Victor Darling
May 29, 2015 1:11:02 GMT -4
Post by Victor Darling on May 29, 2015 1:11:02 GMT -4
Victor Royce Darling
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Age/Date of birth: 286 years old || Born October 27, 1729 A.D.
Nickname(s)/Name Pronunciation: His name's pronunciation is fairly straightforward. As for nicknames - Vic or Victor is fine, for those who are familiar with him, but as for everyone else, Mr. Darling is the only moniker that will do. He shudders at the title of Professor, for reasons he prefers to keep to himself.
Race: Mancer
Power/Leading Power: Spatialkinesis
Distinct Markings: Nothing immediately noticeable...except for the several lasting marks on his back from particularly severe beatings.
Occupation: Math Professor at Benzaiten
Parents: Kanan and Mina Darling, the latter being deceased and the former being very much alive.
Siblings: Unfortunately, (as far as he knows) he's an only child. But if you want to roleplay as a long lost sibling of some sort, feel free shoot me a PM.
Family: Any family aside from his parents remain unknown to him, seeing as he lived isolated from the rest of the Mancers during the formative years of his life.
Appearance: In boyhood, Victor had light brown hair. As he aged, it grew more ambiguous, lying somewhere in-between a triad of golden blonde, brown, and gray, falling in waves around his neck. He has a fair complexion, and a short stature, standing no taller than 5'8". His hazel brown eyes have a certain lightness to them that's hard to place - like twin pools of low-viscosity, hazelnut tea. Hailing from an era of propriety, he tends towards suits and ties, being the closest he can get to 18th century attire without looking strange in the modern world. On occasion, he will still wear the one garment he's kept from his young adulthood in London - a black neckerchief, which almost resembles a bowtie on his neck, when eclectically paired with his more modern suit. He doesn't do jewelry, not even a metal chain, but one shouldn't put it past him to wear a flower every once in a while, on the lapel of his suit. Piercings are also an impossibility with him.
Personality: Victor started out much like his namesake, as a quiet, darling boy, compassionate, but keeping to himself. His father scared him immensely, and he figured it would be best to bite his tongue and do as he was told. Unfortunately, keeping his emotions inside was the first step down the road to darkness. The anger began to fester internally, with no vent and no way to escape. As time progressed, he went from a quiet child to a bitter teen. His new facade became that of someone who simply didn't care what happened, not to himself nor anyone else. And yet he still did as he was told. He still helped people with the stupid math that his father wanted him to know and love. He still let his anger fester internally. Entering his young adult stage, Victor began to tap into his powers, and thus changed to a moody, morbid young man. His pessimism was always laced with an undertone of ongoing anger and hatred. He became a rather grim figure to be around. When he failed to kill his father, it was the last straw in completing his oh-so-"winning" personality. He had failed to avenge his mother. Victor's pride was wounded, and so he protected himself with a wall of pride. He began not only to feel an edgy, low-key hatred towards society in general, particularly the disgustingly prejudiced humans he was forced to live amongst, but also began to hold himself in the highest esteem. His most despised enemy became his greatest tool, to this end - academics. As one of the most learned men around, he could easily justify his pride. He's still rather quiet, and he would never outwardly show his vanity. He doesn't need to boast out loud, or sing his own praises. One only needs to see the smirk on his face after solving a complex equation, or the way he looks down on you even if you're taller than him, to be certain that he fancies himself a superior breed. Never again will he allow himself to feel humiliation.
It was far too painful.
With his students, he is fairly ruthless, bringing down all the weight and pressure that his father brought down on him. If you fail, you fail, and you suffer the consequences. Deep down, he really does want his students to succeed, and this in part contributes to the strictness factor, but a good deal of the harshness is still derived from the childhood that he didn't get to choose.
History: Victor was born to a very studious family in 18th century London, prestigious in their erudite nature and famed for being able to solve any problem in the neighborhood with their academics. They were secretly Mancers hiding among humankind, living in fear of being burned as witches or the like. As with most fathers, Kanan saw Victor as a reflection of himself, with the potential to either bolster or ruin their family's reputation. And thus, Kanan Darling felt the need to mold Victor in his own image. Before he had even reached a meager age of three, Kanan was using mathematical terms around his only son, day and night. When he turned 10, the beatings started. With every incorrect answer, there came a severe penalty. Victor's mother, Mina Darling, although quite studious herself, knew that her husband was overdoing it. But she was a relatively subdued wife, and never spoke her mind. Hence, Victor could never turn to her to be rescued. By the age of 15, Victor could calculate complex equations in his head. Multiplication tables had been drilled - beaten - into his brain, formulas, quadratics, linear functions. All irrelevant information was dumped in favor of mathematical memorization, with the occasional opportunity to read and write in Arabic, the culture from which many math concepts stemmed from. It wasn't long before Victor was helping his community the way his family had intended: solving problems one equation at a time. Born to two Mancers, both of them skilled in telepathic abilities, Victor naturally possessed power...a very unique variety of psychokinesis, known as spatialkinesis - the ability to warp space itself. He was a late bloomer. His abilities did not even begin to emerge until he was one-and-twenty. The only reason his parents hadn't been concerned was because they, interestingly enough, valued academics over the development of any powers; and, even if they hadn't, it would've been imprudent to expose themselves by using their powers among humans. They relied completely on their studies and knowledge. But Victor discovered that there was a special power hidden within him. Kanan saw the need to reshape Victor's brain to suit mathematics, but Victor soon found that he could reshape mathematics to suit him. The dimensions of the room needed to be 5 by 10 meters, and so he warped reality, and it was so. One would think that this discovery would've brightened his world considerably. On the contrary, it drove Victor into dark depression. He had sold his entire childhood to mathematics, or rather, his father had sold it for him, only to find out later in life that he could solve a problem if only he bent the world to his will, with no mathematics required. Regret filled his heart. If only he'd stood up to his father, if only he'd tried to tap into his abilities sooner, then maybe, just maybe his sleep wouldn't have been haunted by numbers and swimming black figures. Maybe he wouldn't involuntarily blurt the answer to a math inquiry before it was finished being uttered. Maybe he wouldn't have been racking his brain for the 300th digit of pi at his mother's funeral procession.
He spent the next decade trying so hard to hone his spatialkinetic abilities. What came naturally to others was a constant struggle for Victor. To manipulate space itself went against the innate sense of logic his father had drummed into him. But he was determined to defy rationality, and to escape what his father had wanted him to be. Kanan, not surprisingly, was displeased when his son began to divert his efforts to his powers - not only did Kanan value knowledge over powers, but he felt that Victor exploring his abilities would endanger their family. The father walked in on one of his son's training sessions. The conversation started out with cold civility, but soon escalated into a heated debate, in which it was revealed that Mina Darling had not died from a mysterious illness, as Victor had previously thought. It had been murder...at the hands of Kanan. Apparently, Mina had been trying to divert her efforts to her own psychokinetic powers, like Victor had, and this, of course, increased their chances of being found out to be supernatural beings - Mancers. Mina threatened to reveal how Kanan had beaten their son, and Kanan, anxious to preserve the family's reputation, took action. Seeing her as a threat to his son and a liability to his own reputation, Kanan had Mina exterminated after failing to "reason" with her. Victor swore to avenge his mother's death, and the encounter ended with Victor attempting to crush his own father with spatial manipulation. With such little raw power, the attempt failed miserably, and rather than the classic child-murders-parent-out-of-spite scenario, or vise versa, the parent walked out triumphant, with his head held high, unscathed. And his frustrated son, outraged, never forgave his father for not dying.
Nevertheless, he had to do something with his life. Soon after the incident with his father, in the year 1751, word got out that Victor was practicing "dark arts" of some sort, and he was forced to cross over the Rift, which he had heard many stories of from his parents. The crossover gave him new hope, and he believed he might be able to carve out at life for himself there, finally among others like him and able to be open with his abilities. However, still struggling to get a handle on his own powers, the only thing he excelled in was, horror of horrors, math. Long had he dreamt of teaching spatialkinetics, but his skill levels in this area had been, and always would be, it seemed, sub-par at best, no matter how passionately, how ardently he pursued them. Naturally, the only other option was to teach math at Benzaiten Academy. It is unknown whether or not Kanan ended up following his son through the Rift, but regardless, Victor ended up doing exactly what his father had intended.
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Age/Date of birth: 286 years old || Born October 27, 1729 A.D.
Nickname(s)/Name Pronunciation: His name's pronunciation is fairly straightforward. As for nicknames - Vic or Victor is fine, for those who are familiar with him, but as for everyone else, Mr. Darling is the only moniker that will do. He shudders at the title of Professor, for reasons he prefers to keep to himself.
Race: Mancer
Power/Leading Power: Spatialkinesis
Distinct Markings: Nothing immediately noticeable...except for the several lasting marks on his back from particularly severe beatings.
Occupation: Math Professor at Benzaiten
Parents: Kanan and Mina Darling, the latter being deceased and the former being very much alive.
Siblings: Unfortunately, (as far as he knows) he's an only child. But if you want to roleplay as a long lost sibling of some sort, feel free shoot me a PM.
Family: Any family aside from his parents remain unknown to him, seeing as he lived isolated from the rest of the Mancers during the formative years of his life.
Appearance: In boyhood, Victor had light brown hair. As he aged, it grew more ambiguous, lying somewhere in-between a triad of golden blonde, brown, and gray, falling in waves around his neck. He has a fair complexion, and a short stature, standing no taller than 5'8". His hazel brown eyes have a certain lightness to them that's hard to place - like twin pools of low-viscosity, hazelnut tea. Hailing from an era of propriety, he tends towards suits and ties, being the closest he can get to 18th century attire without looking strange in the modern world. On occasion, he will still wear the one garment he's kept from his young adulthood in London - a black neckerchief, which almost resembles a bowtie on his neck, when eclectically paired with his more modern suit. He doesn't do jewelry, not even a metal chain, but one shouldn't put it past him to wear a flower every once in a while, on the lapel of his suit. Piercings are also an impossibility with him.
Personality: Victor started out much like his namesake, as a quiet, darling boy, compassionate, but keeping to himself. His father scared him immensely, and he figured it would be best to bite his tongue and do as he was told. Unfortunately, keeping his emotions inside was the first step down the road to darkness. The anger began to fester internally, with no vent and no way to escape. As time progressed, he went from a quiet child to a bitter teen. His new facade became that of someone who simply didn't care what happened, not to himself nor anyone else. And yet he still did as he was told. He still helped people with the stupid math that his father wanted him to know and love. He still let his anger fester internally. Entering his young adult stage, Victor began to tap into his powers, and thus changed to a moody, morbid young man. His pessimism was always laced with an undertone of ongoing anger and hatred. He became a rather grim figure to be around. When he failed to kill his father, it was the last straw in completing his oh-so-"winning" personality. He had failed to avenge his mother. Victor's pride was wounded, and so he protected himself with a wall of pride. He began not only to feel an edgy, low-key hatred towards society in general, particularly the disgustingly prejudiced humans he was forced to live amongst, but also began to hold himself in the highest esteem. His most despised enemy became his greatest tool, to this end - academics. As one of the most learned men around, he could easily justify his pride. He's still rather quiet, and he would never outwardly show his vanity. He doesn't need to boast out loud, or sing his own praises. One only needs to see the smirk on his face after solving a complex equation, or the way he looks down on you even if you're taller than him, to be certain that he fancies himself a superior breed. Never again will he allow himself to feel humiliation.
It was far too painful.
With his students, he is fairly ruthless, bringing down all the weight and pressure that his father brought down on him. If you fail, you fail, and you suffer the consequences. Deep down, he really does want his students to succeed, and this in part contributes to the strictness factor, but a good deal of the harshness is still derived from the childhood that he didn't get to choose.
History: Victor was born to a very studious family in 18th century London, prestigious in their erudite nature and famed for being able to solve any problem in the neighborhood with their academics. They were secretly Mancers hiding among humankind, living in fear of being burned as witches or the like. As with most fathers, Kanan saw Victor as a reflection of himself, with the potential to either bolster or ruin their family's reputation. And thus, Kanan Darling felt the need to mold Victor in his own image. Before he had even reached a meager age of three, Kanan was using mathematical terms around his only son, day and night. When he turned 10, the beatings started. With every incorrect answer, there came a severe penalty. Victor's mother, Mina Darling, although quite studious herself, knew that her husband was overdoing it. But she was a relatively subdued wife, and never spoke her mind. Hence, Victor could never turn to her to be rescued. By the age of 15, Victor could calculate complex equations in his head. Multiplication tables had been drilled - beaten - into his brain, formulas, quadratics, linear functions. All irrelevant information was dumped in favor of mathematical memorization, with the occasional opportunity to read and write in Arabic, the culture from which many math concepts stemmed from. It wasn't long before Victor was helping his community the way his family had intended: solving problems one equation at a time. Born to two Mancers, both of them skilled in telepathic abilities, Victor naturally possessed power...a very unique variety of psychokinesis, known as spatialkinesis - the ability to warp space itself. He was a late bloomer. His abilities did not even begin to emerge until he was one-and-twenty. The only reason his parents hadn't been concerned was because they, interestingly enough, valued academics over the development of any powers; and, even if they hadn't, it would've been imprudent to expose themselves by using their powers among humans. They relied completely on their studies and knowledge. But Victor discovered that there was a special power hidden within him. Kanan saw the need to reshape Victor's brain to suit mathematics, but Victor soon found that he could reshape mathematics to suit him. The dimensions of the room needed to be 5 by 10 meters, and so he warped reality, and it was so. One would think that this discovery would've brightened his world considerably. On the contrary, it drove Victor into dark depression. He had sold his entire childhood to mathematics, or rather, his father had sold it for him, only to find out later in life that he could solve a problem if only he bent the world to his will, with no mathematics required. Regret filled his heart. If only he'd stood up to his father, if only he'd tried to tap into his abilities sooner, then maybe, just maybe his sleep wouldn't have been haunted by numbers and swimming black figures. Maybe he wouldn't involuntarily blurt the answer to a math inquiry before it was finished being uttered. Maybe he wouldn't have been racking his brain for the 300th digit of pi at his mother's funeral procession.
He spent the next decade trying so hard to hone his spatialkinetic abilities. What came naturally to others was a constant struggle for Victor. To manipulate space itself went against the innate sense of logic his father had drummed into him. But he was determined to defy rationality, and to escape what his father had wanted him to be. Kanan, not surprisingly, was displeased when his son began to divert his efforts to his powers - not only did Kanan value knowledge over powers, but he felt that Victor exploring his abilities would endanger their family. The father walked in on one of his son's training sessions. The conversation started out with cold civility, but soon escalated into a heated debate, in which it was revealed that Mina Darling had not died from a mysterious illness, as Victor had previously thought. It had been murder...at the hands of Kanan. Apparently, Mina had been trying to divert her efforts to her own psychokinetic powers, like Victor had, and this, of course, increased their chances of being found out to be supernatural beings - Mancers. Mina threatened to reveal how Kanan had beaten their son, and Kanan, anxious to preserve the family's reputation, took action. Seeing her as a threat to his son and a liability to his own reputation, Kanan had Mina exterminated after failing to "reason" with her. Victor swore to avenge his mother's death, and the encounter ended with Victor attempting to crush his own father with spatial manipulation. With such little raw power, the attempt failed miserably, and rather than the classic child-murders-parent-out-of-spite scenario, or vise versa, the parent walked out triumphant, with his head held high, unscathed. And his frustrated son, outraged, never forgave his father for not dying.
Nevertheless, he had to do something with his life. Soon after the incident with his father, in the year 1751, word got out that Victor was practicing "dark arts" of some sort, and he was forced to cross over the Rift, which he had heard many stories of from his parents. The crossover gave him new hope, and he believed he might be able to carve out at life for himself there, finally among others like him and able to be open with his abilities. However, still struggling to get a handle on his own powers, the only thing he excelled in was, horror of horrors, math. Long had he dreamt of teaching spatialkinetics, but his skill levels in this area had been, and always would be, it seemed, sub-par at best, no matter how passionately, how ardently he pursued them. Naturally, the only other option was to teach math at Benzaiten Academy. It is unknown whether or not Kanan ended up following his son through the Rift, but regardless, Victor ended up doing exactly what his father had intended.
Traits:
[/li][li]Whenever a mathematical equation or problem of any sort is asked, regardless of whether it's directed at him, he automatically blurts the answer, usually without any control over this reflex he's built up over the years.
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[li]He is, without a doubt, a dreadful pacer.
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[li]He also has an intimidating habit of rubbing his fingers together when he's distressed or upset - as if he'd like to strangle someone, and he's feeling the quality of his own phalanges to make sure they're the appropriate texture for doing so. [/li]
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Likes:
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[li]Ties are one of the few ways he can express his creativity in his dull career, so expect a wide variety. Bowties can work, too.
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[li]Silence - once again, it helps him to relax.[/li][li]Reading and Literature were his escapes from math as a child, and remain so to this day.[/li][li]Fine wine can be a common indulgence for him, although he never consumes it in great quantities.
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Dislikes:
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[li]Incompetence is something he can't stand - he had to either excel or drown, and he sees no reason for it to be any different with other people.
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[li]Coffee - the last thing he needs is a little something extra to keep him lying awake in bed for hours on end.[/li]
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Hobbies:
- Music - the only mathematical activity he truly enjoys. He learned to play the piano as a boy, encouraged by his mother and permitted by his father, simply because the art had mathematical properties to it.
- Reading - exploring the world from a happier perspective than his can be uplifting.
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OOC Name: Teekl
Plans: None at the moment.
Playby: Robert Carlyle
Items: N/A
