Kovacs
the maestro of mad shit.
β DOSSIER.
NAME
Elijah Meldrake
AGE
17 years old
β PERSONA (BLURBS).
VIRTUES
- life of the party
- a bit of an eccentric
- idealistic
- emanates a sort of childlike zest for life
- detail-oriented, mischievious
- highly expressive and innovative, individualistic
- charming and endearing
- driven, introspective, a bit of a romantic (suffers from cases of puppy love)
- a daydreamer, visionary, goal-oriented
- someone one can easily talk to, confide in
VICES
- ever-shifting states of identity
- two-faced
- if he ignores his problems long enough, they will go away
- restless
- competitive, tendency towards jealousy
- insecure about his achievements or current state of self (things could always be better type of mentality.
- a bit of a moodswinger - tendency towards melancholic, tempestuous, withdrawn attitude
- idealistic to a fault
- comes across as more naive than he actually is (manipulative streak)
- painfully self aware of his issues, but his escapist nature makes it hard to deal with them/consequences
ASPIRATIONS/FEARS
- very claustrophobic
- wants to leave his mark on the world, fulfill an idealized version of himself, fueled by the ever heroic image of his deceased superhero father
- fears that he cannot fill his father's shoes, or ever outgrow his shadow
- secret fear/denial of the fact that there is a terrible, dark side to the superhero dream/the amazing superhero figure his father supposedly was. Feels as if that's all he has left of his dad, doesn't want that image of him sullied
β POWER (BLURBS).
"ANGEL" PHYSIOLOGY
- father had the power to ingest metal (mostly titanium) and have metallic "limbs"/blades grow out of his body at will, develop his own metallic skin of armour, while mother had the ability to produce venom from her fingertips, tears, blood, saliva, etc;.
=
- born with "feathered" wings, made up of extremely hardened keratin (a sort of biological alloy hybrid equivalent of titanium).
- tips of the feathers are the central points of toxicity. Eli has the ability to shoot them out (like a porcupine does with it's needles).
STRENGTHS:
- gives him the ability of flight
- his feathers regrow
- good PR (golden hair, blue eyes, heavenly wings type of beat)
- with good training, Eli has been able to hone his wings' natural flexibility, rapid aerodynamics and his own agility to create a solid "dance" of a fighting routine
- he has the ability to more or less control the toxic concentration of his feathers
WEAKNESSES:
- naturally, like many of his fellow classmates, Eli does not have full mastery of his powers. What does this mean?
- well first of all, it means that just because he can shoot out dagger-sharp feathers doesn't mean he necessarily has the precision or aim to do so just yet. thankfully, he's outgrown the "oh snap, I feel a big sneeze coming - oh shit woops there go all the feathers" phase a long while ago, and has sufficient control over his porcupine ability
- just like a sword needs its whetstone, Eli's steel-keratin feathers need lots of good food to keep up their ultra metahuman durability and sharpness. This means that Eli has one hell of an appetite, and his diet regularly consists of foods rich in promoting the production of keratin (eggs, salmon, beef lover, carrots, onion, dark greens, nuts, etc). If Eli does not take care of his diet, his wings will suffer along with the rest of his body - decreased ability across all abilities relating to his wings
β BACKGROUND (BLURBS).
Elijah was an easy, delightful baby leading an easy, delightful life. With the fresh country wind in his golden locks and the taste of homegrown apples on his lips, the first portion of his young life was spent within the confines a sweeping country estate, isolated from the rest of the world. His education came in the form of an endless stream of tutors, while his upbringing was left in the hands of a small entourage of nannies and maids. When his mother, Isla Meldrake, was well enough, they would take walks across the endless acres, laughing at his mother's dry humoured jokes and marveling at how much higher and faster he could fly that day.
It was a charmed life, one that one could only see captured in paintings. Yet in this one, one crucial element seemed to be missing: Malcolm Meldrake.
His wife knew him as Mal, the handsome, steely-eyed rookie she had fallen in love with as a young, silly girl. Elijah knew him as the awe-inspiring yet distant figure who would appear at home for a few weeks every season, before being whisked off again to rejoin the rest of the world, where he was known as the Iron Titan, or as the media dubbed him, the real life Man of Steel.
But with enough pressure, even metal can bend and break. The news of his sudden death spread far and wide, but when it hit home, it hit hard. With the death of one their top agents, the government came, like the grim reaper, to reap everything else that his contract had assured and provided.
Of course, not everything needed to be so heartless; a deal could be made, they said. A comfortable life for widow and child, they said, but all Isla could see was a replay of the life she'd led so far; under the government's control yet again, like marionettes to someone else's play. Worst of all, she could see the vultures circling for her son, whom they saw as the natural heir to the Iron Titan's legacy. She refused it all, and despite her ailing health, resolved to carve out a more independent, normal life and steer her son clear of the mistaken path her husband went down on.
And so, the charmed life Elijah knew faded away, as insubstantial as the shimmering heat haze. He celebrated his eighth birthday in a small, 500 sq foot apartment that his mother managed to snag with her savings. Life had shrunk, that was for sure and certain, but it wasn't all bad. He and his mother grew close in a way they never did before, and Elijah was excited to join a real school that following September. But Isla's health came knocking, demanding her strength, attention, and ability to provide. Countless hospital visits and payments for medication that were no longer covered by the government ate up her savings like a wolf on the hunt. Discrimination against meta-humans and her health impeded her from maintaining any semblance of a job, and worst of all, Elijah was going hungry nights at a time and the shadow of the vultures were never too far away.
Finally, Isla too, broke down. Perhaps she had overestimated her health, or underestimated the harsh reality of attempting to start new lives. Maybe it was the eviction from their small apartment, or the hardness of the sleeping mats in their new home; crowded, under-funded, dilapidated shelter for meta-women and their children, where the strongest tormented the weak, and Elijah suffered the worst of it.
Isla was judged unfit, and sent away to a facility better equipped to handle her condition. Elijah, on the other hand, was sent away to fulfill what was his natural birthright; spending the rest of his childhood in the same place his father once trained in to become the renowned, modern-day Man of Steel: Vochertrepp.
ELIJAH MELDRAKEhaven't I fallen for enough?code by low fidelity.
cablebelly
Just a heads-up that I've finished writing up elijah's backstory, and therefore the entire skeleton cs!