Salvador Wapenburg

Biography

Salvador was born and raised in Broekeinde. A small village just outside Drakenburg. Life in Broekeinde was tough. There was hardly enough food and the winters were always cold and damp. Salvador’s father was a Wapenburger through and through. Small and stout.
A member of one of the ‘new’ families in the village. Moved into Broekeinde as soon as they found coal in the rural ground. The Wapenburg family is one of the miner-families. Salvador worked in the mines as well since he was 8. Supporting his family. Supporting his hard-working father. He used to work as a ‘coalkid’. A child that’s tasked to climb into the narrow tunnels and veins of the mines to collect the last pieces of coal.

Salvador was 11 years old when his father died in the mines. He perished in a fire. Killed by its fumes. Tasking him with keeping his family afloat. Supporting them financially now that his father wasn’t able to. He worked harder. Longer shift, more dangerous tasks. Salvador was 23 when he died in the mines as well. But he got better.
Salvador is a Half. A ghoulish human that the Void, that lingers everywhere and in everyone, brought back from the dead. Granting him a second wind. A cursed life, with cursed Void-powers.
Everything Salvador touches ages very quickly. Like a Midas-touch but instead of getting gold Salvador gets rotten fruits. He can’t reverse his touch. He cannot turn it ‘off. He’s doomed to live this half-life until the Void reclaims him. Or Nathaniel finds a solution to their situation. Though it isn’t sure if Salvador is actually looking for a cure. He seems to be content.

    The Duvel of Drakenburg.
 
Halves get despised by society. His cursed body made him lose his job and thus the main source of income for his family. His mother, a former blue fever patient and highborn lady pleads to her brother, who lives in Drakenburg to take Salvador in and teach him the skills of the gold-craft.
He accepts it. If only because gold reacts strangely to Void-energy.
Salvador moves to Drakenburg and leaves his rural-miners life behind. He moves into an apartment complex for unmarried men and works for his uncle for two years. Without problems. Until Roswell gets a wind of it.

Salvador loses his job, his house. Roswell, the Krakers-gespan leidsman takes him in as his aspirant (his successor) and teaches Salvador how to steal and plunder. How to sneak and hold your breath if you want to move silently. But there are things Roswell isn’t telling him. Lucky for the both of them, Salvador is a really good thief.

 

Ability

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Salvador can manipulate some aspects of time. He's able to age things up:  think about growing hair or closing wounds, rot food, with focus. This ability only works as he lays his hands on the subject. He can't reverse it or prevent it. Dont shake his direct hand or you hand will rot off.
During eclipses he’s able to freeze time for roughly 30 (27.34 to be precise) seconds for everyone except him.

Golden hand:
Salvador is forced to wear a golden glove in public to downgrade his powers. Roswell was scared that the Half would kick his ass otherwise (smart choice.)
Gold nerfs leemte. The energy form Halves uses for their power. It also encapsulates one hand, leaving him with only one hand to do his mmmagic with.

Sense:
When Salvador uses his leemte lights will dim. If you’re near him while using his leemte you can feel the sensation of a thousand tiny needles scraping your exposed skin and the air going cold. It smells of the dark-underground. A very earth-like smell.

Fun Facts

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Salvador is a real train fanatic. He loves to go out and spot trains, especially rare ones! He's often seen on the rooftops of Drakenburg, near the railway just to spot trains.
Nerd even owns a model train, he polished every so often.

Salvador is a fan of chocolate and coffee. Both of these products are incredibly hard to get in Drakenburg. So he rarely eats/drinks it. Most of the times, when he get his thieving little hands on them, he sends it too his mum and sister instead.

Information

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Headcanons.

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◆Salvador takes himself pretty seriously often, and that's why he HATES things like nicknames. He's very proud of himself and thinks that giving nicknames to people is a way to diminish them. When people call him by his full name, not only salvador, he gets really proud of himself. - gif

◆I feel as if Salvador misses the feeling of most plants on his fingers, such as the velvety petals of the rose, or the lush grass between his fingers. His 'Midas Touch' prevents him from feeling them in their normal state, and causes them to wilt into that familiar crusty, papery texture.- @GalacticKarma

◆Because of Salvador's love of the concept of time, he tends to own a lot pocket watches. His first set of daggers are made of the clock hands he ripped off the clocktower in his home town...he dubbed them his "time keepers" and frames them. No one still can figure out where those clock hands went...- matlock99

◆Salvador can stand being called Duvel, but when you start calling him "gremlin" or "manlet", that's where he draws the line. - Arvex

◆Salvador likes tidiness and feeling clean, so he will take a bath whenever it is necessary. Being in a crowd is slightly more bearable if the place is clean, and maybe he dabbles in making his own soap as well! - polkadot

◆Salvador compulsively cleans every single pocket watch he owns. They're all in mint condition due to that, even if the cleaning process takes up a whole chunk of his day. Also, Salvador finds himself in the zone when cleaning, and that's when he feels all the stress melt away. - polkadot

◆Salvador owns multiple watches (or time-telling devices) and he follows it to a tee. He only follows the time that his watch shows, so if you're a second late by his time, he's going to become mildly annoyed. He likes people who arrive earlier than late-comers. -muwi

Trivia.

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◆Ambidextrous (Kinda forced), but prefers right.
◆Got a basic education (knows how to read, write and calculate easy sums)
◆Isn't a people person, but animals seem to like him.
◆Get's sick all the time.
◆Knows one single cardtrick, and is really proud of that fact.
◆His base of operation is located in the Old Church of Drakenburg. Ros pretends to run a soup kitchen there but tbh its just one big thiefden
◆His former boss chopped off his left index finger too mark him as a thief.

Relationships

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 Salvador Wapenburg.

 RosFather

Roswell and Salvador bicker a lot. They learn how to trust one and other and develop a slow, but steady father/son kind of relationship, they both desperately needed in their life. (But will never admit it).

 Leika van der Khansen.

 LeikaBest friend

Leika and Salvador are friends right away. The loud and sometimes aggressive Easterling seems to be the perfect buddy for this small, quite, mustachioed lad. 

Stats

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