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Post by MAXWELL ROSENKRANTZ on Dec 27, 2012 13:03:57 GMT -5
| [atrb=width,500,btable][cs=2] MAXWELL ROSENKRANTZ totes not a sleepy selkie | RANK. E
AGE. 24
DOB. 02 13
ETHNICITY. caucasian
OCCUPATION. sleep 'therapist' & spa aromatherapist
RESIDENCE. a small apartment in queens
| [atrb=width,100] | | [cs=2] “Oh, the Rosenkrantz family? Respectable, very respectable 'o course. Or are you sayin' there's something a bit fishy about them, ahaha! Heh, sorry, sorry, that was terrible. Hmm? Well what's the point explaining the pun? A man shouldn't explain his jokes. Or are you saying you actually don't know about their wee little scandal? Ah, well, you didn't hear it from me, but a generation back, Mrs. Rosenkrantz took a vacation on the Shetland shores while her husband was away doing something for the Seelie court. And 'o course you know what lonely women do on those shores, hehe. ...Seriously? I gotta spell it out? Selkies. They do selkies. They say the youngest Rosenkrantz boy, Max something, was born clutchin' a sealskin.”
Despite common rumors, Maxwell is not part selkie. ...Probably. I mean, lots of fairies have an affinity for water. A-And, most of the world's population loves fish! It doesn't mean anything, especially not that his mom was a two timer! She's super great, okay? Don't talk about people's mommas! For shame! It's just a coincidence that he doesn't look a thing like his six older sisters, or his father. The fact that he doesn't take after such a man (rugged, manly, and heroic enough to have been giving the title of knight by the court decades ago) can just be attributed to him being around so many girls at home! That's, um, that's all. Nurture over nature!
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Maxwell has put up with rumors his entire life, which hasn't been very long for that of a fairy. Deep in his heart, he's accepted the fact that he's the odd child out of an otherwise respectable fairy family, and in an attempt to save his mother a bit of face, he's moved 'across the pond' to New York, America. For the past six years he's established a pretty comfy life for himself as an aromatherapist at a day spa, with a side office for sleep counseling for easy food access. Living in a small apartment in Queens, he's currently entangled in a pitiful, one sided, crush that's lasted eight months. A self-defeatist on the subject of his love life, he's give up before even trying, though he does spend a lot of time now in that person's 'freind zone'. Friendly, though a bit wishy washy and naive, he only ever gets aggressively defensive on the subject of his mom.
| [cs=2]- POWER. Sleep-Induction: Maxwell has the power to coax people to relaxation, and then sleep. It's usually a gradual process and doesn't take up too much energy while the other person is already tired or wants to sleep. If they are very awake or tense, it's much more difficult, and he needs to exert a lot more power in an attempt to 'turn off' their awake switch. For example, if he tried to make someone who was attacking him fall asleep, it would have a high chance of not working, backfiring, or making them both so simultaneously sleepy/drained that they would both fall asleep.
- POWER. Animal Empathy: Limited to mammalian carnivores only, Maxwell can sense the emotions of and bond with them on a very small level. It's hella non-useful, as most carnivores he runs into are either feeling things like 'omgyayi'mgoingforawalksohappyderpderp' or 'hungerhungerhungershockstringcatch', and the ~bond~ he can make is only strong enough to make dogs run up and jump on him and cats try to walk across his laptop and sleep on his face, and won't even help him if a cat decides to scratch or a dog decides to chase. “Mysteriously”, this power has the most effect on aquatic mammals, though even then it serves no practical use.
- POWER. Shape-shifting: The power that he's kept secret from absolutely everyone in his life. Only his mother knows that, in the dreaming, there is a small patch of sealskin on the bottom of his left sole. When he focuses on it with all his might, and pulls at it mentally, it becomes malleable and stretches out to cover the rest of him, transforming him into a seal. Mainly he's used it only to swim in the sea of dreaming in order to catch dream fish or talk to other sea-carnivores, but he tried it once in the real world and ended up as a seal in his bathtub after straining for thirty minutes. The bad side is, as a seal, he's clumsy and has nearly been eaten by a shark on multiple close shaves. Also, if someone were to find out, and rip the bit of seal hide from his flesh, it's likely that they would have partial control over him – enough to block him from returning to the sea.
- ASSET. Apothecary I – Did you know that a great deal of the common spell ingredients smell absolutely lovely? As an aromatherapist, Maxwell's shelves are filled with soothing bath salts and beautiful scents. As he's very into yoga, Feng shui , and multiple new age novelties, you'll also find some pretty types of stones scattered between the soaps.
- ASSET. Familiar I – Because he couldn't very well own a seal as a pet in an apartment, Maxwell went with a creature more suitable. His familiar is Shibuya, the Shiba Inu. Being a super loyal dog doesn't mean he isn't a dick though. Brash, pushy, and suffering from 'small dog syndrome', he's often the telepathic shouter or terrible advice.
| | [cs=2] played by pip |
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Post by THE POWERS THAT BE on Dec 27, 2012 13:26:40 GMT -5
| [atrb=width,400,btable] ACCEPTED senpai noticed you | |
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