Name: Vapor von Rauch
Age: Hundreds of years, looks about 20
Birthday: First gained sentient thought in the early 19[sup]th[/sup] century
Gender: None, prefers to take on a male appearance
Species: Sentient smoke cloud
Career: Professional bad guy and all around miscreant.
Birth Place / Hometown: “Born” London, England, spent it's life traveling Europe and then the New World to learn more about humanity. Sent to the island from Toronto, Canada.
Appearance Description:
Image commissioned from SA user Bijou
To say something is off about Vapor is being kind on the subject. It's hair, skin, and basically EVERYTHING about it is black as soot with dark gray highlights. The only part of their physiology with any sort of colour is the fact that the iris of it's eyes are a bright red, the colour of burning coals.
While they could make clothes out of it's own substance, which they do when it is on the job as leaving clothing behind can be a nuisance, in it's everyday life they tends to buy suits and dress shoes of various styles but always the same colour. Black with gray highlights and red accessories (IE Black suit, gray pinstripes, shiny black shoes, and a red tie and cufflinks).
As far as hairstyle goes it can change depending on their mood though they tends to go with a slicked back undercut hair style, this involves keeping the sides and back of it's head in an undercut haircut (very short, sometimes almost shaven) while the hair on the top is kept long enough to be able to slick it back. They also have a height of about 5'10” with an average looking build, and while they can change this it has to keep the same mass as they can not get rid of it purposefully. For example he can look shorter but would look more heavy set, or taller and much more thin.
Personality Description:
Worst Memory: Being locked in an air tight space for days.
Best Memory: The first time he broke into a bank without getting caught.
Likes: Smoking, alcohol, generally being an obnoxious git.
Dislikes: Police, people who tell him what he can and can not do, fresh air.
Weaknesses: Strong gusts of wind, water,
Strengths: Can get into places people normally can not, does not actually posses a physical body in the proper sense of the word.
Fears: Loosing consciousness and drifting apart.
Habits/Hobbies: Breaking into places and taking things that aren't his that he thinks should be.
Skills / Talents: Pretty good with slight of hand tricks.
Vapor tries to be charismatic, charming, and all the things you think an old school aristocrat should be but instead he comes off as condescending and overly full of himself. He fits in more with the shadier side of humanity as this is what he molded himself after as he felt that the darker side seemed to have much more fun! He tries to speak elegantly, and sometimes may even succeed, but more often then not he is just repeating something he learned from watching others.
Active Abilities:
Fire conjuring:
It has the ability to create and control fire using it's mind, though over use of this ability can tire them out which cause them to need both rest and to refuel it's energy stocks, usually through consuming mass amounts of alcohol or smoke. If they use up all their energy reserve (Using after hours of using their power without rest) Vapor can slip into a sort of coma in which it reverts to their gaseous state and sort of just floats there. The fire for all intents and purposes has the strength of normal, everyday fire. Think a decent sized camp fire at it's peak.
This power manifests itself in three particular ways;
Hands of fire: Vapor concentrates all the flame onto it's hands which can be pretty deadly in a fist fight, or even useful as a party trick for lighting someone's cigarette. This requires greater concentration though to keep the flames focused so it can cause fatigue at a much greater pace.
Fire breath: Vapor spews the flame from their mouth, imitating what it assumed a dragon from lore would look like. Very useful when facing a large group of people. The greater the distance they spew the fire though the weaker the over all effect can be though, again again it uses far more concentration and energy.
Area Explosion: If back into a corner Vapor can cause an explosion that starts where it is standing and goes out from there. The max distance it can push it out is about 2 miles (3.2 Km) but this makes it very weak, the shorter the distance the stronger it is. Also if this ability is used it uses up most of their energy reserve and they would need to rest immediately, though if they had used any other power before this it's use would render them instantly unconscious. If used close range, like a few feet away, it is enough to cause 3rd degree burns but not do property damage. At max range it is 1st degree burns for those near by and a rather hot and uncomfortable breeze to those at the maximum distance.
Shape shifting:
Being basically a sentient cloud of smoke Vapor has a natural, yet very rudimentary, form of shape shifting. Basically they can mimic the look and shape of anything or anyone it comes in contact with or simply revert back to it's natural gaseous state. The only problem though is they can not change their mass or colouring. For example if they changed into a cat it would be a very large black and gray cat with burning red eyes, not the most subtle of disguises. Also there is the problem that if they try to stretch themselves too thin that they might eventually dissipate and cease to be. If it ever loses enough smoke, more would have to be taken in, either via industrial means such as factory smoke or car exhaust, or even just by smoking cigars or cigarettes.
When in solid form Vapor can be hit and feels something that they might feel would be akin to pain, a buzzing and really annoying sensation that persist longer depending on the strength of the hit, and can suffer damage this way as well as from magical abilities with wind or water based effects. When in it's gaseous form though physical attacks don't seem to do much but elemental and magical attacks hit it even harder.
Flight/Levitation:
In human form Vapor can levitate them self, but not higher then a foot or so off the ground. If they changed back to it's cloud form though they can basically fly wherever it wants to go, though it can not go too high. They have to stay low, going no higher then an altitude of 1200 feet (just about skyscraper height) before they start to break apart and loose bits of itself. The speed they can go up to is restricted to a max speed of 200 Km/h (that is about 124mph. About just as fast as a medium car's max speed.)
Passive Abilities: Nil
Weaknesses:
Water: Water, for lack of a better word, burns it. Whenever it touches him it is very akin to throwing water onto a camp fire, the more you use the more likely it is to snuff it out. This makes it hard for it to go out on rainy days, or enjoy the outdoors at winter time, as it could potentially be deadly for it.
Resources:
-Lives in an abandoned house in an over grown field that seems to not have had an owner in years.
-Lives off the money and other treasures it was able to squirrel away before it had been caught. While it is a lot it is still a finite amount. With it's limited needs though it is enough that it could potentially live very well off of it for a few decades if need be.
Biography:
Getting the truth out of Vapor about it's creation is almost impossible, not because they won't tell you but more so because you can not tell which of it is true and which is just them telling lies to mess with you.
As far as anyone can tell Vapor first came into being in the early days of the industrial revolution, approximately 1816, in the London England. It started out as a sentient smog cloud, learning what it could of humanity before it decided that it wanted to take part in the fun!
It always seemed to find that the things that came out in the day where always so boring, but during the dark times? That is when the fun folks come out so it was mostly during the night that it went about their activities. Slowly it learned to take human shape though at first it looked more like a shadow then anything else, Vapor is found of saying that it's early days are the cause of most stories about shadows coming to life or the things that go bump in the night but none of this can be substantiated. Eventually it learned to take on a more human appearance, and even learned to speak as well as create clothes for itself.
The more it learned though the more it saw the world as it's stage, and all the folks in it it's play things. It learned about the seedy part of humanity and decided that once and for all this is where it would stay, with those that regular society had cast out. It learned all about the finer details of bad behaviour, crime, and all the fun things the underworld had to offer. It was during this time it took on the name Vapor, called so after once being seen melt from human form to gaseous.
After spending a few decades in London, Vapor decided it needed to travel more after hearing many fine things about a place called Europe. After getting a general direction it hitched a ride on an air current and floated it's way over to the mainland. Here it travel around, learning many new and exciting things, and committing many new and exciting criminal acts! Eventually was in Germany it took on the last name Rauch, a word it took to mean smoke and basically naming itself a form of saying Smoke Smoke. It was not the brightest individual at the time. Later on though it would add in von before Rauch as it seemed more fancy to them.
After decades spent traveling around Europe stealing new things, meeting new people, and even killing some of them this sentient smog had enough of Europe and traveled to a place called “The Americas”, more specifically the north part. It spent many MANY years traveling around The United States as well as a place called Canada, where it eventually decided to stay. Here Vapor became part of the counties seedy underbelly until far into the 2010's when it was eventually captured in a place called Toronto, Ontario.
Given the choice between being locked up in an air tight cube or being sent to some island to become a problem for someone else, Vapor chose the island. This seemed the better choice of the two as it could continue it's play time with a whole new sort of people!
To listen to Vapor recount it's vast history though you would think it was the cause of every unsolved crime from it's creation to now, though it is hard to tell which is true and which is false as many of the time lines do not sink up. The only thing you can tell from talking to them is that it is a completely alien entity compared to humanity and cares only about itself, the rest of those precious meat bags are good for a laugh but can never live up to it's own glorious self!
Additional Info:
What do you call a sentient smoke cloud?
Vapor has taken on a masculine look and does prefer to be called he or him, but does not get angry if called them, they, or even it as it is generally does not have a sex so to speak.
What does it smell like?
Basically you can tell Vapor is near because it smells like someone has been smoking, or even letting their car run in an enclosed space.
Does it eat or drink?
Yes and no! While they do not have to eat food they do need to consume smoke to keep itself healthy and whole! Also drinking alcohol causes some sort of internal combustion that brings a temporary warm and fuzzy feeling that they like a lot, and seems to also sustain it as well.
Does it actually feel emotions?
Technically speaking? No, no it does not. It has, however, learned to emulate them over the hundreds of years it has spent watching humanity and attempts to show the appropriate feeling when it thinks it is needed. While it can appear to be happy, angry, pleased, etc it actually feels none of these things.
It keeps talking about doing something because it is fun. Does it actually know what fun is?
Yes, in a way. Fun to it is doing something when you want because you want to and then, if it gets away with it or not, being able to walk away and on to the next 'fun activity'. They day it will no longer be having fun is the day it is locked away forever or destroyed.
Age: Hundreds of years, looks about 20
Birthday: First gained sentient thought in the early 19[sup]th[/sup] century
Gender: None, prefers to take on a male appearance
Species: Sentient smoke cloud
Career: Professional bad guy and all around miscreant.
Birth Place / Hometown: “Born” London, England, spent it's life traveling Europe and then the New World to learn more about humanity. Sent to the island from Toronto, Canada.
Appearance Description:
Image commissioned from SA user Bijou
To say something is off about Vapor is being kind on the subject. It's hair, skin, and basically EVERYTHING about it is black as soot with dark gray highlights. The only part of their physiology with any sort of colour is the fact that the iris of it's eyes are a bright red, the colour of burning coals.
While they could make clothes out of it's own substance, which they do when it is on the job as leaving clothing behind can be a nuisance, in it's everyday life they tends to buy suits and dress shoes of various styles but always the same colour. Black with gray highlights and red accessories (IE Black suit, gray pinstripes, shiny black shoes, and a red tie and cufflinks).
As far as hairstyle goes it can change depending on their mood though they tends to go with a slicked back undercut hair style, this involves keeping the sides and back of it's head in an undercut haircut (very short, sometimes almost shaven) while the hair on the top is kept long enough to be able to slick it back. They also have a height of about 5'10” with an average looking build, and while they can change this it has to keep the same mass as they can not get rid of it purposefully. For example he can look shorter but would look more heavy set, or taller and much more thin.
Personality Description:
Worst Memory: Being locked in an air tight space for days.
Best Memory: The first time he broke into a bank without getting caught.
Likes: Smoking, alcohol, generally being an obnoxious git.
Dislikes: Police, people who tell him what he can and can not do, fresh air.
Weaknesses: Strong gusts of wind, water,
Strengths: Can get into places people normally can not, does not actually posses a physical body in the proper sense of the word.
Fears: Loosing consciousness and drifting apart.
Habits/Hobbies: Breaking into places and taking things that aren't his that he thinks should be.
Skills / Talents: Pretty good with slight of hand tricks.
Vapor tries to be charismatic, charming, and all the things you think an old school aristocrat should be but instead he comes off as condescending and overly full of himself. He fits in more with the shadier side of humanity as this is what he molded himself after as he felt that the darker side seemed to have much more fun! He tries to speak elegantly, and sometimes may even succeed, but more often then not he is just repeating something he learned from watching others.
Active Abilities:
Fire conjuring:
It has the ability to create and control fire using it's mind, though over use of this ability can tire them out which cause them to need both rest and to refuel it's energy stocks, usually through consuming mass amounts of alcohol or smoke. If they use up all their energy reserve (Using after hours of using their power without rest) Vapor can slip into a sort of coma in which it reverts to their gaseous state and sort of just floats there. The fire for all intents and purposes has the strength of normal, everyday fire. Think a decent sized camp fire at it's peak.
This power manifests itself in three particular ways;
Hands of fire: Vapor concentrates all the flame onto it's hands which can be pretty deadly in a fist fight, or even useful as a party trick for lighting someone's cigarette. This requires greater concentration though to keep the flames focused so it can cause fatigue at a much greater pace.
Fire breath: Vapor spews the flame from their mouth, imitating what it assumed a dragon from lore would look like. Very useful when facing a large group of people. The greater the distance they spew the fire though the weaker the over all effect can be though, again again it uses far more concentration and energy.
Area Explosion: If back into a corner Vapor can cause an explosion that starts where it is standing and goes out from there. The max distance it can push it out is about 2 miles (3.2 Km) but this makes it very weak, the shorter the distance the stronger it is. Also if this ability is used it uses up most of their energy reserve and they would need to rest immediately, though if they had used any other power before this it's use would render them instantly unconscious. If used close range, like a few feet away, it is enough to cause 3rd degree burns but not do property damage. At max range it is 1st degree burns for those near by and a rather hot and uncomfortable breeze to those at the maximum distance.
Shape shifting:
Being basically a sentient cloud of smoke Vapor has a natural, yet very rudimentary, form of shape shifting. Basically they can mimic the look and shape of anything or anyone it comes in contact with or simply revert back to it's natural gaseous state. The only problem though is they can not change their mass or colouring. For example if they changed into a cat it would be a very large black and gray cat with burning red eyes, not the most subtle of disguises. Also there is the problem that if they try to stretch themselves too thin that they might eventually dissipate and cease to be. If it ever loses enough smoke, more would have to be taken in, either via industrial means such as factory smoke or car exhaust, or even just by smoking cigars or cigarettes.
When in solid form Vapor can be hit and feels something that they might feel would be akin to pain, a buzzing and really annoying sensation that persist longer depending on the strength of the hit, and can suffer damage this way as well as from magical abilities with wind or water based effects. When in it's gaseous form though physical attacks don't seem to do much but elemental and magical attacks hit it even harder.
Flight/Levitation:
In human form Vapor can levitate them self, but not higher then a foot or so off the ground. If they changed back to it's cloud form though they can basically fly wherever it wants to go, though it can not go too high. They have to stay low, going no higher then an altitude of 1200 feet (just about skyscraper height) before they start to break apart and loose bits of itself. The speed they can go up to is restricted to a max speed of 200 Km/h (that is about 124mph. About just as fast as a medium car's max speed.)
Passive Abilities: Nil
Weaknesses:
Water: Water, for lack of a better word, burns it. Whenever it touches him it is very akin to throwing water onto a camp fire, the more you use the more likely it is to snuff it out. This makes it hard for it to go out on rainy days, or enjoy the outdoors at winter time, as it could potentially be deadly for it.
Resources:
-Lives in an abandoned house in an over grown field that seems to not have had an owner in years.
-Lives off the money and other treasures it was able to squirrel away before it had been caught. While it is a lot it is still a finite amount. With it's limited needs though it is enough that it could potentially live very well off of it for a few decades if need be.
Biography:
Getting the truth out of Vapor about it's creation is almost impossible, not because they won't tell you but more so because you can not tell which of it is true and which is just them telling lies to mess with you.
As far as anyone can tell Vapor first came into being in the early days of the industrial revolution, approximately 1816, in the London England. It started out as a sentient smog cloud, learning what it could of humanity before it decided that it wanted to take part in the fun!
It always seemed to find that the things that came out in the day where always so boring, but during the dark times? That is when the fun folks come out so it was mostly during the night that it went about their activities. Slowly it learned to take human shape though at first it looked more like a shadow then anything else, Vapor is found of saying that it's early days are the cause of most stories about shadows coming to life or the things that go bump in the night but none of this can be substantiated. Eventually it learned to take on a more human appearance, and even learned to speak as well as create clothes for itself.
The more it learned though the more it saw the world as it's stage, and all the folks in it it's play things. It learned about the seedy part of humanity and decided that once and for all this is where it would stay, with those that regular society had cast out. It learned all about the finer details of bad behaviour, crime, and all the fun things the underworld had to offer. It was during this time it took on the name Vapor, called so after once being seen melt from human form to gaseous.
After spending a few decades in London, Vapor decided it needed to travel more after hearing many fine things about a place called Europe. After getting a general direction it hitched a ride on an air current and floated it's way over to the mainland. Here it travel around, learning many new and exciting things, and committing many new and exciting criminal acts! Eventually was in Germany it took on the last name Rauch, a word it took to mean smoke and basically naming itself a form of saying Smoke Smoke. It was not the brightest individual at the time. Later on though it would add in von before Rauch as it seemed more fancy to them.
After decades spent traveling around Europe stealing new things, meeting new people, and even killing some of them this sentient smog had enough of Europe and traveled to a place called “The Americas”, more specifically the north part. It spent many MANY years traveling around The United States as well as a place called Canada, where it eventually decided to stay. Here Vapor became part of the counties seedy underbelly until far into the 2010's when it was eventually captured in a place called Toronto, Ontario.
Given the choice between being locked up in an air tight cube or being sent to some island to become a problem for someone else, Vapor chose the island. This seemed the better choice of the two as it could continue it's play time with a whole new sort of people!
To listen to Vapor recount it's vast history though you would think it was the cause of every unsolved crime from it's creation to now, though it is hard to tell which is true and which is false as many of the time lines do not sink up. The only thing you can tell from talking to them is that it is a completely alien entity compared to humanity and cares only about itself, the rest of those precious meat bags are good for a laugh but can never live up to it's own glorious self!
Additional Info:
What do you call a sentient smoke cloud?
Vapor has taken on a masculine look and does prefer to be called he or him, but does not get angry if called them, they, or even it as it is generally does not have a sex so to speak.
What does it smell like?
Basically you can tell Vapor is near because it smells like someone has been smoking, or even letting their car run in an enclosed space.
Does it eat or drink?
Yes and no! While they do not have to eat food they do need to consume smoke to keep itself healthy and whole! Also drinking alcohol causes some sort of internal combustion that brings a temporary warm and fuzzy feeling that they like a lot, and seems to also sustain it as well.
Does it actually feel emotions?
Technically speaking? No, no it does not. It has, however, learned to emulate them over the hundreds of years it has spent watching humanity and attempts to show the appropriate feeling when it thinks it is needed. While it can appear to be happy, angry, pleased, etc it actually feels none of these things.
It keeps talking about doing something because it is fun. Does it actually know what fun is?
Yes, in a way. Fun to it is doing something when you want because you want to and then, if it gets away with it or not, being able to walk away and on to the next 'fun activity'. They day it will no longer be having fun is the day it is locked away forever or destroyed.
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