Wayne Censi

Vital Information
Orphan
Vitals
Gender	Male
Race	Caucasian
Location	New Orleans
Status	Alive
Character stuff
Nature	Caregiver
Demeanor	Survivor
Essence	Questing
Chantry	House of the Rising Sun
OOC
Player	Siin

Wayne Censi is a prominent member of the Chantry of the House of the Rising Sun in New Orleans. He is a former member of the Akashic Brotherhood and is a key member in the ongoing war against the Technocracy. This version of Wayne Censi is different than the Fae-Blooded version of Wayne Censi. For that version, see Wayne Censi (Chicago).

Description

Wayne Censi stands at 5'8" with sandy blond hair reaching just past his shoulders that naturally sweeps backwards over his scalp. He has green eyes and tanned skin that bears a weathered and lightly scarred appearance from his various scrapes and battles with supernatural beings. He sports a full mustache and goatee while keeping his sideburns clipped to only his earlobes.

Wayne's clothing is always loose fitting, and often takes a slight oriental bent to it, due to his immersion in much of the Akashic lifestyle. When geared for battle, he wears a traditional fighting monk gui made from matter-enhanced silk, allowing it to help turn aside both blades and bullets.

Background

Wayne Censi was born in Baton Rouge, LA to Robert Censi and Miranda Reynolds. An only child who grew up with few friends, he tended to stay mostly to himself. While still in early grade school, his family moved to New Orleans, and it was there he met his first and eventual lifelong friend, Damien Allen. School was horribly uneventful and Wayne was a mediocre student. His parents however involved him in martial arts to help him direct his energies outward.

Wayne's parents eventually moved back to Baton Rouge shortly after he graduated high school. On an impulse, he and Damien moved into a small set of apartments so they could begin life on their own. Despite their differences, they were great friends, and often were found in one another's company no matter the locale.

The turning point in their lives strangely started in the most mundane of places: A video rental store. Wayne had been working as a simple shelving clerk, and had not gotten along well with his boss. After a fit of ranting ended from his boss, he tossed a video case at them, advising them to catch. The projectile video caught the unsuspecting supervisor square in the head, resulting in Wayne's termination. Deciding the job wasn't worth it without Wayne, Damien quit and they both went home. To help ease the tension, Damien succeeded in coaxing Wayne out to a club to blow off steam. Despite his reservations about drinking, the public and the like, Wayne agreed.

They found a wonderful location called the Jazz funeral, and despite his best efforts Wayne found himself having a certain amount of fun. As usual, Damien had managed to be social and Wayne tried to sulk in a booth with his glass of water. Kassandra Vanoy, introducing herself as Cassie, joined them in the booth. She was slender, beautiful, and obviously creole, right down to the accent. More over, she was smoking, and not from a cigarette. Light wafts of smoke were coming off all parts of her body. Wayne brushed it off as merely being residual smoke from the club's smoke machines. After a pleasant conversation, the three parted and Wayne and Damien went for a walk to clear their heads.

The walk led them to a park bench not overly far from the Jazz Funeral. Lights turned out all down the street until only the one above their bench remained. In an ensuing melee, Wayne and Damien fended off several displacer beasts, regenerating panthers with 6 limbs, and even scored some teeth of the beasts as trophies. As a grand finale, Wayne somehow managed to transform into a Chinese dragon, which Damien promptly road back into Main Street.

In the days and weeks to follow, Wayne came to realize that he had just witnessed his first magickal event, and was apparently a mage, a person able to change reality by will alone. It took him some time to come to grips with this, and he passed through many mentors in the process, including Cassie, Micky Chan, and Theora Hetirck.