ABOUT YOU
Name: James
Age: 19
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CHARACTER INFO
Character name: Oceana Talise (human)/Barbas (devil)
Nicknames: Occee, Tally, Oc
Character age: 28
Birthdate: January 6
Gender: Female
Is this character supernaturally inclined? Sorceress with an affinity for controlling water and creating illusions.
Strengths:

Oceanca Alone:
• Hydromancy, the power to control all forms of water and create storms.
• Can create optical illusions using water
• Possesses a high level of intelligence in dealing with humans.
  Barbas Alone:
• The 5th prince of hell can summon and command other demons as warranted.
• Can cause and heal affliction
• Master of illusions, able to change the shape of things and people and otherwise deceive the minds of men.
  The two together:
• Possess extreme reserves of psychic energy to resist the powers of vampires and the magical power of witches and other spellcasters.
• Can craft illusions that are complete and extremely realistic to the person experiencing them.

Weaknesses

• Oceana naturally possesses an uneven temperament that varies strongly between serenity and extreme anger.
  
• The devil within her is a malevolent spirit and can be subdued by the power of true religious belief and is also prone to excorcism.
  
• Oceana is tired extremely quickly if, without some source of water, she has to summon water from distance or conjure it out of thin air.
  
• Even a possessed human is still rather frail compared to vampires, lycanthropes and the other things that go bump in the night.
  
• The powers of the demon can be ritually sealed and/or inhibited from a distance by a morally clean magical practitioner.
  
• When Barbas is in total control, Oceana’s personality and inherent abilities are completely submerged beneath the persona of the demon. To use the strength of the vessel, the demon must cede some control to the primary personality.
  
• While certainly not an exemplar of good morals, Oceana is occasionally stunned and appalled by the things the demon does.
  
• The presence of two personalities, both of which are vengeful and somewhat uneven, when put together have led to an individual who is as a whole mentally unstable and prone to periods of extreme violence and extreme calm.

Weapons carried on person: When you’ve got your own personal demon, who needs weapons?

Tell me about yourself
Hair colour/style: Oceana prefers her hair medium short in length worn without any particular style but still put together. She keeps it dyed a deep blue which matches the color of her eyes.
Eye colour: Dark Blue
Portrayal: Painting of anime character done by the artist Anry
Picture: IMAGE LOCATED HERE

Physical description: Oceana is of moderate height and moderate build for a woman. She is notable for her vivid blue hair which matches her eyes. She wears three lapis lazuli hoop dangling earings in each of her ears. Her taste in clothing is a mix between femme biker chic and freakish, tending to leather and denim. She prefers short dark blue denim hotpants and a simple a top covered by a leather jacket. She completes her look with light makeup and a pair of leather boots dyed blue that extend up just past her knees. The most unique of her features, however, is the mark of demonic possession, a small black X carved deep into her right shoulder blade.

Likes:

• Suffering of others
• Carefully and secretly destroying people’s lives
• Traveling at unsafe extreme velocities on motorcycles
• Somewhat strange, but a strong affinity for air conditioning.
• The ocean and being in water.
• Oceana has a liking for biker boys, while Barbus is largely uninterested unless the act involves rape or other such unpleasantness, at which point gender is irrelevant.

Dislikes:

• Crosses, Stars and Crescents, Torahs, and pretty much any and all holy symbols, objects, institutions and persons.
• Those who believe in an objective “morality” and moral superiority.
• Vampires, Lycanthropes, and anyone else viewed as a potential threat to her plans to establish her own control and power.
• Possesses an intense hatred and wrath towards mental institutions, psychologists and psychiatrists.

Fears: Barbas fears returning to hell. Oceana fears both someone learning that she has powers not dependent on the demon and someone learning of her demon and how to dispatch him.
Nervous habits: Not so much a nervous habit, but when particularly strong emotions are playing out within her, Oceana tends to subconsciously cause the natural water vapor around her to respond accordingly.

Personality description: Oceana herself could best be described as a nihilist who ultimately cares only for herself. She is highly intelligent and uses her mind to achieve her own goals. She cares little for the suffering of others, either natural or caused by herself, except in so much as she doesn’t take any pains to drag it out or make it worse than necessary to achieve her own goals. She possesses a strong vengeful streak often devising extremely painful and prolonged ways of torturing and killing those whom she bears grudges against. In her dealings, Oceana either presents as coldly serene or extremely violent and angry like her namesake, although the machinery in her head is unaffected by the outward appearance of either extreme.

Barbus is a demon of hell and as such takes his pleasure from causing unhappiness amongst humans. He is extremely sadistic and takes delight in seeing how much pain he can cause in his victims before they break and beg for death which he then denies, prolonging their suffering for as long as he can. Unlike Oceana, Barbus’ personality does not fluctuate and his outward demeanor could be described as a sort of balance between his vessel’s two extremes. He also takes delight in joining with Oceana to concoct new ways of manipulating people, always happy to help her take her revenge, although he demands in return that she aide with his goal of overthrowing the power of religion and destroying the ability of humans to resist demons, allowing the demons of Hell to roam about and rule the human world for their own twisted delight.

Take me home to meet mom and dad:
Parents: James Maeris and Monique Talise, although Oceana can remember neither as the demon has blocked her memories for fear they could influence his vessel.
Siblings: None.
Children: None, thanks be to the heavens.

History: Oceana Talise was born in relatively non-descript circumstances in Apartheid era South Africa to ardent supporters of the system. Being of hte privileged white class, she enjoyed an early childhoos of relative abundance, However, at age 5, the pretty picture shattered. Oceana showed the first signs of having magical ability at this time.

The young girl soon learned that if she used her powers on "whites" or other people of status she was punished, but she could do whatever she wanted to the opressed classes and get away with it, thus learning at a young age that the strong need not care about the weak. She also discovered that she could play off the ignorance of the uneducated and superstitious and set up her own following and get others to do what she wished them to do.

However, her little world was not to last. When she was 14 apartheid came to an end in her country, and with it the end to being unaccountable for her actions against what she and her family still considered subhuman beasts and her inferiors. Soon, investigations started occuring around her family and the various ills and "accidents" that had befallen her playmates and the servants. Within a year her parents were imprisoned and she was placed in a state orphanage.

She was to stay only a year at the orphanage, but while there, she began to learn a great many things. She bagan to listen to the myths and legends of the African natives for lack of anything better to do. She was also introduced to Christian mythologies for the first time, and finally, she was also given the chance to learn to control and use her magical abilitity with a proper practitioner, though she soon gave up given the child's bias towards using her powers against others.

After awhile, Oceana learned that she could increase her own power further if she were to ally herself with a demon, and that it was possible to control weaker demons if she were strong enough. Slowly and methodically she gathered the materials for the ritual.

However, things did not go as plan for the ritual. Instead of summoning and entreating with a low level demon as planned, she accidentally summonded Barbas, one of Hell's chiefs who immediately possessed her. Barbas, free of hell's confines immediately began to enjoy himself in his fashion.

The South Africans, unaware of the ritual performed, believed the young girl to have gone quite insane and she spent the remaining time until her 20th birthday within a mental instutution. In a way, this helped her and Barbas as they learned to work with each other and settled things between themselves, deciding that their goals were really not all that incompatible.

On her 20th birthday the time came, after much careful planning to leave the asylum. No one is really sure what happened that night, except that at dawn's first light the staf lay dead, seemingly boiled or frozen and one young woman missing.

Since then, Oceana fled to America and has spent her time keeping a low profile and learning where she can at least pretend to fit in, a crowd to hide amongst. The time hs become right for her to seek to fulfill her plans and goals, and in the process fulfill her demon's as well.

Writing Sample: A lone man hung limply from the celing of the small room, fixed there by sheaths of ice the color darkest night. A woman sat below him, apparently engrossed in conversation with herself. However, from time to time she looked up at him and nearly froze the blood in his veins, or other times causing it to warm to nearly boiling, and still other times to swirl within his veins against its natural flow, but all causing him to scream loudly in pain each time. Eventually the woman seemed to tire of hearing him beg incoherently for his death and froze his vocal cords solid, robbing him of the ability to so beg.

Below the man Oceana smiled darkly. Speaking aloud to thin air, she addressed the demon within her, "He does make such lovely screams of pain. Still, it's rather pathetic for such a strong man to be so broken."

From within her another, deeper, masculine dark voice boomed out, "Precisely dear Oceana. That is the price tht one pays for betraying us. He nearly led the priest directly to us. Still, he may yet serve a purpose, might he not?"

The blue haired wman seemed to ponder that for a long moment. Finally she sighed and waved her hand releasing the man from the ceiling to land with a loud thud before her. Smiling in a way that could best be described as worrisome, she acquiesced to her demon, "Yes, Barbas, I suppose he could. After all, it is within our power to give him what he most desires."

With a simple wave of her hand, Oceana caused a figure to appear before the man. To anyone else it would have appeared as a vaguely humanoid haze, but to the unfortunate victim it resembled his daughter. With a cruel laugh, she turned the illusionary girl to a skeletal corpse before his eyes before finally dispelling the illusion. Filling herself with air, she commanded the pitiful being in front of her with the voice that was both hers and Barbas', "Go now, pathetic tool. Bring the head of this holy man you tried to lead to us. Fail or betray us again and illusion may become reality."

And the rest:
Anything else? Lesse, Dark, deifnately twisted, and a match in every way for our resident psycho... did I forget anything on the check list?

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