Eris Minas

Eris Minas

 

 NICKNAME N/A

 AGE Nineteen
 BIRTHDAY October 18th

 SPECIES Gifted Human
 ETHNICITY Caucasian

 GENDER Male
 SEXUALITY Heterosexual

 DORM Serpens

 POWER The most basic way to describe Eris's power is that he is a mind puppeteer. Essentially the only bit of power that Eris has himself is magic interlaced with his thoughts and body. The true source of his power comes from his ring that is permanently stuck to him for the rest of his life. This ring has five souls locked (and or bound) to it almost centuries ago. Through the magic interlaced in Eris's being, he is capable of drawing these souls out of the ring and channeling them into dolls fit specifically for their souls (meaning if the doll itself were destroyed the soul would have nothing to go into). After the souls are in the dolls, from there the power comes from the souls themselves. The five different souls have the ability to control different elements while in the dolls (each soul only having control over one element). The elements that these dolls can control include earth, water, fire, light and darkness (and or shadows).

While this power may seem overwhelming in itself, it is good to remember that Eris himself cannot control any elements - he is only capable of controlling the dolls movements. The souls themselves decide whether or not to use their elemental powers and the use of these powers heavily depend upon the personalities of these souls. The souls are even capable of going back into the ring if they so decide and sometimes it is very difficult for Eris to force them back out. While his power is that of being a puppeteer, Eris is still young and the souls that are bound to him have wills of their own and have had experience with several puppeteers before Eris.

Eris's ability to be successful heavily relies on his interaction with these souls and how the souls feel toward him. Personality plays a huge part in his power, which I will later explain the personality of each soul/doll in the personality section. Since the souls are stuck in the ring he wears, through an unexplained form of magic the souls are capable of talking too Eris in his mind whenever they are not in the dolls.

I might have not mentioned this before, but even if Eris were to attempt to cut his hand or arm off the ring would interfere with this - refusing to be separated from Eris's body. For this reasoning, if anything were to come in contact with Eris that might sever his connection with the ring a protective barrier would appear for a brief moment.

Shown in the picture below is the ring that holds all of the souls that Eris is constantly wearing. In this picture the ring appears pristine and cleanly, in actuality the ring is now scratched up quite a bit and worn out and just a bit dirty every now and then.

 APPEARANCE Eris stands around the height of 5"10 and has a pretty average build for a guy. He does not work out, but instead stays inside a lot. For this his skin tone is pale a majority of the time. As for his hair, it is dark brown and almost always cut short. His eyes are a similar color to his hair, being a dark shade of brown - unless when he is in a lot of light which in that case they occasionally appear to be amber colored. Eris shaves his face as often as he can, but usually the young man has a subtle shading of dark hairs around his jawline.

Due to having a ring forever stuck on his finger, Eris is a surprisingly clean person. He's not necessarily scared of germs, but instead his right hand has ached before when he has not cleaned his hands sufficiently enough. The ring itself is stuck on his right pointer finger and even if Eris were to not clean his hands or try to cut his right hand off the ring would make it impossible to do so. In terms of the rest of his body, Eris has the occasional permanent scar on his body here and there. No scar is more obvious than the next and Eris does not do too much to cover these scars. A majority of them though are around his torso and leg area.

Eris is an attractive guy and he has a very mellow expression on his face a majority of the time. The young man typically likes to wear casual clothing, not very favorable toward anything too fancy or eye-catching.

 PERSONALITY Eris is a very mellow, laid back type of person. He cool, calm and collected and sometimes just a bit suave (with a touch of gentleman manners). In fact, he's so calm to the the point that it's almost problematic. Eris does not express extreme emotions, not because of a psychological issue but because it is how his personality naturally is. He could be considered almost robotic. He can be kind and compassionate, but Eris will typically not go out of his way to help people.

    The only possible way that someone could get a pop from his emotions is if someone were to hit him. Eris suffers from past traumatic experiences, so if someone were to aim a punch at him or anything with intention to hurt him - Eris will lose his temper and go berserk at whoever the person is. On the other hand, if someone were to playfully hit him Eris has learned how to tell the difference and instead the young man just flinches at any sort of of light playful hit. Something else to note about Eris is that the young man typically has a release of emotions when he gets sick. Only when he is ill with things such as the flu, or a cold (which affects him much more than the everyday average person) is when he becomes an extremely expressive person. Luckily, it is very hard to Eris to get sick - it's only when he does that he feels it tenfold.

    Eris is a very logical guy, and does not do anything without a reason. He also has a tendency to constantly examine the consequences of something that he might do to the point where most things are considered not worth it to do for him due to the consequences, because of this Eris has no experienced the sillier things in life. Which is most likely the reason as to why Eris has such a robotic personality today. Eris is very attentive to anything academic related and tends to excel in his classes and with studying.

    The names these souls had while they were living were forgotten to them, so they were named by a puppeteer who had the souls before Eris. I will now move onto the personalities of each of the souls and what their dolls look like (WARNING: I do use anime pictures for what Eris's dolls look like, I might change this at some point though).

Gaia: Gaia is the soul that controls the element earth, most likely one of the oldest souls in Eris's ring. Gaia is a skillful fighter and most of the time is the soul that is capable of calming Eris down when he is provoked into anger. Gaia doesn't remember anything about who she was as a person, but every now and then she will have flashbacks when she is feeling something strong. In her flashbacks, it is suggested that she was some sort of criminal in the 1500's. Usually it doesn't matter to Gaia, since she has accepted along with the other souls that they are forever stuck with their puppeteers. Gaia is typically willing to help Eris in a fight if it agrees with her own reasoning, if she thinks that it is unreasonable the soul will refuse to help Eris and leave him on his own.

Leto: Leto is the soul that controls the element fire. Leto is a foolish and young soul, perhaps the youngest soul trapped in Eris's ring. Leto relies on her ability to control fire more than anything else, and she uses nothing but brute force. She is usually picking on Eris or begging him to let her fight something or someone, but whenever he does she ignores anything Eris asks of her and ends up almost breaking her doll (more than 90% of the time). For this, Eris generally refuses to put Leto's soul into the doll made for her. Leto also typically tends to be a smartass toward Eris and anything he might be doing during his day.

Poseidon: Poseidon is the soul that controls the element water. Poseidon is generally quiet and because of this Eris favors him over the other souls. Eris and Poseidon are similar to each other in personality, except for the fact that since Poseidon is the only 'male' soul the other souls tend to flirt with him constantly - which has caused Poseidon to become an extreme push over. Poseidon can become cynical and cruel if provoked and it can be very easy to see in his fighting. Since Eris favors Poseidon, he can also be considered the most experienced and skilled fighter due to Eris constantly having the soul in his doll.

Athena: Athena is the soul that controls the element light. She is naturally warm-hearted, kind and compassionate. It is easy for this soul to see the good in every person Eris see's - and for this she gets on the nerves of the other souls quite easily. Athena can sometimes sound a bit preachy and treats Eris almost like a son. Due to her pleasant personality though, Athena is the second soul that is brought out the most (along with Poseidon). When fighting Athena appears graceful and almost angelic, but if Eris seems rude or cruel in any manner Athena will usually talk with him instead of fighting until his attitude has changed.

Erebus: Erebus is the soul that controls the element darkness (this includes shadows). The other souls have a difficult time taking Erebus seriously though, mostly because every single time Erebus is allowed to be in her doll form she always manages to steal something which in the end puts more stress on Eris making her stay in the ring. Erebus thinks that Athena is her rival and will go out of her way to argue with Athena any chance she gets. Out of all the souls (besides Leto), Eris least gets along with is Erebus. When and if she is ever used in a fight, Erebus is prone to the back stab method and tends to hit Eris more than she would hit any of his opponents.

 WEAKNESSES As you have probably already read, Eris's power relies greatly on his interaction with the souls in his ring. Because of this, if he were having an argument with any soul at any point in time they could keep themselves in the ring (like a game of tug-o-war). It is an effort for Eris to project the souls into the doll forms and it is very rare that he is comfortable with them having free movement. This means that typically Eris would only be able to have two souls in their dolls at any point in time, he is not old enough or experienced enough to manage any more than that. Eris is also prone to develop psychological issues due to his power and it is possible to become a flaw with him later in his life.

 STRENGTHS Eris is intelligent and logical and very patient with new people that he meets. He is also inclined toward cooking and cleaning, mostly anything having to do with general house care (he is of course good at it). Like I mentioned before, Eris is an above average student.

 HISTORY Upon being born, Eris's mother passed away leaving just him and his father to their home. Eris lived in a higher class home, but due to the stressful job that his father had he was much more prone to anger while Eris's natural personality was constant calm. For some odd reason this started to irritate his father more and more as he got older and soon the older man started to beat his son. The abuse started around the time he was twelve and ended when he turned sixteen. It had been a rainy afternoon day in April and the fighting between Eris and his father had reached a point that Eris had somehow gotten his hands on a shot gun (that belonged his father) and left a hole in the man's chest.

In his fathers last moments though, he forced the ring on Eris and smiled as he died. After watching his fathers death by his own hand, Eris attempted to take the ring off but somehow couldn't. Fast forward about a week and Eris's grandparents find him and save him from suffering the consequences of murder by the law. After he started to stay in his grandparents home though, was when Eris started to hear the souls talk to him and the young boy thought he was going insane. Believing the worse, Eris attempted to commit suicide a few days later only to be saved by his grandparents once more.

With both of them spotting the ring on his finger, the older folk realized what had happened and started to explain to him what the voices were. They also gave him the dolls that the souls were attached too and explained to him what the different souls were capable of and what their names were. After taking a few months getting accustomed to constantly having people inside his head, Eris slowly started to open up to the souls.

Fast forward to his nineteenth birthday and Eris decides to leave home, feeling a pull toward a strange place he had never been before. Finding himself at Foresta Academy, Eris enrolls hoping to figure out what he wants to do for the rest of his life.

Face Claim: Kris Lemche Anime Pictures: Angelic Layer (?)

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