RE: The Grand OC! [CONTEST NINETEEN: SUIT!]
06-09-2014, 08:27 PM
Name: Straight (aka Aces, Jack, Wild Card, Levin Vect)
Race: Unknown humanoid species, comparable to Homo Sapiens at first glance, but very distinguishable upon closer inspection
Gender: Agender (male at birth), has no pronoun preferences and generally uses he/him for simplicity's sake
Text Color: Ready for a gamble? Nyahahaha.....
Biography: Straight, Aces, Jack, Wild Card... all legends in the gambling world. All rumored to be so skilled that they wager against the gods themselves. And they're all the same person - Levin Vect, the King of Cheats. Once, Levin was a simple card shark, employed at a casino to cheat the patrons out of their money. But that was so long ago that none save an immortal would remember... but we're getting ahead of ourselves. This being, Levin Vect, found himself dealing to a strange patron that day. No matter how many times he made sure to fix the results, the being in front of him continued to win. And win. And win, and win, and win....
But Levin knew he could not be cheating, or at least not in a manner that a normal patron could - he had already used every normal method in the book, and if they had ever used the same one, the result would've revealed both their trickeries... so Levin smiled and continued to deal, doing everything in his power to fix the match. 10 hands... 15... 20... 25 hands, and still the being in front of him refused to lose. Finally, with nothing left to lose, Levin gave up on his fixing and simply dealt the cards. The being in front of him stared in shock as he looked at his cards, and spoke two words: "you've won." Levin stared at the being in front of him, and as he did, reality seemed to dissolve around him until only he and the patron, now a writhing mass of incomprehensibility, remained.
"You have beaten the King of Cheating at his own game, Mortal... and now, the throne is yours. Use it as you wish, and may your trickery never cease..."
Levin opened his eyes to find the patron vanished, things as they were. But something inside him felt different. He thought about what the... thing... had said to him... and smiled. Things had become quite interesting, quite interesting indeed...
Description: Of middling height and weight, with a shoulder-length rat-tail in the back and a windswept look in the front, Straight appears quite handsome with his dark red hair and ice-cold blue eyes. However, while his body type, appearance at a glance, and general physical structure appear to match those of a homo sapiens, upon closer inspection one begins to realize that this "body" is not in fact solid, or even fully present in this dimension. Many who have met him describe looking into a void, or as though his very existence is on a higher plane than that which they could percieve. This manifests in his movement minutely, but is impossible to ignore once one has realized the truth; causing those who have realized Straight's true nature to witness him almost as though he were constantly undulating, twitsting, changing with each movement; as out of place as a 3-dimensional object moving through a 2-dimensional plane.
Abilities: Straight is the King of Cheats, and as such has the right to challenge anyone or anything to a gamble to gain leverage, from a mere mortal over money to death itself for his life. Other than his gambling skills however, he is not much more than an average adult homo sapien, though he is quite obviously not of homo sapien origin. He carries several 6 sided dice, an enchanted deck of cards, and a hidden garrote with him at all times. The cards cannot be manipulated in any way except by direct physical contact, making it possible to cheat even gods, who would otherwise simply ensure their hand would win.
Race: Unknown humanoid species, comparable to Homo Sapiens at first glance, but very distinguishable upon closer inspection
Gender: Agender (male at birth), has no pronoun preferences and generally uses he/him for simplicity's sake
Text Color: Ready for a gamble? Nyahahaha.....
Biography: Straight, Aces, Jack, Wild Card... all legends in the gambling world. All rumored to be so skilled that they wager against the gods themselves. And they're all the same person - Levin Vect, the King of Cheats. Once, Levin was a simple card shark, employed at a casino to cheat the patrons out of their money. But that was so long ago that none save an immortal would remember... but we're getting ahead of ourselves. This being, Levin Vect, found himself dealing to a strange patron that day. No matter how many times he made sure to fix the results, the being in front of him continued to win. And win. And win, and win, and win....
But Levin knew he could not be cheating, or at least not in a manner that a normal patron could - he had already used every normal method in the book, and if they had ever used the same one, the result would've revealed both their trickeries... so Levin smiled and continued to deal, doing everything in his power to fix the match. 10 hands... 15... 20... 25 hands, and still the being in front of him refused to lose. Finally, with nothing left to lose, Levin gave up on his fixing and simply dealt the cards. The being in front of him stared in shock as he looked at his cards, and spoke two words: "you've won." Levin stared at the being in front of him, and as he did, reality seemed to dissolve around him until only he and the patron, now a writhing mass of incomprehensibility, remained.
"You have beaten the King of Cheating at his own game, Mortal... and now, the throne is yours. Use it as you wish, and may your trickery never cease..."
Levin opened his eyes to find the patron vanished, things as they were. But something inside him felt different. He thought about what the... thing... had said to him... and smiled. Things had become quite interesting, quite interesting indeed...
Description: Of middling height and weight, with a shoulder-length rat-tail in the back and a windswept look in the front, Straight appears quite handsome with his dark red hair and ice-cold blue eyes. However, while his body type, appearance at a glance, and general physical structure appear to match those of a homo sapiens, upon closer inspection one begins to realize that this "body" is not in fact solid, or even fully present in this dimension. Many who have met him describe looking into a void, or as though his very existence is on a higher plane than that which they could percieve. This manifests in his movement minutely, but is impossible to ignore once one has realized the truth; causing those who have realized Straight's true nature to witness him almost as though he were constantly undulating, twitsting, changing with each movement; as out of place as a 3-dimensional object moving through a 2-dimensional plane.
Abilities: Straight is the King of Cheats, and as such has the right to challenge anyone or anything to a gamble to gain leverage, from a mere mortal over money to death itself for his life. Other than his gambling skills however, he is not much more than an average adult homo sapien, though he is quite obviously not of homo sapien origin. He carries several 6 sided dice, an enchanted deck of cards, and a hidden garrote with him at all times. The cards cannot be manipulated in any way except by direct physical contact, making it possible to cheat even gods, who would otherwise simply ensure their hand would win.