Name: David Léo Noé Matthieu de Clermont
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Gay/Closeted
Powers: Time Manipulation, Cell Acceleration; to blow something up or age it.
Abilities and Skills: David is very good at languages. He can speak English, French, Spanish, Italian, Farsi, Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. He is proficient, but not fluent, in Cantonese, Swahili, Zulu, Portuguese, Greek, and German. He can recognize various languages and can guess at their meanings using the knowledge he has from the languages he speaks and from his study of linguistics. He is very good with a bow and arrow. He is very nimble and has learned a unique fighting style passed down through his family over a thousand years. He is very good at taking in data and quickly forming an analysis. He can move very quickly, and can run very fast - at the expense of not being able to do it for very long. He can also play the violin and Piano.
Likes: Learning languages, archery, running, reading science-fiction, writing, swimming, listening to indie music, drinking wine, rain, snow, and the cold.
Dislikes: Classical music, except for Bach and Chopin, being told what to do, being underestimated, be made fun of or called nicknames, losing, people touching his things, being seen as nothing more than rich boy.
Personality: David is usually very calm and collected. Sometimes, even though he fights against it, he can be very haughty and look down on others as being mediocre, Ignorant, of low mental capacity, slow, unambitious, and poor. You can also be very kind sometimes, even though he puts on an air of superiority most of the time to protect his feelings and also as a result of his breeding from his parents.
Family: David comes from an old Noble French bloodline. His family is very wealthy and, while not overtly famous as to avoid scrutiny and attention, the family name is powerful in the higher echelons of the world, though the name is still somewhat famous even among the common people. His mother is Genevieve Melisande Helene Ysabeau Aude de Clermont, or Ysabeau de Clermont for short, and his father is Philippe Matthieu David de Clermont. He has an older brother, Jacque Henri de Clermont, and an older sister, Emma Madeleine Aude de Clermont. David also has various uncles and cousins among the extended family who are not part of the "main" line. David has a complicated relationship with his siblings. They take to the life of a noble family a lot more than David does, even though David has inherited many of the traits his siblings have, such as looking down on common folk and feeling as though he is entitled to respect and obedience by those beneath him. His older siblings have always shared a rivalry, and David has never really been included in that rivalry. They have always shut him out and treated him as their little baby brother, even though he is now 16 years old and feels that he could compete with them. They are 4 and 5 years older than him, respectively. His parents put a lot of pressure on him and he never feels completely comfortable talking to them as he feels they're always looking for weakness and he feels he'll let them down at any moment.
Hobbies: Learning languages, playing the violin and piano, writing short stories, runs a blog about wine and about the oppressiveness of life, swims while thinking to himself, visiting obscure shops, traveling to museums around the world.
History: David Léo Noé Matthieu de Clermont was born into the powerful and wealthy noble family of the de Clermont bloodline. According to family history, the de Clermont line have an original claim to the French throne and were, in fact, the original founders of France itself. However, an old ancestor of David's was said to have foreseen the turn of the people and abdicated his entire line from the throne, which was then passed on to a new bloodline until it ended with a famous beheading. The de Clermont name, however, did not abdicate its claim to power, and indeed has continued to influence the direction and power structure of France since they officially left the throne. In France, it is quite almost an open secret that you cannot make it in politics without the backing of the de Clermont name - and should anyone fall into disfavor with a Clermont, then their career would be over in an instant. The family name is not as famous around the world, by design. It is well known, but the family does not intentionally spread it through the media, nor do they give interviews or appear on talk-shows. They quietly run France in the background, unseen.
David was born into this family, the main de Clermont line. He was born prematurely and had to fight to stay alive as a baby. His mother told him once that, had he died, he would have wasted nine months of her life. David has lived in the shadow of his older siblings, who have taken to power like moths to a flame and who are already whispering in the ears of politicians and directing policy. David knows that he can do it too, but he is always being told he is too young, even though Emma started when she was 16. Emma, despite her petit build, is always able to look dominating and powerful. She takes after David's mother almost exactly. Henri is equally like their father, Philippe. This left David with no one. Both his parents were taken and he felt like an afterthought, an accident.
However, David did grow up with the best tutors and the best education money and power can buy. He focused on being as intelligent as possible and to be two steps ahead of his family. He learned to read them and their moods, to anticipate their actions. He stayed out of their way and decided to forge his own destiny. He did all the things his parents wanted, he learned to play instruments, he learned martial arts, and took up archery and a boe staff. His sister had taken up fencing and his brother went for guns.
When David started traveling a lot, he was given a bodyguard. A young boy named John Henrik. John is the same age as David. Such things might shock normal people, but the family don't like to attract attention and so he was given a bodyguard that could pass as his childhood friend. James was taken from a special group that train protectors right from when they're born.
David is trying to find his way and trying to reconcile himself with his feelings.
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