"I have been called many of names, but you may call me..."
Name: Joseph Venger. JV
Gender:Male
Age:21
Birthday: January 1st.
Sexuality: Straight
Special Characteristics:Tattoo's on his fingers right saying 'Soul' the left saying 'Sick'. Tattoo on top of his right hand of a skull and crossbone covered in black mist which travels to his wrist/forarm to meet up with a Grim Reaper pocket watch covered in thorns, the thorns extend to the forearm before melding with an actual Grim reaper Tattoo that reaches to the sholder blade. He has one tattoo on his throat saying 'Meredith'.
Personality: Joseph is a rather cryptic but twisted individual- with one ultimate goal in mind. To eradicate all the false Values that this world had to offer. Values like 'Honor' or 'Justice' or social Ideals like those of the Ten Wizard Saints. He despises those who claim themselves to be saviors and those who are liars to themselves. He was brought up by Meredith, his teacher and his savior. She taught him that the world is and always will be an evil place. He was taught that the 'shadows' of this world may hurt you, but they can also aid you.
Outside of the Battle-Field Joseph is highly skeptical of anyone he meets as he firmly believes they anyone he meets are just another sheep under a false value or ideal of this world, but he will humor himself a bit and try to see if there are those who aren't as foolish. To find those who also saw the glass ceiling that these ideals had casted upon their heads. He allows himself to learn from many encounters with other species to further attempt to sway his judgement upon some ideals yet his encounters always seem to fuel his anger and disgust at the world and the values that seemingly seem to choke the life out of society. He is generally bold and brazen, but is also a good listener but never cares to ease the fear that people had revealed to him , if anything he seemed to find slight joy in their fears of such foolish things such as 'Death' or 'Phobias' and 'Helplessness. He doesn't find any interest in understanding the sheep that he meets up with but every now and then he will find an individual that he will peek his curiosity. This doesnt happen often for him and from that those around him he consider sheep garner him as a rather cold and unsettling man. He will act friendly to those who will help him further his pursuit to his goal.
Joseph is a rather calm but never the silent type, always finding enjoyment in getting in the last word. He doesn't care who his words anger or hurt. He is always seen with a smile on his face and believes that a little laughter can ease the soul, yet he can be irked and anger by those who he believes just blindly and strongly follow their values without caution. He doesn't care about a lifestyle except beyond that of training and doing missions. He see's little use of any guild could offer him but is keen to the idea of joining one to his advantages even if it means pretending to believe in their petty beliefs and values. He see's them as a stepping stone.
Over the years and through the teachings of Meredith Joseph learned that to crush powerful ideals, he to needed to become powerful and so any job or training regiment he had given himself he always gave it his all and would always show no mercy to any obstacle standing in his way. He isn't a fool he knows that those who had brought up these ideals are very powerful and even though he isn't powerful, He knows that with time and expierience that he will become more powerful then those values and when he does those who oppose him will be dust in the wind. Sadly though, Joseph is a very prideful man and that makes him careless in his judgement in and off the battlefield. Seeing those he consider 'sheep' he can underestimate his opponents abilities, spells and drive and that can cost him a battle. His words often get him into a lot of trouble seeing as people tend to mis-interpet his words which he knew it would happen.
On the Battlefield Joseph is very ruthless, devoid of any humanity and disregaurd for anything that is left caught up in the battle. he believes one thing and that is 'If body isn't broken, the mind will be' , He loves to deal psycholgical torment before dishing out physical punishment to his opponent. He will get under their skin, make their gears in their mind turn and have them question their values and once the oppenent is in dissary. He strikes. Joseph isn't a brute, his words when he speaks will attest to that but he is very cold and calculating and will pick apart you if you have an injury present and even without his strikes are precise and smashmouth. He also likes to drag out battles and tends to laugh at the pain he knows he is causing you be it mental or physical. He also has this trait that if he is on the winning side of things he will drop to the floor and roll around for a few seconds on his back before sitting up in a crab/spider walk and walk to you before you realise he is setting up to end things.
Leadership...
Him being the type to never stay in one place always leaving things behind to seek out the next hurdle on his rise to power, he tends to pretend to work well with leaders in any temporary group he is in. Seeing as how the numbers game would always not be in his favor he would begrudginly cast aside his pride and help in the efforts of some battle. He didn't care what they had to say and normally does he not care what these so called 'leaders' thought of him but he will follow for the time being and he will side with the sheep for he can be a wolf in sheeps clothing.but when it came down to him being the leader because his temporary partners are weak and feeble, He laughs. Laughs because why would he? want to lead an army of sheep. So when it came down to him leading he would guide them but he wasn't so order stricken, he leads them to survive another day. He lets them make their own choices and face the consequences of their own actions unless it impeads him then he will administer some payback. He would not mourn for any loss of life under his 'leadership' it was their belief in their values that got them killed anyway.
Likes:
-Bayous
Raised in the backriver swamps of Fiore, Joseph always has a soft spot for any sort swamps he came across. He could find a peace and traquility he could never get when he was in towns, or cities. He also felt a bit more closer with his old teacher whenever he came to a swamp.
-Mental Torture
He loves to play mind games with his enemy and has developed a sick enjoyment to seeing people lose sight of the values and ideals because of him. He enjoys breaking people's barriers down so he can truly make them see 'Writing on the wall' or the 'Glass ceiling' that they will never break through due to their values.
-Power
Joseph loves the concept of power. What it does, what it can do. How much change it can bring about in the world. He wants power that can crush and destroy all the values and ideals in this world so that everyone can not be limited to such nonsense and foolishness!
-Meredith
His teacher and his saviour. Like a mother to him. She showed him all the wicked things this world had to offer. She gave him the purpose he needed in life. She showed him that he is what this world needs! That he is the answer to all that is false and wrong. That he would be the one to tear down the walls of all these ideals. without her. Joseph Venger would not be who he is today.
Dislikes:
-Snow
He hated the cold and he hated the frozen rain drops even more as it brings great pain and misfortune to him. It reminds him of all that he has lost.
-Liars
He never liked liars. Especially those who feed false things and have people blindly following at his/her call. It sickened him to no ends and he would put a stop to it.
-Dancing
Joseph never liked to dance. No matter how hard Meredith tried she could never get him to coopertate, it would usually end up him saying '"Mages like me have no use for dancing" and she would smile and laugh. Joseph would look at her confused and go back to training.
Motivations:
-Securing more power
As said before Joseph loves the concept of power and all the changes it can bring about onto the world. He knows he is low in power right now and that there are plenty mages out there stronger then he is but those are just walls he will incinerate away as he grows.
-Freedom
Joseph wants to remove the shackles of value and ideals away from this world. He wants to give this world it's freedom back. He wants his own freedom away from an Idealistic world.
-Thrill
Joseph enjoys a sense of thrill in the challenges he puts himself through which is enough to motivate him to set the bar higher and higher in his challenges to test all that has learned
Fears:
-Failure
Joseph fears that ever lasting thought of failure always lurking in the back of his mind. He fear that if he fails this purpose then he has failed all that She taught him! How can he repay for all the things she's done for him if he has failed her?
-Limitations
The body can only do so much before it can't handle anymore before it tells you you've reached your limit, for most that limit comes way to early but for those lucky few they never see such limitations! Joseph fears limitation. he fears his own body betraying him and not ever exceeding past those limitations.
-Carrots
Meredith used to try and force feed him carrots in scary ways from jumpscares with carrots to trying to make him eat carrots in his sleep. all and all it left a growing fear and hatred for the orange menace.
General Appearance
Height:6 ft.3
Weight:265lbs
Hair:Long & black in color.
Eyes:Ice Blue
Skin Tone:Semi-Tan
Appearance:
Joseph is a man with average build, he retains some fat but at the same time has traits of an athletic body of moderate height. He has Ice cold blue eye's that seem to turn a duller blue when he is fighting. He has long midnight black hair that reaches to his back, He wears a fedora on his head when not on the battelfield and takes it off when he is getting ready to battle and shakes his head letting his hair fling around. He also has a long black beard that reaches the middle of his chest. His skin is a fair semi-tan with no scars that would blemish his skin.
He wears a sleevless black shirt with red lettering going diagonal saying 'Wrath'. On top of that he wears a red and blue hawaiian shirt but takes them off when it comes time to battle. He wears baggy white pants and has black combat boots. He doesn't really appeal to the 'style' of whatever this world offers. On his left hand he has a brown glove that covers his thumb and part of his wrist but does not cover all his fingers. At night time he will usually carry round a fire lantern to illuminate his way but will also signal his arrival.
Guild/Council:
Guild: Guildless
Tattoo:None
Rank: D