Owen O'Leary

Pathologist (Formerly)

Pinnacle Electronics (Formerly)

Balefire, Vitaras (Formerly)

Fiennbhyrr, Vitaras (Formerly)

Ilonia, Vitaras (Formerly)

Agapi

Delia O'Leary (Half sister)

Owen is a roaming ghost originating from Vitaras, and is one of the three "Balefire Revenants". Though no longer a member of the company, he typically hides out in Wolf's lab in the Temporal Offices building.

## Personality

Owen comes from a well-off and wealthy home and was raised to be "proper". However, he is ruthlessly cynical in nature, as well as conniving and sneaky. He hides this easily behind a barrier of fake politeness. But when cornered, he is easily flustered and quick to panic. He also has a tendency to pry into the personal business of others, making him somewhat of a nuisance to deal with.

Prior to Reidun's defeat and Skylar's shift into the life of a father, he had a solid sense of morality and justice, as he refused to allow Reidun to forcefully seize political control of the Boundary and kept Skylar sated on death-row prisoners to prevent civilian deaths.

Once Skylar was reduced to being a virtual non-issue, Owen's sense or morality slipped through the cracks somewhat; while he still presents as polite, he is cold and calculating, and even somewhat sadistic. He is often a problem in Wolf's household, as he harasses the other ghosts in the home just to entertain himself.

Owen himself has also developed a taste for homicide. He generally only intentionally targets pedophiles, using his own young appearance as bait to lure and kill them. Unfortunately, while he may be focused on genuinely horrible people, he feels no remorse in the event of accidentally killing innocent people.

To add to his direct harassment of his adoptive brothers, they are often disgusted with him because of his promiscuous habits that tend to involve the sexual predators he targets and kills. While he also does this to maintain close-range contact long enough to cause internal organ damage to the victim over time, his brothers find the entire process disturbing, and they try to avoid him as much as possible.

His preference of killing pedophiles (while no longer focusing on death row inmates) does show that he still holds some degree of empathy towards children, even though he feels nothing for adults. Based on this, and how he treats his brothers, it can be assumed that he views them as adults based on their actual ages, and does not consider the age at which they died to be their "true" age.

## Ability Overview

As an Vitaran human, Owen was born with mana that allows for particular forms of magic. Owen was born with two different types of mana, which is uncommon in groups outside of the Helfvard province. However, this is generally considered bad, as it makes it obvious that Owen is the illegitimate son of people from two different provinces. It also results in him actually having *less* mana than other Vitarans.

#### Cryoturgy

Innately capable of ice magic.

* Ice spear: Forms a solid ice spear. His typical go-to, as he is able to use this spear as a weapon for long periods of time without expending any mana except to create it.
* Blizzard: Able to generate a small blizzard within a certain radius. Expends large amounts of mana and cannot be held for extended amounts of time.
* Form construct: Uses the same method as the ice spear to form small objects. Typically used to form ice sculpture-like objects, and is not generally used for combat.
* Ice armor: A thin shell of ice protects his body from just underneath the skin level. This shell can be maintained with minimal mana expenditure due to Owen's frigid body temperature, which is contributed to both by being a revenant as well as simply by virtue of his body containing "cryomana". The shell renders him resistant to physical attacks, but not magic attacks.

#### Hemoturgy (Blood Warden)

Innately capable of blood magic. However, he is considerably less skilled in hemoturgy as compared to cryoturgy. He is also only capable of using the Healer variant, though he can adapt this to be used offensively by assisting it with cryoturgy. Doing so tends to expend large amounts of mana and is only used as an assassination method.

#### Chamrosh Shift

Capable of shifting instantly to a chamrosh. While shifted, Owen is capable of using cryoturgy and Phantom Phase skills. He is not proficient enough in hemoturgy to use it effectively while shifted.

#### Phantom Phase

Owen is capable of making himself incorporeal to perform a number of tasks. While incorporeal, Owen cannot use cryoturgy, hemoturgy, or Chamrosh Shift.

## General Bio

* **Death:** February 17, 549 A.D.

Owen was born in Ilonia to his cryoturge mother, but taken in by his father as he returned to Fiennbhyrr. His grandparents were angered that he was an "illegitimate" child, since he was not born to two hemoturge parents. However, they agreed to allow him to stay in the province as long as Beck agreed to ensure that Owen's hemoturgy skills would develop, but not his cryoturgy. Unfortunately, at the early age of five, Owen demonstrated quickly growing prowess in cryoturgy. Even worse, while he was able to use hemoturgy to an extent, it was significantly weaker than was expected of him. Owen's grandparents and sister ostracized him and attempted to shun him out of the family. Beck alone was able to keep Owen in the household, against their protests.

While Beck was able to keep Owen, he was not able to keep him in the local school; he was bullied relentlessly just for being a cryoturge in the first place, specifically by other hemoturges of the healer variant. He found support with "slayer" hemoturges, who were viewed as being lower class in the eyes of the healers. This didn't help much though, as the vast majority of children in the schools of his home district were healers, and not slayers. Beck eventually pulled him from the public schools and chose to homeschool him instead.

Slayers in another district actually began to take a liking to Owen, appreciating that his cryoturgy could be used in the profession if he chose to involve himself in it. Owen declined, choosing to stay with his father instead.

The rest of his family did not make his life at home any easier; Owen nearly died after his sister, Delia, poisoned his drink, only for Beck to save him by using his hemoturgy to directly remove the poison from his bloodstream. Owen's grandparents didn't reprimand Delia for the attempt ; in fact, while they said nothing out loud, they fully supported it, even if they wouldn't partake in it themselves.

After the incident, Beck stayed by Owen's side at almost all hours of the day, and never allowed anyone else to prepare meals or drinks for him, only using food kept hidden in locked storage in his own room. Owen would also sleep in the same room and behind a locked door, as Beck feared Delia may attempt to kill him at night.

With himself and Owen kept behind closed doors, Beck started gathering supplies in secret, so that he would have enough to travel to the distant province of Balefire, hoping that fleeing from Owen's hostile half-sister would keep him safe. Owen was reluctant to leave, due to his loose friendship with a few families of slayers just outside the district where he lived. He would also be unable to maintain his friendship with Skylar, who visited on occasion with his father Roscoe to seek medical treatment they could not receive in their own province. Beck could only leave a written message in the usual place where they arrive, hoping that the two would see it and know where they fled to.

## Trivia

* While his internal ice armor protects against physical threats, it cannot defend him from magic-based or otherwise nonphysical attacks. Owen will generally flee if threatened by something capable of such attacks.
* For some reason, he is especially weak to electrical damage.