Profile
Basics
DEFROSTING ICE KING • COMBAT MEDIC • BRUISER WITH A SOFT CENTER
A surgical genius. His magical and hands-on prowess makes him an extraordinary asset to the medical field. Despite his occasionally callous and confrontational disposition, he takes prolonging the lives of others extremely seriously. While he's more amicable—and even fatherly—with young children, he's abrasive and blunt with adults and is prone to pulling loose threads to unravel them.
A layer of ice protects a very soft heart. Having lost both his wife and son, his passion for life has dwindled drastically. He wears himself quite thin busying himself so that others will never feel a loss like his own. He has sworn that he will lose no one else, though his methodology to ensuring this contradicts his dedication to promoting the growth of others.
Character
Cold, distanced.
Ice encases the warmth poured into him amidst his youth. Though his eyes are a vivid warm green, there is no doubting the frost in that glare as his gaze pierces you cleanly. Why he prides himself upon demeaning and demoralizing is anyone's guess — it simply stands that it exists, and he cares not for how his victims feel about it. While he (begrudgingly) will give respect where it is due, he's aware that he is abrasive, unable to give any less of a shit.
Inquisitive, adventurous.
Perhaps it is attributed to his growth-oriented mindset. He loves learning new things and challenging others to do the same by any means necessary — it is, after all, so commonly said that spite is a beautiful motivator. That being said, he himself adores learning — his obsessions may primarily lie within medicine, white magic, and blood magic, but nothing is safe from his inquisitive mind. It's these moments that find him more amicable and passionate.
Ambitious, passionate.
Learning a new language, skill, what have you, invigorates him greatly. When it comes to challenges, he loves to face them head on. No matter how exhausting, he finds the work pleasurable, perhaps stemming to why he works so hard to figure out what ails his patients and solve it for their sake. He's ambitious and dedicated, despite how monotonous he can be, and his true nature shines most in these moments. It's one of the rare moments that friendship seems feasible.
Critical, judgmental.
Though he is a major critic of those who have the misfortune of meeting eyes, it pales it comparison to how highly he holds his own personal standards. He does not take his, or anyone else's, failure well. His punishments for incompetence generally coincide with his ability to perceive one's most insecure traits and lacerate them into gaping wounds. His students, as well as one of his closest friends, can attest to his lacking amicability.
Sacrificial, persistent.
Even his bedside manner is lacking. One would think this meant the doctor had no concern or care for his patients' well-being, but this would be a gross undersight of how much their health bedevils him. When it comes to witnessing the plight of someone wounded, he will come to their aid with a visage of seriousness upon his face. No matter how much of an ass he is, keeping others alive is a duty he upholds more than he does keeping his own vessel afloat, often causing him to neglect human necessities, like sleeping or eating. It's impossible to think he truly hates humanity when he sacrifices so willingly.
Loving, protective.
Believe it or not, there are a handful of people who would double down, claiming that the warmth he once had still remains. They would insist his exterior is but a hardy shell to protect his soft, squishy interior. Being a hulking, beefy man, the juxtaposition of their words and his callous demeanor is tremendous. Such an accusation has all the more reason to be incorrect, seeing as he still manages to indulge in dickish behavior regardless of if you're friend, family, or foe. His affections are displayed in such peculiar ways that the only method to tell when he truly cares is by prolonged study of his demeanor.
Tsundere, sheepish.
Yet, they're correct in their words — he indeed is a harmless giant when you melt the protective ice cooling his core. It's impossible not to know when you're in with him, though the cognitive dissonance he feels when it is brought up alongside his more aggressive persona results in hilarious sheepishness and embarrassment, further displaying the weakness he's so clearly desperate to hide. He is a man of subtlety and crypticism; he prefers to keep things held within, and does not open up easily. He doesn't ask for help, allowing himself to crumble if it means keeping up the ruse.
Despairing, desperate.
And crumble he has. With the death of his wife — a scenario that oh so happened to coincide with the deep cooling of that heart — and later his son, Nico has fallen into poor habits. While newfound rampant alcoholism fuels the flames, but the fire he once held within is now but crackling embers. He hides this desperately behind walls he isn't willing to tear down for anyone, not even his clearly concerned and worried family. Rather than process his grief and feel emotions, he works obsessively, trying to ensure that no one else would be wounded by the misery of loss.
Hollow, fragile.
Though glimpses of his shattered self briefly break through, he is more hollow if anything. Many of his morals and initial values seem to have withered into nothing. There are moments where his weakness threatens to claim him, through either actions he shouldn't be taking, or the destruction of his body through unhealthy means. He has fallen stagnant, and seems complacent to stay this way... and nudge others into that same state. It's... safer that way, he swears, contradicting his prior dedications for the sake of latching onto the "safe" present.
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Design
| Height: | 6'2" (187.96 cm) |
| Build: | mesomorphic beef cake |
| Eyes: | lime green |
| Hair: | black
short, typically high or low bang |
| Notes: | He's an arrogant asshole. Has the worst "better than you" attitude. He probably is better, too. Definitely looks like he can and would hurt you. In his demon form, there's no shortage of jewelry dangling from those horns. Dresses a bit more slutty than his usual modest (and occasional tight shirt) attire. Loves boots, gloves, vests, trench coats, and suits. Prefers dark colors. |
Skills
Blood Manipulation.
Born with a heavy degree of arcane, typeless blood, his ability to manipulate blood is a pivotal part of his ability to save his patients. Most frequently, he uses his ability to change blood type on a whim to do transfusions on the fly, as well as simulate an adrenaline rush for when he needs to run. Rarely, and usually a desperate last resort, he can control the blood inside of his enemies.
Healing Touch.
Nico's bloodline comes with two great perks; this is one of them. It gives him astounding insight on anatomy and medical status, alongside the knowledge of just what is ailing his patient. So far, he has three primary skills: Enhancement, which allows him to move with incredible speed and precision, Vital Lock, which keeps a person's health above a certain point so that he can try riskier surgeries, and Stabilization, which rapidly heals them and keeps them from going into shock while he works.
Apollo's Scion.
Born with tremendous light magic, Nico makes good use of it. While these are primarily supportive and defensive, he's found creative ways to hurt others when in a pinch. For all his aggression, he's a weird cross of healer and tank. He has an assortment of spells—six that he primarily uses—in his arsenal.
Water Manipulation.
While water magic typically leads people into blood magic, Nico has decided to step backwards, opting to learn this basic skill for the sake of developing his magic ability further alongside his adopted son. It's a warm spot for him, if only because he found said son drifting out in the vast sea, but he takes his learning seriously all the same.
About
Nicolas, the first born son to a noble family of famed physicians and healers, begrudgingly grew to understand that he would continue on in their place as a doctor as well. By no means did he come from the womb with this desire—the implication closed many doors in his face, leaving him unable to explore other occupations. That being said, with a little coaxing, he grew to adore the field.
No one could ignore the time between that coaxing, though—Nico's younger years were filled with rebellious spats, leaving his mother, Amelia Pellisante, to mediate. The traits his father, Stefano Pellisante, deemed less than desirable (which, by his rigid standards, could very well be all of them) hail from the narcissism unwillingly plucked from his father's own persona. Despite frequently disagreeing with his father—sometimes out of genuine disapproval, more often than not out of simple spite—Nico still held his father's medicinal values and morals highly.
With all that aside, his life was relatively normal. His family, while occasionally dysfunctional, did not struggle to make ends meet. They were quite warm and amicable, outside of the turbulence of Nico and Stefano's arguments. His siblings, Adelina and Lorenzo, were rambunctious—he spent his time fulfilling a loving brother role with no qualms. While his siblings' propensity for injury allowed him to embrace healing magic early on, giving him many chances to prove his mettle, he did not embark on his journey into medicine until he was about sixteen. It was around this time that his family's signature power—The Healing Touch.
Now, admittedly, his father expected it to appear later in his life. When explaining the ability to his son, he informed him that it was an exhausting endeavor that enabled their caster tap into years worth of medicinal prowess. While it could be also activated intentionally, such forced evocation would likely cause him to fall unconscious shortly after due to the strain it puts on the body.
The explanation went hand-in-hand with applying ointment on his son's face. It had activated because a young Lorenzo fell from a tree and, being the doting older brother, Nico sprinted to catch him. Supposedly, he had perceived time a little slower during his run, but his family saw him running faster than ever.
It made for a pitifully comical moment when Nico, after setting Lorenzo down gently, fell face first into the dirt.
Education
Nico entered medical school relatively young. Having honed what was essentially a "cheat," his father studied with him rigorously for two years before sending him into the kingdom's capital to officially work on his path to becoming a doctor at age 18. Though he could not rely on his Healing Touch—rather, he would fall unconscious every time he forced it—he was still trained in the more traditional manner, making his earliest classes a breeze. Complacent with his knowledge, the curriculum felt like child's play, and he did not bother to pay attention in class, showing off at every opportunity.
This made him no friends, of course—in fact, he gained an enemy. It was bad enough this cocky child made a mockery of everyone by virtue of answering every question with pinpoint accuracy and at breakneck speeds, but he made sure you knew you were inferior. His favorite target was a doctor by the name of Harold Caldisla. Nico would go out of his way to make sure this man—who had done nothing sans be perceived as a top student—knew his place beneath the new kid. It didn't help that he was physically intimidating, taking every chance to shove his peer with a rough shoulder when they tried to enter class.
He could only be ahead for so long. Though his father was a brilliant doctor, he could not impart so many decades worth of knowledge onto his son in two years. Realizing that he would need to start studying, he begrudgingly took up the effort of reading books in his spare time, noticing a fellow student a few years older than himself doing the same. Much to his dismay, it happened to be that same student he picked on frequently, who was still succeeding in the course through persistent dedication. He had to do better.
Trivia
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Relationships
tobejas steele. [ husband ]
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heinz habicht. [ son ]
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selen steele. [ son ]
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zinon everbreath. [ employee, but lbr son too ]
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