Gerd

GENERAL

Full Name: Gerhard Hellsten
Aliases: Gerd, Boss, Father, ~~Daddy~~
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Race: Human
Sexuality: Pansexual
Occupation: Captain of the Boltsworn, Patriarch of the Hellsten family

PERSONALITY

Likes: Having his way with a pretty young thing, fine cigars from Grandcroft Inlet, aged liqueurs from Einsen enjoyed neat, and not much else.
Dislikes: deeply emotional music, all forms of poetry, and anything that is too beautiful and can’t be defiled.
Hobbies: nothing good.

PHYSICAL

Height:6’4
Weight: 240 lbs
Clothing: exclusively dresses in suits that would make his mother cry.
Other: Eyepatch over his right eye with the Sigil of Azazel.

APPEARANCE

Eyes: Deep-set, almond. Eye colour is a pale olive green with flecks of tan.
Hair: Silver, with hints of faded, rich umber tones throughout.
Skin: Warm, tanned, and weathered. Prominent tear troughs and crows’ feet.
Nose: Slightly crooked; bony, prominent ridge with a bump. Even, well-formed nostrils.
Facial hair: Always has a beard. Even when clean shaven, he appears to have permanent stubble.
Body build: Muscular and defined. Broad shoulders, angular appearance. Strong forearms.
Abnormalities: Fine surgical scars all over his body, almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
Scars: Branching Lichtenberg scars over his hands and arms that travel up to his deltoid.
Markings: A design of the Sigil of Azazel and binding chains are on his back, present from his birth.

GENERAL ATTITUDE

Gerhard is a man trapped in cycles of violence that he cannot escape. The remains of his former chivalrous and righteous persona is only present in short glimpses of handshakes and initial greetings, preferring to rule things from the shadows nowadays. He deals in blood, and consumes both violence and sex as though they were interchangeable things to satisfy him. He believes people look the most beguiling when they are bound and helpless, whether that’s for play or for work.

Most believe Gerhard is a man with no morals. This may be true in who he chooses to sleep with — he doesn’t discriminate and anyone is fair game. He doesn’t care if he’s old enough to be your father — that’s what makes it all the more appealing. Very few tend to have a lasting relationship with him, and it’s openly transactional: you get what you want of it, he gets what he wants — though not all the time. If you ask for pain, he’ll withhold it from you until it becomes unbearable. He craves that kind of emotional and physical torment, the cruelty of denial; the slow torture of the soul.

For “work”, he abides by a strict code of how he operates. The criminal underworld of Hycliff has its own set of rules and regulations. While nothing about his profession is noble or romantic, the code of brotherhood is the closest thing there is. The only thing that matters is having the power to control; to have things on your own terms. It is the power to be able to deploy and operate swiftly without the need for bureaucracy or bowing to authority.

SKILLS

Wayfinding
Swimming
Freediving
Marksmanship
Proficiency in most martial weapons, especially ranged weapons
Interrogations, torture
Close quarters combat (as a last resort, but he fights dirty)

NSFW INFO

Dynamic

Sadistic Dominant, torturous rigger, lewd and virile old man. Would pour sambuca over you and light it on fire for the thrill of it. Overseer of suffering.

Top Kinks

Rope bondage, cigar play, fire play, degradation, consensual non-consent, electro play, overstimulation, single-tail whips, breath play, choking, knife play, artistic cutting, gangbangs, bukkake, etc.

Turn-offs

what

Penis size

Megalodong

ABILITY INFORMATION

Electric Crown

Gerhard’s control of lightning magic works on the principles of electromagnetic induction. He can primarily generate high voltage electricity from himself. Due to his ability, he’s unable to wear any large metal pieces on his person, as the lightning would arc towards it first rather than the target. As a result, he cannot wear plate armour or chainmail unless specially constructed. Strangely enough, his powers also work in most natural bodies of water, though it is less effective in freshwater.

The lightning produced from him is white to blue or violet in colour. After he uses his abilities, the surrounding air smells of ozone. He’s also able to redirect lightning attacks if he anticipates it, though it is extremely dangerous and unpredictable. He has limited control of the lightning’s exit from his body, so a precise counter-attack to another lightning-user is often futile. He can also amplify or decrease output of either himself or another lightning user if they both use their abilities within vicinity of each other.

What he prefers to use this ability for is to use it to generate high voltage electricity at low currents, which he can sustain for long periods of time. He uses this for erotic electrostimulation to deliver a variety of sharp, cutting or piercing type sensations, which can be pleasurable or painful depending on the intensity. He can also essentially pass a mild electric current to his extremities (and his cock) to produce specific sensations: he can either induce muscle contraction, deliver vibrations, massage or apply electrical stimulation. (tl;dr: he’s a human vibrator, TENS unit, electro massager and violet wand)

More Than Meets the Eye

Gerhard can detect electrical currents, movements, vibrations and temperature fluctuations extremely keenly. From his curse, his physiology changed so drastically that he obtained primordial features from the ocean. The permanent “stubble” that Gerhard has is actually a network of filiform hairs and ampullae. Together, they are sensory organs that operate as electro-receptors.

All living organisms produce an electric field, given off by heartbeat and muscle movement, even when hidden. He can distinguish between conducting and non-conducting objects in his vicinity. To work on land, it requires a small amount of mana to activate and maintain. Sweat, increased heart rate and blood create larger signals to him. Based on conditions surrounding humidity, he could sense targets from 100-150 metres away. In saltwater, his range expands to 300 metres and no longer requires mana to use. Those that are able to hide or obfuscate their presence with their own mana or field effects may have a less noticeable presence to him, unless they are showing an increased heart-rate or muscle movement. To detect such beings, Gerhard must supply more mana to himself to increase the sensitivity of his range.

He also has an extremely keen sense of smell. While he’s unable to distinguish between targets via differences in their electric field, smell is a better indicator of individuality. However, it is not always accurate. Perfumes, fragrances, certain kinds of tobacco or body musk are stronger indicators of certain people. The more familiar he is with a person, the more accurate he would be in guesstimation.

He essentially has superior spatial awareness even in poor visibility or complete darkness. In addition, he always knows where North is and has an excellent sense of direction. If you shave his beard, his electroreceptors will stop working on land until his hair grows back.

The Persecuted Won’t Forget

Due to the curse inflicted upon him as a child, Gerhard was not meant to thrive and live in freedom. Being near the highest order of celestial beings causes cardiac arrhythmia and immense pain and agony. The highest rank celestials will cause him to have trouble walking and cause numbness or paralysis in his limbs. He may have trouble speaking or understanding what others are saying. Lower-ordered celestials will cause some pain, depending on where they would be ranked, the lowest causing at most a dull itch on his sigil or an increased heart rate.

Gerhard also has four gill slits on either side of his neck. He has spiracles to take in water and ventilate his gills, even at rest when underwater. They close up on land, though they’re still vulnerable compared to the rest of his body

If he’s inverted in water and there’s pressure on the lower part of his face, he enters a state of tonic immobility in less than a minute. He could stay that way for fifteen minutes. When righted again, he recovers right away.

Repeating Crossbow: Repentless

Repentless is based on the design of a repeating crossbow but adjusted for increased accuracy and strength. It also accommodates Gerhard’s aptitude for electromagnetic induction. Accurate firing range is a maximum 50 m (164 ft). Anything further than that will need to have deviation and other factors taken into account. Effective firing range is 70 m (230ft) and it has a maximum range of 180 m (590 ft).

Because of the design, by using the lower lever to load and shoot, he’s able to increase the rate of fire without needing to use a spanning mechanism. It holds five bolts before needing to be reloaded. By generating high-voltage electricity through Repentless, each shot can easily tear through bone and flesh and also cause burns.

To be able to pierce through tough armour, sever limbs or to otherwise cause severe damage to an unarmoured target, a specialised bolt must be used that has a core made of extremely pure and refined mana crystal. Gerhard needs to generate enough force to both charge and fire. Electricity is leaked into the air and creates violet brush discharges from the weapon before it is released, which is difficult to obfuscate or hide. It also generates a tell-tale electrical hum. Upon release, it sounds like a whip being cracked.

Rate of fire also decreases due to needing to charge up, and it essentially leaves Gerhard open to attack, as he cannot adequately move from his position when firing the specialised bolt. It also causes electrical burns on his hands and arms if he does not wear adequate protection (it often sears through thick eelskin gloves and leather vambraces anyway; anything metal is a no), and the smell of ozone lingers in the air for a few minutes.

He’s able to do the same thing with a bow if he had specialised arrows. In fact, he started experimenting with this ability by using a bow when he was a Mage Knight. However, the design of Repentless can be easily dismantled and stored in a bag to be concealed, which suits his current way of living just fine.

BACKSTORY

“Your pathetic life is not worth staining my hands, mortal. Nor would death be an adequate punishment. You desire chains? I shall give them. Your child will be your burden. A chain across your soul knowing what you took from them. Bare it and ask yourself daily: was the effort worth the cost?”
– Azazel, Bringer of Dawn.

Gerhard was born in Einsen under a fallen noble family. His father had apparently angered the will of a celestial for his hubris in trying to chain them to his will. To appease the angel, he prostrated himself and asked for the angel to spare him. In exchange, the life of his firstborn child was offered as a sacrifice. At birth, Gerhard’s ribcage nearly collapsed in on itself, suffocating his organs. Instead of bone, his skeleton was composed of cartilage. He lived in excruciating pain every day, alleviated only by the buoyancy that water offered him.

He was a horrific-looking child that barely looked human. He had glassy, sunken eyes and a body that was so decrepit, his cartilaginous structure could barely support the pressure of gravity on land. He couldn’t walk and was unable to chew food without causing acute pain. His mother sought out the best doctors in all of Ashiera to treat his condition. Eventually, she found a doctor with horns who was able to help, replacing and reinforcing cartilage structures with dense bone so that he would be able to live on land. That was Gerhard’s first experience with applied magic and its capabilities.

To maintain his newly given life, he needed to reinforce his structure with muscle to protect his joints in order to be able to live life like others did. He learned to walk when he was ten. After being able to move as his peers did, he did more than his advised training regimen. Gerhard built his body to sculpt muscle so that his life as a cursed youth was a distant memory. Eventually, he surpassed the average human in terms of strength, devoting himself purely to physicality.

He served as a Mage Knight, eighth division, under Maxwell Miller with several others who would later become the Knights of the Red Rose. He learned a great deal from Maxwell on how to fight and truly respected him as a man. As a Mage Knight, Gerhard had exceptional combat ability.

Most of his friends in the corps applied to be part of the Hyclian Knight Order. Gerhard had made his application as well. When it came to the review of his official records, he was denied. The record of his birth defect, his inability to be outfitted with armour, and his reliance on ranged weapons was deemed unsuitable to be considered for admittance into the Knight Order. Despite this, he remained fast friends with those that were elected to become Red Rose Knights. He was known for introducing Maxwell Miller to Vivian. At the time, Gerhard was dating her, though their relationship was strained. Later that year, Maxwell married Vivian and she bore him a son shortly afterwards.

Gerhard returned home to Einsen. He held a job in bars that catered towards sadomasochism, tying up women and patrons as performance. That was where he was noticed for his desire towards cruelty. Someone gave him purpose and meaning within an organisation: a brotherhood. Part of him wanted to prove that he was strong enough to survive in the harshest of conditions. In the criminal underworld, he would not be held back by what others might consider a defect.

He was indoctrinated into their ranks with hired killings, extortion, smuggling of illicit goods, and money laundering. He became both respected and feared for his strength and brutality, rising to the ranks of the upper echelons in the Brotherhood.

The news of the Night of Crimson Tears came to him when he was in Hycliff to attend Maxwell Miller’s 60th birthday. All the friends he made in his youth were dead. Birthday wishes and presents were replaced with funerary wreaths and offers of condolences. He attended each and every funeral of his comrades. During this time, he made particular note of Maxwell’s son’s inability to cry, both when he offered his condolences and during Maxwell’s funeral, though he never brought it to Vivian Miller’s attention.

He wondered perhaps, if Eustace was truly Maxwell’s son. But such a thought was preposterous.

With the help of Reinhardt, the survivor of the Night of Crimson Tears, Gerhard was able to get descriptions of the traitors. He spent the next five years expanding his reach in the criminal world, trying to find an angle into Athefast through connections. He personally hunted down those that organised the coup with what information he could find. The last, Freccia Strijel, he was unable to capture. There was never an opportune moment: a match-up between two ranged combatants was far too risky, especially with Freccia’s skills and marksmanship.

Once he finally put the Night of Crimson Tears to rest, he returned to Hycliff. Gerhard would never be lauded for bringing justice to those that killed his comrades. After all, he killed them in the way criminals killed each other, with excessive cruelty. To display that in polite society would betray his true nature.

After ineffectual restructuring of the Knights of the Red Rose, Gerhard challenged the position of captaincy in a formal duel. He won. The Knights of the Red Rose were finally laid to rest as history. Unable to cut his ties to the criminal world, the operation of the Knight Order merged into one entity that oversaw both sides of the law in Hycliff, giving rise to the Boltsworn.

That was three years ago. He found people that could overlook what crimes he committed. He captured a fiend who gave to him the gift of her submission. He finally had people respect him for his power.

Yet, even though he obtained power and prestige legitimately, it did not satisfy him. Only time would tell for how long he could keep up the facade of the knight order as a chivalrous organisation before it would be toppled.