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OUT OF CHARACTER
Name: DJ
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Reference: Me, Myself and I.
IN-CHARACTER
Name: Jordan Leslie
Journal:sensationate
Series: Fifty Shades of Demon (Original)
Notes: You should totally reject Hawk if she doesn't use the series name, js.
Species: Human > demon > pixie subset.
Age: 27.
Appearance: A pixie that looks rather like a human.
History: Born on the Summer solstice in 1987, Jordan Leslie was raised by his two parents. His life was positively boring as far as the lives of pixies go: he grew up, went to school, learned an amazing number of boring things, trotted through life like it were a game and he was always winning. After achieving his higher education in college, Jordan parted ways with his parents and went on to live his own life. Pixies are notoriously ephemeral like that, and it was something none of them regret. To wit, Jordan has never gotten back into contact with his parents nor have they reached out to him.
As a young man with no references and nothing but a degree to his name, Jordan got a boring office job at data entry. It was just another game to him and as the years went by, his unflappable attitude and ability to never stress out earned him some awed fame and notoriety, not to mention started to push him up the corporate ladder where he also excelled. It was a good life, with friends he was even somewhat attached to and a nice apartment filled with nice things that were his. No one even ever noticed when Jordan incited small crises in the office that would cause a tizzy for an afternoon or even weeks at a time. It wasn't until he was 24 that something happened to shake up his routine and changed it from satisfying to perfect.
Stumbling into a back alley after some party or another, Jordan came across an unusual sight. It was an emotional vampire preying on the despair of another partygoer, a rather intimate feeding. Having never seen one before, Jordan made himself known and offered to be the next snack out of rabid curiosity for the oddity. The vampire demon himself was hardly out of his teens and appeared to have a rather traumatic backstory, so there was really a fifty/fifty chance of being told to get lost. However, the vampire read Jordan's lack of fear and budding attachment for the weird and exciting thing and practically pounced on him. It was and remained one of the best moments of Jordan's life, that back alley blowjob from the vampire that made emotions worse as he fed on them. What a high.
Although Jordan wasn't quite in love at first sight, his fascination rocketed into the sky after that. Even if the vampire hadn't begged for another go sometime later down the road, Jordan had already decided to take the vampire as his own belonging, but he was a gentlepixie and didn't say it outright. The vampire's name was Alex Daniels, and Jordan used their continued meetings to woo the younger man until Alex finally gave out and accepted that Jordan meant something more than a meal to him, too. That is when Jordan told him that Alex belonged to him. Because that makes it better.
Shortly after that, they located and moved into an apartment they could afford on their combined paychecks. It was an obvious arrangement considering that Jordan had become Alex's favorite dish and Alex clearly shouldn't have been staying anywhere that Jordan couldn't take care of him. As time passed by, their social groups began to merge until Jordan's office coworkers and Alex's garage coworkers all formed up and became a social group of their own. It was weird, but let's be honest: they all probably bonded over how fucking weird their coworkers were. Let's not mention the betting pool of whether Jordan was officially cute or creepy based on various stories old and new. Their lives as a couple was relatively stable, however, and they quickly learned how to exist in each others' spaces with very few serious bumps in the road along the way even four years later. Even when Alex's parents tracked him down and got into a shouting match at the garage where Alex worked about how they were there to save their demon-possessed son and he needed to come back with them, that wasn't so bad. Jordan took care of it with aplomb by assuring the Clarks wouldn't be able to follow, and then sent information about the incident along to a local vampire family who had shown intense interest in adopting Alex as one of their own. There was no way Jordan would ever part with Alex to let that become a reality, but their attachment to the lone vampire was useful all the same and soon the Clarks were reported dead, while Alex's fifteen year old brother, a vampire like himself, was adopted by the demon family before he could be taken to another, possibly just as abusive family with nowhere to hide this time. Now if only those other vampires hadn't taken it as encouragement that they might someday take Alex into their fold, too.
Personality: Stick with me here. In Jordan's home universe, the general core of a person can be determined by their "white" and "black" tendencies. Those with white dominance tend to be very outward and positive while their motivations might be skewed by their recessive black. Those with black dominance tend to be drawn more inward and negatively with their white recessive traits guiding their inner selves. For many humans, these extremes rarely ever matter as their personalities are made up majorly of the shades of grey where black and white mix in order to make a balanced person with complex, intertwined thoughts, feelings and motivations no matter what.
Demons are different. Demons are humans born with very stark white and black balances with hardly any grey to bridge themselves. These severe splits in their personalities tend to make them very odd and even erratic to the humans around them, their incomprehensible actions and access to special powers brought on by the strange quirks in their genetics making them seem as monsters over the course of human history. Although all demons share the common denominator of falling prey to their dominance and being guided by their recessive, there are many different types and subtypes that make up all the demons in the world. Jordan is a descendent of the many different types of fairies of old, of which are collectively referred to as pixies by other demons and was mistakenly attributed to a more benevolent family by humans long ago.
Jordan himself is white dominant, black recessive. Being extremely general here, it means that he is an incredibly agreeable sort with rather nasty motivations underneath the surface. He isn't a bad person, just someone who has a rather poor outlook on the rest of the world whether it is actually expressed or not. To be split between the two, it can also mean that some situations will make him wholesale shift straight into black and show everyone the skeleton of his thought process. Of course, this is like saying just the skeleton makes up a human while ignoring the necessity for muscles, blood, sinew, skin and all the other things that complete the whole. For demons, they rarely are ever able to accurately express the actual balance lying hidden in the center.
On the outside where his white dominance reigns, Jordan is a very agreeable sort where nothing seems to phase him or can bring him down. He flits through life with a strong taste for nice and beautiful things, a drive to provide his own entertainment, and a heavy detachment from the lives of the people around him. Although a curious and nosy sort, Jordan only takes initiative to meddle in human affairs for his own gratification. Being helpful out of actual interest for the person is a rare occurrence. He has a healthy appreciation for chaos and often plays pranks to watch the fallout rather than gloat about how clever he obviously is. While he doesn't care much for people or their morals, he does understand the necessity of consequences and follows the law like a good little boy to keep his own world spinning without complication. It's all just another game to him, playing his own game inside of the world's rules to see how far things will bend before he edges into the territory of The Man.
Although he isn't much for moral obligations, Jordan takes debts very seriously. It's second-nature to him to expect recompense for doing someone a favor, or for asking someone else first. This isn't a matter of right or wrong so much as maintaining honor and integrity of his character. Even if the people around him don't understand why it's so important, it is the one thing that pixies can agree upon as being top priority. To besmirch someone's honor or smear your own is a high offense and shame upon you forever. Honor is, however, a nebulous concept to pixies and generally the code of what counts can vary from family to family. For Jordan, it essentially means to maintain his debts, protect his own, and never leave something unfinished no matter how long it takes. Everything else pretty much depends on how he feels at the time.
Further along in the spectrum comes the small bits of gray about Jordan. These are the things that stay the same no matter what state of mind he finds himself, where his core and unchangeable parts of his personality lie. Chief among them is a sense of entitlement over all of his belongings, and the obsessive need to be surrounded by his own things of good quality and generally beautiful design. Anything that he likes enough, he does whatever necessary to own it as his own way of expressing interest. This includes on Alex Daniels who has the dubious honor of being Jordan's most precious belonging and subsequently is Jordan's boyfriend. Being interested in something so much that he has to own it is the definition of love for Jordan: he has to make it his own, wherein that thing becomes his complete responsibility and it subsumes into his sense of honor that his things are well cared for. Despite the fact that Alex is at the top of a rank otherwise filled with inanimate objects, Jordan has the same sort of love for all his things and tends to their needs as they all require. This basically means yes, he understands Alex is human and yes he understands that the boy is fucked up and no, he isn't going to try fixing him, but yes he does own Alex because Alex is the most beautiful person he knows in all angles. Now Alex is his and Jordan would die before he lets any of his belongings come to damage.
Other things that stay the same no matter what include the feelings of disassociation from anyone around him. The world at large is an amazing and wondrous place and pixies are the rare sort who can feel it with every sense at once, but that also sets them apart from grays and even other demons on a fundamental level. Although it's easier to comprehend another demon with similarities with stark whites and blacks, they still have general differences in that a pixie's attachment to life lives in their own senses rather than anything outward, like people to vampires or nature to elves or the sea to mermaids. Attachment to people is rare and Jordan's never been interested in making a collection of people that he finds curious enough to stick around. With this in mind, it's impossible to be completely disconnected from the world in which he lives, so Jordan does appreciate some people above others but in the end they're all just not-pixies or not-Alex with whom he has no quandaries in messing with or otherwise disregarding. What matters most when coming to a decision is whether: he wants to do it; whether law enforcement will stop him and make it harder to act with impunity in the future; or whether Alex has opinions on the subject. That's his bottom line.
Going deeper into the actual motivations and powerful underlying subconscious is to form his whiter thoughts is Jordan's black. If his white half is the dere, then his black half is very much the yan. All in all, this is the side of Jordan that has absolutely no fucks to give about anything other than himself. Even things in his own interests, if currently boring him, can fall off a cliff and never be seen again. Things in his way will be dealt with without concern, and things that are his own are only his to serve whatever purposes he wants for them. This includes Alex in a more sadistic manner; however, as Alex is still a living being that Jordan's claimed ownership over, even the darker parts of Jordan still derives enjoyment from making Alex happy and keeping him safe... through his own means because he would know what's best for anything he chooses to do. Anything he does is for his own self-satisfaction and his confidence is near-impossible to knock down. If he isn't in control of a situation, he comes up swinging, clawing, biting and cheating to regain his rightful place. There's no honor in being lowly to this deeper part of Jordan.
As this black half is recessive, it generally manifests in ways that Jordan doesn't consciously recognize most of the time. These traits are the foundation for which he builds the personality of his white half. Only when aggravated or otherwise pushed incorrectly would his black traits come out in full force and change him to be almost like another person entirely. No matter what, however, he acknowledges his baser instincts and takes them in stride. No demon really has a place to deny who they are, and most other demons recognize that being white dominant makes you much more pleasant to be around than someone whose nasty is always at the forefront. For pixies, this is especially true due to their lack of attachments or moral structure that other, black dominant demons still adhere to.
tl;dr pixies are fucking weird
Abilities: As a pixie demon, Jordan possesses the general abilities of any other pixie. These are where most of the folklore for their glamors come from, other specifics being related to specialized skills of specific individuals over their family histories.
Jordan has the ability to alter a person's senses. In this way, he can switch up what sense actually receives the input of another — seeing patterns instead of feeling a touch, or noticing scents instead of interpreting sounds. Although pixies will often switch senses wholesale as tricks or means of obfuscation, they can also merge multiple senses into one or simply turn off as many as they please. This is actually how pixies operate all of the time, with every sense reacting to every input although the main sense is always the strongest. In addition, he possess the general ability to steal someone's sense of direction. This can be a permanent affliction, set on a mental timer at the moment of theft, or merely as long as the pixie wishes... if they remember to give it back at all. This ability requires physical contact to initiate and most will often muddle someone's senses before approaching to do it.
He also has the unfortunate distinction of commonly elf-like qualities in that he can step on leaves and sticks without breaking them, doesn't make footprints in sand or snow, and can even walk on water. In order to achieve natural reactions, he has to force himself down and stomp around like a petulant child. As you might imagine, Jordan has no idea how to swim and would almost immediately drown if he ever fell into a large enough body of water.
Augment: Civilian > personnel support > personal assistant. AKA what the fuck do you even do here.
Sample: you do not want my sample okay fine
Name: DJ
Contact: eeveester{@}gmail.com / aim psitaniums /
Reference: Me, Myself and I.
IN-CHARACTER
Name: Jordan Leslie
Journal:
sensationateSeries: Fifty Shades of Demon (Original)
Notes: You should totally reject Hawk if she doesn't use the series name, js.
Species: Human > demon > pixie subset.
Age: 27.
Appearance: A pixie that looks rather like a human.
History: Born on the Summer solstice in 1987, Jordan Leslie was raised by his two parents. His life was positively boring as far as the lives of pixies go: he grew up, went to school, learned an amazing number of boring things, trotted through life like it were a game and he was always winning. After achieving his higher education in college, Jordan parted ways with his parents and went on to live his own life. Pixies are notoriously ephemeral like that, and it was something none of them regret. To wit, Jordan has never gotten back into contact with his parents nor have they reached out to him.
As a young man with no references and nothing but a degree to his name, Jordan got a boring office job at data entry. It was just another game to him and as the years went by, his unflappable attitude and ability to never stress out earned him some awed fame and notoriety, not to mention started to push him up the corporate ladder where he also excelled. It was a good life, with friends he was even somewhat attached to and a nice apartment filled with nice things that were his. No one even ever noticed when Jordan incited small crises in the office that would cause a tizzy for an afternoon or even weeks at a time. It wasn't until he was 24 that something happened to shake up his routine and changed it from satisfying to perfect.
Stumbling into a back alley after some party or another, Jordan came across an unusual sight. It was an emotional vampire preying on the despair of another partygoer, a rather intimate feeding. Having never seen one before, Jordan made himself known and offered to be the next snack out of rabid curiosity for the oddity. The vampire demon himself was hardly out of his teens and appeared to have a rather traumatic backstory, so there was really a fifty/fifty chance of being told to get lost. However, the vampire read Jordan's lack of fear and budding attachment for the weird and exciting thing and practically pounced on him. It was and remained one of the best moments of Jordan's life, that back alley blowjob from the vampire that made emotions worse as he fed on them. What a high.
Although Jordan wasn't quite in love at first sight, his fascination rocketed into the sky after that. Even if the vampire hadn't begged for another go sometime later down the road, Jordan had already decided to take the vampire as his own belonging, but he was a gentlepixie and didn't say it outright. The vampire's name was Alex Daniels, and Jordan used their continued meetings to woo the younger man until Alex finally gave out and accepted that Jordan meant something more than a meal to him, too. That is when Jordan told him that Alex belonged to him. Because that makes it better.
Shortly after that, they located and moved into an apartment they could afford on their combined paychecks. It was an obvious arrangement considering that Jordan had become Alex's favorite dish and Alex clearly shouldn't have been staying anywhere that Jordan couldn't take care of him. As time passed by, their social groups began to merge until Jordan's office coworkers and Alex's garage coworkers all formed up and became a social group of their own. It was weird, but let's be honest: they all probably bonded over how fucking weird their coworkers were. Let's not mention the betting pool of whether Jordan was officially cute or creepy based on various stories old and new. Their lives as a couple was relatively stable, however, and they quickly learned how to exist in each others' spaces with very few serious bumps in the road along the way even four years later. Even when Alex's parents tracked him down and got into a shouting match at the garage where Alex worked about how they were there to save their demon-possessed son and he needed to come back with them, that wasn't so bad. Jordan took care of it with aplomb by assuring the Clarks wouldn't be able to follow, and then sent information about the incident along to a local vampire family who had shown intense interest in adopting Alex as one of their own. There was no way Jordan would ever part with Alex to let that become a reality, but their attachment to the lone vampire was useful all the same and soon the Clarks were reported dead, while Alex's fifteen year old brother, a vampire like himself, was adopted by the demon family before he could be taken to another, possibly just as abusive family with nowhere to hide this time. Now if only those other vampires hadn't taken it as encouragement that they might someday take Alex into their fold, too.
Personality: Stick with me here. In Jordan's home universe, the general core of a person can be determined by their "white" and "black" tendencies. Those with white dominance tend to be very outward and positive while their motivations might be skewed by their recessive black. Those with black dominance tend to be drawn more inward and negatively with their white recessive traits guiding their inner selves. For many humans, these extremes rarely ever matter as their personalities are made up majorly of the shades of grey where black and white mix in order to make a balanced person with complex, intertwined thoughts, feelings and motivations no matter what.
Demons are different. Demons are humans born with very stark white and black balances with hardly any grey to bridge themselves. These severe splits in their personalities tend to make them very odd and even erratic to the humans around them, their incomprehensible actions and access to special powers brought on by the strange quirks in their genetics making them seem as monsters over the course of human history. Although all demons share the common denominator of falling prey to their dominance and being guided by their recessive, there are many different types and subtypes that make up all the demons in the world. Jordan is a descendent of the many different types of fairies of old, of which are collectively referred to as pixies by other demons and was mistakenly attributed to a more benevolent family by humans long ago.
Jordan himself is white dominant, black recessive. Being extremely general here, it means that he is an incredibly agreeable sort with rather nasty motivations underneath the surface. He isn't a bad person, just someone who has a rather poor outlook on the rest of the world whether it is actually expressed or not. To be split between the two, it can also mean that some situations will make him wholesale shift straight into black and show everyone the skeleton of his thought process. Of course, this is like saying just the skeleton makes up a human while ignoring the necessity for muscles, blood, sinew, skin and all the other things that complete the whole. For demons, they rarely are ever able to accurately express the actual balance lying hidden in the center.
On the outside where his white dominance reigns, Jordan is a very agreeable sort where nothing seems to phase him or can bring him down. He flits through life with a strong taste for nice and beautiful things, a drive to provide his own entertainment, and a heavy detachment from the lives of the people around him. Although a curious and nosy sort, Jordan only takes initiative to meddle in human affairs for his own gratification. Being helpful out of actual interest for the person is a rare occurrence. He has a healthy appreciation for chaos and often plays pranks to watch the fallout rather than gloat about how clever he obviously is. While he doesn't care much for people or their morals, he does understand the necessity of consequences and follows the law like a good little boy to keep his own world spinning without complication. It's all just another game to him, playing his own game inside of the world's rules to see how far things will bend before he edges into the territory of The Man.
Although he isn't much for moral obligations, Jordan takes debts very seriously. It's second-nature to him to expect recompense for doing someone a favor, or for asking someone else first. This isn't a matter of right or wrong so much as maintaining honor and integrity of his character. Even if the people around him don't understand why it's so important, it is the one thing that pixies can agree upon as being top priority. To besmirch someone's honor or smear your own is a high offense and shame upon you forever. Honor is, however, a nebulous concept to pixies and generally the code of what counts can vary from family to family. For Jordan, it essentially means to maintain his debts, protect his own, and never leave something unfinished no matter how long it takes. Everything else pretty much depends on how he feels at the time.
Further along in the spectrum comes the small bits of gray about Jordan. These are the things that stay the same no matter what state of mind he finds himself, where his core and unchangeable parts of his personality lie. Chief among them is a sense of entitlement over all of his belongings, and the obsessive need to be surrounded by his own things of good quality and generally beautiful design. Anything that he likes enough, he does whatever necessary to own it as his own way of expressing interest. This includes on Alex Daniels who has the dubious honor of being Jordan's most precious belonging and subsequently is Jordan's boyfriend. Being interested in something so much that he has to own it is the definition of love for Jordan: he has to make it his own, wherein that thing becomes his complete responsibility and it subsumes into his sense of honor that his things are well cared for. Despite the fact that Alex is at the top of a rank otherwise filled with inanimate objects, Jordan has the same sort of love for all his things and tends to their needs as they all require. This basically means yes, he understands Alex is human and yes he understands that the boy is fucked up and no, he isn't going to try fixing him, but yes he does own Alex because Alex is the most beautiful person he knows in all angles. Now Alex is his and Jordan would die before he lets any of his belongings come to damage.
Other things that stay the same no matter what include the feelings of disassociation from anyone around him. The world at large is an amazing and wondrous place and pixies are the rare sort who can feel it with every sense at once, but that also sets them apart from grays and even other demons on a fundamental level. Although it's easier to comprehend another demon with similarities with stark whites and blacks, they still have general differences in that a pixie's attachment to life lives in their own senses rather than anything outward, like people to vampires or nature to elves or the sea to mermaids. Attachment to people is rare and Jordan's never been interested in making a collection of people that he finds curious enough to stick around. With this in mind, it's impossible to be completely disconnected from the world in which he lives, so Jordan does appreciate some people above others but in the end they're all just not-pixies or not-Alex with whom he has no quandaries in messing with or otherwise disregarding. What matters most when coming to a decision is whether: he wants to do it; whether law enforcement will stop him and make it harder to act with impunity in the future; or whether Alex has opinions on the subject. That's his bottom line.
Going deeper into the actual motivations and powerful underlying subconscious is to form his whiter thoughts is Jordan's black. If his white half is the dere, then his black half is very much the yan. All in all, this is the side of Jordan that has absolutely no fucks to give about anything other than himself. Even things in his own interests, if currently boring him, can fall off a cliff and never be seen again. Things in his way will be dealt with without concern, and things that are his own are only his to serve whatever purposes he wants for them. This includes Alex in a more sadistic manner; however, as Alex is still a living being that Jordan's claimed ownership over, even the darker parts of Jordan still derives enjoyment from making Alex happy and keeping him safe... through his own means because he would know what's best for anything he chooses to do. Anything he does is for his own self-satisfaction and his confidence is near-impossible to knock down. If he isn't in control of a situation, he comes up swinging, clawing, biting and cheating to regain his rightful place. There's no honor in being lowly to this deeper part of Jordan.
As this black half is recessive, it generally manifests in ways that Jordan doesn't consciously recognize most of the time. These traits are the foundation for which he builds the personality of his white half. Only when aggravated or otherwise pushed incorrectly would his black traits come out in full force and change him to be almost like another person entirely. No matter what, however, he acknowledges his baser instincts and takes them in stride. No demon really has a place to deny who they are, and most other demons recognize that being white dominant makes you much more pleasant to be around than someone whose nasty is always at the forefront. For pixies, this is especially true due to their lack of attachments or moral structure that other, black dominant demons still adhere to.
tl;dr pixies are fucking weird
Abilities: As a pixie demon, Jordan possesses the general abilities of any other pixie. These are where most of the folklore for their glamors come from, other specifics being related to specialized skills of specific individuals over their family histories.
Jordan has the ability to alter a person's senses. In this way, he can switch up what sense actually receives the input of another — seeing patterns instead of feeling a touch, or noticing scents instead of interpreting sounds. Although pixies will often switch senses wholesale as tricks or means of obfuscation, they can also merge multiple senses into one or simply turn off as many as they please. This is actually how pixies operate all of the time, with every sense reacting to every input although the main sense is always the strongest. In addition, he possess the general ability to steal someone's sense of direction. This can be a permanent affliction, set on a mental timer at the moment of theft, or merely as long as the pixie wishes... if they remember to give it back at all. This ability requires physical contact to initiate and most will often muddle someone's senses before approaching to do it.
He also has the unfortunate distinction of commonly elf-like qualities in that he can step on leaves and sticks without breaking them, doesn't make footprints in sand or snow, and can even walk on water. In order to achieve natural reactions, he has to force himself down and stomp around like a petulant child. As you might imagine, Jordan has no idea how to swim and would almost immediately drown if he ever fell into a large enough body of water.
Augment: Civilian > personnel support > personal assistant. AKA what the fuck do you even do here.
Sample: you do not want my sample okay fine