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Barakiel
Player Information
Player Name Cheshire Contact [plurk.com profile] ivoryandhorn | Cheshire#9758
AKA Currently: Ace, Cecy @ Imeeji, Isidore Marquet @ Sidereal
Previously: Ace @ Aather, Barakiel @ Court, plus some other losers.
Character Basics
Character Name Barakiel Series/Canon OC
AU/PG/Canon Point n/a Game [community profile] sidereal_rp
Canon Details Barakiel is an angel from a Megaten-flavored universe where Heaven = Law and Hell = Chaos, locked in eternal war for territory and dominance over a range of alternate Earths. Angels and/or demons are extra-dimensional beings who stuff themselves into meat puppets in order to manipulate human society(ies) toward pure Law or pure Chaos. Other supernatural or holy beings exist and generally wish angels and demons would get it together and quit fucking shit up for everyone. Anyway.

A long time ago, Lucifer rebelled and fell and there was a war! Wow, what a surprise. Barakiel was one of the brightest lights on Heaven's side. And then, after that war, Heaven decided that Barakiel was a little too much shounen hothead and not enough mindlessly obedient soldier. So they imprisoned, tortured, and bound him, because even if he wasn't proper, he was still useful. And then Heaven used him to do the dirty work that they didn't want proper angels to do or even know existed. Things went on in this fashion for a long-ass time. Then, one of Barakiel's higher-ups fucked up and pinned the blame on him. Incapable of speaking in his own defense, Barakiel was railroaded directly into an execution to cover everything up. Unfortunately, execution of an angel and/or demon takes a really, really long time -- and as of his arrival, Barakiel's only just begun that torturous process.
Character Details
Age old as balls (appears mid-20s) Hair/Eyes Black/Yellow
Height/Weight 5'10"/skinny Notable Traits Covered from the neck down in intricate black tattoos of seals of binding and control, visible around the edges of his clothes. He doesn't make special efforts to hide them.
15 Second Summary He looks like a shorter color-swapped Tyki Mikk. His hair's always down and he doesn't have the stigmata marks that is in some of his icons. Typically wears simple modern clothing in black and white, usually rumpled. Smokes, like, a lot. Fond of baking and rose-themed items (but not actual roses).

Personality-wise he is cynical and apathetic, largely resigned to his long and crappy life, and mostly interested in wringing out what happiness out of it that he can. He's more or less resigned to living and dying as a tool and he became okay with that a long time ago. Really. He hates attachments but somehow gets attached anyway and he really wishes he could just stop doing that. In interactions with others, Barakiel comes across as a laid back, low-key sort, unperturbed by nearly anything and everything. He's secretive in an unsubtle way and hates sharing details about his past. He's uncomfortable around other angels, demons, gods, or beings with comparable power.

(This version of Barakiel is a soft reboot; he does not remember anything from Court.)
Abilities & Permissions
Abilities Barakiel is a blob of eldritch holy multi-dimensional nonsense crammed into a teeny little meat puppet.
- Body mimics living human in most ways but smells(/tastes?!) strangely inorganic. Doesn't require sustenance or rest, regens from damage, largely impervious to environmental conditions. Not noticeably stronger/faster/etc. than a human body of similar build.
- Can briefly manifest halo/wings of light, with great effort. It's still kind of weird to experience though.
- Seals of binding/control limit his ability to manifest his ~true form~ and give whoever they're attuned to complete control over him. He cannot disobey their commands and cannot act to endanger them. They in turn can permit him to manifest more of his ~true form~ and cause him pain. Currently attuned to no one, for which he will be very grateful.
- Elemental control over electricity. He can call lightning bolts, recharge your phone, create rotating electrical currents in thin air for manipulation of metal. Pretty much no limits. It's magic, bitch.
- Very skilled baker. Specialty is bread of all kinds.
Permissions No hard "no" things come to mind, but please get in touch if it looks like violence, sexy times, etc. might happen.

Barakiel does come with some potential warnings for suicidal attitudes and body dysmorphia (not gender-related). He is also quite uncomfortable with most physical contact, which I don't mind playing personally, but may not be everyone's bag to read/play. Please let me know if you'd like me to avoid these or any other things! Plurk, Discord, DW (PM or this post - comments are screened), or email (ivoryandhorn @ gmail) are all fine.
Sensing Barakiel is full of HOLY and also LIGHTNING. If you have super senses you might pick up his body smells faintly inorganic in a weird way, not in the sense of being a machine, just. not quite right.

In turn Barakiel's pings are very finely tuned to HOLY and INFERNAL and DIVINE and that sort of nonsense. Beyond that he can pick up "magic???? maybe??" and that's about it.
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Name: Barakiel
Age: appears late twenties, actually several millennia
Job: bakery

Height/Build: 5'10"/skinny
Appearance Notes: He has messy, wavy black hair that's always in his eyes. Unlike his icons, he has no marks on his forehead and never wears his hair swept back. He prefers to wear simple modern clothing in black and white. Overall he looks like an average kind of dude except a) his PB is Tyki Mikk, and b) his eyes are bright, bright yellow.

Other: As an angel of lightning, Barakiel comes with heavy duty holy and lightning pings. His real form is stuck in a "vessel", a human-shaped container that is a magically repurposed corpse (but not reanimated). To the soul-sensitive it would feel like he's 20 pounds of soul crammed in 5 pounds of meat puppet.

He is able to sense anything supernatural, especially anything that might fall under the heading of "divine", "infernal", or "generally god-like." He can even pick up some detail on relative power level and any elemental pings.

Feel free to leave any questions you have on this post!

[dream psl]

Oct. 8th, 2014 08:48 pm
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[You're in a small, dark apartment. A low hum buzzes in your ears. It smells strongly of secondhand smoke and baking bread. The only light on is in the kitchen, a harsh fluorescent glare that illuminates the piles of perfectly identical loaves of bread stacked everywhere. Piled on the floor. Stuffed in the gaping fridge. Jammed in the lidless trash can.

In the kitchen is Barakiel, kneading dough on the counter with a dull focus. But something about him, about the edges of his body, seems...off, somehow.]

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Oct. 3rd, 2014 07:07 pm
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Currently played at: [community profile] court_rp
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Contact: ivoryandhorn @ gmail/plurk/dw; pm this journal; reply to this post
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[that was a really bad pun but you get the idea]
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This gets its own post because I couldn't resist the urge to complicate things.

The rule of thumb in this post is that I'm trying to give some general guidelines for what is available to be sensed in this weird OC-verse I made up for myself. Ideally there should be enough information for you to make a judgment call on whether or not your character can sense a specific ping.

If the following information doesn't answer a question you have, feel free to drop a comment here and I will respond as soon as possible. Feel free to use this post to request specific ping information as well. You don't need to tell me in advance what your character can/cannot pick up from Barakiel.

pings emitted )

pings sensed )

Test Drive

Apr. 4th, 2014 07:16 pm
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[NOTE: changed the info link to reflect info shuffling in my posts.]

Info write-ups for Court! Feel free to poke me if you need more info.

Prompt 1: Everyday Life

[A nondescript man pats down his pockets, frowns, and then heads your way with purpose.]

So . . . Don't suppose I could get a smoke off of you?

Prompt 2: I Can't Believe It's Not Thusia

[Your character has died! And then . . . woken up in some cold stone room full of weird shrines??? Plus some strange dude is sitting next to you, puffing lightly on a cigarette.]

Oh, you're awake? Then welcome back to the land of the living. Or to the land of the re-living. Still not sure how the terminology works there.

Prompt 3: You Make Up A Scenario

[You make up a scenario.]
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