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Sylas Veirgo (The Errant Mind)

Roleplay: "The Outcasts"

Player: Atsumaru

Private,   Enabled,   Pending,   Owned


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Synopsis
Is it paranoia if there are really people out to get you? Sometimes, yes; yes it is. Intelligent and observant but prone to letting his passions get the best of him.


Description
At twenty Sylas has seemingly perpetual bags under his piercing brown eyes. His brown hair hangs raggedly, but isn't long enough to get in his eyes. He is below average height and weight, just topping 5'6'' and 130 pounds.


Personality
1.You are invited to a prestigious party.
Sylas would go to the party, arriving punctually at 7pm. Once he was there he would look for the least detestable party goers and try to blend in with polite small talk which would deflect the conversation away from himself whenever possible. 

2.A stranger is approaching you in an abandoned street.
Knowledge is Power, to know more is to have more power. Sylas would cross the street, and scan his surroundings to gauge the situation. If he senses little danger he would likely confront the stranger and ask his purpose, if there is a high degree of danger Sylas would escape and observe the situation from afar.
3.It looks like there is something strange over in that alley.
Obviously it calls for investigation, confident of his supernatural awareness he would not hesitate to enter the ally and uncover the mystery.


Equipment / Abilities
Awareness.
Awareness allowed Sylas to escape the Academy with his life when the overseers came for him. It allows him to see the minute facial features which people betray their inner thoughts with. It's not perfect, just like anyone he can be distracted, he can overlook small details in favor of larger ones, he is simply less likely to do so. This power is constantly active, but requires concentration to fully employ.

Bone Sword- very sharp, a relic of the past, utterly useless when the music boxes are employed.
Utility Knife- a short blade Sylas uses primarily for cooking.



History
Sylas is a gifted man, but more interested in knowledge than it's application. He is not an inventor, nor a genius, he got into the academy based on average scores and wealthy parentage. He spent most of his time researching history, biology, and technology, eschewing the more utilitarian studies like engineering, civics, and economics.

Sylas was first visited by the Outsider as he poured through tomes in the depths of The Academy's library. The overseers came to purge the Academy of heretics. Sylas was reading in the library at the time, the shelter of the library, of his refuge, proved insufficient. As the Music approached he felt his sweat go cold, and soon after, his heart. As pain blossomed in his chest he fled deeper into the winding, circuitous labyrinth. Through doors long forgotten, past relics of a bigone era, stopping only when he heard a faint song utterly unlike the song of the music boxes. He turned, sitting in a display box was a sword carved with runes. He smashed the glass with a nearby candelabra and took up the sword and it's scabbard. He saw death. He fled. Coming out beneath the old district of the nearby city which had grown around the Academy.

He spent many weeks making his way back to Dunwall, the city where he was born, but once he arrived he had no idea what to do, no where to go. He couldn't return to his parents, now that he bore the mark he would only bring danger to their household. At first he worked for coin, fixing and repairing the whale oil toys of the wealthy, but as the overseers tightened their grip on the city he was forced further and further away from society.

His parents are wealthy merchants, and his little sister has presumably followed in their footsteps.
His most valuable item is a picture of the girl he was betrothed to, before all this happened.
He had a few friends growing up, but because he was intelligent and condescending he was rarely close with anyone else.


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