Basil Lysander Zivaen
Sept 25, 2011 13:21:58 GMT -5
Post by Basil Zivaen on Sept 25, 2011 13:21:58 GMT -5
[/i][/size][/right]The Basics
Name: Basil Lysander Zivaen
Nicknames: ‘Sil is probably the most popular, Old Man being next on the list. A few people even call him the Stump for his slow, slightly stubborn ways, and to make fun of his powers when they run out of other ideas.
Age: 56
Orientation: bisexual
Desired Rank/Job: local -runs a greenhouse called 'Sils Garden -
Powers: Photosynth and plant control
Control 9 out of 10
The ability S O F A R. . .
Basil has very good control of his power. He’s had years to practice and almost perfect his power. Basil gets a large amount of his energy from the sun, although eating food is still a good thing. He can control the plants around him in things like when they bloom, how large they grow, and the potency [if their herbs and things like that] they have. Mostly he uses this in tending flowers and herbs in his little shop. He can hear the whispering of the plants around him and extend his consciousness through them to get a feeling for the welfare of a general area. If he really sat down and concentrated he could get the news of an environment from pretty much anywhere by listening to the whispers passed along through the plants. The plants to him sound like whispers or rustles of silk and sometimes quiet mews and bell like chimes. It all depends upon what kind of plant it is. Basil has gotten to know most plants by now through extensive study and can easily identify common plants others wouldn’t know.
The D R A W B A C K S . . .
The drawbacks are the general unhappiness on cloudy days and a severe dislike for the cold. While he has become accustomed to winters he is a much quieter person then. He has a strong dislike for fire since it can be quite destructive, although he no longer fears it like he once did. His eyes have turned green from the chlorophyll and it seems that some of his skin is tinted slightly greenish. Callouses tend to have a bark like consistency and his skin is always tan. He tends to drink very very large amounts of water and isn’t the kind of person to be hurried. While for the longest time he couldn’t come in contact with any weedkiller her has built up a resistance to all but the strongest of these chemicals.
Play By: Jeremy Irons
The Details
Hair Color:darker brown with some silver showing through
Eye Color: mossy green
Any Piercings?no
Any Tattoos?no
Any Scars?nothing out of the ordinary. Mostly knife cuts from not being careful and the general scars a person gets from working their entire life.
General Appearance: Basil is a tall elegant look to him despite the fact that he is an older person. His form is slim and rakish with just enough muscle to show by no means is he helpless. His movements are usually slower and remind people of trees. His eyes are a mossy green color, very light when he was younger, but deepened to a mossy color with age. Wrinkles have formed on his face giving him a time worn edge. Kindness sparkles in his eyes as well as the lines on his face. His hair is longer and usually brushed back. While once upon a time is was a vividly rich brown it has become darker and streaked with the silver of age now.
His clothing style is quite simple really. He likes longer sleeved sweaters and often jeans with some kind of simple shoes. Often you will see him with a worn apron on showing that he has been in the greenhouse recently. He doesn’t wear and jewelry, preferring to eschew such adornments. The colors he wears vary greatly. He could be wearing light clothing, such as crèmes or beiges one day, or be wearing a subdued red or green another day. Basil never seems to wear bright bright clothing, but the colors are rich and deep, or light and airy. He has very long legs and a strong stance. His fingers are longer and show use from many years. He does clean his hands meticulously so you can’t really tell that he is always around plants other than the fact his fingertips have a slightly greenish tinge from such a long association with them.
His rough is deep and a bit gravelly at times but really quite soothing. You’ll find that it’s almost never raised in anger and it’s inflections are a rainbow of sound. Basil is someone who is quite engaging and easy to talk and listen to. Also, if you can get him to he is a wonderful singer. His calm personality definitely shines in his voice. He really has never had the reason to raise his voice as the different inflections alone are enough to portray any emotion. His laugh is calm, sort of like the rumble of a lion [or a very large cat in general]
Personality: Basil is calm, patient, and for the most part a very wise person. Waiting is no problem for him, nor are things that go slowly. The passage of time means little to him and he has the amount of patience to prove it. His personality is quite varied and at times may seem at odds with itself, but in the end it seems to balance out quite well. One of the major things about him is that he is quite trustworthy and at ease with the people around him. Contrary to what people ssay of this man he does truly love to be around people. He’s not totally closed off from the world by his plants. He can be cautious at times, but for the most part he is an open person. His caution though, can be excersized at the wrong times. He won't say things when they might really need to be said.
While he does not support violence he is not the sort of person for huge intervention. He believes things should e let to take thier own way. So unless he see's immediate physical harm to someone he doesn't do much.
Basil was raised in a household with a very strict ethos. Manners were everything, and his life seemed a little..controlled. He was taught to be very polite to everyone and not to display outward emotions too much. They were for private family matters and it was not right to express such in a way that might shame the family. His parents homeschooled he and his brother and sister. Basil was the youngest though, and constantly seemed to be escaping into the world. The boys parents thought many of the influences of the world planted a rebellious seed in him, of which they were correct. While he was still the prim and proper boy they wanted he itched to be more. So he took to book learning and spending time in as many cultural places as possible.
As he grew the family ethos remained, but while it could have been constricting and inhibiting it became the framework for a well structured personality. He was collected, controlled and studious as he needed to be, but also quick minded and slyly humorous. As he grew older this became an open, sort of dry humor which he liked to share during appropriate times. Basil is very courteous under most any conditions, but not suffocatingly so. He knows when he is able to joke and who he may joke with. He has developed a bit of a stubborn side as age has mellowed him, and it seems he really can’t be rushed.
Basil see’s himself as someone with many sides. Of Course, he has a side everyone see’s, the older kindly gentleman. His close friends get a look at the slightly mischievous and humorous part of him, someone he is around close friends and family. Then theres his deepest self, which he reserves for himself and his cats. Why his cats? Well, they don’t usually talk back. He figures he’s okay talking to them. Usually he is straightforward, but there are times when what he says can seem a little obscure or foggy. And he cannot abide by useless fools. They annoy him quite quickly.
Basil is definitely very dedicated to his plants, more so than humans at times. His habit of taking his ime and not being rushed com from this dedication and sort of a plantish mind set he has taken over the years. He can be quite stubborn about finishing work for his plants [or school when he taught. Or other things. He usually tends to finish what he starts.] Often times he is loathe to be far from his plants and roses, making him generall an easy place to find. Often her would spend sleepless nights wandering the garden or or greenhouse. His wife of then, Sage, viewed this with amused resignation quite a bit of the time. After a while though it became clear that they could not co-habit as they should because Basil was so dedicated to plantlife. They had been good friends for so long and didn't want to ruin that deep friendship by trying to stay together. The two parted on good terms and even stayed in comunication for a while in the form of occasional letters and visits that were few and far between.
Your Vices
Likes: quiet
Sound of moving water
Soft music
Slow movements
Roses
Smell of freshly tilled earth
Smell of fresh rain
Reading
Sound of the ocean
Woods
Sunlight [and lots of it]
Warm greenhouses
Origami
Cats
Writing [he loves calligraphy]
Dislikes:fire
Cold
Snow
Frost
Overdramatic people
Too much technology. While it’s useful it doesn’t need to consume your life.
Strengths:Basil is definitely a good listener and secret keeper if someone ever needed a trustworthy adult to talk to.
Listening
Secret keeping[as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone anyway]
Trustworthy
Grows beautiful flowers
Giving out wise old man tips
Very intelligent
Patient
Can move very quickly when needed
Walks and moves pretty much silently
Very respecful
Weaknesses:cold weather
Cloudy days
Can be too calm at times
Maybe spends too much time with his roses
His greenhouse [he spends A LOT of time in there]
He runs more on emotion than logic
Fears: afraid of letting someone down.
Fears people hurting his precious roses
Alzheimer’s [his family has a predisposition for it.]
Secret: Basil was married once to a nice lady named Sage but she left him because he couldn’t commit to her the way he was committed to his garden, roses, and the earth in general. He doesn’t really talk about it much.
Family Ties
Father:Matthias Zivaen [deceased]
Mother: Lillian Zivaen [deceased]
Siblings: Ellison Zivaen [meta- also photosynth]
[Joseph Zivaen [meta human- genetic manipulation of plants]
Any Other Important People: Sage Loryl, his ex wife. They occasionally send etters back and forth to each other.
His cats, Parsley, Rosemary and Thyme. Yes, they are named after herbs on purpose. When he and Sage were still married they thought it would be humorous to have an 'herb' family.
History
Basil was born in Oregon fifty four years ago in a little town to Matthias and Lillian Zivaen. He grew up in the cold rainy state as a relatively bright child. Basil loved to be outdoors when he could, and when he couldn’t he was inside reading. It was quite a nice thing for him. His parents were quite strict, follow the family ethos. It was the way they thought children should be raised, but Basil found it too constricting. He was an outside the box kind of child. So while he did nothing that would shame his family or parents he wanted so much more.
For most of his life he was homeschooled, at least in the early years. His powers came to him late, almost fifteen. He just sort of never noticed them. He had always liked nature, and his parents just thought he had a green thumb. But when he started to hear the mews and bell like sounds of the plants and world around him things happened quickly. Hammel recruiters found him and he went to the institute. It was a very good thing for him, for it broadened his horizons and tempered his personality, making it so that he wasn’t too confined to the ways he was raised with. Hammel opened his eyes to the ways of the world in a way nothing else seemed to. He made many friends and formed relationships there and in the town of pilot Ridge.
Once he graduated from the Institute he had decided he didn’t really want to leave. So he went to the University to get his masters degree. He then came back to teach earth science and botany classes at the institute for a good long while. Somewhere in there he met a meta named Sage, a wonderful woman who’s ability was shapeshifting into the forms of different wolves. They stayed together for many years, until they parted amicably due to Basil's dedication to his plants. Only a few years after that divorce he stopped teaching at the Institute and took up a little shop in town simply called ‘Sils Garden. He lived in the apartment above and manages the shop, and has for many years now. That is where you can usually find him, although someimes he does go wandering off in the woods alone.
Roleplay Example
Once upon a time there was this member names Neki who already had lots of other characters. They crowded around her and begged forgiveness for the transgression of not writing a roleplay example and hoped the Hammel Gods would be merciful. The end.[/ size]
What About You?
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Name:Neki
Age: 17 now but that seems to change once a year
Experience: about three years on and off. I've been here for a while. :3
How Did You Find Us? –points at Zaer, Aki, and Therru- well, I floated in on a cloud and made these three. Then I had to resurrect this old guy because I needed to get in on having someone in the local population.
Ready To Play?mhmmm, very much so
