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Name: Khaz Ira Serwen (k-haz s-AIR-win)
Alias/Title: Takai (tah-k-eye), Sir Serwen
Date of Birth: October 31st, 2030 HC
Age: 20
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Species: Hylian
Sex: Male
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue (
Example)
Height: 6 ft (183 cm)
Weight: 175 lbs (79.4 kg)
Appearance:
Head – His friends often like to tease him and call him the “Pretty Boy.” Khaz has an attractive heart-shaped face which he has often exploited. It’s perfectly symmetrical, as are those that are usually labeled as attractive. Khaz has a boyish charm about his looks, yet not precisely childish. He doesn’t look as a teen anymore, yet his features aren’t strong in “manliness.” Yet neither is it strongly androgynous. This does not mean he doesn’t look his age.
Takai's pic. Drawn by me, colored by Lio ^^
Though Khaz tends to have more exposed spirited eyes that are often curious in nature. The example seems to fit an expression of Takai, Khaz’s other, often dormant, personality, more. In which, his eyes gain a more narrow and piercing quality that tends to frighten others to their core. It lacks the more innocent and naïve nature of Khaz’s expressive eyes. The intense darkness of his blue eyes always makes it easy for others to feel drawn into them. They’re like that mysterious dark place of the deep, deep ocean depths.
His hair is coal black, smooth, and nearly flawless. It’s odd in the way it’s always messy even when Khaz used to attempt to brush it and make it lie flat. It grows out like that, up and all over the place in clumps sticking out at odd angles. There’s one section of his bangs that always falls just over his eye. He no longer bothers attempting to tame it.
Some Hylians are known to have facial hair and others simply never gain any. Khaz is the latter. He will never have a beard even if he wanted one.
The darkness of his hair and eye color stands out beautifully against the paleness of his skin. It’s odd that it is so pale, for Khaz had spent seven years living in a desert yet never gained a tan during any of it. Yet it is not a deathly pale. His skin is beautiful and smooth, always tempting those attracted to have an excuse to touch it. There are no scars or blemishes of any kind on his face.
He is a Hylian, thus his ears are pointed and strangely longer than a normal elf’s are known to be.
Body – Khaz’s body is just like his face with no scars or discolorations, despite his active life in war and battles. This is because he was often surrounded by gifted healers such as his sister, who could heal any wounds without leaving a trace of them left. He lacks chest hair, due to being the type of Hylian that is less hairy than the usual human male is. His dark hair can be found in his arm pits, pubic hair, and an unusually small amount on his legs.
He has a lean athletic body, toned and hardened for he is a warrior that has been training since he was eleven by the Gerudo. He’s not lanky or too thin, yet not bulky and big in muscle. He is stuck somewhere between muscular and lean, lacking body fat thus his muscles are attractively defined. His body is obviously that of a younger twenty-year-old’s. More developed than a teen’s, but he’s young still; males are often not completely finished developing until around the age 25.
Clothing – Khaz’s outfits can vary just like anyone’s, but he left Hyrule and has been stranded in one. He wears a dark blue tunic that matches his midnight eyes. The neck of it is a v-shape and has black strings weaved back and forth between the gape of the collar. It has short sleeves that stop about five inches below his shoulders, partly covering his biceps. The long shirt drapes down pass his waist and reaches about nine or ten inches down. A black leather belt is used to secure his tunic around his waist. The buckle of this thick belt is a silver metal.
Under his blue tunic is a white undershirt. Its sleeves stretch out of his tunic and stop at his elbows. It is also visible between the gape of the neck of his shirt. On his toned forearms are two black leather gauntlets. The fingers of them stop at the first knuckle on each of his fingers. They reach up just an inch or so below his elbows. The gauntlets are strapped on tightly for Khaz's comfort.
His pelvis and legs are clothed in black cloth pants. These are somewhat loose and baggy for comfort in battle. The black leather boots on his feet reach up four or five inches above his ankles. Khaz's pants are tucked neatly into them. On a second dark brown belt around his waist are two black sheathes for his short katanas.
Weapons: He has two wakizashis, short katanas in other words, with normal black hilts. The steel blades can't be more than 1’ 4” (41 cm) in length. The hilts are 6 ½ inches (17 cm) long. There is a slight curve in the blades.
Armor: Nothing except his black leather gauntlets.
Skills/Magic: - Khaz does not possess any magic abilities, except when Takai is awake.
- Often can see the spirits of the dead and is especially sensitive to energy concerning death, darkness, and decay. Takai can sense auras. He is very sensitive to the flow of energies and magic. He can analyze them with almost other worldly accuracy.
- Skilled in dual wielding his two blades, ambidextrous, and has some experience in hand-to-hand in the Gerudo’s style.
Shadow Master - Takai can summon shadows of great negativities that haunt the world. He can wield them in four different ways.
- Darkness Intellectus – Takai is always in tune with the shadows of the area he is in. His awareness can extend for miles, upon miles. He hasn’t really tested how far he could travel with his mind. If there aren’t enough shadows connecting the places he can be limited to that particular area. He will know everything that is cast in shadows and darkness. Everything that the darkness touches, he will know the past and present of. “For beings with intellectus, all reality exists in one piece, one place, one moment, and they can look at the whole thing. They don’t seek or acquire knowledge. They just know things. They see the entire picture” (278 Turncoat, Butcher). Takai’s intellectus is more limited during battle for he cannot focus his entire attention on it. He will be limited to only the room he is in or a 100 yard radius. He will not always be able to consider everything.
He must also know to ask the right questions. This is not an omniscient ability. “The being with intellectus has to be focused on something via consideration in order to know it, whereas an omniscient being knows all things at all times” (278 Turncoat, Butcher). Intellectus wouldn’t save you from an assassin’s bullet if you didn’t know someone wanted to kill you in the first place. To know it was coming, you’d first need to consider the question of whether or not an assassin might be lurking in a dark doorway or on top of a bell tower (279 Turncoat, Butcher). “And since beings of intellectus so rarely understand the broader ideas of cause and effect, they can be unlikely to realize that a given event might be an indicator of an upcoming assassination attempt” (279 Turncoat, Butcher). The shadows and darkness would be considered the “intellectus being” that feeds Takai information. This often how Takai can walk through darkness without any kind of special sight. He simply knows where everything is and where to place his feet.
- Intimidate – The surrounding area will darken unnaturally. The shadows attempt to overwhelm his enemies and make them tremble uncontrollably. The shadows often suck the warmth and energy out of the air. It either stuns his prey or frightens them away. It all depends on the individual’s reaction to intense and overwhelming fear. It tends to summon up the hopeless and doubt filled feelings of his victim. The effectiveness of this ability depends on their level of resistance to shadow magic and the strength of their will and courage.
As a note, this ability appears to be a natural part of Takai’s own aura which can bubble up when he is feeling dangerous.
- Shadow Gauntlets – Takai can take the shadows and often wraps them around his hands and forearms to create demonic looking shadowy black hands with claws. These can rip through flesh, bone, steel—almost anything and also provide his hands and forearms protection from being damaged. These shadows seem to reach deeply into an object's particles on what would be considered an atomic level and cut them apart. This is why he can rip through nearly everything. They tend to rip through weak magic and enchantments, dispelling, even absorbing magical and energy attacks. However, they are weak against things such as light magic which it cannot absorb.
- Shadow Rip – This the overwhelming assault of the shadows leaping up and ravaging Takai’s victim. Imbued with his energy, they tear, bite, and claw into the person, ripping them as his Shadow Gauntlets can. Also like Shadow Gauntlet, these shadows are able to absorb and dispel all magic and energy except ones that are of a light nature and create light. A very powerful attack of which if to be survived one may be needing light energy or magic to repel them or have a companion who does close by. One may attempt to dodge and out run them, but they leap out of every shadow, thus one would have to find a place of no darkness to escape. It happens so fast it may be too late.
Death Grip - Takai must remove his leather gauntlet or touch with his exposed fingers the uncovered flesh of his victims to perform his Death Grip. When he has hold of his enemy he sucks the life and magical energy out of their bodies, adding to his own and healing his injuries, and if he is allowed to do so long enough it will leave his foe very much dead. This can be done to objects containing energy as well.
Strengths: - The majority of Khaz’s strengths lie in Takai. When this other personality is in control, he gains supernatural speed that simply awes. To others, he is often there and then not. Then he is right in front of them. His image tends to be a blur to most. He can keep up with most supernatural beings with abnormal levels of speed very easily. They may be able to see him more clearly, but for the majority he is superior in reflex, agility, and speed. Yet, he can be bested. It’s just very rare. He is not the fastest in the realm of the supernatural beings, but he is startling high up in their levels.
- Khaz himself, back to the normal levels of speed, is nothing to sneeze at either. He’s lean and quick. It’s probably the strongest of his advantages in battle. Swiftness, reflex, and agility are what he is best at.
- The same can be said of Takai’s strength. It’s supernatural as well, his lean and average appearance being very misleading in this. He can be bested, but again, just rare. Normal persons are very fragile to his hands, but he has perfect and absolute control over it. They do not die unless he wants them to.
- Because of Khaz’s very harmless and clumsy appearance, people are often misled into thinking he is weak and unthreatening. Takai is in the back, waiting to be called upon. So he has a very great element of surprising enemies.
- Takai’s aura is of a high “density” one could say. He is almost overflowing with energy. Takai has never really reached a limit of how much energy he has. It’s like an ocean inside him. Yet it is neatly bundled up and most often does not leak unless he wants it to. It seems to grace him with a natural ability to wield shadows in unnatural ways, unnatural speed, unnatural strength, and unnatural durability. He can be cut just the same, but blunt hits and magical strikes seem to have a much less affect on him than normal. Not that they are rendered useless. He seems to heal faster than average as well. Not instantly. Perhaps just twice as fast as the average human. This unusually powerful aura seems to be the source of this as well.
The aura changes immediately when Takai “leaves” and Khaz “wakes up”. It becomes modest, weak—nothing special about this aura at all.
- Takai’s strength of will is stunning and overwhelming. Often when he wants a person dead, they will die. Thus, he seems almost immune to physical pain. Unnaturally so without any kind of training for it. It’s nearly a mind over body experience. He does not fear death. Physical pain is nothing to him, so he can push his body beyond the average limit to achieve whatever he has set his will upon.
- Khaz is fairly skilled with his swords, enough to use them effectively when he must and needs them. Also having two swords and being ambidextrous is a definite plus to his style of fighting. This often gives him an advantage over others with only one weapon and one dominant hand. It is even more so when using his skills in hand-to-hand. Takai is even more proficient at these things and definitely more dexterous than Khaz. Khaz pales considerably compared to him. He looks like a master of it without trying, and Khaz a stumbling student still.
- Due to his long elf-like ears, he has sharp hearing. His hearing is very advanced compared to normal beings, such as humans. He can focus on certain sounds, pick up strange and usually unnoticeable noises, and then fade out of focus as to not damage his ears should there be a sudden din. This makes it nearly impossible for others to sneak up on him. Takai makes very good use of this as well.
- Takai does not need his eyes to fight. He does not have any special sight or enhanced vision to aid him in the dark. He uses his ears and sense and see the aura of a person in his mind’s eye. He is very accurate with this, though it may be difficult to sense weapons. If the person has used the weapon for a long time, has it near them often, or have an attachment to it for some reason, weapons often take on the energy and aura of their owners. He can sense magical attacks, since they take a type of energy to power them; they often come right from the person’s aura/chakras.
- Takai is very sensitive to auras. This is also what makes it difficult to sneak up on him. Only those who know how to suppress or blend their auras into the existing environment may have a chance of sneaking around or upon Takai. His hearing is still in effect to make up for any undetectable by their aura. He is sharp and observant by nature anyway. It is hard to get by him unnoticed.
- Takai is very good at detecting deception. This can mean illusions, lies, and expressions of others. He is often much too sharp and cautious to be deceived. He’s very intelligent and clever. His magic is limited but he may be able to come up with creative ways to expand their usefulness.
- To go along with Intimidate, Takai’s eyes also often have a fear inducing affect on others (see personality).
Weaknesses: - Takai dislikes being “out” at all. He avoids until it is absolutely necessary or if he is enraged by something happening outside of him. In truth, he is not as good at magic as he could be because he does not like experiencing life or really practicing his amazing talents. So he cannot hone them or really reach his true height and potential. This already seems to be barely the tip. He lacks the will and motivation due to being a very antisocial individual.
- Though Takai seems to have an unlimited well of energy at his disposal, there’s only so much he can use at one time. His body cannot channel too much at once that it is not accustomed to channeling. If Takai practiced more and constantly tested his limits he would be able to expand the amount he can use at once. However, since he does not often test or use his powers very much it has been neglected. In theory he could learn to use much more at once without destroying his body.
- Both Khaz and Takai have an extreme phobia of unusual beings with blank white eyes (no pupil or iris). Khaz also greatly fears the sight of blood. A small cut or two is no problem, but a small head wound that bleeds a little too profusely will agitate him. The sight of these things sends them into anxiety attacks, in which the hearts races, cold sweat, phantom screams in their mind, and the great possibility of hyperventilating. They often will not be able to move out of the paralyzing terror. They will have to be dragged by someone. It leaves them both quite helpless.
They also have fear of bindings and shackles, being caught and trapped, and perhaps seeing torture devices. These will quickly cause the same results.
- Khaz is incredibly clumsy. His dexterity suffers greatly, and thus does his skills with his dual-wielding. He often can trip on his own feet. Lose balance without much help from enemies.
- Khaz is often naïve and trusts a little too easily. He can fall for traps, being rather simple-minded. Khaz is not difficult to get by unnoticed. He’s an air headed daydreamer.
- Though his sharp hearing is a strength, it is also a weakness. If a very loud noise were to occur while Khaz/Takai is listening so intently, honing his ears, it will hurt his sensitive ears, causing him to become disarmed and stunned for a rather long time. He cannot block out this kind of pain. It could even damage his ears permanently.
- While pain does nothing to Takai, Khaz does not handle it very well. When Takai “leaves” and Khaz comes back, any injuries Takai gained Khaz will react very strongly to.
- Khaz has no magic to counter magic users with. He must rely on his other skills to hopefully out run them. Depending on the type of magic it may not even matter. Even Takai has a limited source, for he has not explored it very deeply not matter how much talent he has. His attacks are very aggressive, but most tend to lean toward the more offense than defense. Light magic also tends to make most of his attacks useless.
Personality: Khaz Serwen suffers from multiple personality disorder (also known as
dissociative identity disorder). He has only two personalities in his mind. The one that is conscious most of the time is Khaz. He is the one others are most often greeted by. He’s fairly normal and outgoing. Shyness tends to not be a large part of him. It’s easy for him to start up conversations. He’s very social. At the same time that he is kind and friendly he does not really speak very deeply about himself or his past. He prefers to stay on the shallow surface level. Others are easily comfortable around him. There’s nothing really about him that is threatening to others.
Khaz does not like confrontations. He doesn’t even seem to like violence very much despite being a trained fighter. It was never really that he wanted to be a warrior but that his kingdom was under the cruel rule of the Drow Empire and as a part of the rebellion against it he was required to learn. He’s not a very strong warrior because of this. He’s clumsy and awkward even, having goofed around more during his lessons. Khaz doesn’t know anything about magic. He’s not very brave either. He avoids fights and dangerous places the best he can. However, he has a different courage that shows only when others are in danger. He is braver than he believes himself to be. He lacks confidence in his abilities.
Khaz has a phobia of blood (and the rare beings who possess no iris or pupils in their eyes), which plays even more into him being unfit for battle. The sight of too much will give him the shakes. The more blood the more likely it may send him into a panic attack, often paralyzing his movement. He’d have to be dragged by someone. Often phantom screams in his head from others in the past haunt and derange his mind. The more gore and carnage involved the more he experiences his past memories. Not only will the screams come back but images and smells. The more he experiences the more likely he will faint.
Khaz has a subtle but strong charm, especially when around women. He knows how to make them feel good about themselves, feel loved and attractive. Khaz was quite the player. He takes much comfort in the company of women and in love making. He has a boyish smile that can make hearts flutter. Sweet and kind ways, he likes to make women feel beautiful. However, it never goes much deeper. He avoids long term relationships and never allows them to know too much about himself. Khaz had once drifted from one bed to the next, but these days he has given up his old habits after experiencing his first love. One night stands now hold little appeal for him anymore, though he is certainly single in a sense.
Yet, it is not a weakness; females do not hold any priority over more important matters. He can fight them though prefers not to. Being a Hylian, he has much respect for the opposite sex. The Golden Goddesses of Hyrule often have their males view their females as holy and sacred beings that they should protect. Yet, he never underestimates them either.
He is playful, though can often act rather immature when he gets annoyed or angry. Khaz dislikes being called clumsy or “klutz” or stupid, which he is often teased by his friends with. He isn’t particularly dumb; he just tends to be rather oblivious and a little slow on the up-take at times. Khaz loves horses, star gazing, laughing, joking, talking, and smiling.
He is also rather gifted at lying and acting, when he wishes to. It’s second nature for him to pull on some façade whenever faced intentionally or unintentionally with uncomfortable situations. Only if the discomfort he may show would somehow give something deeper of himself away to others. For as stable as Khaz makes himself appear to others, there is quite a bit of chaos and turmoil turning inside of him. It is rare that he would ever let that show in front of others. He is actually an extremely secretive individual. Others can tend to over look this due to his outgoing and talkative mask he puts on socially. It would take more than average perception to really notice. Khaz is good at distracting others from taking too much notice of him. He is subtly evasive, though it gets more and more difficult the more he cares about the person he is evading.
And no one can spend an extended amount of time around Khaz without realizing his evasion. The more one experiences Khaz Serwen, the more they sense his introverted qualities. They will come to realize that there is not much they actually know about him personally. And the more time spent with him the more likely it is that they will be exposed to certain situations which would stir the deeper workings of his mind and soul.
For when Khaz is truly and deeply angered it is there that one has a chance at seeing a glimpse of his other personality: Takai. The connection between the two, the place at which their personalities seems to merge the most is rage. But they are also connected by emotional pain, and fear. Khaz’s main function is to function for the outside world, to socialize normally but carefully keep others at a safe distance. His other function is to bear all the emotional and mental anguish.
Takai cares nothing for women or friends. He does not like having any more attachments than he already does. It takes only Leita to keep him from ending himself. He does not like living nor does he particularly like himself or Khaz. It seems there is not much he likes at all. He prefers to isolate himself. Yet is completely unaware of how truly lonely of a spirit he is. Takai is alone. Alienated from everyone else.
When he is in control his eyes turn a different way. They become terrifyingly beautiful and deep. There’s a magic to them almost since they seem capable of temporarily freezing those who look upon them with fear. Most react this way, but it varies depending on the individual. When they gaze into his eyes death stares back at them and all that they believe death means and is.
He is very observant and intelligent, being the opposite of Khaz. He is always very aware and easily analyzes people, watching them from behind Khaz's innocent gaze. Because of his intelligence and pessimism, he tends to be easily bored and critical of others. There's very little people who actually catch his interest. Sometimes, to amuse himself, he make act more malevolent than he really is. This is because he enjoys frightening others away. It pleases him that it's so easy to do to most people. He won't be entirely disappointed if he can't intimidate them, though.
He also tends to be rather arrogant and prideful in some senses. He doesn't over estimate himself. He knows all that he is capable of and he knows when he is limited. It's more of his critical pessimism that makes him prideful. In his intelligence, he tends to see others of less capacity than himself. He feels he knows more of the truth than others are willing to know. So he often doesn't care when others judge him for his vigil anti actions. To him, they simply lack understanding and experience.
Takai’s function is to kill. He has shoved all the emotion into Khaz so that it will not distract him and also because he is afraid of it. Takai feels nothing most of the time. The only thrill he gets out of life is when he is killing and punishing others he has deemed unforgivable. He has given the blood phobia to Khaz so that it will not keep him back in his duties. Takai actually rather likes blood most of the time. He likes to make sure his victims die slowly, experience their death to the fullest, until the very last moment. He often likes to rip them open and take out their organs one by one, only if they are still alive to experience it. If he has the time, he’ll do it slowly. Though perhaps if given more time, find more creative ways to end them. He likes to think of himself as the bringer of karma, so he tends to like ironic deaths for his victims. After the years have passed, he has even grown addicted to this. Khaz may unconsciously seek out dangerous areas he does not normally roam because Takai is feeling the need for blood again. However, he never
ever harms those he views as innocent. They are careful when picking out their prey. They always make sure that they meet all of their requirements for death and pain. Khaz helps in the hunt, being social and nonthreatening to others; he coaxes information out of them. This how they stalk their prey.
Neither Khaz nor Takai, of course, feel their vigil anti behaviors are wrong. Both believe Takai is perfectly justified in killing and making these unforgivable people suffer (try not to get on their list). Khaz has a lot more anger in him than others would realize. The rage is there, simply tamed under a mask of friendly social behavior and harmlessness. Of course, most of the time Khaz keeps this inner belief to himself.
Despite all this hate that drives him to kill, he often watches them die dispassionately with a detached look in his dark blue eyes at their pain. He may grow bored quickly even with all the hate he feels for them, each time he had to see the pain and hurt of others because of people like that. He's become addicted to murder. Chaotic feelings attached to his past start to build up inside him, causing a great restlessness in his being. He and Khaz will then start having trouble sleeping. As it continues eventually they can't sleep at all for days. And then memories and screams from the past of dead or damaged family and friends haunt him relentlessly. Takai and Khaz have learned to go "hunting" before this occurs. If he were to resist for whatever the reason, eventually he would simply lose control and leave to hunt anyway. It’s a release from the strong stream of chaotic emotions that whirl around inside him. For they are intense and deep, Takai is very sensitive.
Khaz's ability to keep on a social mask will begin to deteriorate the longer Takai goes without killing. The more unstable he will become. Past traumas and memories will be more easily triggered than normal. Khaz will have more difficulty blocking out painful emotions, thoughts, and memories. He becomes less social, talkative, and friendly. He becomes more awkward, and his outer appearance will start to show his strain as well, perhaps in dark shadows under his eyes due to lack of sleep, gauntness from lack of appetite, and nails bitten down so low they start to bleed. His posture will become more guarded with hunched shoulders and little eye contact. He's more easily lost in thought and confused. Others may be talking to him and he'll suddenly zone out, his mind going blank.
Takai is Khaz’s frustration at all he has seen. A person who has seen horror too many times. Sometimes being done to himself, but mostly to the people he has lost. These are the people that scream in his head when he sees white and blank eyes or blood. He does still fear white eyes. Takai is there to keep it from happening again, yet due to his unwillingness to be around others and have the chance to improve and learn he may often fail. Khaz is there to smile for others and keep Takai hidden.
Khaz also has a tendency to be extremely overprotective of those he loves, especially when it comes to Leita. He can become unbearably controlling and aggressive towards those he deems as threats. Takai tends to shine through his eyes a little more during these times; rage is what connects the two the most.
His body is perfect and beautiful. No scars upon his flesh at all. Yet because of this, his body never matches the truth of how he really feels inside himself. It makes it all that much easier to hide and deny. Others are more able to look him over and see nothing amiss with Khaz’s boyish charming grin, full of life, seeming so sincere. There are no scars for them to ask him of their cause. Nothing to clue them in physically of all the abuse he has endured in the past. Outside he is perfect, beautiful, and unmarked. Inside he feels torn, ugly, and bleeding like an open wound. But he prefers to pretend like it isn’t there. As if simply believing nothing had happened, or ceasing to think about those memories, that he could live like they didn’t. They doesn’t really think anyone would care or believe him anyway. No one likes hearing about these things. And if they do, it’s because of a sick and insensitive, morbid fascination and those kinds of people he cares little for. He is not some freak show for their amusement. So why bother telling anyone?
Theme Song(s):
Nine Inch Nails -
Mad World, by Gary Jules (
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Unwell, by Matchbox Twenty (
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Dream On, by Depeche Mode (
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History/Biography
Battle Rank
Innate Element: Death/Darkness/Shadow
Overall Rank: 4.25/8.25
Strength: V/IX
Speed: VII/IX
Magic/Elemental: 0/VII
Skill: V/VIII
BA Threads:
Death Under Willow Trees (Completed)
Cutthroat Camp (Dropped)
The Land of the Dead (Dropped)
Two Sides of a Coin (Dropped)
Chaos Rampant (Dropped)
RP Threads:
The Dark Crystal (In Progress)
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