Cooper, Abel Benjamin

[abel]

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ABEL BENJAMIN COOPER

NAME: Abel Benjamin Cooper
NICKNAMES: If you want him to answer you without a growl, I suggest calling him Ice
AGE/BIRTHDAY: 91 although looks about 20/ June 10th
JOB: Information seller and owner of the last dance but no one would recognize that because he always plays bouncer. Or mixing and mingling with the customers.
GENDER: Male
SPECIES: vampire
SEXUALITY: Tragically heterosexual
MENTAL DISORDER:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder compounded by years of trying to ignore it.
Self harm
Sleep disturbance associated with PTSD
A fear of touch compounded by a PTSD flaskback reaction to female touch.
RECOMMENDED BY: Unfortunately, he has no one to blame for being here but himself.

INNATE ABILITIES: Picks up information quickly, sharp mind and good looks
SPECIES ABILITIES

As a vampire, age is what allows Ice to do what he can do. He can go out in the sun although it feels like he is in the tropics with computer geek skin even with really mild sun. After a half an hour he is sunburnt, more than that starts getting in the burnt skin lasting for several weeks category. He has to deal with the ten hour sleeping schedule thing. He also needs blood but he is very good at using his speed to his advantage. He is not as good with mesmer but it is still there he just hasn't practiced it as much because he is reluctant to use it.

PATIENT TYPE Invitus
MENTAL DISORDER: PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
SYMPTOMS

Look... I probably should get it looked at but I usually don't have a problem because I'm not really touchy feely. The biggest problem to other people is my reaction to touch, generally female touch can make me flash back to memories I don't particularly like, it either can send me into catatonia or into a state of must get rid of what is bothering me. Of course, this isn't the only thing but this is the biggest and most disturbing thing that people first notice. Then there is the fact that I don't particularly like to sleep, I will spend days at a time avoiding sleep, because I have nightmares of what happened to me. Of course, things being the way they are, I get stuck in that sleep for ten hours if I actually do sleep despite my efforts.

I don't like people looking at me either. It's an avoidance sort of thing but it's connected to my PTSD as well. I know I am handsome to certain people... I'm just too dirty to like being viewed that way. It tempts people to me so I use my hair to hide myself. Same reason I don't speak much or show emotion much. Well... you can find out my emotional state if I have new scars or if nasty people have new scars but otherwise...

TRIGGERS Female touch, nightmares, situations too close to bad situations in the past, being complimented and something bad happening to him.

FAMILY
FAMILIAR: Ice has no pets.
MOTHER: Heather Cooper, she kept her husband's name til even to when she died.
FATHER: Gregory Cooper
SIBLINGS: None he knows of... This'll be a plot point found out later.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: He doesn't have any right now.
OTHER:

HISTORY:

Ice was born human on 1920 as Abel Benjamin Cooper to two young people just going up in the world. Gregory Cooper was a fighter in world war one and was working in construction after getting home when he learned of his wife's pregnancy. Heather and Gregory were overjoyed at their child. They also had the good fortune of being in the roaring twenties with a good amount of money both due to the pay Gregory got for fighting and his job in construction. But that started to drain after Abel was born, because Heather became addicted to buying really expensive top of the line things. She wouldn't listen to Gregory when he tried to make her preserve it. This made Gregory turn to drinking when Ice was around two. Of course, drinking and having a target to put anger on is not a good combination.

Gregory would beat Heather, never Ice, just Heather. This would continue on and off til Abel was the age of five. Not understanding why his Dad was beating up his mom and not wanting that to continue, he got in the way of his father. He fell through a glass table and got a number of large injuries on his arms and back. Gregory was taken to jail while Ice went to the hospital. When he got out, he only had his mother. For the early years of his life, she was a good mother, although her priorities weren't straight. He still got food and she did too but often times they'd have to conserve food because she bought something frivolous or they had to sell one of Heather's expensive things in a down turning market. Needless to say, Ice was often times more on the oddly poor side then not.

He got to hanging out with some of the gangs, liking the closeness and the connection with his dad, since the gangs often used army talk. At the age of twelve though, something happened to Ice, he stopped being as open. He grew his hair long, would pick more fights and became a bit of a worse student. If someone female tried to touch him, he would lash out and run from class. They tried to figure out what was wrong but when he said there was something wrong involving his mother, they didn't believe him or worse, belittled him for it. At this age, Ice got his nickname and started being a bit more ruthless. At the age of sixteen, he did a complete turn around, he seemed almost like his old self. He asked if he could take his diploma early.

Since he had already been showing for roughly a year before that point that his marks were good, they let him. After he got his high school diploma, he vanished. Where the new yorker had ended up was in the fighting rings, fighting under the name Canny Cooper. He was a high stalks bet and popular for a long time. When he was twenty he met a strange man in the ring, the man was positively vicious and couldn't seem to concentrate. He bit Ice numerous times and the match ended up becoming so bloody... That the viewership increased. He won but what he didn't know what that the blood had gotten into his large injuries from the fight, starting to change him. He recovered oddly quick from that fight and passed out after it for two days.

After the two days, he discovered that the sun burned him. He couldn't figure out what was wrong and he was so thirsty. But trying to eat normal food would make him throw up. He went out at night, planning to get to the doctor to figure out what was wrong but blacked out. He woke up in a holding cell. He was fortunate that one of his friends had been worried about him and used their influence to get him put in a holding cell. He had drank his fill from a man and nearly killed them. A vampire in the cell for an unrelated crime taught Ice the ropes as much as he could in the brief time they had before Ice was bailed out. The price of the bail and the cover up? He had to work for the mafia. It started out as being an enforcer but he was so good at finding people and so emotionless that he was sent as an assassin.

It helped Ice get his supply of blood and avoid females too. Eventually though, he quit that life, specially when he realized that still looking twenty was suspicious. It helped that his main boss was taken in by the police so he could vanish. He kept contact with a few of the crooks from back then for a bit, through letters. He moved from town to town until he ended up in Black Springs. This was before the time it was turned into a asylum for the supernatural. He liked the town and liked that it had visible supernaturals, he didn't want to leave when they told him to leave. Of course, he didn't realize how much that screwed him over til afterwards. But it's too late, he can't leave now even if he wanted to.

PERSONALITY:

Ice has a tendency to try to and hide the fact he is actually a decent person. He doesn't do it in a violent way, he long grew past that. no, he dresses up like a punk, keeps his face hidden and tends to ignore people deliberately. Someone like that is ignored so he tends to hear a lot of information. However, he has different reasons for what he does, he is much more complex then he seems. For example, his long hair hides his face because he is self conscious about how attractive he is to people, to the point where he doesn't want to draw people to him because of his good looks. He has a very negative view of himself from abuse in his past and this tends to reflect itself more in his actions then his words.

When he becomes more friendly with someone, he will show his face when he is in a good mood and when he is in a bad mood he hides it. His voice is soft but tends to be fairly firm. He does a lot of listening first and giving very good comments after but if he is talking to someone directly he can be a chatterbox. He is uncomfortable with all touch. He also reacts a bit teenager with women he is attracted to because he doesn't know how to handle them. He is uncomfortable with his vampirism, he always tries to not deal with it. In general, he tries to be mostly face value and not be judged, just to have people know him as Ice the information seller rather than Ice the dirty person.

STRENGTHS

• Knows how to fight hand to hand with minimal movement
  
• Can use weapons
  
• Easily gets along with males
  
• Gathers information well
  
• Retains knowledge well
  

WEAKNESSES

• Female touch makes him catatonic
  
• He doesn't know how to use guns
  
• Awkward with females
  
• Shy in general on first meeting
  
• Quiet
  

LIKES

• Friendly people
  
• Rock, industrial and alternative music
  
• Quiet
  
• Not being required to do something
  
• Just being included in a group
  

DISLIKES

• Being expected to do something
  
• Rude people
  
• Having to feed
  
• Having to sleep
  
• Having to lead or do something group wise
  

SECRETS

• He wishes he was normal
  
• Sometimes he wants to just vanish
  

FEARS

• Death
  
• That people would know him as he knows himself
  

GENERAL APPEARANCE

EYES: Blue
HAIR: Black hair, shoulder length and generally cut equal length
STYLE: More punk or rock but on a lighter edge
BUILD: He is roughly 5'8 and he is muscular but more in a wiry way
SCARS: Smaller ones on his back and arms from when he was five. Larger ones from when he fought and when he was turned.
TATTOOS: N/A surprisingly


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He saw the surprise in her look and it made him chuckle in a rusty way. "Don't expect this too much." He commented "If I wasn't a bit emotionally broken right now there would be less emotion leaking through." If she had met him at any other time, although he would be nice, the emotionally inviting aspect of his voice would not have shown through. She would have had to depend on his actions as to whether he was a particularly nice person or not. As it was, today was a lucky day for her and a bit of an unlucky day for him, like most guys he had no clue how to deal with emotional girls. It didn't help she wore some overly revealing clothing. Not that he was the type of person to look, although he appreciated that sort of clothing like every straight guy, he just thought it increased the risk of her touching him a bit more. It was safe to say he was a little worried about the prospect.

He gave a bit of a soothing, sympathetic sound at her wording. "That sucks when that happens." He commented "But at least you are pretty much at your low point if you are in a mental asylum. Things should only go up hill from here." That was how Ice hoped things would go and they have at least been better than home. He didn't have to deal with female contact much and had even gotten a bit better about things. He still had his problems but this place was healing him. Somehow. Despite the fact it really wasn't that great a place to come to to heal. But... Well, he needed a place to sort out himself rather then a place to Molly coddle him all the way to health and this place certainly was the place for that sort of healing. It wasn't the sort of healing for everyone else though which was why he was a bit surprised to find this was the first time in his memory he had dealt with someone breaking down. Either the people here were just that good at hiding it or he was just that oblivious in his own pain while he was here.

When she asked him about his story, he wondered what he would tell and how he would tell it. Should he admit the truth in a round about way or should he stick to the story that was already known? He took a deep breath and looked to the wall, deciding he would tell the story, just his way. "I have a son, that people aren't aware is my son, he was visiting today." He commented "My grandparents on my mother's side are taking care of him. The five year old doesn't really remember me but he was so happy to see me. So happy to see a dirty person like me whose very existence corrupts and wreaks his life. I'm pretty sure my grandparents have guessed about my being his father but I still won't say it. I don't want the stigma attached to it to affect him. So although I'm happy to see him..." He didn't think he needed to say things further. If she guessed right then she guessed right. If she was wrong then she was wrong.

But either way, he couldn't help that his voice had broke a little bit while he was saying that. He brought his hand to his eyes again to steady the flow of tears so it was a bit less noticeable. Even admitting that much was hard let alone his general thoughts on himself. People probably didn't expect him to think of himself as dirty. He was dirty though. And the worst of that dirtiness was how much he wanted to be able to acknowledge Cale as his. He let in a bit of a shuttering breath in and leaned back against the wall. He made sure his face was still completely hidden by his hair. It was probably the slightest bit disturbing that someone who looked as tough as Ice was crying. But he wasn't that tough, he just was very good at building a wall but once that wall was cracked it broke strongly.

It was hard for him to get those emotions back in once he let himself feel them. But he could try to make the person dealing with him feel less awkward so he wiped his eyes. "Sorry... I believe this would be called the breaking point?" Ice commented "I usually would be less of a cry baby but I needed to say that out loud at least once. Just for the sake of validation. Don't exactly try to ask more, you got a lot more information then my shrink does and could probably put the information together." He said the last part jokingly and it managed to secure his emotions a bit more. He moved away from the wall and walked over to the other wall. He leaned against it and then looked at her, just his blue eyes showing.

"So... Since we already did a share and tell..." Ice commented "Would you like to tell what happened with you to complete it? It would probably make you feel better... But please don't touch me, I'd be more likely to freak out."

Name: Call me Nyx
Age: 19
RP Experience: About two or three years, mayhaps more
How Did You Find Us: Link
Character FaceClaim: Tuomas Holopainen

Credit:
Credit for the app goes to Reesa. Please don’t steal!
Song Lyrics from Creepshow, Tea Party, and Walking On Air by Kerli
Note: Yes, its supposed to be an official form...that Jinx wrote on and screwed with. Don't get it? That's okay

[vira]

Accepted! Nice app