Thomas

As an infant Thomas was "found" in the heavily corrupted areas outside the arch and adopted by the then mage general Lizon, who tried to raise him as best he could despite the objections of pretty much everyone else. As a child he was extremely precocious and uncanny, considered frightening by many even though he was so cute. He started copying the dark magic rituals of Lizon and the other dark mages since he was two, and by four he was sneaking off to the battlefield to help his other father Enrique. He only started officially receiving training when he was seven, and since he was already a powerful dark mage by that point he was trained in swords and spears instead. He loved that too, but probably because Enrique was the one conducting the training. 

In his early to mid teens Thomas was locked into a female form to learn a particular branch of magic only taught to girls, which was pretty much standard practice for young mages who became powerful too early for their own good. It was intended to teach them love and friendship and also act as a power limiter with all of their original abilities locked away until they figured out how to change themselves back. Thomas, being perfectly happy to be complimented by his dads on how beautiful he looked, was really in no hurry to change back. He also spent most of it as an exchange student in the magic institute of Renzach, where he made new friends, learned new magic, and completely failed expand his worldview. 

In the proceeding years he reverted back to his male form and returned to Alcazar, where he quite quickly built up a (somewhat overblown) reputation as an object of terror and fear to all who cross him. Currently, he alternates between obediently following orders and occasionally going AWOL to explore the world, sometimes dragging his friends along to keep him company. 

PERSONALITY

• Sophisticated, charming, elegant, aristocratic
• Dramatic, theatrical, image conscious
• Imperious, haughty, prideful
• Domineering, cruel, manipulative, predatory
• Possessive, jealous, selfish, protective - especially over Lizon
• Independent, capricious, maliciously playful and rather troublesome
• Psychopathic, sadistic, loves toying with victims that amuse him, doesn't hide his habits all that well
• Curious, analytical, often about food even moreso than magic
• Dutiful, diligent, used to getting ordered around, fairly obedient unless he has reason to be otherwise
• Acquiescent, obliging, indulgent . . . easily manhandled by his friends
  • Was corrupted from “birth” – his soul was steeped in evil to begin with due to circumstances of birth
  • Adopted and raised by loving parents who taught him the “pattern” of love and morality, but doesn’t truly understand it
  • Strongly possessive over his property, has learned to act in certain ways so as to please the people that he considers “his”
  • His current personality is a seal created by Lizon and maintained to control this true self, the seal breaks down little by little whenever he is exhausted or overtaken by darkness and can be brought back by purification or certain people who are his "controls"
  • Nothing catches his attention faster than fear or hatred . . .

POWERS

His eyes turn from green to red when using dark magic and corruption abilities, and his sclera turns black when overtaken by darkness.

• Corruption Control - able to manipulate corruption and the reality warping effects caused by heavy amounts of, able to control corruption creatures so long as he has "captured" them, able to stop corruption from affecting other people, only able to remove the corruption he himself causes
  • Corrupted Body - he is basically a blob of corruption wearing human skin, detectable by people with high enough perception as a dark aura or a corrupted shadow occupying his "space"; visibly he is still human even if there is only corruption under the skin. Any injuries immediately regenerates as long as he has mana left over, deeper injuries manifest as a void with teeth which immediately close up but may bite first, and any attempt to put objects through him (eg. a sword or spear) will get the inserted portion of the item in question consumed
    • Needs to vamp off fear and/or consume sentient/corruption creatures to maintain his strength - isn't aware of this since he always does it anyway. Able to restore his mana by directly consuming fear and corrupteds, however, doing so wears away at his seal. He can also eat just about anything else and frequently does so to "clean up" after his kills (using toothy shadows that come out of his actual shadow) 
    • Due to the rather special state of his consciousness mental attacks against him would more often than not backfire, instead frightening or corrupting the person attempting to launch mental attacks on him. AoE mental attacks are largely ineffective while mind reading attempts would just read his corruption. Attempts to read or influence him via empathy or any other magical or physical effects, however, have a tendency to misfire and cause unintended effects
  • Consume - able to consume corruption creatures and add their power to his mana pool, consuming strong corrupted creatures and corrupted demons would permanently enlarge his mana pool while weak ones are just a top up. He becomes somewhat unstable for awhile after he absorbing a strong corrupted and until he finishes properly assimilating it, the length of time depends on the power and temperament of the corrupted creature
  • Summon: Minion - once he consumes corruption creatures he is able to store their data and summon them as desired, effectively they become his minions and are controlled by him. Trying to absorb and assimilate sentient corrupteds tends to give him digestive problems so he often just spits them back out while keeping their data, effectively he becomes an unintentional save point
• Dark Magic - magic powered by sacrifice and/or mainly intended to cause suffering, or subvert the wills of others. Unique among dark mages in that he can draw dark magic from himself and it actually takes more effort to use "normal" magic. Eg. manipulating solid darkness (usually in the form of shadowy tendrils, sometimes with thorns or mouths with sharp teeth), slicing/corroding, pain spells, control spells, curses, heavy duty debuffs, dark buffs
  • Necromancy - resurrection (8 minutes), reanimating the dead, manipulating corpses, death telemetry, creating and controlling undead, miasma, flesh manipulation, flesh mending "healing" (feels very unpleasant) 
  • Unnerve - a passive AoE debuff that causes a fear reaction in everyone that looks at him or is in his immediate vicinity, the intensity of which is dependent on how much dark magic he has been using recently and can range from mild unease to paralyzing terror, no effect on persons of non biological nature, less effective on light affinity
  • Fear Absorption - able to vamp off fear to more quickly restore his mana
  • Dark-infused Elemental Magic - able to use "dark" forms of elemental magics, mostly prefers irradiated fire but can use the other elements as well
• Spell Weave - general purpose magic for everyday use, eg. teleport (ink smoke effect), repair spells, binding spells, barrier spells, search spells, levitation, hammerspace, etc — non-affinity magic uses more mana than when using dark magic or corruption. A number of these are actually specially made dark magic varieties, because it's easier. Has also created a number of personalized spells and spell arrays, mostly for convenience than combat. Has a particular preference for spells optimized for cooking (eg. temperature control, time bubbles, preservation, cleaning, etc) and also storage and transportation arrays. Occasionally, and mostly as a joke, he puts them to very effective use in combat situations
• Mind Reading - as long as he is looking into their eyes or they are thinking very loudly/projecting thoughts at him, able to understand intent in spoken words even if he doesn't understand the language, also has some mental manipulation ability — unpracticed with using this ability

EQUIPMENT

• Staff - hilariously, it's an extremely powerful heal/buff staff that's also a family heirloom (made by his dad!) and is completely useless for offensive magic, not that he needs any assistance on that front. It is also a personal database of sealing spells and lets him cast a number of them that he wouldn't normally be able to. It's not bound to him but he keeps it in storage and is very possessive over it
• Armor - dark armor that automatically appears on his body whenever he enters the "transition" stage, he thinks it's tacky as hell and tends to destroy it immediately once he gets dragged back to his senses. Increases his defenses by a lot and grants him auto-guard whenever it's on
• Spear - another thing that automatically appears whenever he enters the "transition" stage, and he doesn't like the spear much either. It's way too tacky. But it also increases his magical and physical attack power by a lot so . . . 

SKILLS

• Magic research - look at this nerd, wouldn't he look super hot in glasses? Wears glasses when he's doing his research and nobody can tell you why. Possibly because it makes him look extra hot, in a cute bookwormy kinda way? Very good at making potions and cursed objects, decent at regular magical objects, completely abysmal at talismans and protective charms
  • Works with his dad a lot to create new spells, well on his way to becoming one of the greatest spellcrafters of his time 
• Knight training - mounted combat, spear and sword use 
• Cooking - his favorite hobby! Particularly enjoys baking, has toyed with the idea of opening his own bakery
• Ballroom dancing, classical instruments (piano and violin), languages, calligraphy, horseback riding, painting, poetry . . . basically, if it's an obnoxiously classy hobby, he can do it and will be unspeakably amazing at it for no good reason (aka magic)

COMBAT STYLE

• An area controller, plunges the battlefield into corruption and uses summons and area hazards to pick opponents off
• A notably cowardly fighter when facing someone of the same level, at which point he normally stays away and pelts them with hazards. May consider a little more bravery when he has a meat shield to hide behind, however. Enjoys team battles and is a capable supporter
• Against weaker opponents he is a much more straightforward fighter, simply using dark magic to torment and kill them
• When forced to fight for real he summons his spear and armor, which greatly improves his physical and magical capabilities

WEAKNESSES

• Especially vulnerable against Purification type magic, and to a lesser extent Light. Cannot use white or light magic at all. On the flip side, he is resistant to dark-, death-, and corrupted-affinity attacks
• Burning slows his regeneration rate, assuming the fire is strong enough to get past his resistances 
• Due to his reliance on corruption to setup, he can be quite easily knocked out if surprised in a combat scenario (requires at least A ranked speed). Be careful not to kill him or continue attacking however, or you may get a nasty surprise! 

NOTES

• Is actually the corrupted throne of Gluttony, was defeated by his "fathers" and forcibly reverted to an infant form. He was then adopted, with intent to make use of his abilities and stop him from growing up and becoming an enemy again. This is an enforced secret within the military, with the relevant memories having been wiped from the minds not cleared to contain such information, leaving only the top brass aware of his history
• Due to a botched necromancy experiment when he was 25, he is now technically undead. However, he still likes to eat and sleep, but not so much on the breathing except to keep up appearances
• Really loves cooking, might have something to do with his status as the throne of Gluttony . . . not that he has any idea. He just likes to cook
• He fights extremely dirty, especially if he thinks there is a decent chance of getting beaten. Tends to disappear somewhere and simply send out minions to fight, or retreat behind some meat shield. Is very enthusiastic about running away when his favorite meat shields (Enrique, Ilvari or Leander) are in the vicinity. Only fights directly against opponents he is sure he can easily defeat. Likes to play around, is not necessarily the best judge of when he should or should not play around
• Enjoys pretending he is eviler than he actually is, which is quite the feat. Happy to exaggerate his reputation or encourage others to do so, and to take the credit for whatever disaster that happens that could be vaguely linked to him if he is accused of it, even if he has no idea what actually happened
• Has fanclubs full of dark magical girls/boys, he doesn't like thinking about them and finds the idea mildly horrifying. So does everyone else
• Occasionally gets used as transport (by Cyril). Hates being used as transport, especially if someone decides to sing annoying songs while he's transporting them. See also: getting used as storage or clean-up
• Obsessively elegant, he looks down on junk food, unarmed fighting . . . and anything else he views as “crass”
• Extreme night owl, sleeps at around sunrise and wakes up in the afternoon
• Very money minded, willing to sell some really shifty items if you ask through the correct channels . . . 
• Likes people with purification abilities, to the point where some people think he's suicidal

RELATIONSHIPS

• Enrique
  • His mildly overprotective father, whom he loves very much
• Lizon
  • Another father, but one that he tries to protect this time. Has perhaps more than familial affection for Lizon . . .
• Eliezer
  • Uncle! A very useful and very interesting man, of whom he is very fond
• Helize
  • His scary uncle whom he tries not to spend too much time with, but finds very useful at times . . .
• Ilvari
  • The family dog! Beloved and fluffy and warm! And also incredibly useful in a fight
• Seito
  • He absolutely adores Seito, though he doesn't quite understand why. That has never stopped him, though
• Cyril
  • He greatly respects (and perhaps even fears) the robot, and they are close friends who have a tendency to amplify the trouble each other creates
• Ilios & Selni
  • They are good friends and excellent allies, but they can be rather overbearing