#so it is a very unfortunate combination of her dyslexia+her not visiting a school with special needs teachers+ and her emitter-personality

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Laughing in all good humor, Senritsu waved a small hand dismissively. "Maybe I was in my youth.", said the young woman who very much was still in her youth.

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Congratulations Liv and welcome! We’re so happy to accept your application to play AJ Braeden with the faceclaim of Nathaniel Buzolic in Fire & Glory RPG! We can’t wait to begin roleplaying with you so please remember to look over our checklist!

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Name: Liv Pronouns: She/Her Age: 20 - 11/07/1997 Timezone: GMT Activity: It really depends on the week and how uni goes, I start back next week so I’ll get a general idea of how much I can get online from that. But I’ll definitely try to get on for an hour or so most nights if not every other night.

Original Character Application:

Name: Alexander James (AJ) Braeden

Age and Birthday: 29 - January 2nd 1988

Faceclaim: Nathaniel Buzolic

Heritage: Son of Aurora

Abilities: In the case of his ability a main source is required for the ability to be accessed i.e. if he’s in a pitch black room with no light he can’t use photokinesis it’s why he often carries a torch and a lighter around with him wherever he goes. Also, overuse fatigues him to the point of falling unconscious.

Also allows the creation of insubstantial illusions meaning they have no physical form but can be made to look lifelike up until the point of touching them. Essentially a holographic projection.

By bending the spectrum of light he can cause himself, can shield others but the more people the more taxing/draining it is and he will more than likely end up draining himself and falling unconscious.

Affiliation: AJ is a legionnaire of the First Cohort, as well as being one of the most well-known and crowd-favourite gladiators amongst the Colosseum’s ranks. Between public fights and his work in the cohort he is set to take on ownership of the pub known as Dauntless in the main city - its location basing it directly opposite the Colosseum making it a prime spot to catch foot-traffic for individuals visiting the monumental venue across the way. Currently, he works as a barman there in his free time combing this with his winnings from the Colosseum to get some money behind him for a life beyond the legion.

Headcanons:

AJ really loathes the use of his full name by anyone for the most part barring those he considers incredibly close to him and even then he tends to get tetchy when people use it. He feels it keeps him attached to a weaker version of himself that wasn’t able to defend those he cared for when it was required of him, because of this he trains hard and often pushes himself to and beyond limits and follows a relatively strict fitness routine and meal-plan.

Several times in his career and time in the legion AJ was approached and offered the position of Centurion and at one point in his life he was set up for running to be elected for the role. He’d proven himself a capable warrior several times over especially during the battle of Mount Tam where he led and directed a small company of soldiers through the destruction. But after the death of his girlfriend in the Argo II attack on New Rome he grew reclusive from life in the legion and stepped away from any offers of power or advancement preferring to stay out of the limelight and operate in the darkness. Ironic, considering his parentage.

Biography:

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Alexander Braeden never saw eye-to eye with anyone in his life after the shooting of his parents, be it the therapists, counsellors or foster parents who adopted him after he was put into the system. He could never grasp what he had done wrong to end up in such dire straits– an orphan left behind after a picnic lunch in the park went horribly wrong, the sounds of laughter and joy cut off by the shrill ring of bullets as they showered down around him. Only later would he learn about the consequences of the gang shootout that would shift the axis of the world as he knew it. By some grace, or was it godly power? Who could say, a boy from a poor loving family woke in hospital a few days later to the news his mother and father had been killed on site.

The young boy was quickly swept up into the system and bounced from home to home, never really quite fitting in anywhere. He was an odd child that most struggled to comprehend despite their best efforts and to say AJ’s behaviour grew unruly, obstructive and erratic after the death of his parents would be an understatement to say the least. School was another battle in itself, despite his best efforts his ADHD and dyslexia meant lessons were a struggle that left him feeling further and further ostracised from his classmates and those around him who seemed to have everything in the world he wanted.

The only reason he survived the downward spiral his life seemed to be taking was by establishing control elsewhere; in the brief death-defying moments teetering on the scale up a building, the burning lick of a flame, the refusals to eat or even the first time his fist collided with a bullies face after a particularly nasty taunt. He always was a smart and creative boy but found during school hours no matter how hard he tried to apply it he couldn’t do so in the way people wanted him to leading to frustration and outbursts of anger over why he was different. With no one to guide or explain the reasons to him, he grew up stuck in a vicious cycle without any clue how to escape.

Until, one day he did escape.

He decided to run– hitting the streets where he learned real life lessons about survival, becoming a skilled street-thief known as Scrappy due to his short stature and seemingly wild method of brawling when he did end up getting in a tussle. He learned to rely on his instincts, to trust only himself and that if you wanted to live you had to adapt to be faster than the bigger thugs on the street with him. After all, if you could wear them out even the tallest person would fall eventually. Eventually, he left his hometown of Los Angeles being drawn North where he came across The Wolf House in Sonoma Valley. It was here he discovered the truth about who and what he was much to his shock.

With the aid and training of Lupa, AJ took his first steps in order to turn his life around. A very serious, quiet, observant boy he displayed a remarkable amount of personal strength developed from years of taunts along with skill set that was only enhanced by what he learned at the Wolf House he excelled under Lupa’s tutelage. Unfortunately, his life of taunts wasn’t over and the legion made him feel like he was stepping right back into school but being around other people like him helped curb his temper some.

Unfortunately, his dislike for authority figures wielding power over his life means he often pushes back against orders he disagrees with earning him a bit of a reputation as a rebel. Combined with his parentage it left him open to taunts about his Godly parent simply being a woman of loose morals and that he was likely just another bastard strung on the line. It was his driven and determined nature that earned him his place in the first cohort when one of its legionnaires stood for him immediately granting him a place in their ranks. In the first cohort was where he began to learn how rely on others, although it’s still an incredibly foreign concept he isn’t entirely comfortable with to this day. AJ prefers to do things independently and will more often than not forge his own path along the route he believes is best which has both succeeded and backfired spectacularly in the past.

Recently, AJ has spent the summer touring Europe with his best friend Adriana and has returned to camp where he’s settled back into life in the legion. However, feeling he’s getting a bit too old for the same old monotonous routine he has recently been considering moving on from life in the legion. As it currently stands, AJ still serves in the First Cohort but also works part-time in a pub known as Dauntless in New Rome though most know him for his career in the Colosseum - having struck up a rather remarkable tally of wins (and winnings) across the years from his association with the venue.

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