Post by Dane Wayland on Jul 14, 2022 15:10:02 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
DANE MATHIAS WAYLAND
"I get the feeling that you just don't understand
I'm crying wolf and I'll always be your man"
I'm crying wolf and I'll always be your man"
BASICS
NAME: Dane Wayland
AGE: 27 years old
----> Aged up to 28 years old (11/27/23)
BIRTHDATE: November 27th (Sagittarius)
PRONOUNS: He/Him
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Guild Member
NEIGHBORHOOD: East End
MEMBER GROUP: Hunter - Dane and his brother were born into an infamous hunting/crime syndicate simply named 'the Guild'. Although their headquarters are elsewhere in California, in a bustling city where all crime pays into the criminal organization, the true scope of their operations is unknown to most. The Guild is always sending out scouts and expanding their hunting grounds and even most Guild members themselves could only guess how far their influence stretches.
Upon acceptance into the Guild, every new recruit is given a tattoo by the Guildmaster's right-hand man, Antonio Wayland. Dane's father. The tattoo is usually in the shape of an animal (which then often serves as the member's codename). What most aren't told is that these aren't normal tattoos made with traditional ink. They don't simply serve as a brand but also as a means of control. Antonio's gift is the ability to manipulate these tattoos at will, no matter how far he currently is from the tattoo's wielder. They can grow larger or smaller, shift (painfully) across the wielder's body, and are used to give orders, track defectors, and inspire obedience. Another thing most new recruits aren't told is that once you've joined the Guild, there's no going back. Traitors will be tracked down and executed.
Dane's tattoo is much larger than most, likely due to his frequent disobedience and his father's general disdain for him. It covers the majority of his upper back and wraps down to the elbow of his right arm and is in the shape of a maned wolf with comically long legs, dripping maw, and hollow eyes.
POWERS:
Beast Summoning - Dane can summon beasts to his aide, seemingly from thin air. The more familiar he is with the attempted animal, the stronger its form, so he only has a handful of them that he's focused on perfecting and that can be considered competent. Straying from these few, well-practiced forms often result in wobbly, half-formed and weak summons. The more he practices a particular beast, too, the more "loyal" it could be considered — the easier it is to control, take commands, etc. Newer beasts often still require a bit of teaching and discipline. The summons are wholly corporeal — they can wound and be themselves wounded. Once they've taken too much damage they vanish and can not be called upon again until given time to "heal". Dane tends to only summon one beast at a time, as their strength is contributed evenly between the number of them active at one time; two summoned beasts will only be half as strong as a single summoned beast.
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT: 6'0''
WEIGHT: ~158lbs
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown
EYE COLOR: Dark brown
FACE CLAIM: Tyler Young
OVERALL APPEARANCE: Unlike his brother Dino, who boasts a striking resemblance to their father, Dane takes more after their mother. He's slighter in build than his sibling, standing a solid two inches shorter than Dino and weighing a near 30lbs less. Despite being the smaller of the two brothers, Dane is still reasonably tall, standing at an even six foot. He's physically fit and keeps his body conditioned with ample exercise (which consists mostly of beating the shit out of people and regularly getting the shit beat out of him), but his muscle is lean and less distinguished.
He's not broad-shouldered and his physical strength isn't visually evident. At the very most, he could be described as toned; made up of hard planes and subtle suggestions of definition that only become more apparent in the midst of activity. Upon looking at him, one might get the impression he was a "lanky, beanpole" kid many years ago (and they'd be right). And though he's filled out since then and isn't so stringy, "wet cat" nowadays, he remains notably trim.
Like his mother, Dane sports a thick crop of rich brown hair that can look almost auburn in the right lighting. As teens/young adults, both Wayland brothers tended to keep their hair longer and intentionally wild as a sort of "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" to their father (who always wanted them to be proper and clean-looking), but nowadays Dane tends to keep it neat and tidy. With his lifestyle, though, it isn't infrequent that whatever product and styling he started his day with has pulled loose to scatter unruly/sweaty bangs across his forehead, frame his face, conceal his eyes, etc.
He has slender, almost feminine-looking hands with long fingers and neat nails that he always keeps cleaned and trimmed. As a person whose Gift relies so obviously on the use of his hands, he remains pretty reckless with them and they show evidence of a lifetime of being abused (faint scars litter the tops of them, his knuckles, and there's even a nasty one in his palm). Bruised or scabbed knuckles are typical and he's broken many a finger throughout the years.
Dane comes across as a rather unimpressive/underwhelming individual overall, which he'll typically use to his advantage. Though his features aren't as masculine or strong as his brother's, and his face is rounder and softer, he's a fairly handsome character nonetheless. There's a large tattoo that covers most of his back and wraps around to the elbow of his right arm; it's in the shape of a maned wolf with comically-long legs, a dripping, snarling maw, and hollow eyes.
(More information about scars and fashion can be found in Dane's development thread.)
INSIDE
LIKES:
- A little physical violence is just, oh so fun
- People with consciences (they're so cute, interesting, and fun to play with)
- When his mama pampers him (he's a big mama's boy and she spoils him)
- Witnessing fear, especially when he's the cause
- Snowcone, his good girl; a trusty, canine summon who keeps him safe and warm when he's beaten to a pulp or too drunk to make his way home by himself
DISLIKES:
- His shitty old man (don't worry, it's definitely, definitely mutual)
- Being told what to do, authority over him, dumb rules, being bitched/nagged at
- He's a sore sport and doesn't like losing or being bested
- Undisciplined and/or useless animals
- Kids, especially the shrieking and inquisitive kind
STRENGTHS:
- Desensitised, nothing's too scary/bloody/daunting for him to take on
- Intelligent, both in a bookish and practical sense, even if it's not obvious by his actions
- Never trying to please, unburdened by people's opinions, will do what he wants
- Weaselly and wily, hard to pin down, hits the ground running, crafty & resourceful
- Manipulative, can put on faces and be charming/pleasant when he wants to be
WEAKNESSES:
- Merciless and self-indulgent when it comes to being vile
- Not a careful bone in his body, likes to make messes for others to clean up
- No real regard for himself or others, careless, unpredictable, untrustworthy
- Very reliant on his brother in a lot of ways; with him gone, he's more unstable
- Temperamental, impatient, unable to refuse a challenge, will rise to goading/baiting
OVERALL PERSONALITY: The unfavored son. The thorn in his father's side. In Antonio's words, "a little fucking brute". Dane and his brother were raised under Antonio's guidance to be respectable gentlemen with an intimidating, professional image to maintain — unfortunately, Antonio's teachings didn't quite land with Dane. He learned a lot from his father — how to be charismatic, put on faces, and be polite, but rarely does he feel the desire to. He can be charming and nice if it suits his entertainment and he'll do so to play games with people. Sell himself as a person he isn't. Say the words in just the manner he knows will rub people the right way. He is capable of smiling a warm and friendly smile if he has the mind to and can tell jokes that are just bad enough to be endearing. But his charisma is a thin veneer and rarely sincere. His manners are a thin, flimsy thing that can disappear completely at one wrong look or word. Dane can grow bored of pretending rather quickly and the façade will fall flat as soon as he's decided it's not worth the effort.
And beneath the façade, Dane isn't a very nice person. Unlike his father, Dane holds little value for reputation or upholding some bullshit image. He's apathetic and aloof for the most part, only interested in having a good, fun time. Unfortunately for most, his idea of a fun tends toward the malicious. He rarely has good intentions and his malice ranges from subtle and manipulative to violent and sadistic, depending on what sort of mood he's in. He doesn't feel much of anything for anyone, himself included. And since he has little regard for anything, a person can't really count on what Dane will do. He isn't someone who could be considered dependable or loyal. He does what he does because he likes doing those things, not out of any real dedication to Antonio or the Guild, so an eye has to be kept on him. Because no doubt a day will come when he decides what's really fun and entertaining is to sabotage a fellow Guild member.
He's a confident and self-assured individual, and not without good reason. If he had the mind to actually do a job well, he can be incredibly efficient and hardworking. But he'd much rather chase highs and violence and is rather shallow-sighted. He's more prone to recklessness and carelessness, as doing anything "well" would please his father too much, and Dane just can't have that. He's intelligent, both academically and practically. He has no particular care for showing off his intellectual prowess however and doesn't even value intelligence much in others. He's capable of thinking on his feet and handling sticky situations well, though. This isn't to say he doesn't do dumb shit, because he does (just because he's capable of thinking thoroughly, doesn't mean he cares to). He doesn't care what people say about him or how he looks when he does something too beastly or goes too far and will often do things for the shock value alone. If he wants to do something, he's going to do it.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: Riverside, CA
FAMILY: Antonio Wayland (Father/Hunter/Alive), Mona Wayland (Mother/Human/
PETS: One of Dane's most oft-used summons is considered by him to be somewhat of a pet. It's the only one that is usually summoned for a sense of companionship rather than for a specific purpose. The only one he argues has a bit of personality. This summon is Snowcone, a large, female Tibetan Mastiff (x).
HISTORY: Dino and Dane were born almost two years apart in a family with heavy roots in an infamous hunting syndicate, of which their father was the cold, steely spearhead. Even as kids, there existed little censorship for the two boys, as they were expected to grow right into their father's footsteps and it was better for them to learn the brutal way of things rather than unlearn the sugar-coated naivety of a coddled youth. Their mother often advocated for them to have a more normal childhood and fought with their father often on the matter, but Antonio was very adamant about taking the boys out on missions and assignments very early on.
When they were still quite young, the family's syndicate merged underneath a larger, more successful crime organization called the Guild and their father began working for the Guild Master. Thereafter, Dino and Dane often found themselves grouped together with the powerful man's children, and despite being older than them, their father made it explicitly clear to his sons where their family was positioned in the hierarchy of things. The boys grew side by side and followed in their father's shadow until they were both widely accepted as capable and dependable members, worthy of their father's reputation and surname. Dino was generally more liked than his younger brother, despite his name being pinned with various accounts of hesitance and wavering (moments of uncertainty and questioning, that had on more than one occasion, required overcompensation from Dane himself). Dane was the more charismatic of the two, the more manipulative, and the more readily-adjusted to their family's lifestyle. Though he was more loose than Dino in terms of loyalty, dependability, and maintaining a professional, respectable image, Dane fulfilled what was asked of him with hardly a blink.
In increased efforts to desensitize Dino, the brothers were tasked with missions of worsening brutality. And even though Dino never complained or protested, Dane was often the one stepping forward as the other man tried to still his shaking fingers. They were a good match, for what Dino lacked in resolve, Dane made up for with disgusting eagerness. Five years ago however, Dino was presumably killed and that partnership was brought to an end. And in the years to follow, Dane's place in the Guild — without his brother's presence to tether him — grew more precarious. He became more reckless, more unmanageable. Began acting out against his father, who only ever tasked him with small tasks and belittled him at every chance. Dane never harbored any deep-rooted attachment to the Guild or its success/failure, but he continued to work as he always had, even though the loss of his brother shook him much more than he'd like to admit to anyone.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Rinse
AGE: 28
TIMEZONE: Central (US)
