Name: Grant Malik
Age: 32
Race: Djinn
Appearance:
Gender: Male
Brief Bio:
Grant is the creation of the scientific notion: "can we actually make the devil?" This thought may have been deeply researched or pondered upon. Though, it is more likely that it happened during a drinking game, or maybe by whoever headed the experiment's child. It was still an avenue they explored.
The basis for Grant, surprisingly enough, is human. Humans are usually vilified as being devilish by creation, or at least that is what the project notes say. In all honesty, it was easier for them to manufacture one than to actually catch one. A pure devil, no matter the theological variety, was quite hard to get samples from as they usually outsmarted those that were trying to capture them or immolated themselves just to spite the humans. So, Grant started out human and through years of genetic manipulation, surgery, and downright Frankenstein-like procedures, became what he is today.
Grant falls closer to being a djinn than a goat-arsed devil with a pitchfork. He has command over fire and smoke. His flame abilities are the least powerful of the two. He's capable of lighting on fire anything flammable with his touch. He can't cause things to spontaneously combust or light water or metal on fire. And he can't light flesh on fire either, he has tried--a lot. His smoke abilities, on the other hand, are near all encompassing. He can turn himself into smoke and use it to infiltrate or avoid danger (though he can't use any of his other abilities in this form). He can control smoke, by thought, though he has to be able to
see it He can't just will it on its existence alone. And probably the most frightening, he can alter the density of it making it solid. Grant is also sturdier than most and stronger, but doesn't excel in either of these categories. Usually, creatures built for strength and endurance outmatch him. He's also charming. Well, as charming as a green man with horns can be.
He has no memories of being human, as he was altered quite young in his life, and so he considers himself a creature above all. Grant's the sort that just goes with teh flow. Sure, he doesn't much care for being a caged animal, more-or-less, but he doesn't actively rebel. They don't treat him poorly, and he can torment his guards by being the snake-tongued, not literally, charmer that he was genetically engineered to be. Also, there is a circulating bet on who can beat him at cards. No one has managed to cash in on that bet. Well, except for a poor guard named Jenkins who thought it was highly amusing to drug Grant before a game. He didn't find it highly amusing when all his clothes caught on fire. So, maybe Grant causes a little bit of trouble. They should be glad that they strayed away from the Judaic devils. No one wants Jobe-like horrors visited upon them. Being lit on fire is far more tame.
