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Jules "Mal" Mallory; The Baron's Boy
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Character Name: Jules Mallory or "Mal" for short.
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Height: 5'11''
Weight: 157lbs
Description or Image of Character Appearance:
A young man of mixed decent, Mal has light brown skin and brownish black hair. He is rather thin, and despite being in good shape has a slightly malnourished and gaunt look about him. He normally dresses in the same baggy clothes common of our generation but cleans up nicely when the situation calls for it. He wears polarized glasses that darken to smokey quartz color in the sunlight. His overall appearance gives him a slightly unhinged bookish look.
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One distinguishing feature often hidden by clothing is the large tatoo on his back. The symbol is the Veve, a religious icon, of the Loa Baron Samedi. The tatoo was supposedly placed by his father, though he can't remember it.
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Occupation: Bokor (Voodoo Sorcerer), Student
Grade Level: 10th
Alignment: Neutral
Powers/ Abilities:
The Baron
Mal's patron Loa is the Baron Samedi, lord of the Ghede (spirits of death and firtility). As such one cannot die if Baron Samedi refuses to dig their grave, metaphorically speaking. Essentially, Baron Samedi will not allow Mal to stay dead. He can die, but he will return the next die good as new. This is not some healing ability or regenerative property. His body could be incinerated and he would still come back fully formed (albeit naked.)

Being a Bokor Mal serves the Loa with "Both hands", meaning he is capable of using both light and dark magic. However, while he is knowledgeable when it comes to magic, he is a novice in it's use. With magic theory is quite different from practice. Currently he only has two magical abilities of his own. He can view the dead, and keep himself hidden from their view. This essentially means he is invisible to ghosts, spirits, vampires, and zombies and other sorts of undead creatures.

His last and perhaps most useful ability is not his own at all. While Mal doesn't remember a time when his father was alive, he's known him all his life. The spirit of Augustus Franklin Mallory has been haunting Julius since he can remember. Augustus acts as a teacher and mentor, as well as a guardian and scout when the situation calls for it. He is generally invisible to the living unless they are capable of viewing the dead, like Mal, or if they have a high level of psychic awareness. Because Augustus was a powerful Bokor in life, he has become a relatively powerful spirit in death. He is capable of poltergeist level abilities, moving things and disturbing electrical currents. He is by no means super strong, he retains only the level of physical strength he possessed in life, so no flying cars or furniture tossing for this ghost.

Equipment You Have:
-Leather Bomber Jacket. It belonged to his grandfather, and Mal keeps it for mostly sentimental reasons. It is useful though as it has a number of large pockets on the inside.
-A small lightweight backpack with many pockets.
-Offerings: A pack of Cigarettes (Usually Lucky Strikes), Alcohol (usually cheap convenience store beer), and a bag of peanuts. These are things favored as offerings to Baron Samedi, or their closest modern equivalents, and Mal often uses them when performing a ritual.
-Butane Lighter and incense. Also for rituals.
-Lucky rabbits foot key-chain. For good mojo.
-Cell-phone. While at first appearance it is a slightly old and worn out cellphone it is in fact a piece of crap. It's only positive feature seems to be that it can find a signal just about anywhere.
-Pocket Bible. An old slightly worn pocket bible, the insides are full of scribbles and notes in any free space on the page, and occasionally overlapping some of the words.

Personality Description: Mal is generally a congenial and friendly type. He likes to make friends and have fun. In fact the only time Mal is serious is when dealing with matters of the dead. This includes his father. Mal is capable of producing a dry wit and sharp tongue when provoked, but prefers to avoid conflict if at all possible.

Augustus: No matter what he was like when he was a live, there are a few character traits of the dead that are unavoidable. The Ghede are known for their boisterous behavior and lude senses of humor. They are fans of drink, drugs, and fornication. Augustus, while trying to be a good father, can't help but prod his son to act in the vein of the great Baron himself and let loose. While Mal hates to admit it, he's is quite like his father in attitude.


Personal History:
Jules Mallory was born to an Augustus Franklin Mallory and Anna Mallory. He was raised by his mother, as his father passed when he was a small child. If not for his heritage he might have grown up like any other kid raised by a single parent. However, Mal spent his life being visited by the spirit of his deceased father.

Augustus had been a powerful Bokor, a sorcerer of the Voodoo faith, and in death became one of the Ghede, spirits of death. He used his power to bind himself to his son and remain with him to protect him from whatever dangers might reach him. Despite having what one might call a guardian Angel, Mal often found himself in dangerous situations.

This is mostly due to the decision he made at age fifteen to follow in his father's footsteps and become a Bokor. A year earlier, Mal had been involved in a car accident. His spine had been quite crushed, and there was no chance of survival. So it was proclaimed a medical miracle when he woke up trapped in the town morgue.

Mal pursued the teachings of the Bokor in order to learn the reason for his seeming survival. It was hear he learned of the Baron Samedi and his inexplicable reasons for preserving his life. Not even his father could tell him why the Baron had chosen to spare Mal's life, but he knew of people who might be able to help.

Mal and his father set off for Hyakuji, a place where many people knowledgeable in the mystic arts and lore seemed to gather. He then arrived only to find that Hyakuji was gone, and in it's place was darkness. Before he could get away the darkness swallowed him up and he found himself in a strange new world.

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