heaven sends and heaven takes

[weakspot]

crashing cars in his brain.

NAME: Julian Hale. AGE: 20. LOCATION: New York City. ALIGNMENT: Seal. ABILITY: Empathy and the reverse. Can force emotions onto people, heighten them, etc. as well. Julian's father came from old money, his mother a self-made woman who struck gold as a corporate lawyer. They divorced when he was six, and he spent the next few years of his life being passed between them, passing on increasingly nasty messages. When they weren't doing this, they mostly left him alone, throwing money at him as a placeholder for parenting. However, his father remarried when he was nine, around the same time that his mother lost her job due to a workplace scandal and fell into depression and alcoholism. This she would take out on her son in the form of abuse— emotional for the most part, physical when her moods swung towards violent. Julian's pity and hatred towards her grew, his power fuelling and compounding on her misery until one day he came home from school and found her with a gun to her head. A struggle ensued, in which she fired a stray bullet into his leg, and he was ultimately unable to stop her from killing herself. He was a therapist's nightmare for years afterwards and eventually stopped going to them once his father had well and truly given up on him. He moved out after graduating from high school and makes it a point to only see his father and step-mother on major holidays despite living in the same city. Now twenty, Julian is a law student and a recluse, rarely leaving his home for anything other than classes. As a result of the leg wound, he walks with a limp and requires a cane for mobility. Julian is not a nice boy. His interactions with other people tend to be curt and brief— despite being an empath, he doesn't care very much about anyone else's feelings. He has a number of vulnerabilities that he's ashamed of, and lives in guilt over his mother's suicide. Deep down he wants to make good, and may come to see the apocalypse as the way into that.