Post by Balthazar Tenebris on Jan 6, 2013 3:05:26 GMT -6
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign, top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, border: 10px solid #f1e3b4; width: 450px; background-color: #f6f7f1;] PERMANENT FILE  NAME: Balthazar Michael Tenebris AGE: 28 GENDER: Male SEXUALITY: Pansexual OCCUPATION: Team Rocket Member & Trainer HOMETOWN: Goldenrod City, Johto TYPE OF CHOICE: Any OOC NAME:: Veritas (or Veri) APPEARANCE: One thing most people notice first about Balthazar is his height. He stands at just over 6'2'', yet he usually appears a fair bit shorter as he quite often hunches his shoulders as he walks. His body is long, lean, and quite well muscled, though he is not brawny by anyone's standards. His exact weight is a mystery even to him, but his best guess would probably place it at somewhere around 185 pounds. His hair is a smoky black and at its longest point just reaches his chin. He keeps his hair fairly neat and always wears it parted to the left. He has rather large eyes with are an odd, dull forest green colour. Often his left eye is covered by his hair, though he has been known to tuck has bangs back from time to time. Balthazar's clothing style tends to change with each situation. Usually, he prefers to wear something casual such as a t-shirt and jeans, but he will wear something more formal if he believes the occasion calls for it. He prefers not to wear his Rocket uniform too often, though he will when he is required to. Balthazar has very fair, light skin that is riddled with the scars and tattoos he has collected during his life. His scars feature most prominently on his arms, chest, and back, though few are truly noticeable. He currently has two tattoos: the sun between his shoulder blades and a poem on his left upper arm. PERSONALITY Balthazar can often be quite cold: a trait which has gotten him referred to as the 'ice man' on more than one occasion. It's not that he truly doesn't care, he's just quite adept at distancing his emotions from the situation at hand. Even if he didn't have this particular skill, he would probably still come across as rather uncaring or aloof. He prefers to keep his emotions to himself and doesn't like to discuss or share them with anyone. This ability often allows him to be quite ruthless in his work. He would be lying if he said that hurting and stealing from others doesn't bother him at times, but usually he just turns off his emotions when doing something unpleasant and allows himself to go numb. Unsurprisingly, this often makes it quite difficult for him to interact with other people. He has difficulty knowing what to say or how to act around others, so typically he just prefers to be on his own. Interacting with others often just leaves him frustrated and confused. Still, he is capable of showing some level of kindness to others, though when he does so he often comes across as quite awkward or shy. Though he may act very passive, Balthazar is the type of person who always pays attention to all that is going on in his surroundings. He likes to be certain that he knows what is going on so he can maintain a decent feeling of control in any situation. He is always watching what is going on and tries his best not to let anything get past him. One thing that shocks many people about Balthazar is that he actually has quite a strong sense of humour. You wouldn't know it from looking at him, but he actually does enjoy cracking the odd joke every now and then. He likes to make people smile, even though he may not be very good at it, so he often makes a joke when he feels a situation is getting too serious. Additionally, he has quite a short temper, though he prefers not to let people know if they have upset him. Often when he is angry at a person, he will just act passive-aggressively instead of outright aggressively. He likes to find clever ways to get back at people instead of just fighting and being done with it. HISTORY Balthazar was born in the Johto region in the bustling metropolis that is Goldenrod city. His father had left long before he was born, so his mother was left to raise him and his older brother alone. His early life was quite difficult both for him and his family. His father had been the main breadwinner in the household and without his income, they barely had enough to get by on. It didn't help that the little money the family had was often squandered away at the Game Corner by his mother. But still, they somehow managed to get by. They has little in the way of toys or niceties, but they survived and for them that was enough. Then, when he was five, the family's fortunes seemed to have turned around. His mother met a rich man from the Kanto region who quickly quite infatuated with her. Several months and one whirlwind romance later, the family ended up in Saffron City, rich and with a new head of the house. For a time, life for them really was quite good. For the first time in Balthazar's life he had enough to eat and plenty of toys to play with. He even got his first Pokemon as a gift from his mother: a Pidgey he decided to name Caeli. But of course things couldn't stay good forever. Things never can. Over time, tension grew in the household. It started off with just a few small things, a fight louder than normal or a few nasty looks, but it wasn't long before it grew and threatened to engulf them all. Soon fights became a daily occurrence; not just between husband and wife, but between step-father and child as well. As time went on, Balthazar grew increasingly hostile to this unwanted intruder in his life. On more than one occasion this inhospitable behaviour led to violence. He still carries scars from several of these confrontations. They serve as reminders that violence isn't the answer. Then, when Balthazar was ten, his brother ran away from home presumably to become a Pokemon trainer. Gabriel had just finished Pokemon School and couldn't handle living at home any longer. He never said goodbye; he just left one day. Of what became of him, Balthazar does not know. This was the last time he ever heard from his older brother. The following year Balthazar too left. He took Caeli and headed out on his own, never to return home. The first few years one his own, he dedicated his life to training and capturing Pokemon. But, somewhere along the way, he got off track. He ended up wandering from region to region until finally returning to Kanto where he became stuck with an infant son and more vices than he cared to admit. It was that then he realized, at the ripe old age of eighteen, that he had to change something in his life if he wanted him and his son to be able to survive. He did his best, but he had few skills that he could use to hold a job while he was trying to take care of David. It wasn't long before his desperation drove him into the arms of a well-known crime syndicate: Team Rocket. He found his place in the ranks of the once-great order, and he pledged to do whatever he could to help restore them to their former glory. It was what was necessary to keep his son alive. Over the years he has again taken up training his faithful team, as he all the while carries himself up the ranks in Team Rocket. LIKES & DISLIKES LIKES;; + the quiet + his son + walking + his Pokemon + battling + black coffee + reading + rain + writing + thinking DISLIKES;; - storms - snow - bug Pokemon - spicy foods - losing - disrespect - the self-righteous - large bodies of water - loud noises - bright colours application was passed by username | [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=valign,top][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, width: 40px;] n i c k n a m e |
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