Mahdi

[Mahdi]

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.:Name:. Mahdi

.:Nick Name:. Formerly known as Domitus

.:Affiliation:. Former slave, current rebel

| ~ • ~ | Appearance | ~ • ~ |

.:Physical Appearance:. Mahdi has dark skin, dark eyes and black hair. His hair is fairly long, though he has learned over the years how to care for it or how to make it appear shorter than it really is. He mostly wears his hair pulled back, but some strands are as wild as he pretends not to be and escape around his face. His smile has been described as beautiful and dangerous, though he gives little of those smiles nowadays as his smile was something he was trained to use in his former life and now he has a complex about it. His body is slender with toned muscles, though that is not obvious at first glance.

.:Height:. 5'8" 

.:Portrayed by:. Avan Jogia

| ~ • ~ | Personality | ~ • ~ |

.:Personality:. Mahdi's personality is a hard thing because after so longer being trained and molded into doing certain things as he was forced to do, he isn't even sure who he is now. He can tell a joke and laugh with the best of them, but those that are let close -- and there are very few of them -- can tell if those are real smiles or not. He is often quiet in a crowd, though he does not like being right in the midst of them. He's quiet and withdrawn, but he seems to see everything. When he does laugh in a natural and genuine fashion, it seems to surprise him.

.:Special Skills:. Mahdi is an assassin. He has been trained by people for his former dominus to use the skills he was born with -- his beauty and his voice -- to get close to targets. He is very good with mixing poisons, and he can be deadly with a knife, He is also highly skilled with a bow for when he had to take out a competitor for his dominus from afar. Mahdi was trained in the beginning as a body slave, but then his dominus and his dominus' partners came up with the idea of making Mahdi into a very special kind of body slave. He is not very good at hand to hand fighting.

.:Weaknesses:. Mahdi cannot fight hand to hand at all. It's not something that he was ever trained in because it could have been used against his dominus. He appears softer than he looks, but there is also a funny kind of naivety about him. He was raised and trained a certain way, but that also means he is woefully ignorant about a lot of things. He has a temper and can lash out quickly if he feels threatened by anyone.

| ~ • ~ | History | ~ • ~ |

.:Birthplace:. Syria

.:Family:. He has vague memories of a brother, but no memory at all of his parents

.:Occupation:. Former body slave and assassin... current would-be rebel

.:History:. Mahdi remembers very little of his life before slavery. He doesn't remember parents, but he does remember a brother who was close to him in age, but older. He has very vague memories of being sold with his brother to one house and how he refused to be tamed or made into the slave that their owner wanted him to be. He rebelled and hated the name the Romans had given him. No matter how much his brother ordered him to hold his tongue and do what he was told, Mahdi's spirit would not allow him to do so. It would cost him much.

He was separated from his brother and sold to a different dominus. Mahdi thought he knew what to expect as both dominuses had made comments about what pretty boys the Syrians were and how they would become even more beautiful as they grew older. When Mahdi started to be groomed and taught his duties, part of him hid away inside in order to cope with everything that was happening.

It was at the dinner of a business competitor that Mahdi's fate changed again. The competitor tried offering Mahdi's dominus every kind of coin for a night with the exotic-looking body slave. A comment was made that a man could die happy if he spent a night with someone so beautiful, and Mahdi's new life began.

Mahdi was trained to be a very particular kind of body slave. Not only was he schooled in more and more of the bedroom arts, but his dominus brought in medicuses and apothecaries to teach Madhi all about poisons and how to mix them and make them from the different plants that could be found. He was taught how to coat blades and innocent household utensils. He went through painful experiments to build up a resistance to certain poisons so that his body could be a weapon. When Madhi gained bravery one time to ask why his dominus didn't fear the poisons being used on him, Madhi was severely beaten -- and reminded that what he was being taught was for the dominus and he could very easily be killed at his dominus' will. Madhi had a desperate need to stay alive because he had the hope that one day he would see his brother again. As the years passed and he became someone he did not recognize, he stopped wishing to see his brother for fear of his brother being ashamed of him.

With nothing stretching before him but years of life in this new kind of slavery, Mahdi managed to train himself to keep everything inside that he felt and only allowed the emotions and reactions that he was ordered to portray shine through. He became accepting of his fate and became the very loyal weapon of his dominus. After sometime, this was all he remembered of himself that wasn't his true name.

When the day came that Spartacus and his men overran the villa and killed his dominus and his guards, Mahdi was at a loss as to what would happen to him now. That feeling did not ease when he came face to face with the warrior Nasir -- his long lost brother.

| ~ • ~ | Member Info | ~ • ~ |

.:Name or Online Alias:. Mylia

.:How Did You Find Us:. I was brought here by Agron and now I have a tribe of characters

.:Extra Notes:. Character and history were discussed with and approved by @nasir .

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