Lumaria, The Deceiver, XI of the Dark XII

[sumdood]

Character Name: Lumaria, XI of the Dark XII

Nickname (Optional): N/A

Organization XIII or Dark XII Nickname (Optional): The Deceiver

Age: unknown, appears to be around 34

Gender: Male

Species: Heartless

Society Position: Dark XII

Organization XIII or Dark XII Position: XI

Powers: Lumaria is somewhat unique, as he is able to see and manipulate soundwaves. This is a useful ability for him, since he is deaf and dumb(can't speak). By manipulating sound, he can do lots of things, such as create powerful sound shockwaves to knock enemies back, or make a focused blast of sound to send a single enemy or small group of enemies flying, or he can create an extremely high pitched sound that will, essentially, paralyze his enemies and rob them of their hearing for a while. These sound attacks are all concussive in nature and aren't lethal on their own.

Lumaria is also capable of shapeshifting, although it is extremely limited. He is only able to shapeshift into other people, and even then only those he's seen. He can see them in a picture, or in real life. It doesn't matter where, or how, he's seen them, so long as he's seen them. Once he's seen what they look like, he can shape change to that person from then on. It is important to note that he cannot copy the person's powers/abilities, OR their weapons. It is their appearance ONLY.

Lumaria keeps a tree native to the Caribbean, known as the Manchineel Tree, in a kind of balcony just outside his sleeping quarters in the castle on The World that Never Was. The fruit of this tree is extremely poisonous, on its own causing difficulty in swallowing, talking, and breathing. He uses an extract of this fruit in poisons he sometimes uses against his enemies in small pellets that spray it out in a mist.

Also, like other members of the Dark XII, he can control darkness to a minor extent(very weak attacks that would really only be useful as distractions and dont do any damage, along with portals of darkness, etc), and can control Heartless. The Heartless he commands is the Angel Star.

Weapon(s): Lumaria’s only weapons are pellets containing poisons made with extract of the Manchineel Tree's fruit, which spray the poison out in a fine mist. The poisons generally all cause difficulty in swallowing, talking, and breathing due to the extract of the fruit, along with other effects from other ingredients he adds. The effects also very in intensity.

He also carries with him a small set of knives that he keeps coated in the poison from the machineel tree. Their handles are shaped like the Heartless emblem, and their blades a made of black steel.

Picture (Optional): None

Appearance: Lumaria stands at about 5'11", with long brown hair tied back into a ponytail. He has yellow eyes that seem to glow, and they seem to brighten whenever he uses his sound powers. He wears 19th century-style clothing(imagine something somewhat similar to what Balthier from FFXII wears, minus the saddle bags on his hips.), which consists of a green vest, a white shirt, and black pants and boots. He wears his swords crossways on his back.

His face can be somewhat disturbing for people to look at, because he has pointed teeth lining his mouth, and his eyes look sallow and are ringed by ugly black bags. His skin is also somewhat discolored to a slight yellowish tint, which makes him look almost like he's sick. This makes him seem like he's physically weak at first appearance, but its very deceptive, as he is actually quite strong.

Personality: Lumaria is a very vindictive person, which means if you tick him off, he will kill you in horrible ways after tormenting you nearly to the point of insanity. He's like this because of the horrible circumstances that led to his transformation into a Heartless. However, for those who he counts as allies, he does his duty. When something is required of him, he does it and doesn't ask questions unless he deems it necessary. He is very quiet and doesn't talk that much, even though he can speak via his sound manipulation powers.

When in battle, Lumaria is more blood-thirsty than most Heartless. It stems from his cruel personality. He frequently uses his sound manipulation abilities to create loud noises and such to unnerve his opponents and try to push them to make mistakes. He quite frequently will use the voices of those close to the one he's fighting to distract them and then strike with a blast of sound while they’re not paying attention.

However, he doesn't fight that much. He is rather intelligent, and suppresses his strong blood lust through sheer force of will. This allows him to shine through in his specialty: espionage. He is somewhat skilled at pulling information out of people when he is posing as someone other than himself.

Current Residing World: The World That Never WAs

History/Background: Lumaria was orphaned in Port Royal when he was only 8 years old, both of his parents stolen from him by a terrible illness. Left to the streets by the cruel people of the town he lived in, he became a beggar, living completely off of the kindness of strangers. However, when he was 12, an old man who owned a shoe repair shop took pitty on him and took him in, teaching him how to fix shoes so he could help him run the shop.

Lumaria came to love his new life at the shoe shop, and became a very skilled shoe repairer. Eventually, though, the old man died when he was about 20 years old, and he was left to tend to the shop on his own from then on.

He went on, successfully running the shop for years until one day, when he was about 32 years old, a bunch of drunk men came in with busted shoes when he'd already closed the shop. He tried to ask them to come back the next day, and when he did, the men grew violent and began beating him. They beat him to the ground while one of the men cut out his tongue with a knife and another took a hot iron and stuck it into his ears, making him deaf and dumb. Then, when they were through beating him, they tossed him outside and left him to die, setting his shop on fire as they left.

Luckily, Lumaria survived thanks to the help of a few of his neighbors, and lived. However, he was once again homeless, and this time he could neither speak nor hear. This drove him into a deep depression, and he began to wander around, his depression deepening and deepening. One day, as he was staring out at the sea, some black creatures with yellow eyes appeared and attacked him. He fought them off as best he could, but they all jumped on top of him, and the next thing he knew, he woke up in total darkness. He looked the same, but he felt vastly different. It was something he couldn't explain, but it was there. He did notice that he could see things he hadn't been able to before. It took him a while before he learned they were the soundwaves from noises around him, and quickly he learned to read the sounds, most specifically the sound of a voice, so that he could communicate with others.

It was during this time that he returned to his hometown in the Caribbean and, using an extract of the native Manchineel Tree, he fed a poison to the drunkards who had taken his hearing and speech away from him when he'd still been human. This poison, derived from the tree's fruit, had been strengthened by Lumaria himself so that its usual effects were amplified, robbing the men of speech forever, in addition to giving them a life-long sore throat.

Years wore on, and he practiced with his new abilities he'd gained, finding he was able to command some of the black creatures that had attacked him. It was shortly after this that he encountered Ansem and the others of the Dark XII and joined their ranks. He has recently learned of his Nobody, Marluxia, and wishes to meet him to see what he is like, though he hears he is vastly different from himself.

Role Playing Sample:
Lumaria grimaced to himself as he let one of the men from his own escape pod open the hatch. To his own surprise, however, the man was grabbed by an unknwon assailant upon exiting the large metal ball. It didn't take Lumaria long to learn who it was once the man spoke, though.

Seed....you damned fool! If you ruin this for me....I swear I will make you regret it.....

Lumaria quickly formulated a plan that he hoped would defuse the situation. He quickly summoned one of his dark swords and stabbed the rest of the men in the pod, who luckily enough were still unconscious. He then dismissed the weapon and left the men there bleeding from their wounds. Then, he acted as if in a panic and scrambled out of the pod, his face white from seeming fear.

"Wait! Stop!" he screamed at Audrey and the young boy holding their guns out at Seed,"T-this man....he didn't realize it, but he actually did us a service. The man he torched stabbed everyone else in the pod with his knife! Please! Forget him and go in there and save them!"

As he manipulated soundwaves to imitate the voice of the man he'd replaced in the expedition, he also manipulated soundwaves right into Seed's ear in a dark, rhaspy voice that Lumaria had come to adopt as his own, new voice. None of the others there would be able to hear it.

Seed, stand down! I've gone through great pains to insert myself into this expedition to have a chance at stealing the heart from a hidden world. Do not ruin this for me, or I promise you will be made to regret it, Lumaria said, being sure to made the fury in his "voice" very noticeable, Do not test me. You know I am not to be triffled with.....

Lumaria left it at that. If Seed didn't listen to his warning, Lumaria would just send him over the cliff, and use a constant barrage of sound to keep him over the side until he would no longer be a threat to the group there.

(roleplay sample is a post taken from the thread Atlantis: Between Gadgets and Ships)

[sumdood]

*posts to bump* since it's been up for nearly two weeks, other profiles posted up after it have been looked at, and my attempts at IMing people to get someone to look at it has been unsuccessful.....I'm posting to bump. lol

[Zephiris]

We had to discuss this as staff. A poll has gone up for a point very closely related to your character.

[Ellie who has 0%]

Seeing how the poll is going...might as well slowly make your edits. I would even modify your history to something loose and simple, and I won't warg about it. I doubt Marluxia is genuinely from Port Royal. WIP status granted, 7 days

[sumdood]

Eh. I wanted lumaria back how i had him before. If that's not possible, then the profile can just be scrapped. -.-