Name: Yiska.
Nickname: He has a separate name in the dreamlands, but most simple entities call him Dream Hunter.
Meaning: The Night Has Passed
Gender: Male
Age: Child
Eyes: Violet.
Hair: Black as midnight.
Hair style: Messy, slightly braided ponytail with feathers of the Bird of Truth in his hair that protect him through the dream worlds. They also look very pretty.
Skin: Cocoa
Special Traits:Tribal markings under his eyes and string-like tattoos on both his arms.
Powers/Abilities:
Waking World:
-Can spot other Curio children in a crowd.
-Captures nightmares. The beads in his pouch help him with this.
-Uses a bow very well.
Dream World:
-Always dreams lucidly and feels more real in the dream world
-Shoots arrows impossibly well
-Uses his tattoo strings to unwind the nightmare and send it back to the dreamweaver's loom to be turned into a good dream.
Sexuality: Pansexual
Personality: Distant, confused and very serious. He's not cold, and he
does smile but Yiska hardly ever jokes, though some of what he says may come across as unintentionally funny. He doesn't really care so much about the superfluous problems of day to day life such as money, food or celebrity gossip. He likes the simpler things in life and is usually confused or turned off by "fancy" things. He cares deeply about the emotional state of others and has a protective side to himself to guard those who do not know how to protect themselves from their own nightmares. He knows temperance is an asset in the dream world and thus this has become part of his own personality. He's occasionally confused about the way things work in the real world and how they work in the dream world, as though in constant need of a reminder that he's not asleep and that consequences and causality work differently from world to world.
Likes:
Places: Dreams and places that are naturally beautiful that remind him of dreams, strange buildings, abstract art galleries, forests, meadows, farms,
People: Nobody yet. Shane, Espen and Miles are all nice but Yiska finds them a little strange.
Games: Target practice, footrace, tag, hide and seek, I Spy, Marbles, Jump-rope, Watergun fights, Jenga, Chess and oddly enough...clapping games.
TV shows: When he decides to mess around with it he always finds that he's drawn to the static channel, weird late night TV on public access channels, TV fortune tellers, old episodes of Twilight Zone and Animal Planet.
Books: Fantasy fiction is great to him, espeically if it's a completely made up world because it feels like he's reading a dream. He thinks the Indian in the Cupboard is pretty cool too.
Movies: Yiska really doesn't have the patience for a movie. He likes watching scenes of Atreu in the Neverending Story occasionally but then he'll get bored really quickly.
Colour: Deep and dark colours like purple, blue, green and black. Deep orange, gold and crimson red can also be nice.
Food: Anything that is easy to grab and eat but also organic. Fruits, vegetables, jerky, water, rice, trail mix and bread. He also likes some forms of homecooking like cornbread, cookies, and other pleasureable things that like ice cream and chocolate. Anything that is relaxing.
Drink: Water, Tea, Hot Chocolate, Milk and when he's feeling fancy, a smoothie.
Music: New Age, Trance, Progressive Rock, Experimental, World, Psychedelic and occasionally some heavy metal. Generally anything with an otherworldly sound.
Art: Abstract, surrealist, expressionist and impressionist paintings. Also finger painting and crafts.
Hobby: Hunting dreams.
Sport: Archery.
Animals: All of them.
Dislikes:
Places: Structured zones like suburban areas, malls, stores and offices.
People: Materialistic people and those who don't take dreams seriously.
Games: Games of chance and generally those with lots of rules like Snakes and Ladders, Candyland and the like.
TV shows: Most of them.
Books: Non-fiction.
Movies: Mots of them.
Colour: He doesn't dislike any colours.
Food: Fancy food, food with too many flavours or ones that take too long to make.
Drink: Alcohol, Soda, Ice Tea. He likes how Kool Aid and Slushies look but the taste doesn't really do it for him.
Music: Loud music, repetitive music or ones with lots of lyrics.
Art: Art of specific things.
Sport: He's not much of a sports person.
