If you have powers, be fair when facing those without.
4. This is to be like an average high school Rp.
5. Have a creative and fun imagination. Very essential to having a good Rp.
6. I will allow the maximum of 6 powers. No exceptions. Don't ask for higher.
7. If you think there should be any other rules please telegram me and we discuss them.

Sign ups:
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All credit goes to Contamensia!

[Ravenflight]

Return of Scarlet.

[Psycentric]

Wow...

[Corvus Metallum]

Alrighty then, will probably have an app up when I get home from Hell (otherwise known as Azle High School)

[The Carlisle]

Tagged for a later App.

[Tarnen]

Well none of my characters would be in this one, New Character time!

[Corvus Metallum]

Hmm....wereperson time

Character's Name: William Pyle
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Wereleopard (snow leopard to be exact )
Skills/Powers: Read above^
Grade: Sophmore!!! (aka 10th grade)
Grade Average: meh.....on a 4 point GPA, 3.98...in regular grading, about a 99
Appearance (physical appearance): will find pic later.
Personality: While he may seem intimidating, cold, or just plain weird based just on appearance, he's actually a big teddy bear. Overall, he's a nice guy...although he doesn't open up much about his feelings. As far as school goes, it's a mystery to most people how he's got such good grades, and yet seems to not care about his schoolwork.
Short Back story of Character: An exchange student from Texas, William (or Willy) moved to Drakesing with his family after his dad got transferred nearby for work. Since his dad is in the Army, a lot of times people will call Willy "Pvt. Pyle", much to his annoyance. While he doesn't hate his dad, or his occupation, he doesn't like to be associated with the military. His time at Drakesing high school has been okay for the most part. He's an obvious choir geek, and when he's not practicing for that, he's usually either practicing his guitar or out hiking.

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Oh I must mention this is based in 2017. High tech stuff is reserved to secret government agencies and geniuses

[Corvus Metallum]

Oh I must mention this is based in 2017. High tech stuff is reserved to secret government agencies and geniuses

Ya don't say

At least by them they'd have the iPhone 7 with a semi-holographic screen

[Psycentric]

Oh I must mention this is based in 2017. High tech stuff is reserved to secret government agencies and geniuses

Any character ideas?

[The Norak Federation]

Character's Name: Ryder Flint
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Species: Lich
Skills/Powers: Communicates with dead spirits, can try to order dead spirits into doing certain tasks, or even reanimated a receantly dead corpse. Has some knowledge on various kinds of magic, and can be 'inhabited' by a spirit to gain its knowledge, though loses control of his body momentarily.
Grade: 11th
Grade Average: 3.2
Appearance: Ryder appears like a normal kid, minus the fact that he is a complete albino and terribly thin. His bones are easily visible under his skin, and his face is quite long. His nose comes to a point, his hair is usually a wild mess, and his eyes are black, lacking any color. His appearance is due to his losing of his soul.
Personality: Somewhat of a loner due to his condition and being thought of something less than civilized, even to other mythical creatures. However, once he opens up he is quite a talker.
Short Back story of Character: Ryder was originally a normal human. He lived a normal human boy life, doing normal human things, living his mom, a widow at that time. That is, until around the age of 14, he discovered an old manuscript that his dead father had owned for a time. As it turns out, his father was a magician, and Ryder had discovered his spellbook, and attempted to cast one of the spells inside. The result was his dead father's spirit inhabiting his body, but his soul was pulled back to the realm of the dead, and pulled Ryder's in the process.

Having no soul, Ryder became what is known in the magic world, a lich, or a human being with no soul. Without a soul, he discovered that he could interact with both the realms of life and death, but was now shunned by both worlds. His mom, frightened by what her boy had become, died of a heart attack, and Ryder found himself alone in a dark world. Influenced by the dead, Ryder found his way to Drakesing High, the very same school his father attended years ago, and was quickly enrolled.

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Character's Name: Ryder Flint
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Species: Lich
Skills/Powers: Communicates with dead spirits, can try to order dead spirits into doing certain tasks, or even reanimated a receantly dead corpse. Has some knowledge on various kinds of magic, and can be 'inhabited' by a spirit to gain its knowledge, though loses control of his body momentarily.
Grade: 11th
Grade Average: 3.2
Appearance: Ryder appears like a normal kid, minus the fact that he is a complete albino and terribly thin. His bones are easily visible under his skin, and his face is quite long. His nose comes to a point, his hair is usually a wild mess, and his eyes are black, lacking any color. His appearance is due to his losing of his soul.
Personality: Somewhat of a loner due to his condition and being thought of something less than civilized, even to other mythical creatures. However, once he opens up he is quite a talker.
Short Back story of Character: Ryder was originally a normal human. He lived a normal human boy life, doing normal human things, living his mom, a widow at that time. That is, until around the age of 14, he discovered an old manuscript that his dead father had owned for a time. As it turns out, his father was a magician, and Ryder had discovered his spellbook, and attempted to cast one of the spells inside. The result was his dead father's spirit inhabiting his body, but his soul was pulled back to the realm of the dead, and pulled Ryder's in the process.

Having no soul, Ryder became what is known in the magic world, a lich, or a human being with no soul. Without a soul, he discovered that he could interact with both the realms of life and death, but was now shunned by both worlds. His mom, frightened by what her boy had become, died of a heart attack, and Ryder found himself alone in a dark world. Influenced by the dead, Ryder found his way to Drakesing High, the very same school his father attended years ago, and was quickly enrolled.

Accepted

[Videssos]

Oh, fuck.
I hate firefox. It did some stupid crashy-corrupt screen thingy just before I was about to post half a dozen massive apps, and now I tried to restore all that stuff, and Firefox opened up on a page from a fucking week ago.

[Videssos]

Well, here's one not as big one.

Character's Name: Akatsuki Ushiromiya
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Half-Raiju
Skills/Powers: Technology Manipulation, Supernatural Intelligence and Regeneration. Electricity Manipulation, Raiju/Hybrid Physiology. Can summon a Naginata, and knows how to use it.
Grade: Whatever.
Grade Average: A
Appearance (physical appearance):

Personality: Akatsuki is a very pragmatic person. Extremely intelligent, he can decipher the true natures of people. However, he seldom holds regard for the feelings of others, and ends up hurting some of them due to his nature of being frank and direct, yet at the same time, cautious, wary and generally distrusting of others, and at times, somewhat cunning and manipulative, and not particularly normal mentally. He's not too bad, though. He tends to be pretty intelligent.

He is extremely talented, and uses his skills to good use. He tends to act reserved with his feelings, making him seem like an extremely mysterious person. He is something of a hikikomori. It is said that he became one after his friends shunned him from a project because they were jealous of his intelligence, which caused him to be wary of friendship, though it's clear that several other factors also contributed in that part of his personality.
Short Back story of Character: [spoiler]Akatsuki was born into a noble family, which also got a large income from various businesses in Japan, associated with it. From an early age, he displayed a fair amount of intelligence, and generally learnt pretty quickly. Akatsuki had always been a master at Shogi, Chess and several other games. He was also known for being friendly, kind and caring about others. However, it was around the time he was born that the family started to run into an unlucky period, from some of the businesses running into trouble, to apparent curses and strange occurrences going on, like the mysterious death of his uncle. The noble family was very superstitious, and they blamed Akatsuki for the terrible troubles besetting the family in various ways.

He quickly became shunned and ostracised, as well as generally picked on, something that likewise happened at school, though for different reasons.
There were numerous points when he was bullied by girls, thus helping him develop Gynophobia. Among other things, they were jealous of his family's wealth, and his feminine appearance. He may have tried to stand up to it once, though that just made things worse, and ended up being something he preferred not to talk about. He also gave up trying to get it to stop, so he kept running, instead. This kinda thing basically happened for most of his life.

One of those times even ended up with him left nearly dead in an alleyway. Of course, he ended up close to death a number of other times. The personality that had started off as confident, friendly and generally willing to express his intelligence became darker, and he became more cautious, wary and introverted. He also got torn between going out a lot so he didn't have to spend time with his family, and staying inside their main estate, so he didn't encounter anyone he might be scared of.
Akatsuki was constantly being driven to do well to maintain the family's reputation, yet also constantly looked down on, as the apparent cause for some of the family's trouble. They often said how lucky it was that it was his older sister that would inherit the position of head of the family. His older sister, indoctrinated by his parents, even attempted to kill him when he was little, out of hatred for the trouble he was apparently causing the family, and generally gave him a rather difficult time. And for a considerable amount of time, he was even locked inside a dark, small room with no windows; among other places, that included the basement. Obviously, as you'd imagine, it wasn't nice when one of your siblings seemed to have it in for you, and nearly killed you several times. As one might imagine, this sort of character development affected his personality considerably.

He had few friends, and often began to stay away from the rest of the family, even his younger sister, who didn't share the opinion of the others. He spent a lot of time on a computer, and playing games, becoming quite knowledgeable with technology, including computer programming- engineering things, as well as building machines and gadgets- sometimes fixing and repairing stuff. He took to it remarkably well, using his considerable intelligence to become fairly adept at such things, as well as the fact that he often kept to himself- along with his nature and thus affinity to electricity and lightning. He was often contacted by various companies to help develop computer programmes and various other things of that calibre, becoming fairly well known in that regard. Akatsuki had a habit of hacking into other people's computers, phones and technological appliances, often using them to keep in the know whilst remaining on his own. He also collected a lot of anime and manga, which he hid from everyone else, watching and reading such things, respectively, initially to pass the time he spent alone. He can also play guitar. Naturally, he was involved in the supernatural world, though he tried to stay out of it. A chance encounter with a powerful member of a Japanese demon-hunter family that dabbled in western magic, a witch named Kuesu Jinguji (Omamori Himari reference), didn't go so well, and only reinforced some of his opinions. Recently, for various plot reasons, he ended up here. Meanwhile, casually seeking to achieving the goal of making an AI he designed into a real human being.

[The Carlisle]

Character's Name: Leonardo Caesar
Age: looks 18; Actually around 240 years old
Gender: male
Species: Vampiric Human.
Skills/Powers: Heals with blood gathered. Nightvision. Transforms into a bat. Can transform into a demonic form. Expert swordsman. Darkness manipulation.
Grade: 9th
Grade Average:A+
Appearance (physical appearance):
Normal Appearance:

Demonic Form:

Bat Form:

Personality: Neither good or evil. Does whatever he deems to be good for himself or fun. Whether that means helping a friend or betraying that friend. Gregarious and manipulative. Is a womanizer and will go after any woman he finds pretty regardless of previous or current relationships. Is very polite and well mannered. He is extremely smart; can speak many languages and is knowledgeable in almost any subject. Can be loyal, but don't put all your trust into him. Is very curious on everything and is prone to eavesdrop and spy to sate it.
Short Back story of Character: Some time ago, Leonardo was born in a town in italy, grew up, and was bitten by a vampire. Now that that is over, lets get into the meat.

Leonardo is not a "mythic vampire." He isn't weak to crosses, holy books, blessed objects, running water, garlic, etc. He is weak to sunlight (which lowers his power) and stakes to the heart (which is a vampires weak point). He can survive severe physical wounds like dismemberment, decapitation, and shots to the head and heart but he must heal these wounds quickly lest he loses his blood and dies.

When he was bit, he wasn't supposed to live. He was supposed to have his blood drank by the vampire who bit him. But fortunately (unfortunate for the vampire) he died before he could suck out any of his blood. Leonardo stood there, stunned by the event. He felt... different. The moonlight felt nice on his skin. He felt a craving for... blood. He looked down at the bloody vampire before him and started feeding. As he was feeding, several vampires surrounded him. They took him to this organization of vampires. They allowed him to live and gave him the basics of being a vampire and the rules. They then sent him off on his own.

He wandered places. From Europe to Asia to America, he been to it all. He was barely surviving, living off of rats and humans. He felt like he had no purpose in life, like he was cursed with vampirism. It was around a few years later, he met an old vampire name Caesar. He took Leonardo under his wing. For the next 20 years, he taught Leonardo how to be a vampire, their powers, and how to act normal. He passed all his knowledge to Leonardo. On his final day, the Caesar told him that his purpose was done and that he wanted to die. Leonardo drove the stake through Caesar's heart, pinning him to his coffin. He died without a wince. Leonardo left full of purpose and drive for life. For Caesar's help, Leonardo adopted his name to be his surname.

Leonardo traveled the world, living his life fully. He drank booze, slept with women, and visited every part of the globe learning about the world he lived in. He became an urban legend call The Traveling Gentleman. He was there for the Franco-Prussian war, WW1, the Great Depression, and so on. He saw the world grow into what it is today. He never lost his drive for life.

He decided to go to Drakesing High so that he could experience what it is like to be a high school student. He also wants to pick up women, but that is a secondary objective.

[Asuaw]

This monster species is one I created myself a long time ago. If things need to be changed or weakened, or if this race simply won't work, let me know.

Character's Name: Rimmitch
Age: 12
Gender: N/A
Species: Screek Doll
Skills/Powers:
Screek dolls are artificial creatures that harvest the hearts of living, normal humans in order to survive, storing them in jars filled with a special fluid screek dolls make. They only live so long as they have at least one heart beating inside a jar, each heart lasting as long as it would have in the original owners body (A skreek doll would get 50 or 60 years of life out of the heart of a 20 year old). They are composed of hundreds of thin blades, connected via hinges, forming a basic, elongated skeleton. These blades are incredibly sharp, never seem to dull, and are extremely difficult to break.
Most screek dolls are very quick (a result of having a normal human's strength but a lower body weight), and their blades can cut through most materials if enough pressure is applied. The main exceptions to this are magic materials, and gold. Gold is their antithesis. Being struck by gold, or gold alloys, snaps their blades like twigs. The ringing of a golden bell repels any screek doll that can hear the sound. They have no sense of smell, touch or taste. They have ordinary eyesight and mostly ordinary hearing (they are able to pick up heartbeats with impeccable accuracy, but that's it). A screek doll that's been damaged or broken apart will slowly put themselves back together over a period of several days, so long as they can find their parts. The only way to kill a screek doll is to smash their glass eyes with gold.
The other main ability of a screek doll is its ability to weave a disguise out of rough cloth, usually burlap. They sow together an ill-fitting skin, and when they put it on people see them as an ordinary human. People who touch them often note that their "skin" feels rough, but otherwise are unable to distinguish it from normal skin. People and creatures with an enhanced sense of smell will note that a screek doll has no smell, disguise or not.
Grade:9th
Grade Average: A-
Appearance (physical appearance): In disguise: Ordinary, nondescript young man looking to be about 14 or 15, with dull red hair.
Without disguise Skeletal assortment of blades and two glowing, green, glass eyes held in place by several small blades pinching them between their tips
Personality: At first glance, Rimmitch seems to have no personality. He is simply very reserved, and does not easily connect with other people. He does, in fact, get angry, sad, happy, and everything else humans feel, but thinks it will make him vulnerable if he expresses these emotions. His good grades come less from intelligence and more from his drive to work unceasingly on any problem presented to him, often resulting in him losing himself in his work. Despite his young age, as a screek doll he was born with the maturity of a human adult, and thus has a difficult time understanding the actions of his more hormone-driven, adolescent peers.
Short Back story of Character: Like all screek dolls, Rimmitch was assembled and given life through ritual. However, unlike most of his kind, it was not a wizard that gave him life, but several already existing screek dolls, his "parents". Rimmitch was part of an attempt to create a kind of screek doll that could exist within civilized society, as opposed to skirting the edges of it. He was given the heart of a convict on death row, giving him about 40 years before he would need to find another one. In this time, it is his duty to investigate ways for screek dolls to integrate into human society, so that their species can continue and exist free of the sorcerers who manufacture them as servants. To this end, he decided to go to school, thinking that that was the best place to begin learning how to live among the other races of the world.

[Ravenflight]

Copied from the orginal
Character's Name: Scarlet Swift
Gender: Female
Species: Human ( kind of part witch)
Power: Nature as in planets will do as she commands
Grade: 10
Grade Average: A-B's
Apperance: Long, Straight red hair. Green eye. A more "cute" school uniform.
Personality: Little is know about scarlet she is shy and does not have many friends.
Short backstory: The latest in a line of Human Magic users, Born in the UK. She has never met her father.

I can't find Lauren's
Character's Name: Lauren
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Powers: Psyic
Grade: 10
Grade Average: A
Appearance: Long Blond hair and normal uniform
Personality: beasties with Scarlet and really fun person.
Short Backstory: future wife of Fred (Fowlick gone ) and quite smart for a person her age.

[Tarnen]

Okay a trickster named Loki it is then.

[Psycentric]

Can i have a Manakete?

[Videssos]

Character's Name: Zanryū Asakura
Age: Unknown, exactly.
Gender: Male
Species: Was apparently human once. Isn't really, any more.
Skills/Powers: Snake summoning/manipulation, Demon/snake/hydra/fallen physiology. Consciousness Transferral. Supernatural/organic regeneration/reforming. Flesh Masking/Shapeshifting. Curse Inducement (Cursed Seals).
Grade: Whatever.
Grade Average: A.
Appearance (physical appearance):

Personality: He possesses a complex personality, but more often than not, however, he was often described as twisted by a large number of people,though there are always those who are drawn in by his charisma, an can be loyal and almost fanatical in the way they regard him, though he usually just uses them. It's speculated that this was due to the fact that, as well as his parents, two of his childhood friends died, one of an illness and a weak constitution, and the other in an accident, imply that Zanryū grew to disdain the fragility of human life and how it affected those still living, which led him to desire immortality. To that end, the primary purpose of Zanryū's human experimentation is to test what modifications the human body can endure and harness a subject's unique abilities for himself. Once accomplishing this goal, Zanryū has hopes to be worthy of the title of "ultimate being", unable to die and able to achieve his secondary goal to learn every spell in the world, which would normally take many lifetimes to obtain, and obtain a way to bring back and resurrect the dead.

Often known to be cruel, Zanryū's agenda made him develop a god complex and valued himself while delighting in striking terror in his first impressions. Though causing conflict to ease his boredom, Zanryū seems to have no interest in battles started by others. His charisma also attracts a number of followers, many of which he would not hesitate to send on potential suicide missions if for his own personal benefit, expressing some remorse if they're unable to properly complete a task, having no sentimental attachments to any of them despite their values. Despite this, Zanryū has genuine interest in the development of his underlings and experiments.

An aspect of Zanryū's personality is also his greatest weakness: his arrogance. He truly believed he is an invincible immortal at times, attacking recklessly against powerful opponents, despite not necessarily being informed as to their capabilities, and therefore not only underestimating them, but also possessing an additional factor that can contribute to his losing. Despite his distinct lack of morals, Orochimaru seems to be well-versed in human psychology and displays insightful wisdom when chastising the more ignorant in such things, including some who have a lack of understanding in such matters. He often shows disdain for those he believes are considerably weaker than him. He's also come to have a thing for death. Zanryū has a dark and unusual sense of humour.
Short Back story of Character:

Zanryū was born into a fairly rich family, his father from Japan, and his mother from Sweden. One of his ancestors on the Swedish side, happened to be relatively famous fortune teller, among other things. A number of his family members are occultists, including his parents and siblings. Much of his family had already had an obsession with mystical, and occult things- also having been initiated into certain forms of paganism, so it was not hard to make the decision for him delve into the things he did, including darker magick. Even from his childhood days Zanryū was identified as a genius in whatever it was that he took to doing, and a once-in-a-generation prodigy. He is surprisingly knowledgeable about a considerable number of things, primarily of occult and historical nature. Some of the reasons being that he desired more knowledge and power. His fascination with conflict also leant him a proficiency with some weapons as soon as he as able to delve into that kind of area. Zanryū has also managed to become adept in certain martial arts due to lessons he took tempered with some experience. He is also fairly good at drawing and playing several instruments, including guitar, drums, piano, the shakuhachi flute, wadaiko, koto and accordion, among others. He's also omni-lingual, speaking a number of languages, like Japanese, Swedish, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Greek, as well as a few others.

Zanryū has been through all kinds of little adventures despite his relatively young age, and many of them, strange or less so, are too numerous to list here. Now, he seems to be doing fairly well in life, and has attained somewhat of a reputation, mainly for his good looks and outwardly charming nature, though he was shunned by those who knew what he was really like, and plans certain things to reach his own aims. Many people saw him differently, and this contributed to his becoming detached from most other people. The deaths of two of his friends also contributed, as well as that of his parents. Despite having a fairly prestigious family, some elements of his childhood weren't so easy, and to put it simply; things were quite complicated. Among other things, there were always those who were jealous of his lineage, as well as those who treated him differently because of his unusual eyes. He regularly listens to bands like Therion, Nightwish, HeavensDust, X Japan, Dir En Grey, and various others. He is in several organisations such as The Order of the Green Dragon, Dragon Rouge, Ordo Templi Orientis, Illuminates of Thanateros, TOPY , the Temple of Set, and OSOGD. He doesn't consider himself an advanced student, but has studied Aikido, Wing Chun, Jujitsu, Kali, Savate, Krav Maga, Tae Kwan Do, Judo, Boxing, and Shaolin Kung Fu, over time, and so he isn't completely helpless when it comes to self defence, though he isn't a master of unarmed combat, either. His older cousin is in the Särskilda Operationsgruppen (Special Operations Task Group, SOG), of the Swedish Armed Forces, and taught him a few things when it came to certain military matters, in the odd time or two he came over from Sweden to Japan.

He has travelled to various parts of the world, and despite some of the less profitable experiences, he has gathered some knowledge in fighting. Once, he encountered a group of terrorists, whilst on Yonaguni, a Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean, in case ya didn't know. It was during the fight that took place there that some of his magical potential was noted by certain people in an occult division Japanese military, and he found himself under a fair amount of scrutiny, especially regarding some previous events which he has vaguely hinted at having a hand in, regarding a large number of mysterious disappearances and deaths in some parts of Japan, and later on the rest of the world. Though these were due to his ol' villain quest for power and immortality, with experiments upon those he kidnapped being fairly nasty. His rather intelligent mind insured that he has facilities, hideout and that kinda thing in various parts of the world, and he always worked things out so that his secrecy was maintained, and he wasn't discovered. He also experimented on his own body, to the extent that his true form is big, serpentine and creepy. Among his research into immortality, he has found certain curse seals, another part of the deal, that he is developing. In regards to the markers, each cursed seal contains a portion of Zanryū's consciousness, which allows him to share the senses of those who bear his seals. In the event that he is killed or sealed, he can be revived through one of his cursed seals if an individual presses flesh containing his DNA up to the cursed seal and uses the Evil Releasing Method. Through this process, Zanryū can be completely resurrected any number of times, as long as there are enough remaining cursed seals and pieces of his DNA. Both techniques have already been mastered, naturally. After a visit to Sweden, the potential that could be gained in a certain individual known to him as Kalen Daindred was revealed to him/insert plot reason here, and he bestowed a curse mark upon him, also making Kalen his apprentice, of sorts. Some people seem to find him a bit creepy at times, so the way others view him is often a mixed bag. One thing he definitely isn't regarded as, however, is a nobody. Among other oddities, his unusual eyes alone can mark him out.

Character's Name: Kalen Daindred
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Skills/Powers: Demonic/Cursed/Fallen/Snake Physiology, Lightning and Fire manipulation. Supernatural condition. Eye Power Manipulation/All Sharingan Powers. Energy matter manipulation. Dark Aura Manipulation.
Grade: Whatever's appropriate.
Grade Average: A.
Appearance (physical appearance):

Personality: His personality is rather odd, and can change from one thing to another. Brutal, impulsive, excessively-violent personality and a lethally-short temper. However, despite his aggression and obvious blood lust in battle, he possesses a feral cunning and has a knack for quickly exploiting any opening his opponent reveals. In addition, he can be blunt, sarcastic, and quite sadistic, revealing a psychotic grin or laughing maniacally whenever he becomes excited sometimes, or eerily silent, cold and disdainful at other times. He is also very rude and quite disrespectful at times, and mockingly polite, cunning and manipulative at others. He's often serious, yet at the same time disdainful of others, often laughing when opponents claim that they can defeat him. He isn't always too bad, though, so there is some good in him, even if he can be ruthless in order to achieve his goals.
Short Back story of Character:

Kalen was born into the old and very respected Daindred Family, a an esteemed noble family of prominent magic practitioners, the largest branch of which currently resides in England, though one with a quite unusual genetic "curse", if you will. While the Daindreds are often incredibly skilled magic users, they are almost always second place in comparison to the most powerful sorcerer of the time period. They also have an unusual genetic trait in their eyes. Thus, there is a heavy pressure put on Kalen, virtually from the day he could walk, as he was the second born son. There are some rumors that the family might be running into problems in terms of getting worthy heirs, which presents even more pressure on Kalen and his brother. He was taught magic and swordplay early, relentlessly and some might say abusively, and learnt many styles of fighting with various weapons accumulated within the family for centuries, including some techniques from as far afield as Japan. Kalen became quite a child prodigy, but became worried that he was still not good enough, and sought to surpass his brother. He also delved into the darker areas of magic, and once encountered Orochimaru, who gifted him with a curse mark, and taught him how to access the second stage of that power, whilst also learning how to manipulate dark energy.

As well as these things, he also studied a number of martial arts, becoming adept at them, perhaps around the level of a master in some. At age 14, he sought out a powerful [insert something else here] simply to kill it for the sake of killing it, mirroring Gabren. He barely succeeded, a fact that still frustrates him, like his brother. Though unlike his brother, Kalen holds more hate and contempt for [insert somethin else here], than fear. At one point, a time in which few details can be discerned, both his parents and many family members were slaughtered by an unknown individual, or group of individuals. Naturally, Kalen vowed to avenge them. After he became sixteen, he travelled far and wide, with some of the more interesting artefacts of supernatural significance he came upon, kept among his possessions. The voice inside Kalen urged him to travel far, and to kill. He became as skilled an assassin as he was a warrior and a dark-magic user. Sometimes, Kalen killed targets of note simply because he could, and other times because he would get rewards for such things, on contracts. He terrorised cities, towns and various places in different parts of the world, becoming known in the underground supernatural community, as the fabled "Black Demon". All along the way, he continued to search for the cause of what had happened with most of his family. All this, happened, despite of his youth.

His influential noble connections also gave him a fair amount of political power, and many of his family's traditional rivals grew fearful and shied away from them. He also on occasion goes by various other aliases, and such as Lord Emil Von Stroube, and it it doubtful if his birth name is known for certain. It is also believed that he has his own shadowy organisation somewhere, though that is so shrouded in rumours that even half-truths are hard to find. When he was younger, Kalen often joined numerous occult organisations, from the Golden Dawn and Illuminates of Thanateros to Fraternas Saturni, and TOPY. Due to his odd personality, it is generally near impossible to ascertain what his true goals are. However, whatever they are, it's doubtless that they are ambitious. During recent times, he's fallen under the wing of Zanryū.

Character's Name: Marcelo Sant'Angelo (Current name, though his original was Benvenuto Cellini)
Age: 513
Gender: Male
Species: Human (Immortal)
Skills/Powers: Age Negation (doesn't age). Dark Arts. Alchemy/Transmutation. Immortality- physical body regenerates from pretty much anything sooner or later, though it still hurts.
Grade: Whatever.
Grade Average: A.
Appearance (physical appearance):

Personality: Somewhat arrogant yet complex. Artistic, obviously, and generally outspoken. Considerably bold, he isn't afraid to confront people, nor is he worried about the impression he leaves since he's simply being himself. He has no qualms about killing people, yet he is not above doing good deeds, such as rushing to a fire or donating some money. Of course, he is still ruthless and can be vengeful to an extent. He as a slightly jaded, cynical outlook a fair amount of the time, and isn't too sane. There's also something "enthralling" about him, and it's more or less impossible to get the complexity of his mind. Like quite a number of other people from the renaissance, he has quite the interest in women, and that hasn't really changed over time. Though he's possibly bi, he has a very considerable interest in women, and that hasn't changed despite the passing of centuries. He can have a dry ironic, and dark sense of humour, and is sometimes cold, yet warm and cordial at other times. Can be prideful, and at other times, wrathful. Has many other facets to his personality.
Short Back story of Character:

Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence, Italy. His parents were Giovanni Cellini, and Maria Lisabetta Granacci. They were married for eighteen years before the birth of their first child. Benvenuto was the second child of the family. The son of a musician and builder of musical instruments, Cellini was pushed towards music, but when he was age fifteen, his father reluctantly agreed to apprentice him to a goldsmith, Antonio di Sandro, nicknamed Marcone. At the age of sixteen, Benvenuto had already attracted attention in Florence by taking part in an affray with youthful companions. He was banished for six months and lived in Siena, where he worked for a goldsmith named Fracastoro (unrelated to the Veronese polymath). From Siena he moved to Bologna, where he became a more accomplished flute player and made progress as a goldsmith. After a visit to Pisa and two periods of living in Florence (where he was visited by the sculptor Torrigiano), he moved to Rome, at the age of nineteen.

Unknown to most, he was also an occultist, and an alchemist with several colleagues- having worked on forbidden texts, rituals and arcana in his workshop in Florence. Four years later, working with a mysterious individual known as "Dr. Strozzi," he went to the Colosseum at night, and initiated a dark ritual to summon Dante, who told him of how to achieve immortality, and opened the way for him to do so. It is rumoured that night, that a legion of devils were conjured up at that time, and he went into another realm. Whatever happened, he returned with bulrushes, a casket containing a pale green water, and a head in a sack, resembling the Medusa of legend. Working for a considerable number of hours wrought a silver garland resembling bulrushes, that could turn the wearer invisible, as well as a silver medallion depicting the head of Medusa on one side- with rubies for eyes, and a mirror/looking glass on the other, with some of the mysterious green liquid trapped inside the glass. When one looked into it on a moonlight night, it could grant them immortality, effectively making sure that for that person, nothing past that point would kill them. Not long later, he wrote a book called "The key to Life Eternal".

His first works in Rome were a silver casket, silver candlesticks, and a vase for the bishop of Salamanca, which won him the approval of Pope Clement VII. Another celebrated work from Rome is the gold medallion of "Leda and the Swan" executed for the Gonfaloniere Gabbriello Cesarino, and which is now in the Vienna museum. He also took up the flute again, and was appointed one of the pope's court musicians.

In the attack on Rome by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Cellini's bravery proved of signal service to the pontiff. According to his own accounts, he himself shot and injured Philibert of Châlon, prince of Orange. (Allegedly Cellini also killed Charles III, Duke of Bourbon during the Siege of Rome.) He also commanded the artillery that defended Pope Clement VII when he was under siege in the Castel St.Angelo, and he personally kept the three beacons burning every night, to prove that Rome hadn't surrendered. His bravery led to a reconciliation with the Florentine magistrates, and he soon returned to his hometown of Florence. Here he devoted himself to crafting medals, the most famous of which are "Hercules and the Nemean Lion", in gold repoussé work, and "Atlas supporting the Sphere", in chased gold, the latter eventually falling into the possession of Francis I of France.

From Florence he went to the court of the duke of Mantua, and then back to Florence. On returning to Rome, he was employed in the working of jewellery and in the execution of dies for private medals and for the papal mint. In 1529 his brother Cecchino killed a Corporal of the Roman Watch and in turn was wounded by an arquebusier (rifleman), later dying of his wound. Soon afterward Benvenuto killed his brother's killer – an act of blood revenge but not justice as Cellini admits that his brother's killer had acted in self-defense. Cellini fled to Naples to shelter from the consequences of an affray with a notary, Ser Benedetto, whom he had wounded. Through the influence of several cardinals, Cellini obtained a pardon. He found favour with the new pope, Paul III, notwithstanding a fresh homicide during the interregnum three days after the death of Pope Clement VII in September 1534. The fourth victim was a rival goldsmith, Pompeo of Milan. Of course, numerous others followed from time to time.

The plots of Pier Luigi Farnese led to Cellini's retreat from Rome to Florence and Venice, where he was restored with greater honour than before. At the age of 37, upon returning from a visit to the French court, he was imprisoned on a charge (apparently false) of having embezzled the gems of the pope's tiara during the war, as well as heresy, since some apprentices he employed had apparently informed the church, and thus, the Pope, that he had dabbled with grimoires and black magic. He was confined to the Castel Sant'Angelo, escaped, was recaptured, and treated with great severity; he was in daily expectation of death on the scaffold. At one point, he was even poisoned, though of course, it didn't kill him. The intercession of Pier Luigi's wife, and especially that of the Cardinal d'Este of Ferrara, eventually secured Cellini's release, in gratitude for which he gave d'Este a splendid cup.

Cellini then worked at the court of Francis I at Fontainebleau and Paris. However, he considered the duchesse d'Étampes to be set against him and refused to conciliate with the king's favourites. He could no longer silence his enemies by the sword, as he had silenced those in Rome. As a result, after about five years of invested work but continual jealousy and violence, Cellini returned to Florence, where he continued as a goldsmith and became the rival of sculptor Baccio Bandinelli who died suspiciously a few years later in 1560.

During the war with Siena, Cellini was appointed to strengthen the defences of his native city, and, though rather shabbily treated by his ducal patrons, he continued to gain the admiration of his fellow citizens by the magnificent works which he produced. He was also named a member (Accademico) of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence, founded by the Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari. He supposedly died in Florence on 13 May 1571 and was buried with great pomp in the church of the Santissima Annunziata. In Florence he had supported a widowed sister and her six daughters. Of course, his funeral was attendeed ironically, by himself, and he watched with the garland of invisibility, as the attendants paid tribute to a a man who was still alive. The person being buried in fact being a look-a-like beggar a long-time servant of his named Ascanio- who like him was immortal, had found in an alley in Florence, who was already going to die anyway. One thing Cellini remembered as he watched, was one of the attendants. A painter who had studied under Bronzino, one of Benvenuto's great and long-standing friends, stepped the to the edge of the grave, and after wishing "eternal peace to this immortal master, who has brought glory to Florence and beauty to all the world," let fall a spray of purple irises. If only the painter knew how fitting it was.

Cellini is known to have taken some of his female models as mistresses, having an illegitimate daughter in 1544 with one of them while living in France, whom he named Costanza. After briefly attempting a clerical career, in 1562 he married a servant, Piera Parigi, with whom he claimed he had five children, of which only a son and two daughters survived him. There was also a model, and lover of his named Caterina, who also became immortal- though he lost contact with her after some time, and apparently she had died in a shipwreck, fleeing the Duke of Castro's inquisitors. And the duchess Eleonora de Toledo, among many others.

Aside from his marriage, Cellini was officially accused or charged with the crime of sodomy once with a woman and at least three times with men, illustrating his bisexual tendencies:

-14 January 1523 he was sentenced to pay 12 staia of flour for relations with a boy named Domenico di ser Giuliano da Ripa
-While in Paris, a former model and lover brought charges against him of using her "after the Italian fashion." (i.e. sodomy)
-In Florence in 1548, Cellini was accused by a woman named Margherita, for having certain familiarities with her son, Vincenzo.
-26 February 1556, his apprentice Fernando di Giovanni di Montepulciano accused his mentor of having sodomised him many times. This time the penalty was a hefty fifty golden scudi fine, and four years of prison, remitted to four years of house arrest thanks to the intercession of the Medicis.

In a search to recover the Medusa Amulet, which had been secreted amongst Papal treasures after the Duke of Castro stole it from him around the time he was imprisoned, he would end up chasing it for quite some time. Firstly, after witnessing his own funeral, he decided to become a Marquis, in France.

Centuries passed. Many things happened, including him being burnt at the stake at one time. At another point, he met the famously very attractive and flirtatious Princess Henrietta of England, and to put things simply, got on pretty well with her- despite the fact she was married to a member of French royalty, over the course of 1662 to 1670, when she unexpectedly grew ill. As Sant'Angelo, he secretly cured her by bestowing upon her immortality with the amulet. Since everyone thought she was going to die any time soon, despite her youth, and she preferred him over her husband, she used his help to fake her death on June 30th, at 2 o'clock in the morning, at the age of 26. That of course, ended up meaning she disappeared into the history books, in truth staying over with him at his castle, ignoring the passing of time.

In 1757, he ended up travelling to Moscow under the alias of an Italian sculptor, gold and silversmith by the name of Lorenzo Ricciarelli, he ended up coming up against a group of cossacks trying to look to easy victims. They seemingly cornered and short him, only to have him seemingly come back from the dead moments later. Complaining that it stung, he proceeded to kill the group who'd attacked him one by one. However, someone else was watching. It turned out that his immortality would be the spur for the murders that were to come, perpetrated by Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova. The next night, he'd end up seemingly by chance, meeting the said noblewoman, being trapped and ending up becoming a victim; one of the first of that particularly sadistic killer's targets, and the catalyst for the Russian's secret obsession with immortality. And of course, it was neither quick nor painless. Nor was it a one off. It lasted of the course of five years, before things changed. The deaths of around 145 servants, or serfs, of Darya over the course of those five years hadn't gone unnoticed, and Tsarina Catherine II had her arrested, and two years later, sentenced to life imprisonment in the basement of Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow. Needless to say, Benvenuto regards that time as one of the nastier experiences he's had over the centuries.

Then things began to stir, in 1785. Owning as his home, the Château Perdu- built by a Norman Knight come back from the Holy Land in the 1200s, hidden away in the most remote corner of a vast estate, and perched on a cliff overlooking the Loire, it had been situated like a fortress, not a palace, and over the years, had acquired an unsavoury reputation with rumours of terrible and sacrilegious deeds being performed there. He went by the name of Marquis di Sant'Angelo. He often spent most of his time in the castle, only on occasion coming to Versailles. When he did come to court, he was often seen on the arm of Marie Antoinette. He'd first met her when she was 14, and had watched her over the course of 15 years, from an awkward girl, into a confident, even imperious, woman. Since he acquired it a long time earlier, many dark myths and legends abounded the area.

The locals tended to avoid it if they could, but they always did the bidding of the Marquis. It was generally ill-advised to be in the vicinity of the Château at night time. At that time, he was often regarded as a mysterious Italian nobleman, whose eye for things of beauty was celebrated far and wide, as were his powers in other spheres. Since wherever he went, over the years, he had acquired a reputation as a master of the dark arts. No one else, it was said, could have the courage to inhabit the notorious Chateau Perdu, or have acquired such wealth and position with no known forebears. It was rumoured that the marquis could read minds and foretell the future. It was a reputation that he neither encouraged nor dispelled.

To others at the time, there was always an impenetrable yet enthralling air of mystery to him. His fortune appeared to be great, but no one at court had ever been able to trace his family or guess where the money had come from. Although he had been received at court by the previous king, Louis XV, he had quarrelled with the king's notorious mistress, Madame du Barry- it had something to do with a portrait- and he'd soon found himself a close ally of the present queen, whose scorn for du Barry was no secret. Marie Antoinette had come to reply upon his taste in many things, especially questions regarding the fine arts, architecture, furnishing, and above all, jewellery. He was well known for his exquisite eye in such things, and many jewellers hoping to procure recommendations for their wares did a pilgrimage to the castle, hoping to use his patronage to persuade the queen to take an interest their collections.

During a talk with one such man- Charles Auguste Boehmer, the official court jeweler, he learnt that Count Cagliostro at Versailles, had possession of the Medusa Amulet. He went off to Versailles, to discover the validity of what he'd heard. Though the only reason he'd spent time in Versailles with the current king, was to visit with the queen. When Cellini and Cagliostro met, it was certainly something. They had both heard of each other before, and it was as if rival predators were squaring off, in the polite and sophisticated court setting of a French palace. It was of course, not unexpected that they clashed. From Cagliostro, he learnt that the man had gotten the Amulet as a gift from the queen, who in turn got it from Pope Pius VI, on the birth of her son, Louis-Charles, supposedly to protect the mother and child from the evil eye. The queen gave it to Cagliostro after wearing it to a reception for the pope one night, and having very unpleasant dreams- which as Sant'Angelo suspected, was actually her looking into it at night and becoming immortal. She told him to have it disposed of, but Cagliostro recognised its beauty, and kept it for himself. Cagliostro later on displayed some of his tricks, which were primarily just that, using some degree of alchemy, like initiating chemical reactions to make images appear in a vase of water, and silverware move with lodestones concealed in his cuff links. And then, one of his mesmerism performances. During which, he and Cagliostro ended up communicating mentally. They then challenged each other, with everyone else in the room in a deep hypnosis-induced sleep. Cagliostro summoned illusionary ravens to attack Sant'Angelo, and it seems that Cagliostro had been underestimated. To counter his ravens, Sant'Angelo summoned an eagle, which tore into them. In response, Cagliostro summoned a creature that resembled Anubis. And to counter that, Sant'Angelo conjured a massive lion, which defeated Cagliostro's thought-form. Shaken, Cagliostro was mentally subdued, and Sant'Angelo made him unable to speak of what had happened, in a way that would slowly drive him insane, his mind rotting from within like termite-infested wood. He then instructed the still-hypnotised audience to wake in a few minutes.

October, 1793, disguised as a priest, and an apparent revolutionary, Sant'Angelo planed to rescue Marie Antoinette, and had already witnessed over the previous days, the deaths of many of the victims of what he regarded as a chaotic rule of terror in the form of a revolution. He hated how much blood had been spilt by the perpetrators, and how many baseless accusations had been flung against Antoinette, among many others. Armed with a harpe - a distinctive short-sword notable for its notched end, he kept Ascanio nearby, ready for a quick escape with a carriage not far away. Sant'Angelo was sickened at the "festivities" and the holiday mood that seemed to permeate Paris in such grim times. For all their talk of revolution and reform, he felt that the likes of Danton and Robespierre and Marat had plunged the country into even greater turmoil and despair, into war with neighbouring countries and abject poverty at home. If these self-appointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance that they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood, and made France a pariah among the civilised nations of the world.

Sant'Angelo gained access to Antoinette's prison cell and past the guards with the use of letter of authorisation from the Tribunal, which he had forged several weeks earlier and signed in the name of Fouqier Tinville, the principal prosecutor of the case against the queen. In the outer area leading to the cell, he encountered Jacques Hébert, a man whom he regarded as the worst amongst the bloodthirsty wolves of the Revolution, and the one who had published the most defamatory and revolting lies about the queen. Despite some attempts at persuasion Marie seemed consigned to her fate, even knowing Sant'Angelo's magical prowess, and his garland of invisibility.

Even as Hébert and his men dragged her away, Sant'Angelo decided that he wouldn't abandon her. With that garland, he rendered himself unseen, and followed the queen and her coterie. He hid himself on the cart, and watched a seemingly endless throng along the way showing their hatred for Antoinette. Sant'Angelo did whatever he could, blocking what projectiles he could without giving himself away, and once, when one of the savages tried to leap into the cart, kicking him in the face so hard his teeth exploded like sparks. The man, of course not knowing what had happened, staggered back into the street, blood gushing from between the fingers he held to his stunned mouth.

He followed her to the guillotine, using magic to create an physically manifested illusion of her- that would be physically existent so long as the onlookers believed it to be real, whilst rendering the real her unseen temporarily. He whispered to her about the immortality she'd gained, and how it would be rather bad for her if she was beheaded, though of course, she would end up regenerating. She would later escape, hiding in Paris with the help of Ascanio. Sant'Angelo went to the Tavern of the Guilotine, and followed Hébert and his two accomplices, a man with a bloodstained feather in his cap, named Octave, and a writer, or printer named Jerome. He followed them to the Conciergerie, and invisibly taunted the writer, whispering "Wouldn't you like to wash that ink off your hands?" unnerving the man, before grabbing him by the scruff of his neck and dragging him to the stone parapet above the riverfront. Flinging him over and to his death, Sant'Angelo ignored the protestations and screams of the man, stepping to the side as Octave and Hébert ran to his calls. Of course, they saw no one. He slipped behind Octave, murmuring. "So, do you like your souvenirs?"
After which he ripped the feather from the man's cap, and ignored a wild shot from the man, before raising his own sword, and slicing Octave's hand off, as the prisoners watched from captivity.

For Hébert, he took off his garland, revealing the attire of a black cassock, which he still wore. Bloody sword in one hand, he faced the clearly shaken and surprised Hébert, who recognised him as the priest he'd seen earlier. Futilely calling for guards, Hébert was pushed back, clearly outmatched when it came to swordsmanship, close enough to the prison bars as to be touched by the prisoners. He tried to slash at the arms then confront the marquis, but Sant'Angelo easily disarmed Hébert, even as the guards finally arrived and attempted to shoot him. Putting a hand against Hébert's chest, he thrust him up against the seething wall of fingers and hands, hundreds of them, all intent on tearing him to pieces. Like a pack of harpies, they grabbed hold of him, rending his clothes and ripping out his hair, scratching at his flesh, digging in their nails like claws. An old man gnawed ferociously at one arm. A hollow-eyed girl inserted a knitting needle into the back of his neck as delicately as if she were making lace.

Slipping his garland back on, Sant'Angelo faded into thin air even as the guards surged towards him, horses whinnying, muskets swinging this way and that. And thus, he disappeared into the night, meeting up with Ascanio, Antoinette, and vanishing into the countryside.

Centuries later, in the late 1800s he ended up encountering a Serbian bandit leader named Mila, who ended up discovering the hard way of his immortality, and after seeing him come back to life and wound her husband with a blade covered in deadly poisons, causing her to stay behind in a cave despite the fact that a number of gendarmes were converging on her position, two of them dying before she was captured and sentenced. In the 1900s, he happened to have the unluckiness to be in Romania visiting a town in 1902 when yet another group of bandits encountered him- this one led by an even worse, and relatively evil individual, as they were raiding the small town, and once again, it seemed he had to deal with the troubles only an immortal could painfully survive. And once more, in the early 20s, he had the misfortune of an unfortunate encounter with Vera Renczi in Berckerekul, Yugoslavia, and another in Hungary, with Josephine Tzany. In 1940, the Nazis, knowing the occult and dark mysteries surrounding Château Perdu, ended up investigating the place. At that time, yet another person, a young woman named Celeste Guyot, had also been made recently immortal. A column of armoured cars approached, along with 15 men of the SS, who seemed rather inquisitorial, in the main hall. At their command, was Heinrich Himmler himself. Alongside him, a professor of the occult and an archeologist- a man named Dieter Mainz, who had often aided the Nazis in their search for occult artefacts. It seems that at Castel San Leo, the Nazis had discovered the insane scribblings of Cagliostro, where he had resided before he died. Since after fleeing Paris, he ended up in Rome, where the pope accused him of blasphemy, burned his books, and imprisoned him in Castel St. Angelo. Before he was moved to San Leo. Among the writings, one could read "The eye of the pyramid sees into all things," "The master of the lost castle prevails," with a glyph depicting a jackal with a broken neck. As well as that, "The Master of the Lost Castle possesses the secret of secrets," and "The immortal Gorgon belongs to Sant'Angelo." It was effectively a road map for the Nazis to Château Perdu. Indeed but an hour later, Hitler himself ended up appearing. As they grew closer and closer to his secrets, he initiated a black magick ritual that drew upon some of the energy the castle had acquired over centuries, and summoned a host of shadowy demons. Whilst they dealt with a majority of the SS soldiers in the castle, tearing them to pieces, Sant'Angelo killed Mainz by sending him to his death, flying over the balcony and off the side of the castle. Himmer escaped, as did Hitler, after a mental battle of wills between himself and Sant'Angelo, which exhausted the fuhrer and showed that despite his inhuman will, like Cagliostro, he wasn't a match for Benvenuto Cellini. After that, the Nazis kept away from the Château, avoiding it like fire.

Now, in modern times, Sant'Angelo continues to reside at Château Perdu, the locals as loyal as ever to their mysterious and un-aging master. From time to time, he travels out into the countryside, and sometimes to other countries for short periods of time. Whilst the woman he once knew, Caterina, is unknown to him, somewhere in America, as a member of one of Chicago's most recognised families, the Van Owens, under the name Kathryn.

For some reason, he's pretending not to be a centuries old immortal, and is round these parts.

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Well, here's one not as big one.

Character's Name: Akatsuki Ushiromiya
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Half-Raiju
Skills/Powers: Technology Manipulation, Supernatural Intelligence and Regeneration. Electricity Manipulation, Raiju/Hybrid Physiology. Can summon a Naginata, and knows how to use it.
Grade: Whatever.
Grade Average: A
Appearance (physical appearance):

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Personality: Akatsuki is a very pragmatic person. Extremely intelligent, he can decipher the true natures of people. However, he seldom holds regard for the feelings of others, and ends up hurting some of them due to his nature of being frank and direct, yet at the same time, cautious, wary and generally distrusting of others, and at times, somewhat cunning and manipulative, and not particularly normal mentally. He's not too bad, though. He tends to be pretty intelligent.

He is extremely talented, and uses his skills to good use. He tends to act reserved with his feelings, making him seem like an extremely mysterious person. He is something of a hikikomori. It is said that he became one after his friends shunned him from a project because they were jealous of his intelligence, which caused him to be wary of friendship, though it's clear that several other factors also contributed in that part of his personality.
Short Back story of Character:

Akatsuki was born into a noble family, which also got a large income from various businesses in Japan, associated with it. From an early age, he displayed a fair amount of intelligence, and generally learnt pretty quickly. Akatsuki had always been a master at Shogi, Chess and several other games. He was also known for being friendly, kind and caring about others. However, it was around the time he was born that the family started to run into an unlucky period, from some of the businesses running into trouble, to apparent curses and strange occurrences going on, like the mysterious death of his uncle. The noble family was very superstitious, and they blamed Akatsuki for the terrible troubles besetting the family in various ways.

He quickly became shunned and ostracised, as well as generally picked on, something that likewise happened at school, though for different reasons.
There were numerous points when he was bullied by girls, thus helping him develop Gynophobia. Among other things, they were jealous of his family's wealth, and his feminine appearance. He may have tried to stand up to it once, though that just made things worse, and ended up being something he preferred not to talk about. He also gave up trying to get it to stop, so he kept running, instead. This kinda thing basically happened for most of his life.

One of those times even ended up with him left nearly dead in an alleyway. Of course, he ended up close to death a number of other times. The personality that had started off as confident, friendly and generally willing to express his intelligence became darker, and he became more cautious, wary and introverted. He also got torn between going out a lot so he didn't have to spend time with his family, and staying inside their main estate, so he didn't encounter anyone he might be scared of.
Akatsuki was constantly being driven to do well to maintain the family's reputation, yet also constantly looked down on, as the apparent cause for some of the family's trouble. They often said how lucky it was that it was his older sister that would inherit the position of head of the family. His older sister, indoctrinated by his parents, even attempted to kill him when he was little, out of hatred for the trouble he was apparently causing the family, and generally gave him a rather difficult time. And for a considerable amount of time, he was even locked inside a dark, small room with no windows; among other places, that included the basement. Obviously, as you'd imagine, it wasn't nice when one of your siblings seemed to have it in for you, and nearly killed you several times. As one might imagine, this sort of character development affected his personality considerably.

He had few friends, and often began to stay away from the rest of the family, even his younger sister, who didn't share the opinion of the others. He spent a lot of time on a computer, and playing games, becoming quite knowledgeable with technology, including computer programming- engineering things, as well as building machines and gadgets- sometimes fixing and repairing stuff. He took to it remarkably well, using his considerable intelligence to become fairly adept at such things, as well as the fact that he often kept to himself- along with his nature and thus affinity to electricity and lightning. He was often contacted by various companies to help develop computer programmes and various other things of that calibre, becoming fairly well known in that regard. Akatsuki had a habit of hacking into other people's computers, phones and technological appliances, often using them to keep in the know whilst remaining on his own. He also collected a lot of anime and manga, which he hid from everyone else, watching and reading such things, respectively, initially to pass the time he spent alone. He can also play guitar. Naturally, he was involved in the supernatural world, though he tried to stay out of it. A chance encounter with a powerful member of a Japanese demon-hunter family that dabbled in western magic, a witch named Kuesu Jinguji (Omamori Himari reference), didn't go so well, and only reinforced some of his opinions. Recently, for various plot reasons, he ended up here. Meanwhile, casually seeking to achieving the goal of making an AI he designed into a real human being.

Seeing as the Raiju physiology has pretty much no affect and just a application filler I'll accept.

Character's Name: Leonardo Caesar
Age: looks 18; Actually around 240 years old
Gender: male
Species: Vampiric Human.
Skills/Powers: Heals with blood gathered. Nightvision. Transforms into a bat. Can transform into a demonic form. Expert swordsman. Darkness manipulation.
Grade: 9th
Grade Average:A+
Appearance (physical appearance):
Normal Appearance:
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[Tarnen]

You broke the thread good job Novia,

[Videssos]

Ah, fuck. My eyes....
It's annoying when people mess up the format and hurt my eyes in such a manner.
I always make them pay the iron price.

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Character's Name: Zanryū Asakura
Age: Unknown, exactly.
Gender: Male
Species: Was apparently human once. Isn't really, any more.
Skills/Powers: Demonic Power Manipulation, Supernatural Condition, Snake summoning/manipulation, Demon/snake/hydra/fallen physiology. Consciousness Transferral. Darkness Manipulation. Energetic pressure. Supernatural regeneration/reforming. Dark Arts. Psychological Intuition. Flesh Masking/Shapeshifting. Mindscape Transportation. Life-Force Merging. Telekinesis. Poison Immunity. Curse Inducement (Cursed Seals). Reptile Manipulation. Element Sealing.
Army Manipulation. Corruption Inducement. DNA Manipulation. (Through all of his dark experiments.) Mutagen Empowerment. Supernatural Blood. Spatial Manipulation. Organic Regeneration. Tactical Analysis. Regenerative Durability. Killing Instinct/Intent. Scientific Prowess.
Grade: Whatever.
Grade Average: A.
Appearance (physical appearance):

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Personality: He possesses a complex personality, but more often than not, however, he was often described as twisted by a large number of people,though there are always those who are drawn in by his charisma, an can be loyal and almost fanatical in the way they regard him, though he usually just uses them. It's speculated that this was due to the fact that, as well as his parents, two of his childhood friends died, one of an illness and a weak constitution, and the other in an accident, imply that Zanryū grew to disdain the fragility of human life and how it affected those still living, which led him to desire immortality. To that end, the primary purpose of Zanryū's human experimentation is to test what modifications the human body can endure and harness a subject's unique abilities for himself. Once accomplishing this goal, Zanryū has hopes to be worthy of the title of "ultimate being", unable to die and able to achieve his secondary goal to learn every spell in the world, which would normally take many lifetimes to obtain, and obtain a way to bring back and resurrect the dead.

Often known to be cruel, Zanryū's agenda made him develop a god complex and valued himself while delighting in striking terror in his first impressions. Though causing conflict to ease his boredom, Zanryū seems to have no interest in battles started by others. His charisma also attracts a number of followers, many of which he would not hesitate to send on potential suicide missions if for his own personal benefit, expressing some remorse if they're unable to properly complete a task, having no sentimental attachments to any of them despite their values. Despite this, Zanryū has genuine interest in the development of his underlings and experiments.

An aspect of Zanryū's personality is also his greatest weakness: his arrogance. He truly believed he is an invincible immortal at times, attacking recklessly against powerful opponents, despite not necessarily being informed as to their capabilities, and therefore not only underestimating them, but also possessing an additional factor that can contribute to his losing. Despite his distinct lack of morals, Orochimaru seems to be well-versed in human psychology and displays insightful wisdom when chastising the more ignorant in such things, including some who have a lack of understanding in such matters. He often shows disdain for those he believes are considerably weaker than him. He's also come to have a thing for death. Zanryū has a dark and unusual sense of humour.
Short Back story of Character:

Zanryū was born into a fairly rich family, his father from Japan, and his mother from Sweden. One of his ancestors on the Swedish side, happened to be relatively famous fortune teller, among other things. A number of his family members are occultists, including his parents and siblings. Much of his family had already had an obsession with mystical, and occult things- also having been initiated into certain forms of paganism, so it was not hard to make the decision for him delve into the things he did, including darker magick. Even from his childhood days Zanryū was identified as a genius in whatever it was that he took to doing, and a once-in-a-generation prodigy. He is surprisingly knowledgeable about a considerable number of things, primarily of occult and historical nature. Some of the reasons being that he desired more knowledge and power. His fascination with conflict also leant him a proficiency with some weapons as soon as he as able to delve into that kind of area. Zanryū has also managed to become adept in certain martial arts due to lessons he took tempered with some experience. He is also fairly good at drawing and playing several instruments, including guitar, drums, piano, the shakuhachi flute, wadaiko, koto and accordion, among others. He's also omni-lingual, speaking a number of languages, like Japanese, Swedish, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Greek, as well as a few others.

Zanryū has been through all kinds of little adventures despite his relatively young age, and many of them, strange or less so, are too numerous to list here. Now, he seems to be doing fairly well in life, and has attained somewhat of a reputation, mainly for his good looks and outwardly charming nature, though he was shunned by those who knew what he was really like, and plans certain things to reach his own aims. Many people saw him differently, and this contributed to his becoming detached from most other people. The deaths of two of his friends also contributed, as well as that of his parents. Despite having a fairly prestigious family, some elements of his childhood weren't so easy, and to put it simply; things were quite complicated. Among other things, there were always those who were jealous of his lineage, as well as those who treated him differently because of his unusual eyes. He regularly listens to bands like Therion, Nightwish, HeavensDust, X Japan, Dir En Grey, and various others. He is in several organisations such as The Order of the Green Dragon, Dragon Rouge, Ordo Templi Orientis, Illuminates of Thanateros, TOPY , the Temple of Set, and OSOGD. He doesn't consider himself an advanced student, but has studied Aikido, Wing Chun, Jujitsu, Kali, Savate, Krav Maga, Tae Kwan Do, Judo, Boxing, and Shaolin Kung Fu, over time, and so he isn't completely helpless when it comes to self defence, though he isn't a master of unarmed combat, either. His older cousin is in the Särskilda Operationsgruppen (Special Operations Task Group, SOG), of the Swedish Armed Forces, and taught him a few things when it came to certain military matters, in the odd time or two he came over from Sweden to Japan.

He has travelled to various parts of the world, and despite some of the less profitable experiences, he has gathered some knowledge in fighting. Once, he encountered a group of terrorists, whilst on Yonaguni, a Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean, in case ya didn't know. It was during the fight that took place there that some of his magical potential was noted by certain people in an occult division Japanese military, and he found himself under a fair amount of scrutiny, especially regarding some previous events which he has vaguely hinted at having a hand in, regarding a large number of mysterious disappearances and deaths in some parts of Japan, and later on the rest of the world. Though these were due to his ol' villain quest for power and immortality, with experiments upon those he kidnapped being fairly nasty. His rather intelligent mind insured that he has facilities, hideout and that kinda thing in various parts of the world, and he always worked things out so that his secrecy was maintained, and he wasn't discovered. He also experimented on his own body, to the extent that his true form is big, serpentine and creepy. Among his research into immortality, he has found certain curse seals, another part of the deal, that he is developing. In regards to the markers, each cursed seal contains a portion of Zanryū's consciousness, which allows him to share the senses of those who bear his seals. In the event that he is killed or sealed, he can be revived through one of his cursed seals if an individual presses flesh containing his DNA up to the cursed seal and uses the Evil Releasing Method. Through this process, Zanryū can be completely resurrected any number of times, as long as there are enough remaining cursed seals and pieces of his DNA. Both techniques have already been mastered, naturally. After a visit to Sweden, the potential that could be gained in a certain individual known to him as Kalen Daindred was revealed to him/insert plot reason here, and he bestowed a curse mark upon him, also making Kalen his apprentice, of sorts. Some people seem to find him a bit creepy at times, so the way others view him is often a mixed bag. One thing he definitely isn't regarded as, however, is a nobody. Among other oddities, his unusual eyes alone can mark him out.

Character's Name: Kalen Daindred
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Skills/Powers: Demonic/Cursed/Fallen Physiology, Darkness Manipulation, Lightning and Fire manipulation. Curse Empowerment. Supernatural condition. Demonic Force Manipulation. Ability Learning/Instant learning due to his eyes. Power replication. Hypnotic vision. Illusion Awareness and manipulation. Absolute Illusion. Torment Inducement. Attack Prediction. Snake Manipulation/Summoning. Dark Element Manipulation. (Most Sharingan powers have already been mentioned, but basically, he's got the power of the Uchiha clan from Naruto.) Singularity Inducement. Spatial Manipulation. Energy matter manipulation. Negative Emotion Empowerment. Obsession Embodiment. Body Shedding. Pain Illusion. Dark Aura Manipulation.
Grade: Whatever's appropriate.
Grade Average: A.
Appearance (physical appearance):

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Personality: His personality is rather odd, and can change from one thing to another. Brutal, impulsive, excessively-violent personality and a lethally-short temper. However, despite his aggression and obvious blood lust in battle, he possesses a feral cunning and has a knack for quickly exploiting any opening his opponent reveals. In addition, he can be blunt, sarcastic, and quite sadistic, revealing a psychotic grin or laughing maniacally whenever he becomes excited sometimes, or eerily silent, cold and disdainful at other times. He is also very rude and quite disrespectful at times, and mockingly polite, cunning and manipulative at others. He's often serious, yet at the same time disdainful of others, often laughing when opponents claim that they can defeat him. He isn't always too bad, though, so there is some good in him, even if he can be ruthless in order to achieve his goals.
Short Back story of Character:

Kalen was born into the old and very respected Daindred Family, a an esteemed noble family of prominent magic practitioners, the largest branch of which currently resides in England, though one with a quite unusual genetic "curse", if you will. While the Daindreds are often incredibly skilled magic users, they are almost always second place in comparison to the most powerful sorcerer of the time period. They also have an unusual genetic trait in their eyes. Thus, there is a heavy pressure put on Kalen, virtually from the day he could walk, as he was the second born son. There are some rumors that the family might be running into problems in terms of getting worthy heirs, which presents even more pressure on Kalen and his brother. He was taught magic and swordplay early, relentlessly and some might say abusively, and learnt many styles of fighting with various weapons accumulated within the family for centuries, including some techniques from as far afield as Japan. Kalen became quite a child prodigy, but became worried that he was still not good enough, and sought to surpass his brother. He also delved into the darker areas of magic, and once encountered Orochimaru, who gifted him with a curse mark, and taught him how to access the second stage of that power, whilst also learning how to manipulate dark energy.

As well as these things, he also studied a number of martial arts, becoming adept at them, perhaps around the level of a master in some. At age 14, he sought out a powerful [insert something else here] simply to kill it for the sake of killing it, mirroring Gabren. He barely succeeded, a fact that still frustrates him, like his brother. Though unlike his brother, Kalen holds more hate and contempt for [insert somethin else here], than fear. At one point, a time in which few details can be discerned, both his parents and many family members were slaughtered by an unknown individual, or group of individuals. Naturally, Kalen vowed to avenge them. After he became eighteen, he travelled far and wide, with some of the more interesting artefacts of supernatural significance he came upon, kept among his possessions. The voice inside Kalen urged him to travel far, and to kill. He became as skilled an assassin as he was a warrior and a dark-magic user. Sometimes, Kalen killed targets of note simply because he could, and other times because he would get rewards for such things, on contracts. He terrorised cities, towns and various places in different parts of the world, becoming known in the underground supernatural community, as the fabled "Black Demon". All along the way, he continued to search for the cause of what had happened with most of his family. All this, happened, despite of his youth.

His influential noble connections also gave him a fair amount of political power, and many of his family's traditional rivals grew fearful and shied away from them. He also on occasion goes by various other aliases, and such as Lord Emil Von Stroube, and it it doubtful if his birth name is known for certain. It is also believed that he has his own shadowy organisation somewhere, though that is so shrouded in rumours that even half-truths are hard to find. When he was younger, Kalen often joined numerous occult organisations, from the Golden Dawn and Illuminates of Thanateros to Fraternas Saturni, and TOPY. Due to his odd personality, it is generally near impossible to ascertain what his true goals are. However, whatever they are, it's doubtless that they are ambitious. During recent times, he's fallen under the wing of Zanryū.

Character's Name: Marcelo Sant'Angelo (Current name, though his original was Benvenuto Cellini)
Age: 513
Gender: Male
Species: Human (Immortal)
Skills/Powers: Age Negation (doesn't age). Dark Arts. Alchemy/Transmutation. Immortality- physical body regenerates from pretty much anything sooner or later, though it still hurts.
Grade: Whatever.
Grade Average: A.
Appearance (physical appearance):

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Personality: Somewhat arrogant yet complex. Artistic, obviously, and generally outspoken. Considerably bold, he isn't afraid to confront people, nor is he worried about the impression he leaves since he's simply being himself. He has no qualms about killing people, yet he is not above doing good deeds, such as rushing to a fire or donating some money. Of course, he is still ruthless and can be vengeful to an extent. He as a slightly jaded, cynical outlook a fair amount of the time, and isn't too sane. There's also something "enthralling" about him, and it's more or less impossible to get the complexity of his mind. Like quite a number of other people from the renaissance, he has quite the interest in women, and that hasn't really changed over time. Though he's possibly bi, he has a very considerable interest in women, and that hasn't changed despite the passing of centuries. He can have a dry ironic, and dark sense of humour, and is sometimes cold, yet warm and cordial at other times. Can be prideful, and at other times, wrathful. Has many other facets to his personality.
Short Back story of Character:

Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence, Italy. His parents were Giovanni Cellini, and Maria Lisabetta Granacci. They were married for eighteen years before the birth of their first child. Benvenuto was the second child of the family. The son of a musician and builder of musical instruments, Cellini was pushed towards music, but when he was age fifteen, his father reluctantly agreed to apprentice him to a goldsmith, Antonio di Sandro, nicknamed Marcone. At the age of sixteen, Benvenuto had already attracted attention in Florence by taking part in an affray with youthful companions. He was banished for six months and lived in Siena, where he worked for a goldsmith named Fracastoro (unrelated to the Veronese polymath). From Siena he moved to Bologna, where he became a more accomplished flute player and made progress as a goldsmith. After a visit to Pisa and two periods of living in Florence (where he was visited by the sculptor Torrigiano), he moved to Rome, at the age of nineteen.

Unknown to most, he was also an occultist, and an alchemist with several colleagues- having worked on forbidden texts, rituals and arcana in his workshop in Florence. Four years later, working with a mysterious individual known as "Dr. Strozzi," he went to the Colosseum at night, and initiated a dark ritual to summon Dante, who told him of how to achieve immortality, and opened the way for him to do so. It is rumoured that night, that a legion of devils were conjured up at that time, and he went into another realm. Whatever happened, he returned with bulrushes, a casket containing a pale green water, and a head in a sack, resembling the Medusa of legend. Working for a considerable number of hours wrought a silver garland resembling bulrushes, that could turn the wearer invisible, as well as a silver medallion depicting the head of Medusa on one side- with rubies for eyes, and a mirror/looking glass on the other, with some of the mysterious green liquid trapped inside the glass. When one looked into it on a moonlight night, it could grant them immortality, effectively making sure that for that person, nothing past that point would kill them. Not long later, he wrote a book called "The key to Life Eternal".

His first works in Rome were a silver casket, silver candlesticks, and a vase for the bishop of Salamanca, which won him the approval of Pope Clement VII. Another celebrated work from Rome is the gold medallion of "Leda and the Swan" executed for the Gonfaloniere Gabbriello Cesarino, and which is now in the Vienna museum. He also took up the flute again, and was appointed one of the pope's court musicians.

In the attack on Rome by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Cellini's bravery proved of signal service to the pontiff. According to his own accounts, he himself shot and injured Philibert of Châlon, prince of Orange. (Allegedly Cellini also killed Charles III, Duke of Bourbon during the Siege of Rome.) He also commanded the artillery that defended Pope Clement VII when he was under siege in the Castel St.Angelo, and he personally kept the three beacons burning every night, to prove that Rome hadn't surrendered. His bravery led to a reconciliation with the Florentine magistrates, and he soon returned to his hometown of Florence. Here he devoted himself to crafting medals, the most famous of which are "Hercules and the Nemean Lion", in gold repoussé work, and "Atlas supporting the Sphere", in chased gold, the latter eventually falling into the possession of Francis I of France.

From Florence he went to the court of the duke of Mantua, and then back to Florence. On returning to Rome, he was employed in the working of jewellery and in the execution of dies for private medals and for the papal mint. In 1529 his brother Cecchino killed a Corporal of the Roman Watch and in turn was wounded by an arquebusier (rifleman), later dying of his wound. Soon afterward Benvenuto killed his brother's killer – an act of blood revenge but not justice as Cellini admits that his brother's killer had acted in self-defense. Cellini fled to Naples to shelter from the consequences of an affray with a notary, Ser Benedetto, whom he had wounded. Through the influence of several cardinals, Cellini obtained a pardon. He found favour with the new pope, Paul III, notwithstanding a fresh homicide during the interregnum three days after the death of Pope Clement VII in September 1534. The fourth victim was a rival goldsmith, Pompeo of Milan. Of course, numerous others followed from time to time.

The plots of Pier Luigi Farnese led to Cellini's retreat from Rome to Florence and Venice, where he was restored with greater honour than before. At the age of 37, upon returning from a visit to the French court, he was imprisoned on a charge (apparently false) of having embezzled the gems of the pope's tiara during the war, as well as heresy, since some apprentices he employed had apparently informed the church, and thus, the Pope, that he had dabbled with grimoires and black magic. He was confined to the Castel Sant'Angelo, escaped, was recaptured, and treated with great severity; he was in daily expectation of death on the scaffold. At one point, he was even poisoned, though of course, it didn't kill him. The intercession of Pier Luigi's wife, and especially that of the Cardinal d'Este of Ferrara, eventually secured Cellini's release, in gratitude for which he gave d'Este a splendid cup.

Cellini then worked at the court of Francis I at Fontainebleau and Paris. However, he considered the duchesse d'Étampes to be set against him and refused to conciliate with the king's favourites. He could no longer silence his enemies by the sword, as he had silenced those in Rome. As a result, after about five years of invested work but continual jealousy and violence, Cellini returned to Florence, where he continued as a goldsmith and became the rival of sculptor Baccio Bandinelli who died suspiciously a few years later in 1560.

During the war with Siena, Cellini was appointed to strengthen the defences of his native city, and, though rather shabbily treated by his ducal patrons, he continued to gain the admiration of his fellow citizens by the magnificent works which he produced. He was also named a member (Accademico) of the prestigious Accademia delle Arti del Disegno of Florence, founded by the Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari. He supposedly died in Florence on 13 May 1571 and was buried with great pomp in the church of the Santissima Annunziata. In Florence he had supported a widowed sister and her six daughters. Of course, his funeral was attendeed ironically, by himself, and he watched with the garland of invisibility, as the attendants paid tribute to a a man who was still alive. The person being buried in fact being a look-a-like beggar a long-time servant of his named Ascanio- who like him was immortal, had found in an alley in Florence, who was already going to die anyway. One thing Cellini remembered as he watched, was one of the attendants. A painter who had studied under Bronzino, one of Benvenuto's great and long-standing friends, stepped the to the edge of the grave, and after wishing "eternal peace to this immortal master, who has brought glory to Florence and beauty to all the world," let fall a spray of purple irises. If only the painter knew how fitting it was.

Cellini is known to have taken some of his female models as mistresses, having an illegitimate daughter in 1544 with one of them while living in France, whom he named Costanza. After briefly attempting a clerical career, in 1562 he married a servant, Piera Parigi, with whom he claimed he had five children, of which only a son and two daughters survived him. There was also a model, and lover of his named Caterina, who also became immortal- though he lost contact with her after some time, and apparently she had died in a shipwreck, fleeing the Duke of Castro's inquisitors. And the duchess Eleonora de Toledo, among many others.

Aside from his marriage, Cellini was officially accused or charged with the crime of sodomy once with a woman and at least three times with men, illustrating his bisexual tendencies:

-14 January 1523 he was sentenced to pay 12 staia of flour for relations with a boy named Domenico di ser Giuliano da Ripa
-While in Paris, a former model and lover brought charges against him of using her "after the Italian fashion." (i.e. sodomy)
-In Florence in 1548, Cellini was accused by a woman named Margherita, for having certain familiarities with her son, Vincenzo.
-26 February 1556, his apprentice Fernando di Giovanni di Montepulciano accused his mentor of having sodomised him many times. This time the penalty was a hefty fifty golden scudi fine, and four years of prison, remitted to four years of house arrest thanks to the intercession of the Medicis.

In a search to recover the Medusa Amulet, which had been secreted amongst Papal treasures after the Duke of Castro stole it from him around the time he was imprisoned, he would end up chasing it for quite some time. Firstly, after witnessing his own funeral, he decided to become a Marquis, in France.

Centuries passed. Many things happened, including him being burnt at the stake at one time. At another point, he met the famously very attractive and flirtatious Princess Henrietta of England, and to put things simply, got on pretty well with her- despite the fact she was married to a member of French royalty, over the course of 1662 to 1670, when she unexpectedly grew ill. As Sant'Angelo, he secretly cured her by bestowing upon her immortality with the amulet. Since everyone thought she was going to die any time soon, despite her youth, and she preferred him over her husband, she used his help to fake her death on June 30th, at 2 o'clock in the morning, at the age of 26. That of course, ended up meaning she disappeared into the history books, in truth staying over with him at his castle, ignoring the passing of time.

In 1757, he ended up travelling to Moscow under the alias of an Italian sculptor, gold and silversmith by the name of Lorenzo Ricciarelli, he ended up coming up against a group of cossacks trying to look to easy victims. They seemingly cornered and short him, only to have him seemingly come back from the dead moments later. Complaining that it stung, he proceeded to kill the group who'd attacked him one by one. However, someone else was watching. It turned out that his immortality would be the spur for the murders that were to come, perpetrated by Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova. The next night, he'd end up seemingly by chance, meeting the said noblewoman, being trapped and ending up becoming a victim; one of the first of that particularly sadistic killer's targets, and the catalyst for the Russian's secret obsession with immortality. And of course, it was neither quick nor painless. Nor was it a one off. It lasted of the course of five years, before things changed. The deaths of around 145 servants, or serfs, of Darya over the course of those five years hadn't gone unnoticed, and Tsarina Catherine II had her arrested, and two years later, sentenced to life imprisonment in the basement of Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow. Needless to say, Benvenuto regards that time as one of the nastier experiences he's had over the centuries.

Then things began to stir, in 1785. Owning as his home, the Château Perdu- built by a Norman Knight come back from the Holy Land in the 1200s, hidden away in the most remote corner of a vast estate, and perched on a cliff overlooking the Loire, it had been situated like a fortress, not a palace, and over the years, had acquired an unsavoury reputation with rumours of terrible and sacrilegious deeds being performed there. He went by the name of Marquis di Sant'Angelo. He often spent most of his time in the castle, only on occasion coming to Versailles. When he did come to court, he was often seen on the arm of Marie Antoinette. He'd first met her when she was 14, and had watched her over the course of 15 years, from an awkward girl, into a confident, even imperious, woman. Since he acquired it a long time earlier, many dark myths and legends abounded the area.

The locals tended to avoid it if they could, but they always did the bidding of the Marquis. It was generally ill-advised to be in the vicinity of the Château at night time. At that time, he was often regarded as a mysterious Italian nobleman, whose eye for things of beauty was celebrated far and wide, as were his powers in other spheres. Since wherever he went, over the years, he had acquired a reputation as a master of the dark arts. No one else, it was said, could have the courage to inhabit the notorious Chateau Perdu, or have acquired such wealth and position with no known forebears. It was rumoured that the marquis could read minds and foretell the future. It was a reputation that he neither encouraged nor dispelled.

To others at the time, there was always an impenetrable yet enthralling air of mystery to him. His fortune appeared to be great, but no one at court had ever been able to trace his family or guess where the money had come from. Although he had been received at court by the previous king, Louis XV, he had quarrelled with the king's notorious mistress, Madame du Barry- it had something to do with a portrait- and he'd soon found himself a close ally of the present queen, whose scorn for du Barry was no secret. Marie Antoinette had come to reply upon his taste in many things, especially questions regarding the fine arts, architecture, furnishing, and above all, jewellery. He was well known for his exquisite eye in such things, and many jewellers hoping to procure recommendations for their wares did a pilgrimage to the castle, hoping to use his patronage to persuade the queen to take an interest their collections.

During a talk with one such man- Charles Auguste Boehmer, the official court jeweler, he learnt that Count Cagliostro at Versailles, had possession of the Medusa Amulet. He went off to Versailles, to discover the validity of what he'd heard. Though the only reason he'd spent time in Versailles with the current king, was to visit with the queen. When Cellini and Cagliostro met, it was certainly something. They had both heard of each other before, and it was as if rival predators were squaring off, in the polite and sophisticated court setting of a French palace. It was of course, not unexpected that they clashed. From Cagliostro, he learnt that the man had gotten the Amulet as a gift from the queen, who in turn got it from Pope Pius VI, on the birth of her son, Louis-Charles, supposedly to protect the mother and child from the evil eye. The queen gave it to Cagliostro after wearing it to a reception for the pope one night, and having very unpleasant dreams- which as Sant'Angelo suspected, was actually her looking into it at night and becoming immortal. She told him to have it disposed of, but Cagliostro recognised its beauty, and kept it for himself. Cagliostro later on displayed some of his tricks, which were primarily just that, using some degree of alchemy, like initiating chemical reactions to make images appear in a vase of water, and silverware move with lodestones concealed in his cuff links. And then, one of his mesmerism performances. During which, he and Cagliostro ended up communicating mentally. They then challenged each other, with everyone else in the room in a deep hypnosis-induced sleep. Cagliostro summoned illusionary ravens to attack Sant'Angelo, and it seems that Cagliostro had been underestimated. To counter his ravens, Sant'Angelo summoned an eagle, which tore into them. In response, Cagliostro summoned a creature that resembled Anubis. And to counter that, Sant'Angelo conjured a massive lion, which defeated Cagliostro's thought-form. Shaken, Cagliostro was mentally subdued, and Sant'Angelo made him unable to speak of what had happened, in a way that would slowly drive him insane, his mind rotting from within like termite-infested wood. He then instructed the still-hypnotised audience to wake in a few minutes.

October, 1793, disguised as a priest, and an apparent revolutionary, Sant'Angelo planed to rescue Marie Antoinette, and had already witnessed over the previous days, the deaths of many of the victims of what he regarded as a chaotic rule of terror in the form of a revolution. He hated how much blood had been spilt by the perpetrators, and how many baseless accusations had been flung against Antoinette, among many others. Armed with a harpe - a distinctive short-sword notable for its notched end, he kept Ascanio nearby, ready for a quick escape with a carriage not far away. Sant'Angelo was sickened at the "festivities" and the holiday mood that seemed to permeate Paris in such grim times. For all their talk of revolution and reform, he felt that the likes of Danton and Robespierre and Marat had plunged the country into even greater turmoil and despair, into war with neighbouring countries and abject poverty at home. If these self-appointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance that they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood, and made France a pariah among the civilised nations of the world.

Sant'Angelo gained access to Antoinette's prison cell and past the guards with the use of letter of authorisation from the Tribunal, which he had forged several weeks earlier and signed in the name of Fouqier Tinville, the principal prosecutor of the case against the queen. In the outer area leading to the cell, he encountered Jacques Hébert, a man whom he regarded as the worst amongst the bloodthirsty wolves of the Revolution, and the one who had published the most defamatory and revolting lies about the queen. Despite some attempts at persuasion Marie seemed consigned to her fate, even knowing Sant'Angelo's magical prowess, and his garland of invisibility.

Even as Hébert and his men dragged her away, Sant'Angelo decided that he wouldn't abandon her. With that garland, he rendered himself unseen, and followed the queen and her coterie. He hid himself on the cart, and watched a seemingly endless throng along the way showing their hatred for Antoinette. Sant'Angelo did whatever he could, blocking what projectiles he could without giving himself away, and once, when one of the savages tried to leap into the cart, kicking him in the face so hard his teeth exploded like sparks. The man, of course not knowing what had happened, staggered back into the street, blood gushing from between the fingers he held to his stunned mouth.

He followed her to the guillotine, using magic to create an physically manifested illusion of her- that would be physically existent so long as the onlookers believed it to be real, whilst rendering the real her unseen temporarily. He whispered to her about the immortality she'd gained, and how it would be rather bad for her if she was beheaded, though of course, she would end up regenerating. She would later escape, hiding in Paris with the help of Ascanio. Sant'Angelo went to the Tavern of the Guilotine, and followed Hébert and his two accomplices, a man with a bloodstained feather in his cap, named Octave, and a writer, or printer named Jerome. He followed them to the Conciergerie, and invisibly taunted the writer, whispering "Wouldn't you like to wash that ink off your hands?" unnerving the man, before grabbing him by the scruff of his neck and dragging him to the stone parapet above the riverfront. Flinging him over and to his death, Sant'Angelo ignored the protestations and screams of the man, stepping to the side as Octave and Hébert ran to his calls. Of course, they saw no one. He slipped behind Octave, murmuring. "So, do you like your souvenirs?"
After which he ripped the feather from the man's cap, and ignored a wild shot from the man, before raising his own sword, and slicing Octave's hand off, as the prisoners watched from captivity.

For Hébert, he took off his garland, revealing the attire of a black cassock, which he still wore. Bloody sword in one hand, he faced the clearly shaken and surprised Hébert, who recognised him as the priest he'd seen earlier. Futilely calling for guards, Hébert was pushed back, clearly outmatched when it came to swordsmanship, close enough to the prison bars as to be touched by the prisoners. He tried to slash at the arms then confront the marquis, but Sant'Angelo easily disarmed Hébert, even as the guards finally arrived and attempted to shoot him. Putting a hand against Hébert's chest, he thrust him up against the seething wall of fingers and hands, hundreds of them, all intent on tearing him to pieces. Like a pack of harpies, they grabbed hold of him, rending his clothes and ripping out his hair, scratching at his flesh, digging in their nails like claws. An old man gnawed ferociously at one arm. A hollow-eyed girl inserted a knitting needle into the back of his neck as delicately as if she were making lace.

Slipping his garland back on, Sant'Angelo faded into thin air even as the guards surged towards him, horses whinnying, muskets swinging this way and that. And thus, he disappeared into the night, meeting up with Ascanio, Antoinette, and vanishing into the countryside.

Centuries later, in the late 1800s he ended up encountering a Serbian bandit leader named Mila, who ended up discovering the hard way of his immortality, and after seeing him come back to life and wound her husband with a blade covered in deadly poisons, causing her to stay behind in a cave despite the fact that a number of gendarmes were converging on her position, two of them dying before she was captured and sentenced. In the 1900s, he happened to have the unluckiness to be in Romania visiting a town in 1902 when yet another group of bandits encountered him- this one led by an even worse, and relatively evil individual, as they were raiding the small town, and once again, it seemed he had to deal with the troubles only an immortal could painfully survive. And once more, in the early 20s, he had the misfortune of an unfortunate encounter with Vera Renczi in Berckerekul, Yugoslavia, and another in Hungary, with Josephine Tzany. In 1940, the Nazis, knowing the occult and dark mysteries surrounding Château Perdu, ended up investigating the place. At that time, yet another person, a young woman named Celeste Guyot, had also been made recently immortal. A column of armoured cars approached, along with 15 men of the SS, who seemed rather inquisitorial, in the main hall. At their command, was Heinrich Himmler himself. Alongside him, a professor of the occult and an archeologist- a man named Dieter Mainz, who had often aided the Nazis in their search for occult artefacts. It seems that at Castel San Leo, the Nazis had discovered the insane scribblings of Cagliostro, where he had resided before he died. Since after fleeing Paris, he ended up in Rome, where the pope accused him of blasphemy, burned his books, and imprisoned him in Castel St. Angelo. Before he was moved to San Leo. Among the writings, one could read "The eye of the pyramid sees into all things," "The master of the lost castle prevails," with a glyph depicting a jackal with a broken neck. As well as that, "The Master of the Lost Castle possesses the secret of secrets," and "The immortal Gorgon belongs to Sant'Angelo." It was effectively a road map for the Nazis to Château Perdu. Indeed but an hour later, Hitler himself ended up appearing. As they grew closer and closer to his secrets, he initiated a black magick ritual that drew upon some of the energy the castle had acquired over centuries, and summoned a host of shadowy demons. Whilst they dealt with a majority of the SS soldiers in the castle, tearing them to pieces, Sant'Angelo killed Mainz by sending him to his death, flying over the balcony and off the side of the castle. Himmer escaped, as did Hitler, after a mental battle of wills between himself and Sant'Angelo, which exhausted the fuhrer and showed that despite his inhuman will, like Cagliostro, he wasn't a match for Benvenuto Cellini. After that, the Nazis kept away from the Château, avoiding it like fire.

Now, in modern times, Sant'Angelo continues to reside at Château Perdu, the locals as loyal as ever to their mysterious and un-aging master. From time to time, he travels out into the countryside, and sometimes to other countries for short periods of time. Whilst the woman he once knew, Caterina, is unknown to him, somewhere in America, as a member of one of Chicago's most recognised families, the Van Owens, under the name Kathryn.

For some reason, he's pretending not to be a centuries old immortal, and is round these parts.

That's...waaaay too many powers...and why are two of them too old? >_>

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That's...waaaay too many powers...and why are two of them too old? >_>

Well, with one of them I simply didn't say the age.
As for too many powers, several of them basically mean the same thing, some come under a certain group, and some are just technical and aren't really powers, like Psychological Intuition means he's a master of the mind- and can understand how other people work- like me, really, and Poison Immunity would go along with Snake physiology. And DNA Manipulation is just fucking around with genetics and stuff in a lab. And Flesh Masking is stealing someone's appearance and wearing it as his own- rather literally. And a bunch of Kalen's powers are basically Sharingan sub-powers, due to his eyes. And the curse mark.

Anyway...

Edit: Also, there's another character you already accepted who's around a couple hundred.