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Name: Simon
Age: About or around seven years old
Race: Fallen Angel

Physical Descripton: He looks like your average little boy, except for the pair of white wings on his back. He has intense green eyes and longish red hair. He's actually kind of small for his age, but his cold personality makes him seem a lot older than he really is. He wears a torn gray t-shirt and a pair of black shorts with large pockets on the sides. He also wears a pair of tattered sneakers, plagued with sundry holes and tears These are ill-fitting, as they were really all he could find, but this doesn't slow him down at all. He has no distinguishing scars, but he does have a tattoo of a pair of crossed swords surrounded by a circle of holly branches on his right palm. This familiar symbol has no meaning to him as of yet. He always appears dirty, because of how and where he lives, but again, this seems of little importance to him.

Personality Description: Simon doesn't like people. He makes it plain as day, and makes no attempt to get to know them. He doesn't talk much, but when he does, it's usually to utter some sort of death threat. The only person who can get a kind word out of him would be his companion Taryn. He cares very much for her, and would happily kill for her if he thought she was in danger. Even if she wasn't in danger, he'd probably kill for her. He acts like a big brother, but it is clear that the two are not related. He can be very protective of her, and he has a hard time saying "no" to her. To everyone else he is cold and uncaring, often turning violent at the slightest of remarks, and showing no fear in the face of authority. His is very slow to trust, and will only do so against his will.

History: It would appear that Simon was born and then immediately discarded. His birth corresponds nearly perfectly with the death of the Fallen Angel known as Theonidas Kage, though he knows nothing of the Crossed Swords or the Reaper. He doesn't know his parents, and he doesn't particularly care. He only cares about Taryn, whom has been at his side for as long as he can remember. The two of them are street rats, living on stolen food and the money they've managed to pick-pocket from unsuspecting people in the Market.

Simon may sport the Crossed Sword emblem, but he's not an experiment, nor does he have any sort of past with them. Over the last few years, he's heard whispers about a man named Tank and another named Theonidas, but he always assumed that these two people (if they really were two separate people) had little to nothing to do with him. The only thing he knows about them is that he doesn't particularly like them. Ever since he racked the foundation of Dark Haven all those years ago, people have been suspicious of Simon, and he doesn't understand why. He's glad to say that most people leave him be, even fear him, but every once in a blue moon, he'll be at the receiving end of a verbal onslaught involving him being called a Devil's Reincarnation, or a Demon Angel. This bewilders him.

Occupation: None.

Abilities: The healing ability that is so well known amongst the survivors of the Crossed Swords Base fiasco is the only thing that has manifested in this tiny fallen angel. He has not shown anything further.


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Name: Taryn
Age: Six
Race: Apparently human

Physical Description: Taryn is very small, looking to be about three or four rather than her six years. She has blue eyes and golden hair -- which cascades down her back to about her waist. She wears an over-sized sweatshirt and a pair of old cargo shorts, which she is constantly pulling up, as they tend to slip down. She sports a number of different cuts and bruises, mostly due to living on the streets, but these have all been carefully tended to with makeshift bandages and tape. They all heal without a scar, which seems strange, but she knows nothing different. With her, she carries a small glass flask, the contents of which have never been revealed, and it is apparent that no even she knows what lies within it.

Personality Description: Taryn is very timid, often brought to tears, and easily frightened. She relies very heavily on Simon, who serves as her protector. The two of them share a very deep relationship, and even if she doesn't agree with some of his methods, she will never leave him. His bouts of violence and harsh words never phase her, because she knows that even if he lashes out at her, he doesn't mean it. She always accepts his apologies. While he has never physically harmed her, he has broken and yelled at her, cursing her, and abandoning her for hours at a time. He always comes back. She does not like fighting, and has never said a bad word to or about anyone in her entire short life.

History: Much like Simon, she was born and then cast aside. She has been living on the streets for her entire existence, and Simon has always been with her. She trusts people easily, and is easily likable. There have been many times when people have stopped to try to help her, knowing that she lives in misfortune, but upon realizing who she hangs around with, these notions are always abandoned. She doesn't mind though, because she knows that having no home with Simon would be better than having a home without it. She has always been intensely loyal to him. She knows nothing of her past other than living in Dark Haven, and there's not much to tell. She has no recollection of any lives that she may have lived before the one she is currently in, and has never sought to look into the past.

Abilities: She is an accelerator, though she does not know this.


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Name: Corbin
Age: Looks to be in his early twenties
Race: Modified Human

Physical Description: Corbin looks, for all accounts and purposes, fairly normal. He's got bright blue eyes (quit unlike the cold stare Athos has) and a mess of brown hair that's always obscuring his vision. Sometimes he'll comb it back, but it never stays. He's a lithe looking kid, but he's got SOME meat on his bones. Looks like a runner. Around Corbin's left eye is a sort of ... well, he calls it a birthmark when people ask. He usually wears an airy white shirt with some sort of open vest and jeans. And tennis shoes. On the palm of his right hand, he's got the insignia of the Crossed Swords. Oh yeah, and his feet from the knees down are metal. Like, fake limbs. Which are really cool. See the abilities for the full of it. <3

Personality Description: Corbin can be... A jerk. He might look young, but he's smart. Brilliant, even. So he's used to getting his own way, whether by asking, or when that doesn't work, coercing, or manipulating, or even by sheer force of will. he really thinks he's all that and a bag of chips, and often times... He really lives up to that. He's hard to control and has a big 'ol ego on him... Corbin's a great actor, and can back what he says. Though, he does like making jokes and having fun - he's always the life of the party. Corbin's the sort of guy who everyone can laugh with, etc. but would never get close to him. He's worked it out that way.

History: He was one of the few experiments that had been gathered after the breakout. After killing the Reaper, a reclaim campaign had gone out from the remaining members of the Base and Corbin was one of the few who'd been gathered by request instead of force. He'd always been willing for the experiments. So, it was inevitable that he rose up in the ranks fairly quickly, and was soon sent to Dark Haven to... Keep an eye on things, so to speak.

Occupation: He owns a small shop in Dark Haven, a sort of mechanics shop. He sells trinkets here or there, but makes most of his living by fixing things.

Abilities: On top of his being rather bright, he's also got integrated in him some pretty cool stuff. Through the experiments, he's become a sort of bio-tech wonder. Integrated fully into his systems are a series of very advanced robotics. He's able to use his natural energy to power it, and the robotics augment his own natural power. Circular system. He, therefore, has improved strength, stamina, speed... And, when the going really gets tough, stored inside his bones is a liquid metal that's cybernetically linked to his BRAINZ. This he can call upon to actually coat his body and serve as a sort of extra armor. Also, he's got like jets in his feet SO HE CAN FLY LAWLAWLAWLAWL. Lol.

Name: Athos Reiken
Age: Unknown
Race: Unknown - might have once been human. Considered by most to be some sort of demon.

Physical Description: Athos, at first glance, doesn't look like an intimidating man. He's not bulky or tall. He's average height and build. At any given time or place, one would, without a doubt, find him in an immaculately pressed and cleaned suit. The suit itself varies, though he's partial to pinstripe with solid colored shirt and tie. His shoes are always perfectly shined. He has an angular face and bright, vibrant blue eyes. When those eyes lock onto one's own gaze, they can't help but give a shiver. He rarely smiles, and normally wears a complete lack of emotion on his face. He's rather hard to read. When he DOES smile though, watch out. It's scary. Like the others from the Base, he has a tattoo on this right palm of the crossed swords surrounded by the holly branches. On his person, he usually carries a pistol with some extra ammo (hidden in his suit jacket), and sometimes a very large sword strapped to his back.

Personality Description: Athos is cold, cruel, and uncaring. The man finds no reason to worry about the well-being of others, unless it serves his own purposes. He's driven more by logic than heart (if he has one, that is), and lacks compassion in the least. He's never considered anyone he's met a friend (While Theonidas might have been the closest he'd ever come to that), though in the more recent times, after Theonidas' death, he's been tricked into showing a little more emotion.

But don't let that fool anyone. He's as cold and cruel as he ever was - if not more so, being that his very very big plans had been very very much ruined - very much due to his own actions. That doesn't sit well for the man. Not at all.

Of course, when he starts losing control of a situation, a few things start to show. He's very obsessive compulsive about certain things (cleanliness being one of them), and has before developed a bit of a twitch at the corner of his eye or mouth as a reaction to his losing his hold on things.

Oh yeah, he loves the rain, but not the cold.

History: Much like Theonidas and Amadeus, Athos' first memories are of being imprisoned at the Crossed Swords base as an experiment. He was cold and calculating from the moment he'd arrived there, which was disturbing for some of the doctors and scientists that were keeping an eye on him. It wasn't long before the four-year-old boy met Theonidas, and not much longer until he broke out of a more secure containment to help spark the coup that left the Base full of corpses.

Along with Theonidas and Amadeus, Athos travelled to various places, doing whatever the heck they wanted to do. For like, a century or two. It wasn't too too long before they went back to the base (where Athos was sure everything had been VERY WELL cleaned) and started things up again.

A lot happened - they'd put together a lot of experiments, had a lot of progress... And then Amadeus up and 'killed' his 'brother.' That didn't sit well for the second in command. Athos immediately went on a search to find both Theonidas, knowing he couldn't have really been killed, and Amadeus, in order to bring down a very severe punishment for doing such a thing.

He did indeed find Theonidas and subsequently Amadeus, but not before most of the experiments on the base had escaped, his operations had been attacked by men owned by a man named McKrea, and his plans torn out from under him. And then, after finally finding the Reaper - it turned out that he had to be killed. Reluctantly, Athos helped, if not on the simple fact that if he wasn't stopped, his plans would have been permanently ruined. Through all of this, he also met Nolah and found out that he, along with four others from the base, had inadvertently sired her child - the one person who was able to defeat the Reaper.

That done, many of them parted ways, and Athos remained at the Base to yet again clean things up and start anew. It wasn't too long before he'd spotted a very promising child living in Dark Haven...

Occupation: Head of the Crossed Swords base - and all that entails.

Abilities: Athos has an uncanny ability to control various energies. He's able to utilize both his internal energy and that from his surroundings and manipulate that as he sees fit. He also has an extremely advanced healing ability that he can bring forth in himself, as well as others. This is probably what explains his extremely long life and lack of any evidence of injury. He can use this ability to expend the life of others, should he so choose. He's also an incredible shot with a handgun, and is well-trained in sword fighting of various styles. He's excellent in hand-to-hand combat, though that's augmented by his energy manipulation abilities. If he didn't use them, he's only as strong as a normal man.