Cane Astrada

Cane is an extremely wealthy individual currently living in a Mansion in the suburbs of Sweden. He is a gifted with strictly defensive abilities which assist him in brokering deals. His personality comes across as cold, but he secretly longs for the warmth of his youth, before the loss of his family.

Physical Description

 * Height: 6ft 0in
 * Weight: 150 pounds
 * Eye Color: Grey
 * Hair Color: Golden to Light Brown
 * Hair Style: Medium and Tousled
 * Sexual Orientation: Homosexual

Family

 * Father: Daine Addler (Location Unknown)
 * Mother: Molly Astrada (Deceased)

Skills
Power Negation - The ability to stop all forms of abilities within twenty five feet of the user. Anyone within the range effectively becomes a human and may be killed like one.

Regeneration - The ability to rapidly recover from any wound, as long as that wound does not destroy the brain.

Appearance
Cane Astrada is a beautiful man. Plain and simple. He is youthful and impressively fit, able to attract everyone. Women often drool over him, which amuses him a great deal, seeing as he is gay. Regardless of orientation, Cane was blessed with an incredible gene pool that resulted in his phenomenal good looks. His father was a noble angel and his mother was beautiful in her own humanesque ways. Together they bestowed upon Cane his stunning appearance, and he has always appreciated it.

He has dark golden hair, medium length and tousled. His head itself is an average shape and he has a rather defined jaw line. His grey eyes almost seem faceted, like a gem, and twinkle in the light. His eyebrows are thin and arch sharply above his eyes. His ears are average sized and rather unremarkable. His skin is nicely tanned and clear, but he has very light freckling in a thin, arched band across the middle of his cheeks and the bridge of his nose. He has no facial hair, and shaves often. His teeth are perfect and white, and he has a habit of biting his pale lower lip (cutely, of course) in a number of circumstances, such as when he is nervous or shy.

His body is perfectly muscled in almost a feminine way. He is further on the camp side, and it shows in different ways. He doesn't have a large amount of bulk to him, but is still very fit. His chest is muscled, abs and all, but he doesn't seem hulking. He is on the tall side and has equally proportioned limbs and torso, not at all lanky or bony. His hands and feet are on the small side, once again being subtly camp. His nails are perfectly manicured, and they rarely grow long. His chest and back are hairless, and his arms and legs only have thin hair.

Overall, Cane is an Adonis. He knows it and everyone else knows it, which helps in so many ways.

Likes

 * Money
 * Winning
 * Power
 * Manipulation
 * Competition
 * Intelligence/Wit/Cunning
 * Lying
 * Men
 * Coldness
 * The Color Silver

Dislikes

 * Lower Class
 * Losing
 * Weakness
 * Unintelligence
 * Simplicity
 * Straight People (as a general rule)
 * The Color Pink

Personality
Despite overwhelming good looks, Cane is anything but charming. He is first and foremost a man of money. He manipulated his way into a strong political position alongside the Elder Council, and he manipulates anyone he can to place himself in a better financial or political position.

With his elite skills of persuasion and negotiation, he has become extremely rich and powerful. Through his endeavors, he has created many skeletons in the closet, and is the skeleton in many other people's closet. He is a cold, calculating, and remorseless man.

He has a strict network of spies, sources, and informants. Of course, that means he also happens to be one of the best sources of information in the paranormal world. His broad access to key information also means many individuals seek his head. Luckily, with his two gifted abilities, he is rather difficult to kill.

His abilities are impressively useful. Of course, he isn't much of a fighter, seeing as his powers are both defensive. In tandem, they make him capable of surviving practically anything besides a bullet to the head. Barring that eventuality, Cane carries a small knife to dispose of anyone dumb enough to attack him. Even the mightiest of Vampires and Demons can do him no harm. Many people are unsure if the name "Addler" was given or taken, due to its appropriateness. His powers addle any other power of another being, much to the irritation of many.

In a word, Cane is mean. He looks down on anyone lesser than himself, and anyone above him is viewed as another person soon to be below him. He can't stand for those lacking intelligence or those who live their lives in a simple manner. He prefers things complicated and hard to understand, as his powerful mind can untwist most puzzles quickly. He loves a challenge, be it mental or physical, and he possesses a strong sense of competition. His favorite type of challenge, though, is one of words. He is an expert at lying, and he enjoys seeing what sort of web he can weave.

Of course, such a lifestyle leads to a rather lonely existence. Coupled with being in the minority of homosexuality, Cane has few friends and fewer lovers. He secret dreams of falling in love so he can finally slow down and warm up. That day has yet to have been seen, and so his heart is still ice cold and sharp.

Biography
Cane Astrada has had a less than preferable past. In just twenty three years, he has seen and done enough to last anyone a lifetime. Death, lies, and betrayal plague his thoughts, and they mold the person he is. If it weren't for his past, he would have had a personality to suit his face; now, the only thing Cane loves is money, seeing as that is the only thing that he knows he can keep constant in his life.

His father, Daine Addler, was an Angel created to dispose of any threats to the holy realm. Being a high ranking Angle, Daine was easily able to steal the heart of Cane's mother, Molly Astrada. Molly was an Opera Singer who had achieved stardom in the United States. The two fell deeply in love and soon created Cane together. When Cane was born, his parents were overjoyed. But a few days after Cane's birth, his father discovered that Cane had inherited the ability to stop the powers of others. Daine, being furious that he was just a human around his son, fled back into heaven, leaving his family behind forever. Molly was heart-broken and poured her soul into two things, her music and her son.

Cane grew up without a father figure, and attended an all-male arts school. He had inherited his mother's powerful and soulful voice, and awed all who listened, even though he didn't sing opera. Even his speaking voice was enchanting, and he was happy with the popularity it brought him. He never felt sadness for the absence of his father, as he had no memories of the man. Due to the circumstances of his life, though, he soon identified himself as gay and came out to many of his friends at high school when he was fifteen. Although he loved his mother dearly, he didn't tell her, because at the time she seemed to be slipping further and further into depression.

He had only two relationships in high school, and both were very loving and intimate. But near his seventeenth birthday, he was struck with tragedy. He came home one night to find his mother on the couch. As he came closer, he discovered she was not breathing. When the paramedics arrived from the nearest hospital, they pronounced her DOA. The cause of death was suicide by pills. She died without ever knowing her son was gay.

He lived in well-to-do conditions and so was able to have a large and beautiful funeral for his mother. It was decided that Cane was old enough to live independently, seeing as he had inherited his mother's fortune, and so he wasn't sent to live with another part of the family, a family he had never been close with.

With the great sorrow of his mother's death, Cane broke up with his boyfriend and refused any type of therapy. He became very solitary, and stopped to enjoy the friendships he once had. He graduated high school with low marks, and soon drifted off to a waiter job at a nearby cafe, instead of going to college. He stopped singing, and his voice became flat and cold, no longer as beautiful as it once had been.

He began to blame his mother and father for the disaster his life was. He tried his hardest to find his father, to vent all of his sorrows, and that was when he discovered the paranormal world. He was contacted by a Witch who held the rest of Cane's inheritance, a small fortune of the currency used by this secret world. With that inheritance, Cane was able to work his way into the inner politics of the society, and developed himself into one of the richest men in the world; be it through wholesome monetary exchanges or shady black market deals, he gained more and more money.

His new identity as a Gifted assisted him in growing his current love of money. He soon found even the most dangerous business partners were like kittens around him. Although, he did hire a number of body guards, just in case. Over the years, all the way to the present, Cane has enjoyed his new, luxurious life style. With his new line of work, he became a cold, friendless individual, successful, but alone. He didn't mind at all, but secretly, he has begun to miss the relationships of his teenage years. ..