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| User: | alexblaze (221900) You and I
Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down |
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| Name: | Blaze | |||||||||
| E-mail: | modsofdevilstower@gmail.com | |||||||||
| AOL IM: |  rubycolideoscope (Add Buddy, Send Message) | |||||||||
| Bio: | Character Information Name: Blaze True Name: Alexander "Alex" Blanc Duboir Gender: Male Age: 19 Birthday: December 15th, 2001 Greatest Ambition: Before the virus Blaze had two main ambitions. One was to find out who his real father was and the second one was to make the circus bigger and better than ever. Now, his greatest ambition is to get the Carrion some recognition and a better living situation among the other tribes. Physical Description: Blaze stands at 6' 1", 155-165 pounds. He's built rather lean but it's mostly defined muscle. He's in shape and flexible from the lifestyle he used to live and he tries to keep himself that way. His hair is dark brown and his eyes are a sage/blue-green. He can normally be found wearing jeans, a t-shirt and an old black hoody. Distinguishing Marks: A perpendicular burn on the inside of his left hand that he got when he was learning to juggle flaming swords. A hollow five pointed star tattooed in black around his right elbow (see icons), and the words Blue Midnight in fancy script on the outside of his right shoulder. Sexual Orientation: Exploring Single or taken: Single Best friend: Hazard, his little brother. Personality: Blaze is a very active, energetic, and charismatic person. He has a hard time sitting still and always has to be doing something from the moment he wakes up to the moment he falls asleep. He hates to waste time and always wants to be doing something productive. The former was perhaps the reason that he was always so dedicated to the circus and learning every trade within it that he could. Even though he is such a go-getter he is not that spontaneous and most everything he does has to be planned ahead of time. He likes to have things laid out before he jumps into them. Blaze can be the most loyal of friends but his loyalty only goes so far. If he disagrees with someone about something that he feels strongly about he's willing to drop them to stay true to what he believes. Because of this he can prove to be rather headstrong and even bossy. Personal History: Ryver Duboir joined the Blue Midnight Traveling Carnival and Freak Show at the age of 16. She ran away from her motherless home three days after her sixteenth birthday . She wasn't sure where to go so she hung around the traveling circus that came to town every September. During the day and night she would wander the fairgrounds watching all of the performers, freak shows, animals and rides and when the carnival closed she would sleep in the girl's restroom of the local park. Blue Midnight put on quite a show and it was easy for her to remain enthralled the entire week they were in town. As far as she knew her father never came looking for her and she wasn't surprised. He'd asked her to leave several times before in his drunken stupor, and finally she had taken his request seriously. Of all the wonders that Blue Midnight had to offer it was the fire dancers that truly entranced her. Their shows were dangerous, sensual and artful. The day that the carnival was packing up Ryver was sitting outside the main gate crying. She had spent all of her money, she was tired, hungry and dirty. The idea of the carnival leaving was like the imminent death of a close friend. She believed it was fate that brought Flame the fire-eater to her that day. Flame was a middle-aged woman with the body of a twenty year old and the heart of a grandmother. She recognized Ryver as the girl who'd been at her show everyday that week. Flame took her into her trailer, cleaned and fed her and learned her story. The rest was history. Ryver stayed with the carnival and felt more in her element than ever before. She learned dance, acrobatics and eventually the art of fire dancing. By her 19th year she was the star of the show. The carnival folk became the family that she never had. When she was twenty one she met the man that would become the father of her children. She met him at their annual stop in Tucson, Arizona. The Ferris Wheel had broken and they had to call in someone because their main mechanic had just retired from the traveling life and they hadn't been able to replace him yet. That was when James Alexander Towne met Ryver Blanc Duboir and sparks flew. Two months and 3,000 miles later Ryver realized that she was pregnant. She decided to keep the baby because she knew it was James'. She had her first son seven months later and named him Alexander after his father. Though Alexander would never know that it was James he was named after. Ryver managed to keep the child she had with James a secret even though she saw him once every year at the Tucson stop. When Alex was five Ryver became pregnant with another child by James. She named him Casper and also kept him a secret from James. Ryver had always told Alex that his father was a truck driver and was always on the road so that it was unlikely he would ever see him. She didn't want her boys to miss their father and she didn't want to give heed to the desire within her that told her to settle down and have a family life with James. She could never fully be happy if she gave up the carnival life and there was no real place in such a life for James. When Casper was old enough to understand such things she told the boys that she'd received news of their trucker-father's death on the highway. Alex and Casper never did meet their father nor did they discover his true identity. James lived out his life with no idea that he was a father and died in the first wave of the Ans virus. ~*~ Alex took to the carnival life like a fish to water. In between being home-schooled by Matilda, the tarot card reader, he learned everything he possibly could. He was especially interested in the work that Flame, his mother and the other fire dancers did. The idea of being a master over an element with a mind of its own was always seductive to him. As soon as his mother would let him near fire he learned everything he could. He even convinced the others to let him start his own fire-works display. It was Flame that gave him the name Blaze and much to his mother's chagrin, Alex was quickly discarded. Blaze never had a reason to doubt what his mother said about his father. There were times when his lack of a father bothered him a great deal, but most of the kids in the carnival didn't have a father, or even a mother so he never truly felt out of place. He found a special bond in Thom, the tattooed man from the freak show. Thom was younger than Ryver but always chasing after her. Blaze and him ended up spending a lot of time together and when Blaze was younger he would be bitter towards his mother for not accepting Thom. Casper's birth was of little consequence to Blaze. Of course he loved his brother and truth be told they weren't that distant in age but while Blaze threw himself into every aspect of carnival life Casper seemed to long for other things and Blaze could never understand that. Casper was also a much wilder child. He took risks that Blaze, even in all his dangerous glory, would never had taken. He rushed into things haphazardly and earned himself the name of Hazard from Thom. The carnival stopped in Sundance, Wyoming towards the beginning of the Ans virus explosion. The town was not one of the planned stops but a few of the members had fallen ill. Unaware of the gravity of the situation the carnival got a permit and set up outside the town. One of the people that fell ill was Blaze and Hazard's mom. She was taken to the already crowded South Side Hospital. Blaze and Hazard stayed at her side throughout all of the chaos, the desertion and death of the hospital staff and the looting. Eventually the other members of the carnival stopped visiting and Blaze feared the worst. After three weeks in the hospital his mother finally passed away. Blaze and Hazard buried their mother in an open field near the south side of town. Sometime in the whole hospital ordeal Blaze met Sensei just as he was starting to organize those that were left behind in the hospital. Blaze had no interest in joining a rag tag group of kids so he drug his brother back to the carnival with him. Everyone they'd grown up with was dead, save for the kids who'd apparently ran away. Blaze found Thom first and buried him himself. That night he sat outside the trailer they'd shared with their mother and cried till he passed out. For the next few days Blaze and Hazard buried as many of their friends as they could but there came a point of hunger and exhaustion where they could no longer do it. Blaze spent another week simply laying in bed, ignoring the pleas and activities of his younger brother. It was the weeping of his younger brother that finally brought him back to himself. He knew he had to pull it together and at least find food and shelter for them both. What was left of the un-looted carnival food wasn't exactly appetizing unless one enjoyed cans of nacho cheese for breakfast, lunch and dinner. That was when he made up his mind to return to the hospital and see what Sensei was up to. From that day forward he and his brother were Carrion. He has always detested the secretive, spit upon status of the Carrion and that has caused problems between Sensei and himself. Whereas Sensei revels in the secrecy of the tribe Blaze finds it almost unbearable and doesn't see why the Carrion can't claim their rightful place among the tribes. Birth Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Blood Family: Mother: Ryver Blanc Duboir (deceased -- Ans Virus) Father: James Alexander Towne (deceased -- Ans Virus) Younger Brother: Casper Duboir ( ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} verilydarkflash)What tribe do they belong to if any?: The Carrion How long have they been with that tribe?: Since the beginning Personal Strengths: Blaze has a strong will that often gets him in to trouble but also gives him a firm sense of perseverance. He always finishes what he's started. Has a grand sense of humor. Charismatic. Hard worker. Personal Weaknesses: Has a hard time standing back and letting others do their thing, Likes control. Stubborn. Thinks he's right most of the time, while everyone else is most definitely wrong. Personal Skills and Training: pyrotechnics, fire performance, dance, trapeze/contortion arts. He can start a fire from next to nothing. Juggling, and superb balance. He's also a pretty good fighter in hand to hand combat though he's never had any formal training just lots of practice in fist fights. ;) Job that they have in the tribe or whatever they do to keep themselves alive if they’re alone: Scavenger PB: Aaron Johnson Plot ties Plot tie 1: Rivalry between Sensei and him which perhaps leads to a secret alliance between Blaze and the Mountain Lions , which of course is really the Mountain Lions using him. Plot tie 2: Lover Plot tie 3: Someone who was in the circus with him. Your Information Characters Insanejournal Name: alexblaze Your Name (Real or Internet): Sara Your Email porcelainxtears@hotmail.com Your Messengers(AIM, Yahoo or MSN): AIM: rubycolideoscope Link to color photo of PB for the Character page: | |||||||||
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| Member of: | 2: devils_tower, devils_towerooc | |||||||||
| Account type: | Free Patient | |||||||||
