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Name: Khyran Oisin
Age: 37
Birthday: December 2
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Class: N/A
Subject/Work: He is a school counselor for any student or faculty who requires his services.
Appearance Description: One may be hard pressed to figure out how this man was hired to begin with, and how he's managed to keep his job in the academy. His flesh is stretched taut over his bones. He seems in a perpetual state of disheveled- his clothes a size too big, his long hair greasy and unkempt, his eye tired and sleepless. He walks at a slow, limping pace- his walking stick clunking wherever he goes.
He is a dark-haired, middle-aged man with pale-white skin and a dull brown left eye. His right eye is obscured by an eyepatch. With his ever-present limp and the strange clunking sound his leg makes when he walks, many of the younger students have dubbed him "Mr. Pirate." He has crooked teeth and a long, hooked nose that is too big for his face. He has a short, trim beard.
His office is as untidy as he is- his bookshelves overfilled, his desk strewn with useless paperweights and stacks of forms and sheets of a purpose long-forgotten. There are, however, an abundance of potted plants about the room that are very healthy. He prefers gentle, natural sunlight to artificial lighting and his office can be described as cozy rather than cramped and dank.
Personality Description: On the surface, Khyran can strike someone as a kindly, albeit guarded and downtrodden man. He rarely speaks about himself. When he smiles, it never quite reaches the rest of his face.
Outside of his job, he's a good listener: honest, genuine, and forthright. He doesn't sugar-coat things- if he sees a problem, he brings it up. He has no motivation other than to be helpful, even though his good intentions can often backfire by angering his friends and stirring up controversy where it was not needed.
Unfortunately, the man is quite bleak. He is known to expect the worst- and hope for it, too. He is rarely good-humored, and often resorts to subtle sarcasm to express his displeasure. It's exceptionally difficult to get Khyran to have a good time. Some would describe him as the human equivalent of a toothache.
At his best, he makes for pleasant, helpful company and an unbiased listening ear. At his worst, he's depressing, blunt and stubbornly set in his ways, making him infuriating to those who care about him.
When he's on the job and around the school, Khy's demeanor vastly changes. He takes his work at the school very seriously. He does not allow students to see the bleak side of him if all possible- and he throws himself completely into his work and the task at hand. He is here to help- and that is all that matters to him.
Powers: The real reason why Khyran was hired by the Academy, and has managed to keep his job for so long, is due to his particular gift. Simply put, Khyran can sense pain and observe bad memories. The level of which he can do this greatly depends on his physical proximity to someone.
For example, if a student is having a bad day, Khyran can probably sense their negative emotions from another room. However, in order to actually witness their memories, he must place his hand upon their head. Whenever a student (or even a faculty member) steps into his office, and if they have trouble explaining or describing the pain they're going through, he simply offers to touch them on the head.
The process is seen with varying degrees of comfort. However, those who have allowed Khyran to do this have described the process as a relatively calm and non-invasive one. It spares someone the trouble of having to re-tell an event in their memory and rather allows Khyran to observe it, like a spectator in a dream... or a nightmare.
Yes, Khyran can even view "fabricated memories" and walk within the confines of a client's own mental creations. This is something he encounters far less often, however.
He has one more power that the school has not approved the use of, and thus, he has never done it to a student or revealed his secret to them. He can erase memories, too. To do this, he must touch someone upon the head with both his hands, and touch foreheads with them. He must then overcome their will. If they give up the memory willingly, he absorbs it into his own mind. If they fight, his will must overcome theirs in order to take their memory away.
Physical contact his required for any of his memory-viewing and memory stealing.
In brief, Khyran can:
1. Sense negative emotions.
2. View memories, with physical contact.
3. View dreams and nightmares, with physical contact.
4. "Steal" memories, dreams, and nightmares by absorbing them into his own mind. He must touch foreheads with them.
And all RP thereof will be done with consent! If someone didn't want Khy to do this IC, he'd be very easy to push away- and he'd ask for permission first anyway.
Biography: No one is entirely sure where Khy came from. He won't really talk about it. People who pay attention to him will notice that he drives a beat-up, rusty truck to and from the school every day, so he commutes from somewhere. If anyone is apt to follow him where he lives, they'd find him at a tiny apartment complex not far from the school, where he rents a very cheap, measly place.
Khyran just showed up at the Academy one day, looking for work. He signed up to be on the custodial staff, and was a janitor for the first couple of years. However, his unusual ability saw quite a lot of use, with many students picking up on what he was capable of doing, and going to him for advice. As it turns out, Khyran had a degree in psychology, but didn't use it when he originally asked for work. Though the degree hardly qualified him for much, the school board decided to promote him to a counselor position anyway, bearing in mind his unique ability and the real results it produced among the students.
A background check on him produces very little. Beyond the fact that he obtained a psychology degree at one point in his life, likely from a college in the mainland, it seemed as though he had just appeared out of thin air...
...It's almost as if no one remembers him.
Additional Information: I'm a moderator on another RP community, so my response times here may be slow- but I'm still interested in the place and I hope my character looks ok. I will change whatever is needed.
