David and Altaer


My wRHG is Altaer. Although Dr. David MacBeth is a great part of his storyline, David's function in actual battles will only be as a sideline char, or perhaps an advisor, not a combatant. Each one has a separate profile, both included here, along with a section of additional information that relates strongly to the two of them. Please note, however, that David's fighting ability remains fully relevant for non-battle works, such as collabs, Olit, and clan pieces -- he is, however, technically an NPC now.




Dr. David MacBeth


Gender: Male.

Sexuality: Straight. He’s not particularly sexual period, though.

Who-he-is-Summary: Master Warrior/Doctor, leader of Nehushtan, Bearer of a Mind of Wisdom and a Heart of Love, marksman extraordinaire, genius, etc. b mind and heart. He is a master businessman, and the ultimate of refinement and upper-class excellent, yet not “superior” or “stiff.” His people-skills are flawless. His first combat experience was as a field medic/doctor in WWII, and he has been in every war since. He has also served in more espionage style settings (primarily during the Cold War), taking advantage of his position as a doctor.

He is famous as an unparalleled medical genius, without a single failed case in his entire history. He has travelled around the world numerous times living with/studying indigenous peoples and their traditional biomedical knowledge. He is continually making innovations, and knows all of his procedures and information off the top of his head. His memory would make a computer flinch.

He possesses and uncertain amount of wealth -- some pundits claim that he is secretly the wealthiest man in the world. David himself refuses to comment, but his lifestyle, tastes, and seemingly careless use of money seem to support this.

He actually enjoys combat, and is impossible to intimidate, fluster, distract, etc.

He is obsessed with the idea of perfection. He founded Nehushtan, which was a world-encompassing massive organization and para-religion built around the principle of peace, love, justice, righteousness, and brotherhood. His powers and influence made him exceptionally narcissistic, essentially giving him a Christ-complex.

This has been shattered with the commandeering of Greater Nehushtan by David’s formerly trusted ally, Viktor Gustav. He is now left with only The Coils, as well as a spattering of Serpents with whom he maintained personal influence (well, and his considerable wealth).

In the wake of this, he has come to learn the meaning of humility and love for his fellow man. His former self isn’t entirely abolished, but he is actively working towards that. He is now driven by the desire to make the changes he wants to see in the world personally. [/spoiler]

Personality: David is a loving, charismatic, and courageous leader. On the flip side, he is also a recovering narcissist (formerly with a Jesus-complex). notices. Period. The instant he enters a room, it’s all eyes on him -- without him even trying. He is also the kind of guy that most people find themselves drawn to without even knowing why…and some people find themselves hating him, without even knowing why.

David is the very definition of charisma. His genius and wisdom aside, he is extremely well learned and exudes a kind of genteel power. His ancestry have been gentlemen/nobleman for centuries and centuries, and he was raised accordingly. Thus, his charisma is not the artificial kind used in modern circles but rather the masterful type that grew from generations of navigating royal courts and castle halls and diplomatic tables.

David constantly measures what emotions he is feeling, and only shows that which he deems most appropriate or useful for the moment. This is less because he is trying to dupe people and more a matter of long-ingrained etiquette and people-skills.

No matter what, he genuinely has a heart for people, particularly the suffering and downtrodden. Even at his most narcissistic, David was still definably “big-hearted.” Now, though, that he is actively fighting back his narcissism, his true tender-heartedness is beginning to show, not just his flawless bedside manner.

His life and mind are his own, and he is essentially impossible to influence. The fact that he is deeply emotional, however, means that things slowly build with him. It is possible to get him enraged or depressed, for example, just by normal methods. It will be difficult (usually involving someone/something he cares about/loves). He also does not show his deepest emotions like most people -- rather, instead of “boiling over” he goes into what Altaer calls “Silent Death Mode.” Something just snaps. He’s vastly more careless about himself (to the point of complete self-sacrifice), but adrenaline has gone into overdrive. Whether he chooses actual combat or something more subtle and sinister, once he has “lost it” David usually does not regain his composure until he has eliminated whatever drove him into that state of mind -- even if it takes years. He can, however, with concerted effort drag himself back into self-control if he so chooses.

He is a man of deep emotions. He loves extremely deeply, and hates extremely deeply. Double descriptives were used there to emphasize the extremeliness of his emotions. So even though he doesn’t show them as others might, they are most definitely there.
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Natural Abilities:
--Perfected Body: He is a master doctor, an avid student of combat, and obsessed with perfection. Yeah, his body is literally the absolute peak of human ability in all accounts. Senses, strength, speed, agility…and ESPECIALLY endurance. The Energizer Bunny has nothing on this dude.

--Combat Skills: He is the consummate master of rifles, knives, and surgically-precise melee. He makes full use of his medical supplies as aggressive and/or self-supporting tools. (see Equipment)

Supernatural Abilities:
--Mind of Wisdom: David is capable of unusual mental feats, as well as generating two exact living copies of himself at will (Reflections). It has also rendered him immune to psychological attacks/invasions/powers.

--Heart of Love: David’s emotional capabilities give him the ability to interact with others at a whole new level. He is, in short, an Empath. He is immune to all kinds of Emotional Powers wielded by others, as a result of this. ategories. All effects/powers are instantaneous unless otherwise specified.

--Passive Empathy: David’s Empath powers are always in force passively-- he has no control over this. They have the effect of both allowing him to “read” people’s emotions and influence their emotions. This occurs within a close proximity to him -- about the space of a small room. Neither of these are detectable -- rather, even the most insightful person will only have a vaguely unsettling and unnerving sense about David. His “reading” is a complete psychoanalysis, so to speak, and misses nothing. His influence is little more than a subtle inclination towards whatever emotions he wishes for them to feel. These are easily resisted/counteracted by the person experiencing it -- because of their subtlety, though, most often the victim will not realize they have changed their emotions until the influence has already been at work for a long time.

--Active Empathy: David can actively give/take emotions and feelings to/from people. This can be either in the positive (taking someone’s sorrow and giving them a euphoric joy) or negative (taking someone’s courage and replacing it with a mind-bending fear). This requires either eye contact or physical contact. It takes only a couple seconds, but is technically limitless in its extent. It works, quite simply, by David taking whatever emotion/feeling the person has onto himself, while simultaneously replacing it with whatever he wants them to have. He will always then experience whatever he is taking from them. Active Empathy cannot be stopped or resisted -- it can be counteracted after he has finished, though.
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Equipment:
--The Rifle: David’s Winchester One-of-a-thousand Lever Action Repeating Rifle was bought by his father in the 1870s straight from the factory. David has changed it significantly.
hough heavily worn. The barrel is polished, but the stock has been stained by use to a near black, and is heavily marred, despite being thoroughly polished as well. The grain in the wood is visible, but the wood itself has turned to a consistency that is somewhere between the resilience of wood and the hardness of stone. Its lever can be operated with a mere flick of his fingers, and the barrel has been adjusted to fire .50 cal bullets. He will often load specialty rounds directly into the chamber. It holds 25+1 rounds. It is insanely accurate -- David still uses the original flip-up ladder sight on it. For some reason, the Rifle seems indestructible.[/spoiler]

--Rounds/Bullets: David has a vast assortment of specialty ammo. He standard bullets are just high-velocity bullets. xplosive Armor Piercing (HEAP) rounds, drug-bearing rounds (much like tranquilizer darts, except with greater accuracy and distance), stun rounds (deliver an electrical charge), and Aeropyre rounds ***OOC: Non-battle canon only, unless otherwise agreed***(his take on the missle-bullet concept of the Nazis during WWII. Immensely powerful and effective.)[/spoiler]

--Knives: David carries six custom-designed tactical knives. They possess 5.59 inch blades and non-slip grips. They are balanced for throwing as well, and are lightly serrated. The serrations include tiny capillaries designed to hold any poisons/chemicals he wishes to apply. He typically keeps one knife up each sleeve of his jacket in special pockets, one slid into a pocket on each hip, and one on either side of the inside of his jacket.

--Medical/Chemical Gear: David carries a vast assortment of his medical equipment with him -- primarily drugs, syringes, and field dressings. keep himself going through inhuman amounts of damage/stress, as well as always having a number of different poisons on hand. His favorite is a substance used by the Pygmies of central African jungles. It is derived from a tree bark, and is a syrupy rust colored liquid that they use on their hunting darts. Even the tiniest dose is enough to cause almost immediate cardiac arrest in any being.[/spoiler]

--His Suit: David’s stylish signature suit just happens to be one of the keystones of his arsenal, largely because it is what he uses to carry his gear. ster-work of hidden pockets. After having an encounter with Pure Chaos, however, it seems that his pockets are now a bit more like “pocket dimensions.” They are far from infini

Stop being an edge boy, you edge boy.

Wanted to give my thoughts on the changes and such.

So, thanks Dante for taking the time to CnC this! That’s actually really great of you.

I’ve actually got more internet than I thought I would, so I’m posting my edits. Here is a spoiler talking about what I’ve redone, and what I haven’t (and why), just so that you don’t have to look for it all yourself.


Overall, while I have done about Half of what you said, I hope you can understand why I haven’t done the other half.

All in all, I don’t think that this will affect my/our canon any, nor has it changed the actual essence of my characters themselves.

Alright. And like I said- none of what's left is really bad- it's just different, for reasons that are there, I suppose. So we can roll with it.

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Alright. And like I said- none of what's left is really bad- it's just different, for reasons that are there, I suppose. So we can roll with it.

You just HAD to italicize "bad" didn't you? :P

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Alright, I appreciate I am now Mr. Pariah, but i still want to say things about this.

Nobody gave you this title, and there are a few others who are far more deserving of it. Like, SCJRPV (I think I got it right, it might be SJCRPV. Whatever, we'll call him CAPS LOCK). I mean, he's there. He's watching. He's writing. Has he posted here? Not in quite few months I don't think. I'm pretty sure he participated in Shipping & Handling... I think.

Disregarding that tangent, I'm here to brutalize this character now that Alphaeus is comfortable with it and will ignore all of my advice. This is so that he'll keep it and I can feel enmity towards it because he doesn't listen.
Or maybe I just do this for fun.

Thanks for the CnC Mal.

First Off, I will be clarifying his combat style because during my absence I was mentally smoothing out some of the unclear parts of this char. So that sin will be resolved. While I was deliberately using opposites to achieve an impact, that method is undeniably confusing.

Secondly, about the five times to be lethal vs ten times. This is taking into consideration two factors -- 1) many more minor heart issues take a bit of time to be lethal, and 2) David will ALWAYS be responding with top-notch medical aide to his disabilities. Thus, he will be able to partially heal, partially counteract these results, allowing him to continue further when he would have already died without this extra aid.

Thirdly, All of the senses you listed are considered part of the ones I listed (I should know, as a paramed). Pressure, itch, thermoception, stretch receptors, etc. are all parts of touch, as being performed by nerve endings located within tissues. The more vague ones like thirst, hunger, and time are the result of mental processes, and are not normally considered "senses" in the basic medical meaning -- rather, they are included with consciousness, physical impulses, and bodily awareness.


Thus, anything beyond the norm I have excluded to conform to generally accepted medical standards (and trust me, I know them. When I check a person's senses for their acuity in an ambulance, I only check five at most [although taste is usually skipped]).

Yeah, I need more personality info, and that was essentially a five second cop-out because I needed to have it in there that things weren't as they seemed.



So hahaha, I didn't skip all your sins, and actually listened to two, and explained the other two.

HAHA! I knew I wasn't the only one who responded to CnC which (imo) is mainly based on not having got around to adding things/not clarifying properly with a list of things!
And if you have time to answer Malacal's questions, why not mine (the Abysium and Shadite thing specifically)? :confused:
Also...

And if you have time to answer Malacal'

s questions, why not mine (the Abysium and Shadite thing specifically)? :confused:


Sorry, just didn't see it (since Mr. Flamingo-pus posted afterwards).

Pandemonium would have little-to-no special impact on Altaer, effectively nullifying it and the powers based off of it.

Altaer derives his power, and if fact his very being, from Pure Chaos. He literally IS Pure Chaos. Thus, anything specifically based out of chaos will be like trying to freeze a snowman. Big fuckity-fuck deal. He's already frozen. Same With Altaer. He IS Chaos, so trying to do something more involving Chaos is just a joke to him.

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Sorry, just didn't see it (since Mr. Flamingo-pus posted afterwards).

Pandemonium would have little-to-no special impact on Altaer, effectively nullifying it and the powers based off of it.

Altaer derives his power, and if fact his very being, from Pure Chaos. He literally IS Pure Chaos. Thus, anything specifically based out of chaos will be like trying to freeze a snowman. Big fuckity-fuck deal. He's already frozen. Same With Altaer. He IS Chaos, so trying to do something more involving Chaos is just a joke to him.

The Fuck? Pandemonium only has a chaos-esque name. It isn't a chaos effect. What I meant was, is Abysium and Shadite physical enough that Pandemonium can affect it. Pandemonium is not biased in terms of Type, just corporeality. It doesn't matter what the object is if it is physical. So are they physical substances? Not trying to be an asshat, just wondering in case Alex ever fights Altaer.

Also, as a side note, thanks for accepting. Once I'm done with my rework, Alex and Jacques would be honoured to meet the Coils (if that is possible.)

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The Fuck? Pandemonium only has a chaos-esque name. It isn't a chaos effect. What I meant was, is Abysium and Shadite physical enough that Pandemonium can affect it. Pandemonium is not biased in terms of Type, just corporeality. It doesn't matter what the object is if it is physical. So are they physical substances? Not trying to be an asshat, just wondering in case Alex ever fights Altaer.

Also, as a side note, thanks for accepting. Once I'm done with my rework, Alex and Jacques would be honoured to meet the Coils (if that is possible.)

I understand your confusion. Those two qualities are Pure Physical as well as Pure Chaos. But because of their dual nature, they are immune to certain types of attacks -- this is true of Altaer on the whole. Several of Alex's powers would be useless against Altaer because his Abysium and Shadite would be immune to them. So, I suppose the answer to your question is that while they are indeed physical enough to take a bullet or a fist, they exist far too much in the Chaos state for more complex attack methods (like Pandemonium) to work on them.

As a further note for all who will read this and battle me, Altaer's new state leaves him far more vulnerable to attacks that are simple, straightforward physical, and far, FAR more resistant to all other types of combat.

First off, Reworked my char.

Second, ok.
Third, how about Impulse? or a spear made of crystal? :rolleyes:

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First off, Reworked my char.

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Second, ok.
Third, how about Impulse? or a spear made of crystal? :rolleyes:

Sooo...just read up on your char. I like the changes.

Now, Impulse would fall under one of the categories of things to which Altaer would be immune.

The Qi Crystal weps (to which I assume you were referring when you mentioned the spear) would be a different story.

These would likely have an interesting effect -- namely, they would work only if used second hand. Altaer's own Qi would be so unstable as to be entirely unusable in and of itself. If he was fought using the Qi of someone/something else, that Qi would be able to work only in is Endochaoic state. His Exochaotic state would be immune to those weps.