Sinbad (Adventures of Sinbad)

PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Shini
CONTACT: Shini#2300 at Discord,
OTHER CHARACTER(S) IN GAME: Sherlock Holmes, Ky Kiske

CANON INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Sinbad
CANON: Magi: Sinbad no Bouken
HISTORY: https://magi.fandom.com/wiki/Sinbad#History

STRENGTHS: Open-Hearted: Sinbad’s ability to read the mood and understand people is very remarkable. He managed to reach out and befriend even people who had tried to kill him because he understands the underlying struggles they are going through. And he did genuinely have good intentions in trying to make a more just world, where people didn’t have to suffer.

Cunning: While he makes some fundamentally *stupid* decisions in his life, Sinbad proves he’s a very cunning and intelligent young man. While he hates studying, he’s aware he needs to put his nose to the grindstone in order to get ahead. If presented with choice a or choice b when it comes to achieving a goal – he will often find a third, more optimal path that wasn’t presented to him, for example when trying to raise the money so Rashid would sponsor him, he realized he wouldn’t make the amount by conventional means in time so he became a performer, using his stories and skills to earn money far faster than he would otherwise. He also shows a shrewd mind for politics and commerce, exploiting weaknesses and take advantages.

Determined: He has one goal in mind: a country that can change the world. The only time he has ever faltered from this path was due to being put extreme psychological and implied psychical torture and suffering from destruction of his first country due to Celendine mind-controlling him into declaring war on Parthevia. but once given a reminder of what he was after – he recovers and gets right back on it.

FLAWS: Arrogant: His most obvious flaw, he knows he’s hot shit, he knows he’s clever, he knows Fate seems to have something in mind for him. This often means he walks into a situation already thinking he has the upper hand, not being appropriately cautious or preparing for when things go south. His biggest set backs in canon has been because he was certain he was winning. On that note, Sinbad has a nasty habit of thinking he knows best, when really, he doesn’t.

Lazy: Because he was dirt-poor and scrabbling to support himself and his mother when he was young, he developed quite a lazy streak. While he will do the work to achieve his goals, and seems fine when he can engage with people, he will slack off with physical labor to drink, and shows a complete and utter inability to focus on completing tedious tasks.

Manipulative: On the flip of his strong empathetic abilities, Sinbad can and has used his ability to read people to use them to his own ends – most notably his older version manipulating Kougyoku’s crush on him in order to turn her into an unwitting spy. His teenaged self is not quite as callus as to do that, but he’s clearly quite used to charming his way out of trouble, immediately resorting to flirting, flattery, and appeals to other people’s egos to get what he wants.

CANON ABILITIES:https://magi.fandom.com/wiki/Sinbad#Abilities

AU INFORMATION

AU CHARACTER NAME: Sinbad ibn Badr al-Ayad
AGE: 16
GRADE: 10th
AU BACKSTORY: Sinbad’s early life was in the middle-east, where his parents Esra and Badr lived in a remote farming village to avoid the eye of the religious authorities – his father was a well-respected member of the community, helping out and somehow has a knack for making sure the crops never fail and the livestock never had complications during birth, while his mother Esra quietly educated the women, and even at a young age, Sinbad seem to have an uncanny knack for predicting storms. This all changed when Sinbad was about seven, when strange men burst into their quiet community, taking the young boy hostage – demanding that Badr showed himself – his true self.

His father felt he had no choice but to comply, arriving in the square while dropping his glamour – revealing that he was a Djinn. While the men were distracted by his sudden change, Badr slew the one holding his son, and chased the rest out into the wilderness, where a freak storm suddenly darkens the sky.

When the storm cleared, people searched for Badr, and only found blood, the star of Solomon scorched into the earth, and tire tracks. No longer feeling safe, Esra sold or traded everything too big to carry, taking the money and her family to a large city in the United States to stay with a brother of hers, thinking the big city would keep Sinbad safe from the hunters that went after her husband. His experience with all kinds of people from all walks of life in their little immigrant neighborhood fostered in him a life-long curiosity of people, and hearing their reason for leaving their homelands planted the seeds of desire for peace within him.

During the time, Esra explained to Sinbad about the nature of Djinns and cautions him to learn how to control his abilities to protect himself. But his curiosity, and growing signs of his less than human nature – such as his black hair turning violet, or the skin around injuries temporarily turning blue - became much harder to disguise, and now he wanted. Knowing her son will eventually go out to try to find out what happened to his father, she chose to encourage him to enroll in a magic school when he does set out, so he would be in safe and capable hands while he's searching, presenting him a sword that Badr had given to her as a wedding gift.

AU PERSONALITY DEVIATION: Because he wasn’t raised literally-hand-to-mouth poor, and didn’t have to support his mother from a very young age, he generally acts more like a kid.

Also since he doesn’t know what happened to his father, while he still has heavy ambitions on making the world better, he’s more focused on his personal issues currently.
RACE: half-Djinn
SECRET SOCIETY: none

POWERS: Sinbad has inherited several aspects of a Djinn’s power from his father, and has the potential under the right circumstances end up as a full and proper Djinn.

Rukh Manipulation: or “Reading the waves” as he calls it, is a seer-like ability to sense the energy of the earth, have the odds go his way, and the people around him to predict their movements, allowing him an almost spider-sense in terms of avoiding blows and finding weak points to exploit. For example, he can innately sense the timing of when a geyser will go off despite never being in the area before or he wakes up right before an assassin attacks him. On occasion, he can gain insight on “path” he’s walking on – being able to clearly see the next step of what he needs to do to get to the next step of his goal, but in turn until he achieves it, his abnormally good luck reverses – if something can go wrong, it will go wrong in a very spectacular fashion as though he’s being punished for peeking. He has yet to connect his bouts of bad luck is caused by his brief moments of future sight.

This ability is heavily muted in the Outlands as the ability is tied to the Djinns being spirits of the earth. He can sense people, but not how the environment acts.

He has always been naturally agile, but as he grew older, he discovered he can glide for short distances and move over fragile ground as if he’s light as a feather, allowing to perform inhuman feats of acrobatic combat.

Over time, he’ll accumulate powers from other Djinns, allowing him to transform into various forms to wield powerful magic.

FOR REAPPING:
He slipped off upon hearing rumors of a Djinn reappearing, and being subjected to tests to prove his worth, he unlocked a new ability he has yet to fully master.

Baal equip: With sword in hand, he can blast powerful bolts of lightning, capable of blasting holes through rocks.

When he eventually masters it, he takes on a humanoid-Dragon form with a large, powerful tail, thick scales covering most of his body save for his chest and face, and allows him to fly. Right now, all he can summon is his tail.

HOUSING: not in Aube.

RP SAMPLE
INTERVIEW SAMPLE PROMPT
1. WHAT DO YOU MOST DESIRE FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE? Excitement! Make it interesting, teach me things that I can actually use!

2. WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE IN THE FUTURE? I want to find my dad first, and second -… a world like this? It could be better, people shouldn’t have to fear the supernatural, and those who aren’t human shouldn’t be fearing for their lives other.

3. DESCRIBE YOUR IDEA OF AN IDEAL SCHOOL EXPERIENCE. No homework! Give us practical work, something hands on and not repetitive.

4. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR A SCHOOL TO OFFER TO ITS STUDENTS? Freedom to think, to explore, I don’t want to be cooped up in a classroom all day.


6. WHAT COURSE WORK EXCITES YOU? WHY? Language classes, being able to talk to other people and to understand them is really important, it’s how you can make peace and foster friendships.

7. WHAT COURSE WORK DO YOU DETEST MOST? WHY? Uuugh, Math. Math’s boring.

8. WHAT ACTIVITIES DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN OUTSIDE YOUR EDUCATION? Swimming, gymnastics, and I did want to do theater.

9. WHEN GIVEN FREE TIME, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT? Sleep, write, climb, swim, whatever I feel like.

11. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM YOUR PEERS? I expect them to be their best selves, not when we first meet, but always least trying to be what they can be, whatever that means for them.

12. WHEN WORKING IN A GROUP, HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE TO ACHIEVE YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL? I make it clear what the goal is, and what our options are in achieving it, and then put that against what everyone’s strong points are and picked our best course of action from that.

13. DO YOU FEEL YOU CAN RELY ON YOUR PEERS, OR DO YOU FEEL YOU MUST EXCEL ON YOUR OWN? I intend to lead when I’m older, and I need to be able to rely on people, and they need to be able to rely on me. I can do things on my own, but people aren’t meant to be loners.

14. IN THIS EVER-CHANGING WORLD, WHAT MOST EXCITES YOU ABOUT THE FUTURE? The people I’ll meet, the places I’ll see – there’s not this world here, but the Outlands in it’s entirety!

15. WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE DO YOU FEAR THE MOST? … [He just goes quiet, glancing away]

16. WHAT MEMORIES DO YOU HOPE TO HOLD AT THE END OF YOUR JOURNEY? The fun I had, my family, the friends and allies I made, everything exciting and new that comes my way.

17. WHAT IN THE FUTURE DO YOU MOST LOOK FORWARD TO? Finding my father, and forging that path of peace!

[He's been ragged, despite what he said to Seizaburo, he wasn't quite over what happened in the pawn shop, then witnessing a suicide and several attempts at matyrdom, and a child... he's drained and there's not a drop to drink]

Sinbad stretches as the group disperses after turning in all the evidence, he notices the red head and waves him over, the corner of his lips tugging after hearing Ichigo's argument with their diminutive host, but he is trying to compose himself.

"How are you holding up?" the young man asked, before closing his eyes for a moment. "I've been meaning to talk to you."

PLAYER INFORMATION

Name: Shini
Contact: RShini

CANON CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Sinbad
Canon: Magi – specifically the prequel Sinbad no Bouken
Backstory: History
Personality: Sinbad seems to be the epitome of the wide-eyed adventurer – excitable and curious, he can’t very well leave well enough alone. Growing up as a poor son of a fisherman and a social pariah (a war veteran that turn total pacifist in a highly nationalistic, militarized society), and a sick mother to look after, he never had much of a chance to explore the world until his fateful encounter with Yunan. As he would state repeatedly – he views that he has to see everything there is in the world, no matter the risk - and of course, that the world will be guiding him on the right path to save it. And he’ll do it with a smile – if not while neck-deep in danger, but immediately afterwards, laughing over the dangers he faced as he seems to enjoy the adrenaline rush and the risk of the unknown. However, he doesn’t feel others should be subjected to the same risks he takes; constantly warning others against going into Dungeons as he feels it’s far too dangerous for most people.

He’s also a wannabe Casanova, constantly hitting on girls he find attractive. Generally though, Sinbad will stop flirting with people that show no interest in him, as he doesn’t want to be too pushy. While he might develop a crush on someone, he isn’t very serious and just seems to do it because he likes the attention – both giving and receiving. On the other hand, he likes to tease guys with light-hearted ribbing and good-nature mocking, but he almost never intends to be mean when he does it.

The major thing is Sinbad does what his heart tells him to do, regardless of the danger. He abandoned his homeland of Parthevia because he was disgusted with their ways, even though it meant he has to look out for Assassins for possibly the rest of his life, and almost destroying his chance at making an alliance with another kingdom because he felt it was wrong for its ruler to use his power for an unfair advantage just to ‘prove a point’. Long as he got an idea of what he wants to do, he will do it without hesitation and without a single thought of giving up or surrendering.

His sense of empathy is extremely strong, he sympathizes even with those who tried to kill him – saving Ja’far when the young boy was falling despite the latter’s crude behavior and previous attempts to assassinate him, and in Magi, he even approached a known enemy who acted like he was crying for help despite the obvious danger. Sinbad enjoys being around people in general, the first to a party, first to lend a hand if someone needs one, and quick to offer friendship to others, and when he learned to write – he found he really loved creating stories, knowing that he’s reaching out to people he would otherwise never meet.

Sinbad only seem to hold hatred for people who would manipulate and use others as tools, and those that would cause suffering just because they can. If they showed no signs of being manipulated themselves or regret for their actions, he will never forgive them and will do anything to stop them. However, he does himself have a manipulative streak, charming others and taking advantages of situations to benefit him – he does hate that aspect of himself, but will in the future deem it a ‘necessary evil’ for his goal – though he has not reach that point in his life and would very much hate his adult self.

The best way to describe his intelligence level is ‘Clever, but foolish’. Sinbad often comes up with brilliant ways of using his environment to his advantage, such as using a fallen shield to ride a geyser to get to a high place, but there’s times when he clearly doesn’t think things through or don’t consider consequences, such as when he tried to open a stall in Reim without checking to see if they needed a license first and ended up getting horribly ripped off, then there’s the time Ja’far had to literally ground him to keep him from flying into a new city in his Djinn equipped form because he never thought about how someone might mistake him for a monster in that shape all because he didn’t want to climb mountains. Generally the less he wants to do something or the more bored he is, the more harebrained his schemes to avoid doing the thing becomes, while if he just sits down and thought ahead, he’s actually quite capable of brilliant tactics such as laying out traps for a giant sea monster to help Hina kill it, and it might've worked if a storm hadn't come in.

AU INFORMATION

AU Character Name: Sinbad Tisoni
AU Backstory: Sinbad was born to a Lebanese-American woman from Ohio named Esra, and an Iranian immigrant named Badr who became a naturalized citizen after seeking political asylum in the US. They got to a comfortable middle-class existence due to his father's Union job at the docks until Sinbad turned 12, when his father's company went on strike over working conditions. Communications broke down, and a worker struck a security guard with a brick, causing a street brawl to break out, and police were summoned to break it up, Badr was among the group that got arrested, though he protested his innocence, claiming he did not attack anyone and was trying to drag a wounded coworker out of the fight. However, due a mixture of plea deals from other dockworkers in the strike and an apparent rush to get the entire group processed, he was tried and sentenced to a cumulative sentence of eight years in prison, much to his family's outrage. Esra was forced to go from working part time to full time to make ends meet, and spent what free time she has divided between caring for her son and researching how to get Badr's conviction overturned. Sinbad meanwhile tries to be a good kid, lying about his age to take part-time jobs, and trying to learn how to cook, as a consequence his grades start to slip, never enough to fail, but enough to earn ire from stricter teachers, though he always made time to practice on his mother's beat up gibson, playing music was their way of bonding in the few hours they got with each other per day.

Things came to a head once his mother finally managed to arrange a meeting with the DA, Sinbad came with her, promising to be good. They were told point blank that it was just not worth the trouble or the money to reopen the case, and that they're lucky nothing came up that would cause Badr's citizen status to be revoked. While his mother answered with iced politeness, Sinbad exploded with anger, and had to be dragged out before he lashed out. After seeing the disdain and quick dismal of their concerns, he had no faith in that anything could be done legally.

AU Personality Deviation: First off, due to the different circumstances of what happened to his family, he doesn't hold a strong antipathy towards military personnel or the military, but he is much more open about his anti-authoritative streak, only listening to those who earned his trust.

Secondly, while his mother works full time, both his parents are alive so while he tries to act mature to impress, he's not as independent as his canon version at the same age, and channels his adventurous streak into writing, especially song lyrics, with his ambition initally turning towards the music industry, because he initally doesn't want to engage with politics.

Species: Human
Class: Infiltrator
Arcana: Emperor
Persona: Starting Persona: Vepar A colorful cross between a mermaid and a butterfly supported by a sea dragon. Representing self-expression and energy, Vepar is weak to dark and Psi attacks but is strong against Zio, using weak, multi-target light attacks like Makouha and lightning attacks such as Mazio and Zio, this Persona is about being flashy while striking.

Ultimate Persona: Baal
Unlike the Persona version, his version of Baal is more dragon than demon, of a blue, gold, and black palette. His elemental strength is Zio, and is weak to Psi attacks, having a mix of single-target but extremely powerful lightning attacks and a variety of physical attacks, trading the ranged light attacks for the more in-one's face physical attacks. It represents both his wrath at the injustice of the world and his desire to right wrongs like a hero.

Social Link Persona: Oberon
Odin
Barong
Assets: Minor: moral support, also fluent in Farsi as well as English

Weapon Type: swords – specifically curved blades like Talwars and Shamshirs
Vehicle Type: N/A

Codename: Tempest

Form of Rebellion: What happens if you combine a vintage heavy metal guitarist and a barbary pirate: royal purple sirwals (baggy pants), white knee-length leather vest with gold and silver chains lacing the front but doesn't close entirely, showing off a bare chest with a coin-fringed blue sash tied in the front. To accessorize, he wears gold-yellow gloves with white wrappings that stop half-way up his arm, gold hoop earrings, silver collar with a crescent moon charm, and his Mask is a half-mask in the shape of a light metallic blue dragon's head, with lightning-shaped horns curving back over his head.

RP Sample: TDM with Terra

So in Magi, there are Magicians, and there are Dungeon Conquerors aka King Candidates. Sinbad is the latter, and thus have an ability called Djinn Equipping. At this current canon point, he can equip either Valefor, an Ice Djinn, or Baal, a Lightning Djinn.

And there is a slight element factor to magic in Magi: Djinns cannot be hurt by magic of the same element, and are immune to damage from environmental hazards, instead, any energy they spent gets restored by said element, so it would act as a kind of natural battery

So What does it mean?
A Djinn lends their power to a chosen king that if evoked, allows the King to take on the special ability and characteristics of said Djinn. There's two categories of Equipping.

Weapon Equipping: Where only a fraction of power is used, causing the Djinn's vessel (usually an actual weapon or something that can be used as one like a hair pin), causing the vessel and the user's arms to transform to accommodate the magic going through it.

Full Equip: The person's entire body transform into a humanoid avatar of the Djinn - they will look generally like the Djinn (the wolf-djinn Valefor makes Sinbad a kitsune for example), allowing them to use all their magic, including the incredibly powerful "Extreme Magic" - a spell that takes a long time to cast but can cause extreme phenomenon, such as Kougyoku's extreme magic can create a Tsunami, or Hakuryuu's Belial can sever someone's soul from their body.

( Baal, the Djinn of Wrath and Heroes )
( Valefor, the Djinn of Confidence and Deception )

Morgiana:
I trust her completely - she keeps me grounded, there's no one else I would rather have to have my back.

Waver:
Guy's hiding something, but he's quite fun to tease.

Estelle:
Cute! But in all seriousness, she's really nice, and I feel like I can trust her.

Chie:
She seems like a pretty cool person, and it's obvious she's close to Morg - a friend of a friend is my friend.

Isabella:
Now that's a woman. She's just so confident and cunning, I want to be just as cool when I'm older.