Erik Lavalais

[Erik Lavalais]

ERIK LAVALAIS

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It wasn't my time yet...

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Player Name:
Meg. Or Lavalais if you like.
Years Roleplaying:
6 Years, officially.
Gender:
I'm female.
Contact me:
I do believe that Leffie already has my contact info.
Anything else?:
I feel that I must warn you that I am a casual RPer, but I'm sure that I can get used to formal in no time.

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Basic Information

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Erik Lavalais
Age:
234, but he looks the same as he did when he was 30.
Canon or OC?:
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Appearance

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6 foot, 7 inches.
Body type:
Tall and skeletal, with a predatory walk, like a jaguar when it stalks its prey.
Eye color:
Yellow. His eyes have a tendency to glow in the dark like a nocturnal animal's. You can rarely see them in the light, but in the dark, they shine brightly.
Wardrobe:
He prefers to keep a monochromatic wardrobe, and for the most part wears all black. Black high waisted pants, black high collar shirt with a cravat or jabot, black gloves, black vest with a coloured pattern on the back, black jacket, black cape or high collared coat, and black leather gloves. He ALWAYS wears a full face mask, whether it's made of black velvet, black leather, gold, or any other material. He doesn't take it off except to bathe or sleep, or if he's in private. Also on his person is his Punjab Lasso, which he keeps in a coil on his right hip.
General Appearance:
He's too thin for words, emaciated and scarred EVERYWHERE. His face and neck are the most deformed areas of his body. His face resembles that of a mummy, with yellowing skin that stretches tightly over the framing of his face. He doesn't have a nose, and the vomar of his nose is completely visible, but broken. His eyes are sunken and the irises of his eyes are only slightly visible in the light. There are many large scars on his face: A large diagonal (top-left, bottom-right) cut-mark across his "nose," three large diagonal (top-left, bottom-right) scratch-cuts across his right eye, four vertical scars down his right cheek, three down his left cheek, two vertical cut-scars on the right side of his lips that stretch from below the nose to the bottom of his chin, three bullet wounds on his left temple, a large horizontal cut-scar across his neck, and rope-burn scars across his neck. The yellowing, tight skin is true for all over his body, and he's so emaciated and skinny, you can see all his bones and muscles. He does have little traces of abdominal muscles, but that's as much as you'll see regarding his physical fitness. The boniest parts of him are his hands and feet. His fingers are very spindly and long. His hair is black, and down to his shoulder blades. It's thick and straight, turning slightly wavy at the ends. He usually keeps it in a ponytail with a satin ribbon to keep it out of his face.
Played By:
No faceclaim yet.
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Personality

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Erik, of course, loves his music. He spends a lot of time composing. He also enjoys sketching, painting playing his violin and piano, composing on his organ, going outside, cooking, singing, reading, and writing.
He hates large crowds and sudden loud noises, preferring to keep to himself. At parties, he's a definite wallflower, and he only comes out of his shell when he REALLY gets to know people. For the most part, he's anti-social, excluding himself from others by referring to others as "humans". "Humans" bore and annoy him, and he's easily irked by repetition (both from himself and others) and when others are a bit scatterbrained.
He's a bit of a neat freak, and slightly OCD. To him, everything has a place, and that place NEEDS TO BE IN ORDER. He has a habit of smirking instead of smiling, making him look cocky and self confident. All that is to cover up his self-esteem issues around people. He has anorexia nervosa, preferring not to eat unless it's his cooking on special occasions. He also has a habit of drinking when he's stressed, and smoking to relax. He sleeps only when necessary, and doesn't really require much oxygen, giving off the impression that he doesn't really breathe.
Overall, he tries to be polite, but he's a bit of a curmudgeon. He's negative and arrogant, holding himself higher than others.
Dreams and Goals:
Erik will always have the goal to find love, get married, and live a normal life. He dreams of owning a house or a flat, taking on piano and vocal students, and getting a wife who loves him for who he is. He also dreams of becoming socially accepted.
Strengths:
He has inhuman physical strength, is a master of stealth and is very agile. While his physical strength is mind-blowing, his real strengths lie in illusion and manipulation. He's very good at manipulating opinions and thoughts of others, especially in the event that he's ever in danger. He is a master of many weapons, including knives, ropes, swords, staffs, and hand-to-hand.
Weaknesses:
He has a weakness to his addictions to alcohol, hashish, morphine, and opium. He also has physical weaknesses, in places where his scars have healed over but never completely recovered. He has a weakness towards the fairer sex, becoming completely incompetent when faced with a potentially romantic situation. If approached by a woman in any flirtatious manner, he gets nervous and shy, wanting to back out immediately and possibly hide under a rock.
Fears:
Erik has a fear of being left alone forever. Not in the sense of being literally alone, but in the sense of not having anyone to share his life with. He also has a slight fear of what comes after death. It's a fear of being sent to Hell when he dies, really, as Lavalais is a devout Catholic.
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The Past

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His mother and father are unnamed, as of yet. His mother is unnamed because he holds her in such a spiteful air, he doesn't like to talk about or mention her. His father is unnamed because he literally doesn't know his father's name. He has an adoptive daughter, Teressa. She was a duchess in the late 1700s, and her original name was Teressa Antoinette de Lyon. He found her in Vienna, Austria and traveled with her ever since. His "best friend" is the Persian, who he refers to only as Daroga.
History:
Audierne -- March 21st, 1622-1632 : He was born in the springtime in a seaport town in Northern France. He was the son of a seamstress and a soldier. His father left shortly after his conception, and his mother tried to abort him, leaving him with no nose.His mother neglected him, so he had to take care of himself, causing his skin and eyes to yellow out from malnourishment. He was born with a birth defect that causes his cells to constantly regenerate and keep him alive, which makes him hard to kill. He discovered music when he was five years old, teaching himself how to play the pipe organ and how to sing through watching the chorus-master of the local church. Also while in Audierne, he learned sailors knots and how to sail a boat through imitation. When he was 10, he ran away from Audierne, running into a band of Romani Gypsies.
Gypsies -- 1632-1672 : When he lived with the Romani Gypsies, Erik was welcomed with open arms, immediately becoming accepted. While there, he was able to walk around maskless without fear of being mocked or looked at with horror. With the Gypsies, Erik met his first love, Miya. She was a dark haired, olive-skinned dancing girl with black eyes that entranced Erik when he first met her. She was about seventeen when he decided that he wanted to marry her. In the process of grabbing her, he kissed her and snapped her spine by accident, killing her. This incident left him permanently scarred with the thought that he'd kill any woman he kissed.
Russia -- 1672-1710 : He moved to Russia, running away from the fact that he killed the only woman he'd ever loved. He kept himself in seclusion, living off of shady dealings that he made. It was in Russia that he learned how to pickpocket. He found himself a small cottage to live in while there, until he moved to Venice, Italy.
Venice -- 1710-1768 : In Venice, he really opened up to life, getting happier after his depressed and suicidal streak he'd had in Russia. He became a gondola driver, learning all the secrets of Venice and becoming somewhat popular. The fact that he wore a mask helped urge his popularity on, as well as his singing voice. He finally started to have things look up in his life, and he earned enough money to buy himself a palazzo. He became more in-tune with society, learning more about music. He took up learning more musical instruments, teaching himself how to play the harpsichord, pianoforte, violin, and early guitar.
Vienna -- 1768-1790 : In Vienna, he started working as a landscaper. He also started taking up architecture here, designing buildings for private employers. He took up playing wind instruments here, and saw several composers while they were in their prime, including Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn. In 1790, he rescued his adopted daughter Teressa from death. He saved her after she'd been beaten, raped, and left for dead on the streets, nursing her back to health. Unfortunately, this came at a price to her. Erik used his own medicines to nurse her back to health, and that changed her physical appearance forever. She grew taller and got strange deformities that resembled his own. With another like him, Erik had someone to finally share parts of his life with, and he took her in and raised her as his own.
England -- 1790-1804 : The pair moved to England, where Erik made a living as a sailor and fisher. Teressa took up tailoring, and the two made a decent living, earning enough to maintain a nice flat while Erik stashed away money in his own private account. Towards the end of their stay in England, Erik got mixed in with a bad crowd, eventually turning to drug smuggling to keep himself from losing the home that he and Teressa had.
China -- 1804-1828 : Erik's drug smuggling took him to China, where Teressa helped him with trades and business. Erik taught Teressa martial arts and started drinking in excess to relieve his stress. They eventually escaped, going to India in disguise.
India -- 1828-1832 : Here, Erik took up magic and illusion, while Teressa street performed. They didn't earn much in the way of money, but they earned fame in their acts. Teressa became well versed in the realm of bellydance and Erik became a master ventriloquist. Because of their acts and credibility, they were hired on by many important people in African and Middle Eastern countries. They moved to Morocco on a job for an official who helped to run the city.
Morocco -- 1832-1846 : While in Morocco, Erik started saving his money yet again so he could move with Teressa to a better place where they could live in peace. Here, Teressa learned the arts of hypnosis and stealth, as well as how to pickpocket without being noticed. They continues to perform in their acts: Erik would sing and/or play an instrument while Teressa danced. In 1845, Erik started his first opera, Don Juan Triumphant.
Persia -- 1846-1856 : The Shah of Persia eventually got wind of the Lavalais duo, hearing of Erik's talents in architecture and magic and Teressa's enchanting dances. He hired them on as his own personal entertainers. Teressa and Erik were separated from each other, and Erik was left alone in his own flat on the Caspian Sea. To relieve boredom, he took up other arts besides music. The Shah hired Erik on to many jobs, including building palaces, creating automatons, public execution, and entertaining with his music and magic. In 1856, Erik was commissioned to build his most complicated palace yet. This palace was to have so many secrets that no one but the Shah could live with knowledge of how the palaces tricks and secrets worked. The Shah concluded that once Erik finished the construction of the palace, he must be killed.

RP Sample

An excerpt from Lavalais' journal: I feel the end is drawing near. My past is far too long to recount orally, therefore I have found no choice but to write it down. I have no name, but there are many who call me Erik. I acquired the name by accident, as well as the accompanying last name of Lavalais. I was born on March 22nd, 1622, the bastard son of a Navy sailor and a seamstress. She was an ordinary woman. She had black hair and brown eyes, and a horrible temper. When she first found out that I was conceived, she tried to get rid of me. She never told me what she did, but whatever it did left me permanently without a nose. She didn’t know that the aphrodisiac my ‘father’ used was unhealthy, and it caused a mutation in my genes. So imagine her surprise when I appeared that spring, alive and healthy, for the most part. I was born mostly normal, except for my nose. I had white skin and dark hair, like she did. My eyes were blue, probably like his. I would’ve grown up to be normal looking if it weren’t for my missing nose. Unfortunately, she was so horrified by that fact alone that she tried to ignore me. I suppose she thought that when I was dead, she could pass off the excuse that I was too weak to survive. It was then that she found out that the herbal aphrodisiac had caused a genetic mutation that regenerated my cells so quickly that I could not die by starvation. Over the years, I have come to discover that other methods of murder do not work alone on me. But that is for later. Because of the malnourishment, my skin yellowed, as well as my eyes, and try as she might she could not fix me to look almost normal again. She became afraid, thought that she had birthed the devil’s child. So she made me a mask. It was a shaped strip of leather to hide my face so she wouldn’t have to be reminded of the sin that she had brought into the world. She started going back to church, leaving me alone in the house. With no nanny around, I learned to fend for myself quickly. I began speaking only a few months after I came into the world, which frightened her more. The time finally came when I got curious and decided to follow her into the outside world. When I was five years old, I followed her to church on Sunday, hiding in the balcony behind one of the curtains. I had almost lost her when I was following her; the world was so huge, colourful, filled to the brim with interesting objects and oddities that I was nearly transfixed and drawn away from my ultimate goal of pursuing her. Luckily I spotted her again, or I would’ve been hopelessly lost. Not that she would’ve cared anyway. After church, I stayed behind to examine the magnificent pipe organ. During the mass, it had caught my attention. The beautiful sound was almost too much for me to bear. But then, in that silence after the High Mass, I could look at the gorgeous instrument freely...

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[|ADMIN LEFFIE|]

I honestly cannot believe the quality of this app, but then again, you have been playing Lavalais for a long time. I particularly love the way you kind of blend Leroux and Kay Erik together, all the while giving him you own flavour. Now I kind of want Teressa on the forum. I like that he has no Christine (yet). It actually adds depth to his character, giving him less to be guilty for but still regretful for the thing s he's done in life. I LOLed at him hating scatterbrained people. That's it, him and Meg HAVE to meet. XD Dont forget to post in the who's who list, post a plot page, and ask for graphics! Oh, and don't worry about finding a faceclaim, if you just want me to use Muirin or EriksDesdemona's stuff.