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[/b] Astaroth Ibel 

Age & Date of Birth:  19, July 10th

Gender: Male

Class: Upper 

Occupation:  Personal Bodyguard to [npc] Bernat

Affiliation: Civilian

Genetic Modifications: 
    Bat - Improved hearing, able to use sound to gauge surroundings (able to whistle in high enough pitch for accurate echolocation). Poor eyesight, though he's not completely blind- visual details are completely lost to him but he can see enough combined with his echolocation to still have an advantage over others most of the time. It's more written things and picture specific things he's lost with. Tends to eat mainly sweet things - especially fruits. Very sensitive to extreme light or sound and tends to sleep during the day and take care of whatever he needs to during the early morning or late night. Modified onto him as an adult, not entirely voluntary :') 

Unique Tech:  
    Protective Clothing - Roth tends to wear protective clothing as a bottom layer - it covers only his chest and part of his shoulders, as it's not very flexible, but is able to stop basic bullets or blades - though he would be in danger of damage from bruising. 
    Specialty cape   - Not just a cape but a cool glidy wingsuit thing. Basically used in combination with air magic to get to difficult to reach places. 
    Altered NUIP Interface - A modification to his NUIP which allows him to access most of its primary functions without the visual interface. Text based messages are brought to his attention either audibly or via a buzzing sensation in his right hand. He is able to respond via text either through speaking or silently by spelling out the letters with that same hand. Various shortcuts are also programmed into this through different tapping motions and other than things that require eyesight to use  (videos / pictures, which are visible but just as blurry and obscured as the world around him)
    In addition to this, he is able to use functions through speech commands, though he often prefers not to do this. 
    
    Other stuff here probably. Uses light and air magix most often, though more as utility than for fighting. (jumping, distractions). Don't know what kinda weapons he uses when he does bad shit but :') 


   

Appearance: [ x ]
Freckled baby. 177cm tall. Long dark red hair (usually braided or worn in a ponytail, very rarely left loose), large pointed ears. Scarring across face in two broken up lines that cut right across the bridge of his nose.

Personality:  How do i describe this nerd. Friendly, optimistic even in the face of unending bad luck and always enthusiastic, he really doesn't know the meaning of 'give up'. He wants what's best for those around him, even if it means putting himself off as worse off, but he also knows how important it is for him to keep his status in the upper class - it gives him more opportunity to take care of those that matter. 

Despite his optimism, his mistakes weigh very heavily on him and he will work hard and take risks to make sure he doesn't repeat them if he can.  Easily taken advantage of. Slightly addicted to magix (air is his preference but he'll take what he can get), much more addicted to the additive put into the black market magix supplied by his employer. 


Background: Started out in Slums and his parents wanted only the best so they pooled all of their resources to make sure he had the best chance at good tutoring, etc, and would be able to have a good life. There was an accident involving his father that left him both a scavenger and injured. His mother cared for his father and Astaroth finished his last year of school, managing to still get a position in the upper class.

Though he cares for his parents, he has trouble helping them directly without bringing attention to his father's status as a scavenger. Astaroth spent most of his time (after getting work placement and securing a home) to researching ways within the system that he could potentially help his father rejoin society and class levels and to raise his parents up to a safer place. However, this didn't go unnoticed.

Someone put two and two together, and as it usually is with these kinds of things, it wasn't a good someone: Bernat.

Bernat works for a weapons manufacturing company and is fairly important in it. He has a lot of stake at the conflicts going on around Novus, and deals in a lot of black market weapons trading as well as legitimate business. There are a lot of people who are either competitors or roadblocks in what he wants to do, and as such he needs to keep on staff people to do dirty work for him. While he can trust some people he.... definitely would rather have those who have no choice but to work for him. This lovely person stepped in and saw opportunity- they saw a tool, someone who could be manipulated and used while having access to pass through a lot of places without question.

Arrangements were made, people spoken to, and through a few underhanded deals, both of Astaroth's parents were very nearly caught - and saved just at the right moment by a very helpful stranger. Astaroth was caught up in it in a very questionable way, but conveniently, his name could be cleared - if and only if he helped Bernat out to pay back the favor. 

Through one thing happening after another, the ways that Astaroth paid him back escalated. They started off small errands, completely legal, but slowly got more and more questionable. Eventually, with threats to reveal the situation of his parents and what he had done to help them, Astaroth was pushed into something of a spy, thief and occasional hitman. He was, unfortunately, very skilled and consistently wonders whether or not he really has to do these things, only to be reminded just how easy it would be for his parents to be killed or worse.

Astaroth tries to make the best of what he does when he's not working for Bernat but unfortunately, all of the bad things that he has done weigh heavily on him and his dependency on the magix that the man provides have made it hard to get too far away or risk getting on his bad side. 



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