Age; 23
Affiliation; Insomnia / Soldier (Private First Class)
Likes; fighting, blood, the library – he reads a lot, usually nonfiction such as autobiographies, but his favorite is a good murder mystery, candlemaking, wax seals, fire, a challenge, gifts
Dislikes; cowards, being interrupted in the middle of reading, baking, losing, soup, sit-down restaurants
Bonus info; He has congenital analgesia, a rare condition where he can’t feel pain or temperature differences. Though it sounds like a perfect recipe for a brutal soldier, it’s actually quite dangerous because Cardinal won’t stop until he’s literally dead. Though he’s been taught to be careful, he tends to go a little nuts if he sees blood or fire. To make it worse, Cardinal is extremely competitive and he’s never lost a fight. His commanding officer has assigned him a minder to keep tabs on him and make sure he doesn’t die by accident. He’s too low ranking to be commanded directly under Vash, but serves indirectly under him.
Cardinal has several scars on his body, some self-inflicted and some accidental. The worst of his scars are on his hands, so he usually wears gloves – not because he’s disgusted by them, but because other people tend to be. Interestingly enough, he has no fingerprints - he was helping his father bake once when he was younger and still learning about his condition, and burned all of his fingerprints off taking a hot pan out of the oven. Though medical technology helps with the scarring process, skin grafting couldn’t recreate his fingerprints.
He tends to be very possessive of the people he loves and treasures them. He wears a high-tech necklace and earring set that beeps if he’s hurt, or if he’s about to eat something is too hot. It was gifted to him, and though Cardinal finds it annoying, he wears it because it was a gift. He doesn’t have very many friends, usually because people are scared of him (and for good reason), so the ones he does have he keeps close.
Bio; Cardinal is one of Livie and Aquila’s kids, and takes far more after Livie than Aquila. Though he was showered with love and affection from his parents, his condition and inheriting some of his parents’ tendencies meant that he didn’t end up a totally sane adult. As a child, his parents were very careful with him because of his inability to feel pain. Once he was a bit older and knew what to manage, Livie was happy to play wrestle with Cardinal, and signed him up for martial arts classes. Like his mother, he took to fighting and quickly proved to be a brutal fighter. He was kicked out of classes for not listening to the instructor. Also like his mother, he’s drawn to fire and once tried to burn their house down because he was curious. Fortunately, his family arrived home a bit early from whatever they had been doing and stopped him just as he was dropping matches to the carpet. His parents redirected that tendency to hobbies that were more constructive, like candlemaking or creating wax seals.
He tends to be very singleminded and will often ignore people if he’s in the middle of something. He's dated some people, but they typically find him to be too possessive/sadistic… or they just don’t like pain. Or being tied up. Cowards. Though he can be a little questionable in terms of sanity, Cardinal doesn’t just go around hurting or burning people because he feels like it – usually, they have to do something terrible to earn it. Or they consent. Cardinal likes the latter far better.
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