Victor Ryuu

Real Name: Victor Ryuu
Renegade/Hero/Villain Name: Zou
Title: None
Alignment: True Neutral
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 160 lbs (72.57 kg)
Blood type: AB

Character Image/Character Costume Image (Or Description):
Victor is crippled, and thus will never be standing as he is in this picture. However, all other pieces of this picture are accurate.
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Personality: Victor is a bookworm. He has little to do with people. They are, at best, tools to him. Creatures of the earth like any other. That is not to say he is without emotion or empathy. The few he calls friends, he defends and aids to the very best of his ability, but the rest he simply views with a casual disinterest. If he can help, he will, if only to gain a favor in return. If they stand in his way, he avoids them or makes them move. Victor, at his core, pursues power and influence to protect the few who still call him friend. He is thus not committed to the common good of mankind nor does he bear mankind any malicious intent. His world begins and ends with him and his few friends. The rest will manage themselves.

History:
Victor was born a cripple. His spine had broken as he left the womb, and he was never able to develop use of his legs. This meant that, from the start, Victor was confined to a wheelchair. His mother tried to help him get accustomed to life in the wheelchair, and was very caring throughout his childhood. His father was cold and distant, and never said much. Victor’s childhood was difficult, but he didn’t have too many things he could complain about. A functioning, loving family, but few friends at school. Nobody wanted to hang out with the cripple, after all. His speed at moving around was, well… laughable. Victor was the kid who was easy to pick on. But it didn’t deter him.

He performed well in his studies, and in the absence of many close friendships, Victor found solace in pursuing fantasy books. Novellas. Occult tomes. Anything that captured his imagination. Unfortunately, not all of the books he read were fantasy. The more he read, the more he became fixated. He began to notice more things around him, supernatural things. Was he crazy? No, not quite. It was more… that he was a wallflower. Nobody paid him any mind, so he was very good at watching and understanding. And through watching, Victor saw what many missed. He saw the supernatural, in pieces and fragments.

So Victor became even more withdrawn as he continued to delve into the arcane. And one day, it happened. As he was reading a book, he found a hidden node, a gateway to some other realm, or perhaps a pocket space between realms. Victor was never quite sure. What he was certain about was that he found a trapped spirit there. The spirit was not particularly good or evil. It was a wandering spirit, nomadic and observant. In many ways, Victor and this spirit were the same. The spirit begged him to release it from the realm it had been trapped in. In return, it would grant Victor a portion of its powers, the ability to control some small portion of reality.

Victor was hungrier than that, though. He had been ridiculed and mocked his whole life. So instead of releasing the spirit, he captured it. Trapped in a spell circle of his own making, Victor was able to absorb the spirit into himself, destroying it, but gaining its power. And what a power it was! Victor found that he could manipulate wires. Only wires. But he could manipulate them as though they were mere extensions of his body. In his studies, he had heard of one spirit only that could have performed that. Zou, Lord of Wires. It seemed that now, Victor had replaced that spirit.

Victor gained some magical ability as well, though because his powers were so limited and focused in scope, his spells likewise shared that limitation. Victor practiced and perfected his own mastery of his new powers as he graduated college and moved out into the world. As it would happen, he found a full time position as a librarian at a local school… which suited him fine. He would find a use for these newfound powers. For now, Victor practiced. He trained his abilities and honed them in a genuine obsession.

Power(s):
Power 1: Wire Manipulation – Victor can manipulate any wires in the area, and any wires nearby will react to his calling, allowing Victor to know just where there are wires, and how many he has to work with. Electronics? He can manipulate the wires inside them. Barbed wire fence? Yup. Power lines? Victor can manipulate them. They function as extra arms, in a sense. They react to Victor’s will, and move as he tells them to. After years of practice, Victor can control a breathtaking amount of wires at one time with surreal precision and speed. The wires can hover up and down and fly to a certain degree. Victor himself is unfortunately tied to the ground and has no hovering ability of his own. [8 Ability to this power]

Power 2: Master of the Arcane – Victor has been confined to a wheelchair his entire life. And he didn’t make many friends. He prefers his books. And because of this, he buried his mind in them. People don’t want to have much to do with a bookworm, and so this drove Victor further into the books... and further into the Occult. Soon, his mind was filled with dark truths. Soon, his mind knew more than he was prepared for.

Grid: (30 points)
Intelligence: 0
Occult: 8
Strength: 1
Speed: 0
Durability: 1
Ability: 8
Fighting Skills: 2
Magic: 7
Spells: 3
Flight: 0
Wealth: 1

The Spells: Nearly all of Victor’s spells focus on enhancing the wires he manipulates. For a detailed explanation as to why, see his history.

Wire Eye [Basic]: Victor can take some wire, and manipulate it into the shape of an eye. This eye can be manipulated as normal. This spell allows Victor to close one eye, and see through the wire eye instead. This spell can be maintained indefinitely at the cost of some concentration and focus from Victor each turn.

Wire Telepathy [Basic]: Victor can communicate telepathically for a short duration with anyone, so long as they are touching one of the wires he is manipulating. This spell can be maintained indefinitely at the cost of some concentration and focus from Victor each turn.

Wire Invisibility [Low]: Victor uses a very small, focused invisibility spell to make one small strand of wire (20 feet or less) invisible to the naked eye for 2 rounds.

Wire Meld [Low]: Victor causes any wires touching together to meld into one. This can be used to make a longer strand of wire, or fuse together a large jumble of wires into a solid metal block, perhaps to make a shield. Wire that is fused together and no longer considered a “wire” can no longer be manipulated.

Wire Chainsaw [Medium]: Victor focuses his energies on some strands of wire he is manipulating. They are coated in a magical energy that makes touching the edge of their surface akin to touching the blade of a running chainsaw, except with very sharp blades. A very destructive spell, capable of sawing through most things given enough time. This spell can be active for up to 4 posts.

Electrical Disturbance [Medium]: Victor can control the flow of electricity (and energy in general) through his wires. This means that the electricity (or energy) goes wherever he wants it to. In this way, he can use power lines to ensnare a person, but not electrocute them unless Victor wills it. Likewise, he can hamper most electronics by making all wires lose their conductive properties. This ability affects all wires Victor controls when activated, and lasts for 4 posts.

You do not have to waste 1 point in flight to be able to make wires fly and float.

I will allow you to do that without wasting a point there.

Put it somewhere else; say, wealth, or even your magic bar to make his spells that 1 ounce stronger. :]

I appreciate it. I moved the point into magic. Thanks ^^

Approved and moved.