- Aug 9, 2016
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EMMETT ORENSTEIN
Age: 30
Birthday: October 9
Gender: identifies as Male
Sexuality: um...?
Species: Synthetic, Golem
Occupation: security for Carnegie Industries
APPEARANCE
Age: 30
Birthday: October 9
Gender: identifies as Male
Sexuality: um...?
Species: Synthetic, Golem
Occupation: security for Carnegie Industries
APPEARANCE
Emmett is a rather imposing figure to look upon. Standing at just over seven feet tall and nearly half as broad, he is a brick wall and can easily block doors with his bulk. He's built to match his frame, muscular with a slight barrel chest and hands nearly as large as dinner plates. Other than that, Emmett's most defining feature is that he is really brown. Ruddy brown skin, brown eyes, brown hair.
His skin feels pretty normal to the touch most of the time, but if struck hard or cut in any way, it shows its true nature. When struck with considerable force, his skin dents like dough and stays somewhat deflated like that until he takes the time to correct it. Likewise, being cut produces no blood, but shears the flesh like wet clay, and sufficiently deep cuts can make limbs unusable until the clay is pressed back together.
Emmett normally wears what basically amounts to cheap suits, the kind a low budget private detective might wear. These suits are usually gray or brown, and he rarely bothers with ties or hats. His hair is messy and always covers his forehead, and he appears to have perpetual five o'clock shadow.
His skin feels pretty normal to the touch most of the time, but if struck hard or cut in any way, it shows its true nature. When struck with considerable force, his skin dents like dough and stays somewhat deflated like that until he takes the time to correct it. Likewise, being cut produces no blood, but shears the flesh like wet clay, and sufficiently deep cuts can make limbs unusable until the clay is pressed back together.
Emmett normally wears what basically amounts to cheap suits, the kind a low budget private detective might wear. These suits are usually gray or brown, and he rarely bothers with ties or hats. His hair is messy and always covers his forehead, and he appears to have perpetual five o'clock shadow.
PERSONALITY
Best Memory: Stepping out into the rain for the first time.
Worst Memory: Walking away from his father because he couldn't ignore an order.
Likes: Helping others. Flower pressing.
Dislikes: Being stagnant. Fire. Feeling weak or powerless. Being controlled.
Strengths: Is really, really strong. Has an excellent work ethic. Loyal to a fault.
Weaknesses: Has a hard time saying no to people. Gets destructively angry if he finds out he's been manipulated.
Hopes: To find a way to be sure he can't be controlled ever again.
Fears: Being under someone's control again. Failing to save someone else's life. Shattering. [in order of depth of fear]
Hobbies: Flower pressing. Wood working.
Worst Memory: Walking away from his father because he couldn't ignore an order.
Likes: Helping others. Flower pressing.
Dislikes: Being stagnant. Fire. Feeling weak or powerless. Being controlled.
Strengths: Is really, really strong. Has an excellent work ethic. Loyal to a fault.
Weaknesses: Has a hard time saying no to people. Gets destructively angry if he finds out he's been manipulated.
Hopes: To find a way to be sure he can't be controlled ever again.
Fears: Being under someone's control again. Failing to save someone else's life. Shattering. [in order of depth of fear]
Hobbies: Flower pressing. Wood working.
POWERS
The Potter and the Clay
The Potter and the Clay
Emmett's body is comprised of clay and ash, and allows him a number of abilities.
First, Emmett can spend time reforming his body to alter his appearance. Over the years he has gotten quite good at this and can mimic just about anyone with enough time and patience. It can take upwards of an hour to make highly specific changes, but he can alter simple things like the size of his nose or the length of his hair in a few minutes.
He can also consume soil, clay, or stone to increase his mass or heal from injury. Consuming stone will also cause his body to grow harder, allowing him to take more punishment and shrug off edged weapons with ease. But the stones eventually break down, returning him to his normal after an hour or so. Increasing his mass in this way makes him stronger and even more physically imposing, as well as making him heavier. Emmett can consume ashes from a person to the same effects, but he is adverse to doing so because it would alter his personality and memories in fundamental ways.
First, Emmett can spend time reforming his body to alter his appearance. Over the years he has gotten quite good at this and can mimic just about anyone with enough time and patience. It can take upwards of an hour to make highly specific changes, but he can alter simple things like the size of his nose or the length of his hair in a few minutes.
He can also consume soil, clay, or stone to increase his mass or heal from injury. Consuming stone will also cause his body to grow harder, allowing him to take more punishment and shrug off edged weapons with ease. But the stones eventually break down, returning him to his normal after an hour or so. Increasing his mass in this way makes him stronger and even more physically imposing, as well as making him heavier. Emmett can consume ashes from a person to the same effects, but he is adverse to doing so because it would alter his personality and memories in fundamental ways.
Swords to Ploughshares
Emmett can create a sense of calm in anyone he directly looks at our touches. He can affect up to three people with this ability; one for each hand he can touch with and one that he can look at. If he looks at and touches a person with both hands, he can put them into a docile, nearly comatose state. If he stops using the power on them, they will wake up a few minutes later.
SPECIES ABILITIES
Being a Golem, Emmett is afforded a number of abilities and immunities that humans do not have. He is incredibly strong, able to lift a small car with ease. He is also immune to fatigue and requires neither sleep nor food. He cannot be poisoned or contract a disease, and cuts only provide mild inconvenience because he cannot bleed.
Arid conditions and fire are anathema to him however. If he spends too long in them, he can and will eventually begin to dry out. If this occurs fully, he will be rendered an inert statue and be effectively dead. Fire is much worse than mere dry atmosphere, and he avoids fire at nearly all costs.
Finally, as a golem created using Kabbalic theurgy, he can not ignore an order given to him using the Tetragrammaton as an invocation. He will be aware that it has been used in him, but his body will move without any accord to his own thoughts or wishes.
Arid conditions and fire are anathema to him however. If he spends too long in them, he can and will eventually begin to dry out. If this occurs fully, he will be rendered an inert statue and be effectively dead. Fire is much worse than mere dry atmosphere, and he avoids fire at nearly all costs.
Finally, as a golem created using Kabbalic theurgy, he can not ignore an order given to him using the Tetragrammaton as an invocation. He will be aware that it has been used in him, but his body will move without any accord to his own thoughts or wishes.
HISTORY
Jacob Orenstein was the son of a Jewish banker in a small city in the American South. A falling out in their family caused him to leave both his family's home and their faith when he was seventeen. He moved to a small town nearby and began working as a farmhand there.
Over the years, he fell in love with a local girl and married her, taking over her father's farm in the process. They had three children: Mark, Elizabeth, and Emmett.
Emmett, the youngest, was always his father's favorite and loved the farm the most. He continued helping on the farm even when his brother moved away to become a musician and when his sister went off to college.
One day when he was fourteen, a snake in the barn spooked the cattle, and the resulting stampede killed the boy. Due to the damage done to his body, his parents opted for cremation. Jacobs wife drank herself to death at the loss of her youngest child, and Jacob himself fell into a severe depression.
One night he finally called out to the god of his father, and was hit with a revelation. His family had practiced Kabbalic mysticism, not necessarily a taboo but definitely nowhere near mainstream in the Jewish faith. He researched extensively and found a ritual to create a golem.
Jacob performed the ritual as he found it, though he added to the untilled soil the ashes of his son, hoping to give the golem his memories and personality. After thirty-six hours of meditation and fasting, he completed the ritual and watched as the clay cracked and began to form into the familiar face of his son.
People talked. It was a small town after all. Mostly, folks stayed away from the farm and left Jacob alone with his "demon child." He didn't care what they said though, or even thst Emmett's memories hadn't really come back with him. He had his son back, and no one was going to take that from him.
One night, someone set fire to the farmhouse, intending to do away with the unholy works that had gone on inside. By the time that Jacob awoke, the fire had already burned away a lot of the house. In his rush to find Emmett and get out, a beam fell on him and trapped him.
Emmett found his father and started pulling away the debris to free him. But Jacob saw that the fire was making his son dry out like a pot in a kiln. So he tearfully ordered Emmett, in the name of YHWH, to leave him to die and escape. Emmett left the farmhouse, protesting the entire time as the fire consumed the house.
Emmett moved to a city, where he could move mostly unnoticed. He got work as a bouncer, or a handyman, doing work for cheap so that he could afford a small apartment. He eventually got pulled into criminal work, where his superior strength and ability to alter his appearance made a world of difference.
He came home one day to a letter slipped under his door. He didn't know how these Manta Carlos people had found him, but he did like the idea of not having to hide and move around if people started asking too many questions.
Over the years, he fell in love with a local girl and married her, taking over her father's farm in the process. They had three children: Mark, Elizabeth, and Emmett.
Emmett, the youngest, was always his father's favorite and loved the farm the most. He continued helping on the farm even when his brother moved away to become a musician and when his sister went off to college.
One day when he was fourteen, a snake in the barn spooked the cattle, and the resulting stampede killed the boy. Due to the damage done to his body, his parents opted for cremation. Jacobs wife drank herself to death at the loss of her youngest child, and Jacob himself fell into a severe depression.
One night he finally called out to the god of his father, and was hit with a revelation. His family had practiced Kabbalic mysticism, not necessarily a taboo but definitely nowhere near mainstream in the Jewish faith. He researched extensively and found a ritual to create a golem.
Jacob performed the ritual as he found it, though he added to the untilled soil the ashes of his son, hoping to give the golem his memories and personality. After thirty-six hours of meditation and fasting, he completed the ritual and watched as the clay cracked and began to form into the familiar face of his son.
People talked. It was a small town after all. Mostly, folks stayed away from the farm and left Jacob alone with his "demon child." He didn't care what they said though, or even thst Emmett's memories hadn't really come back with him. He had his son back, and no one was going to take that from him.
One night, someone set fire to the farmhouse, intending to do away with the unholy works that had gone on inside. By the time that Jacob awoke, the fire had already burned away a lot of the house. In his rush to find Emmett and get out, a beam fell on him and trapped him.
Emmett found his father and started pulling away the debris to free him. But Jacob saw that the fire was making his son dry out like a pot in a kiln. So he tearfully ordered Emmett, in the name of YHWH, to leave him to die and escape. Emmett left the farmhouse, protesting the entire time as the fire consumed the house.
Emmett moved to a city, where he could move mostly unnoticed. He got work as a bouncer, or a handyman, doing work for cheap so that he could afford a small apartment. He eventually got pulled into criminal work, where his superior strength and ability to alter his appearance made a world of difference.
He came home one day to a letter slipped under his door. He didn't know how these Manta Carlos people had found him, but he did like the idea of not having to hide and move around if people started asking too many questions.
