Name: Walt Biggerstaff

Age: 25

Group: Escaped Prisoner, former Soldier/Mage

Species: Human

Appearance: With his blond hair, golden eyes, skinniness, and paleness, Walt looks far more frail than he actually is. He's average height and wears a stolen guard outfit, though it's covered in so much dirt and torn in so many places, no one can tell that that's what the uniform once was.

Bio: Walt is a very protective person, some would argue too protective. He tries to do everything on his own, to the point that he allows himself to be overwhelmed. His worst fear is that he will descend into the insanity he had when he was a soldier, so he tries not to take any human lives. He also tends to blame himself for many things that aren't his fault, since he feels it's his responsibility as a mage to solve everyone's problems. All his adventures now make him very cautious and a little paranoid. He does genuinely care about others and tries to help them all, but it's very rarely in ways they appreciate.

Background: When Walt was 16, he pretended to be 18 to join the military. His sister was sick, and he needed some way to pay for her recovery. Doing magic tricks on the corner didn't get him very far, and even though he had magical abilities, he didn't know how to control them, so the army put him through basic training as a joke. They never expected that he would get through with flying colors. They figured the basic training had to be a fluke, so they sent him to the battle field with his trusty gun blade. His unit was soon surrounded, and he unintentionally used his magic to kill all that had surrounded them. That was when he started to go crazy and want to kill anyone who got in his way.

He trained with one of the best mages in the army, and quickly rose through the ranks within. He was hailed as the best, able to slaughter whole battalions of enemy soldiers with one spell. Life for him was good until one night, while his mental barriers were down, he was possessed by an enemy magician. He slaughtered hundreds of his own men before he was finally detained. He was then sent to trial, where he eventually got off, but he vowed never to use magic to kill ever again. He was discharged shortly after.

He came home to find his sister had died and that many people thought he was betraying his country by no longer helping in the military. He took all he learned and became a healer instead. When a friend of his from the army approached him and told Walt they wanted him back, he flat out refused. His friend told him he wasn't asking, he was telling, and drew a gun on Walt. He pulled the trigger, and Walt used his magic to make the whole gun explode in his friend's hands, an act which killed him. He was put on trial and found guilty of murder.

Since the apocalypse started, he's been doing about as well as you'd expect, though he feels exhausted all the time...until he killed after entering Adam's mind. Now, he just might be slipping back into insanity.

Powers/Abilities: Well, the ability to use magic, of course. How it works is that spells could be elemental or non-elemental. Elemental spells are easier to use because they require less energy. It requires some exertion from yourself, but you're not creating something out of nothing. All you do for elemental spells is manipulate what's already there. For non-elemental spells, things like entering another's mind and summoning or repelling objects, more energy is required, along with a more advanced skill level, but often non-elemental spells are more useful than elemental ones. For example, if you make a shield with one of the elements, a strong attack from the opposite element could easily break through it. An air shield could break thanks to a strong enough earth attack. However, a non-elemental shield can't be broken in such a way. If you're advanced enough, you could block just about any attack until either you relinquish the shield or run out of the energy required to keep it up. Note, though, that every attack on the barrier makes you use more energy so as to keep it up. It's a far more powerful shield, but takes more concentration and energy, see?

Telepathy/Mind Breach: Walt can communicate with people telepathically if they know how to communicate with him and allow it. He also knows how to enter someone else's mind, provided he makes physical contact and concentrates hard enough to break through the mind's barriers.

Mind Block: He can reinforce his mind barriers and make it harder for one to either telecommunicate with him or control his mind. He has to be willing to do this, concentrate on it, and can only reinforce his barriers temporarily.

Weapons: Gun blade and a staff, though both have been lost at this point.