Stefan von Engels.

[Stefan von Engels]

STEFAN VON ENGELS.

.. the mask

Your Name: Lexx.
Where did you find us?: A roleplaying list.
How long have you been roleplaying?: 8 years or so.
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.. basic character information

Birth Name: Stefan Von Engels.
Pronunciation: Steh-fahn vaughn Eng'els.
Nickname: Engel, Vonnie, Roddy, Steffy.
Gender: Male.
Age: 16
Orientation: Bi, more towards men.
Grade: 11
Birth date: January 19.
Program: Bachelor of Arts.
Major: Theatre Studies.
Major Explanation: Stefan is very much full of expression, and he sees the world as a dramatic musical. He enjoys dance, but also singing, and it's always been a big part of his life. He's got an excellent acting face and his singing isn't bad either. Theatre and preforming helped him through the roughest parts of his life, and he's very thankful to them. He's swift and soft on stage, like a dove. And as well, both his acting and the animal are very feminine. He seems to float on stage and when he's singing, almost as if by flight.
Animal Identity: Dove.

.. personality

Likes:

• Music.
  
• Singing.
  
• Dancing.
  
• Bitter tea.
  
• Women and men.
  
• Roses and flowers / Autumn.
  
• Laughing.
  
• Warm temperatures.
  
• Movement.
  
• Love / Kisses and hugs / Romance.
  

Dislikes:

• Hatefulness.
  
• Stoic people.
  
• People who are difficult to work with.
  
• Freezing cold.
  
• Staying still.
  
• Being yelled at.
  
• Helicopter leaves.
  
• Summer / when it's HOT, not WARM.
  
• Guys who don't do anything in the relationship, ex, hold the door, give the girl his coat if it's cold.
  
• False drama.
  

Fears:

• Being alone.
  
• Really muscular men.
  
• Enclosed spaces, like a closet.
  

Strengths:

• Confidence.
  
• Romance / being 'suave'
  
• Acting.
  

Weaknesses:

• Can't hold an argument whatsoever.
  
• Can't fight.
  
• He can't really be serious.
  

Overall: All in all, Stefan is amazingly fun. He goes to extreme lengths to make anything he does completely and totally un-boring. He'll laugh at the oddest times and make sure to clue everyone in on his newest joke. When he's not laughing, he's giggling at something. He often makes his sentences rhyme, and will sing them if he's in the mood. In his head, everything is a musical and everyone is singing, the type of music depending on his mood or the mood of the person talking to him. If the conversation is dramatic, his expressions and word choice will be as well. He knows hes not that handsome, but he still tries to woo the men, and the ladies, with his chivalry and seemingly 'stuck in the times' romance. Sweeping them off their feet, Stefan will tuck a rose in his mouth and take them out for a night of dancing, gently kissing their hand like an old movie before walking them home. He's easy to love if you can get past his singing most words, because as you could imagine that gets very annoying. So annoying it caused him to become estranged from his family- and so he hopes to settle down one day and start a family of his own, if with a man, adopt. If with a woman, make a kid the old fashioned way. Not forgetting the roses and candles of course, and only after marriage. Stefan is sweet as can get and is compassionate to no end. This makes him slightly annoying as well, because he'll keep checking up on you even if nothing is wrong. 'Are you sure?' 'Positive?' 'Abso-tively poso-lutely?' However bad he may seem, he's always got everyone's good intentions at heart and Stefan means well with whatever he does. He can be rather eccentric at times, choosing flashy clothes most of the time and occasionally wearing girls' jeans and shirts. No dresses, though. But t-shirts and pants? Yes. He finds them comfortable and thin, his choice wear in the summer. He doesn't view gender as a physical thing, but as a mental thing, so no matter what you say to him about his wearing odd things, he won't care in the least and simply thank you for your input in a flashy tone. He's confident in everything he does, not caring for others opinions in the slightest. At times he tends to ramble about random things, like the color of a flower or the texture of a wall.. and it all makes him seem rather mad. Who knows. But all the most fun people in the world are at least a bit mad. Right?

.. appearance

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Celebrity Play By: Sam Martin.
Appearance: Stefan has the adorable kind of 'baby face.' He's not handsome, but he will tell you he thinks he's absolutely adorable. His hair is naturally a bright blonde, and the strands cast dark shadows- coupled with his time in the sun that only bleaches the top layer of his hair, it makes it look like he has frosted tips. It's short, and in the back, it looks like a strong fan has blown it forward. If it's not like that, he keeps the back spiked and the front messy. His eyes are a deep brown, with a bit of gold and green around the pupil, and they always seem glassy. The corners crinkle with he smiles, which is all the time, so he has permanent crows feet. His smile is wide and bright, with his teeth a bright white and unstained, though his mouth is crooked when he smiles. He's always smiling, and it's very rare to see him frowning. His lips are a soft pink color, and his upper lip seems to be totally straight most of the time, only when he frowns (which is, again, never) can you see that it has a slight dip in the center like a normal person's. He's not tall but not short, at an average 5'5, and he tends to wear odd things- thin striped black and white shirts, pinstripe shoes, bright jeans, but he doesn't really care what you say about it. He has his ears pierced, but normally doesn't wear earrings. If he does, it's in the 'gay side' only. He hasn't worn earrings in a while though, and he thinks the holes have closed. He wears thin eyeliner sometimes as well.

As a dove, though, Stefan is insanely sophisticated, his movements feather light and soft, and his white feathers reflect the light and seem to make him glow. He's soft and 'beautiful,' with his deep brown eyes that stay through his shift. The feathers on his wings are long and elegant, and the bird obviously shows showiness. His beak is long and tapered for a dove, and a soft, lowly saturated yellow color, the same as his legs, which have dark, black claws, not small, but not as big as an eagles or such, obviously. His eyes are the same dark brown as they normally are, but when the sun hits them they look gold. His eyelids are black as opposed to the normal pink of doves.[/size]

.. history

Parents: Rod von Engels and Christa von Engels.
Siblings: n/a.
As a baby, Stefan was born to a loving family as the first and only child. He was a happy baby, always giggling and dancing. His mother was a stork shift, his father a human, so you can imagine the puns made about his birth. From the first day when she saw his smiling face, she knew he would be a soft, loving shifter, a bird of some sort. With a small laugh, Stefan made his first sounds and clung to his mother in all smiles. As he got older, he showed a fondness for singing and dancing, often found twirling about in his room to classical music, only to laugh and invite whoever it was in if they were to walk in on him doing so. He'd grab their hand and lead them into a waltz or just a random jig before finally letting them leave. Noticing his fondness for dancing and singing, his mother gave him a few copies of different classic musicals, and the one that caught his eye was 'The Sound of Music.' Set in his homeland of Austria, he immediately sat down and watched it. By the time it was over, Stefan was smitten with the story and the music. And within a few days, he knew all the words to all the songs. His mother continued to find new musicals for him to watch, and he thanked her every day until he was about 9 and a half. It was then his father died. His father suffered from asthma, and so one night he simply stopped breathing. They called the ambulance but nothing could save him by the time they got there. Stefan had to say goodbye. Soon his mother married another man, a jackal shifter named Lionel Vetter, and it was obvious that the relationship was sour, but Stefan found no evidence of this until his mother started coming home with bruises. Soon Lionel moved in, and started terrorizing the family. Stefan was forced to sleep in the closet for no reason, all his musicals and tapes burned and when Lionel was angry he got beaten. When Stefan got his first puppy-love boyfriend at 11, Lionel was the first to beat him within inches of his life. The boy ran home crying, not allowed to see Stefan anymore. Pretty soon the only thing he had to turn to were stolen versions of musicals and songs, and he kept to these when he needed a pick-me-up. Soon, everything he saw and heard formed music, his mind trying to keep his happy-place with him constantly. He didn't hear talking anymore, he heard singing, and music, and beats, and notes, and.. false happiness. This went on for 4 years, until the boy was 13. Lionel was in his shift, the jackal cornering the stork shifter into the corner, and Stefan, normally a cool-minded, happy person, snapped. His personality forced him to become something sweet and lovely, but his mind wanted to become something deadly to punish the man who hurt him and his mother. Stefan let out a horrible scream that gradually heightened in pitch as he shifted for the first time, eventually the shriek resembled a loud, warbling bird call. He shrunk, and the call changed to a cry of pain as feathers shot from his skin like a blanket, covering him in white as his lips hardened and formed a beak. His clothes dropped to the floor and his fingernails pointed out into dark claws. Soon he was flapping away, flying high to the ceiling before diving down, beak aimed for Lionel's eyes. He hit his target, leaving the jackal whining in pain and reeling backward. Again and again he dived, and again and again he inflicted painful wounds to the man's face, as he now shifted back to the muscular man he was. Soon his dark hair was flecked with blood and his eyes were streaming the liquid. Eventually he passed out. His mother shifted back and cuddled the blood-soaked dove in her arms, cooing to it softly and crying. She left the abusive man there to die on the rug, knowing that he wouldn't survive anyway. If he could have cried as a bird, Stefan would have. He hopped out of her arms and hobbled to the ground, shifting back into a sobbing lump of a person, naked except for blood. She helped him to the shower, arranging for the academy not so long after. Eventually she sent him to the academy so he could get an education, and she could make a better life for when he graduated. For both of them. Alone.

.. connecting human to animal

Doves are known for being the birds of love and romance, and that is exactly what Stefan is. He's smooth and romantic, and he's soft and feminine just like the bird. The light colors go along with his light hair and skin, and his floaty movements mimic the flight. He's not twitchy like a bird, but rather soft and sweet like a perfect little dove.

.. literacy

See any of Sultan Zaafir or Barsuk Evgeni Yusoupov's IC posts, please.
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