Name: Ignacio “Aries” Rivera Valdez
Nickname: Nacho
Age:24 25
Birthday: April 18
Gender: Male
Category: Citizen, just graduated and doesn’t know what to do with his life
Appearance Description
Ignacio is a dark-skinned Latino standing at 5’7”ft. As far as features go, he has a handsome face with open features. His skin is covered in freckles. It is ridiculous. Due to his position as Aries of the Western Zodiac, Ignacio’s more human appearance gave way to more ram-like features, with ram horns and white and fluffy hair like wool. His eyes are like little balls of fire: primarily a gradient of white and red with speckles of gold. It is as beautiful as it is intense.
Ignacio is a very animated person. Even when standing still, he seems like he’s moving somehow. When he talks, it’s always with dramatic facial features and sweeping hand motions. He’s graceful and his movements are very fluid. He has a powerful and steady voice that could command a room if he wished.
As far as fashion goes, Ignacio’s style is simple, but fashionable. He incorporates powerful colors like red and gold into his everyday wardrobe to grab people’s attention. He smells clean but even freshly ironed clothes seem to wrinkle only after a few minutes of him wearing them. He’s a master of the disheveled look.
Personality Description
Ignacio has will strong enough to pulverize a bulldozer. As a person, he is strongly invested in creation as a concept. Shiny new things dazzle him, and shiny new concepts give him a reason to get up every morning. Ignacio represents youth and all the fresh, new things it has to offer. If he says – no, declares he wants to do something, he has enough force of personality to make it happen and even convince people to join in and contribute. He has passion in spades which people tend to find attractive, but his endless romantic affair with new ideas means details are often forgotten in the shuffle and when all the fun things are done and over with, he’ll start getting bored with it, which makes him look like a bit of a flake.
But aside from his flakiness, Ignacio wants to be seen as a solid rock that people can turn to when he’s actually the opposite. Ignacio may seem like he has his life together, but this is only a clever ruse to hide the fact that he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. He doesn’t want people to know he’s a trainwreck, and that he’s currently breaking piece by little piece. He hasn’t been motivated by anything in a year and while stability is well and good, he believes that he’s lost that special spark that makes living worthwhile. When Ignacio is at his best, he represents the existential ideal: since there are no roads built for him, he would gladly make some himself. At his worst, he’s the opposite: if there are no roads, why keep going at all? Ignacio is trapped in a vicious cycle of enthusiasm and ennui, but he would rather take that than feel no strong emotions at all.
Ignacio can be blunt and hot-headed. His tendency to yell when angry can give the impression that Ignacio is irrational, but his impassioned anger often comes from, as he would like to quote, people being fucking stupid. While his anger is easy to ignite, it blows over just as quickly unless he’s given a reason to hold a grudge or if his pride gets wounded. Ignacio is intuitive and quick to think, and his self-imposed position as a leader always makes him mindful of other people’s feelings. He knows when to be patient and when to challenge and fight. He’s not afraid of confrontation.
Speaking of challenges, Ignacio is very fond of them. Ignacio loves the spotlight and he would prefer to be seen at all times. He wants to to win at everything he puts his mind to, to dominate in his field and be the very best. He knows this is a very bad trait to have because more sensitive folk would take it as a personal attack so he tries to keep it in check. He tends to prioritize other people’s feelings over his own because he believes that people tend to be very squishy. He can cope with being hurt. They can’t.
Ignacio’s biggest fear is monotony. His biggest pet peeve is being ignored. Sadly, his worst fears are coming true these days. He’s afraid that College has permanently made him normal. He may do things to overcompensate for his lack of passion and motivation, but those things seem forced and robotic when put under a magnifying glass. His bundles of charm only come out when he’s being himself.
Powers
As the representative of Aries in the Western Zodiac, Ignacio has abilities related to his title. Ignacio’s abilities center on fire and light in particular.
First off, Ignacio has the ability to cast light illusions representative of his dreams and goals. First as vague concepts, then as powerful, solid ideas. As the illusion gets closer and closer to reality, it will become more and more solid. Once he finishes it, the illusion will break completely and turn into a small diamond trophy of sorts. He can’t abuse this ability for any other reason than to represent his dreams and show them to other people. Attempting to do so will break the illusion. He can’t also force an illusion; they have to come from a truly motivated place. Once his motivation is gone, the illusion will crumble. So far, Ignacio has collected a grand zero of his dream trophies.
Ignacio’s voice can take up a very compelling quality. It’s not as powerful as mind control and could be easily mistaken as simple bundles of charisma, and indeed prior to this it was, but his change into Aries subtly added this charm to his voice. The compulsion quality will be dependent of how much force of personality and will was put behind what he’s saying. When talking about his hopes and dreams, people feel compelled to listen. When screaming in loud, violent anger, it’s impossible to be apathetic. This compelling voice can be easily ignored if the listener can either negate magic or if they possess a strong personality. He can’t control when he uses his voice. He’s not even aware he has it.
Lastly, Ignacio has the gift of illumination, whether literal or in the understanding sense. Literally, Ignacio can make tiny balls of light that could counter any sort of darkness and negate all confusing auras, illusions or mind control to the people touching it. It doesn’t negate all magic, just ones meant to deceive.
In an understanding sense, Ignacio has something what he likes calling his ‘gut’. His ‘gut’ never leads him astray, his ‘gut’ told him to this or that. It’s actually a sort of magic that makes him more attuned to his environment and understand situations better, thereby making decisions that are best for him. This ‘gut feeling’ can be easily overridden by discouragement or anxiety.
The illusions and compulsions are highly dependent on Ignacio’s enthusiasm. They don’t work when he’s only doing them half-heartedly. After all, who can dream if they have no dreams, and who can lead if they think nobody would listen? Coming in, Ignacio has been stuck in a rut for a year and has no access to either. It’s a very frustrating time for him.
His pyrokinesis is instinctive, and enthusiasm-based. When unmotivated, he can barely create a spark. In fact, he has little to no access to his powers when he’s unmotivated, which tends to be the case these days. He feels as if his powers are mocking him now. His pyrokinesis is a little easier to regain than his light powers. His pyrokinesis is dependent on his mood. His illumination powers are dependent on goals.
Biography
Ignacio grew up in Manta Carlos with his upper middle class/rich family. His father was a renowned dentist that could manipulate bones and his mother was the manager of a clothing line franchise on the island. They’re not extravagantly wealthy, but wealthy enough that Ignacio never lacked in anything. All his needs and wants were taken care of by his parents’ money.
Ignacio attended Starlight Academy as a kid with no powers. Since he wasn’t born special, he decided to be one by dazzling his peers with extravagant ideas and forcing himself into leadership positions. Many of the other children agreed that Ignacio was a natural born leader. The other children were looking to fight.
Everything changed when, at a High School party in his Sophomore Year, Ignacio met a handsome teacher doing something so ridiculously stupid for his position: a keg stand. Deciding he wanted to be daring and show him up, he did one himself. He and the teacher bonded almost immediately, and they left the party with their arms around each other’s shoulders and their lips looking for something soft to kiss. They stayed up all night with their drunken shenanigans and woke up in each other’s arms by a cliff side overlooking the city. The man told him his secret then: he was the incarnation of the Aries Zodiac sign. Ignacio was like, whoa man, that’s totally rad, did you know I’m an Aries too? And then the man started rambling about stuff but Ignacio, still dazed and a bit drunk, could only recall that he really, really wanted to eat pancakes and make out at the time, preferably in that order.
The man died a week after. Or did he? Ignacio wasn’t that sure because he forgot to give the guy his number and he really, really couldn’t remember his name, but he is at least 80% sure that he did because Ignacio’s hair turned snow white and his eyes turned into little fireballs and he grew, like, ram horns. He thought that guy gave him his powers, or something. It was cool for a few months. He experimented a lot with his newfound abilities. After that, Ignacio became bored and went about his life like normal.
After High School was College, and College was super hard for him because it required him to be certain. Ignacio was only ever certain regarding short term matters, but these days, people started asking him what he wanted to be and who he wanted to be with. It was all very scary because Ignacio didn’t want to be tied down by anyone or anything, especially not by decisions people were forcing him to make. He changed Courses several times, starting with Psychology, then Robotics, then a double major of Astronomy and Fine Arts (he was in a weird place, he can’t remember, something about ‘painting astronaut’ which was odd in retrospect) before finally settling into Business. It turned out that he was really good with Business and graduated with high marks somehow. College pretty much trampled on all of his good ideas and he had been unmotivated about everything ever since.
He recently graduated with a Business degree. After his brief stunt with a shitty Italian restaurant, Ignacio lost a lot of money and now he went back to being unmotivated, living in a loft with three other unmotivated jackasses who recently graduated and have no idea what to do with their lives. Ignacio could theoretically go back to their house, but that would be admitting his shame to his parents and he would rather work his ass off as a McDonald’s cashier and a dancer than ask them to forgive him.
Additional Information:
Part of the Zodiac Set!
Nickname: Nacho
Age:
Birthday: April 18
Gender: Male
Category: Citizen, just graduated and doesn’t know what to do with his life
Appearance Description
Ignacio is a dark-skinned Latino standing at 5’7”ft. As far as features go, he has a handsome face with open features. His skin is covered in freckles. It is ridiculous. Due to his position as Aries of the Western Zodiac, Ignacio’s more human appearance gave way to more ram-like features, with ram horns and white and fluffy hair like wool. His eyes are like little balls of fire: primarily a gradient of white and red with speckles of gold. It is as beautiful as it is intense.
Ignacio is a very animated person. Even when standing still, he seems like he’s moving somehow. When he talks, it’s always with dramatic facial features and sweeping hand motions. He’s graceful and his movements are very fluid. He has a powerful and steady voice that could command a room if he wished.
As far as fashion goes, Ignacio’s style is simple, but fashionable. He incorporates powerful colors like red and gold into his everyday wardrobe to grab people’s attention. He smells clean but even freshly ironed clothes seem to wrinkle only after a few minutes of him wearing them. He’s a master of the disheveled look.
Personality Description
Ignacio has will strong enough to pulverize a bulldozer. As a person, he is strongly invested in creation as a concept. Shiny new things dazzle him, and shiny new concepts give him a reason to get up every morning. Ignacio represents youth and all the fresh, new things it has to offer. If he says – no, declares he wants to do something, he has enough force of personality to make it happen and even convince people to join in and contribute. He has passion in spades which people tend to find attractive, but his endless romantic affair with new ideas means details are often forgotten in the shuffle and when all the fun things are done and over with, he’ll start getting bored with it, which makes him look like a bit of a flake.
But aside from his flakiness, Ignacio wants to be seen as a solid rock that people can turn to when he’s actually the opposite. Ignacio may seem like he has his life together, but this is only a clever ruse to hide the fact that he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. He doesn’t want people to know he’s a trainwreck, and that he’s currently breaking piece by little piece. He hasn’t been motivated by anything in a year and while stability is well and good, he believes that he’s lost that special spark that makes living worthwhile. When Ignacio is at his best, he represents the existential ideal: since there are no roads built for him, he would gladly make some himself. At his worst, he’s the opposite: if there are no roads, why keep going at all? Ignacio is trapped in a vicious cycle of enthusiasm and ennui, but he would rather take that than feel no strong emotions at all.
Ignacio can be blunt and hot-headed. His tendency to yell when angry can give the impression that Ignacio is irrational, but his impassioned anger often comes from, as he would like to quote, people being fucking stupid. While his anger is easy to ignite, it blows over just as quickly unless he’s given a reason to hold a grudge or if his pride gets wounded. Ignacio is intuitive and quick to think, and his self-imposed position as a leader always makes him mindful of other people’s feelings. He knows when to be patient and when to challenge and fight. He’s not afraid of confrontation.
Speaking of challenges, Ignacio is very fond of them. Ignacio loves the spotlight and he would prefer to be seen at all times. He wants to to win at everything he puts his mind to, to dominate in his field and be the very best. He knows this is a very bad trait to have because more sensitive folk would take it as a personal attack so he tries to keep it in check. He tends to prioritize other people’s feelings over his own because he believes that people tend to be very squishy. He can cope with being hurt. They can’t.
Ignacio’s biggest fear is monotony. His biggest pet peeve is being ignored. Sadly, his worst fears are coming true these days. He’s afraid that College has permanently made him normal. He may do things to overcompensate for his lack of passion and motivation, but those things seem forced and robotic when put under a magnifying glass. His bundles of charm only come out when he’s being himself.
Powers
ARIES INCARNATE
As the representative of Aries in the Western Zodiac, Ignacio has abilities related to his title. Ignacio’s abilities center on fire and light in particular.
CARDINAL SIGN: A CATALYST OF CREATION
Cardinal Signs in the Zodiac mark the beginning of every season. They’re the Zodiac’s kickstarters. They start things and stir it up. Ignacio the Aries is a Cardinal Sign, and he’s an innovative starter and leader through and through. This power is associated with light.
First off, Ignacio has the ability to cast light illusions representative of his dreams and goals. First as vague concepts, then as powerful, solid ideas. As the illusion gets closer and closer to reality, it will become more and more solid. Once he finishes it, the illusion will break completely and turn into a small diamond trophy of sorts. He can’t abuse this ability for any other reason than to represent his dreams and show them to other people. Attempting to do so will break the illusion. He can’t also force an illusion; they have to come from a truly motivated place. Once his motivation is gone, the illusion will crumble. So far, Ignacio has collected a grand zero of his dream trophies.
Ignacio’s voice can take up a very compelling quality. It’s not as powerful as mind control and could be easily mistaken as simple bundles of charisma, and indeed prior to this it was, but his change into Aries subtly added this charm to his voice. The compulsion quality will be dependent of how much force of personality and will was put behind what he’s saying. When talking about his hopes and dreams, people feel compelled to listen. When screaming in loud, violent anger, it’s impossible to be apathetic. This compelling voice can be easily ignored if the listener can either negate magic or if they possess a strong personality. He can’t control when he uses his voice. He’s not even aware he has it.
Lastly, Ignacio has the gift of illumination, whether literal or in the understanding sense. Literally, Ignacio can make tiny balls of light that could counter any sort of darkness and negate all confusing auras, illusions or mind control to the people touching it. It doesn’t negate all magic, just ones meant to deceive.
In an understanding sense, Ignacio has something what he likes calling his ‘gut’. His ‘gut’ never leads him astray, his ‘gut’ told him to this or that. It’s actually a sort of magic that makes him more attuned to his environment and understand situations better, thereby making decisions that are best for him. This ‘gut feeling’ can be easily overridden by discouragement or anxiety.
The illusions and compulsions are highly dependent on Ignacio’s enthusiasm. They don’t work when he’s only doing them half-heartedly. After all, who can dream if they have no dreams, and who can lead if they think nobody would listen? Coming in, Ignacio has been stuck in a rut for a year and has no access to either. It’s a very frustrating time for him.
FIRE SIGN: BLAZING LIKE A FOREST FIRE
Ignacio is closely related to the element of fire. Ignacio is a pyrokinetic. He can control, manipulate and be fire. Controlling and manipulating are pretty much the same abilities as a pyrokinetic has: he can’t control anything out of his range, and he’s not necessarily fire resistant. He can turn into a fireball to travel to places quicker but it has all the consequences as that would imply. When in heated arguments or having passionate sex, the room’s temperature will rise. His fire is a normal fire, and can be put out by normal means. By spraying him with water in fireball mode, he will be forced into his normal form.
His pyrokinesis is instinctive, and enthusiasm-based. When unmotivated, he can barely create a spark. In fact, he has little to no access to his powers when he’s unmotivated, which tends to be the case these days. He feels as if his powers are mocking him now. His pyrokinesis is a little easier to regain than his light powers. His pyrokinesis is dependent on his mood. His illumination powers are dependent on goals.
YOU CAN’T DESTROY A CONCEPT
Ignacio is functionally immortal. As long as he possesses the title of ‘Aries Incarnate’, he can’t be killed by normal means. He has a heightened healing rate and regeneration, but beating him up really badly will probably kill him. Destroying him would be destroying the concept of Aries itself.
Biography
Ignacio grew up in Manta Carlos with his upper middle class/rich family. His father was a renowned dentist that could manipulate bones and his mother was the manager of a clothing line franchise on the island. They’re not extravagantly wealthy, but wealthy enough that Ignacio never lacked in anything. All his needs and wants were taken care of by his parents’ money.
Ignacio attended Starlight Academy as a kid with no powers. Since he wasn’t born special, he decided to be one by dazzling his peers with extravagant ideas and forcing himself into leadership positions. Many of the other children agreed that Ignacio was a natural born leader. The other children were looking to fight.
Everything changed when, at a High School party in his Sophomore Year, Ignacio met a handsome teacher doing something so ridiculously stupid for his position: a keg stand. Deciding he wanted to be daring and show him up, he did one himself. He and the teacher bonded almost immediately, and they left the party with their arms around each other’s shoulders and their lips looking for something soft to kiss. They stayed up all night with their drunken shenanigans and woke up in each other’s arms by a cliff side overlooking the city. The man told him his secret then: he was the incarnation of the Aries Zodiac sign. Ignacio was like, whoa man, that’s totally rad, did you know I’m an Aries too? And then the man started rambling about stuff but Ignacio, still dazed and a bit drunk, could only recall that he really, really wanted to eat pancakes and make out at the time, preferably in that order.
The man died a week after. Or did he? Ignacio wasn’t that sure because he forgot to give the guy his number and he really, really couldn’t remember his name, but he is at least 80% sure that he did because Ignacio’s hair turned snow white and his eyes turned into little fireballs and he grew, like, ram horns. He thought that guy gave him his powers, or something. It was cool for a few months. He experimented a lot with his newfound abilities. After that, Ignacio became bored and went about his life like normal.
After High School was College, and College was super hard for him because it required him to be certain. Ignacio was only ever certain regarding short term matters, but these days, people started asking him what he wanted to be and who he wanted to be with. It was all very scary because Ignacio didn’t want to be tied down by anyone or anything, especially not by decisions people were forcing him to make. He changed Courses several times, starting with Psychology, then Robotics, then a double major of Astronomy and Fine Arts (he was in a weird place, he can’t remember, something about ‘painting astronaut’ which was odd in retrospect) before finally settling into Business. It turned out that he was really good with Business and graduated with high marks somehow. College pretty much trampled on all of his good ideas and he had been unmotivated about everything ever since.
He recently graduated with a Business degree. After his brief stunt with a shitty Italian restaurant, Ignacio lost a lot of money and now he went back to being unmotivated, living in a loft with three other unmotivated jackasses who recently graduated and have no idea what to do with their lives. Ignacio could theoretically go back to their house, but that would be admitting his shame to his parents and he would rather work his ass off as a McDonald’s cashier and a dancer than ask them to forgive him.
Additional Information:
Part of the Zodiac Set!
