Samael Christensen

by **Samael Christensen** October 14th 2016, 11:45 pm

Basic Biography

Name: Samael Christensen
Codename: Corvus
Title: The Ravens Son
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Race: Cambion
Hair: Copper red/orange
Eyes: Black
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 158 Ibs
Blood type: Black ichor

The Looks

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The Legacy

Personality:

The best way to describe Samael’s personality is closed off. He keeps others at bay with sarcasm, quips and a demeanor that screams mercenary more than anything else. Despite how much of it one might call an act, he has a presence that can be considered very commanding. Walking and showing himself in a way that might make him seem more imposing than his demeanor and build might suggest. Stoic has been a word many would use for the cambion, rarely showing emotion and even rarer showing any emotion that might constitute weakness. It’s a once in a blue moon occurrence to get him to smile, though those close to him might claim that it happens far more than that.

It's not to say he shows no emotion at all, he mostly just shows annoyance and anger easier than he shows things like happiness or sorrow. Alongside that he struggles with his own demonic nature which pushes him towards violence. A kind of nagging voice in the back of his mind that pushes him to perform horrible things for the sake of pleasure. It’s a voice he mostly manages to ignore, though it always exists in the shadow of his mind and relishes most when he fights. Despite that he more often than not takes no deep or real pleasure in hurting or killing, not really. Instead seeing it as a necessity when it has to be done, though he also can’t deny that part of him does just enjoy violence in general.

Despite all these negative qualities he’s beneath it all a person that cares about people, especially those close to him and is willing to do almost anything to keep them safe. Conducts himself in a ruthless manner when pushed to it, though he’s more often than not just dark humored and sardonic. A sweetheart that wrapped its heart in a hard shell of brick and barbed wire.

History:
The day Samael was born was a rainy one, the sky itself releasing atoreent that threatened to down the very city. It was a painful birth, lasting nearly a whole day and yet by the end of it he was born, squalling as all children are at the beggining and yet one thing set him apart from human children. Instead of anything life within his eyes, all she saw were two black voids looking back at her. It wa s asight that horrified her, enough so that she quickly didn’t want to have anything to do with the child. The immediate reaction was to kill it, do something with it and yet someone took the child not a week after it was born before it could face a less than favorable fate.

A collector of the children unwanted as they had called themselves had brought him into their home, one that was filled with children much like him. These children were touched by the supernatural in some fashion, unable to truly live within human civilization. There were eight other children, a few years older than him around and they all were enamored by the child with the black eyes. Despite how oddly he behaved they always managed to keep the unwanted son company, carrying him around and even cleaning up the messes that came with a child. In a sense he had been given a chance at a new life, one he would have not gotten with his mother.

The only thing that could not be ascertained was who his demonic father was. However that was a fact he could live without, considering that he thought his own home life was fine enough as it was. That being until one day his little home was attacked by something, a large creature in the shape of a raven. It managed to tear aprt the estate, even the caretaker able to do little more than minorly annoy this creature, that being until it revealed its true form. A demon that took the shape of a raven known as Malphas, one of the princes of a realm adjacent to this one called Hell. He was the one that claimed to be his father, though he was rather disappointed in how he was developing.

In that single attack he had managed to nearly kill everyone that he called his family, and left with parting words that had haunted him since then. That he would one day come back to claim him, though whether it be as a powerful heir or a pathetic corpse was yet to be seen. Then just as quickly as he appeared, he was gone once again and Samael was left with a life left in shambles. The attack was something that he blamed himself for, and so when he was old enough he left, not heeding the words of his family as he went. Anything that kept them from such a dangerous demon was something that he would do.

By the age of eighteen he was on the streets, working for anyone that was willing to hire, and so he began the lucrative business of being a demonic bodyguard/paranormal investigator. It paid well, and some people were willing to go for the intimidation factor that he offered.

The Powers and Weaknesses

Powers

Cambion Physiology: Born from the demon Malphas, he was gifted with abilities that made him beyond the average mortal. Physically he has always been above any human since his birth, granting him strength that lets him break human bones with minimal effort and even crack concrete with well placed blows. Has at best been able to lift a car with some effort, even overpower multiple human assailants with minimal difficulty. Along with this his bones and skin are more durable to compensate for the higher level of strength his body is capable of. While bullets are still capable of affecting him, lower calibers have a harder time hurting him, still breaking through the skin but not going deep enough to hit the vitals. Higher caliber weapons however have varying levels of ease harming him, some even punching through him like wet tissue paper. Overall his bodies bones are more durable than the soft tissues, serving to better protect his vitals. His muscles also produce marginally fewer fatigue toxins, allowing him to last longer in continual activity without tiring himself out. Along with his improved strength durability, and endurance, comes greater speed thanks to his powerful leg muscles, allowing him to run faster than most human athletes. His maximum speed has been peaked somewhere around 40 MPH when he is pushing himself, allowing him to outrun even the fastest of humans.

Demons flesh: Being born from a denizen of an infernal realm, his body was born with a natural resistance to heat and flames. This means that he can withstand the kiss of an open flame with no damage to his body whatsoever, and he is capable of comfortably being around intense heat without suffering any kind of downsides a human would.

Kinship: Samael holds his fathers affinity with ravens and finds that he can communicate with them. Their trill sounds come to his ears as spoken words, allowing him to communicate with them and even ask favors of them should they be so inclined. While he doesn’t have control over them, they are often inclined to help him moreso than mortals.

Shadows embrace: When standing in the shadows, or cloaked within them he is enveloped in a healing effect. Like smoke the shadows rise, cloaking and rapidly healing his wounds at an accelerated rate. Minor things such as scratches or small cuts heal within seconds, and larger things mend themselves at varied times depending upon how deadly the injury is. The shadows can reattach severed limbs given the proper time, potentially even bringing him from the brink of death so long as his vital functions are continued.

Umbrakinesis: Due to his parentage, Samael is given control over the very darkness itself. This manifests in the sense that he is capable of snuffing out the light around him, robbing a room of light, or even managing to cloak a certain area within darkness for a limited time. This effect works best against artificial light. Along with the ability to turn light into darkness, Samael has also been shown to be able to force darkness to become tangible and be used as such. Whether that be grasping hands, protective barriers or even dangerous weapons meant for offense. With enough concentration these shadows have been shown to have potent piercing capability that allows them to pierce durable flesh. A partner ability is that Samael can see perfectly in the dark, allowing him to maneuver through areas he had blackened with no problem.

Wings of the raven: Due to a massive influx of demonic energy through his body, dormant demonic traits have begun to spring up within him. The first of these being the ability to form black feathery wings from his back. They resemble those of of raven with an impressive wingspan that can carry Samael through the air with ease, capable of breaking his previous max running speed and reaching up to 80 MPh at best for a sustained amount of time. To accommodate this, his body has become capable of surviving with less oxygen than a normal human being, allowing him to fly higher without suffering physiologically from it.

Superhuman senses: A secondary trait that manifested from the energy that caused an emergence of traits within Samael was an improvement upon his senses. His senses of sight, smell and hearing are all far greater than human. This means that he can see with greater acuity, catching details a person would normally miss, smell even the faint changes within a person when close enough and even hear the subtle shifts within a heartbeat when he’s listening. This appears more like something that built upon his above human attributes, rather than his raven demon attributes.

Combat enthusiast: Through his years as a supernatural mercenary of sorts, he has managed to pick up plenty of skills in the use of weapons as well as defending himself. He mostly specializes in guns, bladed weapons hand to hand combat and the use of a bow.

Demonic rune magic: A series of demonic markings that can be inscribed on someone with demonic blood running through their veins. Those inscribed with these markings are capable of making use of the abilities that each of these runes represent. The size of the runes themselves denote the power they give, each of the runs giving a separate level of power depending on which variation is used. All of these runes are inscribed within The Book of The Raven, proving slightly more powerful when used on the blood of The Raven than normal demons. Upon viewing the book, his mind was branded with many of these runes. Transcribed through the use of a stylus like device that burns the marks into the flesh, not leaving any injuries but providing minor burning pain upon use. While forming useless marks on those that bear no demon blood, angelically aligned beings are usually wracked with pain from such an inscription and are most times driven mad from the pain. The runes can also be placed upon weapons and items, giving them various enhancements and applications. On living flesh, these runes can at times fade, or they do fade when overly used, or used up.

runes:

Might: Comes in varying sizes, from a simple ring around ones wrist to a complex sleeve tattoo. Depending upon the size of the tattoo, one could be granted far greater strength than they are normally capable of exerting normally. The smallest version is capable of increasing strength two-fold, and the greatest has been said to be able to increase strength twenty-fold, though the strain has been said to wreak havoc on the muscles when using such great strength. Attempting to use the strength without a veil rune can cause his own bones to shatter. (Duration Weakest varient has a duration of 24 hours with the strongest lasting around four hours)
Agility: Runes that are transcribed upon the legs, allow the bearer to run with increased swiftness, doubling to tripling their normal movement speed depending upon the size of the runes themselves. (Lasts around an hour at maximum)
A rune that when inscribed acts as a high-grade pain reliever, instantaneously stopping the pain of injuries for a demon. (Duration of eight hours)
Glamour: A rune that creates a minor illusion, making things on him appear as something else or not there at all. Is mostly used to move around without the more mundane folk bothering him. (Can last indefinitely. Attempting to make any violent actions while under the glamour will cause it to break, though items hidden by a glamour can be seen should someone logically recognize something is within it.)
Sight: A rune settled on his temple, offers him the ability to see through illusions, and glamour’s. In a sense, it grants him true sight. (Seems to have no discernible duration)
Mend:A rune that caused his wounds to mend themselves, before fading away. It however does not regrow limbs or replenish his blood. Also effective in mending objects inscribed with the runes. (Persists only until mending is done)
Replenish:Replenishes the blood lost within a fight. (Lasts only long enough to refill the blood)
Veil:A rune inscribed above the heart that forms a thin, nearly translucent veil of demonic energy over the wearer. While it proves as a protective armor, it can only take so much and with sufficient force it could be shattered and the rune creating it fade away. (Lasts until the veil breaks)
Imbue:When inscribed upon containers for ammunition or a weapon, such as clips or even quivers they were imbued with an elemental ability. This ranges from bullets of flames to even piercing ice ammunition. Anything that Samael could think of , making the ammunition even more dangerous. Can be mixed with other runes to create further effectiveness. (Until the runes are broken or ammunition is used up.)
Enhance:Can be used to increase the durability of items inscribed with the rune, such as blades, bullets and anything inorganic that Samael can think of. Items imbued with this rune are for all intents and purposes magical. (Lasts until the rune is disrupted)
Fearless: A rune that erases the fear of the wear, allowing them to act as if they were without it. (Lasts until the rune is disrupted)

Partial Demonic Awakeningff: Samael is able l to take on a single aspect of his demonic form. He could for example turn an arm or arms into those of his demonic form, conferring to him the strength that comes with that form as well as exceptionally durable arms. He could also gain the swiftness of that form, either through gaining its wings or letting his legs become approximately the same as those of his demonic visage. Some aspects don’t force a physical change within him, though he still gains power by doing so. Such as his shadow abilities becoming more potent. Capable of controlling vaster quantities of shadows or even increasing their overall destructive capacity as well as potentially increasing his regenerative ability. If his demonic form has an ability or part of it, he can take on any one of those aspects at the magnitude is present within that form but retain his reason while doing so.

Demonic form: By giving into the demonic essence running through his body, Samael is capable of taking on a demonic form, resembling a raven but more grotesque. This amplifies his demonic abilities beyond the realms of possibility for his normally frail human body as well as allowing him a few other things.

abilities:

Weaknesses
Holy water: Holy water acts like acid against his flesh, burning it and causing a certain level of melting. Wounds caused by holy water cannot be healed through his shadowhealing, meaning that he would have to recover from it the old fashioned way. All the water needs to do it hit bare flesh to take effect.

Direct Sunlight: His shadow healing doesn’t work if he is in direct sunlight, and greater levels of sunlight can inhibit his healing further. This means that so long as he is in a setting with sunlight he cannot effectively heal if at all, and along with this his umbrakinesis cannot snuff out sunlight.

Silver: Silver is capable of slicing through his durability like paper, producing injuries that he is incapable of quickly recovering from through the use of his shadow healing. Meaning that blows that would otherwise not be fatal could easily be. Contact with silver also causes irritation when coming contact with his skin, causing a red rash to spring up upon the point of contact.

Holy Symbols: Holy symbols with enough faith that they will affect him are capable of burning his skin on contact as if with acid.

Demonic warding sigils: Sigils that are tailored to ward demons are capable of keeping him out of a location physically.

Rowan wood: A stake of Rowan wood dipped in raven blood is capable of bypassing his durability, working in a similat fashion to silver.

Consecrated ground: On consecrated ground he is incapable of making use of his demonic powers.

Light sensitivity: Due to his eyes being capable if seeing perfectly in the dark, they suffer from painful light sensitivity. Direct sunlight can cause pain to his eyes, and even just intense lights can be blinding without any protection from it.

Salt line: He is incapable of crossing a salt line, though why he can’t just disrupt it is unknown. It’s more compulsion that keeps him from being able to cross lines of salt.

Wings: His wings themselves are less durable than his body, so they are far easier to harm than the rest of him. This makes taking out his wings, and disabling his ability to fly much easier.

Sensory overload: Along with his new senses comes the fact that they can be overwhelmed should one present them with overwhelming stimuli. Loud noises, and rancid smells are just some of those things.

Symbols of faith: In this form symbols of faith still harm him but when presented by someone who believes within that symbol, Samael is unable to harm them regardless of what he does. Attempts to do so falling flat as if repelled by an invisible barrier.

Weakened: While he may be smaller and able to sneak easier, Samael loses all supernatural abilities within this form. Even the most mundane means can harm him while he is a bird.

Rune weaknesses:

Spoiler:

Partial demonic awakening weaknesses:

A major weakness of this ability, especially for physical aspects such as his legs or arms is that the rest of his body is not built for using enhanced strength. So, overdoing it can lead to things like breaking his legs or causing himself damage by moving too quick, especially if he runs into something.
Another weakness is when overusing this ability, or letting it last for too long means that his body when mortal again will be too tired again. This usually happens when he activates an aspect multiples times within the same time. If he uses an aspect three times within a twenty-four hours span, the fourth time will spell him either losing the strength or passing out once he turns it off.

Items
The Cache: A collection of weapons, most mundane in properties he carries around to deal with supernatural threats in his line of work. Usually composed of guns with silver tipped bullets, the occasional blades made with exotic but not unheard of materials.
Fluff
Demonic Immortality:Due to the power of his fathers bloodline, his body is imbued with a form of immortality. This allows him to cease aging after a certain point aking disease incapable of touching him, though he can still be killed.

Talons:Due to his affinity with ravens he is capable of producing powerful talons in place of his fingernails
capable of sheering through flesh and bone as well as even steel with sufficient force.

Peak human reflexes:While in his more human form, his demon blood has granted him reflexes that stand at the pinnacle of human.

Physical Priority
Reaction 1
Agility 2
Endurance 3
Strength 4