Post by Adrian Kilvayne on Feb 8, 2011 22:54:34 GMT -5
Sebastian Kilvayne
Full Name: Sebastian Regis Kilvayne
Age: 53
Civilian or Special: Special
Currently Located: Has been in hiding; recently re-emerged in New York
Affiliated with: Villain
Celebrity Claim: Oldman, Gary
Relation to You: Adrian's Father
PERSONALITY && APPEARANCE
Sebastian is a devious man, and somewhat obsessive over what he calls "The Grand Story." It is his perspective as a writer that the world is just a setting for a story. The Grand Story. He believes his part in it is very important, and has plans for his son. He is intelligent, and self serving, and will stop at nothing to see the story unfold in a way that pleases him. He desires to claim authorship of this chapter, and so he obsessively pursues the goals in his twisted mind with reckless glee.
Sebastian is a deciever, a manipulator, and cruel sadist. He hides behind a veneer of civility and quaint charm, but he has a dark side miles wide. He has little empathy for most people, and only really loves his wife and son. Well, in his own way. He is vengefully protective of his wife, though he has only now really taken an interest in his son. Not much of a sentimental type really, he just cares about what he can get out of other people. One can say that in the case of Sebastian and Adrian, the apple did not fall very from the tree.
Sebastian was an insatiable womanizer in his heyday, before he met Juliana who was just as wicked and cruel as he was. They fell madly and passionately in love, and became the closest of co-conspirators. He still fights the desire to hop from bed to bed, but his lust is satiated in part due to Juliana's own maniacally lustful nature, and her propensity for inviting women into their bedroom.
Sebastian is a habitual smoker, and an alcoholic. He has an intensely addictive streak, and passed this on to his son.
Sebastian is about 5'6" with an average physique, weighing about 150 lbs. He has pale blue eyes, and greying light brown hair, with a reddish tint in some lighting. Other times it seems to have a tinge of blond to it. He wears corrective lenses, in the form of square framed glasses. His face is careworn, and shows obvious signs of his age
ABILITY IF APPLICABLE
Typhokinesis (aka Smoke Manipulation): Sebastian can manipulate smoke. He can suppress it, poison it, and use it as a cover from prying eyes. He can also breathe smoke without any harm coming to him. His ability to suppress smoke while something is burning is limited of course. He can keep it from harming his allies as long as his concentration remains unbroken, and he is not physically exhausted. There is a point where the exercise of his power will exhaust him, and he will fail to suppress smoke from a still burning building, or other object.
HISTORY
Sebastian was born the youngest son of Alexander and Eleanor Kilvayne. Already he had little chance of making it very far in the competitive heirarchy of his family. The chosen son was always going to be Alexander II, and Sebastian would have to work hard to earn his father's respect. He failed. When puberty set in, Sebastian failed to manifest. He was considered a Kilvayne in name only, and all rights of inheritance were lost. This was substantial, as his family was old money with their hands in a variety of business ventures, a modern day emoire to say the least. The prize Alexander won was the throne. Sebastian was to be the low man on the totem pole.
He made a life for himself as a writer, and even had an opportunity to build a family of his own. He was not the best father, despite being a doting husband. Before his marriage, he was a rampant womanizer. Sebastian learned from the way his extended family operated. They had provided an example of not loving one's family unconditionally, but assessing their worth and value as if they were assets in a greater machine.
At one point in his marriage, Sebastian was nearly seduced by his wife's sister Morgan Larsen. She was a broken and sad woman, hoping to find something to make her life joyful. She underestimated the man who she had known to be a womanizer in the past, and seriously underestimated his devotion to Juliana. He rejected her advances, and she became a bitter woman. This woman would later become Adrian's legal guardian. She took advantage of her position of power over the boy and abused him as a petty attempt at revenge against the man who scorned her.
Sebastian took this to heart, and was unrelenting in pushing Adrian to achieve a high standard of excellence in all things, in the irrational hope that his son would manifest from greater discipline and vindicate him in the eyes of the Kilvayne family. He never got a chance to see that happen, because his son's own troubled psyche came into its own in a violent act of arson meant to destroy the lives of Sebastian and his wife Juliana. Adrian believed for the rest of his life that this act of patricidal arson had been a success.
Instead, the couple finally manifested their latent powers. They survived by combining their abilities to avoid suffocating on smoke and being burned to death by flames. They took this opportunity to escape their lives and dropped out of the world. Dead to the world, they went into hiding. They found themselves holing up in a small Alaskan town for several years until they heard news of catastrophic events in Hell, Arizona and Costa Verde, California. They eventually learned that Adrian was rumored to have been involved in these events, and that he was a special, like them. Now they seek to rebuild a relationship with Adrian. For Sebastian, this is about taking advantage of his son's role in the present "story arc" to further his own incomprehensible goals. His wife's motives are somewhat unclear to him. He assumes she just wants to see her son again, but he suspects she might want to punish in some way for attempting to kill his parents.
