Deryk
Human Planeswalker
Backstory: Well, he doesn't really know. He woke up on an unnamed plane with a migraine to split his skull and no memories beyond a searing, stabbing pain all over his body, the feeling of being tied down, a tearing noise, and an impossible color(i.e. his first planeswalk). He had nothing beyond a loose, gray tunic belted around his waist, not even his name. For some reason, though, he knew things-how to speak, how to read and write a language he hasn't found anywhere he's visited, basically all the basic functions. He named himself after he was almost eaten by some sort of plains hunting cat and managed to blast it in the face with lightning. “Deryk” roughly translates to “shock” (in the electrical sense, but it can mean the “surprise” sense though that’s rarer) in the language that he knows. He now travels the Multiverse, attempting to learn his history and whatever else he can along the way. Currently, he’s living on Jakkard trying to reverse engineer the trains after one nearly ran him over..
Physical Description: Deryk stands at 6'1", and appears to be somewhere between twenty and 25. His eyes are a light grey, but the whites turn blue when he gets seriously pissed off. His skin is pale enough that it sometimes worries people, even though he doesn't burn so much as tan hard in the beating sun. His eyebrows are especially thin due to him accidentally shocking himself a few too many times, so he perpetually looks a little startled unless he's really angry. He has a rather scraggly, unkempt proto-beard that he shaves only when he remembers to and has a razor and mirror, which isn't often enough to grow anything out, but not often enough to keep him clean. His hair is black and has a few variable white streaks where the melanin was burnt out by accidental electricity, and a face that looks like someone told him to "sharpen up" and he took it just a little too literally. He's not terribly athletic, but he's remarkably skinny. I don't mean lean or wiry-those imply whipcord muscle. I mean skinny. Guy's a beanpole, enough that he stands out in a crowd. Typically, he wears some sort of travelling cloak over loose, free clothing-he doesn't dress for pretty, he dresses for effective. Don't brush up against him when he's dry, as he'll almost always give you an accidental static shock.
Personality: Deryk is insatiably curious. It started with wanting to know his history, but it evolved from there into almost wanting to build a new history for himself. Due to spending rather a long time alone on that unnamed plane before working up the courage to tear reality open at the seams and leap through, he’s a bit crazy. When confronted with a situation, he lists off what he knows in his head, comes up with a hypothesis, and tests it out. If it doesn't work, he adds what doesn't work to what he knows and tries again later. As you can imagine, this tends not to work too well for dealing with people. However, it's the only method he knows-he lost the others along with his memory. He’s also a bit short-tempered, and the sentence “Fact: This guy is an ****” tends to come up in his mental checklist a lot. He has a weakness for wisecracks; unfortunately, he tends to be particularly bad at making them.
Abilities: Deryk is not so much a “sparkmage” as a “lightning-mage.” His powers are derived from lightning in storm clouds, and if there were ever such a thing as a high-frame video camera in the M:EM, one could see that his own electrical blasts are like lightning, with a leader and then a return strike. With practice, he’s developed the ability to shape his raw bolts into ball lightning, “sprites,” and other forms that we know. What separates him from a particularly skilled sparkmage, however, is the sources he draws from. Almost all mages draw from lands. Deryk draws from the sky. Where most mages pull on their memories of the lands they have visited, Deryk draws on his memory of storms that have passed. He pulls energy from the land’s “memory” of a dazzling lightning strike, a time when ball lightning frolicked in the forest, a furious thundering hurricane ripping the sea to spray. This shows up in his magic-his spells look more natural, as if the sky decided to come down to him, rather than a single blast of electricity. (In reality, he draws from lands where lightning has struck, and takes energy from the patterns formed by lightning in the earth. However, to focus himself, he uses storms. So don't tell him. No, really, don't.)
Used Spells:
Lightning Strike
Counterflux
Shock
Negate
Lightning Storm
Brainstorm
Cyclonic Rift
Electrolyze
EDIT: Fixed his association with Ravinica and his physical description.
dictatorship. He was captured and sentenced to "reeducation," which translates to "mind wipe and then brainwashing." The mind wipe was ludicrously painful, and the final memory loss ignited his spark, sending him tumbling through the Blind Eternities. Luckily, he popped out while unconscious, and woke up on the plane we meet him on. So yeah, he's got no memory to unlock.