Qadir al-Jinn
Mar 29, 2015 15:51:59 GMT -5
Post by Qadir al-Jinn on Mar 29, 2015 15:51:59 GMT -5
NAME: Qadir al-Jinn (FF990D)
AGE: 15
GENDER: Male
SCHOOLING YEAR: First Year
SPECIES: human/ifrit
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Dubai, UAE
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Qadir is a relatively mature person, having spent most of his time around academics from around the globe. In front of people with authority, he is diffident and respectful, but tends to be snarky and excitable otherwise. He loves telling stories of all kinds and is curious about all the different kinds of strange people enrolled at the Scholae.
LIKES: languages, fairy tales, bad movies, warm weather
DISLIKES: obligations, cold weather, people who take themselves too seriously
STRENGTHS:
+has a LOT of potential in his powers
+can read people fairly well
+works well in a team
WEAKNESSES:
-lazy
-cool weather wears on him
-will go out of his way to avoid confrontation
FEARS: Qadir is horribly claustrophobic and is afraid of insects, spiders, rats, and just small animals in general. As mentioned before, he is also afraid of confrontation.
POWER(S): The full extent of Qadir's powers are not exactly known- there hasn't been a half-human half-Ifrit since before the birth of the Prophet. At the moment he has the ability to fly by manifesting wings. He also has small control over fire and the winds. Ifrits usually have the ability to transform both themselves and others, but Qadir has yet to show these powers, if he has them at all.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Ifrits are usually giant winged creatures wreathed in fire in their normal forms. Qadir, on the other hand, looks like a normal Arabic teenager. The only real tell is that his pupils are a brilliant, burning orange. When he uses his powers, his eyes are consumed by fires and his skin darkens to an obsidian black. He stands straight at 5'9 but usually slouches to a 5'6. He wears the usual white robes that are popular in Arabia but doesn't bother with the headscarf unless he thinks he'll get in trouble for not wearing it.
HISTORY:
Qadir al-Jinn was born Qadir Yousuf, the son fifth of a wealthy Emirati family in Dubai, the youngest by fifteen years. His father and mother died in mysterious circumstances when Qadir was only months old, leaving Qadir's family a massive fortune in the form of various hotels and vast tracts of oil-rich lands.
His older brothers took over the family businesses, neglecting their little brother to the care of a series of nannies and servants. There seemed to be a disconnect between Qadir and his brothers that Qadir noticed even from a young age. He was never able to put his finger on it, but his brothers seemed to go out of their way to make Qadir as isolated as possible. Whenever he would become too friendly with the latest person assigned to raising him, Qadir would find that they would be replaced in the week. The first time he brought this up with his brothers, he was grounded for a week, trapped in the confines of his room. He learnt to not speak out of line after that.
When it came time for Qadir to go to school, instead of putting him in a private institution, his brothers flew in tutors from all around the world to teach him, making sure that their Arabic was never good enough for them to form bonds with Qadir. Unfortunately for them, Qadir proved to have a knack for languages and learnt their language. By the time he was thirteen, Qadir was fluent in eight languages.
While he chafed under the isolation imposed on him by his brothers, Qadir also enjoyed the pampered lifestyle afforded by their opulent wealth. He always had the latest in technology, even though everything he had tended to break after a few weeks. He developed the strangest taste in food- charred everything. His various tutors and servants always shook their head, but Qadir found that anything burnt to a crisp was good food for him.
A few weeks before his fifteenth birthday, Qadir exploded. He's still not quite sure exactly what happened. One moment he was in the middle of a history lesson with the latest of the tutors his brothers had flown in, when everything went white for him. When he came to a few minutes later, the room had been laid to waste: broken glass and shards of wood strewn every which way and scorch marks on the wall and ceiling. In the middle of the room was the charred corpse of his tutor. Terrified, Qadir tried to flee from the room, but found his legs were weak. Half walking, half stumbling, Qadir made it to the front of the manor, his only thought through the haze of numbness that pervaded his thoughts was of putting as much distance between himself and his brothers as possible before they found out.
As soon as he made it to the threshold of the property, a pillar of flame blazed out of the ground in his path. A person with burning blue skin and wings wreathed in fire emerged from the pillar. Qadir could do nothing but stare in dull shock as the creature, which he recognized as an Ifrit from the stories he'd read, approached him.
The Ifrit told Qadir that the man he thought was his father was not his father. Qadir's true father was an Ifrit, a noble among their society, that had seduced his mother. When the her husband had found out, he got an imam to place a curse upon the unborn child that would bar its powers from manifesting and shaming the family. However, the Ifrit noble discovered what had happened and killed the human in the efforts of ending the curse. Unfortunately, the man had foreseen this, and had tied the curse to his eldest son's life. Furthermore, he had tied his own life fully to that of his treacherous wife, so that when the Ifrit came to destroy him, both humans were killed. In grief, the Ifrit destroyed itself.
Qadir listened to the tale in numbly and the Ifrit before him introduced itself as Asmar al-Jinn, Qadir's true brother. Qadir asked him why the Ifrit had waited this long to tell him and Asmar said that Qadir's eldest stpe brother had died in an accident not half an hour ago. That was what had triggered the explosion of power. Now that the curse was lifted, Asmar explained, it was time for Qadir to take his place in his father's household among the Ifrits.
At this, Qadir panicked. While he didn't want to live with his mortal step-brother anymore, he certainly did not want to live with these strange Ifrits either. Scrambling through his memories, he found a spell that was said to banish Djinns in some fairy tales. Hastily, he called attempted cast it in the effort of banishing his new brother. Unfortunately for him, the spell worked. Not only was Asmar banished from the location, Qadir's own nature as half-Ifrit sent him across the desert.
He spent a few days in the middle of the desert, hundreds of miles from any civilization. By himself with his new nature for the first time, Qadir survived in the desert in a dreamlike haze. He learnt to control some of his powers, enough to eke out an existence in the sand-blasted landscape.
That is the condition that Pharos Lucent, teacher at the Scholae Elementorum found Qadir- more animal than human. Pharos took matters into his own hands and invited the young half-Ifrit to the Scholae in order to live a better life and learn his powers better. It took some time for Qadir to make a decision, but he ultimately accepted and went with Pharos back to Scotland.
FAMILY: Asmar al-Jinn, an Ifrit noble and his half-brother; four mortal half-brothers in Dubai
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
Fluent in Arabic, English, French, German, Mandarin, Persian. Hindi and Pashtun.
AGE: 15
GENDER: Male
SCHOOLING YEAR: First Year
SPECIES: human/ifrit
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Dubai, UAE
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Qadir is a relatively mature person, having spent most of his time around academics from around the globe. In front of people with authority, he is diffident and respectful, but tends to be snarky and excitable otherwise. He loves telling stories of all kinds and is curious about all the different kinds of strange people enrolled at the Scholae.
LIKES: languages, fairy tales, bad movies, warm weather
DISLIKES: obligations, cold weather, people who take themselves too seriously
STRENGTHS:
+has a LOT of potential in his powers
+can read people fairly well
+works well in a team
WEAKNESSES:
-lazy
-cool weather wears on him
-will go out of his way to avoid confrontation
FEARS: Qadir is horribly claustrophobic and is afraid of insects, spiders, rats, and just small animals in general. As mentioned before, he is also afraid of confrontation.
POWER(S): The full extent of Qadir's powers are not exactly known- there hasn't been a half-human half-Ifrit since before the birth of the Prophet. At the moment he has the ability to fly by manifesting wings. He also has small control over fire and the winds. Ifrits usually have the ability to transform both themselves and others, but Qadir has yet to show these powers, if he has them at all.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Ifrits are usually giant winged creatures wreathed in fire in their normal forms. Qadir, on the other hand, looks like a normal Arabic teenager. The only real tell is that his pupils are a brilliant, burning orange. When he uses his powers, his eyes are consumed by fires and his skin darkens to an obsidian black. He stands straight at 5'9 but usually slouches to a 5'6. He wears the usual white robes that are popular in Arabia but doesn't bother with the headscarf unless he thinks he'll get in trouble for not wearing it.
HISTORY:
Qadir al-Jinn was born Qadir Yousuf, the son fifth of a wealthy Emirati family in Dubai, the youngest by fifteen years. His father and mother died in mysterious circumstances when Qadir was only months old, leaving Qadir's family a massive fortune in the form of various hotels and vast tracts of oil-rich lands.
His older brothers took over the family businesses, neglecting their little brother to the care of a series of nannies and servants. There seemed to be a disconnect between Qadir and his brothers that Qadir noticed even from a young age. He was never able to put his finger on it, but his brothers seemed to go out of their way to make Qadir as isolated as possible. Whenever he would become too friendly with the latest person assigned to raising him, Qadir would find that they would be replaced in the week. The first time he brought this up with his brothers, he was grounded for a week, trapped in the confines of his room. He learnt to not speak out of line after that.
When it came time for Qadir to go to school, instead of putting him in a private institution, his brothers flew in tutors from all around the world to teach him, making sure that their Arabic was never good enough for them to form bonds with Qadir. Unfortunately for them, Qadir proved to have a knack for languages and learnt their language. By the time he was thirteen, Qadir was fluent in eight languages.
While he chafed under the isolation imposed on him by his brothers, Qadir also enjoyed the pampered lifestyle afforded by their opulent wealth. He always had the latest in technology, even though everything he had tended to break after a few weeks. He developed the strangest taste in food- charred everything. His various tutors and servants always shook their head, but Qadir found that anything burnt to a crisp was good food for him.
A few weeks before his fifteenth birthday, Qadir exploded. He's still not quite sure exactly what happened. One moment he was in the middle of a history lesson with the latest of the tutors his brothers had flown in, when everything went white for him. When he came to a few minutes later, the room had been laid to waste: broken glass and shards of wood strewn every which way and scorch marks on the wall and ceiling. In the middle of the room was the charred corpse of his tutor. Terrified, Qadir tried to flee from the room, but found his legs were weak. Half walking, half stumbling, Qadir made it to the front of the manor, his only thought through the haze of numbness that pervaded his thoughts was of putting as much distance between himself and his brothers as possible before they found out.
As soon as he made it to the threshold of the property, a pillar of flame blazed out of the ground in his path. A person with burning blue skin and wings wreathed in fire emerged from the pillar. Qadir could do nothing but stare in dull shock as the creature, which he recognized as an Ifrit from the stories he'd read, approached him.
The Ifrit told Qadir that the man he thought was his father was not his father. Qadir's true father was an Ifrit, a noble among their society, that had seduced his mother. When the her husband had found out, he got an imam to place a curse upon the unborn child that would bar its powers from manifesting and shaming the family. However, the Ifrit noble discovered what had happened and killed the human in the efforts of ending the curse. Unfortunately, the man had foreseen this, and had tied the curse to his eldest son's life. Furthermore, he had tied his own life fully to that of his treacherous wife, so that when the Ifrit came to destroy him, both humans were killed. In grief, the Ifrit destroyed itself.
Qadir listened to the tale in numbly and the Ifrit before him introduced itself as Asmar al-Jinn, Qadir's true brother. Qadir asked him why the Ifrit had waited this long to tell him and Asmar said that Qadir's eldest stpe brother had died in an accident not half an hour ago. That was what had triggered the explosion of power. Now that the curse was lifted, Asmar explained, it was time for Qadir to take his place in his father's household among the Ifrits.
At this, Qadir panicked. While he didn't want to live with his mortal step-brother anymore, he certainly did not want to live with these strange Ifrits either. Scrambling through his memories, he found a spell that was said to banish Djinns in some fairy tales. Hastily, he called attempted cast it in the effort of banishing his new brother. Unfortunately for him, the spell worked. Not only was Asmar banished from the location, Qadir's own nature as half-Ifrit sent him across the desert.
He spent a few days in the middle of the desert, hundreds of miles from any civilization. By himself with his new nature for the first time, Qadir survived in the desert in a dreamlike haze. He learnt to control some of his powers, enough to eke out an existence in the sand-blasted landscape.
That is the condition that Pharos Lucent, teacher at the Scholae Elementorum found Qadir- more animal than human. Pharos took matters into his own hands and invited the young half-Ifrit to the Scholae in order to live a better life and learn his powers better. It took some time for Qadir to make a decision, but he ultimately accepted and went with Pharos back to Scotland.
FAMILY: Asmar al-Jinn, an Ifrit noble and his half-brother; four mortal half-brothers in Dubai
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
Fluent in Arabic, English, French, German, Mandarin, Persian. Hindi and Pashtun.
