Post by haleyislame on May 3, 2009 12:15:31 GMT -5
Name
André Botolph
Age
Looks to be 17, is actually a couple hundred years old. (332 to be exact)
Date of Birth
1677
Homelands
Guyenne, France; immigrated to the American Colonies in 1692.
Race
Human
Class
Wizard (Mage)/ Puppeteer
Final
Gepetto
Andre doesn’t have much of a way in the form of “attacks”, he’s more manipulation, he has the ability to take control of one thing (and one thing only, because he’s still an amateur at puppeteering) and have complete control of its body. However, he isn’t at the level that he can control their speech or thoughts. The control can be cut by cutting of Andre’s hands (he needs them to puppeteer) or knocking him unconscious. Because of his lack of teaching after a young age, his manipulation is slightly jerky.
----------------------------
{Weapon information}
His hands! That’s right, Andre, who is a puppet master (or would-be) uses his hands to do all of the magic he can! Just like controlling a normal puppet, he uses his fingers, wrist movements, and hands to control his victims; and to onlookers, it looks like he is controlling a puppet, but without strings. Andre, and other people who are also magic-skilled, can see silvery shining threads that are connected to his victims. Because he can use his magic by moving his hands, and hands only, if one disabled his hands (anything from cutting them off to merely tying them together (fingers and all, he can still control something with only his finger)), Andre’s magic would be useless.
His mentor, who taught him to be a puppeteer, was skilled enough not to need to use his hands, and only needed to use his mind, and that’s what Andre hoped to become one day before he and his master were separated.
Also, being still quite low level on the wizardry, using his puppeteering for an extremely extended amount of time (which is a long time, he’s good at endurance) causes the tips of his fingers to bleed where the strings are attached (which could give away what he’s doing if he’s trying to inconspicuous D: )
Because he's considered a mage, he has the ability to perform magic, but his mentor didn't know much on the subject, so Andre's skills aren't honed to anything aside from puppet work.
{Armor Information}
He doesn’t typically use armor since he needs to be lightweight and flexible (he’s quite flexible) enough to be able to hide while he uses puppetry, and he isn’t usually in the direct line of fire during any kind of battle. Normally, the only armor he wears would be wrist, arm, and hand braces (constantly moving your fingers and wrists puts a lot of strain on them).
{Accessory Information}
He almost always wears gloves because his puppeteering magic strains the blood vessels in his hands, so they always look severally bruised (even though they don’t hurt).
He likes to smoke; not like a chimney, but it’s how he relieves stress.
Wears a cross necklace: it was used to protect him in the past, (though it didn’t work), but he wears it now just out of habit; it doesn’t mean much in terms of sentimentality.
{Physical Description}
Andre is 5’9” and is very slim because he never got around to doing manual labor: he usually sat inside his house in his own miseries practicing puppetry in his later years. Because of this, his skin is pale. He has shoulder length, wavy blonde hair that is usually pulled out because it frizzes in humidity (and we just can’t have that, can we?). His eyes are a dark green. His jaw, chin, and nose are all sharply angled with high cheekbones, and his ears stick out a bit. Andre has naturally well formed eyebrows.
Andre dresses in baggy clothing, despite coming from a French family who were well known for their impeccable dressing. He does this because he’s lanky from not eating on a normal basis and thinks he looks kind of wimpy: when he leans over you can see his spine and if he sucks in, his ribs are visible. He’d always been thin and was teased about it growing up (he was what they called the “sickly child”, though he wasn’t prone to disease), so he tends to hide it behind baggy jeans and hoodies. His normal attire would be one-size-too-big dark jeans with a green hoodie (green’s his favorite color), boots, his necklace, and his gloves.
{Personality}
While Andre tends to keep to himself about things, he’s in no way shy. Around people he knows and trusts, he has a lot of things to say; he’s very opinionated. While he likes to share his thoughts, he knows when to stay quiet or when not to say things that’ll make things awkward.
Talking about his past is a tricky thing for him to do, as he doesn’t remember much before he went to become an apprentice puppeteer, and practically none after his trial in the colonies.
A bad habit Andre has is he gets kind of dependent on one person. People who are his teacher or those he looks up to he tends to trust too much for his own good. However, at the same time, he’s very fatherly when looking after others; his older brother/ fatherly side comes out most when he’s around felines (housecats or lions, and anything in between) the most. He loves cats and before his trial in the colonies he owned several of them (their names were Caz, Andromeda, Leo, and Aries :3).
Intellectually, Andre isn’t too smart. He was, however, very street smart, and still is. He knows how to look out for others, and he recognizes the situation when it’s time to look out for only him. When he was younger, he went to school, but spent his time day dreaming and sculpting instead of studying and learning. On that note, he tends to let his mind wander when learning things that don’t interest him (e.g. history, he really doesn’t care what happened 400 years ago)
When being ordered around, he usually does it without complaining. Andre likes to work and do chores because he likes to use his hands (like washing dishes), it makes him feel needed (not that he really cares about other’s opinions much now, anyways). He’s good at cooking, and he claims it’s his French roots which give him that skill; and because he’s so quick with his hands, he can make extravagant food in a short amount of time. Even if he disagrees with a direct order, he won’t sass or complain in that person’s face; he’ll complain about it later to someone else.
Andre doesn’t care much for other’s opinions about his personality or dress style. Aside from his body, he doesn’t mind people making fun of them- he’s a firm believer in karma (besides, if he’s in a bad mood, he could always embarrass them by forcing them to do something stupid in front of others). On top of this, Andre is very honest and has a terrible conscious.
He tends to spend his free time carving puppets (of people or animals) out of things (preferably wood). He uses these to practice his puppeteering skills, and because he doesn’t like to be idle. Also, with his fancy hands, he’s good at a variety of things, from sewing to juggling (which he enjoys doing and knows tricks!)
He’s also a pyrophobic (fear of fire).
{Likes}
• Puppets
• Carving/ sculpting new puppets
• Nature
• Flowers
• Cats
• His gloves
• Chores
• Juggling
{Dislikes}
• His body
• Being lazy/ having nothing to do
• Reading/ history
• Dogs
• Loud noise
• Fire (fire destroys things… like his puppets! Besides, he’s just unnervingly frightened of it)
{Background}
Andre was born to a very important aristocratic family in his small village in the state of Guyenne, France, in 1677. He had a large family and, while he wasn’t the youngest, was often teased by the others for his frail and kind nature. His parents, though, found it endearing that he liked to help in the housework along with the maids instead of playing outside. However, they were disappointed that Andre never did well in his studies. While he failed in the majority of his lessons, the one class he excelled in was fine arts. His tutor, Henry, saw his potential and worked with him, concentrating on Andre’s talents.
In 1685, when Andre was eight, the mansion burned down, killing everyone save two. Henry managed to escape, but badly burnt, with a fairly unscathed Andre. Taking Andre to the only person he knew well enough to help the boy, Andre first met Lucas: a master puppeteer. Henry died a few weeks later from his injuries and lack of ability to pay for medical treatment. Having no where else to turn, Andre lived with Lucas in exchange for an apprenticeship.
Lucas saw the same talent in Andre as Henry had, and by age ten, Lucas had managed to focus Andre’s skill into the form of the wizardry that is puppeteering. At age eleven, Andre could manipulate inanimate objects, and by twelve he had an elementary basis of controlling animals and humans. At age thirteen, in 1690, however, a mob of angry bankers and villagers came to arrest Lucas on counts that he wouldn’t pay off heavy debts. Lucas was sentenced to hanging, and, in doing so, left Andre with his debts. Unable to pay them, Andre escaped to America.
In America, Andre settled on the outskirts of a colonial village inland of the harbor. There, Andre was aloof and stayed in his small home making puppets and practicing the wizardry of manipulation. In 1692, when the Salem Witch Trials began, paranoia spread through villages and Andre was targeted.
Now, Andre lived in a small home and never bothered anyone. However, he did do many things that townspeople saw as witch craft. He hardly ever came out of his house unless it was for food (not even clothing, because he made it himself); and when he did come out, it was usually early in the morning or late into the evening. Also, he would carve small puppets to give to children, and parents began to believe they were omens. Andre kept a variety of cats (as everyone knows, they are the animals of witches), and was also a foreigner. But worst of all, Andre never went to church; he was raised a Quaker by Lucas and didn’t believe in Catholicism. In an attempt to protect himself, Andre wore a wrought iron cross around his neck, but the people saw this as blasphemy against God.
They were merely wary of Andre until one of the little girls who had been given a doll caught a fever and died, the parents blaming Andre for cursing their daughter. Andre was set on trial in 1694 and was almost instantly pronounced guilty. In an attempt to destroy what curses the ‘witch’ brought with him, the villagers set fire to Andre’s home, burning both his cats and his puppets. In an attempt to save them, Andre manipulated one of the villagers to try and put out the fire. Being accused of witchcraft yet again, Andre didn’t try and defend himself, knowing it was a true accusation.
The children, however, pleaded for Andre to be spared or tried again. The argument settled on the drowning test: Andre was to be bound and thrown into water. If he drowned, he was human, if he floated, he was a witch.
With his fingers and wrists bound tightly and a weight around his feet, Andre sunk quickly. In his attempt to puppeteer something, the wizardry, with no outlet, burst in his body. This mass of odd aura sent his body into overdrive and panic, and then into a magic-induced coma; in which he showed no vitals and looked as a corpse would.
He lay there for 300 years and it wasn’t until now that the lake was drudged for a highway. Late one night, the side of the lake where Andre had been encased in silt caved down, and Andre was snapped out of his trance. Suddenly finding himself in a new world sent Andre spiraling into shock (Electricity? Cars? Planes? And they called him a witch?). In an attempt to become newly adjusted, Andre set out to try and learn the ways of the new world, but always ended the day carving and practicing his puppet skills, which hadn’t dimmed much for the past 300 years.
{Pictures}
None…? ^^; I can’t draw. At all. Ever. Ever. :D
((I hope I did this right!))
(Pineapple)
André Botolph
Age
Looks to be 17, is actually a couple hundred years old. (332 to be exact)
Date of Birth
1677
Homelands
Guyenne, France; immigrated to the American Colonies in 1692.
Race
Human
Class
Wizard (Mage)/ Puppeteer
Final
Gepetto
Andre doesn’t have much of a way in the form of “attacks”, he’s more manipulation, he has the ability to take control of one thing (and one thing only, because he’s still an amateur at puppeteering) and have complete control of its body. However, he isn’t at the level that he can control their speech or thoughts. The control can be cut by cutting of Andre’s hands (he needs them to puppeteer) or knocking him unconscious. Because of his lack of teaching after a young age, his manipulation is slightly jerky.
----------------------------
{Weapon information}
His hands! That’s right, Andre, who is a puppet master (or would-be) uses his hands to do all of the magic he can! Just like controlling a normal puppet, he uses his fingers, wrist movements, and hands to control his victims; and to onlookers, it looks like he is controlling a puppet, but without strings. Andre, and other people who are also magic-skilled, can see silvery shining threads that are connected to his victims. Because he can use his magic by moving his hands, and hands only, if one disabled his hands (anything from cutting them off to merely tying them together (fingers and all, he can still control something with only his finger)), Andre’s magic would be useless.
His mentor, who taught him to be a puppeteer, was skilled enough not to need to use his hands, and only needed to use his mind, and that’s what Andre hoped to become one day before he and his master were separated.
Also, being still quite low level on the wizardry, using his puppeteering for an extremely extended amount of time (which is a long time, he’s good at endurance) causes the tips of his fingers to bleed where the strings are attached (which could give away what he’s doing if he’s trying to inconspicuous D: )
Because he's considered a mage, he has the ability to perform magic, but his mentor didn't know much on the subject, so Andre's skills aren't honed to anything aside from puppet work.
{Armor Information}
He doesn’t typically use armor since he needs to be lightweight and flexible (he’s quite flexible) enough to be able to hide while he uses puppetry, and he isn’t usually in the direct line of fire during any kind of battle. Normally, the only armor he wears would be wrist, arm, and hand braces (constantly moving your fingers and wrists puts a lot of strain on them).
{Accessory Information}
He almost always wears gloves because his puppeteering magic strains the blood vessels in his hands, so they always look severally bruised (even though they don’t hurt).
He likes to smoke; not like a chimney, but it’s how he relieves stress.
Wears a cross necklace: it was used to protect him in the past, (though it didn’t work), but he wears it now just out of habit; it doesn’t mean much in terms of sentimentality.
{Physical Description}
Andre is 5’9” and is very slim because he never got around to doing manual labor: he usually sat inside his house in his own miseries practicing puppetry in his later years. Because of this, his skin is pale. He has shoulder length, wavy blonde hair that is usually pulled out because it frizzes in humidity (and we just can’t have that, can we?). His eyes are a dark green. His jaw, chin, and nose are all sharply angled with high cheekbones, and his ears stick out a bit. Andre has naturally well formed eyebrows.
Andre dresses in baggy clothing, despite coming from a French family who were well known for their impeccable dressing. He does this because he’s lanky from not eating on a normal basis and thinks he looks kind of wimpy: when he leans over you can see his spine and if he sucks in, his ribs are visible. He’d always been thin and was teased about it growing up (he was what they called the “sickly child”, though he wasn’t prone to disease), so he tends to hide it behind baggy jeans and hoodies. His normal attire would be one-size-too-big dark jeans with a green hoodie (green’s his favorite color), boots, his necklace, and his gloves.
{Personality}
While Andre tends to keep to himself about things, he’s in no way shy. Around people he knows and trusts, he has a lot of things to say; he’s very opinionated. While he likes to share his thoughts, he knows when to stay quiet or when not to say things that’ll make things awkward.
Talking about his past is a tricky thing for him to do, as he doesn’t remember much before he went to become an apprentice puppeteer, and practically none after his trial in the colonies.
A bad habit Andre has is he gets kind of dependent on one person. People who are his teacher or those he looks up to he tends to trust too much for his own good. However, at the same time, he’s very fatherly when looking after others; his older brother/ fatherly side comes out most when he’s around felines (housecats or lions, and anything in between) the most. He loves cats and before his trial in the colonies he owned several of them (their names were Caz, Andromeda, Leo, and Aries :3).
Intellectually, Andre isn’t too smart. He was, however, very street smart, and still is. He knows how to look out for others, and he recognizes the situation when it’s time to look out for only him. When he was younger, he went to school, but spent his time day dreaming and sculpting instead of studying and learning. On that note, he tends to let his mind wander when learning things that don’t interest him (e.g. history, he really doesn’t care what happened 400 years ago)
When being ordered around, he usually does it without complaining. Andre likes to work and do chores because he likes to use his hands (like washing dishes), it makes him feel needed (not that he really cares about other’s opinions much now, anyways). He’s good at cooking, and he claims it’s his French roots which give him that skill; and because he’s so quick with his hands, he can make extravagant food in a short amount of time. Even if he disagrees with a direct order, he won’t sass or complain in that person’s face; he’ll complain about it later to someone else.
Andre doesn’t care much for other’s opinions about his personality or dress style. Aside from his body, he doesn’t mind people making fun of them- he’s a firm believer in karma (besides, if he’s in a bad mood, he could always embarrass them by forcing them to do something stupid in front of others). On top of this, Andre is very honest and has a terrible conscious.
He tends to spend his free time carving puppets (of people or animals) out of things (preferably wood). He uses these to practice his puppeteering skills, and because he doesn’t like to be idle. Also, with his fancy hands, he’s good at a variety of things, from sewing to juggling (which he enjoys doing and knows tricks!)
He’s also a pyrophobic (fear of fire).
{Likes}
• Puppets
• Carving/ sculpting new puppets
• Nature
• Flowers
• Cats
• His gloves
• Chores
• Juggling
{Dislikes}
• His body
• Being lazy/ having nothing to do
• Reading/ history
• Dogs
• Loud noise
• Fire (fire destroys things… like his puppets! Besides, he’s just unnervingly frightened of it)
{Background}
Andre was born to a very important aristocratic family in his small village in the state of Guyenne, France, in 1677. He had a large family and, while he wasn’t the youngest, was often teased by the others for his frail and kind nature. His parents, though, found it endearing that he liked to help in the housework along with the maids instead of playing outside. However, they were disappointed that Andre never did well in his studies. While he failed in the majority of his lessons, the one class he excelled in was fine arts. His tutor, Henry, saw his potential and worked with him, concentrating on Andre’s talents.
In 1685, when Andre was eight, the mansion burned down, killing everyone save two. Henry managed to escape, but badly burnt, with a fairly unscathed Andre. Taking Andre to the only person he knew well enough to help the boy, Andre first met Lucas: a master puppeteer. Henry died a few weeks later from his injuries and lack of ability to pay for medical treatment. Having no where else to turn, Andre lived with Lucas in exchange for an apprenticeship.
Lucas saw the same talent in Andre as Henry had, and by age ten, Lucas had managed to focus Andre’s skill into the form of the wizardry that is puppeteering. At age eleven, Andre could manipulate inanimate objects, and by twelve he had an elementary basis of controlling animals and humans. At age thirteen, in 1690, however, a mob of angry bankers and villagers came to arrest Lucas on counts that he wouldn’t pay off heavy debts. Lucas was sentenced to hanging, and, in doing so, left Andre with his debts. Unable to pay them, Andre escaped to America.
In America, Andre settled on the outskirts of a colonial village inland of the harbor. There, Andre was aloof and stayed in his small home making puppets and practicing the wizardry of manipulation. In 1692, when the Salem Witch Trials began, paranoia spread through villages and Andre was targeted.
Now, Andre lived in a small home and never bothered anyone. However, he did do many things that townspeople saw as witch craft. He hardly ever came out of his house unless it was for food (not even clothing, because he made it himself); and when he did come out, it was usually early in the morning or late into the evening. Also, he would carve small puppets to give to children, and parents began to believe they were omens. Andre kept a variety of cats (as everyone knows, they are the animals of witches), and was also a foreigner. But worst of all, Andre never went to church; he was raised a Quaker by Lucas and didn’t believe in Catholicism. In an attempt to protect himself, Andre wore a wrought iron cross around his neck, but the people saw this as blasphemy against God.
They were merely wary of Andre until one of the little girls who had been given a doll caught a fever and died, the parents blaming Andre for cursing their daughter. Andre was set on trial in 1694 and was almost instantly pronounced guilty. In an attempt to destroy what curses the ‘witch’ brought with him, the villagers set fire to Andre’s home, burning both his cats and his puppets. In an attempt to save them, Andre manipulated one of the villagers to try and put out the fire. Being accused of witchcraft yet again, Andre didn’t try and defend himself, knowing it was a true accusation.
The children, however, pleaded for Andre to be spared or tried again. The argument settled on the drowning test: Andre was to be bound and thrown into water. If he drowned, he was human, if he floated, he was a witch.
With his fingers and wrists bound tightly and a weight around his feet, Andre sunk quickly. In his attempt to puppeteer something, the wizardry, with no outlet, burst in his body. This mass of odd aura sent his body into overdrive and panic, and then into a magic-induced coma; in which he showed no vitals and looked as a corpse would.
He lay there for 300 years and it wasn’t until now that the lake was drudged for a highway. Late one night, the side of the lake where Andre had been encased in silt caved down, and Andre was snapped out of his trance. Suddenly finding himself in a new world sent Andre spiraling into shock (Electricity? Cars? Planes? And they called him a witch?). In an attempt to become newly adjusted, Andre set out to try and learn the ways of the new world, but always ended the day carving and practicing his puppet skills, which hadn’t dimmed much for the past 300 years.
{Pictures}
None…? ^^; I can’t draw. At all. Ever. Ever. :D
((I hope I did this right!))
(Pineapple)
