Michael Paladin

[Violinist]

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Username: Violinist

Gender: Male

Other Character(s): N/A

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Name: Michael Paladin

Alias: Mike, Paladin, “That blind kid”, “OHGODPLEASESTOPTHEBURNING!”

Age: 14

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Alignment: Neutral

Origin: UNNAMED: Michael comes from an unnamed, but beautiful world that is generally free of conflict among the common people, but disputes between bloodlines are not uncommon. The Paladins were the most powerful and they had the ability to control light. There were other clans, each with the ability to control things such as earth, fire, metal, lighting, water and so on, but the second largest clan was the biggest threat to the Paladins. The Bennet clan was composed of powerful manipulators of shadows and darkness and were natural enemies of the much loved Paladins. It was they who let Heartless into their world, which led to its almost immediate destruction.
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Appearance:

Physical Features:

Michael Paladin is rather slim, but in no way weak. Training has given him a very fit figure with very little excess body-fat and wiry muscles that give him strength equal to a fit adult. Standing at about one-hundred and sixty five centimeters and weighing something between sixty and eighty kilograms, Michael is quite healthy with a well-proportioned body and he is quite flexible. Michael’s head is rather large, making his neck seem a bit on the thin side.

Facial Features:

Michael has a rather pretty face that’s usually kept in a scowl of dislike. The boy’s face is very refined, giving him an almost girlish look with his large eyes and petite chin, but call him a girl and he’ll beat you up. His aforementioned large eyes are rather a attractive brown with unusually large irises that are a defining feature of the Paladin bloodline. Michael also has a rather large and thick head of silvery-grey hair, making his already large head seem even bigger. Still, call him a melon-head or any other name and he’ll kill you.

Clothing:

Michael’s day-to-day attire usually consists of a orange-ish sand-colored t-shirt two or three sizes too large with a single brown stripe near the ends of the sleeves and the bottom. The collar of the shirt is rather high and wide, exposing his neck with laces that can be pulled to tighten it. The t-shirt is worn over a red long-sleeved shirt that reaches down his arms a bit past his wrists. As for the legs, Michael wears dark-blue baggy jeans that reach down to his ankles and give him a very free range of movement for his legs. On his feet, Michael wears a pair of red and black sporty sneakers.

Miscellaneous Items/Articles:

The only thing Michael wears as an accessory is an MP3 player he picked up somewhere in some unimportant world. It holds about a million songs and he is almost constantly listening to them.

IMAGE

Personality:

Resolve:

Michael Paladin’s goal is vengeance, although he’d be just as happy with finding another Paladin. Because the heartless destroyed everything and everyone he knew and loved, Michael harbors a deep, seething hatred towards them. In short, Michael’s goal in life is the annihilation of darkness and its allies and finding another Paladin. Michael considers him a soldier. The last survivor of a once great army, he is the only one standing one fiery border betwixt the light and the everlasting darkness.

Pursuit:

On his world, Michael was loved. He had a family, friends, trainers, teachers. The Paladins were a known and respected bloodline and Michael was never mistreated due to his blindness or any other faults. Then the heartless came and took it all away from him in an everlasting wave of darkness. Naturally that would cause anyone but a seriously twisted individual to hate them. Too many people have tried to take advantage of his powers and blindness for Michael to be fully able to trust anyone but someone who has proved themselves time and time again and that’s also a part of the reason why he searches for another survivor, partly because they are the only ones he believes he can trust and also because he is almost desperate to find something that can remind him of the home he once had.

Fears:

Helplessness and Darkness. Even though he may act all tough, Michael is still a kid who’s had his home ripped away from him. When things get too much out of control, he tends to slip into despair and self-loathing, cursing his weakness and wishing he could do more. His second, but not lesser fear is failing in his task an succumbing to the darkness, having the light ripped from his heart and his thoughts reduced to the most basic animalistic instincts.

Hopes:

I would think that would be quite obvious by now. The only thing Michael desires is to finish his crusade to eradicate darkness and find any survivors from his world. Also, he would quite like to master the element of Light, make some friends and play chess with a monkey.

Hobbies:

Well, Michael doesn’t really have any hobbies due to spending most of his time either fighting or searching. Whatever precious little free time he has is spent on training, so... training? Fighting Heartless? Listening to the million songs on his MP3 player?

Public Personality/Private Personality:

Public:

In public, Michael acts very cold but is capable of blowing up in your face at any moment. He acts like a leader, and yet he is not. He acts like a soldier, all discipline and no play or fun. He gets a bit too obsessed with discipline and gets very annoyed when people don’t do as they are told.

Private:

In private, Michael is, well, a kid. He likes to play, he like ice cream, he likes music and he likes general silliness. When he trusts you, you’d be surprised at how open Michael can be. He does have a rather troubling habit of keeping his problems to himself, though. He wouldn’t want his friends to get involved and possibly hurt. Much of his hostility is a façade to keep possible enemies away, but if you’re persistent enough he either counts you as a possible friend or an unusually brave thief.

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Weapons:

Weapon Name: Cane the cane.

Weapon Description: A white cane that can be folded for ease of carrying. It serves as a way of detecting obstacles and as a weapon. As a weapon it isn’t very effective, but when Michael tips it with very hot light, it can be quite deadly.

Abilities:

Light

The Paladins are well known for their mastery of light. Utilizing the light of their hearts to influence the light of the world, the most powerful Paladins have been described as having the power of gods. The Paladins have the talent to move and shape light and they can also control its heat, tangibility and its brightness. When this ability first surfaced in bloodline, accidents left many permanently blind until a method of focusing on one thing while looking at another was created. The method is usually difficult to learn, being described as “trying not to think about pink rhinoceros while looking at a herd of them.” Michael Paladin, the last known member of the bloodline, did not learn this before his powers surfaced, which left him completely blind, but he is a quite competent manipulator of light despite his extreme lack of experience.

• Formation
  
  The very first ability a Paladin learns and one they know practically from birth, this ability covers drawing out and forming light. At a beginner’s level, the manipulator needs to form the light with some sort of motion or object that acts as a sort of mental trigger. The more experienced Paladin can form light with a mere thought, but Michael is only able to form light in small amounts at a time, an orb the size of a baseball at most, and he has yet to overcome his dependency on movement when it comes to forming light, although he needs only a small twitch of his fingers at least to start the process.
  
  
• Manipulation
  
  The second stage of training most Paladins go through, this cover manipulating the light, shaping it and moving it. Experienced Paladins are capable of creating incredibly intricate displays of dazzling beauty and fierce tornadoes of light, but so far, Michael is only able to move light when it is very close to his body and can only bend it into basic shapes such as orbs, disks, squares, rectangles, spikes and such, but nothing too complicated. As for movement, Michael has a free range of movement with light at a distance of two feet but it generally fizzles out when it goes beyond that distance unless Michael deliberately hurled it at something. If that happens, the light generally keeps on going until it hits something, where it will disappear in a flash of brilliance. If Michael made the light hot enough to pass through the obstacle, it will melt through until it finds something it cannot go through or just fizzles out after half a kilometer or so.
  
  
• Heat
  
  A finer point of manipulation, controlling the heat of light allows Paladins to handle it with ease while still being able to use it for combat almost instantly. There are some Paladins who have earned legendary status in this section, being able to heat light to a point where the air around them starts boiling. Michael is currently able to make his light very hot due to how easy it is to do this once you get the hang of it and at times it looks like he is holding small suns in his hands. With increased heat comes increased brightness and that is what led to the loss of Michael’s vision.
  

Items:

Equips:

Distribution Points:

Physical Attack: 1
Physical Defense: 2
Magical Attack: 4
Magical Defense: 2
Reflexes: 2
Speed: 2
Awareness: 3

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Michael Paladin was born on an unnamed world into the ruling bloodline. He grew up as a normal child and had a great amount of friends and was generally well treated without being spoiled too much. At the age of nine, Michael’s powers surfaced. It was rather uncommon for a Paladin to gain his powers at such a young age instead of in his early teens and, before his parents could stop him, Michael had created a blast of light that was bright enough to blind. Unfortunately, Michael had been staring straight into it. After the initial shock, Michael started getting accustomed to his blindness and learned to live with it with help from his family. After all, such accidents were not uncommon. Just as Michael had learned how not to bump into walls, his training with light became serious and he progressed quite well. Unfortunately, before he could learn any of the advanced techniques or even progress far past beginner stage, Michael Paladin was swallowed by darkness at the age of twelve with the last memory of his world being the sound of his family desperately fighting the slithering, silent dark beasts known as the Heartless.

Surprisingly, Michael did not die. Instead, he was deposited to a place called Traverse Town where he learned about Heartless, the beasts which had most likely destroyed his world. While he stayed in Traverse Town, his bitter hatred and anger towards the Heartless took seed and grew and festered until he was actively eliminating them wherever he could find them. Then, following the logic that, if he survived then so could someone else from his world, he acquired a gummi ship and started traveling the worlds, hunting darkness and eliminating it wherever he could find it while he searched for other survivors from his world. This crusade has forced him to mature and learn how to survive, leaving him with a rather sour outlook on humanity.

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In case it isn’t obvious by now, Michael is blind.

[Zero [Axel]]

Accepted. Im not gonna move it or lock it just yet, the reason being is that there are some coding errors. I will let you fix them if you want.

[Violinist]

Done. Thankies.

[Zero [Axel]]

Locked & Moved