"I am the hunger that gnaws at your very being. The thirst that parches your soul. I am Famine ...
erm, did anyone see a loo on the way in here?"
-Famine
Character Name: Famine
Age: Unknown, estimated dawn of existence
Gender: Male
Race: Horseman of the Assured
Appearance: Famine takes the form of an unusually tall and gaunt male, of 8'7", and wieghs just 50Kg. He wears faded, pale yellow plate and chainmail armour with an extreamly tattered cloth tunic and cloak. When I say extreamly tattered I mean that there isn't a square foot of it that doesn't have at least five inch-wide holes in it. His face, and indeed the rest of his body, is emaciated - almost literally just skin and bone. His face is very tanned and weatherbeaten, so that it too looks yellowish, and he has shoulder length, dirty blond hair. His eyes are a sort of faded green and slightely misted, as though he is partially blind. His skin, though tanned, has dried rock hard and, even without his armour, is very hard to pierce with any normal weapon.
Famine, like most of the horsemen, has MPD, and this changes him dramaticaly. Bounty, Famine's flip side, is so fat that his horse cannot support him, even though it has almost unlimited strength. His armour, however, doesn't grow, and is as such stretched painfully tight across his belly and limbs. His eyes loose there mistiness too and become the bright green of a rich and healthy crop field in spring.
Famine's horse, the aptly named Rogue, is even more emaciated than the Horseman himself. Rogue's internal organs shrivelled long ago, and his ribcage is therefore incredibly thin, though sharp as a knife. His skin is stretched so tight on top of his bare bones that if he is cut the rip would tare the horse completely open if it weren't for the fact that he has almost instantaneous regeneration and skin as dry and hard as steel. Though he has no muscles, Rogue is incomparably strong as a result of the magic imbued in him by Famine.
Alliance: The Eight Horsemen
Personality (one paragraph minimum): Famine, though quiet and, at shrivelled heart, peaceable, is not below having a good scrap with people who annoy him, and of course is perfectly willing to fight alongside his fellow horsemen. Though Famine can neither eat (as food turns to dust in his mouth) or drink (water just boils away as it touches him) he seems to have a bowel problem, as he is forever running away to the toilet in the middle of Horsemen council meetings or even battle! Though he is the weakest physically of the Horsemen, he is the strongest magically. This is his greatest asset in battle.
Bounty, Famine's flip side, caused by Multiple Personality Disorder, is just as smart as Famine. However, he is less peaceable and more willing to go to war. Also, his physical strength increases slightly from Famine, and his magical strength decreases slightly. Instead of having a bowel disorder, like Famine, Bounty has an eating disorder, and holds the record for the fastest consumption of a whole oxen in the universe.
Inventory: Reap/Sow - Famine's bronze sickle, Reap, is slightly bronzed in colour, but, like all Horsemen weapons, is unbreakable. The tip of Reap is especially deadly, as Famine enchanted it to turn literally anything it touches to dust. The blade of the sickle, whilst sharp, does not possess this special ability, only the tip. The only thing that the tip if Reap cannot turn to dust is the locking sheath which it is encased in, which is located on Famine's right hip. When Famine flips to Bounty however, Reap turns to Sow; a long, staff like billhook instead of a sickle.
Stale Baguett - this is Famine's secondry weapon. He found is just before the imprisonment of the horsemen and so never got a chance to eat it (at which point he would of failed anyway.) However, during the imprisonment the baguett basically fossilised and is now one of the hardest, toughest, most indigestable clubs in existance. Although he never got a chance to eat it, he did, for some strange reason, make a sheath for it and he now carries it on his back.
Armour of the Horsemen - This Armour seems to be completely useless because of the low amount of it but it is in fact incredibly strong, capable of taking even rail gun shots and still surviving and generates a slight barrier of the Horseman's magic when worn. These suits of armour also incorporate some form of AAM, allowing them to use magic at all times.
Combat Level: 5
- Magic Level: 5/4
- Physical Strength: 3/4
Character's History: Famine was never anything but Famine, created at the birth of time along with his 7 brothers he was, even at birth, the strongest in magic, but also the weakest of the horsemen. Famine, as well as being the oddball magic wise, has always had more of a tendency to flip to Bounty than any of the horsemen; and he is the only one capable of iniciating the MPD in either himself or his brothers willfully. As you would expect, he uses magic to do this, but the spell with which he does it isn't intended for this purpose. Instead, it is supposed to throw any enemy within twenty metres back, using his or her own strength. Whilst it does do this very effectively, it also has the unforeseen side effect of flipping the personality of any Horsemen within forty metres, Famine included. One of his other favourite spells,
Plague involves his summoning, and if he feels like it
becoming, a swarm of locusts big enough to decimate the crops of a small continent in under two months.
Famine found his horse, Rogue, when it was close to death by starvation and swiftly put the animal out of its misery. However, later on Famine returned to the desert spot to find Rogue's body perfectly preserved by the sands, and this gave him the idea to use his magic, for the first time, for resurrection. He did this so perfectly that Rogue returned with all his origional willforce and almost infinate strength, though now with a fierce loyalty to Famine built in. Rogue and Famine's bond is closer even than Hatred's, and this, along with his natural skill make Famine the best horseman of the Horsemen.
Many, many years later more beings came to the planet and despite taking heavy casualties and being inferior in almost every way to the Horsemen they somehow captured them. Famine was one of the earliest to be captured, his magic reduced dramatically and powerfully drugged to unconciousness, he was imprisoned in a sealed chamber next to where the horses were kept and, weakened, there he stayed for many thousands of years. Outside the cave life-forms waxed and waned, the originals dying and the legend of the horsemen disappeared from history completely.
After around 40,000 years to the day the bonds and wards finally broke upon the Eight Horsemen and they regained their powers. All eight of them prepared then escaped, returning to the world of sunlight at last, beheld one another with pale faces and weary eyes.
