im sorry i haven't responded to you, Mod. is the sword and shield really necessary? other than that, you're approved.
my CS for Ben is kinda long so there will be more than one post for it:
Name: Benjamin Mason
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Status: Hero
Species: Human Witch
Nationality: African American/Native American
Appearance: Dark russet colored skin; Hazel eyes; Straight, jet-black hair; Athletic build; 5’9”; 170lbs
Personality: Well mannered; Friendly; Serious; Outspoken; Blunt; A bit of a mean streak
Powers: Vast magical strength and skill that garners:
Superhuman strength (only achieved through casting a spell)
Flying
Absorbing life from others
Teleportation
Enhanced durability
Healing himself and others at will
Clairvoyance (even when person/object is theoretically protected/shielded)
Telekinesis
Telepathy
Force fields
Invisibility
Pyrokinesis
Electrokinesis
Precognition
Portal creation
Chlorokinesis
Sees spirits and demons
Magical energy arrows (breaks mystical, psychic and physical bonds)
Communicates with animals
Causes vision quests
Illusions
Able to perform powerful spells, rituals and transmogrifications
After his time spent training in another dimension, Benjamin returned to find that he is so powerful that his very thoughts and feelings affect the world. Benjamin also comments that he now absorbs power from the things around him, one time unwillingly draining some of Katt’s life-force. Because of his sheer amount of power, Benjamin has a higher level of durability than most. He can be thrown through reinforced walls and fall from great heights while sustaining only minor damage. However, any form of attack is capable of causing harm to Ben if he is not able to protect himself against it. While exceedingly powerful, Benjamin can still become exhausted and drained of energy from performing powerful spells and rituals.
* Telekinesis, Telepathy, Invisibility, Pyrokinesis, Electrokinesis, Chlorokinesis and Illusions are magically induced by the casting of specific spells and are temporary. Because of this fact, Ben can only use them in their most basic of forms. If Benjamin was to somehow lose his magic, he would lose his powers as well.
Miscellaneous: Benjamin hasn't been trained in any classical fighting styles, relying heavily on his powers. He is an above average street fighter. He has also been trained at a very young age how to use a tomahawk and bow, rarely missing his mark. He now carries around a small pouch, containing a pocket dimension that holds all of his potions, ingredients and spell books along with a small dagger. Because of his upbringing as a Native American, he respects and is highly in tune with nature.
Bio: The only child of an African American mother and a Native American father, Benjamin Mason was fiercely protected by his parents and has inherited that trait to be fiercely protective of his family and close friends.
When Benjamin’s mother, Jordan Mason, was 4 years of age, both of her parents died, causing her and all of her brothers and sisters to have to stay with their mother's only sister, whom they didn't even know. It was there that her aunt physically abused her and she was constantly sexually abused by her eldest brother who had become insane with grief at the death of his parents. This caused her to grow up to be a very closed off young woman. She kept all people a stone's throw away and built a wall around her heart to keep more pain from coming in.
When she was 18 years old, Jordan had met the man of her dreams. He treated her with the utmost respect. He was financially stable, working at a car factory, he went to church every Sunday and he gave her anything she asked for. She fell in love with him instantly, but later found out that he had a wife and a 1-year-old daughter. This only made the barrier around her heart thicker. Jordan gave up on love.
Benjamin's father's, Morning Star, life wasn't any better. When he was 11 years old, he lost his mother in a war between his Apache tribe and a Blackfoot tribe that was trying to take over their land. Morning Star's father, who was the Chief and Shaman of the tribe, became depressed with grief causing the war to be lost for his people. With his tribe having to becoming nomads, he began to ignore Morning star and Grey wolf, Morning star’s older brother and shrug his duties as the Chief. He had begun to delve deeper in shamanism, trying to find a magical way to revive his slain wife. A ritual was soon discovered that would resurrect his wife, but it called for a human sacrifice.
Losing his grip on reality, Morning Star's father planned to sacrifice his oldest son, Gray wolf. He told the 15 year old boy that his destiny was to become the link between the human world and the Spirit world and that the ritual to do so had to be preformed with a willing soul. Keeping the truth from the boy, Morning Star's father began the ritual by putting Gray wolf in a trance like state and invoking the Great Spirits of Life and Death. He was stunned when they physically appeared. They stopped the ritual, stating that it was a disgrace and abomination to sacrifice a human life. As punishment, the Chief's own life was to be taken by the Spirits, only to be spared by Morning Star's plea for his father’s shaman powers to be taken away instead. The Great Spirits obliged and left his father powerless. As they were leaving, they told Morning Star and Gray wolf that they were to take their father's place as Shamans.
Because of their father's misdeeds, the tribe exiled the Chief and his sons because it went against everything they believed in to sacrifice a human life. This caused Morning Star to sever his ties with his father and shy away from his destiny as a Shaman. He vowed that he would live a normal life. Gray wolf, on the other hand, quickly took to Shamanism. He learned very quickly the basics and was well on his way to becoming a more adept Shaman than what his father used to be. Because of this, he and Morning Star's relationship became strained and eventually dissolved over time. Shortly after that, their father died. This cemented Gray wolf’s role as the current Shaman.
When Benjamin's parents met for the first time, it was love at first sight. Jordan described it as an overwhelming pull to Morning Star as he described it as finding his other half. They didn't know why they felt the way they did until the Great Spirit of Life reappeared to Morning Star. It told him that he and Jordan were to become the parents of a very powerful child. The child would be the link between the world of Spirits and the world of humans.
He told the spirit that he didn't want his child to have anything to do with magic and that he couldn't teach him anything because he never learned shamanism for himself. The spirit then informed Morning Star that just because he wasn't taught anything didn't mean that he lacked power. It also said that if he wanted to keep his future child safe he would have to learn and took Morning Star under his wing. He kept his training a secret from Jordan out of fear that she would leave him if she found out about it.
When he and Jordan married, they found out that Jordan couldn't have children due to the abuse she suffered as a child. The couple was devastated and that caused Morning Star to quit his training as a shaman. It took three years for Jordan to finally get pregnant and have a beautiful baby boy they named Benjamin. Having no intentions to teach magic to his son, Morning Star was shocked when Ben developed what appeared to be energy manipulation powers on his own.
Both of his parents frantically searched for answers as to what the source of his powers was but steadily came up short. A few years later, Jordan stumbled across her family history and found out that her ancestors were burned at the stake and hung for practicing witchcraft. When she told her husband, Morning Star guiltily revealed his heritage and that he had no intentions in letting his son learn magic. They both agreed that the best thing for Ben was to not tell him until they thought he could handle it. When Ben turned 7 years old, he started asking why he had powers and what he was. All his parents ever told him was that he was something special and that when the time came, they would explain it all to him.
As an adolescent, Benjamin became more familiar and adept with his abilities but felt completely alone. He had no idea that there were other people in the world with special powers, because his father had cast a spell on him that made him forget all things dealing with super humans and the supernatural a few moments after he saw them. An unknown and undetectable force mysteriously reversed the spell when he turned 14. Unwilling to lie to him anymore, his mother decided that he should go to a school named Hero High when he began to ask questions again. Still feeling that Benjamin wasn’t ready to know the truth yet, they kept the truth about his powers a secret.
While there, the teachers were surprised and amazed at the level of control he had over his abilities and often said that they had never met anyone so young who had that much control. Because of his personality, he quickly became well liked by many of his classmates including Simon Raynard, who quickly became his best friend. He got the position of Editor-in-Chief for the school newspaper when he was in the eleventh grade and always got to interview the resident heroes: Janet, Lance, Tech, Jordan, Tori and the rest.