Post by jestercarr13 on Jul 1, 2021 8:46:13 GMT
Name: Jesse Monroe
Alias: None
AKAs: None
Physical Description
Hair: Dark almost black, kept very short
Eyes: Blue-grey
Ethnicity: White American
Age: 26
Build: Well kept, toned athletic build, 6' 2''
Uniform: None
Personal Style: Jesse typically wears dark jeans (sometimes torn), black work-boots, and vests/t-shirts/shirts/sweaters dependent on weather and occasion
Psychological Description
Personality: Jesse is a Pyhrros demon spirit that acquired self-awareness and was able to independently punch his way through to the mortal realm to inhabit a recently deceased body. As a rule, Pyhrros demons are neither good nor evil, not lawful or chaotic, in their natural states. But once they attain self-awareness, they begin to learn and develop personalities/beliefs etc. as if a child going through an accelerated formative phase. The spirit that now inhabits the body of Jesse Monroe benefited from the care and attention of Jesse's family when he first woke, and was set the example of good morals and ethics. However, every Pyhrros demon, once they gain self-awareness, their primary driving urge is to finally experience life. As such, there is still always that slightly apathetic, selfish hue to their personalities, in as much as they desire independence and freedom.
He knows nothing of Jesse's life before, retaining no memories of it or anything to do with it, but yet Jesse still remains on good terms with his 'parents', in as much as he calls them every couple of weeks just to touch base, and prevent them from suffering unduly.
Relationships: Jesse Monroe's parents, Mike and Norah, don't know that their son is actually dead and his spirit moved on to... wherever. They have assumed that the son they know now is simply suffering from amnesia, and has been given the chance to start over. Something they're glad for, all things considered.
Powers & Abilities: A Pyhrros demon is a purely incorporeal spirit creature made up of demonic purple flame, primarily. When a Pyhrros demon inhabits a human body, it heals all wounds previously suffered (including death, disease, etc.) essentially 'resetting' the body to a fit state. It also makes the body stronger, more durable, faster, more agile and more dexterous. Their perception and cognitive abilities are also improved somewhat. Basically, amps up everything about them to well above average/superhuman levels. A possessed human also has the ability to manifest and utilise the demonic purple flame of the Pyhrros, though this is concentrated to their hands
Weaknesses: A Pyhrros demon remembers nothing of the life the body they have possessed lied before they died. Also, their base nature can be somewhat selfish and flaky, making for difficult relationships with humans, or understanding of basic human behaviours/decencies etc.
Skills: Jesse is not an unskilled fighter, though he has undertaken no formal training. He moreso has picked up a decent amount of street-brawling techniques since coming to the mortal realm. Jesse is also quite a talented artist, in many mediums from sketch to sculpture and everything inbetween. The human Jesse was also an artist, once, which suggests that even if memories aren't retained, there are some qualities that do remain in one form or another... but it could have also just as easily been the inspiration of learning about the human Jesse's life in those first formative weeks that inspired the Pyhrros to take art up also.
Equipment: Jesse has a cell-phone and a relatively beat up old car, but that's about it.
Background: Jesse is a Pyhrros demon, a kind of hellfire spirit that exists and sentient flame in a hell dimension, from where they can be summoned by even amateurs to haunt and torture enemies, or possess places and objects as a form of security or protection. A gifted summoner can imbue a Pyhrros demon within the body of a once living creature that is no longer inhabited by its own spirit or soul. Typically, a Pyhrros demon's sentience is very limited, as they are a relatively low class and order of demon, but over time and with multiple exposures to Earthbound existence, their consciousness can evolve and become far more self-aware.
Jesse doesn't remember much of his previous summonings to Earth over the last 1000 years (by Earth count, as 'time' passes differently between these realms, if it passes at all in the Pyhrros realm), just the basics of why he was summoned (haunting a vase; torturing on behalf of a woman scorned). Not exactly glamorous stuff.
But he does remember realising he'd changed, floating amidst his kin in a burning realm of purple fire and smoke, cavernous yet without perceivable boundaries, naturally formed stone pillars, stalactites and stalagmites protruding up from thick fogs below and down from hazed mists above, rough hewn gemstones protruding from the stone with green and orange glows. And he remembered wanting more.
He saw more of Earth in the following years, which he tracked as the humans did, his first summoning once sentient being into a time they called "the '90s". He fulfilled his purpose each time, though the adepts that summoned him were concerned by his level of curiosity and independent thought they'd never seen in a Pyhrros before.
It was 2016 before he amassed the power to punch his own way through to the mortal realm, and was afforded the chance to do so. You see, even once they have gained the power and knowledge to do so, a Pyhrros still needs a channel to be opened to them, and a vessel to be awaiting them. A spirit must pass through their realm, on its way to whichever afterlife they have earned, for them to punch through at that weak point. When this Pyhrros woke, he found himself in the body of a young man.
Jesse Monroe, 21 years old. He'd been dead for 18 minutes, longer if you included the time paramedics had been trying to resuscitate him after a fatal drug overdose.
Jesse was gone, his spirit or soul, or consciousness having passed on to... wherever. But his body's recovery was miraculous. The demon took on his name, and his life, but it was assumed Jesse's "near death" experience had given him amnesia due to significant brain damage during the time it lacked oxygen. The inhabiting spirit was entirely unable to recall any of Jesse's memories, no matter what techniques were employed.
The creature that was no Jesse suffered through 8 months of overbearing care and oversight by medical and psychiatric staff, and the parents of the human Jesse Monroe. For their part, they were so pleased their son hadn't killed himself after several years of struggling with drug addiction, that the fact he held no memory of them seemed a small price to pay. Jesse, a Pyhrros demon now wholly independent and free upon the mortal realm, simply wanted to explore, experience, live... but in those first few formative months on Earth, the influence of those caring parents of a dead human had an effect on him.
Though he does now live independently in Austin, Texas, he remains in contact with his vessel's parents, unable to break ties entirely due to a modicum of guilt. But they still don't know the truth.
Jesse Monroe lives primarily in Austin, Texas, where he has a small independent workshop and gallery, with an attached apartment, but often travels extensively.
Alias: None
AKAs: None
Physical Description
Hair: Dark almost black, kept very short
Eyes: Blue-grey
Ethnicity: White American
Age: 26
Build: Well kept, toned athletic build, 6' 2''
Uniform: None
Personal Style: Jesse typically wears dark jeans (sometimes torn), black work-boots, and vests/t-shirts/shirts/sweaters dependent on weather and occasion
Psychological Description
Personality: Jesse is a Pyhrros demon spirit that acquired self-awareness and was able to independently punch his way through to the mortal realm to inhabit a recently deceased body. As a rule, Pyhrros demons are neither good nor evil, not lawful or chaotic, in their natural states. But once they attain self-awareness, they begin to learn and develop personalities/beliefs etc. as if a child going through an accelerated formative phase. The spirit that now inhabits the body of Jesse Monroe benefited from the care and attention of Jesse's family when he first woke, and was set the example of good morals and ethics. However, every Pyhrros demon, once they gain self-awareness, their primary driving urge is to finally experience life. As such, there is still always that slightly apathetic, selfish hue to their personalities, in as much as they desire independence and freedom.
He knows nothing of Jesse's life before, retaining no memories of it or anything to do with it, but yet Jesse still remains on good terms with his 'parents', in as much as he calls them every couple of weeks just to touch base, and prevent them from suffering unduly.
Relationships: Jesse Monroe's parents, Mike and Norah, don't know that their son is actually dead and his spirit moved on to... wherever. They have assumed that the son they know now is simply suffering from amnesia, and has been given the chance to start over. Something they're glad for, all things considered.
Powers & Abilities: A Pyhrros demon is a purely incorporeal spirit creature made up of demonic purple flame, primarily. When a Pyhrros demon inhabits a human body, it heals all wounds previously suffered (including death, disease, etc.) essentially 'resetting' the body to a fit state. It also makes the body stronger, more durable, faster, more agile and more dexterous. Their perception and cognitive abilities are also improved somewhat. Basically, amps up everything about them to well above average/superhuman levels. A possessed human also has the ability to manifest and utilise the demonic purple flame of the Pyhrros, though this is concentrated to their hands
Weaknesses: A Pyhrros demon remembers nothing of the life the body they have possessed lied before they died. Also, their base nature can be somewhat selfish and flaky, making for difficult relationships with humans, or understanding of basic human behaviours/decencies etc.
Skills: Jesse is not an unskilled fighter, though he has undertaken no formal training. He moreso has picked up a decent amount of street-brawling techniques since coming to the mortal realm. Jesse is also quite a talented artist, in many mediums from sketch to sculpture and everything inbetween. The human Jesse was also an artist, once, which suggests that even if memories aren't retained, there are some qualities that do remain in one form or another... but it could have also just as easily been the inspiration of learning about the human Jesse's life in those first formative weeks that inspired the Pyhrros to take art up also.
Equipment: Jesse has a cell-phone and a relatively beat up old car, but that's about it.
Background: Jesse is a Pyhrros demon, a kind of hellfire spirit that exists and sentient flame in a hell dimension, from where they can be summoned by even amateurs to haunt and torture enemies, or possess places and objects as a form of security or protection. A gifted summoner can imbue a Pyhrros demon within the body of a once living creature that is no longer inhabited by its own spirit or soul. Typically, a Pyhrros demon's sentience is very limited, as they are a relatively low class and order of demon, but over time and with multiple exposures to Earthbound existence, their consciousness can evolve and become far more self-aware.
Jesse doesn't remember much of his previous summonings to Earth over the last 1000 years (by Earth count, as 'time' passes differently between these realms, if it passes at all in the Pyhrros realm), just the basics of why he was summoned (haunting a vase; torturing on behalf of a woman scorned). Not exactly glamorous stuff.
But he does remember realising he'd changed, floating amidst his kin in a burning realm of purple fire and smoke, cavernous yet without perceivable boundaries, naturally formed stone pillars, stalactites and stalagmites protruding up from thick fogs below and down from hazed mists above, rough hewn gemstones protruding from the stone with green and orange glows. And he remembered wanting more.
He saw more of Earth in the following years, which he tracked as the humans did, his first summoning once sentient being into a time they called "the '90s". He fulfilled his purpose each time, though the adepts that summoned him were concerned by his level of curiosity and independent thought they'd never seen in a Pyhrros before.
It was 2016 before he amassed the power to punch his own way through to the mortal realm, and was afforded the chance to do so. You see, even once they have gained the power and knowledge to do so, a Pyhrros still needs a channel to be opened to them, and a vessel to be awaiting them. A spirit must pass through their realm, on its way to whichever afterlife they have earned, for them to punch through at that weak point. When this Pyhrros woke, he found himself in the body of a young man.
Jesse Monroe, 21 years old. He'd been dead for 18 minutes, longer if you included the time paramedics had been trying to resuscitate him after a fatal drug overdose.
Jesse was gone, his spirit or soul, or consciousness having passed on to... wherever. But his body's recovery was miraculous. The demon took on his name, and his life, but it was assumed Jesse's "near death" experience had given him amnesia due to significant brain damage during the time it lacked oxygen. The inhabiting spirit was entirely unable to recall any of Jesse's memories, no matter what techniques were employed.
The creature that was no Jesse suffered through 8 months of overbearing care and oversight by medical and psychiatric staff, and the parents of the human Jesse Monroe. For their part, they were so pleased their son hadn't killed himself after several years of struggling with drug addiction, that the fact he held no memory of them seemed a small price to pay. Jesse, a Pyhrros demon now wholly independent and free upon the mortal realm, simply wanted to explore, experience, live... but in those first few formative months on Earth, the influence of those caring parents of a dead human had an effect on him.
Though he does now live independently in Austin, Texas, he remains in contact with his vessel's parents, unable to break ties entirely due to a modicum of guilt. But they still don't know the truth.
Jesse Monroe lives primarily in Austin, Texas, where he has a small independent workshop and gallery, with an attached apartment, but often travels extensively.