literature

CH App: Cael

Deviation Actions

Published: Dec 30, 2012

1.7K Views

Literature Text

_{A )
Cael's naturally messy black hair is asymmetrical. It's parted to the right, and the side that's on the right falls to his shoulders, while the opposing side only goes a smidge past his chin. Strangely, there is one strand of crimson red hair that is parted to the right; no matter what - Cael cannot seem to color it, for it stays the same red tint. Both ears are pierced and normally filled with simple silver or black studs. His eyes are a very light violet hue that normally looks silver to those who aren't paying attention. Most don't even notice the purple hint in his iris. Cael has tattooed tally marks on the inside of his left wrist; a tally of people that he killed. He towers over most at 6'3" and is on the rather lean side of things, weighing a mere 136 lbs. Due to his extremely thin self, Cael's body appears to be deprived of nutrients, thus, he is ghastly pale, strikingly close to the color of white paper.

B )
Outsiders... ( /grins ) They always seem to come & go and are pretty interesting, no? Funny little creatures. Talking to them is always entertaining! I especially love seeing their horrified facial expressions when I tell them the story of /how/ I killed my little sister in great detail. Watching them squirm just amuses me so. ( /smirks ) Silly things, I don't even have a sister! ( /runs his hand through his hair ) What were we talking about? I'm bored already.

C )
"We're moving him tomorrow, right? To the prison?"

"Yeah, that's what Boss said. Doesn't seem like he'll put up much of a fight. After all, he's so fragile looking and pale."

"Right? I could snap those twig-like arms in an instant!"

Cael rolled his eyes at their comments. Luckily, he had thought up a plan for this troublesome situation. His brother, who was well on his way to becoming a knight, had scheduled a visit before Cael was to be transferred to the prison. Of course, Cael had already calculated such a move from his darling older brother, and that was just step one.

"Oi! Skinny boy, your visitor is here!"

His devilish smirk widened as he heard the familiar footsteps of his brother, Damien. As the shadows approached, Cael's smirk vanished quickly as he walked towards the bars and clasped the metal bars tightly.

"Cael...."

"Damien... you must believe me," he stated hurriedly. The young boy desperately looked at his older brother as his eyes welled up with tears, "I-I really didn't do it! Damien... p-please, y-you must get me out. I-I-I'm scared! T-They didn't even find a clockheart on me! I-I-I'm scared..."

Damien reached out, wrapping his hand around Cael's, as the younger let out soft whimpers of fear.

"I know you're scared, I'll find the bastard who did this and make sure they’re punished--"

"You have one minute left!"

"--Cael, I promise I'll get you out."

Cael quivered slightly, "P-Please help me.. I don't want to go... "

"I'll make sure of it - I swear on my life. I have to go, but don't worry - okay?"

As Damien was about to leave, Cael desperately grabbed his older brother's hand, "S-Sorry...” His older brother stopped in his step and sighed, turning towards Cael.

"It's going to be okay, I promise," Damien said sincerely as he slipped his long, thin arms between the bars and wrapped them around his younger brother. Cael was all too eager to return the hug, slipping a small object into his brother’s pocket with ease. Damien left with the seer, and Cael's teary face was replaced with a grin, "It'll definitely be okay. After all, you're the one getting me out."

Making use of the time he had while the seer escorted his brother away, Cael walked towards the bed and kicked it as hard as he could, repeating the action with various parts of his body. Unlike most people, Cael's pain threshold had to be ungodly high, and he seemed to have no comprehension of the pain until much later, a trait that came in handy all too often. Cael grinned at the sight of bruises. The seer in charge of his cell returned and frowned slightly at Cael, "Were you stupid enough to fall on your face or something? What's that purple bruise from?"

“W-Why? Why did you have to let him in? Y-You could have just killed me instead..”

The seer raised an eyebrow, “What the hell?”

“It doesn’t matter anymore... He’ll come back and kill me... I’m next... ”

“Yah, what are you going on about?”

“H-H-He’s the true k-killer... I saw him... I was only there by accident, and h-he killed the little girl... b-broke her clock.”

“Lying isn’t going to change anything - you’re going to prison, don’t try to lie your way out!”

“I-I’m serious! He left the scene once he saw me! T-That’s why he visited, to gloat that he got away once more scotch-free...”

Cael trembled as he slid to the ground against the wall and continued, gingerly touching his bruises and wincing, “H-He keeps their clockhearts as a 'souvenir' before burying them... S-Said he likes it - the look on their faces.... P-Please, I-I beg of you.. s-stop that dangerous monster... He knows ways to hurt one without even eliciting a yell... s-stop him, please. He still has the clockheart somewhere - s-s-stop him before it’s too late!”

- Time Skip -

“Let him out. He was right - this scumbag... he’s been hiding the little girl's clockheart in his jacket pocket the whole time...”

“CAEL! YOU SICK BASTARD!”

The echo of Damien’s yells bounced off the cells as Cael was led away to his freedom. Looking back once at his cursing brother, the edge of Cael’s lips curved upwards in a sick smirk as he murmured under his breath, “Thanks for keeping your promise.”

word count : 997}

_{app for clockhearts
first time joining an rp group on dA... ;;;
i hope i'm accepted orz but even if i'm not - s'ok, i'll stay a watcher = u=
when my art skills improve, then i'll draw a reference of cael = u=;;
_{good luck to everybody applying! and mods - if i'm not supposed to disgrace this app with my
stupid comments, please let me know ; U; i feel like i'm screwing things up already orz orz orz}

edit [ o1/11/13 ] thank you so so so so much for accepting me~ ; U; i feel so unworthy when i see all the pretty art apps
anyways, i'll rp via notes, comments, or skype. comments might get lost, so it might take a bit longer for a reply.
and i'm a mirror rp-er, so i'll give you what you give me. if you want a lit rp, semi-lit, or whatever - i'll give it to ya c;
_{note: i prefer not rp-ing oneliners, sorry!}

edit [ o2/o4/13 ] mah bootiful waifu ( the one and only fabulous kou~ ) drew a pic that includes my bby cael~<3 fav.me/d5trjbi

edit [ o6/13/13 ] in the process of updating attire section for spade reign ouo;; male steampunk is actually ridiculously difficult - ooh, finished!}

_{edit [ 11/24/13 ] finished my joker reign update = v=b}

_{Name
Cael Percival Devereux, likes to go by Damien for some reason but it's not his name

Self-Proclaimed Nickname
King

Gender
Male

Age
18

Height
6'3"

Weight
136 lbs ( Quite a skinny boy. He's rather pale too - maybe he's unhealthy? Oh well, it's not like he can "die" because of his severe lack of nutrients... )

Faction
Spade

Role
The Smooth-Talking Troublemaker

Attire
Cael has a more androgynous clothing style, uncaring of whether the clothing belongs to a specific gender role or whatnot, but his usual attire consists of a black and purple color scheme. He wears a long sleeve silky black button up that fits up to the middle of his neck. Over the shirt, Cael compliments the black with a dark purple shaded, button up vest with a few black lace adornments. In the back, the vest curves down in a V-shape, and has a medium sized black, laced see-through spade on the top. He wears shorts that fall right above his knees in the same shade of purple as his vest. Cael likes to pair this outfit with a black ribbon that he ties around his neck, as if it were a choker, and black knee high socks - similar to that of a schoolgirl's. He wears a pair of purple lace up boots that have a black elastic strand around them to keep his pistols in place.

Never truly conforming to one gender role for clothing, Cael is typically seen wandering Wonderland with a brown jacket that is long in the back and stops just above his stomach in the front. The sleeves for the jacket are a bit longer than necessary and have frills and lace under the sleeve opening. Underneath the jacket, Cael reveals that he's wearing a light gray long sleeved, button up with a dark purple vest over it. His signature black ribbon is still tied around his neck. He's also donning a pair of girly dim gray pinstriped shorts. Over the shorts are a pair of brown crisscrossed leather belts, one of which has a pouch attached to it. He wears thigh high socks that are vertically striped black and brown with one horizontal brown stripe on the top of the socks. There is a small gap between his socks and his short shorts that reveals his pale thighs. His knee high lace up boots are purple with the shoe's tongue being a lighter shade of purple than the actual boots. Cael wears a pair of gears as earrings.}

_{Cael's modern attire consists of a rather simplistic look. Refusing to follow the trends of buttoning his shirts up, Cael's white collared shirt is often left unbutton to about mid-chest level. He dons a pair of grey pinstriped slacks and neatly tucks in his shirt, topping the combo off with two thin studded black belt that overlap one another. A simple pair of black loafers almost completes the look, but he's never seen without his black collared jacket that has two pockets on the front and two hidden pockets inside the front. He typically parts his hair half up and half down, keeping it nicely fixed with a small ponytail, but occasionally, Cael will bunch it all up into a ponytail instead. Simple, chic, and business casual is the way to go. His earrings - if not a pair of black studs - are a small pair of blue spades.

Magic/Ability/Talent
- charming people
- lying
- quick reflexes
- close combat ( but not weapons because that would end poorly )
- attention span of a goldfish
- fluent in sarcasm
- manipulating others for his own use

Cael can be considered quite the charmer. Depending on what he needs you for, he can twist his way of speaking. He's a smooth talker, but usually, 99.7% of what he says is false. An expert at lying, Cael can convince people rather easily. He has a strange tendency to demand entertainment or amusement from others. Unfortunately for most, his attention span is trivial at best, so even if you've caught his interest - Cael's boredom is not easily satiated. Once bored, his crueler side can seep through. This consists usually of snarky remarks - he'll have a comeback for everything. The male's boredom tends to end with ignoring the person, but if you've caught him in a bitter mood, you might need to get your clock fixed - that is if you were lucky enough to save a salvageable clock. His sarcasm is evident and tends to coat his speech when he's gotten bored, and he doesn't talk to people to create long-lasting friendships, but rather... business contracts, in a sense. Cael considers everything a contract, but once he's bored - he has no more use for whatever is in question and will not hesitate to throw it away.

Weapon
A pair of Bergmann 1896 semi-automatic pistols painted a sleek black instead of the traditional silver. It's just a shame that they're mainly for show - seeing how Cael tends to abuse them with his awful aim. He's terrible with guns - just in some major denial. Because of this, his main 'weapon' is usually his fists. The pistols just help out when he conks somebody's head with them. Not like he's shooting at the person though because that would be dangerous and probably end very badly for everybody in a 1 mile radius. Cael likes to spin his pistols around his index fingers and usually keeps them tucked on the side of his boots for some reason, so whenever grabbing them - Cael likes to put on a flashy show of 'grab, roll, then shoot'.

Likes
♤ cats is secretly raising a feline militia in his home
♤ spinny chairs
♤ guns
♤ doing what he wants
♤ flashy entrances
♤ naive people - the more gullible, the better!
♤ adrenaline highs
♤ games
♤ challenges

Dislikes
♠ hot foods
♠ wearing glasses
♠ overly sweet things
♠ being bored
♠ rabbits
♠ his family
♠ losing
♠ the name 'Percival'
♠ being outsmarted

Personality
_{APATHETIC | MANIPULATIVE | CALCULATING | SLIGHTLY EGOTISTIC | PICKY}

Cael is a compulsive liar who feels absolutely nothing for others. He does like seeing people squirm, evidence of a slightly sadistic streak of his. Everything should be a game in his mind - for games are fun and entertaining. People are only good for one thing in his mind - to be manipulated. He's very calculating, and despite his ability to easily turn into a charmer, he can also be the complete opposite. Uncaring towards people past his own affairs, Cael enjoys having 'fun' in whatever means possible. That includes, but is not limited to doing risky things to get his adrenaline pumping, playing cruel mind games, and having his slightly psychotic sadistic side creep from behind the shadows. Around Cael, one must be cautious as one can easily fall prey to his charm. Nobody really knows his sexuality because he likes to target both women and men when flirting. Trusting only himself, Cael knows just what people like to hear. His words sugarcoat the devious intent that lies beneath. Cael has some instances where he likes to stroke his own ego as well, but his egotistic side isn't too prominent.. yet. He's a very picky eater, and when something doesn't go the way Cael likes it - bad things happen.

History
Cael was born as into the Hearts faction as the second and last son to an esteemed Knight and his wife. He was often ignored as a child and replaced by his older brother, so Cael was usually free to do whatever he wished - which usually included wandering and finding things to lure him out of his boredom. Due to this, Cael grew up in a rather carefree environment, doing whatever he pleased - whenever he pleased. After all, the kingdom wasn't too strict - one just had to make sure not to break any clockhearts. In order to satiate his boredom, Cael liked causing trouble. He would play pranks of all kinds, and he founds it to be rather amusing. One day, the 14 year old Cael killed a young girl, probably around 9 or so, after losing to her in a game of hopscotch. The reason? Cael says it was out of sheer boredom. After all, the one main rule that the kingdom had was to not destroy clockhearts - he just wanted to know exactly what would happen if he did. He was dragged off to be questioned, a process that most did not have the luxury of, because he didn't actually have the clockheart on him when they found the young boy. It was a servant eyewitness from the towers who accused him. Normally, most wouldn't think much of it - especially without evidence, but the servant swore on her life that Cael was the one who killed the young girl. With that, he was dragged off to a local jail to stay for two nights before being transferred to the prison. Cael's family was outraged - his father was a Knight, and this was sure to taint his reputation.

With that, Cael was disowned from the family the second the news reached the Devereux household, but his naive older brother, Damien, refused to see Cael being hauled off to prison at 14. He swore his life to finding the true culprit - whoever it was with the real clockheart of the younger girl - and that was the first mistake. Unfortunately for Damien, he somehow ended up in Cael's place in prison, blamed for murder & stripped of his Knight title. Damien was foolish and rash, refusing to die in a prison - he ended up convincing a fellow convict to kill him off when they were going to be transported to the prison - after all, another death wouldn't do anything if they were headed to the same place. With that, the servant who testified was executed as well for lying - after all, the servant had sworn on her life. Cael has thought long and hard and reflected upon his actions towards his older brother, and when asked to comment why, he merely shrugs and smiles, "It was fun."

Since Cael then became a free man, he roamed the faction of Hearts without a connection to his parents, and he would sometimes kill others off for fun, swiftly evading arrest - the more risks involved in destroying the clockhearts, the better. After all, those risks were what got Cael's adrenaline pumping. After a while, he left the faction on his own accord and wandered into the Diamond faction when he was 15. For a while, Cael was an obedient citizen, and the only time he killed others was when he saw that person doing wrong - so in a way, Cael was divine retribution, but one day - he got bored of playing the masked hero. Cael went on a random killing spree, and he was skillful enough to never get caught. One day, Cael killed off an innocent civilian, allowing himself to be caught this time. Cael was curious - very curious - about the Spades Faction, and he knew one easy way he could get in would be to destroy a clockheart, and so he did. The male's wishes were granted, and he was thrown out of the Diamond Faction. Ever since then, Cael's been wandering the Spades region, finding much amusement in the people there. Of course, it's only a matter of time before he's bored once more...

Additional info ( mainly for tokki's reference purposes )
_{- for cael's hair, think of yamato kurosawa from say i love you type hair
- for his attire, think of i1228.photobucket.com/albums/e… but replace grey with dark purple-y color = u= oh, and minus the hat - he's too 'manly' for a pom pom hat ( /shot )
- the little 9 year old cael killed is emmeline hansen, clovis' little sister

clockhearts (c)
crazy bastard cael (c)
clovis + emmeline hanson (c)
_{_{& thank you so much waifu for reading it over so many times and pointing out mistakes = u=}}}}