Post by Twilight on Aug 26, 2014 10:18:48 GMT -6
Vonali Illirian Valentine
PLAYED BY TWILIGHT
PLAYED BY TWILIGHT
Von Male twenty three Zhadrah Musician Thief Prostitute homosexual | a p p e a r a n c e _______________________________ Like many in Zhadrah, Vonali has spent the majority of his life fighting for or against gangs for his right to exist without fear of being shot dead on the whim of another. However, even with this rough background common to anyone growing up in the city nation, Vonali never managed to bulk up with muscles that would be good for a hand to hand battle. For the lack of big muscles, he is thankfully tall, standing a good six foot tall and his lean build lends itself to him being quick on his feet. Vonali is naturally a pale man, his skin a soft cream color with pink around his cheeks and full lips. He doesn’t have freckles, though he does spend a considerably amount of time in the sun, which he thinks is the most reliable source of light when walking around through Zhadrah. Artificial or fire light tends to skew what you see in terms of color, highlights, and shadows, along with your mind playing tricks on you in the potentially hostile gang territory. Vonali has a charming face, his features sharp and delicate, giving him an almost beautiful visage. He has an easy smile and even white teeth, but the near constant shadows under his eyes and the almost paranoid alertness can be unnerving. Vonali’s hair is colored like starlight, ranging from white at the roots and darkening to near blue at the ends. His hair is a bit long for a typical boy’s style, tumbling down to his shoulders, and styled in a somewhat messy fashion. It is natural straight, easy to care for, and soft after Vonali spends sleepless hours caring for it, solely to give himself something to do during the nights he can’t sleep. He can either be wearing it down or pulled back in a ponytail. Behind the white hair, Vonali’s eyes stand out like twin pools of clear frozen water: a pale blue that is tinged with whites and even hints of violet along the edges. The light coloring may appear inviting at first, but unfortunately the shadows under his eyes combined with a habit of staring tends to slightly unnerve some people. Aside from the clear lack of sleep, his eyes are actually quite deep with thought. There are plenty of calculations going on in Vonali’s eyes and connections of realization in his mind that you can see. Get past the initial discomfort of his starring, and you can almost see the wheels turning in his mind. Because of his deal with the goddess, Vonali lost his voice in the waking world but when in a dream, he gets his voice back. Vonali has a voice that can be either persuasive and courtly, unintentionally sensual, or broody. It really just depends on the situation that has him talking, but Vonali’s voice is always sweet, bringing to mind the taste of honey, or chocolate, and containing an almost musical cadence; making it easy to believe he used to sing along to the music he loves to play. p e r s o n a l i t y _______________________________ On the outside, Vonali projects the image of a flighty and colorfully flamboyant young man that only wants to have fun and enjoy some time around others, always the bright sun on a rainy day. He has always had a compassionate heart that has followed him through years of hardship all the way from when he used to only think about making his little sister happy. That ideal persona had broadened its influence so that he will try the same for each and every person he meets, provided they haven’t done anything to offend him or deserve his scorn. Giving him a passing look, you would never guess what his professions is unless he was actively looking for clients or victims. Possessing a generally very bright and chipper demeanor, Vonali is a comforting presence if you are feeling unhappy. He will empathize with your pains and sooth away the hurt with gentle words and maybe a soft caress or two on the head or arm. He doesn’t want to give to much touching before he gets paid though. Vonali may or may not have a manipulative streak somewhere inside, hidden behind his kind exterior. Vonali can’t stand feeling helpless or useless, unable to do anything in whatever situation he finds himself in. Since this happened often over the years he spent as the main breadwinner for his family, Vonali had to learn how to make due with whatever he has on his person to use. He carries a multi-tool in his pocket for emergencies but he tries to not use it so much that he relies on it. He has to at least try other methods first. Vonali actually enjoys tasks that take a lot of time to complete, since they keep his mind focused and active for extended periods of time. He often goes out of his way to take his time and make things a bit more complicated than they need to be. An example of this would he the fact he is a surprisingly good cook for someone who had never had formal training. When growing up he discovered ingredients cost less in the long run and could be stretched over a longer period of time then buying pre-made meals. So he had to go through a lot of trial and error till he could make good dishes for his family, even if the portions were small. It also helps keep him from losing his mind during the days and nights he can’t sleep. This young man has developed a silver tongue, coated in sweet honey words, as he grew to learn how to charm almost anyone into wanting his services, since such a skills made it easy to earn money in any one of his professions. Vonali can appear very happy or very sensual, when looking for friends or clients, but with his family, he is loyal to an insane degree. He would move mountains to keep his little sister safe, or drop said mountain on anyone who he sees as a threat to his precious little princess. Though that princess is likely to twist his arm out of socket for it. There is a cool calculating side that goes hand in hand with his work persona, where he will try very hard to get as much money as he can from his clients with as little real effort as he can afford to use. He has a little OCD problem with keeping records and carrying around a notebook with him to write down notes and lists of his clients and how often he spends the money he earns. Vonali would rather get money with his music then being a thief or a prostitute, but he will do anything necessary to keep his family fed and with a roof over their heads. Also, when he keeps someone’s bed warm, he will get to sleep and relax, even for a little while. He doesn’t even care if they are violent in the morning after so long as he got a few hours of sleep. Of course, the side effects to his ability changes his demeanor over extended periods of time without sleep. At that point all bets are off, because he can seem completely sane, high on drugs, or drunk on alcohol, without even a taste of either. Sleep deprivation can make people do terrible things. LIKES:
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a b i l i t i e s / s k i l l s _______________________________ Vonali learned the hard way to never ask for a gift from the goddess of death and eternal sleep, even if her price seems small or meaningless at first glance. He had asked for the ability to enter other's dreams and destroy any nightmares he finds within. The goddess granted him this, but at the cost of his ability to sleep of his own free will and his voice. The details of Vonali's abilities are still being explored but so far he has learned how to enter another person's dreams. According to his agreement with the goddess, he does have the ability to influence dreams he is present in, making nightmares into blissfully calm dreams, or vice versa, but he has not been able to fully change the mood of a dream yet in practice. His voice is supposed to be his focus for this in the dreams, and as a price he paid with his voice in the physical world, leaving himself mute of all by basic animal-like sounds. Within a dream, he has his voice back, allowing him to talk and sing freely in a conversation with the dreamer. He is fully aware of the world he is in being the figment of the other person's mind, and can choose to tell them that, but because he is capable of being harmed in a dream, he tends not to do that. If he told someone with a sadistic nature that they were in a dream, they could potentially possess the powers of a god within their own dream, he could very easily be brutally harmed and be rendered defenseless. He has 'died' once in a dream, when a nightmarish creature attacked him, and it forced him awake and still feeling the injuries that 'killed' him, even though he remains physically unharmed. He was also unable to enter the person's dream again. But that isn't the true curse of this gift, because Vonali can easily communicate with pen and paper, or body language alone if he has to, and he can avoid informing someone they are having a dream. Those conditions he could come to terms with and adapt to. But, the price of dream walking as a whole for him was something he didn't count on being such an issue. He cannot sleep or dream on his own. Vonali must be in physical contact with another person while they sleep in order to sleep himself. Otherwise, he will simply stay awake day and night. This may not be a problem at first, but after a few days of no sleep, his focus and grasp on reality begins to slip. More then once he has been driven to fits of madness, such as laughing hysterically like a hyena or writing absolute nonsense, running around in circles before finally running into some obstacle to stop him, be it person or wall. strengths:
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h i s t o r y _______________________________ -Black- Sometimes Vonali would sit and wonder what his life would have been like if his mother had not come to Zhadrah, following a man she had only met during a drunk night at a tavern in Domhan Tir. Amber Valentine was a woman from a respected family, with all the money and comforts she needed to provide herself and a future family with the same upbringing she had. But she was also young enough to not know that a first love is fleeting, especially when it was with a trader that was simply passing through for a last stop before moving on to the next nation. Kaleb Gali was never looking to settle down and considered the one night fling to be just that, a fling with a beautiful woman; one that they could enjoy and then part ways without any unnecessary drama. He never suspected that the woman would get a ride on the very next traveling troupe heading toward Zhadrah to find him. Amber had arrived in the city nation with enough money to travel back home once she found the man she had fallen in love with, but she had not thought ahead enough to prepare for the toll the local gangs expected in order to allow someone to ask questions or search through what they considered their land. She had to pay them multiple times as she crossed boundaries between the territories, but still she searched until she simply didn't have the money to do anything but walk aimlessly through the unfamiliar streets in search of the man she had only met once. Some weeks later, she had abandoned the search and started looking for ways to earn extra money to save up for the journey home, on top of paying for a room at an inn and paying the especially aggressive local gang for ‘protection’, which was really just giving them money so they wouldn’t take it forcefully later. It wasn’t long after that Amber started showing undeniable signs of pregnancy, ones she couldn’t write off as her body being unused to the change in environment and treatment by others around her. Her belly started to swell and she needed to eat more and more, as well as seek some medical assistance from time to time to see the baby was alright. Some months later, Amber gave birth to a little baby boy and named him Vonali. known family: Shilo Valentine - Seven - Sister - Student Amber Valentine - Forty eight - Mother - Disappeared Kaleb Gali - Fifty two - Father - Deceased |