Vrases Claudt

[Vrases Claudt]

The Basics

Name: Vrases claudt
Nicknames: beast
Age: 17 
Orientation: heterosexual
Desired Rank/Job: student
Powers: Animal mimicry: Vrases is able to mimic the abilities of an animal at his choosing, causing him to able to act like an animal of his choosing if he so wishes too, however he can only channel one animal at a time, and doing so leaves him fatigued. Being able to use his power has left him with a sense of animal like behaviors; he became a bit of a loner, and only trusts people sparingly; he feels like you have to earn it before you can have it. He also can become hot headed and territorial if he feels threatened, as well as having to take in a large amount of calories, close to 7000, meaning he is seen nearly eating all day. approach with caution is generally what people would say about him. He also can be quick to anger, meaning that if you anger him, his general instinct is to react as though he had been insulted and become defensive; this can range from simply getting in his face about an issue or laying contact on him. He also feels fatigued after channeling the animal, with varying degrees based on how long he channeled and what animal he did channel. He also suffers horribly nightmares as a consequence of his power, and he is very afraid of sleeping even though he needs to do so to keep his sanity.
Play By: Matt lanter

The Details

Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: blue
Any Piercings?e has his left eyebrow pierced
Any Tattoos?  a few; He has a Bengal tiger on the left side of his back, the words “not all who wonder are lost” on his left pectoral muscle above his heart, the words “chaos and bravery” on his upper part of his left arm in German, an eight ball on the inside of his left side of his chest with a skull behind it, and a dream catcher on his right shoulder.
Any Scars?yes; he has scarring across his back, and a few coming from the top of his left shoulder and left side of his chest. these come from many sources, such as doing stupid dares as a kid, sports injuries, and being mugged once as a high school freshman.
General Appearance: Vrases is a large guy, to put it simply; he had always been used to having to use brawn to get past the obstacles in his life. Standing at close to 6'3, vrases has medium sized, spiky hair.Weighing in at around 210 pounds, he is surprisingly muscular, and contains very little body fat due to his active lifestyle. Scars run across his chest, and only the very beginnings can be seen on his left shoulder if he chooses to wear a short sleeved t shirt or a sleeveless workout tee shirt, which he can be seen wearing regularly as he works out nearly everyday. The scars come from a multitude of reasons; scars from doing dares as a kid, as well as from broken bones and other problems resulting from his physical background in sports; he was also mugged once after school, and it left him with a scar on his right side of his chest. For his attire, generally he's comfortable in anything he wears; he generally shuns dressing up in suits, as he sees them as a sign of high life, and therefore weak. generally, he wears t-shirts, warm up sweats from his old sports teams, jeans, shorts, and always wearing sandals. If you happen to see him at a concert or in the gym, he usually wears a sleeveless t-shirt or a ripped up shirt simply because they're more comfortable; comfort in clothing and easy movement is very important to him. He is generally seen either sporting a small five o'clock shadow or clean shaven; it seems to fit him. He values strength above many things, and his sports career speaks for itself when he was in school, showing just how strongly he felt about it; football linebacker, rugby player, MMA participator, and wrestler. The constant body contact sports have left him with very little in ways of a personal bubble and he isn't afraid to be near people; however, he is incredibly wary if people he has a “bad feeling” about come near him. Vrases has a glare that he has perfected over the years, causing many people to simply not approach him, leaving him slightly longing for human attention, much to the surprise of the few who actually get to know him.
Personality: Vrases is wary of new people; if you happen to meet him in class, he will simply quietly gaze at you, seeming to size you up for a moment quietly and then coming to a conclusion based on what his gut says. He hasn't listened to his instincts sometimes, but he learned quickly to do so; not listening to them meant....unwanted consequences, and he has no wish to risk getting hurt. He can be hotheaded and temperamental, even territorial. This has lead to him not getting along with people sometimes in the past. It is somewhat difficult to gain his trust as well, leaving many people to see him as callous and cold to the needs of people. However, once you get underneath the superficial layer of anger and rage, then you discover someone seemingly unlike what you would expect. Vrases, surprisingly, cares about his academic career and strives to be a straight A student, one that will be able to go on and do great things. Vrases is protective of his friends and people he likes, and would lay down his life to protect them in an instant. He is understanding, uncharacteristically kind to those he sees as friends,and will stand up to anyone if he feels like injustice is being committed. He loves music and listens to everything from techno to black metal. He loves playing bass, and enjoys going to any concert what so ever, just to go for the experience.He is also a bit of a hippie, spending some of his free time in the wilderness whenever possible and committing some of his time to environmental groups. He doesn't like to take orders, and would rather do his own things and not have to bend his back to appease a leader. Despite his rebellion, he can respect authority that was fought for, believing that the law of the strongest lead is the only way someone should get to a leadership position. A heavy sleeper, Vrases has been known to doze off in class and go on walks into the nearby forest during the weather when its nice and take naps. His teachers get annoyed at this, but because of his academic excellence, they generally let it slip. He has been known to banter with teachers, and he enjoys them, always looking forward to having an argument with his teachers; he sees them as a way to increase knowledge by getting other peoples views on topics.

Your Vices

Likes: FOOD. Fighting. Sleeping. Drawing. Wandering. Sports. Being in nature. Tattoos. Piercings. hooking up. Concerts. Music. playing bass. mosh pits (lots of them). Working out. Profanity.
Dislikes:Hypocrites. Pacifists. Being told what to do. Up tight people. people who don't take care of themselves. Dependency.
Strengths: Sports. Fighting. Physically intimidating. Biology. Protection. Loyalty. Tattoo artist in his free time.
Weaknesses: Quick to anger. Temperamental. Stubborn. Territorial. Quick to judge. Listens to his animal side more often that his logical side.
Fears: Not being able to be useful in a situation; he fears helplessness. An animal who is helpless is one who is going to die soon.
Secret: Vrases has incredibly bad nightmares very often, waking up in a cold sweat often and breathing heavily in the middle of the night. he's also a massive NERD. He loves video games, fantasy, dungeon and dragons, and will talk for hours on end if he meets someone who shares this interest as well, not caring for their social standards or gender.

Family Ties

Father: Unknown
Mother: Luna Claudt
Siblings:None that he knows about
Any Other Important People:none

History

Vrases grew up with a single mother, Luna, who became pregnant during college at UGA in Athens, georgia. His father, unfortunately, left them when he was a baby, leaving his mother to fend for him. Vrases can remember, even as a kid as he grew up in Athens, he would always see his mom working two jobs so she could make ends meet in their small apartment, and she came home too exhausted to have time for him. He was a diligent student, a model young man, and a happy go lucky kid, always striving to be worth something to someone, a feeling he still has to this day. When he turned 14, he started working and began to bring in money for the family as well as for his personal items later in life that he thought be might be  able to afford. however, when he hit 15, he was given what was seen as a gift and a curse. Soon after becoming 15, his powers began to manifest in him, and he began to be able to do things that were out of the ordinary to him. At 15, he started on the varsity rugby team and was seen picking people up and simply throwing them backwards, charging like a cheetah at them as they fell; this was the first manifestation that was known to the public, and his very first encounter with his soon to unfold power. The animistic tendencies soon began to bleed into his real life, ever so slightly. This was one of the first signs that he had begun to manifest a powers. In order to test his theory, he went into the back of the apartment complex that he lived in, and kept thinking "im an ape, im an ape" and soon began to climb up the poorly made bricks and escape ladders to the top of the building, something that would have taken a lot more muscle than what he had when he was 15. After he finished, he nearly passed out from the exertion of doing so, but he was happy; he had found something about him that surprised him.

the same week, he got his first tattoo, the dream catcher, right after his sport incident,  from one of his older friends who owned a tattoo parlor; He suffered from horrible nightmares throughout his life, and he believed that maybe this could symbolically help him with the problem. His mom, seeing his reasoning to do so, believed that if she wanted to help her son with his nightmares, she should sign off on his body work, which she did. He got his eyebrow pierced as well, and began to become slightly more temperamental. He began to sneak out to concerts and parties, hanging out with older kids and going out to party. He became a huge fan of concerts around this time, loving the loud noises and volatile emotions that followed with attending the festivals. However, one day he was mugged and was left with a large scar across his shoulder and chest, resulting from a large object hitting him across the chest. As he had an episode one night from one of his nightmares, his mother was visited by a recruiter, at their small home, after his performance at his schools rugby team nearly four days after it occurred. After he talked with the man in the middle of the night right after his episode, he was shuffled out of the apartment complex and taken to an academy for people like him the very next day. There, he has continued to excel in academics and continues to try his hardest and trying to control his powers voluntarily, continuing to hone his body and mind as hard as he can, pushing himself to his limits. He has made surprisingly good progress in reigning in his powers over his two years of attending the school, and has begun to come to terms with what he is and what it means.

Roleplay Example

Nighttime. I wake up again, silently screaming as I rip off the blankets covering my body, reaching for the knife next to my bed post. My heart beat out of my chest as I began to grasp my surroundings; it hadn't been real, all of it. The room, the monster, the dark alleyways......just a dream. AGAIN! Ripping off the sheets, I walked with my warm-ups on my legs and my chest displayed, running to the punching bag; if I didn't get out this feeling, then it would follow me throughout the day. Punching the bag, hard and fast, it kept my mind away from the dark recesses of my mind; from those dark alleyways where the shadows stalked me and the screams seemed oh so real. Instinctively, Having imagined that the horrific, bloody face that haunted me was right in front of me, I felt my heart rate spike and threw a hard punch...one a bit too hard. I suddenly snapped back to reality, seeing the metal parts that attached the punching bag to the ceiling ripped off and the bag come tumbling down. Breathing heavily, I walked over to the wall and simply leaned over and touched my forehead to the wall, quietly wishing that the horrible images would stop. Turning around, I slid with my back on the wall down, and sat with my arms over my legs, feeling the fatigue from channeling an animal hit me like a train. I sat there, hands over my eyes, rubbing them until I could see little specs fly across my eyes, wishing that this would stop my mind from torturing me. Stopping, I sat there, waiting for someone to come by inevitable to find out the loud crash had been. Sure enough, as I sat there, Mom came into the room and saw me, sighing slightly as she walked towards me and put a hand on my shoulder.

“hey big guy, another dream?...its ok, its over.” she said comfortingly. I trusted Mom, or luna; she was strong, strong enough to raise me by herself. she was one of the few who knew me, and I knew that she looked out for me. I nodded, and watched her quietly....and she spoke again.

“listen...there's someone here. He says he wants to meet you; that hes a recruiter for some institute that help people...like you. He saw your file the school put out on you, and he came immediately....I want you to go and talk to him.” Glancing up, I spoke quickly “yes” and got on a sleeveless workout t shirt, following her as she lead me down the hall to this man that was supposedly here to help me, in the comfort of my own home....doubtful. Who could help a monster like me, I thought bitterly.

What About You?

Name: Peter
Age:Late teens
Experience:about 4 years
How Did You Find Us? Google, haha
Ready To Play?yup!

[Admin!]

Good Start!

Welcome, Peter! We love new players and characters. However, Vrases will need some heavy editing to fit with Hammel canon. I would like to direct you to the FAQ for some of the background for these edits.

Also, please check over the coding. Some tags might be open. Also, remove the "(hopefully done! fingers crossed )" from the title.

As for content edits:

The power is acceptable, but you need to clarify the limits and more clearly articulate the side effects in the power section. On Hammel, mimicry is limited to one animal and trait at a time, so please include that. As for side effects, fatigue must be included, and although you make reference to the increased caloric intake elsewhere, it should be listed here as well. Finally, you need to tone down the animalistic effects on his personality. While those do exist, it would be across various animals, not only the aggressive ones. Also, he would not slowly find himself to be more beast-like in personality than human. Additional testosterone would not be a side effect, since it is all animals, not only hyper-aggressive ones, and animal hormones are different. Are the nightmares a side effect? That is fine, but please include that up in the power section.

Next, for his personality, if he behaves as aggressively as you say he does, IC, he will be under disciplinary watch and will have restricted time off campus and will be in detention. If you want him to have freer IC interactions, you should tone this down. Especially, since he was so different before manifesting; some of his previous personality should remain after manifesting.

For his appearance section: clarify where the scars come from. There will probably be fewer due to the edits required for his history (see below).

Also, if his family is so poor, and he is under-age, where are the tattoos coming from? Those are expensive and often require adult permission. Please clarify this.

The history requires some edits as well.

First, what do you mean when you say "the meta struck him"? Do you mean he manifested? Because this makes it sound more supernatural. Also, new powers, while uncontrollable, would not completely obliterate his previous personality and priorities, and, as stated earlier, he would not become more beast-like than human as a result of this, even if he would have some animalistic personality traits.

Hammel recruiters find students and bring them to Hammel. They have complete legal authority to take them, and they find students from the moment of manifestation. With a power like this, they would have found Vrasis within a week of his first manifestation. At that point, he would have been taken to Hammel, and would have been there for two years, since the age of 15. His history needs to be changed to reflect this. There would be no military school, no fights and football at his high school, and not the massive rebellion against his mother.

Elaborate on his time at Hammel, as a result.

If you want him to be newly arrived, he needs to be 15 and just manifested.

As background information, Hammel does have a football team, but it is a club sport. They only play other Hammel students, not other schools.

Lastly, since Matt Lanter is 31, be sure to use only younger photos of him.


When you have made the edits, please bump the topic so that staff can review it again. If you have any questions, a staff member will be happy to answer them.

[Vrases Claudt]

bump! edited a large bit of it, is there anything else I need to do?

[Admin!]

Almost!

Peter, thank you for the edits. Vrases fits much better now. The only change you need to do is to clarify that it was no more than a week from initial manifestation to a recruiter showing up. It says four days from an episode, but it's a bit muddled about whether it was manifestation or a later mimicry episode.

Please bump your topic when you've made the edit.

[Vrases Claudt]

bump! made it to where the incident was his first ever manifestation

[Admin!]

Accepted!

Thank you for cooperating with our application process. Welcome to the Hammel Institute! Go do your CLAIMS and have fun!