Carrielle: The Broken Mage

I can't remember if I posted this or not. It is a pretty old drawing. I'll post it anyways.

This is Carrielle, another Twin Goddess Chronicle character that I often use in my RPs with KC (Slarenkou). I Actually adore Carr-kun. He's all complex and emo LOL. Sadly I don' know how his story will end, but knowing his demon, it won't end well D:...</3

This is an older drawing, too. God, I hardly have anything up-to-date. This was the first image I did of him.
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Name: Carrielle
Age: ‘16’; 2300
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 123 lbs
Species: Human // Warlock
Element(s): Black Magic
WOC: Magical Staff
Occupation: Corporate member; Mage
Rank: #5
Song(s): The Little Things Give You Away, Linkin Park
Description:
In Carrielle’s home-world, most of his planet was made up of humanoids very similar to humans. Most lived to be 60-100 years old, aging normally, and lived normal lives. But there were a few humans that were born with a unique trait: they could use magic. Carrielle was such a child.

His magical power was recognized before he was two years old when he began to affect his environment by will. Carrielle’s parents immediately took him to be examined by the magicians at the castle of their territory. He was quickly taken to the Rune Master, the magician that was the strongest in the area (and most their world), Avent. Avent recognized Carrielle’s talents and recommended that the boy be placed in the Temple for training. Carrielle’s parents agreed, proud that they had produced such a child, and he was placed in special courses. He would remain at the castle grounds for the next 14 years.

By the time he was 6, he had become Avent’s apprentice where Carrielle learned powerful magics under his teacher. Avent was like his father, taking care of and looking after the boy through most of his youth. They spend most every moment together, only separating when Carrielle went to visit his parents once a year on his birthday.

At 15 Carrielle passed the test to become a Rune Master and came out from under his teacher’s wing as an independent magician. He chose to keep close to Avent, still too dependent to make a life of his own.

Just past his 16th birthday, life changed in his world. War was declared between the two main Kingdoms and life was suddenly violent. Overnight Carrielle watched the green pastures of the hills be burnt down, and thousands of lives were lost every day as the two leaders fought for dominance.

Peace was dead.

Avent left the Temple to kill another Rune Master, his brother, whom worked for the Queen. He chose not to take part in the war, only hoping to stop his brother from taking more lives and to stop the meaningless war. He left behind his magicians, whom his King forced to battle. Many of them died, and many more became corrupted before doing so, becoming Black Magicians.

Carrielle was confused and devastated by the violence, leaving him open for corruption. Sensing his opportunity, the King took the chance to get the boy on his side. But Carrielle, still so young and innocent, wouldn’t take part in the war, saying that violence wasn’t the way to solve battles. But the King wasn’t so easily thwarted. He told the boy that he had Carrielle’s parents and was going to have them put to death unless the teen worked for him. The King demanded that Carrielle kill the Queen’s magicians and the Queen herself. Driven to the brink at the sight of his parents near death, he agreed to do as he was ordered and prepared himself for battle.

Carrielle was aware that the opposition was massive. There were hundreds of magicians on the other side that he was expected to kill, and the opposing Queen herself was a powerful magician. Even with all of his magic, he wouldn’t be able do what his King wanted and his parents would be killed.

This required more than Carrielle had on-hand. He'd have to find a way to become immensely more powerful and he had to do it literally overnight, or risk his parents’ death.

There was only one way he could think of to meet this need: he had to make a Pact with a demon. And not just any demon, but a Greater demon. That would provide him with the power he needed, but at what cost? Most demons demanded the souls of the magicians that Summoned them for such a request, but it was better to be his own soul than his parents’. They were innocent, and after what he was about to do he deserved to lose his soul.
With nothing left to lose, Carrielle drew the Summoning Circle and called forth the Greater Demon named Pathos, a renowned monster with massive amounts of Black Magic. Carrielle explained what he desired, power to kill the Queen and her magicians, and asked for what the demon wished for in exchange. Pathos expressed his understanding and requested not the boy’s soul but the soul of the person the boy fell in love with should they reflect that love. Such a connection of hearts creative enough energy for the exchange but required that Carrielle sacrifice the soul of a person he loved. Carrielle agreed to this and the Pact was forged. Pathos possessed the magician, lending Carrielle all of his demonic powers and immortality.

Almost immediately, it was apparent that the amount of spiritual pressure Pathos expelled was heavy on Carrielle’s soul and body. The magician’s body was directly affected by the energy, tinting his nails purple and causing them to sharpen. He grew fangs and Stain designs began to appear on his pale skin.

This was the beginning of an abnormally long human life that would be mutated and twisted by the demon whose claws were rooted deep and cold in Carrielle’s soul.
Driven by the thought of his parents, Carrielle did what his King requested. He destroyed the opposing magicians; not only them but many of his own. The same people he'd been raised by, he ruthlessly tore apart with his magic.

Bodies covered their world, and the gods showed their pain with storms and rain.

Killing the Queen was of no real challenge for Carrielle, and he returned home with blood-stained robes, asking for his parents now that his mission was accomplished. Behind him was bloodied ground that couldn’t be tilled for another hundred years.

The King admitted to the boy that his parents had already been killed. They’d been dead for a while, killed after Carrielle had agreed to kill his enemies. Carrielle was enraged and he killed the King and the rest of those soldiers in the castle, and then left his crippled world in search of a clean start.

He had done the unthinkable. He had made a Pact with a demon, a Pact that was slowly eating away at his soul, a Pact that would not only mutate him physically but would gradually lead Carrielle towards insanity. He'd sacrificed the life of the one person in his life that should be able to depend upon him for protection, the person he was meant to be with, and the lives of countless soldiers and magicians and innocent bystanders. He was a murderer, a cursed being, and a condemned soul.

The thought of forgiveness never he'd committed.