Darian Darkwing

Physical Appearance

• Shoulder length dark purple hair with longer framing bangs, especially on right side
• Purple eyes
• Fair skinned on the pale side
• Medium to somewhat tall in height
• Physically fit with a toned build
• Can use his Darc rifting to shift into elemental form or create claws, wings, etc.

Clothing Style

Darian tends to wear primarily black with purple accents in a vaguely rough goth style. He almost always wears long sleeved shirts and pants along with boots. He will frequently wear black jackets, some being leather and some having complex belt accessories or straps. He tends to wear multiple black studded leather belts and sometimes include a chain hanging from them. He will also sometimes accessorize with fingerless gloves and/or a studded choker. Typically he does not wear anything that shows off very much skin.

His most common look is either a black long sleeved shirt with separated sleeves or a black sleeveless shirt with a black jacket that has the same style of separated sleeves. He wears black pants with numerous dark purple straps across the legs and many tears, especially around the ankles. He wears one black belt around his hips and a silver belt that dangles down a bit on his left side. He never takes off his black glass pendant with the Darc symbol on it.

Personality

Darian is the serious and extremely sarcastic estranged prince of the Darclytes, along with also being the new host for the Darc Element, the Black Drayconen. He doesn't speak very often to people he doesn't know well, but it's certainly not because he's shy in any sense. In fact, he's rather arrogant and tends to not talk to anyone who isn't worth his time. He has a rather elitist mindset and considers his kind to be superior to others, yet he doesn't try to assert he's better than anyone else directly (it's always just implied), unless anyone challenges him on the matter, of course. Although Darian is capable of being eloquent and well spoken due to his intellect and upbringing, he's much more likely to be extremely blunt and rather harsh with his words. He comes off as cold and rarely spares anyone's feelings if he is speaking his mind or being honest. 

If you ask his friends about him, they'll likely call him a nice guy with a rough personality you just have to get used to, but if you ask him he'll deny it and just say, "Nope, I'm an asshole." He's being somewhat sarcastic of course, but he does tend to be rude and condescending of people that he's not already emotionally invested in. For those he cares about, he is uncharacteristically tolerant of almost everything they do compared to his demeanor otherwise, and he is oddly willing to humor their ridiculous antics. He is especially protective of his Dyric friends, since he feels like they're more vulnerable and weaker than he is so it's his responsibility to look after them. When around his friends, he tends to be more quiet and leave them to their own devices while he just watches over them, and he typically won't interrupt them or bring attention to himself unless he is approached first by others. He also has short range predictive abilities, so coupled with his quick reflexes he is very good at avoiding surprise attacks or sudden trouble, such as the Gal tripping down the stairs so he knows to catch her (which happens far more often than it should). For this reason he's rather difficult to catch off guard, and he tends to respond to threats, especially those toward the Gal or his other friends, with at times disproportionately harsh retaliation. Anyone that offends or threatens them he'll hold a grudge against forever, and although he tends to behave himself more in front of his friends, he will make it very clear to anyone he doesn't like that they need to tread lightly.

Darian is a very focused person and always aims to perform his best in everything he does. Due to his sharp mind and ability to pick up things quickly and easily, he excels at many things, particularly physical and rifting combat, academics, and even playing instruments or learning dances with ease (something he only does because the Gal likes to dance and their school frequently breaks into random musical numbers). His reflexes are quick, his footwork is refined, and he is a prodigy at mastering his rifting. Since he's so skilled at many things, he's very unused to things that he's not good at. He doesn't encounter a lot of things he doesn't at least perform well in, so when he does it particularly bothers him. He may obsess over improving for long periods of time so he'll not experience falling short of his own expectations again in the future. However he tends to mellow out when in friendly competitions with his friends, and he tries his best to not overdo things to take out the fun of the situation or completely smoke them. In cooperative situations he'll carry the team only if everyone is struggling, otherwise he'll let them lead however they want and do his best to support or protect them so they have more freedom to safely consider things.

There is little Darian cares more about than the Gal and Calik, and he is "uncharacteristically" nice around them. He tends to still be sarcastic and cynical, but never to any extreme that would bring down the mood. He's more teasing than anything, and no matter what they takes interest in he tends to support them, even if he normally wouldn't care a bit. While he's normally calm and collected about everything, the best way to get him legitimately worked up or panicked is to put either of them in some kind of peril (although more so for the Gal, since Calik gets into trouble or injures himself on the regular). He and the Gal have been best friends since they were both very young, so they're very familiar with each others quirks and habits. The Gal is one of the few people Darian is fine with opening up to, and he tends to be very affectionate with her. He can sometimes get a little flustered in very intimate situations if he's made aware of how intimate they actually are, but he grows more comfortable with it as they get older. Darian is a little more oblivious about intimate situations with Calik and doesn’t really register how they’re much closer than average guy friends. Calik is also much more open about being affectionate with his friends, so any closeness with him feels less “weird” whereas being very close with the Gal feel more “serious” at times.

Abilities

• Darc rifting - rank 5/5, can increase temporarily to deity-like levels when channeling the Black Drayconen
• Darclyte rifting - rank 3/5 alone, rank 5/5 with the Gal
• Elemental shapeshifting
• Flight by Darc elemental wings or hovering with his rifting
• Short ranged foresight natural to Darclytes
• Enhanced physical strength, stamina, agility, flexibility, and reflexes
• High pain tolerance and can brush off many attacks most mortals would find fatal (although this ability is starting to deteriorate as he spends more time in the Eternity)
• Skilled at playing the flute
  • Selectively skilled at playing the electric guitar (don't ask)
• Skilled at dancing and singing, although he reserves it for the random spontaneous musical numbers at school if necessary

Strengths

• Intelligent, confident, dexterous, and meticulous
• Level headed, logical, and a problem solver
• Protective, focused, and a quick learner
• Quick witted, resourceful, responsible, and passionate

Weaknesses

• Arrogant, elitist, and condescending toward those he deems unworthy of him
• Aggressive, vindictive, and harshly blunt/honest and rude to anyone who doesn't earn his respect or friendship
• A perfectionist, stubborn, and hard to approach or talk to
• Has a soft spot for the Gal and gets murderously violent toward anyone that threatens her

Backstory

Dramida Darkwing was born the younger twin prince of Damidrakai, although his parents shunned his older brother, Damidra, and favored Dramida to one day ascend the throne instead. Although mentored to become a skilled rifter from a young age, he was always more interested in spending time with his older brother, who he always felt was very different from him and the rest of their race, which was the reason their parents wanted nothing to do with him. The Darclyte race always prided itself in being "perfect" and far superior than other races, and Damidra was always very interested in the affairs of the races of the Eternity, which Damidrakai purposely removed itself from. Damidra would regularly disappear from the castle and return with new stories of the outside world to tell his younger brother, who was utterly enthralled by them. Damidra started going by the name Damion instead, and at some point Dramida insisted on taking an outsider name as well and went by Darian, to his parents' disapproval. The more Damion ventured out, the more he seemed to outgrow Darian until he looked to be in his twenties while Darian was still a child. Damion confirmed that although they were twins he was very much different from Darian, although he never explained why or how until years later.

When Darian was eight years old, the Demriles attacked Damidrakai in search of him, since he was meant to be the next host for the Darc Element, the Black Drayconen. The other Darclytes abandoned their kingdom until the attacks passed, uninterested in the conflicts of outsiders, and they resigned to letting them have Darian to be left alone. Damion refused though and fled Damidrakai with Darian and two of his guardians, Ryclithe and Myverie, and they hid out on Taliac. Upon landing on Taliac, Darian met Nicole Valkiea and was fascinated by her, the first (non-hostile) outsider he'd ever encountered.

Damion took Darian to live in a small secretive rifter community in Nebraska, where Darian was surprised to find that Nicole also lived there. The two grew up going to the private school there and became close friends. In the meantime, he has trained with his older brother to become a fierce warrior so when the time comes to face the Demriles and fulfill his destiny as the Black Drayconen's host, he would be ready.

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