PROMEISTER, Niko (W.I.P.)

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[atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,3,true][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=valign, top][atrb=style, color: f9f9f9;][STYLE=width: 100px; padding: 10px; background-color: 0883a6;][/style] [STYLE=background-color: 0883a6; width: 110px; padding: 5px; color: ededed; font-family: arial narrow; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: -10px;]TWENTY EIGHT[/style] [STYLE=background-color: 0883a6; width: 110px; padding: 5px; color: ededed; font-family: arial narrow; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: -10px;]MALE[/style] [STYLE=background-color: 0883a6; width: 110px; padding: 5px; color: ededed; font-family: arial narrow; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: -10px;]HETEROSEXUAL[/style] [STYLE=background-color: 0883a6; width: 110px; padding: 5px; color: ededed; font-family: arial narrow; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: -10px;]CHEF AT GRAVEYARD GRUB[/style] [STYLE=background-color: 0883a6; width: 110px; padding: 5px; color: ededed; font-family: arial narrow; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: -10px;]PROMEISTER[/style] [STYLE=background-color: 0883a6; width: 110px; padding: 5px; color: ededed; font-family: arial narrow; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 11px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: -10px;]MADE BY MINNIE OF BTN![/style]

[atrb=style, color: f9f9f9;][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; font-family: Arial narrow; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: 525252; border-bottom: 3px solid #f9f9f9;]( NIKO ) -- ☆[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; background-color: d5d5d5; font-family: arial; color: 313131; font-size: 11px;]★ N A M E: Nikodem Lis Tobiasz ★ D. O. B.: April 29 ★ H E I G H T: 5 feet and 10 inches ★ W E I G H T: 140 lbs ★ A P P E A R A N C E: anything you'd like to add about their appearance (ex: fashion, style, body markings, etc.)[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; font-family: Arial narrow; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: 525252; border-bottom: 3px solid #f9f9f9;]★ PERSONALITY[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; background-color: d5d5d5; font-family: arial; color: 313131; font-size: 11px;]★ G E N E R A L: Intelligent, quiet, unassuming, Niko is forever turning to his work to escape the busy world around him. He is passionate about what he loves and, having an addictive personality, goes so far as to devote himself for hours to a specific thing, losing track of time and responsibilities. He will defend his passions to a point, but is always affected by the shrinking of self-confidence he experiences after someone remarks upon his actions, situation, or opinion. He is often the first to retire from a conversation, preferring to be an observer over a participator. He prefers books over people, yet strives to always please with food rather than words. Although he is highly learned and cultured, Niko speaks plainly in an attempt to hide his eloquence, finding less words and simpler phrases attract less attention than well thought out ideas and heightened vocabulary. Fiercely loyal and protective, Niko becomes possessive and territorial over his weapon, if only in his mind. He would give his life and so much more to protect his partner and selfishly bares himself to attacks at times if he feels his weapon might be marred or hurt. He becomes angered quickly when his partner is the subject of scrutiny, and will fight with biting words or deceivingly well-placed punches to defend their honor, but only ever out of sight or earshot of them, as he fears the discovery of his ardent loyalty by the object of such a powerful emotion would drive their relationship to instability. ★ L I K E S & D I S L I K E S: ♥ cooking ♥ baking ♥ seriously, he likes cooking ♥ surprising his friends with baked goods ♥ reading ♥ experimenting with spices and smells ♥ candles ♥ cooking utensils ♥ being around his weapon ♥ receiving complements for his food ♥ teaching others how to cook ♥ lazing around on the couch ♥ enjoying a quiet day with those he is close to ✗ partaking of any of his own dishes ✗ being scrutinized as a chef ✗ having others over at his apartment ✗ watching others rifle through his pantry or bookshelves ✗ being given extra time off of work ✗ feeling inferior to others ✗ being told what to cook and how to cook it (other than just from picky customers) ✗ eating food prepared by others ★ H O B B I E S & H A B I T S: ⋆ Niko is an avid collector of recipes. He keeps bookshelves full of cooking books and notebooks with his own lovingly detailed notes on all kinds of foods. He takes great pride in showcasing his collection to any who happen to visit him at his home, and listens to none who denounce his strange little obsession with cookbooks. ⋆ Despite his passionate dedication to the culinary arts, Niko does spend time perusing literature not specifically devoted to the preparation of edible items. He maintains an active interest in many classic authors and rereads favorites often. He regularly visits the library to check out armfuls of books at a time, yet how and when he has the spare time to thoroughly read every line in each sizable tome even he cannot explain. ⋆ Every now and again, Niko likes to play comforting music while he cooks. He has no particular favorites save for orchestral pieces or classic opera arias. He becomes agitated at music he has not chosen himself, yet enjoys listening to the radio at times during work if a coworker turns on an enjoyable station during his break. ⋆ Niko associates cooking with personalities. He will assign certain traits to certain foods and people, and has gained the ability after years of experience watching others and their food choices to guess a person's tastes in a general way. This leads him to refer to others in his mind as 'the artichoke man' or 'that preppy strawberry'. He memorizes repeat customers' preferences for foods rather than names or faces, a practice which has caused minor difficulties for his waitstaff in the past. ⋆ Easily embarrassed, Niko will forcefully remove himself from a conversation if he finds himself in a tight spot. He keeps too quiet at times and would rather not be heard than show his feelings, especially around those he treasures. He will act rather shy around his peers during conversation, hiding his personality behind a facade of simplicity. ⋆ As he has a deep love for anything cooking related, he loses himself in his work. When he focuses, Niko tends to become rather susceptible to being startled, a trait his previous weapon used against him as a form of good-natured teasing. If startled out of his focused mindset, he may jump, but doesn't hold a grudge, as he is quite forgiving in that respect. ★ S E C R E T S & F E A R S: ⋆ Niko struggles daily with the guilt over losing his first partner to madness. He blames himself greatly for their inability to defend themself from the enclosing insanity, and often obsesses rather unhealthily over what he could have done to save his beloved partner. ⋆ Despite harboring an intense passion for food, cooking, and serving his dishes to others, Niko rather dislikes the act of eating. He fears he will get fat, and therefore has developed the habit of abstaining from most of his own cooking beyond the required tasting now and then. He skillfully plays this disliking off on others, who accept his creations with delight and oblivious disregard toward his pawning off of food on them. ⋆ At times, Niko forgets he is a Promeister in any shape or form. He regards himself as a chef first and foremost, and dislikes being announced as a Promeister. His first partner disliked this tendancy to disregard his more important duties, and teased him mercilessly about his passion for cooking. This teasing helped foster a weak self-confidence in Niko about his cooking skill that he sometimes still struggles to overcome. ⋆ Niko will sometimes entertain the notion of how much easier his job as a chef would be if he were a weapon and not a meister. He has dreams now and again of being a butcher knife weapon and being able to use himself partially tranformed to cut vegetables. He wakes up rather bitter on such days and goes to work glum and tired. ⋆ After the loss of his first weapon, Niko developed an intense fear of losing his next weapon. The thought that he might outlive another partner or, worse yet, watch them be consumed by madness crushes him and leaves him ever cautious and at times overprotective of his partner, sometimes to the point of becoming an annoyance to his weapon. ⋆ A simple and silly yet powerful fear of Niko's is that his cooking will be disliked or cause some sort of discomfort or illness in those who eat it. He is always hesitant to provide his customers or friends with a new dish as he fears it may instigate dislike toward him as a chef. ★ A M B I T I O N S: ⋆ To find a new weapon and protect them with all of his strength. He needs a companion to survive, and he will stop at nothing to find that perfect partner. He cares less for the weapon aspect of this potential partner than the friendship that invariably comes alongside healthy meister-weapon relationships. ⋆ An ongoing ambition for Niko is to always strive to better himself in cooking. He is always trying out new recipes or concocting his own, ever searching for the next new hit at his workplace or amongst those he loves. ⋆ One secret goal of Niko's is to be reunited with his first weapon, although he doubts that would ever happen. He looks forward to the future, yet he cannot help but long for the days gone by that produced so many good memories for him. He dreams of finding his best friend and returning their lives back to that ended time that held such joy, before his weapon succumbed to madness, but he knows that the friend he would find if their paths ever did cross again would be but a shattered remnant of their former self. [/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; font-family: Arial narrow; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: 525252; border-bottom: 3px solid #f9f9f9;]★ HISTORY[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; background-color: d5d5d5; font-family: arial; color: 313131; font-size: 11px;] A few years ago, Niko watched as his first partner, a very powerful weapon whom he grew up with and graduated from the DWMA with, became a dark weapon, descending into madness and losing any semblance of control over themselves. He loved them dearly, and wanted to help so very much, and so he sent his partner to a mental clinic, hoping to hide their transformation within mental illness, yet they escaped before the 'treatments' could take any effect. Before disappearing, Niko's partner visited him and vehemently accused him of being the cause of their loss of sanity, and he has since struggled heavily with this overwhelming guilt. [/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; font-family: Arial narrow; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: 525252; border-bottom: 3px solid #f9f9f9;]★ ABILITIES[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; background-color: d5d5d5; font-family: arial; color: 313131; font-size: 11px;] • For each form or ability, be sure to write at least 1-2 paragraphs, as we'd like to see detail. • For Promeisters, and Kishins at any stage, describe to us any of your abilities though keep in mind you only have three,Meisters may have special or unusal wavelengths, Kishins as well may have this though be sure to remember insanity plays a key theme for them.Optional for Promeisters (meister) ★ S P E C I A L S O U L: ⋆ Grigori ★ S P E C I A L A B I L I T I E S: ⋆ ability one ⋆ ability two [/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; font-family: Arial narrow; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: 525252; border-bottom: 3px solid #f9f9f9;]★ OUT OF CHARACTER[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; background-color: d5d5d5; font-family: arial; color: 313131; font-size: 11px;]★ F A C E - C L A I M: [b]Darker Than Black[/b] - Hei, [i]Tobiasz, Nikodem[/i] ★ N A M E: Erin ★ C H A R A C T E R S: Hatred, Nero, Miranda Lemaire, Iagan Ó Cearmada, Findlay Grahame [/style]