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Name: Shade
Age: 27
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Name: Leo Flynn
Age: ??? It's not stated how old he was when he was created. He appears to be in his twenties.
Series Monsters of Verity series
Canon Point: After his brother kills him
Personality:
Leo, first and foremost, got his personality shaped by his creation. Sunai get imprinted with the chaos that shapes them. Leo was formed from religion badly warped, so his personality is extremely righteous. He sees the act of feeding on sinners to be something good, purging the world of one bad soul at a time. Unlike his siblings August, who yearns to be human, and Ilsa who is much more passive in her acceptance, Leo knows that first and foremost that he's a monster. He knows he's never going to be human and accepts that. It's one of the reasons he goes dark so often, for the act burns out the bits of Sunai that are human each time they do so.
Of course, Leo is also something of a hypocrite. He might act high and mighty, but at his core, he's a brute. He enjoys torturing people enough that his enemy Harker has an entire file on his computer dedicated just to video of Leo torturing people to death instead of letting them go in the much easier route of listening to his song. Though it's not shown, he tries to claw the Malchai monster Sloan's heart out of his chest during their fight instead of just ramming a spike through him as most Malchai are dispatched.
Surprisingly, for a brutal monster, Leo does seem to care about people in his life. He considers Ilsa and August his siblings, and while he may have a skewed idea on how best to help them, he does seem to try to get them to make peace with the fact they're monsters. He's shown arguing with the Flynns several times in what he sees as August's best interest. While he does ultimately betray them, he also remains loyal to Henry Flynn and his wife for many years, choosing to side with them over Harker when the city gets divided in two.
There's also a suggestion in the book that there is a softer side to the monster he is. The first is seen caring for his family. The second is in how he creates music. Leo can use any instrument in contrast to his brother and sister. This is because they imprint on the first piece of music they find, something so beautiful that it colors their perception of reality from then on after. The fact Leo can do this with any instrument, August speculates, means that Leo finds beauty in everything. He seems to find this a hard concept considering how brutal Leo usually is, but there is some truth. Leo sees purging the world of sinners as leaving it a better place each time he does so.
Please describe your character's sins and how they influence them:
Murder: Leo has been responsible for a lot of death in his life. Regardless of the intent he has, when he feeds, it inevitably ends with the death of the victim. He's shown to have no remorse for these acts, instead seeing it as a righteous duty.
Sadist: Leo is at heart a sadist. He enjoys torturing people to death and making them hurt instead of giving them the much easier way of death by listening to his song. This is something he greatly enjoys and deliberately seeks out.
Hypocrite: Despite his high and mighty claims, Leo is also a hypocrite. While he may look down on humanity for their failings and sins, he's not a whole lot better. He's brutal and uncaring about human beings, and as pointed above, loves to hurt them despite having the ability to give them much easier deaths. He claims he wants humanity to do better, but instead, is willing to reignite a war that will end with many more deaths.
Abilities:
(Apologies for how lengthy this got! This canon has a lot of rules and no wiki.)
Sunai monsters have the siren-like ability to entrance people with a song. As long as someone has a set of working ears and a soul, from the first note, they are entranced by the Sunai's song. They fall into a calm and blissful state, not even knowing their own name, though they will compulsively tell all the sins on their soul. This allows the Sunai to feed on their soul, an act which causes the victim to glow red, and that glow to be drawn out and sucked into the Sunai once they touch them, leaving the victim dead and with their eyes burnt out of their skull. Leo in particular can do this with any musical instrument he can get his hands on. He also discovered through trial and error that he can do it as well by torturing someone close to death. The only people they can feed upon are sinners. Those that have killed, raped, tortured, or otherwise done unspeakable acts to their fellow man. They're marked as a Sunai can see their shadow differently than a normal human being, which rises up and writhes unnaturally behind them. They cannot feed upon Corsai or Malchai monsters and doing so makes a Sunai violently ill. They also can eat human food, but it tastes like air and ash to them, providing no substance
Sunai are nearly invincible while in human form. Blades can't stab them and bullets can't pierce their skin. The most injury Leo ever receives is a small scar through his eyebrow from an altercation with Sloan, who is a powerful Malchai monster. However, if they haven't fed recently, they can receive injuries and suffer pain, though they will never die. Leo in particular is also shown to be stronger than a normal human being, nearly clawing Sloan's heart out of his chest on one occasion, and slamming an iron bar straight through him on another.
Sunai, like the other two types of monsters, can never tell a direct lie. They can, however, tell a version of the truth, or one they believe is true, to get around this limitation. On the flip side, Sunai provoke people around them to tell the truth, an unconscious thing that happens no matter where they go. It's a bit of a compulsion for the people around them to start telling things they normally don't tell other people, usually the worst things they've got on their conscience at the moment. While it is unconsciously done, it can be focused on a group or individual if a Sunai is in an intense emotional state.
Every day a Sunai doesn't go dark, their skin gains a mark burnt into their skin which resembles a tattoo. For Leo, this is a small black cross that starts on his left arm. If left long enough, they will go across his chest and back, then down his right arm. Usually, because of the frequency he goes dark, Leo only has them on his left arm. They also have a peculiar trait in that they can't be photographed correctly. Their eyes show up as two completely dark black smudgy spots instead of looking normal, one of the few ways to tell they're not human.
"Going dark" for a Sunai means starving themselves, going without feeding on a human soul for days on end. At first, this results in emotional changes. A Sunai goes through four stages: anger, madness, joy, and sorrow, experiencing each one acutely in turn. After this, their skin begins to heat up, first just at the temperature of a fever, but soon reaching temperatures hot enough to burn straight through human skin. Their marks start to light up, burning right through their clothes. Cold water can cool them down temporarily, though it does produce steam where it hits their skin. If a Sunai still refuses or is unable to feed, they finally go dark.
In going dark, they assume their true form, a demonic like creature made of smoke and fire. They have horns, wings, a tail, and their eyes and heart burn. In this form, they will kill indiscriminately without discerning between sinners and innocents until their hunger is satisfied. While they are the most powerful in this form, they are also the most vulnerable. They can be injured and even killed. Ilsa has her throat slit while in her form and barely survives. Funnily enough, Leo is actually shown to be the weakest of the Sunai, compared to a torch in the way he burns, as opposed to his sister who burns like a wildfire, and August, whose true power isn't measured, but is shown to be enough to easily overpower and kill his brother.
Ideas:
I'd like to see Leo grow a little bit emotionally and learn to take responsibility for his actions. He's always justified his sins to himself as being what's necessary, but he's done far worse than any of the sinners that he's fed upon.
Sample:
Breaking out an angel.
Name: Shade
Age: 27
Contact:
Current Characters: N/A
IC
Name: Leo Flynn
Age: ??? It's not stated how old he was when he was created. He appears to be in his twenties.
Series Monsters of Verity series
Canon Point: After his brother kills him
Personality:
Leo, first and foremost, got his personality shaped by his creation. Sunai get imprinted with the chaos that shapes them. Leo was formed from religion badly warped, so his personality is extremely righteous. He sees the act of feeding on sinners to be something good, purging the world of one bad soul at a time. Unlike his siblings August, who yearns to be human, and Ilsa who is much more passive in her acceptance, Leo knows that first and foremost that he's a monster. He knows he's never going to be human and accepts that. It's one of the reasons he goes dark so often, for the act burns out the bits of Sunai that are human each time they do so.
Of course, Leo is also something of a hypocrite. He might act high and mighty, but at his core, he's a brute. He enjoys torturing people enough that his enemy Harker has an entire file on his computer dedicated just to video of Leo torturing people to death instead of letting them go in the much easier route of listening to his song. Though it's not shown, he tries to claw the Malchai monster Sloan's heart out of his chest during their fight instead of just ramming a spike through him as most Malchai are dispatched.
Surprisingly, for a brutal monster, Leo does seem to care about people in his life. He considers Ilsa and August his siblings, and while he may have a skewed idea on how best to help them, he does seem to try to get them to make peace with the fact they're monsters. He's shown arguing with the Flynns several times in what he sees as August's best interest. While he does ultimately betray them, he also remains loyal to Henry Flynn and his wife for many years, choosing to side with them over Harker when the city gets divided in two.
There's also a suggestion in the book that there is a softer side to the monster he is. The first is seen caring for his family. The second is in how he creates music. Leo can use any instrument in contrast to his brother and sister. This is because they imprint on the first piece of music they find, something so beautiful that it colors their perception of reality from then on after. The fact Leo can do this with any instrument, August speculates, means that Leo finds beauty in everything. He seems to find this a hard concept considering how brutal Leo usually is, but there is some truth. Leo sees purging the world of sinners as leaving it a better place each time he does so.
Please describe your character's sins and how they influence them:
Murder: Leo has been responsible for a lot of death in his life. Regardless of the intent he has, when he feeds, it inevitably ends with the death of the victim. He's shown to have no remorse for these acts, instead seeing it as a righteous duty.
Sadist: Leo is at heart a sadist. He enjoys torturing people to death and making them hurt instead of giving them the much easier way of death by listening to his song. This is something he greatly enjoys and deliberately seeks out.
Hypocrite: Despite his high and mighty claims, Leo is also a hypocrite. While he may look down on humanity for their failings and sins, he's not a whole lot better. He's brutal and uncaring about human beings, and as pointed above, loves to hurt them despite having the ability to give them much easier deaths. He claims he wants humanity to do better, but instead, is willing to reignite a war that will end with many more deaths.
Abilities:
(Apologies for how lengthy this got! This canon has a lot of rules and no wiki.)
Sunai monsters have the siren-like ability to entrance people with a song. As long as someone has a set of working ears and a soul, from the first note, they are entranced by the Sunai's song. They fall into a calm and blissful state, not even knowing their own name, though they will compulsively tell all the sins on their soul. This allows the Sunai to feed on their soul, an act which causes the victim to glow red, and that glow to be drawn out and sucked into the Sunai once they touch them, leaving the victim dead and with their eyes burnt out of their skull. Leo in particular can do this with any musical instrument he can get his hands on. He also discovered through trial and error that he can do it as well by torturing someone close to death. The only people they can feed upon are sinners. Those that have killed, raped, tortured, or otherwise done unspeakable acts to their fellow man. They're marked as a Sunai can see their shadow differently than a normal human being, which rises up and writhes unnaturally behind them. They cannot feed upon Corsai or Malchai monsters and doing so makes a Sunai violently ill. They also can eat human food, but it tastes like air and ash to them, providing no substance
Sunai are nearly invincible while in human form. Blades can't stab them and bullets can't pierce their skin. The most injury Leo ever receives is a small scar through his eyebrow from an altercation with Sloan, who is a powerful Malchai monster. However, if they haven't fed recently, they can receive injuries and suffer pain, though they will never die. Leo in particular is also shown to be stronger than a normal human being, nearly clawing Sloan's heart out of his chest on one occasion, and slamming an iron bar straight through him on another.
Sunai, like the other two types of monsters, can never tell a direct lie. They can, however, tell a version of the truth, or one they believe is true, to get around this limitation. On the flip side, Sunai provoke people around them to tell the truth, an unconscious thing that happens no matter where they go. It's a bit of a compulsion for the people around them to start telling things they normally don't tell other people, usually the worst things they've got on their conscience at the moment. While it is unconsciously done, it can be focused on a group or individual if a Sunai is in an intense emotional state.
Every day a Sunai doesn't go dark, their skin gains a mark burnt into their skin which resembles a tattoo. For Leo, this is a small black cross that starts on his left arm. If left long enough, they will go across his chest and back, then down his right arm. Usually, because of the frequency he goes dark, Leo only has them on his left arm. They also have a peculiar trait in that they can't be photographed correctly. Their eyes show up as two completely dark black smudgy spots instead of looking normal, one of the few ways to tell they're not human.
"Going dark" for a Sunai means starving themselves, going without feeding on a human soul for days on end. At first, this results in emotional changes. A Sunai goes through four stages: anger, madness, joy, and sorrow, experiencing each one acutely in turn. After this, their skin begins to heat up, first just at the temperature of a fever, but soon reaching temperatures hot enough to burn straight through human skin. Their marks start to light up, burning right through their clothes. Cold water can cool them down temporarily, though it does produce steam where it hits their skin. If a Sunai still refuses or is unable to feed, they finally go dark.
In going dark, they assume their true form, a demonic like creature made of smoke and fire. They have horns, wings, a tail, and their eyes and heart burn. In this form, they will kill indiscriminately without discerning between sinners and innocents until their hunger is satisfied. While they are the most powerful in this form, they are also the most vulnerable. They can be injured and even killed. Ilsa has her throat slit while in her form and barely survives. Funnily enough, Leo is actually shown to be the weakest of the Sunai, compared to a torch in the way he burns, as opposed to his sister who burns like a wildfire, and August, whose true power isn't measured, but is shown to be enough to easily overpower and kill his brother.
Ideas:
I'd like to see Leo grow a little bit emotionally and learn to take responsibility for his actions. He's always justified his sins to himself as being what's necessary, but he's done far worse than any of the sinners that he's fed upon.
Sample:
Breaking out an angel.
