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Name: Daedalus
Age: 38
Birthday: June 13th
Gender: Male
Height: 5’9” / 175cm
Weight: 157 lbs / 71.2kg
Species: Extremophile-Human
Also known as Exo-Humans and most commonly X-Humans, these are the ones who were spliced with extremophile DNA. They're easy to locate because of their unique characteristics of extremely pale, almost translucent skin; white hair with a green, blue or yellow hint; black sclera, white pupils; and pastel blue, green, yellow or grey irises.
Because of the extremophile DNA they are able to withstand extreme environments from cold, heat, sunless etc without added protection. They are also more resilient that a normal human, having strength abilities of 2-2.5 times, able to survive of less food, faster response and movement times, and 1.5-2 times the hearing ability.
Their added abilities come with the price of a sever allergy to sunlight. Exposure to direct sunlight on their skin will cause it to burn and blister severely within minutes and their eyesight is extremely poor without shade to protect them. Therefore most X-Humans tend to be nocturnal since the night environment is tolerable, and those who do go out in the sun make sure to cover up completely.


World: Reccoles (wrek-kohl-ehs) -Post Apocalyptic-
After the world began to decline the population wasn’t able to figure out how to stop it and could only try to make sure at least some of them would survive. There was a lot of cross species genetics, cryogenics, and construct of large domed cities. The most devastating event that ended up causing most of the world to fall into ruin was the blackening of the entire sky, blocking the sun completely for 20,000 years. Those who lived were either the genetically altered humans in cryo, or the ones crossed with extremophiles (X-Humans) who were able to survive in the blackened environment.
Present Day: Most of the land is barren and covered with violent monsters that won’t hesitate to eat you. The humans still alive are sparse and form small groups that live in ruins, fending off the monsters and surviving how they can. After the connection to the Core and other worlds the situation has started to improve greatly, though it’s only just begun and much of the world is still only dry dirt.

Story: 
As a teenager Daedalus had a bad habit of wandering off from the family group he grew up with, exploring the ruins of the old world and getting into his fair share of fights with monsters. Eventually old technology was able to clear the skies and return the sunlight again, by doing so the X-Humans were forced into a life of enshroudment and hiding in the shadows. While many X-Humans became bitter and wished for the blackened skies again, Daedalus never blamed anyone for the new limitations in his life and supported the organizations focused on trying to restore the world’s resources to the abundancy they once had. Becoming a bit of a wanderer between factions he eventually started helping those who had been stuck in cryo, most of the time just wordlessly protecting them or fixing their mistakes while they bitched and bickered about the ‘new world’. Eventually he met Seint, a rare case where the cryo had wiped her memories, and married her after a year of helping each other out.
Having learned to be extremely quiet in order to sneak around in the darkness of his world without alerting the monsters, Daedalus has become a very easily overlooked man and often times he ends up accidentally scaring people. His low key personality combined with his tendency to travel in the shadows gives him a false air of danger and mischief, especially when people glimpse the number of weapons he carries or the almost radioactive tinge to his pale coloration. His son, Cael, is the only one of his kids who inherited his X-Human traits, but he does his best to play with his girls outside when they want to.

Personality:
+Calm/Quiet: There isn’t a lot that can startle or emotionally destabilize him and his quiet demeanor makes him a prime candidate for people to lean on when they’re troubled. If they can get passed his scary appearance.
+Protector: Like Seint he is naturally more oriented towards defending others, which made it easy for him to adopt a guard type position while he was on Reccoles as well as for the Healers.
+Loving Daddy/Husband: He has a soft spot for kids. Especially his own kids. The unfortunate thing is that his appearance usually ends up scaring other kids first, so he tends to avoid them and therefore this trait doesn’t show often. It also extends to Seint as well. She gets rather spoiled by him.

-Lurker: He tends to stick to the shadows and usually moves quietly enough that he startles people a lot and it kinda creeps people out to have him just standing there and listening.
-Rough: Sometimes he’s not very good at sugar coating things and can also be a bit extreme depending on your personal beliefs. He’s not above chopping a thief’s finger off if they try to steal from him or those he’s protecting.
-Cold to Outsiders: He grew up in a place that relied on close knit ‘families’ that had to trust each other fully to survive and people outside of these groups were not to be trusted. Therefore he can have a very icy and abrasive demeanor to those who are not part of what he considers to be his family group and also to those who cause trouble for others.

Abilities/weapon:
Sword Knife:
His main weapon is a knife that’s a tiny bit longer than his thigh. He takes this everywhere with him and uses is for combat as well as for domestic matters, so it’s always sharp. There’s nothing special about it though, it’s just a plain reinforced steel blade.

Assorted smaller knives:
This guy is almost a walking knife department. From throwing knives, pocket knives, switchblades and even spring knives in his boots he has and knows how to use all of them.

Martial Arts/Acrobatics:
Like Seint, Dae knows a mish mash of residual martial arts from his world’s past. His techniques are more oriented towards agility than Seint’s though, so he doesn’t have as hard of a punch as her.

Resistance to Extreme Environments:
Because of the extremophile DNA he’s able to withstand extreme situations, from subzero temperatures to volcanic draft heat. This doesn’t protect him from being damaged by fire/lava or ice though so getting hit by such would do about as expected.

Slightly Advanced Senses and Strength:
He has about twice the strength of a normal human his size and has better hearing and response time/movement speed.

Extras:
:bulletwhite: Like all X-Humans, Daedalus has an extreme allergy to sunlight. Any uncovered skin will blister in minutes and he’s practically blind in direct sun unless his eyes are shaded. Because of this he keeps completely covered when out, and his sleep schedule is shifted so he’s asleep from dawn till after noon. He’s not completely nocturnal because then he wouldn’t be able to interact with his family much.
:bulletwhite: All of Daedalus’ clothes are from his homeworld, Reccoles. Dyes and fibers other than black and greys are fairly uncommon and therefore worth more. This added to his growing up needing to value stealth has made it so he doesn’t mind wearing all black all the time.
:bulletwhite: He does have spring knives in his boots, so best not to kick the back of his heels if you don’t want them popping out.
:bulletwhite: He's used to having to just up and move on a moments notice so that means carrying practically everything he needs with him at all times.
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Youkai-Meimi's avatar
Sient you are one lucky woman >w< :heart: