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OOC_______________________________________________________________________________________
Alias/Name = Ben
Age = 25+
SN for this character = Will make one if accepted
Email (if different) = till then this email works zomb13killah@aol.com
Tell us a random/odd fact about yourself. = Getting married on Halloween. The theme, is the Muppets. I know you're all jealous.
Tell us about one of your favorite RP moments. = Playing my ADHD dj in a zombie storyline when in the middle of watching a girl light up a hord of zombies to walk around on fire waiting on them to burn out and die started chanting " The dead, the dead, the dead are on fire... we don't need no water let the mother fuckers burn "
Describe your thoughts of this SL in five words. = Read it in Mal's voice.
Would you prefer a writing prompt (for the char you're applying for) from SL Members and/or questions? =YES PLEASE
Did anyone recruit you?(What were they like?) = The room did. Ya'll are so niiiiice.
Recruiter SN = Mainly Rem and Tu but I'm sure if I rambled to everyone you'd all be just as nice... I hope.
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IC Info_______________________________________________________________________________________
Played By= Denzel Washington
Category= Freelancer
Name = Qayin de Vergès
Alias/Nicknames = Cain, Papa, Papa Cain, Papa Doc, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Voodoo Man, Mister Mystery, etc etc etc
Age = 52
Status = Founding Family
Height = 6'3"
Weight = 220
Eye Color = Grey
Hair Color = Black with touches of grey
General Demeanor/Personality = He's a straight shooter. If he doesn't like something he'll tell you and not think twice about it. Can be a touch grumpy and better not insult his food. Outside of his grumpy exterior, he's very much a kind hearted man. If he thinks someone is in trouble he will do what he can to help even if it means causing trouble to him. Faithful and loyal like no other. If you can get him to call you a friend, he'll be there for you till the last man stands and for Cain, that's a challenge.
Quirks =
*He can be a very quiet man, if not talking to himself.
*Some would say he's crazy because he seems to talk to people not there.
*Vices: Cigars and Rum
*More calm/relaxed/tranquil if and or around things of an Elemental nature: Oceans, fields of grass, fresh natural breeze or simply playing with fire.
*The reverse being, seems to be off his game or grumpier when not near the elements for extended periods.
*Tends to bring good luck to ships he works on. This tends to get smugglers to want him around.
*Eyes turn green when using his powers
*Has a thing for hats and spicy foods
*If he has to, he will use a gun. Otherwise he prefers anything else. Particularly, his machete.
Best Skills = Alternative Medicines ( vodou, shamanism, holistic etc ), cooking, sensing a lie, surviving the wild, ignoring pain, calculates his every move even if it doesn't seem like so, tracking, keeping his mouth shut
General Skills =Running, walking, traveling, rudimentary knowledge of most language one way or another (sometimes he can read but not speak it),
Reputation = All depends on who you ask. Spending most of his life traveling, meeting and learning new cultures he has come across many people in his life. Most people misunderstand the markings, the jewelry, and vodou itself. Do to this, while some will praise him for saving a loved one with his skills, many fear him. Thinking him evil and only doing curses, not cures. Even more select group of people know the truth about him as he for the most part is quiet and to himself. For those who can get him to bond, you'd never be able to look at him as evil again. Be it faithful, or lacking in that department there are many people who would simply say he's insane. Some even tell wild tales of him being raised by a pack of Savage Tooth's. If you tell Papa though he won't deny it he'll just say " Sav's? Day know travel in packs ya silly fool. Now be gone with ya."
Voudou SKills =
*He was not gifted to see spirits, but they do talk to him from time to time. Hence one of his Quirks.
*Able to create multiple spells/potions/curses/hexes and the like via chemicals and venoms extracted from plants and animals.
*Able to make good luck and bad luck charms via psychological delusions and or hallucinogens
*Enhanced Senses: With this comes weaknesses of course. Strong odors could stop in dead in his tracks, average light can be blinding and sonic noises most wouldn't hear could make him wish he were deaf.
*Poison Tolerance: This comes from many many years of drinking and or other wise being bit by venomous creatures, slowly building up a tolerance.
*note*The powers he has stem from drinking
Moon Juice. As each generation comes, the stronger the abilities per the previous generations drinking it and getting into the body. Passing on the gift as well as drinking the juice making it stronger. ( More on this on to be found in
Da'goh's details. )
Markings =
This marking means " Moon of Death ". This marking is on his left shoulder and people misunderstand it. With his vodou nature, they believe it is a bad symbol.
Lotek City make sacrifice to the moon for it brought Moon Fruit. The root of their powers. For them death is not bad, but what must be done. This symbol represents the shaman to look out for you after death. To guide your soul where it needs to go. Not a bad omen.
This is the shaman marking the
Noteka tribe gave Qayin. The snake is his spirit animal.
Common Weapons = "Shiny" = His handy dandy oh so sharp tool for everything. It dices, it slices, and it makes French fries and three different... you get the point. This trust bad boy is on him at all times unless forced otherwise. Not always so discreet about it either. Whether he's cppking or fighting for his life, trust he's using his machete.
"Boom Stick" = Precisely. It's a stick. It goes boom. Not often will you see him in need of this. Sometimes though. when you're walking tall you need to carry a big stick to keep the morons back. Or local wild life when traveling the multiple terrains of Da'goh. Or any place for that matter. Though he's more likely to pistol whip you with it, then shoot you with it. You call it a weapon. He calls it his "Skeleton Key".
Brief Bio (3 or more Paragraphs) =
Growing up in
Lotek City was interesting enough already. Even more so when you were kin to the most famous woman known to your town. Qayin de
Vergès, was a descendant of none other than
Mama Juci. By the time Qayin was born, she'd been long passed, but her teachings and traditions were passed down with family secrets from generation to generation. Raised on "
Moon Juice" , Qayin's mind was open to all forms of knowledge. While other children of Lotek went to school, played with toys, he'd play with things like, skulls, poisons, teeth and claws. That was no surprise though, not when he was expected to one day be the Hougan Asogwe ( High Priest) of Lotek. Qayin had a lot of pressure to be the best one the town ever had.
Training started early for young Qayin. He'd spend most of his days at home with his mother, being taught everything from rituals and prayers to making good luck charms and love potions. He'd assist in ceremonies his mother performed for the town, and practice drawing veve's (voudou symbols) like a child would practice witting their ABC's. Quized daily on the different Loa's (Spirits of vodou that serve as intermediaries between Bondye or "Bon Dieu" the good god ) and how to serve each of them correctly and with respect. His father however, was a traveling merchant on Da'goh. He would travel to the forests of the
Noteka Tribe, the islands to trade with people of the
Kama-Kama Village, or the market place at the
Da'goh Hotel and Tourism Center. Trading to them jewelry, strange finds of the swamps and whatever medicine, potion, and the like that Qayin and his mother made.
Qayin was a fan of traveling with his father when he went to sell their goods.
Traveling Da'goh can be both dangerous as well a wonderful and beautiful adventure. As a child, Qayin, was very friendly, outgoing and his mind looking to learn. It's no surprise that he founds kids to talk to and play with when they traveled. It started with the
Noteka tribe. Their forests, were not too far off from the swamps in which Qayin played in. He became close friends with a few boys, and would go hunting with them. Knowing how spiritual he was, and respectful he was by not ever bringing technology in
Noteka territory, they saw him as good luck. Looking out for them and blessing their hunts. At ten years old Umbo, the "
Crann",( the
Noteka's word for shaman). Learning from him, Qayin became even more rooted to his spiritual nature and it was now a quest to learn all he could of mind, spirit, soul and the like.
With this knowledge, the need to know more, to be more grew. He traveled to the
Polu Lani (Blue Heaven) Ocean, to learn from the shaman of the
Kama-Kama Village Island as well. Learning about the spirit of the ocean, the sun. It was different than what he knew. At home he made sacrifices, he paid the souls to talk to the Bondye for him. With the Noteka they begged forgiveness of the animals and the land when they took from them. With the
Kama-Kama, he felt tranquil. Worshiping the sun, the ocean, absorbing warmth of the sun and life of water to grow and be what they were suppose to. It was all very contradicting and yet still all the same thing to him. Enhancing his own soul.
Qayin decided he wanted off of Da'goh. He needed to leave the moon of Javos and travel. See the other moons and planets of this galaxy. Learn more of what was out there while also using his skills to help heal people as well guiding lost souls looking for a path. With years of trading with his father at the Da'goh Hotel and Tourism Center, he saw all sorts of people come and go from his moon going back to where ever they came from. Always looked down on him. Nothing but a stupid swamp rat in their eyes. It was time to change that. Going to the tourism center's library, he'd read any and every book he could. Encyclopedia's, Language books, tourism books of other places. Anything that would teach him more.
After his twenty first birthday and having worked his but off every way possible for the last few years, he was able to give his parents a bit of money as well as hitch a ride to Javos. He traveled all over Javos, helping people with farming and harvesting where needed. He'd dish wash and eventually even do cooking for some restaurants. He didn't need money too much. Mostly lived off the land while traveling town to town. Every so often people took note of the markings on his arms. Which lead people to either fear him, or come to him for aide. Hoping he could ward off evil or heal them or their friends and family when no other doctors could. This would lead to working side by side with doctors in some occasions, learning a lot about common medicine as he watched other doctors work.
Near about his mid thirties, one man saw his skills in alternative methods and offered to take him to the Midway Station. Here the doctor brought him to the Underside of the Midway Station in hopes he could help heal fighters in the pits as quickly as possible. Anyway possible. He decided to do such only because in his eyes, those fighters needed him. Back on Javos, he was known as Papa Cain. Qayin being a form of Cain. When he joined medical staff of the fights, he never gave his name but some who knew him still called him Papa. Leading to the nickname " Papa Doc " by the fighters. For a few years he took care of the bruised and battered that came out of the fights. Eventually he grew tired of the Underside. It was time to move again and find new cultures to observe and learn from.
For the last ten years, Papa has joined any ship that needed him. Doctor, cook or even a botanist or all of the above. Hopping crew after crew looking and trying to find himself just the right crew to call family in which he'd be able to travel every planet and moon in the At-Verse, looking to help and heal all that are in his need.
Lingo:
Green: Good " I'm feelin' Green" . Steaming from Earth or Healthy Plant/Vegetation being bright green
Gris-gris (gree-gree): “X” marks the spot, hit the nail on the nose, etc.
Gumbo ya-ya or ya-ya: “Everybody talking at once.”
Invisibles: Spirits. Also called he "Unseen Ones" or "Annoying Ones"
Kama-Kazi: Crazy, wild, adrenaline junkie. " Who you think you are comin' in her and messing with my stuff. Must be a
Kama-Kazi. Some of dis stuff bite, ya know? "
Yat: Shot hand form of “Where y’at?”
Family Tree
*1st Gen =
- Juci de Vergès ( Mama Juci ) (Widow)
2nd Gen ( open )=
3rd Gen ( open ) =
4th Gen =
- Qayin de Vergès - ( While not in the history, I am open to siblings )