Name: Ace Pendragon
Age: "Some people say I act younger than I really am. I don't understand why, but I don't think it's a bad thing~" Somewhere around 16
Birthday: "I wanted my birthday to be in the summer!" 24 July
Gender: "I mean... isn't it obvious...?" Male
Category: Student
Class: High School Sophomore
Appearance Description:
Personality Description: Ace is an outgoing boy and thrives in the company of others, though he tends to ramble on and can talk a mile a minute. He enjoys making new friends and will often persist regardless of whether the person he's latched onto actually wants a friend or not. Even when he's seen as a nuisance, he retains his trademark happy-go-lucky, if a bit naive, attitude. At the first sign of violence, however-- especially if his two most important people are threatened--, he loses control of his wolf side and goes berserk. This mainly wolf-dominated phase also comes with every full moon.
When one thinks about it, though, they realize they don't really know Ace at all. No, that privilege belongs to the two Ace holds closest to his heart; his family, Jace Nightray and Arren King. To him, those two are brothers and fathers, confidants and best friends. Family. Two people he would do absolutely anything for, even if it wasn’t necessarily to the benefit of himself.
Powers:
Biography: Had it not been for his parents’ bad luck, Ace would have been born a normal child with a normal life. He would have grown up in a loving family, gone to school, had friends, etc.
Instead, he was born to a desperate couple who wanted children with all of their hearts, but feared greatly for the mother’s and child’s chances-- the wife came from a family who had a bad history of high mother/child mortality rates during labor. By a stroke of luck, the couple had seen an advertisement in the paper for some clinical trial that would follow their unborn child’s development to ‘test run’ several new drugs that supposedly made pregnancy safer and less painful. Once they called in with questions, there had been many, many reassurances that the drugs had already tested to be completely and utterly without side effects or negative impacts, that this trial was only necessary to give the drugs the publicity needed to make a good standing on the market and all of the ‘actual’ tests had been done before and yielded 100% positive, safe results. The couple grasped the rope dangling in front of them and leapt, taking the miracle that it appeared to be and praying with all that they had.
Once the wife became pregnant and began the trial, she was required to go in for bi-weekly check-ups with the head doctor of the team running the whole thing, the visits becoming much closer together the further along she was. According to the doctor, both she and the baby were perfectly healthy and there were no complications so far. Just in case, they were running several ‘tests’ that wouldn’t normally be done. After each test, the wife always had an odd, overpowering craving for rare meat. At first, she was concerned, but upon speaking to the doctor, was quickly reassured and told to take it as the weird food craving stage.
Nine months later, Ace was born a healthy and happy baby boy. His mother’s health was also perfectly stable, which made the couple overjoyed to be safely with their newborn son. Unfortunately for all three of them, the company that was carrying out the so-called clinical trial had ulterior motives. After discreetly… taking care of the parents, Ace, now an orphan, was given time to be lost in the system before being taken in by the company. He was then subjected to a life as an experiment, the doctors poking and prodding at the boy.
You see, the original drug that was given to Ace’s mother contained the DNA of a werewolf mixed with a weak strain of what has been researched to actually transmit the lycanthropy curse, as well as several supporting drugs. It was no coincidence that Ace’s parents, as desperate as they were for a solution to the deadly problem, found the clinical trial offer just as their desire for a child was rekindled. No, it was all a set up by a secret organization-run company that wanted to create the first ‘werewolf’ that retained his human mind during and after the transformation. These weres would then be put through a rigorous educational system and would be trained as soldiers.
Creating normal wolf-human hybrids wasn’t enough-- the hybrids would inherit only the natural skills of each species. The experimental werewolves, however, would have enhanced senses, strength and stamina of their werewolf counterparts while retaining the human mind and logic of a wolf-human hybrid; after completing their education, they would answer solely to the organization that had created them as well.
And so, Ace was ‘engineered’ under the careful scrutiny of the doctors, which went completely unseen by Ace’s desperate parents.
Fast-forward about seven years.
To the organization’s eternal displeasure, Ace fought all they had attempted in order to break his spirit and ‘educate’ him. Out of all his ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’— the other children that had been chosen for the program--, he was one of the few that continued to reject and refuse them.
He and the others had also been planning an escape the moment they could understand the gilded cage they were kept in.
And so, when Ace and the other rebellious children were seven, they used their enhanced strength and stamina to escape. There were, of course, several casualties that cut down their numbers to all but two-- Ace and another boy--, but they had done it. They were free.
At least, until they realized they had nowhere to go, nothing to eat or drink, or any warmer clothes for the colder nights of the autumn.
Unfortunately, life on the streets was hard, and barely five months after their breakout, they were separated. Ace was on his own.
During the nights, Ace remained in his wolf form, as his body recognized it would heighten his chance of survival. The thicker coat of his wolf provided heat and comfort that the thin clothes and cardboard fortress couldn’t. During the days, however, Ace would roam around as a human, begging and stealing, doing what he needed to in order to survive another 24 hours.
It wasn’t until a week or two before Ace’s eighth birthday that his saving grace arrived.
Arren. And, of course, Jace.
The wizard had literally stumbled across Ace’s gangly form after the boy had been shoved aside and into the duo’s path by a rushing businessman late for work one early morning. Arren had immediately felt the desire to shelter the scrappy little street urchin, but Jace flatly refused.
Arren insisted on bringing Ace back to their apartment-- Jace snarkily compared it to bringing home a stray puppy-- and gave the poor boy a meal, a shower, and bed to nap on while he and Jace argued heatedly in Jace’s bedroom.
After several hours of yelling back and forth, Arren managed to get the snappish vampire to agree to a compromise. Ace would be given food and an allowance to spend on whatever he wanted-- at first, on the essentials, and then, with whatever money was left, on the frivolous toys and candies some boys his age were showered with--, but that would be it. Their lives continued on in that manner for about a year, which Arren had spent diligently convincing Jace to accept the little werewolf, though it was Ace himself that, unknowingly, wormed his way into the vampire’s heart.
And so, when Ace was nine, he was officially adopted into the little family. He had come to see Arren as a father/uncle-like figure and Jace as a prickly-but-caring older brother, and he couldn’t be any happier.
His… unique situation was accepted with open arms, he was taken care of and loved, and he had a family. Under Arren and Jace’s kindness, the blonde boy’s outgoing, loving, and talkative nature flourished. It’s thanks to those two that Ace is the happy-go-lucky boy he is today, even though they all had gone through their own bouts of grouchiness and argumentative stages. After all, what sort of family, as dysfunctional as they are, doesn’t argue every once in a while?
Things couldn’t seem to get any better for Ace, but apparently they could. They’ll be attending Starlight Academy-- thanks to several loud and somewhat frightening arguments between his two special people--, which would provide quite the adventure for him. He’ll be able to make new friends and meet new people, and, to Ace, that was most certainly something to look forward to!
Additional Information:
Age: "Some people say I act younger than I really am. I don't understand why, but I don't think it's a bad thing~" Somewhere around 16
Birthday: "I wanted my birthday to be in the summer!" 24 July
Gender: "I mean... isn't it obvious...?" Male
Category: Student
Class: High School Sophomore
Appearance Description:
- Eyes: A golden honey, almost amber brown
- Hair: Gentle blonde, kept in a shoulder-length bob with several strands refusing to remain in place, giving him a perpetually disheveled look
- Height: 5'5''
- Weight: 142 lbs
- Clothing style: Prefers a casual style, often sporting simple shirts and pants with no patterns, that allows him to move freely and comfortably
- Distinguishing marks: Nails that tend to grow faster than normal, which force him to get them trimmed constantly-- at least three times a week
- Animal form: A small, red wolf with the same shade of honey brown eyes as his human form
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Personality Description: Ace is an outgoing boy and thrives in the company of others, though he tends to ramble on and can talk a mile a minute. He enjoys making new friends and will often persist regardless of whether the person he's latched onto actually wants a friend or not. Even when he's seen as a nuisance, he retains his trademark happy-go-lucky, if a bit naive, attitude. At the first sign of violence, however-- especially if his two most important people are threatened--, he loses control of his wolf side and goes berserk. This mainly wolf-dominated phase also comes with every full moon.
When one thinks about it, though, they realize they don't really know Ace at all. No, that privilege belongs to the two Ace holds closest to his heart; his family, Jace Nightray and Arren King. To him, those two are brothers and fathers, confidants and best friends. Family. Two people he would do absolutely anything for, even if it wasn’t necessarily to the benefit of himself.
Powers:
- Stronger power: Shapeshifting, specifically into a red wolf, that isn’t necessarily lycanthropy even though Ace will describe himself as a werewolf to make things easier.
- Weaker power: Enhanced senses, strength, agility and healing abilities even in his human form. He also tends to have a preference towards meat, the rarer the better.
- Strengths: Though Ace remains in his human form 80% of the time, he will retain the enhanced capabilities seen in his wolf form even as a human. This usually gives him the upper hand against people who are normal humans, or whose powers do not include such enhancements. In his wolf form, his strength is increased a few times more than that of a normal wolf as well, so he can pack quite a punch despite his small form. Unlike other werewolves, he is much more in tune with his inner wolf, and therefore retains the majority of his human mind and sanity when transforming.
- Weaknesses: Ace cannot shift at will; only when his emotions and adrenaline are running high (usually only when someone insults or does something against his family) or during the full moon phases is he able to attain his wolf form. That form is also proportional to his human form, so he makes a relatively small, lithe wolf as opposed to a larger, more bulkier animal. Also, despite all of his enhancements, he will never truly be able to compare to a true werewolf.
Biography: Had it not been for his parents’ bad luck, Ace would have been born a normal child with a normal life. He would have grown up in a loving family, gone to school, had friends, etc.
Instead, he was born to a desperate couple who wanted children with all of their hearts, but feared greatly for the mother’s and child’s chances-- the wife came from a family who had a bad history of high mother/child mortality rates during labor. By a stroke of luck, the couple had seen an advertisement in the paper for some clinical trial that would follow their unborn child’s development to ‘test run’ several new drugs that supposedly made pregnancy safer and less painful. Once they called in with questions, there had been many, many reassurances that the drugs had already tested to be completely and utterly without side effects or negative impacts, that this trial was only necessary to give the drugs the publicity needed to make a good standing on the market and all of the ‘actual’ tests had been done before and yielded 100% positive, safe results. The couple grasped the rope dangling in front of them and leapt, taking the miracle that it appeared to be and praying with all that they had.
Once the wife became pregnant and began the trial, she was required to go in for bi-weekly check-ups with the head doctor of the team running the whole thing, the visits becoming much closer together the further along she was. According to the doctor, both she and the baby were perfectly healthy and there were no complications so far. Just in case, they were running several ‘tests’ that wouldn’t normally be done. After each test, the wife always had an odd, overpowering craving for rare meat. At first, she was concerned, but upon speaking to the doctor, was quickly reassured and told to take it as the weird food craving stage.
Nine months later, Ace was born a healthy and happy baby boy. His mother’s health was also perfectly stable, which made the couple overjoyed to be safely with their newborn son. Unfortunately for all three of them, the company that was carrying out the so-called clinical trial had ulterior motives. After discreetly… taking care of the parents, Ace, now an orphan, was given time to be lost in the system before being taken in by the company. He was then subjected to a life as an experiment, the doctors poking and prodding at the boy.
You see, the original drug that was given to Ace’s mother contained the DNA of a werewolf mixed with a weak strain of what has been researched to actually transmit the lycanthropy curse, as well as several supporting drugs. It was no coincidence that Ace’s parents, as desperate as they were for a solution to the deadly problem, found the clinical trial offer just as their desire for a child was rekindled. No, it was all a set up by a secret organization-run company that wanted to create the first ‘werewolf’ that retained his human mind during and after the transformation. These weres would then be put through a rigorous educational system and would be trained as soldiers.
Creating normal wolf-human hybrids wasn’t enough-- the hybrids would inherit only the natural skills of each species. The experimental werewolves, however, would have enhanced senses, strength and stamina of their werewolf counterparts while retaining the human mind and logic of a wolf-human hybrid; after completing their education, they would answer solely to the organization that had created them as well.
And so, Ace was ‘engineered’ under the careful scrutiny of the doctors, which went completely unseen by Ace’s desperate parents.
Fast-forward about seven years.
To the organization’s eternal displeasure, Ace fought all they had attempted in order to break his spirit and ‘educate’ him. Out of all his ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’— the other children that had been chosen for the program--, he was one of the few that continued to reject and refuse them.
He and the others had also been planning an escape the moment they could understand the gilded cage they were kept in.
And so, when Ace and the other rebellious children were seven, they used their enhanced strength and stamina to escape. There were, of course, several casualties that cut down their numbers to all but two-- Ace and another boy--, but they had done it. They were free.
At least, until they realized they had nowhere to go, nothing to eat or drink, or any warmer clothes for the colder nights of the autumn.
Unfortunately, life on the streets was hard, and barely five months after their breakout, they were separated. Ace was on his own.
During the nights, Ace remained in his wolf form, as his body recognized it would heighten his chance of survival. The thicker coat of his wolf provided heat and comfort that the thin clothes and cardboard fortress couldn’t. During the days, however, Ace would roam around as a human, begging and stealing, doing what he needed to in order to survive another 24 hours.
It wasn’t until a week or two before Ace’s eighth birthday that his saving grace arrived.
Arren. And, of course, Jace.
The wizard had literally stumbled across Ace’s gangly form after the boy had been shoved aside and into the duo’s path by a rushing businessman late for work one early morning. Arren had immediately felt the desire to shelter the scrappy little street urchin, but Jace flatly refused.
Arren insisted on bringing Ace back to their apartment-- Jace snarkily compared it to bringing home a stray puppy-- and gave the poor boy a meal, a shower, and bed to nap on while he and Jace argued heatedly in Jace’s bedroom.
After several hours of yelling back and forth, Arren managed to get the snappish vampire to agree to a compromise. Ace would be given food and an allowance to spend on whatever he wanted-- at first, on the essentials, and then, with whatever money was left, on the frivolous toys and candies some boys his age were showered with--, but that would be it. Their lives continued on in that manner for about a year, which Arren had spent diligently convincing Jace to accept the little werewolf, though it was Ace himself that, unknowingly, wormed his way into the vampire’s heart.
And so, when Ace was nine, he was officially adopted into the little family. He had come to see Arren as a father/uncle-like figure and Jace as a prickly-but-caring older brother, and he couldn’t be any happier.
His… unique situation was accepted with open arms, he was taken care of and loved, and he had a family. Under Arren and Jace’s kindness, the blonde boy’s outgoing, loving, and talkative nature flourished. It’s thanks to those two that Ace is the happy-go-lucky boy he is today, even though they all had gone through their own bouts of grouchiness and argumentative stages. After all, what sort of family, as dysfunctional as they are, doesn’t argue every once in a while?
Things couldn’t seem to get any better for Ace, but apparently they could. They’ll be attending Starlight Academy-- thanks to several loud and somewhat frightening arguments between his two special people--, which would provide quite the adventure for him. He’ll be able to make new friends and meet new people, and, to Ace, that was most certainly something to look forward to!
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