Waru Abe
Apprentice Waru Abe
Waru is the heavily watched student of Silvester. Born into a family that hated his very existence, both by his mother who was ashamed of what happened to her at the hands of a demon, and by his father and brother who viewed him as trash, Waru did not know what love was. Thus Waru grew up trying to get what relief or acceptance he could get, and he found he could do it through making people laugh.
When he was old enough to live on his own, which was pretty young, Waru left his home in search of a place of his own. He was 26 when he finally got away from his father and brother, and he had already tried to escape once when he was 15, to no avail. Already he had accrued so many bruises, scars, and life threats, that trusting people was nearly impossible, so though it took him some time, he decided to leave Garrenis and search for another Alatash town far away from his parents where he could start over. So he came upon Sorapoli via a trade caravan that traveled between both cities.
Once in Sorapoli, he eventually was found by Silvester who took him in as his own son, and immediately Silvester loved Waru, feeling like Waru was a youger version of himself. This helped Waru heal from being an utter outcast from his own family, and Waru took to Silvester's teaching like a fish to water. Yet due to his troubled past, Waru applied his mental skills very differently than Silvester, and though Waru was safe from rejection by everyone like he was back at home, he still grew up outcasted, which caused Waru to push in harder to his ways of making people laugh and stop hating him and others... No matter the cost. This greatly concerned Silvester, who tried to keep Waru from going overboard with his newfound power... But soon after Waru went off on his own without so much as a warning to Silvester. Now Silvester keeps track of Waru, and follows him around, though Waru doesn't yet know it. How Waru will react and what he's doing on his own is still unclear.
Physical Description
Body Features
Waru is a taller-than-average Alatash with a very skinny frame. He has red wings.
Facial Features
Waru has brilliantly green and glowing eyes and medium length, dark brown hair with natural ginger highlights.
Special abilities
Waru has the ability to use psionics to manipulate people to do his will through laughter. All Waru has to do is look at his target and lock onto them with his mind, and if they fail to resist his magical charm, they begin to laugh. He likes to do this fairly often, because people laughing helps him be at ease, and makes him feel like he is making a difference with the suffering in the world. However, once under the first part of his spell, it becomes harder to resist his charm, and the person under attack gets more and more comfortable and jovial and open to suggestion. Eventually, the person under his control can become his lackey and do just about anything suggested to them, all while constantly giggly and laughing.
Mental characteristics
Sexuality
Waru is asexual, not really thinking about sex at all. With very, very poor self esteem, and mountainous trust issues, Waru has no mental capacity to even dream of sexual fulfillment.
Education
Waru is an apprentice at Silvester's Academy of Psionics. He is pretty gifted in the use of psychic powers, but they are mostly focused on getting him out of trouble or making others laugh so he can control them.
Mental Trauma
Waru suffers from extreme PTSD. Born as the Dhampir twin in a Vampire birth, and especially as the first Dhampir in existence, Waru was extremely hated and abused by both his father, Fovos, and his brother. Even as a young boy, Waru endured such terrible abuse, that it would be almost inappropriate to list it, and on top of it, he was used as a practice body to draw blood from by his brother, before his brother had even developed his proper vampiric teeth. This regularly left Waru woozy and confused, but most importantly, deathly afraid of being killed on a daily basis.
On top of this, Waru is subject to crippling social anxiety and tries to use magic to help him slip through social situations he cannot handle, which is mean. The results are him manipulating people to do what he wants, by making them laugh, something he learn to do without magic, before he broke free from his parent's house.
Morality & Philosophy
Waru is completely absorbed in self, and he's had to be for much of the beginning of his life. No one else stood up for him, so he grew up, having to stand up for himself. When he got older, he had people who would stand up for him, but he was unable to see it, so his ability to trust was long since shot. Still, Waru cares about those suffering, so he will always try to make suffering people smile, but if he can't, and depending on his current emotional state, he often will force them to smile through psionic magic. Thus, Waru is manipulative, but not intentionally.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Waru is motivated just to survive and help suffering people smile at all costs. These are his only two focuses, and he has often come close to failing on the first. Filled with great self hatred, Waru's only relief is to focus on other's sorrow.
Social
Family Ties
Waru is the hated son of Fovos, and his mother, an Alatash woman, was never really known to him.
Religious Views
Waru often worships Shiriel, Goddess of Life and Death. The way in which he worships her, depends entirely on his current state of mind. He has often prayed for her to save his life, only to, seconds later, ask her to end his life.
Relationships
History
Serran came to Sorapoli long after Waru came and became and apprentice to Silvester. When Serran joined the academy, for a good while, he did not trust nor like Waru... But time after time, Serran watched as Waru was excluded from the other acolytes circle of friends. Growing up rejected by his own siblings, Serran felt dutiful to Waru and started reaching out to him. Because Waru was under the psionic pacification of Silvester, Waru was never quite able to express his gratefulness to Serran for his efforts to even include him. One day Serran was sent on a mission to get water for the academy, he got swept up with a caravan of ships heading to Ancora, and while he was gone, Waru also left the academy and made his way to Ra Minol. When the two got reunited, Waru was no longer under the psionic pacification by Silvester, and Waru revealed to Serran how much Serran meant to him. Now they are both stuck on the island of Janshima.
Relationship Reasoning
Classmates in Silvester's academy.
Commonalities & Shared Interests
Both are adept at Psionics
Alatash Dhampir, with extraordinary abilities to command people to do his bidding through laughter
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Alignment
Chaotic Neutral
Current Location
Species
Age
45
Circumstances of Birth
Mortal - Diety Union
Birthplace
Garrenis
Spouses
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Sorapoli
Gender
Male
Eyes
Glowing Green
Hair
Brunette
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale White
Height
7' 2"
Weight
99 Ibs
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