William Crookshank (Lord Nightroad)

FULL NAME: William Jones Crookshank
ALIASES: Will. Jones. Crook.
CODENAMES: Lord Nightroad. Nightroad. Vengeful Night.
AGE: 27
PLAY BY: Wilson from Don't Starve

Over all Appearance:
Standing at five ft ten, William is pretty much average kind of height. Though his height is clearly made up of just how long his legs are. He has a very thin appearance, some would say he looks frail. His pale skin and the dark circles under his eyes just add onto that look though he is a healthy person. Due to being so thin, his build is lean though on the verge of being the kind of build a frail person has. From time to time he can be seen with cuts on his hands in which some of them are bandaged. His hair is black and has a rather odd style to it. Combed back back in rather thick sections, they make up a total of six sections.

The type of style he has is clearly old fashioned. Wearing a black long sleeved shirt underneath a white shirt with short sleeves in which the collar is much higher up the neck and the collar can be visiable. Over the white shirt he wears a dark red vest with faint, thin black stripes going up. Black buttons hold the vest together in the front down the center. Black pants and black shoes, the shoes have a slight heel to them; though not enough to add to his real height. He also has a wedding ring but he removes it when as Lord Nightroad.

When becoming corrupted by his own power though, his skin turns grey whiel the dark cricles round his eyes become black. His hair also starts to lose it's points some and starts to stand up everywhere. When in this state, he is often refered to as Vengeful Night.

When dressed as Lord Nightroad, he wears a black magician coat's with his normal black pants and shoes on.  He also wears a black maskt round his eyes as a means to try and hide his idenity. As Vengeful Night this look stays the same except the coat seems to have dark mist like substance round it, increaseing it's lenght slightly.

LIKES: Knowledge. Helping. Learning. Making his inventions.

DISLIKES: Cold hearted people. Losing control. His inventions failing. His parents. Being lied to and betrayed. Being called Crazy.

FEARS: Losing complete control and harming those close to him. Becoming what he doesn't want to be.

Over all personality:
William has a hard to control desire to learn and thus gain knowledge. This desire has lead to him trying to invent things, sadly they usually back fire badly. This normally leaves him frustrated and wondering if he should keep doing it. Due to his parents and everyone avoiding him back home, he is used to being on his own. While it does get to him from time to time, he is fine with it. Seeing it as not having any distractions to get in the way of his work. Even when things go wrong and he starts a new project, he is very determined and enthusiastic on what he is working on. Usually having high hopes of it working. Since he kept himself locked up in his home working on inventions, he does have trouble interacting with other people and he might come off as annoying due to his desire to learn and talking a bit odd.

Despite all of this, he is a nice man and has rather good manners. Though he can become annoying going on an on about what improvements can be made through creating inventions. He is very clever, constantly thinking on things but he does know when to stop thinking about some things and to pay attention to the world around him. He knows what it's like for no one to stand up for him and that is why he wants to help others in soem way even if his inventions aren't helping him to do that. He hates those who treat others poorly and uses them this is why he tries not to yell at others or lose his temper. He doesn't want to become the bad guy in anyone's eyes.

Sadly this is hard when his own emotions get the best of him eventually, he tries to keep all his anger and hate supressed but sadly this does come to light eventually and becomes what he doesn't want to be. When taken over by his own power he becomes rage and hate driven, neglecting if anyone is around him that he cares for and will attack them if they try to stop him. It is safe to say that he does become a mad man when like this

FAMILY: Casear Crookshank; Unknown. Mary Crookshank: unknown
HISTORY:
William was the only child his parents had in a small town out in the country. While at first, the found his curiosity amusing and encouraged it, thus a sense of normallity was in the air that kept him a happy child. However as he grew older, they became wary of it. When he started to try and make things, it caused them to avoid him. In fact, it caused many people in their town to do just that. They found him rather.....odd and some even called him mad. William didn't think he was mad nor what he was doing would make him considered that. He just wanted to learn everything he could and since no one really tried to stop him, he just went on with it. Many inventions failed yet he kept trying. Things didn't improve when his powers awakened at the age of thirteen, his powers were often out of control and causing some destruction to the house; just as much as his inventions did. This caused his parents to literally throw him out of the house, calling him a freak and a monster. No one else in the town gave him any sort of aid so it resulted in him leaving.

For three years, he was homeless and wandering still. Though in his wandering he often practiced his powers. Curious in them and wanting to see what he could do. In the forest in Winconson, he found himself found by a girl named Adriannia who had watched him practice. At first he was ready to run away but she stopped him, begging him to show her more and he complied. For the first time, no one rejected him and even showing her some strange thing he tried to make while he traveled; along with it exploding as the norm, she still liked him. She took him to her home and her parents welcomed him in; course they kept the powers hidden from them. Adriannia was two years younger than him and oddly enough she had powers as well, though they were the opposite of his. Instead of Darkness, she had Light. The two took to practicing in the forest outside of the town and more than frienship sparked from this. This happiness and peace lasted for seven years, in that time they both became adults and they even married; much to the confusion and surprise of Adriannia's parents.

The love they had together was true and William held it close to his heart. Sadly things wouldn't last. Their first anniversity of being married rolled along and William had set to work trying to make everything perfect for the evening while Andriannia was out practicing in the forest. Sadly he should've checked on her, for a member of the town had gone out there after his dog and seen her using her powers. Freaked out, he went back to town and collected his friends. All of them knew what mutants were and they were against them, they had headed back to the forest and stopped Adriannia from leaving and ended up murdering her; even though their intentions were to try and drive her away from the town.

An hour later, William had grown concerned and when he went asking a few folks if they saw Adriannia or anything weird, they mentioned a group go into the fores. This caused William to take off into the forest and he soon came across the scene of his dead wife and the group standing around her, arguing about what to do with her. Going over to Andriannia's body, he fell to his knees and held her close crying all the while. The men tried to explain but William didn't hear them, instead he questioned in his mind why they did this and was overcome by his anger and grief. Resulting in the Corrupted Darkness appearing for the first time for it was also using the hate and anger he locked away as wel. This resulted in him lashing out the group and terrifying them greatly. This resulted in two of the group to be murdered straight away and a few others to be badly injuried, the one who had first seen Andriannia use her power and thus responsible had run off. Though William quickly caught up and chained the man to the ground before he broke the man's arms. Just when he was about to do something worse to the person, William had snapped out of it due to being drained so greatly. As he struggled to stay concious the chains disappeared and the man fled. He soon passed out.

Oddly enough, none of the survivers of the event told the small police force that it was William who had done it but that didn't ease William's mind. Leaving the town and traveling about once more, this resulted in him taking up the name of Lord Nightroad and helping others out however there have been a few other instances were he lost control of his emotions. Resulting in the people of those places to refer to him as Vengeful Night for he always went after those that had done greater wrong and had caused him to lose control of his emotions in the first place. He has no arrived in New York City with no certainty of how things will go missing Andriannia with each step, he has kept his wedding ring and as both William and Lord Nightroad, he tells them his heart is to only one.


POWERS:
Darkness Manipulation: User can create, shape and manipulate darkness and shadows. By itself, darkness is mostly used to cloud everything into total darkness, but by accessing a dimension of dark energy it can be channeled to a variety of effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance: one can also control and manipulate the beings that exist there, create and dispel shields and areas of total darkness, create constructs and weapons, teleport one's self through massive distances via shadows, etc. William is a good bit expereinced with this but is nowhere near a master, he is able create things from the darkness and he doesn't fully need exisiting shadows. He can create chains and small knives.

Umbrakinetic REgeneration: Users can use darkness to regenerate their bodies with the amount used defining the speed of healing. He can only used this for simple and non life threatening wounds.

Sacred Darkness Manipulation: User can create, shape and manipulate purifying and holy darkness which is generated by the goodness and kindness of a darkness user. The power to counter the forces of darkness with evil intent is with the forces of darkness with good intent. He is able to create a shield that can defend at least two people, they can both be in the same sheild or they can be apart. He can also put a sheild on himself.

Corrupted Darkness Manipulation: User has the power to create corrupted and evil darkness which is generated by the depravity and cruel nature of the darkness user. The power to counter the forces of darkness with good intent is with the forces of darkness with evil intent. he can create a ball of darkness that is teh size of a basket bal and throw it at opponets, these things explode upon coming into contact with something.



WEAKNESSES:
 Darkness Manipulation: He is still learning this ability, he can't teleport at all and Light Manipulation can beat him, there are also more experienced users of this power that can beat him.

While he can create things without the aid of exisiting shadows, the weaker he gets will result in him having to fall back on using exisiting shadows. It also strains him mentally.

Umbrakinetic Regeneration: He can't heal life threatening wounds all the way nor half way. This only works for simpler wounds like cuts, mainly small bullet wounds, and knife or blad wounds that aren't through and throughs.

Another thing with teh Regeneration is that if he is weak enough and unable to use what darkness he can create, he will need to use the light of the moon or from exisiting shadows. But if so weak to where he can't do anything, he will need the moon light and this works best with it being a full moon.

Sacred Darkness Manipulation: While this is what he had before the corrupted darkness, his skill with it has weakened due to what he has done that gave him the Corrupted darkness. He does struggle to purify things and even when he tries to purify things, it can result in him becoming corrupted and thus backfiring.

This power is only able to be used when it's used for good reasons.

He is very limted to what he can create with this, mainly he can only do sheilds. No weapons of any kind. Even with the shield, he won't be able to defend himself when using it if he's not inside the shield as well.

Corrupted Darkness Manipulation: This is only accesable when he lets his emotions such as anger, rage, hate, and revenge take him over and cloud his judgement. He is inexperenced in this power and thus the resutl is hard to tell, he can end up weakening himself greatly and he is often blnded by the power thus it is actually controling him.

Those who are more experenced with it than himself can over powerhim along with users of Scared Darkness Manipulation.

When taken over by the corrupted darkness, he will actually weaken faster since he is using more power quickly. If he uses too much of it he will pass out due to exhaustion.

He can only do the things he does with Darknees Manipulation when like this. Create simple weapons like knives and the chains but he does meed

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