+Otherworlde+ Axel

Well I felt I should give this group another try. Situations caused me to lose internet for quite a while last time, and even now connection is bleak. ; v; I had to go onto a public computer to get much of this done.

Thank you to for being a last minute help in putting a sheet together for a stranger like me. This is for and I promise to stick around this time! 

Basic Information

Name: Axel 
Age: 7 years a doll | fashioned to look 18
Height: 5'9
Species: Voodoo Doll / Poppet
Species Description: A poppet is a voodoo doll crafted in the likeness of another, with the typical aim of passing beneficial hexes and treatments toward those who they resemble... however this is usually only if the colors correspond correctly. Red, gray, black, and white were used on this poppet, without proper research, so when effects were to be applied to the likeness Axel was crafted to resemble, a mess of things occurred -- the most important being that soul fused with the doll, and forced several interesting changes to take place... 

Abilities:

• Sewing: Due to Axel's make up, he is very skilled at sewing. Sewing clothes. Sewing wounds. Sewing dolls. Sewing people...
  
• Ventriloquism: Axel has mastered "throwing his voice" so that it does not come out muffled by his mask. He does have a mouth, but there are reasons for hiding everything, as they say.
  

Academic Information

Level: Beginner
Courses: 

• LIN 101

Passed Courses: ---
Experience: ---

Personal Information

Likes:

• Threadwork; Simple things such as hem patterns, or intricate pieces of art built on tapestries. One day he hopes to be masterful enough to make himself not look like a patchwork quilt put together by a child.
  
• Buttons; A strange fascination with these.
  
• The color red; It represents strength, health, and vigor. He was crafted to project this, after all.
• Happy endings; A little sappy, but he lives through these stories, as how he came to be...was not a good end for himself or the one he was meant to help. But there could be hope?
• Heartbeats; He doesn't have one. The sound is something he yearns for, while remaining a comfort to him.
  

Dislikes: 

• Mistakes; The word for it as much as making them. Even worse, being called on.
  
• The color black; It represents negativity or evil when applied to a poppet, and happened to be the cause of his "bad end".
  
• Moths; Some moths eat cloth, which means they can eat...him.
• Thrown objects; One eye is completely sewn shut with a patch...so depth perception is quite poor. Objects thrown at him have a high success rate of not being caught, and/or lobbing him in the head.
• His left hand; It's...a little chewed up.
  

Strengths:

• Sticky healing; Due to an interesting chemical makeup, lacerations or wounds that may need stitches can be "glued" together with his blood, provided a needle and thread are not within reach. 
  
• Patchwork limbs; Similarly, if limbs are torn or lost, he can simply sew them back on...if he doesn't lose them
  
• Poppet magic; With abundance in red and white, can give off an aura to boost others' strength in health and vigor, and help do away with negative feelings.

Weaknesses: 

• Depth perception; With a sewn-shut eye and a patch on it to boot, Axel's depth perception is very poor. He still sometimes runs into things, cannot catch objects tossed at him, and has a large blind spot on that side.
  
• Weak left arm; A victim of multiple times a chew toy. The left arm is slightly smaller than his right, and only has three working fingers on it, as he pulled off the two unusable ones and sewed the holes shut.
  
• Hex attraction; As he was built with black poppet magic, he has an unusual affinity for attracting negative hexes, as that color is closely associated with such magics.
• Flimsy body; An odd mix of doll and human, he can easily be cut or torn, and has even lost his head once.   
  

Goals:

• Find a way to separate souls, and thus bodies.
  
• In separating bodies, also find a way to remain animate.
  

Fears: 

• Losing limbs; There is always a chance that when a part of him is torn off, it cannot be reattached. That, or someone may run off with it and he'll have to try to fashion a new one.
  
• Fire; Dolls made of fabric can burn just as easily. Same with wax ones. Same with wood ones. He's just highly flammable.
• Full separation; As much as he wants it, he does not know if he will continue to live as a soul in a human body, or a soulless doll. Being a soulless creature is frightening, when given automation and life, after all.
  

Personality:

• Observant
• Sheepish
• Kind
• Empathetic
• Friendly
• Affectionate
• Hopeful
  

      - Uncaring
      - Manipulative
      - Rude/Generally mean
      - Violent
      - Closed off/Cold 
      - Hopeful

There are two sides to every coin. Being a mesh of voodoo and human, there will be drastic changes between personalities, and there's no physical signs to know what may cause such a shift. In most cases, Axel displays what he has called his "humane" side, the side that is friendly and cares for others. His creation was intended for healing and health boosts, so he remains happy that "default" is set to remain a benefit to those around him.

What triggers the half he dubs his "voodoo" side he is not quite sure. Perhaps it is being hit with a hex, or when his body undergoes strain due to its nature and type of creation? Whatever it is, Axel becomes a complete opposite to his default half. Though as he is rather a defenseless creature, his violence is often turned to himself...explaining in and of itself why he is a patchwork project of sorts. The bouts of being his "voodoo" self is unpredictable, but he unthankfully remembers everything he has done under such an influence.

One trait existent between either side is that simple grain of hopefulness; that one day he can find a way to separate voodoo from human, and live on in peace. Unfortunately neither side or facet of himself has had success...it does not keep him down.

History:

Axel was fashioned to help a man cure his dying son. A son who had once lived a fruitful life began ailing from some mysterious and debilitating illness around the age of sixteen. Desperate for help but low on money to pay for professional medicine or hospital treatments, the father turned to simpler treatments. He sought many cures and remedies, turning to sympathetic voodoo magic as a last ditch attempt, just shy of his son's eighteenth birthday.

The research was rushed and by no means comprehensive, the father easily mistaking and blurring the lines between poppets and voodoo dolls. Dressing the doll in red and black, and using herbs, fabric, and blood of similar descent, the doll was fashioned into a detailed likeness of the brunet he did so desperately want to save. The clash of creation, symbolic magics, and symbols created a doll that did less to help the son, and more to destroy him.

In a last attempt to save his son, the father tried to pull off some sort of transmutation, hoping to pass the sympathetic magic meant to heal over. What he instead created was some mishmash of doll and human, in the vague resemblance of his son but operating on some unknown magic brought by his crazed attempts at life preservation. He got what he wanted, but in the end it wasn't the ideal thing he wished for.

Many times the father attempted to separate their bodies through other interesting bits of magic. None have worked, and often triggered the darker part of the creation, pulling him apart at literal seams. Sometimes he threw the mishmash out, hoping he would be torn apart by the hard world outside. Sometimes he almost was, by human, weather, and animal alike. The boy always managed to put himself together, and never really tried to let it get to him.

Eventually after seven years of this torture, the creation discovered the man who made him had committed suicide out of long running despair. He did not hold it toward the man, and rather attempted to bury him before finally addressing himself by the name of the boy he half was, and had been created to save. Deciding to live on and continue the road that the man once known as father started, he set out for a school that perhaps could give him the knowledge needed to separate himself into doll and human again.

Some part of him hopes he can.

Misc. Information:

• His right eye looks similar to a button, but he can in fact see perfectly fine through it.
  
• His blood is metallic in properties, but looks and has the same usage as hot glue.
• Axel sewed a patchwork heart onto all of his clothes out of a wish that he may have one some day.
• He has no idea who the mother of the boy was.
• Though for all he looks and refers to himself obviously as "he", he in fact genderless.
  
• Axel's design was originally an adopt by and bought by .
  

Character Relationships

|  - Likes |  - Dislikes |  - Unsure |  - Interested By |  - Saddened By |  - Fearful Of |  - Crushing On |  - Love |

Unknown at the time. ; v;

Roleplaying Preferences

• Where do you like to roleplay? 
  
• At the moment until summer, I am confined to an iPad. Skype or notes are most preferable for now! 
  
• Preferences or limits
• None!
  
• Would you like to join the OW Skype Group? If so, indicate Skype username or note it to viralremix
• I recently got a skype just for this, and you can find me at fiestypeach. Please state who you are before adding! ; v;
  

Referral:  Though I was a member once for all of one month, I don't know if this counts anymore.