Altair

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☆ Altair Platz ☆

PERSONALITY

Altair can be a charmer towards people he believes deserve respect, throwing praise left and right, but rather than sucking up, he sees it simply as being generous. On the outside, he appears cool and aloof, but when someone strikes a conversation with him, he is usually kind enough to indulge in some social interaction if they are in a chatty mood. He will always make sure to give you his full attention and show interest.

While calm most times, he becomes nervous if he has to speak in front of more than five people, as well as when multiple people (even if it's just two) speak to him at the same time. He does not deal well with his weaknesses. He is an organized, focused, and meticulous person when it comes to planning. However, he can be rather dense about certain topics that seem to follow common sense, subjects directed at himself personally, and elaborate jokes or pranks. He usually can't tell if one is teasing or being serious. Don't beat around the bush in front of him.

BIO

When Altair descended onto Earth, his memories of his native planet disappeared, as if a house labeled 'new memories' shoved them so hard, they flew out of his head. It was more than a little jarring to wake up with a headache, blank mind, sunglasses clutched in hand, and two human men touching his sets of wings in awe. In truth, Altair was one of many pure Cherubs, and only two things were different about him: his lack of memories and a rare birth defect regarding his eyes. While the sun empowers all Cherub angels, his human eyes receive the opposite effect: they fade, blur, and darken under the sun's rays within a matter of hours - or less if his energy depletes. He can end up going blind for days, weeks, or even permanently if the damage is severe enough. Thankfully, in the sun, the eyes on his wings grow stronger instead, as do his body and energy.

Altair became a private informant (PI) at the age of 25, after he had lost his ill wife, his career as a dentist, and his home. The community in the small Japanese town he lived in at the time began to disintegrate, housing more people who were in the Yakuza or otherwise moronic, isolating him from everyone due to his foreign look. Stores weren't safe to go in because he was loathed. A stranger to the city found his intimidating demeanor to be an asset, and his mental strength to hold potential. You could say he was saved by the sort of well-known Spanish organization El Destino de los Desiertos (Destiny of Deserts), which trained him in combat simulations, strategizing, and information hunting. PIs were in constant demand at the time.

His most recent client was a strangely optimistic man. Because of him, he realized that the fate of an ol' informant was not a path to stay on forever, and that he shouldn't have given up on life just because of a few life-changing setbacks. He looked back on it and discovered a pathetic side of him, even though he had always prided himself on his mental control and willpower. He rediscovered his professional interest in painting artistry, humans, and other creatures residing on Earth.

DESCRIPTION

When Altair is not wearing his casual black tie, scarf, dress pants, boots, or coat, he's in his work uniform. His tattoo appears on his neck only in his human appearance. He has heterochromia (different colored eyes).

Height: 5'8"

OTHER

★ Single
★ Ethnicity as a human: German American, 1/3 English
★ Bar owner and part-time private informant (PI) | Formerly a dentist before he became PI
★ He has heterochromia: his right eye is a gradient of baby blue and light purple (purple upper left of iris, blue everywhere else), and his left eye is sea green.
★ He enjoys smoking, even if he doesn't need to. He likes the smell of it, the taste of it, the feel of it.
★ He hates the tattoo that appears around his neck when he transforms into a human. This includes the tattoos on species of his particular kind.
★ He can use his wings to fly. If one pair is exhausted, he can still use one pair to fly.
★ Abilities as an angel: To become invisible in the human world (though species other than humans and animals can see him, while animals may detect him) | Teleportation (short distances within his means and knowledge of the world he is in) | As a specialty, to repel (push back) or repulse (turn away) other beings | As a specialty, to attract (pull forward) or charm (seduce) other beings | Using sight through the diamond "eyes" on his wings

RELATIONSHIPS

★ Lover | Liliana (deceased)
★ Family | Unknown
★ Friends | 

LIKES

☆ Smoking | Working | Planning | Dark colors | Long hair | Jewelry (mostly bracelets and earrings) | Piercings | Long or dark scarves & ties | Paintings & painters | Bitter drinks, sweets, & food | Soda, especially root beer

DISLIKES

☆ Not being able to smoke | Losing his possessions (especially his earrings and scarf) | Judgmental, narrow minded people | His earrings or scarf being touched | Being tugged by the ears (likely had this done to him often during his childhood) | Tattoos (especially on his neck in human form) | Yakuza, gangs | Violence without reason | Being in complete darkness

STRENGTHS

☆ Listening
☆ Staying still & silent
☆ Socializing & fitting in
☆ Strong wings
☆ Since the diamond shapes on his upper wings work like eyes, he can see in various directions & angles with them

WEAKNESSES

☆ Speaking in front of a slightly big audience
☆ Giving his attention to more than one person
☆ Touching or damaging his tattoo & wings can be felt or hurt, even by humans
☆ If all the diamond patterns on his blue wings are torn, damaged, or covered, he becomes blind for a brief period of time (due to them working like eyes)
☆ Fear of the dark or being in complete darkness (mild PTSD)
☆ Eyes gradually & temporarily darken/go blind the longer he remains in the sun or looks at objects that reflect sunlight. Eye sight worsens the more they are affected by the sun.
☆ No memories of his past in heaven, before coming to Earth

NOTES TO ARTISTS

☆ He has TWO wings on his back; do not connect them. The blue (top) wing reaches up to shoulder height.
☆ His skin is pale.
☆ He has two thin scars on his right forearm.
☆ His right eye is a gradient of baby blue and purple (purple upper left of iris), and his left eye is sea green.
☆ Both of his ears have two gold earrings.

1. Altair is a workaholic. He loves working, no matter what it is. It keeps his mind occupied, and being busy is his way of relaxing. 

2. Altair can be a charmer without meaning to be. He treats others with respect and kindness on an unconscious level, despite having been treated poorly in his mid-20's.

3. He is an informant/info broker for a Spanish organization in South America called El Destino de los Desiertos. Even before becoming a well-paid informant, he has always dreamed of owning a bar and making his living as a painter.

4. He turned his full-time job as an informant into a part-time side job because of a certain man's influence (his mentor) and returned to his dream of a human life. He now owns a bar and paints again.

5. He has stage fright and can't speak well in front of a group of five people. He'll show all the signs: sweating, flushing, clammy hands, shaking, stuttering.

6. He enjoys smoking, even if he doesn't need to. He likes the smell of it, the taste of it, the feel of it.

7. After he lost his wife, home, and job as a dentist in his mid-20's, most people in a lonely part of Japan who knew about him hated him for being a foreigner. He was isolated and attacked whenever he tried to enter stores or buildings. For about a year, he lived off what he could from charity and churches. He could never really trust people, especially a small town community, after that.