Character Info

[chalybis]

Name: Steel
Series: Sapphire and Steel
Canon Point: Post Assignment 6 of the TV series
Actor: David McCallum (yeah it's Ducky from NCIS just with bad 80's styling)

Powers and abilities: Here with permissions here
History: Just this entry on my journal here, be warned for sarcasm and me utterly failing in taking my canon seriously

Personality:

Described by a child as "like gray" and "strong and cold", Steel is pretty much what his name suggests. He's rather emotionless on the outside, cold to people, strong, stiff, but sharp in the ways he's been honed. Like the metal he's nigh unbreakable and what he can't get by trying to be sharp and on his game with words he tries to beat into submission.

He's a force to be reckoned with, while he may be short compared to most, he's got a powerful presence when he's in a room. He walks in, back straight, face emotionless and demands answers. He's not friendly to most and tends to not understand how to show his emotions most of the time, or at least how to understand other emotions in others. He's easily confused by the idea of love in humans for example, and he barrels over a crying child when trying to get answers from her or trying to save her family. This is the Steel practically everyone knows, cold, indifferent, hard, and the one that Sapphire compliments so well. She's the good cop to his bad cop and it's a balance in their roles as partners that doesn't really ever change. Honestly his coldness is what he believes of himself as well, and he never denies accusations of him being heartless or a demon. It's very hard to move him from his opinions of things as well, he's stubborn to his core and while it can be frustrating to deal with it also allows him to guide his fellows into doing their job. Handling Lead when he's around along with Sapphire while they pass along gossip, or dealing with Silver, it's this unstoppable force that gets things done.

This isn't to say he can't think his way through things, on the contrary he does a lot of figuring out of things on his own. The nature of his job means he has to figure out complex issues that he rarely ever has the full information on. Which means that while figuring things out he likes a certain degree of practicality, simple clothes and things he can use with minimal fuss are his bread and butter. He's not flashy and would really rather not deal with people if at all possible but sometimes it's impractical to ignore people so he deals with them. While he may look simple in a lot of ways he's not, but with the questions he's asked about Earth's history or the questions he asks about how humans behave, he can easily give the opposite but he's not super complex either, he's sly and crafty on his own terms but is overall predictable in a lot of ways. He doesn't speak his thoughts allowed a lot, preferring actions to words and overall it's just more practical to do things himself if at all possible. Practicality in his case also means that he's rarely afraid of something but of what it could do. Being afraid of a thing makes no sense, but having seen what it can do as his job so often makes him, that's understandable and logical. He's a very logic minded man in a lot of ways and really while writing this all I can think of is he'd be a great friend with a Vulcan.

For all his cold practicality however, Steel has a gentler side to him. It's not immediately obvious, but he does smile slightly on occasion, and he does care, mostly for his partner but there are other times he lets things through. Frustration, worry, a certain sadness to him when he sends Tully to his death but then he's quick to acting as if he doesn't care. It doesn't pay for him to show it mostly however, but when he does it's with little clues. Kisses to cheeks and a touch to the arm, little signs that he cares and trusts someone enough to show that he does. He doesn't like having his space invaded by most, but there are few he tolerates it from and while he tends to look unamused he doesn't move away from it. These are the people he goes out of his way to help and puts himself in danger to do so, and it's seen that it's not all that often that he does this. It's mostly concerning Sapphire that we do and he goes to great lengths to insure he safety and well being, nearly killing himself with his freezing trick and it's always to her that he reaches out for, even when there are others of their kind around. There's a bond there that he's only admitted once to being love, but what kind of love is never said. But his practical side means signs of affection, of attraction and similar are rarely ever there and there's no purpose to it and so he never does a thing about it that we see. Overall this is a side people have to work to see and he much rather prefers that than to being an open book. Sapphire and Silver are much more obvious about such things and he doesn't mind them taking the spotlight, he'll just be the force behind them to get things done.

First and foremost for him however is loyalty to the mission, to the job he has. That has to come first, he's duty bound to make sure things happen as they should, and it means he can and will do what he must. Whether this means a man dying before his time or watching someone die before his very eyes that he can't stop, that's what he has to do. That's his job, and he'll be damned if he doesn't do it.