IMMORTALIS, chauncey mercier

CHAUNCEY MASQUE MERCIER
_{"i don't know any place i can hide from the voices that are tearing me apart inside."}

Appearance

from the back, chauncey looks like every other person. you get a good look at his messy black hair, pale neck, and sweater, and a wonderful view of his plush rump legs. he stands at five feet and seven inches, not the tallest man in the world, yet average enough. he's slim, weighing at only one hundred ten pounds, a lot thinner than a man his height should be, but that is explained later. his sweater hides the faint outline of his ribs, so he doesn't care. however, it's upon turning around that you see what sets him apart from the crowd.

your eyes are instantly drawn to the white and black mask that is tied to his face. it covers everything, though a bit of chin might show through if he moves his head too much. the holes for his eyes are completely black, covered from behind using thin black fabric that allows him to see you but not the other way around. regardless, it does hinder his vision, so don't be too startled when he walks into a pole. the mask generally has some sort of comedic, cartoonish, somewhat creepy face drawn on it. his favorite ones include the frog and the cat, and the cat one even has triangular ears to accompany it.

what the world doesn't see is behind the mask, quite literally speaking, and underneath his clothes. chauncey is not perfect in the least. in fact, quite the opposite. his body is covered in scars, going up his arms, covering his torso, and even a few on his legs. the sweaters he favors wearing even in the hottest of weather hides the scars from the rest of the world, none of which were self-inflicted.

behind the mask? there are more scars. there are two scars across his eyes, one for each, going from his brow down to his cheek bone. there are even a few smaller ones on his forehead and cheeks. he could cover those with makeup if he wanted to, but the scars around his mouth are a lost cause. the 'mark of his father', as he likes to put it, is the extended corners of his mouth, carved up into a smile. there is an unfinished circle on each new 'corner' of his mouth where more harm would have been done had it not been for intervention. if you look hard enough, you can even see the faint, pin prick scars from where he had stitches. of course, you won't have that privilege as he'll never take off his mask in front of some mere human.

Personality

chauncey is a bit hard to piece together. he's just one large puzzle that you think you have but then your last pieces are missing because your poochyena ate them. wow, that was a bad... never mind. anyways, he's different. there are different sides of chauncey. what he'll normally try to put out towards everyone else is a calm, happy man who just wants to have a pleasant conversation. however, he's overly self-conscious because of the marks on his body. he doesn't even care if anyone can see them or not. one wrong look upon noticing chauncey is enough to make him jump to the conclusion that they're judging him.

the darkness inside chauncey, manifested from the trauma of his childhood, easily surfaces once he lets his mind run wild. what if they hate me now? then i'll hate them. what if they wish to harm me? then i'll harm them. these 'what if' questions are quickly answered by the darkness within his heart. it's easy for him to start hating someone, and he isn't against hurting them if there's even the slightest chance that they could do the same. this darkness has lead to multiple events: death, hospitalization, broken bones, bloody noses... you name it, he's probably done it.

the struggle to obtain chauncey's heart is a long, painful journey full of twists and turns. however, if you can succeed, there's a heart of gold waiting for you. this troubled soul holds the child-like innocence that was masked by the events of his childhood, locked away to never be seen again by the public. the first step is gaining his loyalty, and he'll follow you to the ends of the earth. the next is his trust, probably the hardest thing to obtain from him. obtain his trust, and he'll become more comfortable around you. the rest of the steps are a mystery. at the end of the road, the final step, however, is to accept.

due to childhood trauma, the darkness inside his heart isn't the only thing that is lurking around him. chauncey has dissociative amnesia, or moments where he cannot remember important events or names. this normally happens when he becomes stressed, and he'll even forget the name of the person standing in front of him, instead beginning to refer to them as random names or mon ami/mi amigo (he is trilingual with english, spanish, and french, french being his native language) when he doesn't want others to know. once he's in a less stressful environment, however, the memories suddenly flow back.

he also has combination eating disorder. chauncey has periods of fasting, usually for two or three weeks, before he goes through a week of eating every high calorie food he can find. after that week, however, he purges. everything that hasn't been digested is thrown up, and he begins fasting once more. he's also shown signs of pyromania, but that's only when he has something to start a fire with. he's been banned from all matches, lighters, and fire types.

lastly, he has chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. his childhood has haunted chauncey ever since day one. even in the calmer environment of his grandparents' house, he can never get over the trauma from before. if he goes anywhere near something that might remind him of the events--such as any place with knives and other sharp objects--or sees certain people--street fights, drunks, overall aggressive people--he might be set off. his stress levels raise, this triggering his dissociative amnesia, and he'll sometimes have a panic attack. normally, however, it isn't a panic attack. it's more or less just a ton of stress, fear, and he might have flashbacks, dreams (at night, even after going away from that area), illusions, and hallucinations, normally of his father. when it comes to people that trigger it, his mind replaces that person with his father. this has caused him quite a few fights as he would try to fight off his 'father' or because he would shell up and allow the darkness to manifest out in the open.

oh, it's also safe to say that he is not straight.

History

chauncey was born and raised in the kanto region to a town that really doesn't need to be named. he had a disfunctional family. a very disfunctional family. his mother was depressed and took far too many pills for comfort, and his father was a drunk. his mother at least tried to be a good mother for once when he was a toddler, but things just went downhilll after he reached the age of five. his father was abusive, whether he was drunk or sober. he honestly prefered when his father was drunk than when his father was sober as the man was a lot more irritable with a somewhat-clear mind.

chauncey's only happiness occurred when he went over to his grandparents' house. the couple were well off, living in a nicely sized two story house with a ranch. he knew his grandmother didn't work, but he didn't know what his grandfather did. he was often away, but the days where he was there were filled with laughter and singing. his grandmother had a domesticated pokemon who helped around with housework and daily farm chores--a chansey. whenever she would all one of them, both would answer. it got really confusing until his grandmother started calling the pokemon chance.

these moments of happiness where the only things that kept him going as a child. at six, his father's beatings grew progressively worse. at eight, knives were drawn on him on multiple occassions. he never stabbed him. no, he would pin him against the floor and drag it across his skin, always making sure it was where he could easily cover them up with clothing. he grew accustomed to wearing long sleeves, never rolling them up, even when his grandmother questioned him.

it was at twelve that everything just hit the fan before falling to rock bottom. his mother died. she was the only thing his father truly cared about, and chauncey finding his mother hanging in the closet did not make his mood any brighter. his father pinned his mother's death on him, using it as a horrible excuse to increase the abuse towards his son. no, he didn't even consider him a son anymore, and chauncey sure as hell didn't consider him a father. it was at thirteen that the knife was drawn to a less easily concealed place: his face. the slices were hasty at first, like he was afraid someone was going to barge it.

when no on came to the boy's strangled screams, the man began to carve a permanent smile onto the boy's face. it was the most painful experience in his life, and his screams grew even louder. his salvation came in the form of his neighbor knocking on the door. he screamed louder as his father tried to rush his 'masterpiece'. the door was broken down, a blur of brown headbutting his father off of him. chauncey just laid there, his screams ceasing as he passed out.

he woke up a week later in the hospital, bandages all around his face, torso, and arms. to his side was his grandparents, another chansey and a doctor. he was released a week later, only told to not open his mouth and to only drink fluids until his face healed. no one even bothered to run tests on his mental being, even after so many years of abuse. he moved in with is grandparents, spending most of his time in his room as he tried to cope with the darkness that was growing within him.

the years passed him by, and he grew older. he took to wearing masks instead of seeing his 'hideous' face in the mirror. his collection of masks grew, though he never wanted to get the better looking ones. he liked the white ones with creepy, cartoony faces on them. when team rocket took over kanto, he was confused as to why their ranch was kept relatively alone except for the occassional grunt or two. it was then that he found out from his grandmother that his grandmother was an officer within team rocket. chauncey took it well, much to his grandmother's shock. he just shrugged it off, muttering a that's cool, before walking off to find chance. when he turned sixteen, he enlisted in team rocket, despite his grandmother's objections.

when enlisting, he was given a gastly. the pokemon became a close friend, easily winning him over. they did everything together, and chauncey rarely had the dual type inside of his pokeball. chauncey climbed the ranks, watching as kanto and johto fell and team rocket, plasma, and galactic merged into immortalis. somewhere along the line, he obtained a shedinja from a grunt who had evolved there nincada and didn't want the soulless pokemon. chauncey absolutely adored the shedinja, finding it absolutely fascinating. he never stared into its back, though, learning that from a foolish pokemon who became far too curious for its own good.

at twenty, chauncey found himself promoted to demi-god of ghost, going off of his ghost type pokemon. the next year, the god above him was booted off, declared missing in action, and chauncey was promoted. oh, if only his father could see him now.

Pokemon

name: oscuro
species: haunter
gender: male
level: twenty-five
type: ghost-poison
ability: levitate
moves: shadow punch, sucker punch, hypnosis, night shade


name: alma
species: shedinja
gender: genderless
level: twenty
type: ghost-bug
ability: wonder guard
moves: mind reader, fury swipes, leech life, sand attack
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this character is played by MAKOTO who was brought here by MICHAEL & FACEBOOK you can contact them through PMS (PFFFF).