Cain Serakov

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Name: Cain Michael Serakov
Alias: Cain/Sarah
Age: 20
Age of Appearance: 21-22
Gender: Male
Race/Species: Human Advent Human
Character Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: Standing at 5’11” almost 6', or 180cm, the man looks over most other people. He’s a rather strange child with moderately long black hair for a boy. Within his black hair he has two long streaks of white presumably from a hereditary effect. His bangs fall around his face and just above his eyes helping accent the dark emerald green eyes he possesses. His eyes are set just far enough within his head that his nose and face cast a shadow down into the eye socket to give him an even more ominous appearance. He has a rather weak jaw line and cheek bones, with a soft chin. His smile can be described as devious at best, while his teeth seem to be perfectly fine except for the his top two canines that protrude out slight further then their neighboring teeth. He has rather long slender fingers, each ending with a sharp finely trimmed nail.

As for muscle at first glance you wouldn't know that this young man had any substantial muscle to him due to his typical attire. However after two years of training this young mans body has developed a fine set of abdominal muscles, along with his biceps and triceps. However instead of training for strength alone the mans muscles are toned and use to extensive training. The entirety of his upper body has a light tan, whilst his lower half remains his light caucasian skin tone. The mans lean body and muscle mass attributes to his weight of 165lb, or 75kg.


Style/Clothing: Typically Cain wears beaten up clothes that look like he should have thrown them away years ago. Holes around the waist of his shirts and holes in his jeans. His favorite shirt to wear depicts the insides of a grenade and the many different kinds of grenades and mechanisms used in them. His favorite pair of jeans happens to be nothing special other than how tattered the bottoms are from at least a year of hitting his legs together as he would walk. His sneakers are a pair of black and white vans, the bottoms worn to the point that the sole of his shoe occasionally slaps the ground as he's walking. He has a back up pair of shoes a higher heeled pair of vans that he takes care of to make sure they remain their black leathery color. However past all this he likes to wear scarves and jackets from other countries. From time to time he can be seen wearing black skin tight gloves with red markings on the back that looks like the design of a rose bud.

When required Cain owns a nice set of formal clothes that he can wear to such occasions, consisting of a Navy Blue coat and white longer sleeve button up shirt. As for his pants they match the coat being Navy Blue formal pants. Sleek black dress shoes compliment the entirety of the wardrobe with a pair of black socks. To top off the entirety of it, he owns a multitude of black, crimson, and blue ties.

Tattoo's/Scars/Etc: Hanging around Cain's neck at almost all times is a dog tag. Pressed into the metal of the tags is the name of his late friend Oliver and a reminder to Cain as to why he is who he is today. He has a scar on his upper lip from a fight when his powers were just first awakening and he under estimated his enemy. All across his chest he has a multitude of small scars from various different lacerations over his years of training from spiritual to physical.

Personality: Cain is typically a rather quiet person. He loves to think to himself and tries to come up with ideas of things to draw while listening to music. He tends to like drawing fantasy inspired things, be it creatures, people, or just the fashion of clothes that would be considered impossible to do or social suicide to wear. This bubble of just silence he puts up around him makes it seem as if he were an antisocial person, yet he is the exact opposite. When he isn't off in his own world imagining he's out trying to make new friends. Being relatively straightforward with his approaches be it to make a friend or confess his love he is the same to both situations. Awkwardly present yourself, introduce, and get to the point.

Cain loves to work in groups at times, loving the interaction with others that he can experience. However there are other times he wants to work alone, believing everything would be easier if he were to just be capable of doing something on his own without outside input due to the stress of having to keep everyone in the loop and safe. This general swing of moods can happen during a project that he's working on and cause him internal conflicts that either piss him off or make him realize that he's a dick towards others at times. He tends to enjoy being in a position close to leading the project, but without the responsibility of actually running the project. He enjoys working with others because if he gets lazy he can always just let others take up his slack temporarily.

When it comes down to it Cain tends to be a very cynical person. However he tends to wear a mask of being very friendly and tries his best to hold that mask up around others so that he can feel like he isn't a horrible person. He also tends to act nice around others because it is within his own self interest for them to be nice to him or be friends with him. However if he sees the opportunity to drop blame on one of those so called friends he tends to have to weigh his choices more severely counteracting his cynical nature at times for actual friendship. So at times it has been described that he sees his friends as disposable shields to throw up against future dangers that he can toss aside at a moments notice for his own self interest.

He's capable of falling into depression rather easily if something major happens to him. Such as losing a friend that he could consider a support pillar. Someone to talk to whenever he needed someone to be there for him. These spurts of depression seem to take over his entire mind at times, often following up with the five stages of denial. The stage he sits on the longest within denial is anger. He tries his best to take this anger out on things that aren't sentient. He does this by drawing, reading, playing games, however there are times where he will blow up on someone and chew their head off before realizing what he's doing. At other times when he can't even stand to be around anyone he will take the opportunity to duck into the wilderness and ruthlessly train himself further to punish himself for letting something so big happen.

In regards to bullying others Cain sees himself as a minor offender, but who isn't. He is disgusted by those who repeatedly seek out those weaker or smaller than themselves and picking on them, yet he has been one of those people before. Realizing the error of his ways was one of the steps to him trying to be a better person, and now trying to prevent more cases whenever he can he tries to improve others or save others. One of his closest friends who he lost he had only become friends with because he changed, they had been someone he had once bullied and they had put it all aside when they realized what a great guy he could be. He stands firm in protecting those that are seen as small and weak by society or by others.

After the awakening of his powers Cains mind took a complete mental rework. Teaching him that if he wishes to protect those that are deemed weak by society he would need to ensure he himself wasn't weak in any aspect. Pushing himself to the point of breaking multiple times over and to the brink of exhaustion both physically and spiritually. Having thought before that the only worries he'd ever have to deal with were the worries of the human world Cain thought himself emotionally and physically strong enough. However with the realization of the entire spiritual world he felt broken and defeated by the immense world he had never known of.


Likes:

• Cain enjoys to read various forms of literature. Be it from fictional stories of dragons to reading about the history of a long lost civilization. Staying well informed on things is one of Cains favorite things to do and reading newspapers is another way for him to do such a thing.

• He's an avid fan of art and appreciates spending time just admiring the various forms of art. Being abstract to conceptual, he can walk through an art museum for an entire day and still have a reason to come back the next day.

• With being a fan of the arts from literature to the eye appealing Cain creates his own art as well. Following the traditional method he draws his art on paper using pens, pencils, and other various utensils.

• Music is a great inspiration for the man. Be it from helping him picture a whole other world in his head to being able to design a new set of clothes that he believes would be interesting to wear. Cain's tastes for music ranges to just about anything and he lacks a real distastes for anything musically. Going so far as attempting to make his own music at one point.

• Almost a completely necessity in this young mans mornings or late nights, he has a developed taste for coffee and tea. Either of the two providing him with the caffeine he needs to make it through those long nights cramming and gathering information or just drawing, or to wake up on those tough mornings after a long night.

• Fashion is something Cain enjoys to play with. Even though others look at him funny or call him a hipster at times he tends to take everything with a grain of salt and continues to play with the fashion of the world around him.


Dislikes:

• An avid fan as a sick twisted child Cain has come to realized his development towards a strict contempt for torture. Feeling that to torture someone physically is one of the worst crimes someone can commit to another being the man can lose his temper easily witnessing someone being tortured.

• Cain dislikes the thought of others being treated unfairly due to being considered weak. Although it contradicts his actions growing up the young adult developed a sense of vigilante justice for the weak after the events that caused the loss of his friend.

• The young man has an uncanny fear for poisons as well to his dislike of torture. He is inexplicably afraid of the destructive power of poison on the human body and its ability to cripple even the strongest of opponents with ease from within. This common fear among mankind has driven the young man to the point of owning a few poisonous snakes to have a quick source of anti-venom whenever he may need it.

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Fighting Attribute: Speed
Weakest Attribute: Defense
Fighting Style: When Cain first discovered the spiritual world he had no real fighting experience. Never having had to train to fight against spiritual beings and only dealing with normal humans he possessed a moderate knowledge of how to use his legs in a street fight versus using his fists. The young man had always been interested in sports such as soccer and had amazing leg muscles due to such an interest. Because of his knowledge of the game and street fights he had developed a sense of knowing how to dodge attacks and other offensive maneuvers but never truly understood how to counteract them. Against an actual trained opponent he'd stand no chance being capable of only back pedaling in most cases. His style of fighting before he had discovered his powers could have only been described as hit and run trying his best to get a solid hit in before jumping back to safety.

After discovering and training his body to be more physically attuned to his power he began to favor using a sword and his speed to his advantage. Hit and run tactics remained his key tool in fighting using his legs to his advantage. Although he hasn't completely mastered the concept of using his spiritual powers to their fullest he has found interesting ways to incorporate them into his actions during a fight.

Cain's style of fighting includes using a ninjatō in iaido style. Due to this he keeps himself within close combat with his opponents. Yet he's capable of fighting within standard distance with ease, not being hindered by the distance. He's also capable of fighting at a distance due to his rifle that he has proficient training with. This combination allows for him to shift between short and medium range, with the capability of being in long range. He prefers to use this rifle within short to medium range though due to his swordsman ship and ability to take opponents by surprise.


Object of Affinity: In its dormant state his object of affinity is a ring with a metal spanner in the center that is capable of spinning in the ring without the ring itself spinning. Said ring is typically worn on Cain's middle finger just above the last knuckle. When he pours his spiritual energy into the ring it's true form takes shape as a riflejatō on hanging from his hip. Within it's sheathed form the blade is capable of being shot out, when the blade is pulled out the sheath's length vanishes and becomes the rifle stock, with the lock on the sheath sliding back into a more comfortable gun position. When sheathed the lock slides back into place. The rifle functions off of firing compressed balls of reiatsu. These bullets are compressed enough to pierce through tough hierro. The rifle has one magazine that comes with twelve bullets. The rifle is capable of firing in semi-automatic fashion. The clip replenishes it's own ammo over time, (1 post)

Affiliation: Coalition


Personal Abilities:

Ability Name: Rhythm Echo: Dash
Description: A spin off of an ability that Cain created in an attempt to re-enact the rhythm echo his mother once was capable of using. He starts by walking off to the side with an after image from where he was originally standing walking in the other direction after each has taken five steps there are four "solid" after images of Cain and the original one himself. Each of them giving off there own after images as they duck and weave past each other rushing forward towards someone in a silent assault. The after images can make it seem like there's more then five people actually rushing a single target. When within seven feet of the target that he is charging towards all the after images cut out of existence and Cain's movements create sound again.

Ability Name: Gale shield
Description: A gale of wind surrounds Cain. This gale of wind acts like a shield against slow moving attacks (These can be anything that move slower then the typical cero.) and light projectiles, veering them off course. This passive also can be used to blow gases away from him and keep himself safe. The wind can also be used as a weapon catching a projectile spinning it about and launching it back in the general direction it was launched from. Gale shield is capable of veering a bullet off just enough to avoid heart shots, yet a bullet aimed to the chest is still enough to hit him regardless of how little he can veer it. If an attack were to hit the gale with the force of a gran rey cero the gale would center point it's self to becoming a solid shield blocking the blow just enough to allow most people to move out of the way, before letting the remainder of the blow through and shutting down for a two post cool down.

Ability Name: Seeing Red
Description: Cain begins to charge up power within his sword sheathe. The longer he charges this the stronger the swords attack will be. During this time he is also capable of absorbing attacks thrown at him, capable of even absorbing cero oscuras. The time this takes is incredibly fast allowing for him to store the energy energy within the sheathe. Once he reaches a decent amount he releases the built up energy in an outward slash that when it makes contact with an object cuts clean through and continues onward, objects cut by the wave sent out vaporize into rose petals of reiatsu before shattering. The outward blast also sends objects around him flying, people are unaffected. The effective range of the slash is from pointblank range to twenty five feet. This attack can be viewed as an equivalent to a gran rey cero.(Charge 3 post, 2 if he absorbs an attack, 4 post cool down after being fired, he's also capable of moving during the charging, this attack is suppose to be used as a game changer and not to be spammed during fights, or as a get away ability to create a decent enough diversion. )
[The absorption capable during this time is one cero oscuras or two gran rey ceros, or six normal cero]


General Techniques:




Technique Name: Aero Slash
Technique Description: Using his Iaido abilities to there fullest Cain quickly marks the air out before him with reiatsu. The spots marked glow bright red, after each slash another marked location appears and the blade must be resheathed again to mark a new location. When he's finished he holds the blade for a second inches away from being fully sheathed before slamming the blade into the sheath. Doing so launches compressed waves of air strong enough to cut though tough hierro. The compressed waves of wind are capable of cutting through kido 60 and below. (1 post cool down)

Technique Name: Mimic Blade
Technique Description: Cain is capable of mimicking blade techniques that he's witnessed. If he were to watch someone use a sword fighting style he would be capable of mimicking it as if he had been an active user in the style. Any style he mimics if used long enough becomes mastered with ease due to this. Allowing for him to be severely diverse in swordsmanship but strongly based in Iaido. He is capable of mimicking sword abilities as well,
however they'll have an elemental affinity towards wind.

Technique Name: Swift Movement
Technique Description: Cain is capable of moving at speeds that nearly blur his image when he moves. This speed comes in burst and from training for years to perfect his agility. Pushing his body to the limits to move at these speeds has also increased his stamina greatly allowing for him to move quickly in short burst for long periods of time. Typically only moving his arms quickly.

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History: Born within a small family at the time Cain's parents were having a hard time finding the financial footing for raising their child. Due to this Cain's early years were spent with varying periods of time with either parent. His father working full time and his mother working two jobs to try and help support her new child. He didn't understand the severity of his birth at that time but he was a shining beacon for both of his parents who before him, had no wonderful plans for the future. He had been their surprise that changed their lives.

When he turned five his parents had another child. His little sister, Catherine, who his parents had planned. He had a basic understanding on how to form sentences, yet not always the most coherent. He didn't truly understand the significance of what another child within the house meant for his parents but he had learned that his mom seemed to work awfully hard for him. Now that he was having a sister as well his father's job changed too, from being an automotive to a builder, along with his mom changing from working two separate jobs to one job as an accountant. When his little sister was born he got to spend sometime with her and his mom, yet he had just started school and couldn't play or talk with his mom during the days anymore.

By the time he was nine his parents had gone from living in a small house in a bad side of town to living within a nice community. Here he got to get a few friends and realized the best way to dodge blame for something was to try and place it on someone else. At this time he began to play little league soccer and tried his best to win. Along with soccer he also began to skate. His parents working hard enough to be able to support the family and their hobbies. Yet much like him another surprise came along the way and soon they began to cut back on some of those luxuries for Cain's younger brother, Christian. His parents began to work a few more hours in preparation for their next child and Cain was in charge of baby sitting his little sister most nights while his parents were out working. At the time Cain tried his best to play with his baby sister and build the relationship a brother should have with his little sister, yet he understood she was still just a bit too young.

Within the next three years he entered middle school. Cain had begun to stand up for himself to others and to maintain a position of seeming strong to others so he wouldn't be bullied by others, he subsequently became a bully himself. He was twelve in sixth grade, while his sister had already started school his brother had only just turned three and he was sad. He wouldn't have a brother who he could really wrestle with or be rough with. So he viewed all those around him during school as unfortunate for having to deal with his rowdiness because he had no one to mess with at home. It was at this time that he found a target that he enjoyed to bully the most, a boy named Oliver. Little did Cain know that this boy was going to be one of his closest friends. This boy was the person who slowly began to change his ideals standing up to him whenever he would come to beat the kid down, and always standing back up defiantly to the boy who would bully him.

In High school Cain received a wake up call and the only person willing to be his friend afterwards was Oliver. Cain had come in as the new bully in school, he was to be tested by all the others and little did he know his antics were child's play to those above him. He returned home that day beaten and bruised, eyes swollen, and only one person by his side to help him along, Oliver. Oliver taught him how someone had to stand up to the bullies and never give in, to fall 5 times and stand up 6 is the strength of man. Oliver and Cain became close friends and the two families Oliver's and Cain's became friends as well. The next events in Cain's life were what truly shaped him up to be the man he is currently.

Oliver and Cain stood tall together protecting as many kids as they could in the school. They took beating after beating to protect those that they could. Oliver always took a more peaceful approach, while the hot tempered Cain would only be able to contain himself for so long before fighting back. All it took was one hospital stay too long and Cain's entire view of their vigilante protection of those in the school became his job alone. Stuck in the hospital for a week with a broken leg and two broken ribs Cain had received news from his family about Oliver. A group of kids had grown sick of their antics and wanted to strike a deep blow to Cain by beating Oliver too a pulp. Just they took it too far, one of the kids while kicking Oliver in the chest had missed and gone to high, crushing his esophagus. The boys were charged as adults for understanding what they had been doing the entire time and Cain received therapy to try and help him cope with the loss of his only friend.

Now having graduated from high school and already in his first year of college the young man is still haunted by the death of his friend and sees any opportunity to stand up and protect another regardless of it being bullying or harassment he jumps at the cause. Remembering Oliver's way of standing up to protect others when he was bullied by Cain. He would re-enact Oliver's method of peacefully trying to stop certain encounters, but he understood some encounters required one to take action to protect others and one's self. The catharsis that he underwent seemingly triggering something deep within him and setting his timeline down a different course then a normal adult, he felt that a power was welling up within him and yet he had no clue what exactly that entitled him to, and he didn't want to learn until he fully understood what he wanted that power to be used for. For he still didn't even know what that power was truly, if it was just welled up emotions of Oliver or if he truly meant something more to the world.

Over the next two years of his life after realizing his powers he moved back to his families home country of Russia. Saving up money he built himself a shack out in the wilderness of the motherland and enjoyed a more peaceful life. Here he found the occasional black creature with its white mask and witnessed the fights of the reapers as he had come to know them that would fight the creatures they called hollows. Over time the reapers began to trust the area more to him as he was capable of fighting the hollows after some training from the occasional reaper who'd come by and explain to him some of the basics of the spiritual world.

Eventually Cain was discovered and contacted by the coalition and almost forced into the organization for spiritual beings. Reluctantly joining it was possibly one of his best choices for he was given access to a site to train his powers further and meet other beings of power that he would never have met if he stayed in the wilderness of Russia. Here he continued to hone his powers and body to being capable of withstanding the new found prowess his body was capable of manifesting.

Rp Sample:
The young man sat with one of his knees up and his other foot on the chair across from him. His sketchbook balanced on his knee as he drew. He was enjoying his relaxing day off, he had moved out from his parents place cause he couldn't handle the stress that the family thought he was under that they actually placed him into. His friend had died yes, but he had taken it for what it was and moved on as best as he could. His friend would rather he be happy and party then to mourn and grieve over the loss of someone who would not return to them. He shifted moving his sketchbook aside and reached over to the table to grab his cup of tea. As he leaned back he looked up, his black bangs shifting out of his face. The sky was relatively cloudy but for the most part he enjoyed that. Bringing his cup up to his mouth he took a sip of his tea before setting it back down and returning to his drawing. He had seen the shinigami and hollow fighting the occasional human who could combat a hollow, he had actually seen them a lot more lately since he felt as if he too had powers.

When he had finished his drawing for the most part he put his sketchbook aside. What exactly did he want to do with his day off. He let his mind wander on the possibilities of what he actually could do. I guess the first thing he could do was go back inside his apartment and put on some pants instead of lounging around in his pajamas all day. He picked up his pencils and eraser placing them on top of his sketch book and carried them inside along with his cup of tea. His apartment wasn't anything special, a bedroom, a bathroom, a small kitchen connected with the living area of the apartment with a balcony. To top it all, it was a mess, he was horrible at keeping his stuff where it belonged and clothes were scattered all across his room, towels lay on the floor in his bathroom, dishes weren't completely piled up but obviously needed cleaning, and the living area, pillows were scattered about and papers from school seemingly everywhere.

He slid a hand through his hair as his emerald eyes glanced about his room for something more appropriate for just window shopping around the town. A red jacket on top of his beaten up grenade shirt? He had worn it the other day and ended up sleeping in it, but.. he loved it too much to consider changing. His pajama bottoms were the next problem he had to find something else to wear, he was already wearing a jacket so shorts were out of the question. He settled on a beaten up pair of blue jeans with the knee worn through on the right side. Slipped into his pair of nice black vans and walked out the door with an ear bud in his left ear and hobbled down the stairs smiling to the click and clank of his dog tags. When he reached the bottom of the stairs is when he finally acknowledged his dangling wallet. Looking back up the stairs and under them to make sure he hadn't lost anything he nodded to himself and slipped his wallet into his back pocket and continued on his way into down town. Something had to be going on today.

He knew the town had a shopping center that had various stores, an open air market, and a mall and near each other. It was a paradise for the college student who needed to find a part-time job and still have stuff to do. He had found flyers for events that he had never imagined possible, and was surprised he had never actually heard of before. Yet recently since he had moved there the place had gone from spotted incidents of garden variety hollows to an influx of garden variety hollows that it wasn't an odd sight to see a shinigami standing on post waiting to ensure the safety of the humans nearby and allow those humans with powers to remain what they were doing. He almost wondered if it was because he didn't know how to control the energy that seeped from himself, but at the same time that shouldn't be the case, or he would have always been like that right? He second guessed himself a lot of the time when he thought of it.

As his thoughts were running through he felt his stomach shift as he felt a hollow coming through, the feeling of the air becoming heavier still hadn't settled with him. He figured it'd come with experience that it'd stop, when he looked up to the sky it looked as if it had gotten darker and he saw a tear that a hollow crawled out from before it closed. Nothing too strange he thought still, he looked around and saw the shinigami stationed to the area already moving towards it and he continued on with his shopping as if there wasn't something above him right now that wanted to eat him.  Yet when he did glance back up he noticed the hollow looking right at him, as if it knew he was a faucet left on, that he didn't know how to turn himself off. He shivered as he watched the hollows mask get sliced in half and the creature vanish while staring right at him the entire time. He could keep second guessing himself but something or someone would find him eventually. Right?

Approved 1-5.