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| User: | gone_in_a_puff (389886) |
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| Name: | gone_in_a_puff | |||||||||
| Website: | http://asylums.insanejournal.com/tiberiusswann/ | |||||||||
| E-mail: | reptileman87@hotmail.com | |||||||||
| Bio: |  Character Name ? Sami Miraj Khayyam Aali Date of Birth (please keep in mind that the game will start in September of 2007) ? 1750 Age ? 257 Race/Species ? Smoke Demon Hometown ? A small village in Egypt which had no name and was wiped out in the wars that plagued the country. Physical description ? Sami stands six feet tall and generally has a smirk on his face. He keeps his hair nearly shaved and enjoys wearing Fedora’s. He is fairly muscular, from his work in gardening. He has a large tattoo that circles his chest and back, of white smoke. His eyes are grey. PB ? Mos Def Personality ? Sami is a very laid back guy, though not in the high all the time kind of way. He views the world as kind of a joke, a side effect of having been a drug dealer when the market was in rich socialites and not the poor. He goes with the flow and isn’t afraid to put himself out there, talking to anyone and carrying the conversation if no one takes it from him. He rarely gets mad, choosing to slip away from confrontation. Background ? Sami was born in a small Opium farming village near the Nile, being raised to understand the cultivation of the plant that would be a huge part of his life for the next hundred years. However, Sami was never an Opium fiend, learning the cardinal rule of the drug trade at a young age. Do not cut into the product. Sami’s father was the only family that he had, his mother having died giving birth to him. What no one knew was that Sami’s mother was a smoke demon, and had passed the gift on to her son. As Sami began to age it became apparent to the people of his village that he was different. Once he reached his teenage years, strange things began happening to smoke whenever he was near it. It was drawn to him, would coil around him in strange ways, or seem to be manipulated by his casual playing. When Sami reached twenty he still looked 18, and by the time he was thirty he still didn’t look older. That was when his village decided he was a demon. Being a superstitious bunch, they were prepared to stone him to death. However when they threw the first stone, Sami learned an interesting thing about himself. He could turn to smoke. He escaped in this way, accidentally turning to a puff of smoke and drifting away in the wind, turning himself back after leaving the village. Left without a home to return to, Sami began planning what he could do with himself. He knew that most of the opium his village had grown was sold to merchants who talked of a far off place called England where they were selling huge amounts of the stuff. So Sami decided that this would be his goal, to do such a thing. He managed to hire himself out as muscle for an opium merchant, having been finely toned from his years of farm labor, and having found someone desperate enough to hire him. This would be his path for the next thirty years. When Sami arrived in England he was amazed by the tremendous shift in culture. Having grown up in a place that could barely manage stick huts, to see a city such as England was astonishing, and overwhelming. At first, he would only travel with the merchant he was hired to protect, but as he slowly began learning the language, he began to explore on his own when he was allowed, and after ten years he was an almost fluent speaker of English, except for his slight accent. It was at this time Sami set out to make it on his own, having save the money he had been earning and being willing to sell the opium for less than his benefactor. He managed to make a connection and soon was running his own ring. After a period of time earning a fairly decent amount of wealth with his drug trade, enough to buy a fairly modest home in England and hire others to transport product for him. It was during this time of being settled in England that he first met Adora, a Succubus who he would encounter on several occasions. When they first met it was during Adora’s wilder time, and Sami was swept up in her power, unable to stop himself from indulging her every whim. When Adora left as she is prone to do, Sami was left confused and unsure what to do next. Tired of the Opium business, and losing business as the drug began to lose its popularity, Sami eventually left England in 1850 at the age of 100, and set off to America. The world he found there was not one he expected. The isolation he found there was worse than he had ever felt in England. He settled in Maryland, in the Chesapeake bay area, beginning work on a tobacco farm to take advantage of the huge growing demand. He kept his farm small, growing specialized tobaccos for higher end cigarettes and he was able to keep this up until the 1970’s. During this time period he would meet Adora a few more times, though he was not as quick to throw everything away for her as he had when they first met. That and she was never around for long, due to her fear of getting attatched. As anti-smoking legislation began to increase, Sami realized his future was in jeopardy and so he decided to build himself a greenhouse and begin a new focus. He started carefully growing his own marijuana and mushrooms, keeping under the radar by only selling in small doses to trusted clients. He also kept his tobacco business blossoming until 2007 when a freak fire wiped out his crop. Faced with nothing to do, and learning that Adora had become a teacher at the Tiberius Swann institute, Sami decided he would take his cultivation experience to the school. He also decided that he might be able to learn a little more about his abilities, which he had never learned to master. Abilities ? As a Smoke Demon, Sami is able to manipulate smoke, though he cannot produce it himself. He is also able to turn himself into smoke, capable of moving, though staying in a smoke state harms him. When he becomes smoke, he becomes an amount that is the equivalent quantity of his size and density. Given enough training, Sami would be able to expand a small puff of smoke to a near limitless amount, though intensifying smoke drains him at a rate similar to a normal human exercising. Weaknesses ? If Sami stays in his smoke form too long he begins to stretch. If he stretches to a point where he cannot keep track of all his parts, he risks losing parts of himself when changing back. This can range from minor cuts to lacerations, to amputation, and if long enough, even death. Sami cannot create smoke so he is dependent on it being around him to utilize it. Special skills ? Can handroll cigarettes/joints with one hand. Can play guitar semi-decently, specializing in blues. Can sing fairly decently as well. | |||||||||
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| Account type: | Free Patient | |||||||||
