Name: Sylar Hellman
Persona: Chidaruma
Age: 24
Archetype: Gifted
Power set:
Pain projection: He has to injure himself to project the pain onto others via touch.
Pain reception: Like-wise via touch, however he can’t control it and thus cannot make use of it for his projection nor can he prevent another’s pain from passing onto him during accidental contact.
Origin Story:
Sylar was born in an orphanage. His teenage mother raised him there as best she could until she became of age and left the place to start her life. Sylar stayed, always looking forward to her visits. He believed the situation was temporary and that once she had enough money she’d take care of him and they would live together again. He didn’t feel like the other kids, they had nobody and waited to be chosen by somebody. Sylar already had somebody, to be together they just needed money.
During the wait, Sylar felt the effects of his gift early on but was not aware of it being something out of the ordinary or even something his young mind could explain. Sometimes he just hurt, and sometimes it was others that hurt. With time his gift became more pronounced during which he realized that he was both cause and victim of the pain around him. This ability took its toll on the boy, sending him into isolation and consequently further yearning for his mother as if she was the way out, as if her mere presence would put a stop to his curse. Suddenly waiting wasn’t enough, they needed money and he would help. The youngster would sneak out of the orphanage to get money in any way he could, giving it all to his mother on her visits. She would smile at him and he would be happy.
And so it started, the downward spiral into money aquisition at any cost. Sylar covered as much of his skin as possible hoping to minimize the foreign pain, however he found that pain projection could be useful… even at the cost of self-mutilation. Thinking he’d gathered enough spare change to live on, he ran away. Except, momma wasn’t there no mo. She bailed, and a pissed off and bitter Sylar decided he wasn’t going to feel this pain alone. He would share it with the world!
Sylar Hellman was arrested for inappropriate touching when trying to steal a wallet. He was then sent to jail for resisting arrest and poking an officer’s eye since it wasn’t the first time, or the second or third… He also didn’t have a say in his persona name, that was given to him by one of the officers and it kind of just stuck. When asked about it he tries to evade the subject because he knows very well why it was given to him.