WEST, azrael

[azrael benjamin west]

azrael benjamin west



"Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability”

oh you pretty things

nickname: people only know him as 'Azrael' they don't often know his full name. At work he calls himself 'benjamin west', having had to change his name regularly with each new life he starts
age: his aging has slowed rapidly, he is 98 but has the physical body of someone in their mid 30's
height: 5'9"
build: Azrael is neither big nor particularly strong. His build isdistinctly average in almost every sense. He isn't muscular and yet is neither skin and bone nor over weight in any way. He isn't broad shouldered and yet he also isn't slight and feminine. His 'blend into the background' build just allows him to do just that and he prefers it that way. He likes being the unsuspected one, the dark horse, the underdog.
appearance: Azrael has deep set blue eyes that have dark circles around them most of the time and are framed by a strong brow. his nose is rather pointed and long but not out of proportion. His hairline is high but has not yet started to reced and the way things are going may not ever reced. His hair is a deep brown and quite thick. He wears it rather short but doesn't like getting it cut too short. His lips are thin but expressive and often have a sy cunning smirk on them, that or a sneer.

His dress sesne is often rather casual, but not too much so. He likes wearing shirts, either casual shirts for the majority of his time but he wears crisp white shirts for his work. Slacks are for work and jeans or corduroy trousers are for the rest of the time. He likes looking tidy, which ties in to his control freak personality. You won't see a crease on this guy.
member title: `` a little unstable
play by: edward norton

you gotta make way for the homo superior

hometown: Boston
job: car salesman (you can imagine what having mind control can do for someone selling crap to people)
group: none
power: power absorption, accelerated healing, mind control
power description:
The first power that came about for Azrael is his accelerated healing. When he was quite young, at about 9 years old, he noticed that when he hurt himself or got cuts they were healing quite quickly. At first he didn't pay it much notice but soon his mother started to recognise what was happening and was rather glad. Both his parents were mutants so it wasn't exactly unusual.

The next two powers came about at much the same time. His mind control showed itself purely when he found he could actually make his siblings do what he wanted them too. At first this brought out aggression in them and they would end up using their active powers on him, but soon enough he found he was then being able to use their attack powers against them. He first of all thought it meant he had their powers too and that he was very powerful. His father corrected this point though because he could only do it when they were around and so obviously he could only imitate them when they were there. He was furious at this and felt cheated, and now, he looks to be able to absorb other peoples powers and keep them.
view on mutant rights: Azrael has little care for human rights, the only rights he has a care for are his own. He may well end up pretending to have joined a certain way of thinking but he will rarely if ever put anyones needs before his own.

driving your mamas and papas insane

5 likes:
fresh air
growing oriental plants
meditation
jazz music
exercise
5 dislikes:
not being in control
giving or receiving affection
fatty foods
cigarette smoke
body odours
3 flaws:
control freak
narcissistic
he under estimates other peoples powers
3 strengths:
very persuasive
strong determination
good strategist
3 talents:
was once a professional jazz player
very gentle and precise with his hands
has incredible cooking skills
personality:
Azrael is your typical control freak. He is very aggressive and violent when it comes to getting and keeping this control. He has a short fuse and therefore his temper means that if at any time he thinks he is not in control he will act out by getting violent. When not acting out he has this unsettling serence calm, but in his eyes you can tell that within him there is no calm. It is merely the mild weather within the eye of a hurricane. Of course, he had been sent to therapy for these sociopathic tendencies as a child but he never stuck at it, never tried their techniques and never took the medication. With mind control, he had this wonderful way of convicing the therapists he was perfectly fine.

To him, of course, he is perfectly fine. Being the narcissist and self obsessed person he is, in his eyes he is brilliant. He is powerful and he is in control. He meditates, exercises, plays the saxaphone and piano all to help him relax. These things keep him levelled and functional, it keeps the fury at bay. He also likes to grow oriental flowers and bonsei trees and is very very precise with them. The delicate nature of them and how fragile they are helps him feel in control as he prunes them to perfection.

He is not an affectionate person at all. After his experience with his family he has gown to distrust everyone and sees the majority of people as weak and below him. Giving affection is a weakness to him and so he prefers his solitude where he can spend time with his favourite person....himself.

written in pain, written in awe

history:
Azrael was born into a very normal boston family....well normal other than the fact that they all had mutant powers. He had an older brother and younger sister growing up and he always felt the odd one out, the black sheep. they were all quite fun loving people and liked to play family games and go on holidays and Azrael was always a bit of a runt. At the time he was called Andrew but that was soon to change when he ran out on his family. Life was tough back then (he was born around 1910) and his mother used to drink a lot when his father was at work. In order to keep the family he worked pretty much all the time and when he wasn't working he was praising the other two kids at their good grades and their abilities at sports. Azrael just felt like a bit of a disappointment as he was just into music and was a bit weedy.

When the three siblings had all got their powers it only led to Azrael feeling more of an outcast. His siblings, along with his parents, had physical powers where as his were mental powers. His parents still acted proud but it didn't stop him feeling like the odd one out. all of these bitter feelings slowly led to his already slightly controlling nature to become more severe. He started killing bugs in slow ways, laughing at the small scale torture. He would break things just because he could, and convince people otherwise with his mind control. He was slowly turning into the sociopath he was to become in furute years.

At his teen years, his mother was now a full blown alcoholic, his dad a workaholic and his siblings over achievers. Azrael developed skills with music and his powers and became a bit of a loner. He was teased for it by his peers and called a freak more than once but he kept it internal. Instead of retaliating in an obvious way he would use his mind gifts to torment them and convinced one guy to strip off in class. The control he had over his peers was addictive and he hungered for more. He wanted power but knew he couldn't get it stuck in suburban Boston.

Eventually he decided, after leaving school, just to get out of there and escape his mundane life. He had no affection or love of his family and no friends so there was nothing holding him back. He used the money he had saved up from his weekend job to get him into a hotel and then used his gift there too, to convince them to let him stay on and that he was paying his bills. He loved his power and liked the control it was giving him. As he grew into an adult he never really changed, only became more anti-social and unstable. Eventually he noticed that his aging was slowing down. Working in a club as a saxaphone player (of which he grew to become extremely talented) he would sometimes get into fights, not directly but wrong place at the wrong time. The contrinual injuries he would sustain over the years allowed him to age slowly. He had stopped growing old.

This was another novelty but it didn't seem enough. Not aging, the mind control...they weren't enough. He wanted more. His other power he knew of, he had found himself immitating his siblings gifts when younger (at first he had got excited thinking he too had those powers but his dad burst his bubble and reminded him this was only when his siblings were there and so it was only power absorption) but he never got to use it too much. He wasn't sure how many mutants were out there. Many many years ago a man had come from a group in London who harboured mutants though and this peaked Azraels interests. So there were definitely more and it seemed the focus was London. This was in the thirties though and he wasn't sure if the group would still be around. Wanting to know if he could develop his power to allow him to keep the powers of others though he decided to head to London in search of answers.

Right now he is living in London, trying to keep a low profile until he knows his options. both groups know he is there though and are both aware he is a danger and a threat to other mutants. They want to convince him to join their group and tame him. He want's to find Dr. Jane Glass so that he can develop his power at the genetic level and become....unstoppable

roleplay sample: Azrael was in the living room of his apartment tending to his orchids. they were in full bloom right now and as always, he had pruned them into perfection. As soon as any one of them had a flaw or showed any sign of wilting he would get rid of them. His apartment was filled with delicate flowers and beautiful bonsei's. It was a bit of a hobby, or obsession depending how you looked at it. At the moment it was also filled with the sound of Ray Charles which was a common occurence. He liked to have all forms of jazz playing out loud when he was at home. Today was his day off but tomorrow he would be back in the yard selling his new and used cars to the public. Really, he didn't need to work, he always had this wonderful way of convincing people he had already paid for things and so didn't really need the money but he liked doing it.

Sitting at home doing nothing wasn't exactly his style, although eh did like his time at home. He preferred being outside in the fresh air and walking in the parks and public gardens. The apartment he was in had large windows that opened wide onto the small park across the road which was soemthing he had insisted on when fidnign a place to live. His home back in Boston had been stuffy and had small windows, near the inner city. There wasn't a nice view of any garden as outside of their house there was just a small patch of grass which was always dead and ripped up from their two dogs. In general, absolutely every aspect of his childhood was horrible and he was unhappy with it all. Wasn't everyone's though?

Deciding just to take a walk and get some fresh air. He hadn't been to the botanicals in a while and it was always something he enjoyed. He glided through his home and picked up his keys, phone and wallet from the kitchen counter and grabbed his jacket off the back of the sofa. It was quite cold out so he would need it for sure. Slipping it on as he went out the door he whistled a tune in his head, taking the stairs two at a time.

It didn't take long to get to the garden's from where he lived, which he was thankful of. It meant he didn't have to go very far to get out of the house to something he enjoyed. The smell in there was incredible and the warmth too, all of his senses thanked him when he came to this place. He picked a bench that was in towards the larger flowers, some much bigger than his own head and he leaned back and closed his eyes. He could sit and stay here all day if he could, just letting his mind wonder and allowing the sights, sounds and smells take over.

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