Valentine Améthyste Sanguine
"We’re all only human, what we need and do with our lives is our own choice."
VITALS
Name: Valentine Améthyste Sanguine
Nickname/Alias: Lumen
Appearance:
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Build: Moderately muscular, and well honed body. 6’4”, 200lbs
Primary Ability: Glass/Light magic - Valentine is connected to a plane of glass and light, which he himself refers to as mirror magic, but this isn’t strictly an accurate descriptor. Able to bend light and glass in equal measure, enchant glass, shape it, harden it, and more, he is well trained in his ability, and ventures into his plane on occasion to further this connection. Among his limits is that while he can fly (Max speed has been about 50 MPH) it takes a lot of concentration, and limits his use of any other magic to much smaller abilities. Bad enough pain, or exhaustion has prevented this in the past, and it’s mostly used to get Valentine into position for a surprise attack.
Limited Shadow/Blood magic - Only minor abilities, any use of which prompts a struggle with Mary for control of the body, whether she wants control or not.
Other Abilities: Enhanced Agility - Whether it be a side effect of his magic or something else, Valentine is exceptionally agile for his size, and moves with more grace and ability than most would assume a man of his size is capable of.
Power Drawbacks: While his powers are flexible, they are also all he has. Magic has its own vulnerabilities, and he shares these with other mages. Magic has, and always will be more volatile than ‘normal’ powers, and the use of which prompts risks of it’s own, such as demons, exhaustion, and more. Additionally Valentine is not alone in his body, he shares it with a mage named Mary Nichols. Anytime he becomes to injured, exhausted, uses her magic, or even prompts it himself, there is a struggle for control of the body, creating situations where Valentine is forcefully swapped with the more dangerous Mary.
Equipment: P90, Five-seveN, FN SCAR ,SRM 1216, Christensen Arms TFM 338. Also carries a few flares, and a pouch of powdered glass at all times.
DETAILS
Nationality: (Dual Nationality) French, Swiss
Hometown: Oyonnax, France
Sexuality: Bisexual
Biggest Flaw: His experience in the field, alongside his magic and his training makes him somewhat overconfident, but his biggest flaw by far (Not counting his little Mary issue) is his stubbornness. Once he sets his mind to something, be it in combat, what bar to go to, or if he should leave the military to join a international hero organization, he does it.
Main Skills: ex-French military, on top of Order of the Iron Shroud, and Syndicate training. Better at range than he is up close, but is capable, and trained with a variety of weapons, his powers, and unarmed combat. Has a particular flare for explosive ambushes, sending his opponents reeling. Speaks French, English, German, Arabic, and Italian.
Personality: Flirtatious, confident, and self assured. While he has enough introspection to realize that there are people equal to or superior to him, he is equally confident in his own abilities. Equally, he dislikes people that don’t respect personal boundaries, and has issues with anyone that doesn’t take a mission seriously. Is careful to listen to other people’s ideas, and studies any foe or ally he can carefully so he best knows how to work with or against them.
Biography: Born to a French Mother and Swiss father, Valentine grew up with a close relationship to many of his scattered family members. By the time he was seven, he’d been to Italy, Switzerland, Canada, and the UK all just to visit family. Spent nearly as much time in Lausanne as he did his own hometown of Oyonnax.
When he was 17 he went straight into the French military, and was eventually assigned to the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, where he served until he eventually left the military at 22. While serving in Northern Syria, he found an odd silver broach. Upon touching it with his bare hand a mysterious (and somewhat insane) girl by the name of Mary appeared to him and him alone. Accompanying the release of magic came physical mutations that made him abnormally pale, and turned his eyes entirely black. Valentine left the military three weeks later, and sought out the Order of the Iron Shroud in Brest, France for help. From there he received magic training for his long unused abilities (Discovered at fifteen), Mary, and more. Eventually he would also join the Syndicate, receive their training, and join Team Fox where he is today.
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Mary Nichols
"Humans are still just animals, and we should treat them as such."
VITALS
Name: Mary Nichols
Nickname/Alias: Bloody Mary, FeyMary
Appearance:
Gender: Female
Age: 153
Build: 6’4”, 180 lbs
Primary Ability: Shadow/Blood magic - Mary is connected to a dark, dangerous world of shadows, blood, fear, and all things that go bump in the night. While she is most adept with her shadows, even her blood magic proves dangerous and powerful. If given time, she can shadow step from shadows to shadows, but she prefers all out offense with multiple, unpredictable angle of attack. Her favored way of engaging is with tentacles of shadow, occasionally with spikes, or razor spines attached for extra lethality. Beyond this, she has a much easier time flying than her more….ranged oriented other half.
Other Abilities: Seemingly confirming that she may be the source of it, Mary shares Valentine’s enhanced agility, though it somewhat more noticeable on her due to her lower weight.It is equally possible that it is Valentine’s power, and despite morphing the body while in charge, inherits the ability.
Power Drawbacks: Mary shares her weakness’ with all mages, but additionally has the same power drawbacks of Valentine. Finally, she bears only half her soul, and as such her raw power is somewhat reduced, though time has allowed her to regain some of the lost power. Should she ever be fully reformed, she will return at full strength (and possibly regain a body, but that is pure speculation)
Equipment: Whatever Valentine was carrying, has a penchant for forming blades of blood and shadow out of enemies.
DETAILS
Nationality: British
Hometown: Manchester, England
Sexuality: Bisexual
Biggest Flaw: Mary was ripped in half, and her pieces kept separated. This version of Mary is her “lighter” side. In reality, this is the far more violent, and unpredictable side, filled with manic energy, and a burning hatred for people long dead she will never be able to get her revenge on. Valentine is the first host of hers to ever be able to control her, and as such, she has found her way into Syndicate control. While her bloodlust and hatred are reigned in, once unleashed on a foe she is deadly, and efficient.
Main Skills: Mary has 123 years (thirty years were spent in a cave in Syria locked in her Reliquary) of experience behind her. While she’s had to learn modern combat tactics, techniques, and guns from Valentin, she has a number of other skills at her disposal. Her primary, beyond her skill with her magic, is her skill with stealth. She is highly proficient at stalking her prey, moving through shadows (even without her magic), picking locks, and has even grown quite good at breaking security systems.
Personality: Manic, unpredictable, and when not fighting, mostly out to have as much fun as possible. She desires the pleasures in life, be they food, drink, rides, music, or more carnal desires.
Biography: Born in Manchester, England, and abandoned to the streets, a young Mary was left to grow in a rapidly changing world. She did what she had to do to survive, eventually making her way to London, and from there, Whitechapel. This was when her life took a turn for the worse, shortly after other metahumans started rising in other parts of the world, Mary found her own magic. Quickly attacked, and ostracized, a group of people, fired up by religious leaders, cornered Mary in a building and burned it down. She survived by throwing herself out the window and into the River Thames. Once she was healed, she went on the warpath, going so far as to chase one of the fleeing priests to Brest in France.
Here a group of other mages cornered her, and after a fight where she managed to kill two of them, they bound her, but did not kill her. Instead, they took her body from her, ripped her soul in half, and turned her into a pair of tools for other people’s use. Slowly she has driven each of her hosts insane as a petty act of revenge, that was, until Valentine. Valentine is the first host she has ever had that listened to *her*, that saw her as a person and not a weapon. Earning her respect, she agreed to follow his terms, and in exchange, he let her have some semblance of a life. She got to be free for at least a little while, and this was the greatest gift Valentine could have given her.
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