┊ X ┊ The Green Ghost

PROFILE

• Name: Alexander Wör (Never reveals his real name)
• Nicknames: X, The Green Ghost, Green Flame
• Age: 24
• Affiliations: Rodseker, Little Angel's Orphan House.
• Traits: Charismatic, protective, sarcastic, defiant, perceptive, cynical, theatrical
• Personality: He has a flair for the dramatic and often exaggerates things. He’s smart, but often plays dumb and lets people underestimate him. He enjoys one-upping people in arguments, thought he is quick to anger. He’s secretly caring and overly protective and wants to preserve what little colours still remain.
• Likes: Children, gold coins, winning arguments, gambling, chromatic objects
• Dislikes: The Old church, spicy foods, rain
• Abilities: using the colour green, illusions (uses it mostly to hide his green eyes), creating daggers or swords (he can create an unlimited amount of them).
• Goals: having fun, doing all that he can with the powers he was given, and living life to the fullest.
• Secret goal: help restore colour to the world and care for the children of the orphanage.
• Voice: Drawling, measured pace, clear enunciation. Tone is consistently laced with sarcasm and derision. Vocabulary is intelligent and precise, favoring hyperbole and rhetorical questions.
• Quirks: Always brings a coin in his pocket to flip when bored.

Appearance

• Body: Short (160cm tall). medium long black hair. White skin. green eyes that seem to glow in the monochrome world (hides them with an illusion)
• Clothes: simple, linen, white shirt under a black cloak that he always leaves half open. Black dress pants. Sturdy leather boots. Leather satchel.
• Leather satchel contents: A pair of steel knives that he brings in case his powers fail. A bunch of Biscuits. Gold coins. A deck of playing cards.

Backstory

• Born the bastard son of an alchemist and a courtesan, Alexander never experienced colour when he was young. He was part of the second generation born after the Great fading. The only colours he knew were in the stories his paternal grandmother told him.

• At 9, his mother died and his father forced him to live in the monochrome streets of Luma and completely disowned him. He took on the surname of his Mother, Wör. He quickly learned all the tricks and became a master in the art of persuasion.

• At 15 he was taken in by the old church and began learning all about the old world, Thought he never liked the church and only stayed to further his studies.

• At 19 his powers first manifested. He was soon expelled from the church and hunted down. He went back into the streets.

• By 21, he had already mastered his powers and began hiding his true eyes to blend in with society. He also met Susan Holbert and adopted the name X.

• At 22 he created the orphanage

• Recently, he became an urban legend called the Green Ghost

World

• Luma, a city similar to Victorian era/early industrial age London. A river runs right through it. Notable districts are: The alchemist district, home of the alchemist. Downtown: the former shopping district, thought now it has become a bit of a slum.

• In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (which is almost 70 years from now), a phenomenon known as The Great Fading began. Over the course of a single day, all of the colour in the world faded, leaving it black and white. A few objects retained colour, and they became known as Chromatic Objects. They also gained powers that defined the laws of physics, from blades that could cut through anything to floating books. The color from these objects can be extracted and used in the formation of chromatic weapons, though it's almost impossible to do so, and only a few alchemists know the process.

• Chromatic people: people who can wield and manipulate colour. Their eyes glow a specific colour. They are very rare.

• Factions: Rodseekers: (people interested in the study or use of chromatic objects. They believe in the preservation of chromatic objects and that these objects may be able to reverse the Great Fading), Alchemist: (Led by the young prodigy Evan Swan, the alchemists were part of Luna's noble class. They are scholars and researchers who are responsible for most of the city's former and recent technological advances. All of them are Rodseekers.), Chroma Hunters: (People invested in the destruction of all remaining colour in hopes of eradicating all chromatic weapons), The old church: (Worshippers of the Old Mother, the four-armed mother of all humanity. Rituals to her are performed at sundown and contain roses, the mother's holy symbol. They helped maintain the peace in Lima after the Great Fading. All of them are Chroma Hunters, and High bishop Alidoro has declared Chromatic Objects "an obscenity that goes against god's plan")

• The orphanage, also known as Little Angel's Orphan Home, is an orphanage created by X with the help of Susan Holber, the old matron who runs the orphanage regularly, to help children who can wield colour. It is known only by a close few, and alchemists are forbidden to enter or know of its existence. X believes that they will be unjustly experimented on the children.