- Name
- Silas Bradley Grimshaw
- Age
- 40
- Gender
- Male
- Species
- Awakened Human
- Occupation
- Stable Hand
- Appearance
- Sickly pale pallor, thinning unkempt long raven hair, no eyebrows, wears mostly black.
- Personality
- Cautious, nervous, shy, soft-spoken easily startled, self-conscious, loves horses.
- Abilities
- Violinist, good with animals.
- Situation
- Lives on a small, shabby farmhouse resting on a big property he inherited from his step-parents.
Appearance
- Height
- 5'9"
- Body
- Slender, verging on emaciated build and a pale, sickly pallor.
- Face
- Angular face, thin lips, crooked, pointy nose.
- Eyes
- Haunting pale blue eyes.
- Hair
- Thinning unkempt raven hair that cascades just past his shoulders.
- Clothes
- Black and only black, sometimes with gold or white accents in the details of his clothing. Lower-class Victorian era inspired.
Personality
Anxious - Silas is cautious and nervous around strangers and is easily startled by sudden movements or noises. He’s self-conscious, doesn’t like to eat in front of others and is sensitive when it comes to remarks about his appearance.
Shy - Silas is generally quiet, shy and soft-spoken and it takes him a lot of time to warm up to new people. When he does make friends, he tends to become very needy towards them due to fear of abandonment.
Equestrian - Silas is devoted to the horses he tends to and cares for them deeply. One might consider him a horse whisperer of sorts.
- Additional Information
- Physically frail and often feels under the weather, has a slight English accent, plays the violin.
Abilities
- Ability Format
- Standard Traits
- Core Advantage
- Shadow Magic - Silas has ability to travel through shadows. While in the midst of traveling, he temporarily becomes a cloud of wispy black mist. He can also blend in completely with the shadows while staying very still. This stops working when he moves or makes a noise.
- Nerfs and Flavor
- Every time Silas uses a shadow power, he uses up quite a lot of energy. If he overuses his abilities, he may become sick or cough up congealed or liquid shadows.
Current Situation
- Occupation
- Stable Hand
- Housing
- A small farmhouse situated on a big property.
- Wealth
- Has just enough of an income to survive, but not much beyond that.
History
- Date of Birth
- March 18
Silas was born in 1983 to a farmer and his wife who lived on a farm in a rural area just outside of Polaris Pass. He was orphaned at no older than two years old when his parents were both killed in a barn fire of unknown origins.
Fate smiled upon him when an older English couple who lived close by overheard the ruckus and rescued him. While he never got to know his birth parents, he became quite attached to his adoptive ones who were patient and loving towards him.
The same could sadly not be said for his schoolmates. Silas was picked on by them for a multitude of reasons, all of them stemming from his outwardly gloomy appearance. His cruel classmates nicknamed him ‘The Grim’ or just ‘Grim’ and a group of them started a rumor that he was evil and had started the barn fire which had cost him his mother and father.
They also took advantage of his affinity for animals and forced him to do cruel things to them while threatening to hurt him if he refused. It was around this time that his shadow powers surfaced, which did help him escape the bullies from time to time but at the expense of his health.
Unfortunately, while his adoptive parents were good people, they were getting up in their years and were not very perceptive when it came to their son being bullied. While Silas survived both elementary and high school, he did not go without suffering some mental and physical scarring due to the constant harassment he received.
He did not attend college but still proved capable and picked up a job as a caretaker for horses. Working for a stable hand felt like a way to redeem himself after subjecting so many animals to pain as a child.
When his adoptive parents eventually died of natural causes, Silas inherited their cozy little house. He still lives there and works with horses to this day. However, he doesn’t go a single night without wondering whether his birth parents’ deaths were accidental or not, and exactly how he'd developed shadow magic.
Fate smiled upon him when an older English couple who lived close by overheard the ruckus and rescued him. While he never got to know his birth parents, he became quite attached to his adoptive ones who were patient and loving towards him.
The same could sadly not be said for his schoolmates. Silas was picked on by them for a multitude of reasons, all of them stemming from his outwardly gloomy appearance. His cruel classmates nicknamed him ‘The Grim’ or just ‘Grim’ and a group of them started a rumor that he was evil and had started the barn fire which had cost him his mother and father.
They also took advantage of his affinity for animals and forced him to do cruel things to them while threatening to hurt him if he refused. It was around this time that his shadow powers surfaced, which did help him escape the bullies from time to time but at the expense of his health.
Unfortunately, while his adoptive parents were good people, they were getting up in their years and were not very perceptive when it came to their son being bullied. While Silas survived both elementary and high school, he did not go without suffering some mental and physical scarring due to the constant harassment he received.
He did not attend college but still proved capable and picked up a job as a caretaker for horses. Working for a stable hand felt like a way to redeem himself after subjecting so many animals to pain as a child.
When his adoptive parents eventually died of natural causes, Silas inherited their cozy little house. He still lives there and works with horses to this day. However, he doesn’t go a single night without wondering whether his birth parents’ deaths were accidental or not, and exactly how he'd developed shadow magic.
Additional Information
- Art Credits
- Avatar art was created via this Picrew!
- Anything Else
- His shadow magic is something he inherited from his ancestors, but he does not know this.
