🖤 ray amaretto 🖤

"On the count of three... Draw."

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🎵 ~ Lawman said, "Get him dead or alive"
Now it's for sure he'll see me dead ~ 🎶

🏜️ basics 🏜️

• name: Rayvaun Dariel Amaretto
  • alias: Renegade
• species: Human
• ethnicity: African-American
• birthday: October 25
• age: 25
• gender: Male(?)
• pronouns: He / him
• orientation: Queer 
• profession(s): 
  • Astral Vanguard
  • Library assistant

⚡ appearance ⚡

• skin: Medium dark skin with cool undertones
• hair: Blue-black; tightly curled (3C to 4A); falls to nape of neck
• eyes: Dark purple
• height: 5' 10" / 178 cm
• build: Slender and willowy
• other characteristics:
  • Slight bags under eyes
  • Beauty marks under left eye; next to right corner of mouth

his magical appearance is the same as above, except…

• hair: White w/a purple tint; tightly curled (3C to 4A); falls to middle of back
• eyes:
  • left: Lavender
  • right: Golden yellow
• other characteristics...
  • ???

✨ personality ✨

• alignment: Chaotic Good
• enneagram: 4w3 (self-preservation variant)
• jung / mbti: INFJ-T
• sloan: RLOEI (primarily Organized)
• temperament: Phlegmatic / Melancholic
• zodiac: Scorpio (w/ Libra cusp)
• positive traits: empathetic, intelligent, reliable
• neutral traits: aloof, independent, modest
• negative traits: haughty, nervous, perfectionist

Ray is the quintessential gifted kid — smart as a whip, awkward as hell, and completely and utterly burnt out. Years of emotional neglect and punishing degree paths has made his socialization skills nonexistent, turning him into the weirdo in the corner with a death grip on a SOLO cup.

Ray is perpetually caught in an internal tug o' war. A consummate perfectionist, but only in the handful of things he actually cares about, fully willing to let everything else slide. Desiring some kind, any kind of recognition, but instantly dying inside once he actually gets it. Wanting closer relationships with people, but unable (or unwilling?) to shake his haughty demeanor.

His  alter ego, however, seems to have exactly zero of these hang-ups.  Renegade is gregarious where Ray clams up, show-offy where Ray squirrels  himself away, and smug as hell where Ray tries to rein it in. Renegade is a wild card, doing whatever he wants, when he wants, but he's far  more amenable to offering and accepting help than his civilian counterpart.

🔮 trivia 🔮

favorites

• books: Adventure, fantasy
• drink(s): Coffee, with 3 cream and 5 sugars
• food(s): Apple pie
• fashion style: Preppy nerd; straight from a dark academia moodboard; wears cowboy stuff with it for some reason; sweater vests, bolo ties, ironed slacks, and cowboy boots
• movies / tv: Westerns, heist movies, suspense
• music: Folk music, pre-2000's country
• hobbies: Gaming, cooking, Lego building
• interests: The Wild West
• other likes: Anime
• dislikes: Feeling stifled, small spaces

symbols

• animal: Coyote
• colors: Black, lavender, white
• elements: Lightning, Metal, Nature
• flower / plant: Echinocereus engelmannii
• major arcana: The Devil
• mineral: Amethyst
• playing card: Ten of Hearts
• scents: Old books, ground coffee
• sin | virtue: Envy | Diligence

🏜️ stats 🏜️

powers

• Electrokinesis — Renegade's main power. His magic is infused with electricity, and he can summon lightning bolts to hit enemies.
• Faunal Communication — Ray can talk to animals. It's a toss-up to whether they'd listen, though. Works best on dogs, coyotes, and other canids.
• Super Speed — Renegade's base speed is much faster than most other magicals. 

attacks

• Here, Charon! — Summon. Renegade can summon a canine-like beast made of magic to help him in battle. Lasts until it takes too much damage or until Renegade de-transforms.
• Sing For Me, Styx — Mid- to long-range. One to six targets. Renegade fires six magic-seeking bullets. These bullets always hit some sort of being, even if it's not the intended target(s). 
• Acheron's Kiss — Ultimate. Area of effect, focused on a target. Renegade fires an electrified bullet. This bullet always hits its intended target, and once it does, it electrocutes the target and all hostile beings in a set radius.

inventory

• Soul gem — A pastel purple jewel. It shimmers oddly and has its own glow. It appears as the clasp of a bolo tie in civilian form, and as part of a skull shaped belt buckle in magical form. Greatly increases magic and willpower.
• Smartphone — A completely normal smartphone. No major effects.

⚡ history ⚡

When Rayvaun lost his mother, he might as well have lost his father, too.

The  child of an average middle-class family, Ray's happy childhood was cut  short when his mother was killed by a drunk driver. His father, never  giving himself or his son time to heal from grief, met and married a new  woman within a year. With his dad's increasing indifference towards him  and his step-mother's insistence on playing happy family (something  that she made clear didn't include him), the rest of Ray's life went to  shit very quickly.

Even at his young age, Ray quickly noticed how much of an afterthought he  was to his new family. His step-siblings (and later half-siblings) were  spoiled to high-heaven and given whatever they asked for, while he had to beg, borrow, and steal for clothes and school supplies. He threw  himself into his classes and homework, consistently getting high marks  and being invited to academic competitions, running himself ragged to  get his parents' attention again. Nothing worked...

...until  senior year of high school, when his step-mom flipped a switch and was suddenly interested in parenting him, becoming a sort of stage mom  obsessively keeping track of his academic prowess. Ray was overjoyed to someone paying attention to him, despite the voice in the back of his head telling him that something wasn't right. When college decision time came around, Ray admitted that he had no clue what to go to college for and his step-mom needled him about going for a medical degree and becoming a doctor. Initially unsure but not wanting to lose this newfound favor, he soon agreed.

It is in the days before his college graduation ceremony, years later —  the culmination of all the grueling academic grunt work for his  bachelor's — that his family's callousness finally pushes him over the edge and he makes a decision that severs his ties with them for good...

✨ relationships ✨

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🔮 miscellaneous 🔮

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