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NAME: Styx or Killian
CONTACT: Discord
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Timezone- CST. Pace is variable due to a residency schedule. I can either knock out a 50 page gdoc in a couple days at best, or may take a month to reply at worst. Typically with good momentum, a delay of 1-2 days is average.
OOC OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Sudden change in IC commitments without prior discussion, as in creation of a relationship and then abandoning it abruptly without clear reason or OOC agreement. Notably I love tormenting my own character ICly, and have no problem with organic flow including cessation of relationships/friendships/etc. It's just the discussion (even if very brief "I want to do x instead!") that's key.

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BACKTAGGING: Character-development-dependent. If my character has gone through a lot of change between that log and current, I can lose momentum for a prior scene, though always do try to complete them. Just poke me a little bit. Also open to discussing an ending and/or handwaving the remainder of the log.
THREADHOPPING: Always welcome to cameos and interjections
BRACKETS/PROSE: Prose. I have admittedly never done brackets, so if you're interested in playing with me but anti-prose, I'll give it a go.
EXPLICIT SEX: If the story builds towards it, yes. I'm not interested in one-shot smut or sexy-time that has no application to character/relationship-building.
EXPLICIT GORE/VIOLENCE: Yes when applicable to the story.
NOT INTERESTED IN: I can have difficulty with minor 'slice of life' scenes without some sort of direction or hook.

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Me- yes. Him- if it's anything more than superficial flirting and sexual relations, his history makes him less keen to indulge it.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yes
ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: I'm always open to romantic plot lines, though using this particular AU for this character may make it more challenging to establish one ICly.
SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS: Yes
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: Unlikely. He's rather averse to the concept.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Immediately, his presence gives off a dark power, a sort of 'wrongness' that oozes or seethes. If you can feel magic, it's hard to miss him. Seeing into his mind is to see swirling, inky blackness. His thoughts are not so much warded as lost in a conglomerate of other voices and thoughts, some humanoid and others beastial, as if the entire legacy of Darkness is mixed into this vortex of power. If it notices a viewing invasion, a snarling, hissing presence may lash out.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: The Dark One - The Source of Darkness, and current ruler of Hell. Dark power and shadow magic - moderately and potentially permanently on the fritz. [Link]
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Early thirties roguish man of apparently fine health, except the hook he has for a left hand. Immortal, but can be significantly hurt by the rest of the dagger.
IC OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: He can become unreasonably protective and thusly violent over the things he cares about. Fortunately, relationships have appeared to fail him over the last several centuries. ICly, he does find it enjoyable to say things to cause a rise in others, good or bad. OOCly, I'm always mindful of the sort of character he is- brooding, dark, sarcastic, recently arrived from Hell. So if certain gore-adjacent or dark subjects aren't your thing, I'm very easy and open to adjusting the scene appropriately.
WARNINGS APPLICABLE TO BACKSTORY: Mutilation, sea crimes, mutiny, child abandonment, grief/brooding, death, violence and references to torture

code originally by kimmiserate

Villains don't get happy endings.

BASIC INFO NAME: Killian Jones A.K.A.: Hook Dark One Devil CANON: OUAT ORIGIN: Hell AGE: Appears early thirties. Actually many centuries old. GENDER: Male SPECIES: Darkness FIRST GLANCE HEIGHT: 6'0" BUILD: Roguish HAIR: Black EYES: Seablue -Irisis may glow hellfire blue -Sclera may blacken DRESS: Black leather SCENT: Rum, leather and sea VOICE: Colin O'Donoghue DEMEANOR: -Chaotic Neutral -Overly Confident -Dryly Sarcastic -Often Amused -Dangerous PERMISSIONS Permissions Post

Killian Jones The Dark One AU HISTORY It all went wrong when he hesitated. He listened to Nimue threaten Emma Swan, and felt a nauseating surge of feelings. Of all the disgusting things he'd told her over the past several months through his broken, unhinged, vengeful actions, there was enough of him left that he couldn't take someone else causing her harm. He turned on the collected Darkness, using his own power to pull It back into Excalibur. It shook, tremoring in its hatred, ringing in piercing hallowed voices, emanating a pulsating red that threatened to explode free again at any moment. He'd given it to Emma- she could hear them too. She could feel it too. And she knew what must happen. He thought he'd heard her say she loved him, but he couldn't say it back. The Dark in him was far more dominant, and it was taking every bit of human that remained in him to let go of that sword. To give up power. To let someone control him once again. She ran him through with that blade. He saw the Dark leave her, her light bursting in its warmth from every inch of her skin as it came to life again, unhindered. Yet, instead of the anticipated brief glimpse of relief, of freedom before he died, he became acutely aware of something much worse. The end of the blade cracked, falling to the ground behind him. The hilt remained flesh with his stomach- he tried to take it out- but she was hugging him. She was sobbing, clinging to him as he sagged and gasped in breaths that didn't become words. When she finally let him crumble the rest of the way to the ground, the hilt alone fell free, as if the blade had vanished. But it hadn't. That fragment of corrugated blade inside of him, intertwined with the threads of his soul, was louder than ever, the Darkness pouring out of its shattered ends, both emboldened by its absent restraints and stifled by the blade's physical presence. Like a key, broken inside its own lock. Complete but dysfunctional. Powerful but unpredictable. When he regained consciousness, Hades loomed over him, his hook swinging back and forth balanced on the God's finger. For ages uncounted, he endured the torture of the underworld. Swan failed to find a way into the underworld- or never tried, he couldn't be sure. He had long-since given up on a rescue. This was the ending a villain deserved, and he was resigned to it. That was until something jostled the Darkness, awaking it from the slumber his death had repressed it into. The underworld itself shuddered in the aftermath of the revival of Its power. The wounds of his torture healed themselves, and he clashed against Hades in an attempt to escape his realm. The god was destroyed in the violent display of power that ensued, leaving Killian saddled with yet another title he'd had no inclination to wear. Ever since the battle with Hades, the Darkness was a somewhat fickle thing, as if the blade fragment inside of him had shifted, sometimes a chain on his wrists, and others a driving force of madness. He heard It, always- the hissing, growling, biting manifestation that clawed at the inside of his mind. Yet, the limitless Darkness came through an intermittent sieve. Where he could flatten a landscape at will in an instant, sometimes he could do no more than move an object a few feet or shift shadows. Centuries more would pass as he remained imprisoned in Hell, reigning over it as its new lord, sailing the expanse of the Stygian River on his risen ship as his own eternal sea. Forever Damned, it would seem, until that day a mysterious door appeared. POWERS Strengths The Darkness is a limitless power, and even in its current state, it is a seemingly bottomless pit of terrible energy. It, combined with his time in the Underworld, has granted him a wide breadth of Dark and Shadow magic: -Immortal -Immune to most sources of physical injury -Not affected by temperature -Does not need to sleep, but able to -Can see souls, or cores of magic, in the living after spending so much time among the dead. -Dark magic: teleportation, telekinetic-like abilities, incredible speed and strength, manipulation of objects, summoning, dark spells -Shadow magic: summoning and manipulation of shadows and darkness -Shadowdemons Limitations -He can still be controlled or severely injured by the remaining part of Excalibur’s blade that was left in Storybrooke if someone is able to find it, but can no longer be destroyed or freed by it. -The fragment of the blade within him has caused his powers to be intermittently stifled or interrupted. One minute he might be able to teleport across a realm, the next he can’t even draft a shadow. -When present, he is drawn like an addict towards light magic. It is a love/hate relationship, where he both can't stand to be near it, and wants to get intimately close enough to destroy it entirely. -As is always true for him, he is frequently swayed by his many vices. Storylines #Fairytales Story or alternate-story associations. #Dagger A new user of the dagger. #BringtheLight Light magic users are fondly targeted.

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