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Personality:
Erostole is a master of emotions, including his own. He can fake a laugh or smile to perfection, completely fooling the eye to his real thoughts and feelings. Erostole is highly composed and in control of himself. Little sets him off, he knows how to keep himself calm and focused. Not to mention he was taught growing up, that emotions were a weakness. He was taught the one's who controlled themselves had a better chance. As such, he makes sure to keep himself under control. Erostole has two main sides, mirror images of each other in many ways and opposite in others. To the public, he is charming and alluring. A smile and accent that can pull you in, eyes and a demeanor about him that can set one's heart a flutter. A light hearted side, playful to the eye, getting along with everyone around him. A good guy all around for the most part. In the face of the order or in business however, he shifts.
Erostole can become like a blank slate. Unreadable and unpredictable, which makes him unpredictable. This makes many fear him in this state, because it is unclear what he is thinking or feeling. He becomes calm to the point where he's almost icy. He becomes logical, direct and unforgiving of stupidity around him. In many ways, he becomes ruthless and can remain completely calm and composed in the face of it all. Showing little regard to other's emotion or suffering. Unknown to most however, there are other sides to him as well. Sides very few get to see. These parts reside in his deepest heart, the true essence of him that would be otherwise unacceptable to his position and family. Erostole can be genuinely kind and gentle when he wants to be. He really does show a caring side to life around him, people, plant, animal, all of it. He feels guilty and saddened by what is going on, wishing there was some way it could be different.
As he would like to put it, he is only human. He bleeds just like any other, he is capable of pain and sadness, despite what others may think about him. He sees the value in life and in emotion, while also seeing the hindrance's of it he was raised to see. This often can create conflict within him, which he fights to remain under control, to the point where he literally cuts himself off from his own emotions. Though little does seem to phase him at face value, he is also capable of a more expressive side if need be. He can get riled up, a very passionate man at heart. Losing his composure can lead to him lashing out, both physically and emotionally. He wont typically start or seek out a fight, but he will be the one to end it. Depending on how far pushed, he can simply push back till the threat stops, or he can crush it despite it stopping or not.
On stage, is the only time he truly feels free and able to be himself. It is his true passion, the time for the most part he is able to let go and forget about all the pressure and expectations for a little while. He is often seen smiling, putting his all into it. His presence heightened by the fans and the emotion from the crowd. It gives him more energy, which often boosts him more. For him, it's his drug, his high. He craves it, needs it as an outlet. This causes him to often resort to it or practicing when his own emotions bubble up to much for him to keep under control. He can play it off as doing his job or some other reason, but in the end, it is his love. The threat of losing it is one of the main things that can get to him easily. His love of it often reflected clearly in his guitar. He keeps it safe and in pristine condition.
Biography:
Erostole was born within Paris, France. His family has had strong connections with the Order for years, Erostole's ancestor even part of the original group who founded it. As such, his family is known as a sort of royalty within their ranks. He's often treated like a prince with the members of the Order. Though with that comes high expectations. Erostole spent most of his younger years learning magic, the ins and outs, even before it was known or not if he could bend it to his will. He felt great pressure when younger, since it would have been a huge blemish on his family, if he turned out unable to create magic or do anything at all. Luckily, he was a quick learner and had a lot to help him. His parents often brushing it off as him being a natural, that it ran in their family, like none of it was an accomplishment of his own.
In fact, that is how much of his life went. accomplishments were chocked up to the parent's guidance, his older brother's example or some other reason the family could take credit for. Erostole was often reminded that without the family, he would be nothing and nowhere. To him, it sounded more like he owed them everything, and they were all to happy to let him think that way. His family was rigid, running more like a business than a family in any way. His father kept himself distant to the sons, seeing it as a means to make them stronger, they needed a firm and strong hand to lead them. His mother was their father's right hand woman. She was a woman of the mind, everything could be solved with logic and deduction. Matters of the heart were considered obsolete within their world.
Erostole thought it was a bit ironic, that his magic was strongest in that very area. Manipulating not the mind, but the heart, which was just as good. He could drive a person mad through their own emotions. Though his parents didn't see a use for it within their family, they saw the advantages of it within the world around them. Who wouldn't want to make people devoted to them, willing to do anything for them. He could bend people to his will without much effort of his. It didn't hurt that as he grew, he became a handsome and charming young man. His accent typical of his origin accompanied with this, made both men and women swoon for him. So just as he was a prince inside the Order, he quickly grew to be one outside of it as well. At the age thirteen, he came to live with his brother in Sunnydale. He had wondered what the hype about this place was. Why his brother, the so called family prodigy would come there for to live.
His brother told him there was more to the place than met the eye. It was a hot spot, a source of powerful magic and the birthplace of the original Order. It was his job as a member of the order to oversee dealings within the town. Some day, it would be Erostole's job to take over just the same. No pressure right? No, it made more expectations land upon his shoulders. His main escape, became his music. He formed Vera Amoris, becoming it's lead singer and guitarist. His parents only allowing it because it would make him more of an idol and his powers could flourish. He became known as both Eros and Siren within the town. His job becoming to keep the peace and oblivion. Essentially, to keep people calm and unsuspecting through his music and magic. A task he had little trouble with.
Magic Abilities:
Erostole is a master of emotion. He is an empath, allowing him to sense the emotions of others around him. This makes them like books to him, he can gauge whether their happy, sad, angry, etc. He also has an influential ability. Erostole is able to alter or 'suggest' the feelings of others. He is able to do this by giving an off a slight aura, which only really affects those in his direct vicinity. To those around him, its more like a nagging feeling to them. Like a whisper in their ear, hinting at a particular emotion or mindset. In the end, it is the person's choice whether to listen or not. It goes down to their strength of will and heart. The stronger those are, the weaker the pull is on them.
The more direct way, as well as the stronger way, is through direct contact with a target. This creating a direct link with them, a bridge for him to get in. In which case, he is able to directly flip their emotions like a light switch. This one typically does not have a dependence on will or strength of heart. Once he's in, he's in. The duration of how long his hold last varies. Once the bridge is established and the natural shift in emotion is changed, he is able to maintain it through the aura means alone. Meaning as long as he remains in the direct vicinity of them, their under his spell. If he leaves the direct vicinity, the emotions will slowly subside, leaving the person feeling more like their coming off of a high, leaving them feeling a bit emotionally drained for a bit after.
The only time his aura is more powerful, essentially the same as direct contact without the need to actually touch someone, is when he is on stage. His own emotions are heightened, and his aura becomes heightened with the music in turn. Essentially, he is able to infuse his music with his emotional magic. This means, whoever hears his music during this time, will be influenced by it. A sad song might induce tears and powerful sorrow, while a more upbeat song may induce energy and a more intense song may induce anger and violence. It depends on his message and the music. Essentially, his lyrics and the music infuse themselves in turn with those listening, influencing and filling them.
Another ability of his, is control over his own emotions. He has the ability to shut down his own emotions, just like with other's, but he needs no aura or link in order to do it. He is able to suppress them to the point where he doesn't feel at all. This works with one emotion, or them all, it is his choice which emotions to flip on or off within himself. A link of this, is to turn off his emotional sense to pain. That fear, flight or fight response. A big drawback of this is once he decides to release his emotions, if he is not careful, they can hit him pretty hard. This can leave him dazed or stunned in a sense for a period of time. Like his head and heart are spinning, causing him to be unable to focus. It can also make him lash out with a certain emotion, not meaning to or randomly.
His abilities are often confused with and considered mind control, but they are not. The heart can be just as powerful, essentially influencing the mind into doing something. This is why for the most part, people are content with just calling it as such, but he is keen on correcting them at times. As much as he gives off and influences emotions, they often influence him as well. If he is not in control, letting his guard down to much, a touch of another or something they have recently touched can hit him with residual emotion. It can be painful for him, or influence him similar to above. A plus of his powers, is Erostole absorbs the auras and essences of emotions. He will feed off of the emotional energy given off by others around him. The stronger the emotion, the stronger the energy he gets off of it. He stores this within his own body, but with the use of his suppression ability, the energy does not cause his emotions to go haywire.
That is, as long as he remains in control of his emotions. His body processes this energy into tangible magical energy. Each emotion has its own color, each color of magic and emotion has its own properties. Essentially, each emotion has its own effect. He can release this energy through his magic, in bursts or by infusing the energy into an object. If this is done, the object essentially becomes a talisman of sorts. The one who touches it, will be filled with that emotion, causing him not to even have to be around them for it to maintain hold. Depending on how much emotional energy is in the object, it will last until the energy runs out, or the person is physically separated from the object. Once done, the person will feel so emotionally drained and exhausted, that it takes a physical toll on them on top of the toll of what they did during the time of influence. This can cause them to pass out or sleep for a period of time after.
Emotion and Color/Properties:
Anger/Hatred: Comes out in the color of red, this is essentially pure and raw destructive magic. It comes out often as beams or blasts and can cause explosions, hit someone like a fist or worse is hitting them.
Envy/Jealousy: Comes out as a dark blackish green. This is pure rotten magic, it creeps along like a mist. If it touches something organic, like a plant, it will make it decay and wither. If it comes into contact with metal, it will rust and ruble, wood and other substances in a similar manner. If it comes into contact with a human, it begins to essentially decay them, having an effect more like acid to the body, eating away at it. He is able to pull it back and disperse it just as he can bring it in.
Happiness/Joy: A bright yellow magic, it's a boost to himself and others. He is not limited to a certain group, as Noah is with the others of the club. He is able to give this boost to anyone. It can boost their magic for a period of time, as well as their own physical abilities. It fills them essentially with energy itself, amplifying them.
Fear/Panic: Comes out as a dark grayish blue stormy cloud. It encircles the target, closing in around them. It can be used for stealth, but it has another goal. Shifting shadows and glimpses within the cloud itself are primarily to confuse the target, causing them to strike out at something that isn't anything at all. He is able to pull it back and disperse it just as he can bring it in.
Sadness/Depression: Comes out as a thick bluish sludge like magic. It slides over the floor, walls or any obstacle within its way. As it does, it sucks it in like quicksand, while holding onto it like a tarish glue. It immobilizes whatever gets caught in it, slowly solidifying overtime like cement. If someone becomes completely encased, it runs the risk of suffocating them. Once hardened though, he is able to turn it back to a maliable substance and pull it away from whatever it is on.
Love/Infatuation: Comes out within a rose pink color.
With all emotional magic, the strength and range of it, depends on how much energy he is putting into the magic. A drawback of his magic, is that he uses emotional energy. This in turn drains his emotions. Meaning, once he depletes his stored emotional energy, it will use his own. If he does not have much stored at the time, it is all his. It can leave him weak and emotionally drained after. This makes him want to sleep, as well as makes him more vulnerable to emotions around him. Physical contact can literally hurt, because the link and emotions felt through it, are damaging.
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Let the
music of my soul be heard in the form of
Human,
Perfect Life and
Irresistable, for all eternity.