#(and explosion magic isn’t a particularly common magic type anyways so he’d rather no one else know)

[h-didanart]

Hello everyone I have arrived with the next installment of ‘Be gay do crimes’

This one is an oc, though his world aligns more with Urban Fantasy than with the Fantasy of the world of the first oc of mine you’ve met

Here we have Old Man Arson (Disclaimer: he’s not actually old, he’s like in his forties lmao)

He’s chill for the most part, his likings including gardening and reading. He’s tad sarcastic and a bit arrogant, but if you’re someone he likes he’ll joke around with you and invite you over for some drinks. If you’re not someone he likes though, and you mess with him or someone he likes, he has absolutely no problem with being a complete ass, a jerk, an absolute nuisance. He can be very reckless sometimes, often not thinking through his actions and getting something blown up, that is not an exaggeration, he has semi-unstable explosion magic. Moreover he knows what he wants and he knows what he stands for, he will not back down if you challenge him, and people have often found that their biggest mistake when meeting him is underestimating his capabilities.

His criminal life is one that would not be expected if you see his daily life. Sure, he is a rather curious individual, and yes he lives in that creepy haunted mansion and gets along with the ghosts haunting said mansion, but nothing about him says that’s he’s an avid demonologist. But not just any kind of demonologist, no, he wants to truly understand his fellow beings.

He wants to know their capabilities, their societal rules, their myths, their features, their dislikes. He wants to know them personally, as the beings they are. Because the society he lives at has done everything in its power to paint them as horrible creatures, they have gone from respected and feared godlike beings to feared and persecuted terrible creatures. But they’re just like zombies, or centaurs, fae, shapeshifters, ghosts. They’re other beings.

And he’s gonna do everything in his power to free those beings who have been imprisoned in the land of the living just for the crime of being brought there and not knowing how to go back.

And his best, and favorite, way to do that is by going to the local demon hunting agencies and absolutely wrecking everything they have. And freeing any demons locked in there. He’s quite infamous for all the explosions and fires he causes, and for being extremely cocky while fleeing. He’s very reckless, and he looks cool with it.

If he gives you Dimentio Super Paper Mario vibes… yeah. Yeah. He used to be a combination of Dimentio and The Boss from JSaB, but then kinda became his own thing.

Oh and yes, he threw himself off a building in that drawing, he can teleport, he’s fine.

[liminalchaos]

FULL NAME.  Ethan Rayne MEANING. Ethan is derived from the Hebrew אֵיתָן ('Eitan), meaning enduring, and Rayne is likely from the Germanic name element ragin, meaning advice or counsel. (thanks, behindthename.com!) NICKNAME.  Hasn’t got any that stuck, though he’d answer to most derivatives of his actual name GENDER.  Male HEIGHT.  6′1″ AGE.  In his 40s, during the show. (In his early 20s when all the Eyghon backstory goes down.) ZODIAC. Gemini, in the worst possible way SPOKEN LANGUAGES.  Bits and pieces of dozens, both human and otherwise, but pretty knows enough to order food, ask for directions, and flirt shamelessly. Can read most of them better than he speaks, and can read Aramaic, Ancient Greek, and Sumerian for magic purposes. Actually fluent in English, Latin, and French.

𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 !

HAIR COLOUR. Dark brown, graying EYE COLOUR.  Dark brown normally, but stained black when he’s been going to hard on the magics. SKIN TONE. Fair, tans easily if he spends much time outdoors BODY TYPE.  Gangly. There’s more muscle to him than one would guess, but mostly obscured by the fact that he’s like 70% limb ACCENT.  The sort of British accent you’d expect from a terribly overdone storybook villain. Get him drunk and it veers much closer to his natural cockney VOICE. Deep and fairly pleasant—he can sound very soothing if he tries. The semi-permanent mocking note tends to ruin that, though. DOMINANT HAND.  Right. POSTURE.  Slouched, with his hands in his pockets or folded across his chest. It’s purposefully done to make him look thinner and less threatening. SCARS.  Plenty. The ones on his palms from blood magic, those are the easiest to see. Your standard-issue ‘oops my experiment exploded’ scars on his arms and chest are old and faded. A burn across his ribs from a DIY tattoo-removal is newer, and there’s another acid scar on his arm from when he tried to burn the Mark of Eyghon off. After his stint in the Initiative, his arms are peppered with needlemarks from their experiments—though he’ll cheerfully tell anyone who asks that those scars are from drug use. TATTOOS.  Even more plentiful than the scars. Aside from the Mark of Eyghon, he’s got dozens across his back and upper arms—all magic-related, of course. They’re more for function than aesthetic. MOST NOTICEABLE FEATURE(S).   He’s t a l l.

𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 !

PLACE OF BIRTH. Tower Hamlets, London. HOMETOWN.  London. BIRTH WEIGHT.  Nobody bothered to note it. BIRTH HEIGHT.  Tbh, was probably a long baby too. MANNER OF BIRTH.  Nothing particularly exciting. FIRST WORDS.  “Look!” SIBLINGS.  None PARENTS.  His mum, Elsie. Presumably there was a father somewhere along the way, but Elsie never mentioned him and Ethan took his mother’s surname. PARENT INVOLVEMENT. Elsie did her best by him, but she died when Ethan was still a child.

𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 !

OCCUPATION. Dumpster fire. Sorcerer for hire, dealer in questionable magics and artifacts CURRENT RESIDENCE.  Hasn’t got one. Wherever he finds a motel room for the night. CLOSE FRIENDS.  None, anymore. Ripper and the gang, back in the day, but they all went their separate ways. RELATIONSHIP STATUS.  Single FINANCIAL STATUS.  Depends on whether he’s been paid recently—the payout for his jobs is usually significant, but he’s also got a bad tendency to spend all his earnings in a week flat. DRIVER’S LICENSE. Multiple fake ones, because he couldn’t be bothered to get a proper ID done up and also hasn’t got the necessary paperwork. Prefers not to drive anyway. CRIMINAL RECORD. A smattering of low-grade charges from his youth—trespassing, breaking and entering, the usual. He’s gotten better as he’s gotten older, so they look to have tapered out around the 80s.  VICES.  His whole personality, choice of work, and approach to life?

𝐬𝐞𝐱 & 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !

SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Bisexual. ROMANTIC ORIENTATION.  Still bi, just quite a bit less likely to be interested. Emotions don’t really come easily to him.  PREFERRED EMOTIONAL ROLE.  submissive       |        dominant      |       switch PREFERRED SEXUAL ROLE.  submissive       |       dominant       |       switch LIBIDO.  Depends. Like, really really depends. He’s a flirt and hardly opposed to casual hookups, but if he’s more interested in his latest project he’s more likely to use someone for a bookrest. Or as Experimental Subject B. TURN ON’S. People who can keep up an interesting conversation, on any topic. Power, especially magic power. TURN OFF’S.  Pointless violence or cruelty. Liars. People who think they know what best for others. RELATIONSHIP TENDENCIES.  Is “no” an option? He’s not really prone to relationships, and his friendliness is primarily superficial—he’s really slow to open up emotionally to anyone. If he does manage to puzzle through caring about someone, he’s devoted, though. Stalk someone for 20+ years levels of devoted, whoops.  

𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 !

CHARACTER’S THEME SONG. Special - Simple Creatures / Grace Kelly - MIKA HOBBIES TO PASS TIME.   You mean outside of chaos-related things? He does genuinely enjoy travel, and when he can be bothered to pay attention to something that isn’t magic has been known to enjoy some trashy romance novels or films with loud explosions. MENTAL ILLNESSES. Not particularly healthy, mentally, no. Functional insomniac, ever since Eyghon. Quite a bit of trauma that he’s been running from rather than dealing with. Could probably be diagnosed with ADHD if anyone bothered to try and if he bothered to cooperate. PHYSICAL ILLNESSES.  Not really. LEFT OR RIGHT BRAINED. It’s a tossup. PHOBIAS. None really. He’s particularly squeamish about corpses and not overfond of deep water or full-on mind control. SELF CONFIDENCE LEVEL.  Higher than it should be, and he knows it. VULNERABILITIES. Plentiful. He’s only human, despite what his attitude and field of work would indicate. Babbles when nervous and gloats when successful and if given half a chance will outline his entire evil plan to you in detail. Will fixate on whatever he’s interested in at the expense of things like common sense or self-preservation, sometimes. An utter coward, when it’s down to the wire.

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