New character. c:
He's an asshole.

Story goes, your regular kid who got bullied a bit. He had an uninteresting childhood; parents who cared about him, a best friend he hung out with, stressed with schoolwork, bullied on and off.
Pretty typical.

Unlike most people who'd be happy with their lot in life or go and make something of themselves - he was angry.
He wanted to be like the rich kids and the kids who didn't get picked on and basically have everything handed to him on a silver platter.
Caused quite a rift between him and his parents with him being entirely ungrateful for anything they did for him.
He complained his way into adulthood.

Eventually, even his best friend got fed up of his angry pessimism and when they were both offered a decent place at a good college and Devlin angrily turned it down his friend took it and left him behind, opting not to let Devlin hold him back.
Devlin took this personally.

After quite a bit of frenzied "research" into how best to take his anger out on the world he found the location of a shaman who could teach him magic and the dark arts.
For once he listened and learnt as much as he could. The gems on his wrists act as the source of his skills.
After learning what he could; including how to cast a huge variety of spells, how to heal himself from virtually any injury, how to make himself impervious to harm (including things like fire), how to make skeletons walk and how to entrap someone's soul within a special blank book - he decided it wasn't enough.
He wanted more power.
Despite being able to do these things they took a lot of energy and this made him angry.
He finally killed his tutor, taking their own gem as his. The one he wears around his neck.
All the quite considerable power his tutor had he now has.
Without those gems he's powerless, his old self again (not that he'd ever let on about that interesting little fact.)

Now he enjoys doing whatever he pleases, living like he once wanted to (kind of).
He enjoys inflicting pain, having become quite the sadist. He spends most of his days terrorizing people for something he wants, hanging out at his rather filthy and disgusting apartment, watching the occasional porn video (he once tried prostitutes but they had this annoying habit of dying when he got a little over excited), taking drugs and thinking far too much about what he might to his former best friend, parents and assorted others he once knew should he ever run into them again.

He's also very skinny, he doesn't eat all that much and what he does eat isn't exactly nutritious.