PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Leto
Shapeshifting & Mind Manipulation
Son of the Demon Lord of Envy
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Post by Zander Sterling on Jun 29, 2015 0:29:58 GMT
He dodged the first punch but was met with the second one without so much as a second's warning. He staggered backwards, throwing his arms up to protect his face against the third punch. The shouts and screams around them was like a droning outside his concentration that he barely noticed. The man in front of him bounced back a few feet and took a defensive stance, a cut above his left eyebrow dripping blood into his eye. Since moving to New Orleans, Zander had found himself quite bored. The rise in demon population in the city meant more crime but by having more work, it took away from his chance of ever having some kind of social life. A few months back, he'd busted a guy participating in an underground fight club and Zander found himself fascinated by the very idea. Using a fake alias, he found himself entering the illegal sport and was met with the entertainment and thrill he had been seeking. His mother be damned. She should be proud. With each win he procured, the level of Envy in the room grew. Shaking the dizziness from his head, Zander attacked, taking down his opponent in three swings. Finally, his hearing turned back on and the roar of the crowd was deafening and he found himself grinning. He was known as the 'Fighting Demon'. In today's world, it was common knowledge what a wings tattoo on your back meant. Every demon and angel in the world had them. Fighters from all over the city and even some adjoining states came to try their hand at him. However, Zander's love for humans kept him literally brutalizing his opponents. He gave them an honest and fair chance before crushing them. The commentator for the night sounded off his name and score before he was ushered off the stage. Fighting through a crowd of fans, he finally made it to the locker room and collapsed down on one of the benches, a permanent smile on his face. He didn't feel remotely tired and, honestly, he was ready to get back out there. He'd never felt more alive.
Elizabeth Sterling
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Shell
Shapeshifter
Sin of Envy
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Post by Elizabeth Sterling on Jun 29, 2015 2:06:08 GMT
Word had gotten around of the “Fighting Demon”‒mostly whispers‒and Liz was intrigued by the amount of envy people felt for him. Someone that could cause so much of her sin always warranted her attention and that was why she ended up in the underground fight club, having charmed her way in. She circled for the most part, scouting out the place and trying to decipher why anyone would want to be here, something she was still puzzled by it by the time the fight she had been waiting for started. She turned her attention to it, her eyes on the wing tattoo as he took punches. She circled more, wanting a glimpse of the man’s face but the crowd made that next to impossible. The fight had ended before she could get a look at the guy but as he fought his way through the crowd she saw his profile and Liz’s blood all but boiled underneath her skin. Lucky for her son, she was never one to lose her temper especially in the public eye so no one was going to die‒at least not today and not directly by her hand‒she made her way through the crowds and managed to get into the locker room, where her son was on a bench. A scowl sat on her face from his antics, he was ruining the work she had done to keep his existence a secret and it made her want to smack him. She clapped slowly and mockingly and her words took on the same tone, “Good job out there, ‘Fighting Demon’.” She said to get his attention from the doorway before she moved further into the room, her distaste evident. What was not evident was how impressed she was by the room full of envy that he caused. She sighed and put a hand to her temple in exasperation, “What in the world were you thinking, Zander!? You are undoing the work I have done for over a century now just so you can punch a few idiots in the face and get an adrenaline boost from it!? I don’t even know what to do with you!” Her motherly instincts were creeping out left a bad taste in her mouth, “Part of me‒the part that actually cares about your well-being‒wants to smack you so hard upside the head that you forget your own damn name! The other part of me‒that pesky little envy causing Demi God part‒wants me to pat you on the back and buy you a fucking drink for a job well done!” she frowned. Knowing her she’d probably end up doing both, the order in which that would happen was unclear though. She kept her eyes glued to him, awaiting the rebuttal she was sure he had.
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Leto
Shapeshifting & Mind Manipulation
Son of the Demon Lord of Envy
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Post by Zander Sterling on Jun 29, 2015 3:28:25 GMT
He jumped at the sound of her voice and turned, catching her as she sashayed towards him, clapping in a way that only struck Zander as sarcastic. He sighed, facing the ceiling with his eyes closed. He should have known that, with the amount of Envy being created here, she would show up eventually. She was like a lone wolf to a feeding frenzy. He smirked as she praised him hidden underneath a reprimand. So typical of his mother. However, when she mentioned tearing down everything she had built up for him, he gave her a sharp glance, green eyes annoyed.
"You act like I still need protecting." he told her, pulling the tape from around his hands and flexing. Even taking on several opponents that night, it barely left any physical reminders. He stood up, pulling his shirt from the open locker and pulling it down over his head, hiding his wing tattoo once more. "I went decades without you and even though I've moved into your territory, I don't need you hovering over me like some mother dog." He finally turned to face her. "I think you should rely on your instincts of praise. After all, I'm keeping you from setting loose a Demon Lord. You should be grateful to me."
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Shell
Shapeshifter
Sin of Envy
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Post by Elizabeth Sterling on Jun 30, 2015 0:02:32 GMT
One perfectly manicured eyebrow rose sharply at him, "Apparently, you do still need protecting because you don't have enough forethought to realize this will draw the attention of people that can easily figure out who you are." She all but growled. She had much bigger plans for the future than he knew of and if someone decided to use him against her or even kill him she would be shit out of luck. Someone walked into the locker room then and earned themselves a harsh glare from the she demon, who was ready to wring her hands around someone's throat if they were too close to her lethal grasp. "I suggest you turn around and walk out before your option to do so eternally expires." She hissed and after a few eye shifts around the room he did an about face and walked out. Liz's attention went back to her son, her face unamused. "I don't need your help keeping the Demi God contained, Zander. You took that upon yourself even though I decided to stop wreaking havoc on the world when the damn Angels came up with the idiotic agreement which I did because I didn't want you to live in a world with a Demi God loose. You do it because it's just as much a drug to you as it is to me, don't try to deny it. Creating sin is far more self satisfying than anyone realizes." Her voice mirthless. She was growing ever more exasperated by the minute. She decided needed a glass of liquor in her hand, "I'm going to go get a drink. You can stay here with your sweaty, beat up 'friends' or you can join me for one. With some alcohol in me hopefully I'll start sounding less like your mother and more like a fucking Demon Lord." Her hand went to her temple again before she made her way for the door.
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Leto
Shapeshifting & Mind Manipulation
Son of the Demon Lord of Envy
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Post by Zander Sterling on Jul 5, 2015 1:07:58 GMT
He sighed, running a hand through his hair in frustration. "You, of all people, should know that envy is naturally created in abundance by humans. Especially in instances where someone is better than others. They very idea of figuring out I'm the son of a Demon Lord is a fifty fifty chance, at most. However, whatever else he was going to say was interrupted as the ring's owner walked in, no doubt ready to congratulate him but it was the look from Liz that had the man freezing in place. Zander felt a twinge of pity for him. He'd been on the receiving end of that look before and he didn't fancy being there anytime soon. He didn't blame Rick for turning and walking back out the door. He probably would have done the same.
When she continued her speel, he sighed and finished collecting his things from his locket before slamming it closed, his green eyes flashing angrily. "I've stopped working in your place a long fucking time ago." he growled to her, his true demon side seeping out. "However, I do seek a thrill from the everyday mundane and just so happens, I'm naturally talented at a lot of things and humans, naturally, envy things they don't have."
He felt a rising anger when she turned from him and suggested getting drinks. Typical Liz, always seeming to find answers over alcohol. His hands clenched as he battled his inner anger before letting out yet another sigh and rolling his eyes. His mother's offer for him to join her wasn't an offer, but an order. He knew better. If he decided to stay with his "friends", he'd get worse than this later. Without argument, he followed her.
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Shell
Shapeshifter
Sin of Envy
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Post by Elizabeth Sterling on Jul 7, 2015 3:12:56 GMT
Liz whipped around to look at him one last time, her eyes narrowed and her grasp on her clutch tightening, she sure did hate when she got defensive‒especially when she couldn’t tell if it was about her own future plans or because of her worry for his wellbeing. “You’re a demon in an underground fight club generating so much envy that it attracted me here, do you think I am the only one that will notice? The rest of the Divine aren’t as dense as you want to believe. I know I can’t stop you but I swear to Mayaria, Zander! You better not get yourself discovered!” She shouted what she hoped would be her final warning on the matter this evening at him before she turned on her heels again and walked out, practically crushing the contents of the clutch purse she was holding as she went. She knew full well that he would follow, he knew better than to anger her and so far she was being relatively tame‒she hadn’t leveled a building or even made a large muscular man cry like a small child while he begged for his own death to come swiftly so it spoke leagues about her anger at the moment.
Soon thereafter she was out on the streets of New Orleans and without looking around too much had gathered her bearings. “This way.” She all but growled and walked down the street. She was too high class to drink in just any old bar but she also required a martini too much to travel to one of her usual places so the bar they ended up in was just subpar enough for Elizabeth Sterling to be seen in. There were a few spaces at the bar but no two seats were together but that was not a problem for her in the slightest. She merely made her way over to a group of four men and whispered a few things into one of their ears and they merely nodded before he and his buddies cleared the area, leaving six open seats from , one of which she promptly sat in after straightening out her dress. “Vodka martini. Do not let me see a bottle of vermouth in your hand while you make it. And whatever he’s having.” She vaguely gestured to Zander.
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Leto
Shapeshifting & Mind Manipulation
Son of the Demon Lord of Envy
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Post by Zander Sterling on Jul 14, 2015 1:30:07 GMT
Why? That was the question that had bothered him since he'd been born. What did it matter if the other Demon Lords discovered his existence? Wouldn't they welcome him? Why was he being born so important to his mother that she'd go this far to keep him unknown to even other demons? He clenched his fists, biting back a reply and, luckily, Liz turned and left the locker room. However, he could feel the proverbial leash that attached him to her, tugging and he had no choice but to follow her. Standing her would only cause more problems.
Like normal, Liz found a classy place and immediately cleared the area where they were sitting. With a roll of his eyes, he slid into the seat beside her and ordered a scotch, thanking the waiter when he brought their drinks, which was far more than she would have done. He twirled the ice in his glass a few moments before taking a drink and setting it back down on the counter. "I think it's time you tell me everything, mother." he told her. "My reason for existing. For a woman who seeks no other comforts in this world, you found someone you wanted to share genetics with to create me. Why was he so important and why are you keeping me a secret? I swear to Mayaria, if you keep this from me, you'll never see me again." He let the threat hang between them. Let her take it anyway she pleased.
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
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Sin of Envy
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Post by Elizabeth Sterling on Jul 14, 2015 2:34:00 GMT
The line of questioning began before she could even take a sip of her martini and Elizabeth stared at her son with a deep frown on her face, "Since I have kept you a secret for so long do you really think I will be inclined to inform you of all of that while sitting in a bar?" She asked before sipping her martini. She looked back at Zander and sighed it resignation. Her reasons weren't entirely selfish after all–she did legitimately care for his well being–and though she certainly wouldn't spill all of her secrets in a public place she supposed she could at least give him some information. "Your father–now dead–was a man of great power. We'll just say he was in politics, shall we? Being a man of position and desire he strayed from his wife and I swooped in–you know I have an affinity for people with money and power." She took another sip from her glass before continuing. "You weren't entirely intentional. Not at first anyway but since his wife had bore him several daughters and one sickly son I suppose he was glad for the prospect of an heir of sorts... Even an illegitimate one. But before you were even born he was dispatched along with his wife and children as well as anyone connected to them. I was very pregnant and incredibly self serving so I fled as quickly as I could but not without leaving quite a few people on my trail as I went" If Liz hated anything it was reliving and recounting the past; she preferred to leave it where it belonged– forgotten behind her. She polished off her martini and signaled for another. "You were born shortly thereafter... I was still be searched for even... I kept you a secret, fearing you would be killed otherwise. It's been easier this way... And if anyone found out about you they would find the weakness in my hard scaly armor and I can't have anyone exploiting you to get to me." She finished as her second drink arrived and looked at him, hoping that would suffice for now.
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Leto
Shapeshifting & Mind Manipulation
Son of the Demon Lord of Envy
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Post by Zander Sterling on Jul 14, 2015 3:19:45 GMT
He sat in silence as she talked, taking a drink every so often and looking everywhere but at her. She had never divulged any information about his father before, either ignoring him or telling him he was dead and to just let it go. Finding out this much information had his heart pounding. He knew his mother only sought out those with influence. It was just who she was so he'd expected as much to be a child of some powerful figure. However, to hear it better explained in greater detail had him on the edge of his seat. The whole family... dead? He could accept the fact that he was a bastard child but to hear that he had had other family? Siblings? He'd keep the thoughts to himself. Even uttering a single thought towards those that were dead would most likely rile her anger. Instead, he turned his attention to his retention of history classes. His mind slipped aimlessly past political figures, those with families and those dead. None really stuck out. At least, none in the era in which he'd been born.
He finished his drink and when the waiter offered to fill it, he turned him down, handing over his glass and leaning back in his chair. "Doesn't explain why you hid me from the other Demon Lords. It's common knowledge the others have children. What difference does it make? Would I not be better protected than I am now, simply under your care?" He was aware he was walking on hot coals here but he wanted her to spit it out. What was so important that even her brethren couldn't know about him?
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
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Shapeshifter
Sin of Envy
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Post by Elizabeth Sterling on Jul 14, 2015 3:46:41 GMT
Elizabeth let out a very audible sigh of annoyance then, "I don't remember signing up for a rousing game of twenty questions when I ordered my martini..." She took a sip of her drink and proceeded to answer his questions‒albeit begrudgingly, "If the other Demon Lords knew about you then that would put you in the same position their own children are in– essentially useable. I frankly would not care in the slightest if the others children died and I am certain that they feel the same way... So, what started as me wanting to make sure you did not meet your father's fate turned into a desire to make sure no one put you in harm’s way for their own benefit. And I will be the first to admit at first part of it was mostly selfish since you could easily have taken over your father's position and you would have had great power yourself and by proxy me since you would have been too young to actually do anything but that is not how I feel any longer. I stopped feeling that way after you were born actually." She ended on that note, figuring she had already given away too much information as it was. She finished her martini then and almost ordered another but in the end declined–deciding not to get drunk despite the everlasting desire to forget about the conversation entirely. She raised an eyebrow at him before flagging down the waiter for the check, "Do you have any more questions to make me uncomfortable with? Want to know names? Locations? Details I have hidden for one hundred or so years now?” she asked as she paid the bill, leaving a gracious tip, before turning her attention back to him fully.
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Leto
Shapeshifting & Mind Manipulation
Son of the Demon Lord of Envy
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Post by Zander Sterling on Jul 15, 2015 2:52:00 GMT
Like a bird with it's feathers ruffled, Zander got the sense that his mother was done and nothing else would get her to say anything more. It wasn't the closure he was looking for but it certainly suited him for that moment. She had her reasons and, for once, they were selfish and he could accept that. However, he was a grown man now, not a child, and he no longer needed her protection. Liz would need to learn to let go of him, like any mother in the world did. Sure, he might be discovered by the Demon Lords but he was capable of his own decisions and protecting himself.
When she mentioned telling him more, he shook his head and turned in his chair to see her fully. "Apparently my lineage is far too important to keep it a secret from even me so I won't press. After all, if he's dead, what does it matter anyway?" Though he knew it would haunt him forever by leaving it there, he knew nothing would change with knowing a name or not knowing a name accept sating his own curiosity. "So, you've got alcohol in my system on top of having a surge of adrenaline. What do you suppose you're going to do with me now?" He asked her, a teasing smirk crossing his face. "Surely you should know that forcing me to come home and go to bed will not end in your favor."
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