Rastus

[Rastus]

Name: Rastus Sundar
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Sign: Vulpus
Occupation: Slayer

Appearance: Rastus is somewhat taller than the average human, and is also very thin but muscular. He has slightly long black hair and very dark brown eyes. Rastus carries a sullen expression on him most of the time, mainly caused by his recollections of what has occured to him in the past which never seem to leave his thoughts for very long. His favorite colors are red and black, so he likes to wear a simple black shirt with a thin red vest, as well as black pants, boots, and a red bandana and belt. During colder weather, he also will wear a red scarf at times.

- weapons - Rastus always has his trusty Bou staff strapped to his back, or he will otherwise be supporting it on his shoulders. There is nothing special about it except that it is made from a fine dense wood that is very durable, and somewhat flexible. Normal blades could probably leave cuts in it,(in fact it is covered with marks) but few could simply chop right through it.

He originally wielded a bladed weapon but after a certain incident, that weapon had all but dissappeared, and his bou staff was seen with him since then.

Abilities: Rastus' key strength, is his speed. He can be a very agile opponent when he wills, and can usually block an attack, or even avoid it entirely with ease. He also has a unique ability to, for a short time, increase the output of all of his muscles, granting him more speed and a slight boost in strength.
Weaknesses: Although Rastus may be a fast fighter, he doesn't pack too much of a punch, not to mention since his only weapon is blunt, defeating a foe entirely is a hard task. There is also one negative effect of his special skill, after it wears off, and the muscles return to normal, they had done the same amount of work but then aren't used to the extreme usage they had gone through, and therefore become very sore. Rastus can only use it about 2 or 3 times a day or else he might pull something, or even pass out from the exertion.

Personality: Rastus can be considered to be a hot-head, in fact people do think of him that way. Some also call him a ruffian or a troublemaker. This is basically because Rastustends to be somewhat agressive, and add to that he can be very stubborn at times. If someone gets on his bad side, you can bet he'll let them know, and he's ready to argue whenever, and fight if needed. Once you get past this aggressive front he puts up though, you will find he can actually be a nice guy. One thing that will easily pop this part of his personality out would be if there are any children nearby. Something about them always puts him in a good mood, and he tries whatever he can to keep them from any trouble.

Rastus can usually be found wandering from town to town, looking for any creature that might be plaguing the inhabitants. He then will hunt whatever it is down and get rid of it for the townsfolk, usually taking a reward as well. This just so happens to be his main source of income.

Likes: A good fight, children, something to keep his mind busy
Dislikes: Long periods of inactivity, places that are too quiet.

Picture: Rastus before the incident(along with weapon)

And Current

[Rastus]

History: Rastus doesn’t talk much about his childhood, saying it was something he really wants to forget. The only information he lets out, is that he was raised for a few years by just his mother, along with a younger sister, but one day something happened to separate them from their mother. Eventually they were taken in by a family in a nearby village and were taught how to defend themselves. After spending his adolescence and teenage years there, Rastus began to travel around.

This is where Rastus is a little more open about his history. He has been to many of the villages in the realms, fighting various creatures everywhere. He had been trained to wield a poleax, which he seemed to enjoy as a weapon of choice, and would constantly use it to win his little brawls that he would always get into in almost every town he visited. This was the carefree point of his life, where he would simply find a place, kill the pest, and collect a reward to sustain him. (Not to mention buying little somethings for the young children here and there.) But this would not last forever, in only a few short years something happened that Rastus also doesn’t talk about, but is well known to the village it occurred in, and word has spread since then.

It was a simple day when the ‘incident’ occurred, as Rastus calls it. He was shopping around and had a large amount of goods that he was taking to his room at the inn when a group of bandits jumped him. Rastus quickly set his purchases down and drew his weapon. The bandits quickly tried to dispatch Rastus before he could equip himself, but he managed to avoid the initial blows and retaliate. The match was unfair at 4 to 1, but Rastus was still determined to fight due to his stubborn personality. As the battle continued, both sides were wearing down. Rastus was managing to fend them off, but due to their superior numbers he could rarely get a strike in, and the ones he did pull off were shoddily made due to the split-second decisions of if there was time to make a move or not.

Eventually, the brawl drew attention and a small group of people came over to watch. None tried to interfere as these were simple villagers, completely unarmed and not in the mood to risk their lives at the moment. Now Rastus had to pay attention to the fight’s position so as not to bring the villagers too close. The effort was starting to become a little too rough so Rastus activated his muscle boost hoping to quickly take out the bandits. As the new power surged into him, he quickly parried the next few blows and moved in for a strike at one of them. The bandit luckily tripped and fell over at the last second and avoided the blow, but Rastus had not been paying attention to the fight’s position, and a young boy that had been just behind the thug wasn’t so lucky. The blow hit directly in the boy’s shoulder, very close to the neck, and the bandits now noticed the crowd that was there and ran off. Rastus quickly grabbed the boy in front of the shocked and panicking villagers, and ran him to the town’s healer as soon as possible, fear racing through his mind that he had hit an innocent child with that blow.

Thanks to the muscle boost, Rastus got to the healer in record time, and they began to work on the boy immediately. But, try as they might the bleeding would not stop and within minutes, the boy was claimed to be dead. Right then Rastus went cold inside, and ran away fearing the villagers might try to get revenge on him, but they understood it wasn’t entirely his fault. Once he was out of the town, he found a pair of large rocks and wedged the blade of his weapon between them and used the rod as leverage in order to snap the blade off before he could kill another innocent like that. Afterwards he sat there in shock for the rest of the day and could hardly even sleep. Afterwards he trained himself to use the simple bou staff left over from his broken weapon.

Ever since then Rastus has seemed to constantly remember the guilt of that action, and sometimes will hear people mention that they recognize him, or know him by description. He wished that he had never done what he did, but of course one cannot turn back the hands of time. He has also now put up a much more aggressive and stubborn front as well to try and hide his sorrow and misery. He also can no longer stand to see a human die no matter what age as it just seems to recall the fact that he has also taken someone’s life, who hadn’t done anything wrong, but he still manages to hunt any beasts or plagues necessary but doesn’t enjoy ending the life of another being nonetheless.

[Kokitsu]

Very nicely done. His personality and history are well developed and written. I like him ^^

I'll move this and Genji can make any other comments he want to there.

[Rastus]

Thx Kri, that coming from you must mean I actually did do a good job ;D

[Kokitsu]

Naw, don't make me out to be a goddess here ^ ^;; Just giving my opinion.

[Rastus]

well you were a demi-goddess on the previous site

[Kokitsu]

And I will be again once I get Kri's profile up again >.>