diadem info.
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unquiets
david haller
legion
Height
6'0 / 183cm
Build
lean
Hair
light brown/dark blonde, messy
Eyes
blue
Age
mid-thirties
Canon Point
s3e1 / chapter 20
Markings
n/a
Vehicle
Character Information
david is an incredibly powerful omega-level mutant with various psychic abilities (see below). these manifested when he was a child, starting off as relatively minor — teleportation and telepathy mostly — before becoming unmanageable for david. the manifestations of his abilities were presumed to be auditory and visual hallucinations and delusions, and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. over the course of his adolescence and into adulthood, david alternated between being compliant with taking his medication and attending appointments, and attempting to self-medicate via substance abuse.
eventually, escalating drug use, a violent assault on his doctor, as well as a break-up, all led to a suicide attempt, and david was entered into care at clockworks psychiatric hospital, where he was a patient for between five and six years.
THINGS HAPPEN and it's discovered that his apparent schizophrenia is... not that! he's a mutant with the power to read minds, move objects, and warp reality (amongst other things)!
(spoiler: this turns out to only be partly true. he is both a powerful mutant with all of these abilities and also mentally unwell.)
david can be charismatic (if not odd), incredibly dedicated and attentive — connections and being wanted is incredibly important to him and integral to his sense of self and stability — however he can be both inadvertently and deliberately manipulative, can and will ignore boundaries (both physical and mental), and is prone to being very selfish and self-centred. emotionally immature with poor emotional regulation, he'll lash out when angry, although quite how this looks depends on the nature of what's upset and destabilised him.
his canon point is from that very specific point in time where he's formed a cult and insists on being called "daddy", so. you know. there's that. that is who david is.
he also had the consciousness of amahl farouk, the shadow king, sharing his body and manipulating him up until the age of ~30, which also didn't help with david's perception of reality, ability to trust his own memory, or general sense of agency.
eventually, escalating drug use, a violent assault on his doctor, as well as a break-up, all led to a suicide attempt, and david was entered into care at clockworks psychiatric hospital, where he was a patient for between five and six years.
THINGS HAPPEN and it's discovered that his apparent schizophrenia is... not that! he's a mutant with the power to read minds, move objects, and warp reality (amongst other things)!
(spoiler: this turns out to only be partly true. he is both a powerful mutant with all of these abilities and also mentally unwell.)
david can be charismatic (if not odd), incredibly dedicated and attentive — connections and being wanted is incredibly important to him and integral to his sense of self and stability — however he can be both inadvertently and deliberately manipulative, can and will ignore boundaries (both physical and mental), and is prone to being very selfish and self-centred. emotionally immature with poor emotional regulation, he'll lash out when angry, although quite how this looks depends on the nature of what's upset and destabilised him.
his canon point is from that very specific point in time where he's formed a cult and insists on being called "daddy", so. you know. there's that. that is who david is.
he also had the consciousness of amahl farouk, the shadow king, sharing his body and manipulating him up until the age of ~30, which also didn't help with david's perception of reality, ability to trust his own memory, or general sense of agency.
Appearance
david's tall and lean (in a specific 'doesn't really care about most food' way, the guy does not work out), with (very) blue eyes and dark blonde/light brown, often messy, hair. he favours mostly slim-fit tops with high-water pants and doc martens (in assorted colours, but most commonly black leather with yellow laces, or blue suede with blue laces). tbh the most consistent thing is that david generally looks like every other guy in his 30s that was really into indie in the early 2000s.
Skills & Abilities
please see here.
in diadem specifically, outside of the high failure rate mechanic, david's teleportation ability is limited in distance, and attempted overuse of his abilities in general will result in the sudden inability to control his telepathy — rather than being able to control who and what he hears and the volume, he'll become wholly overwhelmed and unable to filter anything out.
this means he will probably cry and possibly pass out. he hasn't had to deal with overstimulation and oversaturation in a While, and when he did, he was taking a lot of drugs to deal with it.
in diadem specifically, outside of the high failure rate mechanic, david's teleportation ability is limited in distance, and attempted overuse of his abilities in general will result in the sudden inability to control his telepathy — rather than being able to control who and what he hears and the volume, he'll become wholly overwhelmed and unable to filter anything out.
this means he will probably cry and possibly pass out. he hasn't had to deal with overstimulation and oversaturation in a While, and when he did, he was taking a lot of drugs to deal with it.
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