Skylar
Basic Information
- Race: Nuit
Age: Very old.
Gender: Androgynous
Physical Description
Skylar's form shifts with the days and weeks and months, and indeed he puts no stock in the body below. He tends to wear similar clothes season in and out: He cares nothing for frost or heat. He favors sensual clothes that nevertheless don't reveal his (decaying) flesh.
He always wears a gaudy, ornate Venetian mask that completely covers his face and head.
Character Concept
Whatever trace amounts of remorse, guilt, empathy and kindness Skylar once possessed have long since disappeared into the apathy of countless years of his existence. By this incredible age, many Nuit have committed suicide, unable to bear the boredom of endless unlife. Skylar has a different view on things. His life is the most precious one in the world, all other creatures exist for his amusement and humanity is a toy for him to play with. He gets incredible joy from controlling, manipulating and corrupting others despite zero gain to himself. He's a pathological liar, a parasite and an irresponsible, impulsive sociopath.
Skylar would hardly strike most as a cold detached Nuit, as he possesses a glib and superficial charm and a highly gregarious nature. He's clever, commanding and absolutely obsessively seeks out other people's attention. Paradoxically to this, in his entire incredible lifespan he has tried to 'stay out of the spotlight' by avoiding interactions with the Gods or people of great power or fame. This is one of the reasons he's lived so long.
He no longer sees himself as 'undead' but firmly believes that immortality is an illusion but that he has the right to live as long as possible. In his mind, all sentient creatures are of the same stock and therefore he barely sees distinction between individual races and cultures, with the exception of a distaste for Kelvic.
Skylar is deeply selfish and impressively morbid. While rarely killing others except those who he plans to inhabit, he gains a near orgasmic joy from watching people being killed, especially by their friends and loved ones. Despite this he rarely enjoys executions, finding them a trite waste of time and lacking the natural charm of murder.
He loves no one. Although he possesses an almost fetishized desire to control people and events, he considers the ultimate act of affection to be the body swapping ritual. As he has performed this act thousands of times, he considers himself the ultimate lover.
Character History
Skylar was born hundreds of years before the Cataclysm, in Alahea. He was a human male at the time. The circumstances of his death, his identity beyond that, his profession and even his name are all memories locked away somewhere in Skylar's impeccable Nuit mind, but Skylar is a man who lives for the future and has no patience with the past. Even the act of accessing his own memories is so boring he rarely bothers with it. He took the name Skylar recently and has had a variety of epicene names in his long life.
He learned Hypnotism at some point after his death and uses it like he does everything else in his life: With reckless abandon. This has resulted in an abusive amount of Overgiving during his long lifetime. Some of the mental scars this has left will never heal no matter how many bodies he jumps between. He does not care to remember most of his existence and has various urges that shouldn't exist in his undead body, leading to some of his more unfortunate quirks.
Despite his long, long history, no one particular event could have said to lead to his sociopathic nature, and in fact he was much the same while he was alive. Nothing happened to him to make him this way, he just happened.
