User Profile

name: kadaj
age: 18
alignment: neutral
rank: assassin

appearance:
With his pale hair and odd eyes, Kadaj has very striking features. He’s very petite--standing at around 5’5”--and very slender at that.

His face borders on childish. Oval-shaped and still soft, it’s innocent in a mad way. Unfortunately his narrow nose, well-defined lips, and pale skin are often obscured by a curtain of silver hair. Cut jaggedly in the front, it falls to his shoulders in subtle, painfully straight layers. It’s lustrous, but sadly makes it more difficult to view one of his better features: his eyes. They’re a bright, almost otherworldly aqua, with flecks of yellow. The odd, slitted pupils only add to their alien look, and framed with dark, long lashes they’re quite captivating and unique.

At times he almost looks delicate, and along with his facial features, could often be considered ‘feminine’. Still, Kadaj isn’t exactly helpless, and his small but well-defined muscles prove it. When it comes to attire, Kadaj has an odd fondness for wearing leather. A lot of leather. Kadaj may hold an air of confidence, but his style is oddly modest. Gloves, a collar zipped up to the base of his neck, his choice in attire is almost an understated defiance. It would be understandable if Kadaj's strange, uniformed style could almost be called militaristic if it weren't for the rebellious way he carried himself.

Yet despite his cold appearance, in my opinion, Kadaj’s expressions are quite fiery. He may act calm, but his emotions are often obvious. They’re fierce. From incensed rage, hopelessness and longing, to bitter betrayal, everything is clear in Kadaj’s face and body language. Often these time it reaches to the point of nearly transforming his appearance altogether, from a eagerly violent but seemingly innocent teenager to a raging, dangerous psychopath.

personality:
Kadaj is a very unstable character. While he often gives the appearance of being calm and in control, if the right subjects are brought up he’ll often turn sadistic and lose all good judgment within a second. While he enjoys violence, he doesn't do it pointlessly. Or, at least that’s what he thinks. Despite being highly intelligent and wise in his own way, Kadaj is still stubborn and more than a little self-righteous,

Other than his volatile nature, one of Kadaj’s most outstanding features would be his determination. When it comes to his goals, Kadaj will go to any means necessary to reach them, ignoring his limits. In his mind he has no limits, and he’ll bring himself to the brink of destruction and a little past that just to prove he’s right/please someone.

Trust is an issue with Kadaj. He despises liars and being lied to--one of his many naïve traits--and while he always seems willing to be the leader, he’d usually probably be too untrusting to act as anything else anyway. In fact, his distrust very often borders on hatred. The only exception to this rule is whom he believes to be his mother. Despite being unreachable, she’s the center of his universe, his existence. He’s a blind follower and he’s used to having her as sort of a guiding light for his actions.

Also, Kadaj often has feelings of inadequacy. Though in the end it only strengthens his drive to prove himself--not only to his mother, but to everyone.

background:
Normalcy, no matter how twisted it had become, would not be a word Kadaj would know. Born and raised in a lab, Kadaj had begun as an experiment with a label, not a name. His purpose was a test on human limits, both physically, and mentally. And test his limits they did. Kadaj was thrown around and tested in brutal ways that should have only existed in nightmares, losing any trust for others at a very young age as his sanity slowly peeled away at a cruel pace, only damaging him more in the process. Hope would practically be a foreign ideal for the silver-haired male, though as he heard whispers in the rooms there was one thing he clung to. The idea of meeting his mother.

During those years, he would created an image of her in his mind, based on what he knew, liked, and disliked. Eventually it would become an obsession, one so important that he would believe it to be real.

However, not all of Kadaj's powers would be imagined. In fact, the majority were real. Perhaps all the changes made to him physically has also been a catalyst to his madness, for Kadaj wasn't really human. He hadn't been from the start. The experiments had taken an affect on his genetic makeup and appearance, altering it and giving him a more unearthly, frightening appearance. His abilities would be more frightening though. Super-agile, quite strong in comparison to the average person, and with a calculating, remorseless, but chaotic mind, it was safe to say Kadaj came close to a good example of a human weapon.

But he was just too insane, and close didn't cut it.

Displeased with the outcome, their clients cut any further payments to the scientists. Without the right materials to perform an effective cover-up, they were going to arson the labs that had been involved. Kadaj wasn't stupid though. He knew it was his chance. Once a few of the guards went in to restrain him, he used the moment to his advantage, killing them before he made a very hectic escape out of the labs. He would slaughter at least half of the staff, and by the time anyone could do anything he was long gone.

That was when he was 16. It's been two years since then, and other than a few remarks and jibes Kadaj traveled and has managed keeping a low enough profile in Reggio Calabria. He knows nothing about his true origins, or who had been in charge. Perhaps he's still being monitored, or caught a new eye, but he would be oblivious to it until it was shoved in his face. Keeping no real relations with anyone, he created his own name, and now works as an assassin, since killing or other sadistic mindgames are the only real skills he has suited for such a place. His dream though, of finding his mother, hasn't left him, as well as his goal for revenge. Now, he follows her voice--even if it's just imagined--in order to try and use her 'judgment' to pick which connections with the two families will be the most efficient.