Sean Castevet
Race: Half Demon (Part Yuki-Onna)
Class: Demonic Cryokinetic
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Aura: An angry crimson
Appearance: There are two things that will stick out to people looking at Sean: that he works out and that he is very pale. Averaging a bit above 6 feet tall and with a heavy frame and broad shoulders, Sean is very athletic and well-built. His skin is as white as snow and his black hair is cropped short. In spite of his imposing stature, Sean generally gives off a polite and approachable appearance, usually dressed in semi-formal attire such as a collared shirt or slacks unless he’s engaged in some sort of physical activity. He is of mixed race, his father being white and his mother Japanese. His facial features are mostly rather smooth and rounded, with few blemishes, which help add to his disarming demeanor.
Abilities:
Yokai Physiology - These are powers Sean learns directly through his inhuman blood and parentage. The Yuki Onna is a violent and powerful figure of Japanese folklore. Having died in the cold, ice and snow have nothing left to harm her with. To a degree Sean has inheirited this resistance to the cold, and his body temperature does seem a few degrees short of a healthy individual. However, Sean is also repelled by some of his mother's weaknesses as well. He is vulnerable to heat and sunlight, staying away from fires and often found indoors on a hot summer day. Items that repel the undead can pose problems as well at times, but not to the extent that they would have on an actual ghost.
- Ice Blood – Sean’s body heals from minor wounds and shallow cuts with surprising speed. Deeper wounds or more serious injuries take longer to fully heal, but still cease bleeding quickly and rarely scar. Diseases, infections, and curses are quickly frozen and killed when they enter Sean’s body. Lost limbs do not regenerate. Normally, the drain is minimal, though particularly significant wounds, diseases or curses will exact a toll on his energy.
Demonic Ice Magic - The ability to manipulate temperature and generate ice, snow and cold. Limited and slow without a more structured spell to draw on. Sean's Ice magic carries his mother's demonic taint - death dominates - predisposing his magic toward the killing-aspects of ice and winter.
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- I]Blizzard [/I]– a pulse of demonic power surges around a focal point – usually Sean’s hand - and jagged shards of ice and a cloud of snow begin to form. Onc ready, Sean can make this maelstrom of ice and snow rocket towards a target of his choosing in a shotgun-like blast, cutting them apart and knocking them off their feet. Power and size of the blast can be altered with a little focus. Normal form exerts high physical and mental strain.
- Snow Woman’s Ire – Drawing further from his demonic heritage, Sean can inflict a curse on a target with a glance. Those who are affected usually feel an initial rush of cold, as though they have been coated in ice, that leaves them stunned for a few precious moments. After the first few seconds though, the sense of being frozen dissipates, and the victim is left with a lingering chill that can harm their finer motor skills.
- Cold Trail – A spell which invests a person or object with ice-elemental demonic magic, slightly lowering its temperature. Once the applied, Sean becomes able to track the target through a psychic link. More than one may be active at once. Minor mental strain, which builds over time. Multiple applications of this spell may be active at once.
Time in the Penalty Box! - Don't be mislead by his disarming demeanor - Sean is no stranger to fights or violence. Be it a particularly rough hockey game or a fight/spar with his cousin Nick, Sean can handle himself in a fight.
- Athletic Intensity - Magic courses through Sean's being as he activates this spell, greatly enhancing his physical and athletic ability. Anger radiates from him, washing over those who are within his proximity. Renders him incapable of using other spells and carries a high physical strain the longer it remains in use.
"Be Prepared" - An active guy, Sean enjoys the outdoors quite a bit. Hiking, Camping, and other such excursions all catch his interest. He has many skills in this regard, pathfinding, tracking, identifying certain types of wildlife, etc. Furthermore, with some basic Druidic training from his father, Sean has a knack for fairly simple yet broad manipulation of nature to assist his survival skills.
Bio: Born in Japan and raised in Ontario, Sean’s a seemingly normal – perhaps even boring- young man with a moderate circle of friends who enjoys hockey, archery, and the outdoors (also he pretends to like books to impress a girl he likes). Appearances are always deceiving though, and Sean comes from a notably large family of magic users, his father and stepmother being researchers and agents for the Department – a Canadian government agency that investigates and finds practical uses for magical phenomena.
While Sean’s father Paul is a druid, his mother is a Japanese snow spirit known as the Yuki Onna (who apparently is known to some as Oyuki). She and Sean’s father met while Paul was working in Japan some 20 something years ago. The circumstance of their relationship and break-up are shrouded in quite a bit of mystery, and Paul is quite reluctant to give details about their time together, even Sean knows exceedingly little his mother, having only seen her picture and hearing her name a scant few times – possibly without his father’s knowledge. Sean lived in Japan for only two years of his infancy, and was raised in his father’s home country of Canada.
He has put up with his father’s reluctance for many years now, and he hasn’t sought out his mother’s identity on his own because he wants to know that his father trusts him with the information. However, Sean is 18 now, and being at Amaranth is likely fostering stronger feelings of independence. Sean Castevet may very well lose patience with his father, assuming he even survives long enough in Landry’s classroom to reach that point.
Clubs: A guy who likes sports and the outdoors, Sean is most commonly found with the Hockey Team or the Wilderness Club. While his reading habits are admittedly modest, he joined Amaranth's earlier in the year as an excuse to hang around his girlfriend Penelope. He also seems to enjoy target shooting, as he devotes some time to the archery club (albeit with a rifle and not a bow).
Love and Fightilogy (C-)
Archery Club (C+)
Book Club (D+)
Hockey Club (B+)
Wilderness Club (B+)
Relations
Nicholas Bell - Sean's cousin of roughly the same age, Nick is also a student at Amaranth. The two are surprisingly close to one another, and had a bit of a rivalry while growing up (much like Sean's father and Nick's mother once did). This rivalry does still persist to some extent, but Nick seems more eager to pursue it than Sean most of the time. Very much a contrast to Sean, Nick is athletic but thin and wiry - more acrobatic than Sean. His dark brown hair is usually a mess, his clothes are faded and often wrinkled, and his eyes a wild orange. He has inheirited rather potent pyrokinetic abilities from his mother, and he takes a lot of pride in his skills, many of which are self taught.
Penelope Lega - Sean's girlfriend, a pretty girl with thick blonde hair and wide blue eyes whom he met during the first few weeks of orientation. Penelope often comes off as a bit of an airhead, and thats probably because she sort of is one. Sean is rather obviously smitten with her, and joined the book club as an excuse to spend more time with her. Despite her tendency to ignore her surroundings, she is very talented in the realm of music, being a great singer and a decent harpsit. Unknown to both herself and Sean, Penelope is an unawakened Siren, a rarity amongst magical beings. Also, Nick doesn't seem to like her much at all.
Johanna Imirsdotter - A Jotun who is also Sean's roommate. The only thing they seem to share is a fondness for cold, and they were likely paired up to save on air conditioning costs. Sean seems to be very impatient towards her shenanigans at times, but he doesn't really hate her. He just hates some of the things she does.