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B9 - Malik

Published: Aug 30, 2014

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Description

Ω Name: Malik Atalar
Ω Age: 17
Ω Gender: ♂
Ω Height/Weight: 5'10" 126 lbs / 177 cm
Ω Birthday: October 4th

ψ Godly Parent: Aphrodite
ψ Number of Years at Camp: 4 years
ψ Year Rounder/Summer Camp: Summer Camp [But he's been known to come early some summers]

ψ Weapon: Whip, with a celestial bronze handle and tip and with celestial bronze fibers woven into the whip rope. [Hetaera | ἑταίρα | "Companion"]

ψ Subtle Ability: It would be a shame to break that pretty face. When fighting Malik, people and monsters may hesitate to attack him, feeling suddenly unwilling to hurt him, as if to cause him harm would be akin to shattering some masterful and priceless piece of artwork. This is entirely passive, and he has no control over it — it is constantly working, whether he wants it to or not. The strength and persistence of the feeling depends on the strength of will of the person or monster affected. In some cases, especially with particularly sadistic or vengeful people and monsters, this ability can backfire entirely, and actually cause them to want to hurt him more, activating the same kind of instinct that drives the desire to spontaneously break priceless things.

ψ Stats:
STR: 1
DEX: 3
AGI: 5
INT: 3
VIT: 3

ψ Fatal Flaw: Self-Destructive: Malik is helplessly attracted to violence and danger, whether that violence takes the form of an action, place, or another person. He is willing to endure any kind of pain or threat in order to be close to that wild kind of unpredictability, even when it poses a very real risk to his life and safety.

Ω Likes/Dislikes:
✓ Fruit smoothies
✓ People
✓ Romance
✓ Cats
✓ Birds
✓ Flowers
✓ Writing
✓ Beauty
✗ Fighting
✗ Soda
✗ Sweets
✗ Video Games [he's horrible at them, but he likes to watch
✗ Ugly or inelegant things

Ω Personality: Idealistic | Passionate | Diplomatic | Accepting | Outgoing | Vain | Unreliable | Indecisive

Malik is a charismatic, outgoing young man who gets along very easily with others (even with those who are determined to be antagonistic towards him). He jokes easily, lends an ear and gives advice freely, and doesn’t take anything too seriously. That is, with the exception of one thing: love. He is endlessly passionate about love, and unflinchingly believes in its truth and power. In all things, he values love—in all its forms—above all else, and will become insulted or distressed when people dismiss or seem jaded about love and romance. Otherwise, he’s very happy to gossip during a sparring match, or braid a fellow camper's hair before lights out, or groom the pagasi on his own downtime. While he is comfortable being on his own — he enjoys reading and even writing in his spare time — he much prefers to be in the company of others, and will get antsy when alone for too long.

Along with all of that, Malik is also incredibly vain, worrying about his looks even during a fight, and becomes personally affronted when other campers show up to breakfast with unkempt hair or slovenly clothes (unless they’re going for a grunge fashion look, which he can’t say he approves of, either). Most of the time he’ll attempt to correct these fashionable faux pas on his own, and will persist even when rebuffed by even the surliest of definitely-not-morning-people. He also has an incredibly difficult time making important or lasting decisions, especially when he can’t just make them on a whim or when they affect others. This can sometimes make him unreliable, as he will eventually try and avoid making any decision at all. Generally he doesn’t care if he makes bad decisions for himself, and accepts the consequences of those bad decisions for himself rather than be faced with the difficulty of making choices.

Ω History:

Canan Atalar was a successful photographer who had lived and traveled the world over, though he had earned a name for himself in his youth with his modeling career. It was through his photography that he met a beautiful, enchanting woman—truly the most splendid he had ever beheld. She became his muse and his reason for living, and through her, his photogrphy and craft became stronger and more celebrated than ever. And then she disappeared. As suddenly as she had come into Canan's life, she was gone, but she had not taken all of herself away. As he wallowed in her absence, alone in his expensive New York apartment, a sound came from his front hall. There he found a young baby boy, and no explanation but a deep and abiding and impossible understanding that this was his own child. He called him Malik, the king of his heart, to fill the open space his queenly mother had left in it.

When Malik was thirteen years old, he was shopping in a San Fransisco mall when a woman approached him. She was the most fabulously beautiful woman he had ever seen, and she felt just a little bit like home. And though he never said a word about this sudden feeling, or gave any indication that he had felt it, she smiled brighter than she already had, and nodded. They shopped together for the afternoon, and she explained who she was. She was Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and she was his mother. His father, she explained with fondness and sadness in equal measure, should not know who she was. It was better for his growth as a man and as an artist that his muse quietly slip out of his life, and leave him to his own future life and loves. Despite his age, Malik understood entirely.

The next year, Malik asked his father if he could go away to a summer camp in New York. At first, his father was shocked that his son would want to go so far away, but eventually agreed. That was Malik's first summer at Camp Half-Blood. It was also his first near brush with death.

He'd already arrived at JFK airport, and was due to take a taxi to the town closest to the Camp. The taxi driver was a gorgon, and hated Aphrodite and her children. Stunned and terrified, Malik was only saved by chance. They had been close enough to the Camp by that point that a small group of scouting campers was able to come to his aid. They fought off the monster, and helped Malik the rest of the way to the camp. The entire way, Malik's heart was beating nearly out of his chest. And yet, when one camper chanced to look over at him, it was not fear that he saw on Malik's face—it was delight.

That was when Malik truly understood love's other side, its passionate and violent and frightening side. Love bred jealousy and hatred and violence just as easily as it bred devotion and compassion, and both sides formed the essential core of human emotion. As he grew older, he found himself feeling the most alive at two points: when he was hopelessly in love, which happened frequently, and when he was on the verge of doing something dangerous. Eventually, this began to bleed into his life outside of camp, and things finally came to their tipping point. After a particularly dangerous series of decisions, Malik landed himself in the hospital, and could no longer hide his behavior from his father. Fearful and worried for his son's safety, the moved back to New York, buying a house in the Hamptons on Long Island. Malik and his father live there now, happily settled into their new lives. Canan has a new art gallery all his own, and Malik attends school during the year and continues to go to camp during the summer, balancing both halves of his life with an accumulated and effortless grace.

[Extended Edition: sta.sh/0jzgd885d7x ]

Ω Family:
Canan Atalar - Father
Bedelia Augustin - Step-Mother
Alexis Kanelos - Canan and Bedelia's partner

ψ Relationships: - TBA -

ψ Beads Earned: - TBA -

Ω Misc:
- Malik is pansexual, and is attracted to all genders. And, while he is very finicky about looks, he has a very broad and personal perception of what is beautiful to him.
- Malik uses his whip weapon as a whip and also as a rope weapon, using it to trip, snare, or tie up enemies.
- [Trigger Warning] When he was 16 he did have a "relationship" with a man over ten years older than he was, and it ended up being fairy abusive. When Malik's father found out, he moved him and his son almost across the country to get his son away from it. He doesn't know it, but Aphrodite turned the man into a park bench for hurting her son and bastardizing the name of Love. [This incident was due to Malik's Fatal Flaw, his self destructive tendencies and attraction to danger.]
- Malik's fatal flaw, his attraction to danger and violence, mirrors Aphrodite's passion for Ares, the violent and frightening god of war.
- His favorite flowers are red roses.
- He has a female Turkish Angora cat at home named Ishtar.

Ω RP Methods:
I am happy to do script or lit, though lit is my preferred choice (and I do tend to accidentally move towards lit even in script RPs! Sorry!)
I also am very happy to RP in chat or in Skype! You can always shoot me a note asking for my Skype name if you'd like to RP!

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Me11owPanda

Feb 13, 2015

_{SCREECHES THERE ARE SO MANY BEAUTIFUL OCS}