Birth Name: Arjun Kavekar
Official Name: Felix York
Age:28 29
Birthday: February 24
Gender: Hijra/Female, he/they pronouns, she is fine
Category: Student, Staff, Citizen
Species: Human, Demigod — Avatar of the Goddess Matangi
Grade: 1st Year, Medical School
Career:Detective at MCPD Counselor at the School and Sidelines as a Private Investigator
major edits as of december 25 2016
Appearance Description
Felix is 5’11 and of Hindu descent. Felix is very pretty, his features made out of sharp angles and well-defined lines. He has strong cheekbones, a hooked nose, an angular chin, and thick eyebrows. His most striking facial feature is his sharp sky blue eyes made even sharper by eyeliner, dreamy but observant all the same. Unfortunately, his glasses aren’t for décor; Felix is near-sighted and requires glasses and contact lenses to see properly. All in all, Felix is stunning, the spitting image of an urban Matangi.
Physically, he's made a full transition from male to female. He used to have a thinner build, more on the toned and wiry side, but now he's all curves with a large bust, a small waist, and a shapely ass. He doesn't flaunt this figure in fashion, preferring to dress conservatively, though some outfits might display cleavage. He dresses his age. At work, he wears a dress with a jacket, usually paired off with a long scarf. In more casual settings, he prefers Indian fashions, usually incorporating sari or baggy pants. Sometimes, however, he'd feel more whimsical and dress a lot more cutesy or seductive — either way, it's likely gonna incorporate elegant patterns, either of flowers or galaxies. Shoe-wise, Felix painstakingly prefers heels, usually heeled boots. Golden earrings are a staple to all of Felix’s outfits. Felix favors blues, blacks, whites, golds and silvers. He likes star patterns and constellations.
He uses sex-changing glamour casually, or when he wants to move easier. It doesn't do much to his appearance other than lose most of his curves.
His skin is a warm medium brown, suited more for warmer climates. He used to have tattoos inspired by bridal henna, but he spent a large amount of money to have it changed to actual bridal henna: a lotus (care and femininity) on the palms to represent what he has to offer, a mandala (the universe) at the back for protection, and some new tattoos, water designs (change) at the feet to symbolize his connection to the earth.
Felix proudly flaunts his status as a wife. He changed his bindi from black to the traditional red sindoor, he wears a mangala sutra and golden bangles. Since Hindu practices aren't all that common in Manta Carlos, he also has a gold band diamond ring in his left hand ring finger. He doesn't want to be mistaken as single, and will be unhappy at anyone that implies otherwise.
Felix often smells of flowers, usually lavender. He's partial to natural scents.
Personality Description
At first glance, Felix doesn’t seem like much. He’s a warm presence, always greeting everybody with a smile and utmost politeness, but there’s really nothing beyond it that would hold most people’s interest. He tends to fly under people’s radar. When people talk about him, common comments tend to be ‘he’s nice’, period, moving on.
Of course, this outward personality is nothing but a diversion. People who try to poke a little harder or desire more intimate friendships with him would find themselves greeted by nothing but solid hard wall. Most people never move past ‘casual friendship’ with him because he doesn’t let them. Felix holds people at arm’s length. Felix initiates conversations centering them on other people, on their needs and feelings, never letting on what he feels or what he’s been up to. People who’d identify themselves as friends with him, when asked about more details about him, would either not know anything or cite things most could deduce from the surface anyway. Should they start assuming a closer relationship with Felix than what he sees, he’s quick to establish boundaries. The quickest way to turn Felix off is to be entitled with him when he can’t feel any sort of connection between them.
People who are a little sharper would find his initial personality, accomplishments, and general appearance extremely jarring put together. There’s a lot of complexity to be found with him, but it’s easier to find it when you piece factors of his life together and deducing things from that instead of letting his outward personality be the primary indicator.
Felix both sees himself as worthless and holds himself in high esteem. This mixes in a very odd way.
Because of his parentage, Felix was born ‘casteless’ in India. Despite living in Manta Carlos for most of his life, his casteless status got hammered into him in his formative childhood years and later became something that bit him in the ass repeatedly as an adult. Felix believes himself to be ‘cursed’, someone that ruins everything he touches, so it’s best for him not to be involved in people’s lives in any personal capacity. He’s excessively humble about his accomplishments and has a hard time processing when people really actually care about him. By default, Felix believes everybody’s lives and feelings have more value than his, so he’d rather just back down and not get in people’s way to avoid drama. He’s recently starting to hold his ground, making sure people respect him and his husband.
Thinking he’s worth nothing works to his advantage in his work as a private detective. Felix is incapable of feeling debilitating fear. He’d take risks and rush headlong into dangerous situations without a second thought. If he ever prepares, it’s either to take care of civilians or out of concern about how a certain consequence would affect his daily life (e.g. he doesn’t regenerate, so he’d rather not get his eye get taken out, thanks).
Felix’s area of anxiety always comes back to people, in the end. He’s an amazing detective, but an outsider in everyday life, unable to fit in properly or find a place in people’s lives. He’s consciously aware of this, but because he doesn’t see himself as someone that should be valued, finds it hard to initiate things or open himself up in a more emotional level. Felix, at times, attempts to force intimacy, but has repeatedly found that it’s difficult for him to relate to more common sorts of people. He adores kindness and thoughtfulness, idolizes cleverness and creativity, and finds kinship with outcasts, the hurt, and the misunderstood. He gravitates to shadier sorts of people, as a result.
Felix is clinically depressed, and this is something that plagues his daily life. Mood swings come often, and with it, insecurities and self-harm. Felix relies on substances to keep things at bay. He’s most dependent with cigarettes, but would abuse drinking and sex if presented. Felix consciously makes bad decisions as a form of self-punishment. Feeling pain tends to be more welcome than feeling nothing at all.
Although not fully cured of his mental illness, Felix’s relationship with Toby has become solid ground for Felix to stand on. Toby went out of his way to move past Felix’s insecurities and show him that he loves him. Because of that, Felix has started feeling less lonely and isolated, and as a result, he puts more value in himself and other things. Felix cares about living now, so he’s learning to let go of his old coping mechanisms and past anger. He’s found out that in the end, he isn’t actually a very angry person.
Out of all the sins, pride is definitely Felix’s biggest. He may be casteless, but he was also chosen to be Matangi’s scion. Felix puts little value in himself as a person, but holds himself in high esteem as a tool of divinity. Although not one to brag about it, it is obvious Felix is very intelligent and ambitious. Combined with his ‘chosen’ status, he’s developed a bit of a god complex. Felix believes that he’s always in the right and he knows what’s best for people. Felix is lawful only to a certain extent. If he thinks he’s better than the law, he wouldn’t give a second thought about doing illegal activities.
Felix is sharp and possesses incredible foresight when it comes to people. He often knows what a person would be like just by being around them. He knows what consequences certain actions would bring, and what measures should be taken to prevent them. He uses this foresight to steer people’s lives for the better. He uses whatever means he can to achieve his goals. A gift here, a word of caution there, and he’d be able to turn a person’s life around. It’s subtle, but it’s often measured and calculated. Felix can be outstandingly diplomatic if he wants to be.
All of his bad points aside, Felix is a deeply spiritual person with a strong moral compass. He may have a hard time relating to people, but he knows what people deserve. He’s attracted to causes bigger than he is, things that could really make a difference, whether it’s activism or a particular problem that needs to be solved. Doing good is fundamentally his life’s work, one he builds his identity and sense of fulfillment around.
People that somehow achieve the status of being someone that Felix considers himself close to would find Felix to be nurturing, dedicated and silly, but firm. As much as he loves his precious people, he doesn’t support activities that compromise his values. Felix has a nerdy and sometimes crude sense of humor, often twisting familiar things into the surreal. He’s drawn to sad things and pretty things the most, but a bit ironically, the easiest way to get in his heart is with humor. While he’d claim to be low maintenance, he has a secret weak spot for shiny, luxurious things.
Felix has a very warped sense of identity in the sense that he doesn’t know or understand who he really is, but there are two constants that anchor him: he’s an instrument of good, and he’s a kickass wife.
Recently, Felix has stepped down from the police force. Police work had been satisfying to him, but it’s something he associates too much with his anger. The law is a brutal hand of justice. At the time, Felix had an obsession with punishing with criminals, but now that his vengeance has been sated and he’s learned to put more importance to better things, he came to the conclusion that he’d only get stagnant as a police officer. He’s a healer, not a punisher. He’s most at home with medicine and counseling.
Worst Memory: Finding out his mother died
Best Memory: Getting married to Toby
Likes: Toby (his husband), his mother, Nero, his cat Mittens, constellations, the ocean, winning, clever/exciting people, gold jewelry, pretty sari, pretty dresses, poetry, classic literature (favorite book: Siddharta by Hermann Hesse), flowers, flower scents, sad music (fave band: October Project), the piano, horror movies, reaching out to the community, doing good work, intriguing mysteries, watching Jett get tormented, weird internet subcultures and porn, stupid memes (skeleton song), not being single, lowkey murder
Dislikes: His brother, onions, being wrong, being trapped, being single, being harassed with baked goods, being forced to talk about his feelings, being pushed to the side and condescended to, unnecessary violence, unnecessary touching, stupidity, people that can't be civil in public, people that act like they're close with him when they don't even know anything about his life, ennui
Weaknesses: Perfectionist, Manipulative, Secretive, Emotionally cut-off, God complex/Exaggerated self-importance, Low self-worth, Clinically depressed and anxious, Prone to jealousy, Shares too much with husband
Strengths: Intelligent, Innovative, Patient, Ambitious, Determined, Idealistic, Creative, Sharp, Empathetic
Fears: Heights
Habits/Hobbies: Prone to addiction — smoking and sex, watching TV, going on weird parts of the internet
Skills / Talents: Firearms training (specializes in sniper rifles and pistols), police training, illusion magic, playing the piano (passable), writing poetry (mediocre), painting (passable), cooking (decent), knitting/crochet/cross stitch (very good), singing (decent)
Powers
As Matangi’s chosen, Felix received a few supernatural powers to enact the will of his divine.
Felix is a powerful mage, and he can rewrite light into powerful illusions. The illusions can be as big, visceral or realistic as he wants, and it can affect as many people as he wants as long as it’s possible for them to see the illusion. The more light there is, the more powerful the illusion. The catch is that he must be focusing on the illusion for the duration of the spell and he can’t alter anything about texture, sound or scent. Really, the easiest way to avoid being tricked is to close your eyes.
Felix can generate light of varying intensity and forms, from little sparkles and orbs to big blinding flashes within a two mile radius. He is able to utilize light generation to create illusions. He can't generate light to places he can't see. Like with illusions, he has to concentrate and hold it. It will dissipate as soon as he stops paying attention to it.
While not be invulnerable or immortal, but Felix has such supernatural luck that it is impossible for him to die outside of old age. Even in the bleakest situations where it’s statistically improbable for him to come out alive, the universe will always align itself to make sure that Felix doesn’t get killed or trapped forever. Fatal diseases will be magically cured, traps will fall apart, and even bullets headed to his direction would be deflected by an outside force. In certain cases, it could even nullify magic if there is no way to deflect it. Felix has no control over this aspect of his powers, but he definitely acknowledges and benefits from it. This does not apply to non-fatal diseases, mild or medium injuries, or low tier hexes. When he finds himself unconscious, he always winds up waking up in the hospital somehow.
Biography
Avanti and Suraj Kavekar were dalit — the untouchables in the Indian caste system. As far as work went, they did the messy, taboo work unfitting of higher castes, like cleaning up sewage. They had three children and lived in a government provided house with monthly rations. For the most part, the Kavekars scraped by and managed until their fourth child was born: Arjun Kavekar.
Arjun seemed more like a curse than a blessing. Shortly after his birth, a greedy official started embezzling government funds and skimping on providing for the lower caste and the untouchables. Nobody would care about corruption against the lower caste.
As greedy as his beliefs might've been, he’d be right. The allowances and food became tighter and tighter. Many of the lower caste tried to revolt against this sudden change, but they were put out by the police, some riots more violent than others. The Kavekars could barely afford one meal a day.
Suraj Kavekar didn’t know what to do. His desperation pushed him into working as a henchman to a local crime syndicate. At first, he was well-received, but his old bones began to creak and Arjun grew up watching his siblings follow his father in service to the local crime lord one by one. He kept his mouth shut as drugs and weapons began piling up inside their house. During nights where his father would go home inebriated, he would beat Arjun until his limbs bruised and screamed at him for being a cursed child. His mother was his only comfort in those days, and that was soon going to be taken away.
His older brother made the mistake of stealing some of the drugs from the cache to sell on his own. He was soon caught, and gangsters flooded their house one night with guns and knives. They were shoved in a mysterious car and taken away to be brought to the main headquarters for punishment.
Their trip was then delayed when a rival gang caught sight of the vehicle. There was a shoot-out, and in a faithful turn, the car swerved out of the road, tipped over, and fell into a thick forest. There was a bright light, and after that, he blacked out.
When he next awoke, he was in Matangi’s temple, his head on his mother’s lap. There were no signs of his father or siblings, just his mother, and he was endlessly relieved that she was safe. His happiness was short-lived, however, when his mother told him that he was going to be taken away.
By who?
A Starlight Academy approached him and offered a better life, far away from this one. He didn’t want to go, at least not without his mother. His mother told him he should pursue it. Living somewhere without this much violence and discrimination would be good for him, and he had more of an opportunity to go back and give them all a better life. He prayed to Matangi that night and woke up with his resolve. He would go. It was the right decision.
He was eleven when he arrived at the Academy. The first year was full of growing pains. Everyone seemed so different from him. He found comfort in praying to Matangi and surrounding himself in his culture. Manta Carlos wasn’t India, but it was cleaner, kinder, better. He reveled in his new freedoms, and his counselor encouraged him to pick a new name for himself, one that didn’t have to mark himself as an outcast. Verma as a casteless name; Felix, after a local poet.
He had an unrivaled passion for learning and new experiences. He had a talent for the arts and an obsession over the law. As far as home life went, Felix was ashamed, so he lied. Where are you from? What is your family like? How are you feeling? He’d lie and lie and lie, and he found that the image he created lying was so much better than the poor, pathetic untouchable he grew up as. Felix Verma was a wildly different person than Arjun Kavekar, and as far he was concerned, the latter was dead.
Felix was a star in school like no other. He graduated High School as Valedictorian with three years as Student Council President, Straight A’s, and the admiration of his peers. It was remarkable, how an untouchable like him was able to achieve more than those born with privilege. He stepped into College with enthusiasm, majoring in Fine Arts to pursue his passion in art.
Sometime around his second year in College, Felix woke up grieving. He couldn’t get out of his bed, a heavy sinking feeling in his chest, unable to shake off the feeling that his mother had just died. He went to one of his friends, a psychic, and she confirmed it – his mother was dead, and so was his father and two of his siblings. His brother framed them so he would get promoted. Felix, devastated, dropped out of school for a semester, started smoking, and when he was well enough to go back, he was… different. His eyes were more insincere, and he switched to a double major in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He cut the world off but his performance was spectacular. He graduated as summa cum laude with a degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
After he got his degrees, he went on a vacation back to India. He looked for his brother there and found him as the lord of a local syndicate. He spent a year gaining his trust, doing work and climbing ranks until he became his right hand man. During a shoot-out, Felix used the opportunity to kill his brother with a perfect alibi. Satisfied, he took his money and mother’s jewelry back to Manta Carlos.
He worked on his doctorate when he came back, and in his last year of the program, he went to Police Academy and graduated both. He joined the police force at twenty-seven, and became a detective at twenty-eight. He’s gunning to be promoted to Sergeant eventually, and maybe even get to the rank of Police Captain or run for city government.
Father: Suraj Kavekar, gang member, dead
Mother: Avanti Kavekar, house wife, dead
Sibling: Parth Kavekar (dead), Bala Kavekar (dead), Kanti Kavekar (dead)
Additional Information:
Official Name: Felix York
Age:
Birthday: February 24
Gender: Hijra/Female, he/they pronouns, she is fine
Category: Student, Staff, Citizen
Species: Human, Demigod — Avatar of the Goddess Matangi
Grade: 1st Year, Medical School
Career:
major edits as of december 25 2016
Appearance Description

Felix is 5’11 and of Hindu descent. Felix is very pretty, his features made out of sharp angles and well-defined lines. He has strong cheekbones, a hooked nose, an angular chin, and thick eyebrows. His most striking facial feature is his sharp sky blue eyes made even sharper by eyeliner, dreamy but observant all the same. Unfortunately, his glasses aren’t for décor; Felix is near-sighted and requires glasses and contact lenses to see properly. All in all, Felix is stunning, the spitting image of an urban Matangi.
Physically, he's made a full transition from male to female. He used to have a thinner build, more on the toned and wiry side, but now he's all curves with a large bust, a small waist, and a shapely ass. He doesn't flaunt this figure in fashion, preferring to dress conservatively, though some outfits might display cleavage. He dresses his age. At work, he wears a dress with a jacket, usually paired off with a long scarf. In more casual settings, he prefers Indian fashions, usually incorporating sari or baggy pants. Sometimes, however, he'd feel more whimsical and dress a lot more cutesy or seductive — either way, it's likely gonna incorporate elegant patterns, either of flowers or galaxies. Shoe-wise, Felix painstakingly prefers heels, usually heeled boots. Golden earrings are a staple to all of Felix’s outfits. Felix favors blues, blacks, whites, golds and silvers. He likes star patterns and constellations.
He uses sex-changing glamour casually, or when he wants to move easier. It doesn't do much to his appearance other than lose most of his curves.
His skin is a warm medium brown, suited more for warmer climates. He used to have tattoos inspired by bridal henna, but he spent a large amount of money to have it changed to actual bridal henna: a lotus (care and femininity) on the palms to represent what he has to offer, a mandala (the universe) at the back for protection, and some new tattoos, water designs (change) at the feet to symbolize his connection to the earth.
Felix proudly flaunts his status as a wife. He changed his bindi from black to the traditional red sindoor, he wears a mangala sutra and golden bangles. Since Hindu practices aren't all that common in Manta Carlos, he also has a gold band diamond ring in his left hand ring finger. He doesn't want to be mistaken as single, and will be unhappy at anyone that implies otherwise.
Felix often smells of flowers, usually lavender. He's partial to natural scents.
Personality Description
At first glance, Felix doesn’t seem like much. He’s a warm presence, always greeting everybody with a smile and utmost politeness, but there’s really nothing beyond it that would hold most people’s interest. He tends to fly under people’s radar. When people talk about him, common comments tend to be ‘he’s nice’, period, moving on.
Of course, this outward personality is nothing but a diversion. People who try to poke a little harder or desire more intimate friendships with him would find themselves greeted by nothing but solid hard wall. Most people never move past ‘casual friendship’ with him because he doesn’t let them. Felix holds people at arm’s length. Felix initiates conversations centering them on other people, on their needs and feelings, never letting on what he feels or what he’s been up to. People who’d identify themselves as friends with him, when asked about more details about him, would either not know anything or cite things most could deduce from the surface anyway. Should they start assuming a closer relationship with Felix than what he sees, he’s quick to establish boundaries. The quickest way to turn Felix off is to be entitled with him when he can’t feel any sort of connection between them.
People who are a little sharper would find his initial personality, accomplishments, and general appearance extremely jarring put together. There’s a lot of complexity to be found with him, but it’s easier to find it when you piece factors of his life together and deducing things from that instead of letting his outward personality be the primary indicator.
Felix both sees himself as worthless and holds himself in high esteem. This mixes in a very odd way.
Because of his parentage, Felix was born ‘casteless’ in India. Despite living in Manta Carlos for most of his life, his casteless status got hammered into him in his formative childhood years and later became something that bit him in the ass repeatedly as an adult. Felix believes himself to be ‘cursed’, someone that ruins everything he touches, so it’s best for him not to be involved in people’s lives in any personal capacity. He’s excessively humble about his accomplishments and has a hard time processing when people really actually care about him. By default, Felix believes everybody’s lives and feelings have more value than his, so he’d rather just back down and not get in people’s way to avoid drama. He’s recently starting to hold his ground, making sure people respect him and his husband.
Thinking he’s worth nothing works to his advantage in his work as a private detective. Felix is incapable of feeling debilitating fear. He’d take risks and rush headlong into dangerous situations without a second thought. If he ever prepares, it’s either to take care of civilians or out of concern about how a certain consequence would affect his daily life (e.g. he doesn’t regenerate, so he’d rather not get his eye get taken out, thanks).
Felix’s area of anxiety always comes back to people, in the end. He’s an amazing detective, but an outsider in everyday life, unable to fit in properly or find a place in people’s lives. He’s consciously aware of this, but because he doesn’t see himself as someone that should be valued, finds it hard to initiate things or open himself up in a more emotional level. Felix, at times, attempts to force intimacy, but has repeatedly found that it’s difficult for him to relate to more common sorts of people. He adores kindness and thoughtfulness, idolizes cleverness and creativity, and finds kinship with outcasts, the hurt, and the misunderstood. He gravitates to shadier sorts of people, as a result.
Felix is clinically depressed, and this is something that plagues his daily life. Mood swings come often, and with it, insecurities and self-harm. Felix relies on substances to keep things at bay. He’s most dependent with cigarettes, but would abuse drinking and sex if presented. Felix consciously makes bad decisions as a form of self-punishment. Feeling pain tends to be more welcome than feeling nothing at all.
Although not fully cured of his mental illness, Felix’s relationship with Toby has become solid ground for Felix to stand on. Toby went out of his way to move past Felix’s insecurities and show him that he loves him. Because of that, Felix has started feeling less lonely and isolated, and as a result, he puts more value in himself and other things. Felix cares about living now, so he’s learning to let go of his old coping mechanisms and past anger. He’s found out that in the end, he isn’t actually a very angry person.
Out of all the sins, pride is definitely Felix’s biggest. He may be casteless, but he was also chosen to be Matangi’s scion. Felix puts little value in himself as a person, but holds himself in high esteem as a tool of divinity. Although not one to brag about it, it is obvious Felix is very intelligent and ambitious. Combined with his ‘chosen’ status, he’s developed a bit of a god complex. Felix believes that he’s always in the right and he knows what’s best for people. Felix is lawful only to a certain extent. If he thinks he’s better than the law, he wouldn’t give a second thought about doing illegal activities.
Felix is sharp and possesses incredible foresight when it comes to people. He often knows what a person would be like just by being around them. He knows what consequences certain actions would bring, and what measures should be taken to prevent them. He uses this foresight to steer people’s lives for the better. He uses whatever means he can to achieve his goals. A gift here, a word of caution there, and he’d be able to turn a person’s life around. It’s subtle, but it’s often measured and calculated. Felix can be outstandingly diplomatic if he wants to be.
All of his bad points aside, Felix is a deeply spiritual person with a strong moral compass. He may have a hard time relating to people, but he knows what people deserve. He’s attracted to causes bigger than he is, things that could really make a difference, whether it’s activism or a particular problem that needs to be solved. Doing good is fundamentally his life’s work, one he builds his identity and sense of fulfillment around.
People that somehow achieve the status of being someone that Felix considers himself close to would find Felix to be nurturing, dedicated and silly, but firm. As much as he loves his precious people, he doesn’t support activities that compromise his values. Felix has a nerdy and sometimes crude sense of humor, often twisting familiar things into the surreal. He’s drawn to sad things and pretty things the most, but a bit ironically, the easiest way to get in his heart is with humor. While he’d claim to be low maintenance, he has a secret weak spot for shiny, luxurious things.
Felix has a very warped sense of identity in the sense that he doesn’t know or understand who he really is, but there are two constants that anchor him: he’s an instrument of good, and he’s a kickass wife.
Recently, Felix has stepped down from the police force. Police work had been satisfying to him, but it’s something he associates too much with his anger. The law is a brutal hand of justice. At the time, Felix had an obsession with punishing with criminals, but now that his vengeance has been sated and he’s learned to put more importance to better things, he came to the conclusion that he’d only get stagnant as a police officer. He’s a healer, not a punisher. He’s most at home with medicine and counseling.
Worst Memory: Finding out his mother died
Best Memory: Getting married to Toby
Likes: Toby (his husband), his mother, Nero, his cat Mittens, constellations, the ocean, winning, clever/exciting people, gold jewelry, pretty sari, pretty dresses, poetry, classic literature (favorite book: Siddharta by Hermann Hesse), flowers, flower scents, sad music (fave band: October Project), the piano, horror movies, reaching out to the community, doing good work, intriguing mysteries, watching Jett get tormented, weird internet subcultures and porn, stupid memes (skeleton song), not being single, lowkey murder
Dislikes: His brother, onions, being wrong, being trapped, being single, being harassed with baked goods, being forced to talk about his feelings, being pushed to the side and condescended to, unnecessary violence, unnecessary touching, stupidity, people that can't be civil in public, people that act like they're close with him when they don't even know anything about his life, ennui
Weaknesses: Perfectionist, Manipulative, Secretive, Emotionally cut-off, God complex/Exaggerated self-importance, Low self-worth, Clinically depressed and anxious, Prone to jealousy, Shares too much with husband
Strengths: Intelligent, Innovative, Patient, Ambitious, Determined, Idealistic, Creative, Sharp, Empathetic
Fears: Heights
Habits/Hobbies: Prone to addiction — smoking and sex, watching TV, going on weird parts of the internet
Skills / Talents: Firearms training (specializes in sniper rifles and pistols), police training, illusion magic, playing the piano (passable), writing poetry (mediocre), painting (passable), cooking (decent), knitting/crochet/cross stitch (very good), singing (decent)

Powers
As Matangi’s chosen, Felix received a few supernatural powers to enact the will of his divine.
Light Illusions
Felix is a powerful mage, and he can rewrite light into powerful illusions. The illusions can be as big, visceral or realistic as he wants, and it can affect as many people as he wants as long as it’s possible for them to see the illusion. The more light there is, the more powerful the illusion. The catch is that he must be focusing on the illusion for the duration of the spell and he can’t alter anything about texture, sound or scent. Really, the easiest way to avoid being tricked is to close your eyes.
Light Generation (UPDATE)
Felix can generate light of varying intensity and forms, from little sparkles and orbs to big blinding flashes within a two mile radius. He is able to utilize light generation to create illusions. He can't generate light to places he can't see. Like with illusions, he has to concentrate and hold it. It will dissipate as soon as he stops paying attention to it.
Divine Protection
While not be invulnerable or immortal, but Felix has such supernatural luck that it is impossible for him to die outside of old age. Even in the bleakest situations where it’s statistically improbable for him to come out alive, the universe will always align itself to make sure that Felix doesn’t get killed or trapped forever. Fatal diseases will be magically cured, traps will fall apart, and even bullets headed to his direction would be deflected by an outside force. In certain cases, it could even nullify magic if there is no way to deflect it. Felix has no control over this aspect of his powers, but he definitely acknowledges and benefits from it. This does not apply to non-fatal diseases, mild or medium injuries, or low tier hexes. When he finds himself unconscious, he always winds up waking up in the hospital somehow.
Biography
Avanti and Suraj Kavekar were dalit — the untouchables in the Indian caste system. As far as work went, they did the messy, taboo work unfitting of higher castes, like cleaning up sewage. They had three children and lived in a government provided house with monthly rations. For the most part, the Kavekars scraped by and managed until their fourth child was born: Arjun Kavekar.
Arjun seemed more like a curse than a blessing. Shortly after his birth, a greedy official started embezzling government funds and skimping on providing for the lower caste and the untouchables. Nobody would care about corruption against the lower caste.
As greedy as his beliefs might've been, he’d be right. The allowances and food became tighter and tighter. Many of the lower caste tried to revolt against this sudden change, but they were put out by the police, some riots more violent than others. The Kavekars could barely afford one meal a day.
Suraj Kavekar didn’t know what to do. His desperation pushed him into working as a henchman to a local crime syndicate. At first, he was well-received, but his old bones began to creak and Arjun grew up watching his siblings follow his father in service to the local crime lord one by one. He kept his mouth shut as drugs and weapons began piling up inside their house. During nights where his father would go home inebriated, he would beat Arjun until his limbs bruised and screamed at him for being a cursed child. His mother was his only comfort in those days, and that was soon going to be taken away.
His older brother made the mistake of stealing some of the drugs from the cache to sell on his own. He was soon caught, and gangsters flooded their house one night with guns and knives. They were shoved in a mysterious car and taken away to be brought to the main headquarters for punishment.
Their trip was then delayed when a rival gang caught sight of the vehicle. There was a shoot-out, and in a faithful turn, the car swerved out of the road, tipped over, and fell into a thick forest. There was a bright light, and after that, he blacked out.
When he next awoke, he was in Matangi’s temple, his head on his mother’s lap. There were no signs of his father or siblings, just his mother, and he was endlessly relieved that she was safe. His happiness was short-lived, however, when his mother told him that he was going to be taken away.
By who?
A Starlight Academy approached him and offered a better life, far away from this one. He didn’t want to go, at least not without his mother. His mother told him he should pursue it. Living somewhere without this much violence and discrimination would be good for him, and he had more of an opportunity to go back and give them all a better life. He prayed to Matangi that night and woke up with his resolve. He would go. It was the right decision.
He was eleven when he arrived at the Academy. The first year was full of growing pains. Everyone seemed so different from him. He found comfort in praying to Matangi and surrounding himself in his culture. Manta Carlos wasn’t India, but it was cleaner, kinder, better. He reveled in his new freedoms, and his counselor encouraged him to pick a new name for himself, one that didn’t have to mark himself as an outcast. Verma as a casteless name; Felix, after a local poet.
He had an unrivaled passion for learning and new experiences. He had a talent for the arts and an obsession over the law. As far as home life went, Felix was ashamed, so he lied. Where are you from? What is your family like? How are you feeling? He’d lie and lie and lie, and he found that the image he created lying was so much better than the poor, pathetic untouchable he grew up as. Felix Verma was a wildly different person than Arjun Kavekar, and as far he was concerned, the latter was dead.
Felix was a star in school like no other. He graduated High School as Valedictorian with three years as Student Council President, Straight A’s, and the admiration of his peers. It was remarkable, how an untouchable like him was able to achieve more than those born with privilege. He stepped into College with enthusiasm, majoring in Fine Arts to pursue his passion in art.
Sometime around his second year in College, Felix woke up grieving. He couldn’t get out of his bed, a heavy sinking feeling in his chest, unable to shake off the feeling that his mother had just died. He went to one of his friends, a psychic, and she confirmed it – his mother was dead, and so was his father and two of his siblings. His brother framed them so he would get promoted. Felix, devastated, dropped out of school for a semester, started smoking, and when he was well enough to go back, he was… different. His eyes were more insincere, and he switched to a double major in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He cut the world off but his performance was spectacular. He graduated as summa cum laude with a degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
After he got his degrees, he went on a vacation back to India. He looked for his brother there and found him as the lord of a local syndicate. He spent a year gaining his trust, doing work and climbing ranks until he became his right hand man. During a shoot-out, Felix used the opportunity to kill his brother with a perfect alibi. Satisfied, he took his money and mother’s jewelry back to Manta Carlos.
He worked on his doctorate when he came back, and in his last year of the program, he went to Police Academy and graduated both. He joined the police force at twenty-seven, and became a detective at twenty-eight. He’s gunning to be promoted to Sergeant eventually, and maybe even get to the rank of Police Captain or run for city government.
Father: Suraj Kavekar, gang member, dead
Mother: Avanti Kavekar, house wife, dead
Sibling: Parth Kavekar (dead), Bala Kavekar (dead), Kanti Kavekar (dead)
Additional Information:
- Felix is pansexual gray aromantic polyamorous, with a leaning to men and masculine people. He’s happily committed and exclusive with his husband Toby York and boyfriend Nero.
- Felix's revenge against his brother Bala can be read in the Starlight Academy 2016 webzine.
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