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Name: Gabriel Ventura
Nicknames: Gabe, "Gabi", "Franganote" (= Wimp. That guy ended up in the hospital with a broken arm and 3 missing teeth)

Age: 20
Date of Birth: October 29th, 1986 (Scorpio)
Nationality: Portuguese

Height: 6.1 ft
Weight: 158 lbs
Build: A bit to the thin side
Skin Tone: rather pale
Eyes: Light blue
Hair: Raven black, straight, short and a bit longer on the right side. White patch on the left side as a result of a burn when he was a kid
Distinctive Features: Besides his hair, a small cut on the left lip (made by accident with a kitchen knife)
Clothing: Black and dark grey clothes, usually sweaters, t-shirts and jeans . Doesn't like wearing tight things or overly baggy stuff. For shoes he either prefers running or tennis shoes, hating any that look "business like"

Occupation: Unwilling economy student
Skills: Speaks fluently English and understands Spanish
Interests: Cryptozoology, Mythology and Symbology

Likes: Animals, reading (mostly novels and mythology), internet forums, photography, hunting for seashells, black
Dislikes: People, his father, doctors, needles (phobia), anything to do with banking, church
Personality: He's basically the son revolted against his father's will, but who refuses to do follow his steps and tries to escape the future he built for him
Forced to be around people he loaths and deprived from a more friendly environment since a young age made him really detached from people. He views them as a nuissance, with only very few actually attaining his respect and recognition
He hates being in crowds and participating in social events (business meetings, formal dinners, etc) is a pain to him, as he considers the whole situation boring and idiotic and often doesn't care about the topics discussed. Yet his father made him learn how to hide those fealings and become more polite, charming and elequent
He has a strong personality and is quite prideful and stubborn, sometimes arrogant, but follows a code of honor. When he means something he will stick to it no matter what... unless he's backstabbed
Treason really gets him in his wrong side and he can be quite violent and vengeful in that state. Also invasion of his personnal space and property can get his temper to boil
Around friends he's a lot warmer and talkative and can become quite protective over them. Sadly most of them are animals, being Osga, a female gecko he raised from an egg, the closest one

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Secondary Choice: Raptor

Serum: Serum 100
Specie: Deinonychus antirrhopus

Anatomy: It was a lightly built, fast-moving (25mph), agile, bipedal, bird-like dinosaur built to kill. This meat-eater had a curved, flexible neck and a big head with sharp, serrated teeth in very powerful jaws. Each of its three fingers on each hand had large, sharp, curved claws. It had four-toed feet; the second toe had a 5 inch sickle-like claw, and the other toes had smaller claws. Its long tail had bony rods running along the spine, giving it rigidity; the tail was used for balance and fast turning ability. It had a relatively large brain and large, keen eyes. Its bones were hollow and his skull light built thanks to those holes
Size: It was about 10 feet long, 5 feet tall, and weighed up to 175 pounds. This dinosaur was roughly 4 ft tall at the shoulder
Diet: Carnivorous. It probably ate just about anything it could slash and tear apart. When hunting in packs, it could probably kill any prey it desired

Behaviour: It may have hunted in packs, attacking even very large animals, perhaps even large sauropods and ankylosaurids. Tenontosaurus may have been among its prey; it was an unarmored but fast hypsilophodontid whose fossils have been found near Deinonychus fossils. Marks on the bones of its prey show it fed its young
Intelligence: along with the other dromaeosaurids, it was among the smartest of the dinosaurs, as calculated from their brain:body weight ratio. This made them very deadly predators

Period: Early Cretaceous, about 110 to 100 million years ago
Fossils: Montana, Utah, and Wyoming, USA. More than 8 skeletons (some articulated) and skulls

Useful Links:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Deinonychus.shtml
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/dromaeosauridae.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus
http://www.duiops.net/dinos/deinonychus.html
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/science/dinosaurs/dino_card/94.html

Reference Images:
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Changes



Manticore:
His face will lenghten to support a bigger jaw and his mouth will widen, giving him a permanent grin, even with his mouth closed. The 3 rows of teeth are turned inwards and will replace the human ones, although strangely the back ones mimic molars, alowing him to chew
His nose will lengthen with the face, becoming more cat shaped and sensitive. The scent of blood will become quite pleasing
His eyes will still be blue, but with barely any white visible, and become more sensitive, his puplis small dots during the day
His hears will round and move up the head a bit, being quite mobile
The hair will grow down the neck, turning into a short mane. The white patch of hair won't fade away with the changes
The body, and below, will grow a short red fur
The arms and legs will become more powerful, with a more limited range of angles. Also he won't be able to keep a biped position for very long, being more confortable to walk on all fours
The hands will still be quite mobile, but the fingers will shorten and thick a bit and be fully clawed
The feet will be lion like, but the footpad will be a bit longer, able to mantain the body weight for small periods of time
The tail starts as lion type, but soon it becomes more scorpion like, with fur covering the first quarter of it. The tip ends in the characteristic scorpion stinger

Mentally having so many instincts to struggle with will leave Gabe particularly unbalanced. In some occasions he'll be himself, but certain things like the smell of blood can trigger a nasty reaction
Isolation, self-injury, delusions and angry outburts followed by a need of company will probably happen

Raptor:
All the teeth will change to the dagger-shaped ones raptors have, making him unable to chew. The jaw won't be able to move sideways either
The nose will push foward, molding completely the rest of the face to a reptilian-bird like look
The eyes will turn green and cat shaped, still possessing slits. Being located in the sides of the head, he'll have to focus with just one to have a good view of the object
The hair will be completely gone, replaced by feathers. The white patch will be gone as well
The neck will be longer and sinuous, with strong muscles to support it
The whole body will be covered by a soft plumage, metalic black in most areas (like a black rooster's tail feathers). Only the face, fingers and the lower part of the legs are scaly
The arms will be a bit shorter and have a row of more rigid feathers along them
The fingers will be longer with curvy claws, only having 4 digits in both hands, the forth one really small compared to the others
The legs will be built for running and jumping, capable to produce more impulse than ever before
The feet will be completely raptor like, the small little finger disapearing, the toe becoming a small claw and the second finger growing into the famous larger one
The tail will be long but not as rigid as the original raptor. It will allow him to keep his balance while running, but being more flexible it will bend enough to keep a vertical position

Mentally Gabe will become more "predatorial" and stealther. Depending on the relation he builds with the others he might try to be part of a pack and engage hunts together. If not he'll probably hide in the jungle and ambush any potential prey

Scorpion:
The teeth will merge with the flesh to create the pinchers used for "chewing food"
The face will be pushed foward, being the front part mostly occupied by the mouth, while the skull will flatten
The eyes will move to the sides and several more will appear, by the side of the original ones and on the top of the head. The vision will weak and become sensitive to the light, having to depend more on other senses
The hair will completely disapear but the white patch will remain, being two white dots on the top of the head
The arms will strech out and get segmented, while the hands merge and form the pinchers
The legs will probably split in two, with two extra ones forming from the sides of the belly. To keep a bipedal position 2-3 pairs of legs will be used to support the weight. Also they'll be used to detect vibration and motion
The body will soften and be covered by the hard shell, becoming longer as it forms the tail
The tail is splitted in several segments, the whole set long enough to arch over the head

Mentally he will be a lot more edgy around people, as this transformation is particularly strange and he will feel a lot more vulnerable with the "normal" senses diminished

Artwork

Mine:

0%: Semi-realistic, Phobia, Expressions, Stabbing Billy, Doll Gabe (eLouai's)

100%: Manticore, Raptor, Scorpion, Manticore Detail Study

Others:

Sticky, by Ioyla
Headshot, Chibi, by Wolfgrl13

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