Elias Benmansour

By Biohazarddallas

• September 20, 2017




Age: 35

Gender: Male

Species: Non-Pony

Appearance: <p> A snow leopard from Abyssina, wears a heavy brown overcoat with a black tank top and black pants underneath.  </p> <p>   </p> <p> (Also art is NOT my art, I take no credit)  </p>

Personality: <p style="color:#454545;"> <span>He’s cynical, snarky and pragmatic. A reluctant anti-hero who has little patience for false hopes and rampant idealism. A silver tonged trickster, he is not above using or sacrificing others for the greater good (also occasionally for his own selfish motives, justifying this by weighing his own value in the fight against evil over others). He will do anything and trick anyone in order to keep mystical balance or save his own hide. In his eyes, the ends definitely justify the means. His hard and seemingly uncaring exterior is a front for his own deep insecurity and heavy guilt stemming from his past deeds. These past actions currently motivate him to try to atone for what he believes are stains on his soul. This motivation frequently leaves him prone to reckless behavior that all too often results in him gambling with his own life and most of the time the lives of others as well (Like transferring a demonic pestilence onto an entire city in a magical game of chicken). However, he will never intentionally risk the lives of his few family or friends. Willing to go so far as to make pacts and deals with less than savory beings in order to keep his friends safe. His personality and behavior often has a divisive effect on others. The abundance of charisma and persuasiveness allows him to make friends (and lovers) easily. However those who spend any extended length of time with him tend to either be extremely loyal and trusting to him or they despise him completely. Ironically with many of his associates it’s a mixture of both. He never seems to have a simple relationship with anyone as it always turns into something more layered and complex.</span> </p>

Backstory: <p style="color:#454545;"> He was born in Abyssinia to a poor family. His father was a librarian and his mother left when he was just a year old, after his younger brother Cedric was born. When he was 10 and his brother was 9 his father came into possession of a book on magic theory. He was instantly intrigued, soon he studied every book he and his brother could get their paws on (both by legal and illegal means) about all aspects of magic, both light and dark. To try and help their financial situation the brothers turned to using magic on the streets. Either as performers, or con men. They made friends with another street hustler, an ocelot named Julia. She ran away from home at a young age and had since been picked up as a beggar/street rat by a ruthless puma called Marco. One day when Elias was 17 and Cedric was 16, they were making their usual nightly routine on the unsuspecting drunkards of a pub on Julia's street when they heard a loud crash and screaming coming from an abandoned building. They ran into the house to investigate and what they saw was horrifying. Julia, fed up with Marco's treatment and abuse of her, had tried to banish him to tartarus but instead had accidentally summoned a demon. It soon began to attack her, and Elias and his brother, hatched a plan. He would summon his own, stronger demon in order to defeat Julia's. But in the resulting fight Julia was killed. Because she was killed by the demon Elias had summoned his soul was damned to tartarus for murder. However, in an effort to appease the demon Cedric stepped up and offered the monster a deal. He would give up his own soul and be dragged to tartarus in exchange for Elias' life. The deal was struck, in spite of Elias vehemently protesting the agreement. He watched as his only brother was dragged into an eternity of torture for a mistake he had made. Since that day Elias poured himself into magic and has dedicated his life to exorcising demons and to hopefully one day be able to drag is brother's soul from tartarus. </p>