James Montgomery

Name: James Montgomery

Age: 20

Karmic Rank: Neutral

Hero Name: Nightshade

Templar Name (Not required): Satan's Cloak

Affiliations: Drowning Doom runaway, Templar Victim, loos affiliation with the Spartans. Not watched by the Government

Powers: James has various sorts of “Shadow powers” which are described herein. They get progressively weaker in greater degrees of light, naturally. When under the sun at high noon, or when under a heavy spotlight of at least 900 billion candlepower, he cannot use them at all. At midnight, or on Overcast nights, or when James is underground or within the Drowned Warren, his powers are at their strongest.

One of these powers is the ability to “store” and “summon” items within the shadowy folds (that is, the pockets) of his clothing. The items he can store in the pockets are able to be limitless in number, but follow certain guidelines. For instance. The weight of the single object being stored must not weigh more than ten pounds. That, and if it is an assembled item (Like, say, a handgun) each piece must be stored seperately. He cannot store fully assembled guns, loaded ammunition clips, chainsaws, or even PVC Pipes pieced together into a form of weapon. Ammunition clips must be empty, and loaded with bullets after being summoned from the shadows.. He does have infinite storage space, but due to the fact that he must individually store each piece of a weapon, this does not constitute him being a one man armory. Plus, the item he is storing needs to fit the pocket mouth. He can store a baseball bat in his jacket pocket, so to speak, but only if the pocket is big enough to have the bat start to enter the hole. To put it simply, his pockets are bottomless.

An effect of such storage is that the weapons are completely black when summoned, and will have wisps of black smoke curling off of them, the speed with which it returns to normal color depends on the light amount. The more light, the higher speed it “de-fogs” so to speak. A side effect of his clothes being in such proximity to James for such extended periods of time is that they are black as well. The only things not affected by James' colorchanging are organic things, like living creatures and leather. He cannot store living things in the shadows, though. In the shadows, it is absolute zero in temperature. Any being small enough to fit in his pockets would get frozen to death before they had time to shiver. The blood in their veins would freeze, the various waters and fluids within the body would crystallize, and they would be frozen beyond recovery. This will be no cryogenic freezing. This is Hypothermia gone nutshit.

Another power is his ability to Shadow travel. The method he disappears is most like Nightcrawler, in that he leaves black smoke when he disappears, and has black smoke curling off his body when he reappears. Unlike his shadow storage, he can take living creatures with him when he teleports. He has to be touching their actual skin, though, in order to protect them from the harsh effects of the shadows they pass through.

In dark environments, James can darken his skin to the color of shadows, not really as a camouflage, but so his normally pale skin isn't quite so livid in the night.

James Montgomery no longer has Nightshade. After the destruction of the Drowning Doom, the Persona has faded from him.

Note, all smoke and fog mentioned in the powers is not actually smoke. It is pure darkness, emanating in a fashion like smoke.


History: James has lived his life in the background. He was overshadowed by colleagues, fellow athletes, friends, if applicable, family... he was in the shadows all his life. So he trained to be a kickboxer, in an attempt to build his own rep as Empire City's greatest boxer. On the day of the match, James felt excited. He would finally be able to make a name for himself. Then, five hours before his match, which would be publicly televised, all of the stations found something that ended up overshadowing his kick boxing match, as well as canceling it as well.

Namely, the Ray Sphere detonated, causing the Blast. This did not activate his powers though. Something completely different did that. Sasha's Tar. The Tar activated his abilities. Unlike the Reaper Conduits, who moved with a bright light, and were able to make explosive waves, James shifted with a dark... unlight. He couldn't make waves, so he was given a shotgun, and a baseball bat with which to strike in melee. Then the Tears took over the Reapers, and for the longest time, James was another gravedigger, but one with curls of darkness curling from his entire body. After the Templars caught some gravediggers, James among them, Dimitri ordered them to be proccessed, in an attempt to cure them of their demonhood.  Dimitri had a backup plan in event of his demise, however. If he was dead, any remaining demons being cleansed would be terminated, and all demons were now marked for termination on site. Jason was spared this demise by the Templars by the Spartans, and has such been loosely affiliated with them, but he doesn't really do much with them. Since the Time Skip, he's gone off on his own, trying to find his own way, and ended up in Seattle. He could be seen as a Spartan Affiliate in Seattle, but he'd rather not end up with this label.

Personality: James really hates all the shit that's happened to him, ok? He's rather indignant about everything he's gone through, and honestly feels his powers are a mere slap in the face reminder that he has been in the shadows all his life, and that he is doomed to be there for the rest of his life as well. He felt like he drew the short stick, and used to just crave attention. Now, he's realized that the shadows was always where he thrived best, and can hardly be seen outside of them. He's gotten grimmer, over the years, and hardly smiles. It takes a lot to do this. He can be seen as unfriendly, but he's really just majorly professional, trying to prove that darkness can be used for good.

Appearance: James has pale, pale skin. His lips, his gums, his fingers. Everything is pale. Meanwhile, his hair, and his eyes, are black as night. His long, nimble fingers, are quite capable at assembling and disassembling a firearm, an ammunition clip, whatever. His clothing is always, always black. If you dress him in colorful clothing, it will be pitch black within five minutes. His shirt, his jacket, his pants, his skivvies, his socks, his shoes, gloves if any, all are plain black. The only article of clothing that is not black is the plain silver buckle of his belt. His powers cannot make leather and metal black, so any leather jackets, leather boots, or belt buckles he'd either have to live with or get in black. He has a black leather belt, and black leather shoes for this purpose. The buckle is plain steel, mildly scuffed. His arms are bare, and covered in marker drawings. Left arm has a trident, and underneath the trident, a barcode and numbers that were imprinted into him by the Templars. His right shoulder has an eagle and crossed swords, the symbol of the Spartans, and he carries a black ping pong paddle, completely black except for a Fallen Raven crest, denoting his time in the Drowning Doom. The other side of the paddle has the symbol of the Reapers on it.


Karmatic changes to powers, appearance: Powers suffer no change from Karma

I say approved, unless someone else finds a problem with it.

Okay, I edited this one for after the time skip.

approved