Post by Kaden Mallory on Jan 28, 2009 17:03:38 GMT -5
PLAYER INFO:[/b] English / Lit IV
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Age: 25
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Other Characters Played: Leilani Mahala, Dorjan, Heavynne Markus, Kendra English, Paige Halliwell
CHARACTER INFO:
Name: Kaden Dason Mallory
Age: 18
Birthdate: February 12, 1973
Year in School: Senior
Type: Witch
Powers: Photographic Reflexes & Invisibility
Affiliation: overall, Good, but he is dark and could easily be used for Evil.
DESCRIPTION:
Physical Description: Kaden would look like your typical 'boy next door type' if it weren't for his usual stern expression. He usually looks as if he's assessing a situation, or sizing up a person. It's obvious that he is always on his guard, just by the way his facial expressions speak his thoughts, and the way his body language gives away his mood. He is average height and weight, and but he has some striking facial features. Particularly his eyes, which are a bright blue. In contrast with his brunette hair, it gives him a piercing set of eyes.
He was teased by several of his 'foster-siblings' about having rather large ears, which usually prompts him to keep his hair a certain length to hide exactly how big they are. It's something he's become self-conscience about over the years, despite the fact that he's grown into them just fine. He doesn't consider himself the cream of the crop, but he knows he's not exactly an ogre either.
Style: Kaden likes to be comfortable. He isn't really bothered by fashion all that much, and this is a trait that is born of wearing 2nd hand clothes his entire life. Jeans, sweatshirt hoodies, t-shirts, and tennis shoes compromise about 98% of his wardrobe. He has one nice outfit, that is some black slacks, and a white collared shirt, and a rather worn blazer.
He makes due with what he has, and does a good job of putting old clothes together to look as if he had a new ensemble. He takes care of what he has, and they all look just as good as when he first got them. Of course, they're 2nd hand, so some aren't really in all that great shape. Kaden couldn't really be bothered though, and considers fashion to be a waste of time.
Looks Like: Jake Gyllenhaal
Personality: Kaden Mallory is as cynical as they come. His view on the world affects every decision that he has ever made for himself. He usually finds himself on the victim side of things, and has never been strong enough to get himself out from under that mantra. He is only the victim because he always sees himself as such. He doesn't believe that people have any other motives, but to benefit themselves, and it causes trust issues with all of relationships or friendships he's ever managed to create.
Beneath the wounded boy, is someone that genuinely cares about those he can call friends, because they are the closest to family that he's ever had. Once he has let someone into his life, they are hard pressed to get out of it if they want to. He can cling to those he cares for, only because he is so used to everyone in his life being temporary. He always fights hard to keep the people in his life that mean something to him. However, people have to fight just as hard to get into Kaden's life, enough to mean anything. He keeps people at a distance as much as he can, afraid that they will use his weaknesses against him. His thought on it, is that it is better to have no friends, than a bunch of fake friends. He generally wears his distrust on his sleeve, and because of that, finds it hard to make real connections with people.
He'd be lying if he told you that his heart didn't yearn for a true friend, a girlfriend even. Kaden wants to be able to let people in, but something has been programed in him not to trust people. Having no family, and growing up in a new home at least every 6 months, until landing in an abusive home, and it was impossible to believe that people really cared about him. How could he believe everyone when he grew up around so many lies?
He has been known for bouts of violence, and many of them were because he couldn't control his photographic reflexes powers. His foster father would be watching a violent film, and his power would kick in. He would copy every movement, with forceful accuracy, and within a 5 minute action sequence, could have broken nearly everything in the house. On the opposite side of the spectrum he knew the easiest way to hide. At first it would happen without him knowing it. In front of one of his foster parents, after stealing something. He became invisible right in front of her eyes, and hadn't even known it. He was shipped off the next day.
Even now, as he's gotten more control of both powers, he's known to have a bit of a temper at times. He, has, in his past, used violence as a means to an end. He put someone in the hospital, and was quickly shipped off to the next willing family. It's not something he thinks about too often anymore, but if he were put in the right situation, he would do what he needed to.
The friends that he has made at Magic School, mean the world to him. Kaden, for the most part, is outwardly friendly, but distant. Unless cause comes to bring his temper to the surface, which takes quite a bit, he isn't impossible to be around. He doesn't always say much, but when he does say things, they're well thought out.
SCHOOL LIFE:
Classes taking:
➺ History of Magic IV
➺ Living Non-Magical
➺ Magical Ethics IV
➺ Potion Making IV
➺ Vanquishing IV
➺ Invisibility IV[/ul]
Favorite Class: Vanquishing
Least Favorite Class: Living Non-Magical
Subject Best At: History of Magic
Subject Worst At: Magical Ethics
Length of Time at Magic School: 7 years[/size]
HOME LIFE:
Residence: Magic School
Family:
➺Mother: Amberly Jenson, died at 16, Invisibility & Premonitions
➺Siblings: none
➺Other Notable Family: none[/ul]
History: Kaden was born under scandalous and tragic circumstances. Two young students from Magic School meet and fall in love. They dated their freshman, and then their sophomore year. Their families liked each other, and everything seemed to be going perfectly. Their puppy love was growing into a real relationship. During their first term, Amberly discovered that she was pregnant. Suddenly, the golden couple of Magic School was a bit tainted. Not that the guys didn't joke about it, and there wasn't a fair amount of older students in relationships...but to get pregnant?
Amberly didn't know what to do, and so she dropped out of Magic School. Eventually she couldn't take the ridicule of all the other students around her. The closest friends she had made at the school were there for her, as was Braylon. It was an near impossible time, or so the teenagers thought. They never realized how much worse it really could get. Amberly's mother was absolutely palled at her daughter's condition. Over the pregnancy, she did her best to deal with it. However, towards the end it came too much - and she forced the nearly new mother out onto the streets.
Knowing that she couldn't take care of herself, Amberly got herself to Braylon's family home by using her invisibility power and using public transportation. It was risky, but she was desperate. When she arrived at the Mallory home, her eyes didn't want to believe what she was seeing. The door was burst wide open, and the windows were broken. Coming from a magical family, those signs were never a good thing. She rushed inside, unseen by anyone, and witnessed the last murder to take place in that house, Braylon himself.
Part of her died as she saw his lifeless body lay on the floor of his home. A home she'd come to know so well over the two years they were together. Her child...would never have a father. She forced herself to keep her cries of misery silent, for the life of her child. If she were caught and killed, so would the baby.
No amount of tears and begging would allow Amberly to go home, so she lived on the street before she died, only 6 weeks after giving birth to her son, Kaden Dason Mallory. She had taken him to an orphanage, as soon as she knew her life was ending. In truth, even her son could not have caused her to want to live. Shunned by her family, her true love murdered in front of her own lives, his family gone, and no where to go.
So Kaden was left alone in the world. His grandparents refused to take him. They did not care where he lived, or if he lived. They didn't even know until he was 5 years old that he even existed. Despite his story, they didn't want to take the illegitimate child. The social workers never told Kaden this, so to his knowledge, he doesn't have any living relatives. Until he was 6 years old, he lived in an orphanage. Lots of kids, sad stories, terrible food, and mindless work were things that were pretty normal to him. He was too young to really understand it all, but he socialized decently enough with the children around him. He hadn't discovered his powers yet, and all he knew was that was what life was supposed to be like.
Kaden spent the next 5 years in and out of foster homes. His first experience was with Invisibility at his first foster home, and it was also the very next day he was sent back to the orphanage, before entering another foster home. The next few families were distant and didn't seem to like him at all, which didn't really bother Kaden. When he was 9 years old, he discovered his second power, Photographic Reflexes. He and his friends had just watched a Jackie Chan movie, and were outside trying to mimic his moves. Innocent really, until a real fight broke out, and Kaden was right in the middle of it. His ability to mimic Jackie Chan's movements were real - and when some of the boys started to make fun of his dead parents, he let them loose. One of the kids ended up in the hospital, with a broken rib and bloody and bruised face.
So, once again, Kaden was shipped off to the next family, whom he stayed with until he was finally taken in by the Magic School. This family, was not just one that said he was part of their family and gave him up whenever they thought it was best for them. The father was overly abusive, and the rest of the family obviously didn't care about him. They got some sort of government supplement for taking on a ward of the state. They wanted him for the 'extra money', and the only way to make a profit was to deny him so many things. However, Kaden was treated as if he was the butler and the housemaid. Because of his own temper, he didn't take this for very long. The first time he lashed out, he was beaten, rather brutally.
The second time he lashed out, his arm was broken. After several more times just as similar, he kept to himself, and did the work he was supposed to do. Part of him had forgotten the magic that he possessed. His confidence, trust in people, and his willpower had been beaten out of him. That was, until he was desperately trying to hide from being punished for stealing a bit of extra food from the kitchen. He was hiding, rather pathetically, inside a closet. When the door was opened to check, his foster father looked straight through him.
Finally, when he was 11 years old he was taken away from the home by a whitelighter, and placed into Magic School. He lived in the dorms with other peers, but had a lot of trouble socializing, after being in such a horrible situation. However, he did pretty well in his classes after adjusting, but he never seemed to be able trust people.
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