Name: Tsu-wa
Pronunciation: chew-wah
Meaning: Cherokee for water dog
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Tribe: Cherokee
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 120lbs
Hair color: Jet black with strands of silver starting to show as he ages
Eye color: Misty grey
Scars: One slash scar on his right cheek running from the middle of his eye to his ear; the other, a long slash down and right along his midsection
Adornments: A bandanna to keep his hair out of his eyes. Two indigo dog paw print tatoos on his upper chest. Simple leather pants with fringes and leather moccasins darkened by age and caked mud. Sewn to the back of his pants is a wolf tail.
General Personality: Odd though amiable, Tsu generally prefers to spend time with animals than people who are a bit harsher in judging character
Other: Tsu suffers from
mild autism, though unnamed in the day. His village just thought of him as queerheaded and a bad omen.
Some of his symptoms include: ___# Insistence on sameness; resistance to change
___# Difficulty in expressing needs; uses gestures or pointing instead of
_______words
___# Repeating words or phrases in place of normal, responsive language
___# Laughing, crying, showing distress for reasons not apparent to others
___# Prefers to be alone; aloof manner
___# Difficulty in mixing with others
___# Little or no eye contact
___# Unresponsive to normal teaching methods
___# Spins objects
___# Inappropriate attachments to objects
History: Tsu-Wa seemed like a perfectly normal baby boy, the kind to make any father proud. However, as he grew, his parents and even his tribe could tell there was something odd about his behavior; he refused to pay attention and would spend hours sitting on the riverbank staring at rocks or trees or the water. A father's pride soon turned to shame as the brave tried to hide his son from the world.
Once when seven harvests had passed, the boy fell into the river. Pulled out before he drown, the boy had a vision while unconscious. A great dog spirit spoke to the child, telling him of the wonders of the world. When he woke he could only utter the words "Great Dog Spirit". The tribesmen mockingly began to call the boy TsuWa, the "Water Dog". The boy rejoiced in the moniker and even sewed a tail of fur into the back of his pants to be more like the great spirit from his vision.
Tsu-Wa's father eventually had more children, healthy in mind. Wanting to seperate him family from the cursed dog boy, he and a few of the village men built a small teepee by the river and forbade TsuWa from returning to the tribe.
Name: Waya
Pronunciation: wah-yah
Meaning: Cherokee for wolf
Gender: Female
Age: Pup
Breed: Full-blooded wolf
Appearance: Light tan coat with three white paws - back left is not booted, white stripe down forehead, black nose, deep brown eyes, white underbelly and tip of tail
History: Shortly after birth, the alpha of Waya's pack - her father - was killed by a bear. The male beta stepped up to take the pack and killed all of the pups in the alpha's recent litter, with only Waya left barely breathing for dead. Tsu-wa found the pup and nursed her to health, creating a bond between them that is unbreakable. Waya would give her life to defend her human brother.
Tsu-Wa and Waya live in a simple tent by the river. Wakinyan and Taima come and go as they please, not always together.
In Character:
Name: Wakinyan
Name: SkyDancer
