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Ertael Knight, Senshi of Isolation Name: Abernathy Taylor Hicks
Abernathy stands a good 5'9". He may still grow an inch yet. His hair is a dirty blond mixture, a coloring that gives him a perpetually tousled look, but in actuality its very neat. He has a bit of a bowl cut, with the bangs parted on his left in the front. His bangs end just above his eyebrows in a smooth line. He shaves regularly and is never seen with a four o'clock shadow or any other amount of facial hair, for that matter. In terms of build, he's not skinny or fat or muscled, he's just about right, with enough meat on his bones to hold his clothes up and demonstrate the fact that he's well-fed and eats regular meals. He's even developed the tiniest bit of tone over the past few years from senshi training. The extent of this muscle is to enable him to fight for lengthy amounts of time without tiring too much. So, in other words, his muscles are developed for endurance, not strength. Abernathy wears both glasses and braces. His glasses, wireframes with dark tortoiseshell on the rims, help his weak brown eyes perceive objects at a distance. He can still function without them, he just can't read street signs or identify birds or recognize people beyond a distance of about thirty feet. His braces are the clear type. They're only visible when they have food stuck in them. Abernathy's very fastidious about checking his braces after every meal. The composition of Abernathy's face is agreeable to the eye, though he falls a few steps short of handsome. He has high cheekbones (though they lack strong definition) and smooth skin. His eyes are spaced normally and his nose rests nicely in the center of his face, though if you look close you'll see the nostrils are a bit crooked. His nose is well-formed, a tiny bit long, but it looks right on him. His lips are thin and often pursed in a semblance of thought or seriousness or determination. Such impressions of his mouth are aided by his firm jaw and slightly squared chin. The most perfect thing about him is probably his ears. They frame his face without drawing attention or sticking out. Besides the hair on his head, Abernathy is gifted with fine body hair that barely shows to the casual observer. His eyelashes match, offering only the faintest outline to his eyes. His skin is only faintly tanned, resulting from a combination of the time he spends inside on his computer and the time he spends outside training or walking to the library.
Abernathy is a polite, respectful, calm, virtuous young man, every community's dream. He's very religious-- a devout Southern Baptist. Most of his time he spends at church helping out, at school (he's president of the Bible Club), in his room on the computer, or at the library. Abernathy loves reading, particular hard SF, so long as it fits within a Christian ideology. He's a very quiet, serious person, usually found in a corner with his nose in a book. He's a real loner. He's fairly intelligent, but not extraordinarily so. So... he's just a quiet, religious guy who keeps to himself, really.
Raised by his grandmother due to two reckless, absentee parents who named him after his grandmother's least favorite civil rights activist, Abernathy has had a rather sorry life. His early years were normal enough, though he had the stigma of not having any parents around. Then Granny began to deteriorate and Abernathy was thrust into the role of caretaker. He was already a distant person; this drove him even further away from his peers. His only escape was in books, particularly science fiction books, which his pastor introduced to him. Several uneventful years went by, with Granny getting worse in her old age and Abernathy reading and attending church a lot. He drifted away from any friends he had. In high school he founded the Bible Club. They do lots of charity work. Then he met a trout named Neot who could talk. I'm not making this up. Okay, so I am, but still. He met the talking trout and found out he was a senshi, Ertael Knight to be exact. Neot proceeded to train Ertael for the coming battles. Ertael met another senshi named Tubiel, who he killed. And now he's finally running into some more senshi. He seems to be barely surviving against these other senshi, though...
Civilian: Abernathy generally dresses in fairly loose clothing. He doesn't like the way tight clothing feels on his body. He absolutely despises turtlenecks, so don't ever expect to see him in one. Most of the time he has on a t-shirt, more often that not a button-up, and pants or shorts. Pockets for him are a necessity. He always has at least two on his pants (frequently more, thanks to the influx of cargo styles) and prefers shirts that have a single breast pocket. You can find all sorts of things in Abernathy's pockets, from his wallet to toolkits for repairing glasses. He carries Band-Aids most of the time and almost always has a few on his fingers. (He's perpetually getting papercuts.) Senshi: At the base of his costume Ertael wears a black long-sleeved shirt and pants. The sleeves and pants legs are very big and poofy. The pants tuck into thick, white cloth greaves which snap along the inseam. His shoes are made of thick cloth, smooth and black, the tops of the shoe covered by those same greaves. He wears a tunic that extends midway down his thigh and is belted with a shiny black belt. On his head is a black ski mask, only his eyes (and glasses) visible. This is hidden underneath a white cape and cowl. The cape and cowl have a silver buckle with a sort of three-cross design on it. (Not Christian-style cross, just cross like a plus sign.) The cape extends down to his ankles. With the cowl up (and it usually is), only the glint of light on his glasses is visible-a rather scary effect at times. Ertael's sleeves tuck into cloth bracers, fastened just like the greaves along the inside side of his arm, which also cover the tops of his fingerless black gloves. Where weapons are concerned, Ertael has two choices for combat. First is his staff, a 6' white pole with a black, cross-shaped blade at the end of it. The blade is about six inches in length and quite sharp and the crosspiece is some eight inches across. Ertael's second weapons are his hooks (or claws, as they're also called): black metal devices that attach to his hands. There are two hooks for each hand. They're attached to black metal loops that fit around Abernathy's palm. The hooks are about ten inches in length. Abernathy can fight with either the staff or the hooks, not both. When he's not using once of the weapons, it disappears until it's called for again. (Basically just fades away and snaps back in when called.)
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