Post by Symph on Jul 26, 2005 0:44:44 GMT -5
Ethan:
Name: Ethan Ardarel
Race: Salamander
Age: Unknown (Looks to be around 25-28)
Sign: Aries
Sex: Male
Eye Color: Light brown
Hair Color: Dark reddish brown
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 190 lbs.
Skin Tone: Dark tan
Nationality: Unknown (raised in Estinon)
Physical Description:
Ethan would be classified as a ‘pretty boy’ if he didn’t have a pissed-off look plastered on his face most of the time. He doesn’t smile very often and when he does it’s either an evil little half-smirk or a crazed grin that sends chills down your spine. His hair is a dark reddish brown color, but more red than brown and it reaches to just under his chin. He wears a black bandanna to keep it out of his eyes. His skin is a dark tan, the looks of someone who has spent their whole life soaking in the sun, and it’s flawless. Ethan fits into the bad guy cliché in that he almost always wears black, from head to toe. His shirt is made of a thick material and is sleeveless. His pants are of the same material and black and his boots are made of the finest leather available on the market. He dons a long, black cape that reaches his ankles as well. Although he’s not unique in his fashion, it’s obviously expensive stuff.
Notable Scars, Tattoos, Markings/Features:
Ethan has one simple gold hoop earring in each ear.
Skills:
Ethan is a salamander and as such has control over any kind of fire as well as the ability to create it on the spot. However, much like Symph, he is still a young elemental and has trouble controlling all of his abilities.
As a side job, Ethan occasionally works with Elashiel as an assistant to the blacksmith and is very familiar with the routines of this trade.
Specific Power(s):
Fireball: Your typical fireball. It erupts into even more flames once it comes in contact with something (the ground, a person, an innocent mosquito). He can control the size and strength of them. This is one of the only abilities Ethan truly has full control over and can’t botch up.
Infuse: Ethan can ‘infuse’ any object with fire. So for example, he can imbue his sword with fire and make it a flaming blade of death! ^.^ Again, this depends on his emotional status, because if he isn’t paying attention he could make the object blow up instead! He’s lost many a sword this way.
Fire Barrier: An ability that allows Ethan to engulf himself in flames and thus be untouchable. He can only maintain this with a high level of concentration but with someone like Elashiel around, keeping himself in focus is not an easy task to accomplish.
Summon: Ethan has the ability to try and summon another fire elemental to aid him. Sometimes the summoned elemental is ready and willing, sometimes…they’re not so happy to have been disturbed ^^
Weapon(s):
Ethan carries with him a very typical looking broad sword. This is the only item he carries around that doesn’t seem to be top of the line and insanely expensive. (This is because he occasionally blows them up and loses them ^^).
Special Equipment:
Ethan has a companion that follows him everywhere named Aruliel. Aruliel is a wuddleskull. Yes, a wuddleskull. Wuddleskulls are small creatures that look very much like oversized pugs or bulldogs that stand on their back two feet and over their head they wear a large skull helmet that is usually obtained during their coming of age rituals. They are wrinkly and have faces that look a little “smushed” in. Aruliel is black with a white patch over his right eye and white ‘socks’ on his feet. He’s male and about 3’ feet in height. Aruliel carries a large, wooden cudgel for a weapon. (For more on Wuddleskulls, see ‘The Wuddleskulls’ under ‘Demi-humans’)
Personality:
Ethan is a very determined young salamander with only one goal in mind and he’s not interested in altering that goal for anyone or anything. The closest he’s gotten to having a gentle, caring personality is when it comes to either Symph or Elashiel. He’s given to having random bouts of anger and temper tantrums and isn’t afraid of anything. He’s more likely to set something on fire, or try to, than run away. And his ego is on par with Elashiel’s. You won’t find any two people more overconfident and arrogant than those two!
History:
Warning: a little long, although it explains some of Symph’s past as well.
Ethan was an orphaned salamander, and why it was so he’s still trying to find out for himself. He doesn’t know if his real parents were killed, took off, or what happened. Thus, he was found by a woman named Quistu in the town of Estinon where he was abandoned. Quistu took him in and raised him lovingly, albeit a little uncertainly. It was hard for her to hold and care for a child that could randomly burst into flames….
Ethan grew up as an only child for many years and was spoiled beyond belief. Quistu showered him with toys and valuables more so than hugs and kisses (since she couldn’t ever really touch him because he couldn’t control his emotions and would always end up as a fireball in her arms ^^).
Then, one day, along came Symph. The sylph was a little younger than Ethan, lost and wandering around Estinon, crying and alone. Quistu also took in this orphaned little sylph (why not? She had one already and lived a rather boring life since her husband was a captain and always away at sea) and thus, Ethan met Symph.
They grew up together, extremely close, however Ethan mistakenly viewed Symph as another ‘gift’ from Quistu rather than a little sister or friend. This eventually led to jealousy and over protectiveness on Ethan’s part and he kept the sylph on a very short ‘leash’ against her will until many years later when Symph finally got the opportunity to run away and disappear. And disappear from Ethan’s life she did.
It’s been six years since Ethan last saw Symph and accidentally crossed paths with her in Illirion and he’s still hell-bent on finding her and reclaiming his ‘property.’ (In Ethan’s screwed up mind, he and Symph were soul mates and meant for each other and that was the reason Quistu ‘gave’ Symph to him. Not to mention his emotional baggage from having no parents and having to deal with randomly bursting into flames and not quite understanding why and not fitting in).
During his search for Symph and traveling the continent, Ethan met a woman named Chell who needed assistance with a couple of ‘projects.’ Needing money somehow, Ethan accepted her offers and eventually met his just-as-screwed-up partner…Elashiel!
Elashiel was a short, unstable man that was given to bouts of insanity and incoherent fits of anger… They got along just dandy-like. Eventually, when both Elashiel and Ethan started to consider getting out of the thieving business (primarily because Chell was a lunatic), something terrible happened to Elashiel and he wound up married to the crazy dragon woman.
Elashiel, fearing for his life, and Ethan, who had enough money and was more interested in getting back to tracking the sylph, ran away from Chell together and have been partners since.
They spend their time running from Chell, tracking Symph, hoping to discover the ‘hidden’ city of the sylphs and making things go BOOM and SMASH in the process!
Anything Else:
Elashiel: "I'm NOT OBSESSIVE! ... *eye twitch* .... Are you looking at me funny? ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME FUNNY?! I'M NOT CRAZY!!! HE IS! *points at Ethan* .... my mother didn't hug me as a child.... *sobs*"
Ethan: "At least I didn't marry a sadistic PSYCHO!!!" *Ethan points at Chell*
Elashiel: "She FORCED ME! Got me drunk even! My innocence... TAINTED by that wicked minion of temptation... *weeps*”
Ethan: "*pats Elashiel on the head* It'll be okay... we'll add her to the hit list... we do have a hit list, right?"
Elashiel: *pulls out kill bill-esque list* “Mmhmm... we’ve got... ‘Any Man Who’s Touched Symph’... we’ve got... ‘The Guy Who Stole Ethan’s Belt’ ... and... ‘Richard Simmons’...” *scribbles in chell*
Ethan: "The guy who stole my belt.... who stole my.... WHAT!?" *searches himself* "What the HELL is going on!?" *grabs list and underlines the guy who stole his belt several hundred times*