VT: Rehan Avakian.

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Name: Rehan Avakian [ REH-han uh-VAI [as in pain]-kee-uhn ]
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Height: 6’0”
Country: Ragnelia
Element: Fire
Faction: Erius Knight
Rank: Cadet
Stats: Str 17 / Mag 20 (+5) / Vit 8 / Spd 5 / Sp 0/
Weapon: Lance
Expertise: Support/Buff - He can be a fighter, but his nature restrains him from heading straight on to battle and keeps him in the background to support frontliners. His skill for supporting himself, even, casts a limit on how much he can use it.

Personality:
From first sight, he’s a charming and polite lad who always has a smile on his face. _{(A lot of my characters seem to follow this trait…)} Really calculative on the inside, though. He speaks in a very obnoxious formal speech most of the time, but he really doesn’t mean any harm… unless he senses that you’re hiding something from him. He tries to be helpful, but that helpfulness can turn him into a manipulative figure if he can pry something from you.
He's a sensitive and overprotective figure who easily grows a soft spot for younger people and would try to act as a brother to them, but he can get pretty pessimistic from it. _{(Reason down below… in history…)}

History:
Born into a family of Knights, Rehan was very fixed onto his dream of riding dragons and training as a noble being – his affinity with nature also helped him to remain faithful to the words of the Knights. It was a rather straightforward and simple childhood he had, with him being on top of his studies and constantly training his powers to join the faction when he became at age.

The dynamics of his family changed quite a bit when his brother was born. The child was hard of hearing from birth, and after trying to find the cure for him (but could only aid his hearing to a certain degree), they were afraid of the child who could not understand what was told to him. His brother threw tantrums often but of course he couldn’t express himself – didn’t really help that the family’s element was fire – one can imagine how hard of a time he had on trying to suppress his own magic. He later on gave up and eventually suffered from depression. The stubborn child never wanted to join the Erius Knights – thinking that they would discriminate him for his own disability like his family – so he left the house only to get involved in petty street fights, spending nights away from the house and blackening the family’s name. At this point the family disowned the child completely, deeming him “the outcast” – and one day, he never came back. Rehan loved his younger brother – he was the one who tried his hardest to be with him, and it was hard for him to let him go. He knew it was for the best, however – his brother was not happy in Ragnelia.

The whole event would not quite affect Rehan that much had he not found out that his eyesight started to decrease drastically after he practiced magic. Being the prideful kid that he was – the only one saving the name of the family –he refused to give into his own weakness, thinking that he might suffer the same fate as his brother. [The history went on a tangent for a bit because the brother’s story was what he thought would happen to him.]When he was 18, his family pressed onto him to join the Knights – but he refused and went off for a few years with the excuse of ‘honing his skills further before he joined the faction.’ The reason was true, but it was not the whole truth: he was too afraid of letting them know how afraid he was of himself, of how he was slowly losing his vision – but he never confined this to anyone, and after frantically looking for a cure for 2 years fruitlessly, he ended up joining the faction 3 years later than normal cadets. His family was pleased with his decision – they wanted the honor to pass on – but he thought of joining the faction as an escape and how he could control his powers better in hopes of finding a fix for his regressive eyesight.

Extra info:
- His eyes are grey, and his hair is brown with grey highlights.
- He really doesn’t look any different from a normal person (as in, he doesn’t look blind) – so even now his family (or possibly everyone) can’t tell that his eyesight is getting progressively worse.
- A regular effect of his disease (retinitis pigmentosa) is night blindness – so he is not very fond of the night. (He likes it when there are lights, though.) He gets really paranoid when he turns older, because it’s when it gets worse. [ - Fun fact! His disease is actually genetic related. ]
- Has synesthesia. (He smells colors.) Because of this, he associates people with their particular colors or scents.
- Left-handed.
- Sometimes he will joke around and introduce/refer to himself by the name “Tea.” The name seems to carry significance to him, though, and he will become a little more somber – as if nostalgia hits. (His brother used to call him by that name. Another fun fact: Rehan means Sweet Basil/Aromatic Plant.) That said – he really enjoys making tea.
- He senses heat very well! Always wanted to specialize in blacksmithing (because he grows to like the heat of fire), but is afraid that his regressing eyesight can become a really big obstacle.
- He's an entertainer – charmed into the life of the busy Ragnelia he involves himself in the act of entertainment and always tries to bring a smile to lift up the stress around him. After his hearing gets enhanced, he focuses more on learning the duduk and may just whip it out randomly to practice or to change the mood.

Skill: Sparrazinut’yun [ սպառազինություն - Armament ]
He uses fire to create a fire armor around the body to boost up VIT stat by 50% but a cool down of 5 minutes if he uses it on himself, and 10 minutes if he includes another person. At this stage, he can only use this skill for one extra person. Overuse it and he will start seeing black dots (floaters).
Skill: Neratsut’yun [ ներածություն - Induction ]
Lights his lance on fire and boosts his own STR stat by 50% - but he hasn’t formed thermal resistance to it, so he needs a cool down of 5 mins after he uses it. He also can’t use this for more times than his VIT stat allows him to. (So with his current VIT stat, it allows him to use it for 8 times.)
Special: Khorkhorat [ խորխորատ - Abysm ]
With his lance planted in the ground he can create a vortex of fire surrounding himself and enveloping the target. This can stun the target for five turns only (at his level) – however he only uses this as a final resort, since it drains the light from his eyes and he wouldn’t be able to see properly for a day. He also gets pretty severe burns from it…