[SUDS] Modern Mythology

[[Desolate Divine]]

Okay here is the story:
I have had an idea for a new character and am writing a SU for them now. But I will have too many characters if I add them. So I would like to put Chandler and Soren in the vault. They won't be in this RP unless I choose to recycle them at a later date. So my characters would be:
Dalton: Half Vampire
Flint: Human with Dragon Abilities
Azrael (Working on SU): Shinigami (modified so it isn't OPed)

This cool winter?

Name: Azrael

Age: Doesn't know. Has lived since the beginning of time.

Gender: Male

Race: Shinigami (similar to those from Deathnote)

Affiliation: Other Shinigami. For secrecy

Appearance:
Human Form: in his human form, Azrael represents a young man in his mid twenties, standing at approximately 5ft 8 with a thin build. He has a pale complexion, with light brown, medium length, messy hair and dark brown, near black eyes.

In his Shinigami form, Azrael stands at approximately 8ft tall, with long arms and legs. His body and limbs are thin, resembling those of someone starved, and he has large, black, bat like wings that protrude from his shoulder blades. His skin is light grey, and his hair stays the same, other than becoming white. His face appears more decayed in this form, and his body and limbs are wrapped with strips of black leather, and chains.

Personality: Azrael is bound by his duty as a Shinigami. As a God of death, his role in the universe is to kill. Nothing more. Nothing less. Azrael is quiet, and rarely associates himself with others. He sits on the side lines and watches how events play out without his intervention, occasionally causing a death to someone who he sees to deserve it, with the intent on extending his own life.

Though being a Shinigami grants him superhuman strength, flight, the ability to phase through objects and potential immortality, Azrael sees his power as a curse. He knows that becoming attached to a person will lead to his own death or theirs.

He only once became attached to a human, however his presence led to her murder, and he never forgave himself. Because of this, he won't let himself get attached again.



History: For as long as humans have existed, so have Shinigami. Azrael was never born. He has just existed in the state he is in, knowing his power and how to use it, as well as his role as a God of Death.

For millennia, Azrael lived alone, never getting close to anyone as was his duty until the 16th century, where he met Isabel. He was living in England at the time, and met her when she was 24. She was from an upper class family, and Azrael fell in love with her, and she did the same. After months of courting, he finally won her fathers permission to marry her. They married, and were together for 12 years until he lost her.

As long as Shinigami have existed, there have been humans who knew about them. Humans who knew that if they killed a Shinigami, they would live another 100 years. Humans who hunted Shinigami.

Azrael told Isabel the truth of his existance, and was surprised when she loved him the same. They both knew that Azrael would outlive Isabel, and cherished every moment together. However there time together was cut short when rumours of a Shinigami reached the ears of the immortality hunters.

They found Azrael and attacked his home in the middle of the night. Azrael entered his Shinigami form, which Isabel had only seen for the first time. However before Azrael could stop the hunters, Isabel was stabbed.

She was meant to live another 15 years, but Azrael being in her life had led the hunters to her, and her time left was dropping months at a time. Azrael killed the hunters, hoping that it would extend her life, even if it ended his, but it didn't work. When the hunters were dead, Isabel's lifespan had dropped to twenty minutes left. She was losing blood fast and wouldn't survive. Her last moments were filled with pain, and Azrael did the humane thing, in accelerating her death, so she only felt the pain for ten minutes. Isabel died in his arms, and because the hunters killed her when they came after him, he had caused her death early, and gained her 15 years.

Since then, Azrael has travelled around the world, keeping to himself, and never letting himself get attached to people. He kills when he begins to age, and is currently living in Venice, Italy.


Weapons/Abilities:
Shinigami Eyes: The ability to see how much longer a person will live, and their cause of death without Shinigami intervention. When their time left begins dropping by more than seconds at a time, Shinigami have influenced their death.
Form Change: has a human form which acts as a disguise, and his true Shinigami form.
Extending life: If Azrael brings the death of a person early, the life that was taken from them will be added to his own. However if Azrael knowingly extends a humans natural life by saving them, Azrael will die, and his life will be added to that of the human.
Acceleration: If a human dies from natural causes, contact with Azrael can accelerate it. Eg if they have a disease which is killing them, and Azrael holds their hand, the disease will work twice as fast during that time. This counts as bringing the death of a human early, but the life will not be added to his own until the human dies.
Second Chance: A Shinigami can only be killed by being shot, stabbed, decapitated etc (in other words they can't die from disease, heart attack, stroke, starvation, dehydration, lack of oxygen etc). Being killed in this way will cause their body to turn to ash, and the Shinigami to wake up in a Shinigami temple in Japan, with 100 years taken off their life, which is given to the being that killed them. Eg if a Shinigami has 150 years left, and they are murdered, they will wake up in the temple with 50 years left. If a Shinigami doesn't have 100 years left, they are gone forever. This causes Shinigami to be hunted due to the prize that is immortality.
Phasing: When in his Shinigami form, Azrael can walk through walls, and have projectiles go straight through him. However in his human form, he cannot do this.

Other: Currently has 110 years.