Sebastian Reid
Aug 1, 2017 23:49:17 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2017 23:49:17 GMT -5
Original
Name: Sebastian Reid • Nina
Age: 15 • 34
Gender: Male • Femaleish
Species: Human • Djinn
Planet of Origin: Earth • Council
Occupation: Violinist • Best friend
Name: Sebastian Reid • Nina
Age: 15 • 34
Gender: Male • Femaleish
Species: Human • Djinn
Planet of Origin: Earth • Council
Occupation: Violinist • Best friend
Physical Description: Sebastian Reid would not stand out from the crowd, and that’s exactly how he likes it. He’s a little short for his age at six inches past five feet. His face is covered in freckles, his ears are too big for his head, and his hair is perpetually and unmanageably curly. Altogether it leaves something to be desired, but he’s avoided too much bullying from his peers.
Though whether or not that had something to do with the powerful demon-thing living inside him that destroys bullies is yet to be desired. When Nina takes over Seb’s body, there’s very little change in his physical appearance. His posture becomes self-assured, his facial expressions become much more confident, his accent switches from his standard Mancunian to a Bristol accent, and his general speech mannerisms shift to become bolder. Nina has no physical appearance of her own - she is unable to manifest into a separate entity from Sebastian.
[/span]Personality:
- IDEALISTIC.
[li style="font-size:x-small;"]FLEXIBLE.[/li]Having a demon - well, djinn - co-inhabiting his body has opened his mind vastly. He’s got a live and let live attitude - although it normally ends up being a ‘live and make sure others are able to live just as comfortably’ attitude as he’s got a protective and defensive streak in him. He gives the benefit of the doubt to people, and so long as his core values and basic morals aren’t challenged, he doesn’t stick his nose too far into other people’s business. He doesn’t have an interest in lording over other people, and people with domineering attitudes tend to lose his respect easily. He likes hearing every voice and opinion, not just the loudest one. Most of the time, this attitude doesn't really work in his favor - he gets so caught up with all the many possibilities that he gets stuck in an indecisive hell cycle.
[li style="font-size:x-small;"]PASSIONATE.[/li] When something, anything, captures Sebastian’s attention, he becomes obsessively devoted to it. His violin, his dancing, his poetry, a television show that has nine seasons but he’s miraculously binged in four days. The biggest struggle for him is the performance aspect, as when he’s in front of a crowd his legs somehow become completely boneless and his voice breaks and his head is light and fuzzy. Nina helps him perform, removing his private anxieties and his self-conscious attitude — she calls it ‘helping out’ but Sebastian is pretty sure it’s just called ‘enabling’ if he never actually has to learn how to react normally. Not that he’s complaining. When he's focused on something, he consistently forgets basic things that humans need to do - shower, eat, drink water, move from one spot more once in three days.
[li style="font-size:x-small;"]BOLD.[/li] Nina isn’t known for holding anything back. She buzzes with energy, literally, and is constantly forcing herself and Sebastian into situations that aren’t exactly ‘safe’, but they’re not ‘boring’ at least.. If there’s ever a poster girl for “life begins where your comfort zone ends” it’s Nina. She has extremely developed people skills, and can talk and charm her way out of any situation. She never runs out of things to talk about, and the more she spends talking to people, the more energetic and ready to keep talking she is. It meshes decently enough with Sebastian’s introversion and socially inept nature - she prompts him what to say, and she lives vicariously through him.
[li style="font-size:x-small;"]PLAYFUL.[/li]No matter the situation, there isn’t anything that Nina can’t laugh at. She’s a very new fledgling, and hasn’t yet developed the cynicism or jaded nature common in the Jinn. She is whimsical and enjoys pursuing the not very practical side of life, one of the few personality traits that she has in common with her host. As a side effect, she doesn’t stick with things that she doesn’t find interesting or fun anymore. Anything that requires long-term dedication is a chore, and in the absence of constant excitement, Nina tends to find ways to create it herself. Needlessly risky behavior and self-indulgence ensue, much to Sebastian’s chagrin.
[li style="font-size:x-small;"]SENSITIVE.[/li]Nina, being a fledgling and lacking the self-control and basic training that comes with being a Jinn, reacts to things far more strongly than she should. Whereas Sebastian rarely reacts in anger to jabs, Nina is quick to violence and rage. When criticized — whether her, personally, or Sebastian’s performances — she feels backed into a corner and reacts badly: and, most of the time, that reaction is murder. Sebastian is able to rationalize and keep her from acting out those impulses most of the time. It’s best, still, just to tread lightly and not step on their toes.[/ul][/div][/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote]
History:
Sebastian Reid was a mistake.
It wasn’t a big deal. It didn’t bother him when his father would tell him about all the wasted potential and regret, and it didn’t bother him that his father preferred the bottle to him. It didn’t bother him when his mother would try to tame his hair and tell him how she used to dream of being an actress but an actress can’t have baby fat. The disappointed stares bother him, so Sebastian learns how to live comfortably without attracting attention. He keeps his head down, and tries to ignore the way his heart crumbles when his friends’ parents smile at their children. It doesn’t bother him, because it can’t bother him. He’s four when a school friend’s mother babysits him, and he’s four when he picks up a violin for the first time.
Nina was a mistake.
It was a big deal. Nina thinks she’s the Head of the Council’s child — they’re made of the same core, they share the same color at that core. She also thinks that she would burn down the world for the Head to look at her with the same warmth and pride like Iblîs looks at the other fledglings. When the Head looks at her, though, all Nina sees is regret and fear and indecision. It bothers her, it rattles her to the core, and between her violent rages and her pleads for any remote hint of affection, Nina feels a twisting in her bodiless body like when she dreams of falling and she doesn’t wake before crashing. Iblîs, maybe tired of wasting a Caretaker on someone as hopeless as Nina, dismisses her. And for a moment, she looks towards the salt chambers, and although Iblîs had also been looking towards the salt chambers, there is a shaky breath and grumbled dissent. The Head of the Council, in showing Nina this modicum of affection and sparing her life, has unwittingly begun the systemic breakdown of another life.
Sebastian Reid doesn’t think Nina is a mistake.
He’s eight now, and he’s lost all sensation in his fingertips. His relationship with his parents is strained - his father uses the pocket money Sebastian earns for alcohol, and his mother encourages him and although he’s sure that she only does it because she wants to be better than what she is now, he can’t shake the feeling of finally being acknowledged as something more than a waste of genetic potential. It’s after a performance at a concert hall, where people who are strangers give him more caring words than his parents have ever thought about him, that he meets her. Or, she meets him. Or, they meet each other. Or, they become each other. It’s on his walk home that he feels an itching in his brain, and then a girl’s voice. He accepts her company without a moment’s hesitation - he doesn’t understand the concept of djinn, or of being a master, but she sounds lonely and Sebastian Reid will work tirelessly to make sure no one feels as lonely as he does.
Nina doesn’t think Sebastian Reid is a mistake.
He’s fifteen now, and his neck is covered in marks from the violin, and he theorizes that rosin has replaced his sweat as he finds it on his clothes, in his sheets, on his hands and arms. He never meant to get as popular as he has, and he thinks that Nina is to thank for it. As hard as he had worked on his music before Nina, he’d never had much confidence. Now people know him, and that is bizarre, and now people say that his music helps them, and that is stranger. Nina tells him that his music is beautiful. Sebastian wishes, sometimes, he could listen with ears that weren’t his own, or that he could stop listening to himself play and only hear the snapping lid of his father’s bottle, that he could listen and not hear every disappointed sigh from his mother. Nina volunteers to kill them. Sebastian politely declines.
They are meant to be together, like wings on a bird and windows in a room.
With her, Sebastian doesn’t feel like a mistake. With him, Nina doesn’t feel like a mistake. It’s a thin line where Sebastian ends and Nina begins. Nina’s impulsive and angry nature reminds Sebastian to stand up for himself and for people who need to be protected. Sebastian’s warmth and compassion reminds Nina that not every personal slight needs to be responded to with physical violence. It might not be the healthiest of cohabitations, but they care deeply for each other’s happiness, even if sometimes they pretend they don’t. Nina very much considers Sebastian to be her little brother, and Sebastian figures Nina’s probably his chaotic little sister. Neither will concede to make the younger/older sibling analogy work, so they’ve settled on ‘twins’.
Addition Medical Information: Allergic to carbamazepine, iron, salt, peanuts.