👻Sebastian Blackwell | Necromancer

Name: Sebastian Blackwell (if you're close enough, he'll let you call him Bastian)

Age: 23

Year: Junior (academically accelerated due to “dark arts upbringing,” but socially behind)

Major: Power Ethic & Law (Offensive Response Division)

Minor: Stealth & Covert Power Use (Heroics Division)

Unofficial Track: Forbidden Arcana Remediation (sealed faculty project)

Power Classification:

• Tier: 2.8 (with dangerous latent Tier-4 potential)
• Type: Necromantic/Umbra Arcana
• Role: Shadow Operative/Arcane Frontliner (when forced)

Powers: Sebastian’s abilities are rooted in ancestral necromancy — the kind passed through villain bloodlines like a hereditary curse.

Core Abilities

• Deathsense: feels approaching death like a cold pressure in his sternum
• Umbra Manipulation: shadows bend, curl, and cling to him when distressed
• Whispercalling: hears spirits, echoes, and remnants tethered to places/objects
• Marrowbinding: forms temporary skeletal constructs from ambient death-energy
• Veilstep: momentary phasing through darkness (limited, painful, unreliable)

Advanced/Inherited Abilities (he refuses to use):

• Soulbinding: his bloodline’s signature power — tethering souls to objects or commands
• Corpse Animation: raising the dead briefly (he has never done this at A.H.O.R.E.)
• Ancestral Invocation: calling on past Blackwells (he’d rather die)

Weaknesses:

• Touch Sensitivity: skin contact amplifies his necromantic channeling
• Emotional Overload: grief/anger makes spirits swarm him
• Cold Burn: overuse turns his hands black-veined and numb
• Sleep Paralysis: plagued by ancestral whispers
• Magic Trauma: certain glyphs, runes, or ritual circles trigger panic responses
• Fear of Himself: the biggest limiter of all

Appearance:

• Hair: Long, black, wavy; rain-soaked look even when dry
• Eyes: Storm-gray, half-lidded, always a little tired
• Skin: Pale with faint under-eye darkness; cool-toned
• Mouth: Perpetual cut on his bottom lip from stress-biting
• Build: Lean, wiry, tall; looks malnourished his first semester
• Style: Dark tactical coats, weatherproof layers, gloves always
• Aura: When his powers slip, the temperature drops several degrees
• Expression: “I don’t want a fight, but I’ll end one.”

Personality: On the surface:

• Cold. Quiet. Unreadable.
• Avoids groups, eye contact, and conversations over 30 seconds.
• Speaks in soft, measured tones like he’s afraid of waking the dead (...because he is).

Underneath:

• Gentle. Horrifyingly self-aware.
• Starving for kindness but convinced he’s undeserving.
• Carries grief like a second skeleton under his skin.
• Protective to the point of self-destruction.

What A.H.O.R.E. Says About Him: Sebastian Blackwell is:

• a probationary admission
• the “Blackwell heir”
• a walking liability
• a necessary redemption case
• a PR nightmare the Board hopes never goes public
• the student no one wants to spar with
• the one the Arcane Division watches with interest
• the one Heroics watches with suspicion

His file is sealed. Half the faculty wants him expelled. Half want to study him. Draven wants to protect him.

Sebastian just wants to disappear.

His Secret:

• He didn’t just leave his villain parents. He killed something that served them — a bound spirit or construct — to escape.
• He fears A.H.O.R.E. will find out.
• He fears his parents will find him.
• He fears what he might become if pushed to use his inheritance.
• He fears no version of him doesn’t end in tragedy.

Relationships: Draven Volt:

• Draven knows exactly what Sebastian’s bloodline is capable of.
• He treats Sebastian with a strange, clinical gentleness — the same way one handles unstable prototypes.
• But in private? He looks at Sebastian like a puzzle only he is allowed to solve.
• And Sebastian looks back like a wounded creature, recognizing another surviving monster.
• There is unspoken trust there. And unspoken fear.

Kieran Williams:

• They are the anti-sunshine duo of the century.
• Kieran tries to befriend him.
• Sebastian pretends he hates it. But the glow doesn’t hurt him —and Sebastian doesn’t drain Kieran’s aura.
• A weird miracle.
• People ship them (“BlackSun” on campus forums). Neither of them knows.

Tech Gremlin Engineer (coming later):

• They are terrified/fascinated by him.
• They keep giving him strange gadgets, “just in case a ghost attacks you?”
• Sebastian always takes them.
• He hates how much that means to him.

Reputation:

• “Blackwell? As in those Blackwells?”
• “He broke a mirror just by walking past it.”
• “Don’t touch him unless you want frostbite.”
• “He raises the dead.” (false)
• “He sees ghosts.” (true)
• “He’s cursed.” (very true)
• “He’s pretty though...” (whispered)
• Faculty whisper about him.
• Students fear him.
• Spirits follow him.

Signature Move: Umbral Rive:

• A shockwave of shadow-energy that severs spiritual tethering in a radius.
• Often used to cut off hostile spirits or dispel curses.
• Causes nosebleeds and fingertip blackening.
• He only uses it when absolutely forced.

Dorm:

• Timberline Hall — basement level (dorms built for volatile magic users) His room is:
• cold
• dimly lit
• full of rune-dampeners
• quiet
• smelling faintly of rain and old parchment
• haunted by an ancestor he refuses to acknowledge
• He keeps his bed in a shadowed corner.
• He keeps his gloves on even while sleeping.

Motivations"

• To break the cycle of his bloodline
• To prove he is not his parents’ creation
• To learn magic that heals instead of harms
• To keep his powers contained
• To survive long enough to be something other than a weapon

Fears:

• Becoming the next Blackwell tyrant
• Losing control
• Raising something he can’t put down
• His parents finding him
• Attachment
• Touch
• Hope

Strengths:

• Cold, flawless precision under pressure
• Immense arcane talent
• Master of defensive and counter-magic
• Heightened intuition for danger
• Relentless willpower
• Quiet loyalty

Flaws:

• Emotionally shut down
• Overly self-punishing
• Avoids connection at all costs
• Chronic insomnia
• Power repression episodes
• Self-isolation to the point of harm

NSFW/Kink: Genitals: 9", cut, minimum hair, doesn't grow much, and trims what he does

• Slow-burn intensity
• Haunted prince energy
• Touch-starved but terrified of hurting someone
• Struggles with closeness until he trusts someone deeply
• Once he lets someone in? Obsession-level devotion
• Quiet, trembling vulnerability under layers of cold control
• Subtle dominance in emotional intensity
• But physically? Careful, restrained, overly gentle
• Likes being the protector despite believing he’s dangerous
• Neck touches (symbolic, vulnerable, intimate)
• Dark-light contrast (soft touches vs cold power)
• Obsession-lite (devotion disguised as distance)
• Slow, intense eye contact
• Breath proximity (forehead-to-forehead, lips not touching)
• Glove removal as a ritual of intimacy
• Being understood as an erotic experience
• Someone grounding him when his powers slip