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 Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:52 pm
[you should, the more characters we have the better the RP will be]
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:14 pm
Username: EternalRaine323
Character Name: Tederich Raign
Character Species: Shapeshifter (island leopard)
Appearance:
Human
Tederich stands at a good six foot one (6'1"), making him fairly tall. His build is fairly slender with only slight glimpses of muscle here and there. His arms aren't built as if he attends a gym religiously, but they do look nice in a sleeveless shirt. His chest and abs lack that muscular definition most women crave, but that's not saying he's flabby, either. He just doesn't spend too much time working on toning himself. By far, his legs are the strongest and most defined muscles he possesses. All though a day at the gym isn't his idea of fun, he does spend plenty of time training himself. Being a shapeshifter, he is quite agile in his human form. To keep himself limber he does a lot of running and takes part in plenty of strenuous activities.
His hair is a sandy brown with streaks of a darker saddle brown scattered throughout. It flows thin and straight, and reaches the back of his knees when allowed to spill freely down his back. Most of the time he keeps it tied back in a tight pony tail. With it put up, it holds up just a few inches above his knees. Despite the length of his hair, his face helps keep him looking very masculine. His nose is a bit broad and takes the attention off his thin lips. There is a foreign shade to his skin, Hispanic of some sort, even though he has no Latin blood. All of his ancestors are of Germanic decent, and it shows in his rough accent. The sienna color of his eyes compliments his hair, and is his most noticeable feature. He spent too much time in his leopard form, and now cannot fully shift his eyes back to human. They are very catlike, and almost unnerving if one does not know what they're looking at. The strong definition of his chin finishes off his very male face.
Due to his extreme lifestyle, Tederich bares many scars all across his body. They are most prominent on his chest and arms. The most noticeable scars are the two on his wrist that make it look as if he was bound tightly. Generally he can heal wounds before they scar, but that is only if he shifts immediately after receiving the injury. If he doesn't shift within three days then scars may result.
Leopard
The average island(or clouded) leopard only stands a mere two to three feet (2-3 ft) from the ground to their shoulders. However, Tederich outdoes that by a lot. In his leopard form he stands a good three and one half feet (3 1/2 ft) at his shoulders. His eyes are the same as they are in his human form, a nice shade of sienna that sparkle when the sunlight hits them just right. He can be recognized by the tan fur dotted in large brown spots with black edgings around them. There is one large spot around his left eye. The spot trails from his eye to the end of his snout and bleeds into the black of his nose. If the extra large leopard doesn't give it away, there are two bald rings of skin around each of his forepaws where his scars are as a human.
Talents, skills, knowledge, and possible powers:
He can shift, at will, into an island leopard. However, it hurts due to the stretching of muscles and breaking of bones. Since it is so painful both ways, after he shifts back into his human form he requires recovery time. This can last anywhere from four to eight hours depending on how long he was shifted and if he sustained any damage. Shifting moves everything back to where it was before the shift, he can heal some injuries by shifting. There is a time limit on this, though. After three days, if he doesn't shift more serious wounds will scar permanently. Not all wounds heal from shifting. Chances are he wouldn't be able to heal his throat being torn out or any other life threatening affliction. His body can withstand quite a beating, though. Falling from higher altitudes is not as dangerous as it would be to a human. He is less likely to break a bone than most others, and he heals faster even if he hasn't shifted. It's not a huge difference in the speeds, but something that would take a week to heal would only take him three days. Tederich is also more agile, and can run a bit faster than the average human.
During his running he is quite observant. He is quite knowledgeable about the lands around him, or at least he was. Climates are something he knows well, and because of it he made a better adjustment to the merge than some others did. He knows what sort of critters thrive in certain environments, and he knows how to avoid and/or dispose of quite a few of them.
Personality:
Tederich can be aggressive and fairly strong willed. He prefers to put up a fight and likes to get one in return. People who can pose a challenge for him are usually the best company. Competition is something he enjoys, and he does what he can to create a competitive environment. Losing is not one of strong suits, and he is not likely to give up without a fight. Never in his life has he admitted defeat. Generally he just works his way around the loss. He pretends like it never happened, or he cheats his way into winning. No one ever claimed him to be an honest man, and he's never said it.
When it comes to leading it's a habit of his to sit back and let someone else take control, but he can take the lead if need be. He tends to argue a bit, but rarely takes anything too seriously. However, despite his semi-carefree demeanor, he can be controlling and hard to dominate. He'll press the restrictions set on him as far as they'll go. Rules and limits are simply obstacles to be explored and overcome to him. Tederich has little patience for a stubborn boundary. He will do all he can to move passed anything in his way as soon as possible. This includes, but is not limited to, deception and even violence.
History:
Tederich grew up as the third oldest child in a group of seven. All were born of both the same mother and father. His family lived in an out of the way village that consisted of only six families, a doctor, one teacher, and a storekeeper. Still, even though they are a small community, they do fairly well off. Their major export and mode of living is cotton. They spent most of their time tending to the crops. Even the children helped out. There were a few livestock that needed looking after, and the older children were charged with that. So, when he turned sixteen, it only made sense that Tederich be sent with the local caravan off to trade in the nearest city. It was only supposed to be a short trip, and no one suspected anything dangerous. Everything went just as uneventful as planned. In fact, it went so well that later he was put in charge of the caravan. He was twenty at the time.
Every time he took a trip into the city, no matter what city it was, he always managed to find himself a couple of people to have a bit of "fun" with. He frequented some pretty hardcore clubs, and managed scarring himself quite often. The scars on his wrist were a result of being bound on one of his nights out. Once his dirty little secret was discovered he lost a great deal of respect from the villagers. Some avoided him completely because of it. If it wasn't for the fact that he knew almost nothing but farming, he probably would have moved into a surrounding city and settled down. However, not every villager was as closed minded. The two men that traveled with him became close to him. They were almost inseparable, and they were the best friends any man could ever ask for.
Years later and just days after the discovery of the first bridge, on one of his usual trips to the city, Tederich and his two companions ran across a wild cat. It seemed feral, and they did their best to avoid it, but it followed them. When the stopped for the night they took the proper precautions, even going so far as lighting a ring of fire around their camp to keep the beast out. It managed to snuff out the fire while Tederich and one of the other men slept. The cat killed the man who sat on watch and snuck into the tent. Before it got in, though, both Tederich and his friend were woken by the noise. They both managed to subdue the creature and kill it, but not both of them sustained quite a bit of damage. This attack left both men scarred, but with Tederich's risque lifestyle, it really didn't make a difference for him.
As soon as the sun rose both men turned back to the village, managing to avoid any other danger. The villagers were angered by their return before trading the goods, but the boys promised to head out the following day. Sadly, that did not happen. Tederich and his friend began exhibiting some fairly abnormal symtoms, such as fevers and growing extra hair. Before the day was over both men took the shape of the leopard that had attacked them. Out of fear, his friend fled from the village. Fearing the disease was contagious, the villagers chased Tederich out as well. Tederich, at the age of twenty-nine(29) has been traveling on his own for about two weeks know. He is unsure where his friend has gone, but is hoping he is doing as well as he is.
Other:
Pain is an obsession of Tederich's. He's a masochist of sorts; enjoying to stretch his own physical limitations. It makes him stronger in his own eyes. As mentioned earlier, boundaries mean little to him. Pain is merely a limitation that can, and will, be overcome.
((is this better? I fixed everything you mentioned.))
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:47 pm
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:47 pm
((The potion shouldn't have been able to exist before the worlds merged, so even if he had had the power for just a few weeks the change would have affected his village. 6 families in the village would mean 12, maybe 14 adults. Maybe adding in 2-4 grandparents for each family. Either way, it doesn't quite make sense to have a police of any sort besides county police, and 3 teachers is a lot to be supported by such a small community unless it is the elderly caring and teaching then children while the parents work. I would suggest that at least one family have a farm, maps of an area where no one lives aren't going to be very valuable, because if it was traveled through frequently more businesses would have popped up. Well, I guess that part of the history isn't important enough to be problematic, but you might want to eventually add a few of the events that gave him scars.
I put up your profile, so start RPing when you have a moment. However, you didn't mention character age, and there would be an issue of mass if the leopard was 5' tall, because then it would be around 8' long, if you stick with just a bit taller(like 3-3.5 feet), it would be about humans sized.)))
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:08 pm
((All right. I'll get to fixing that before I post.))
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:01 pm
((is this better? I fixed everything you mentioned.))
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:58 pm
Harriet's thoughts were centered around getting to an area that would be able to support her. Soon this desert would not even have the few plants that had existed before the change. As she walked in the direction the change had come from, she began to wonder how this resembled the other world. It looked like the world she knew, with different materials, but in the distance she saw not buildings but flat areas, so perhaps it was just this area. Having heard no signs of sentient life, or seen any movements, Harriet didn't notice the elf.
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:00 pm
Alva watched her for a little while wearily. She didn't seem to notice him. He was fairly certain that she was deep in her thoughts. His hand slipped off of the dagger and he let out what would have been a sigh of relief. Of course, sighing took the ability to use your vocal chords which he could no longer do. Not being around other people tended to make it hard to get used to something like that. He leaned against the wall not sure what to do or where to go. He looked around briefly before walking around the corner not sure of how she would react to him. Humans existed in his world, but he had no way of knowing if elves existed in her world.
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:35 pm
Harriet walked to a tree, a short little thing that could have been a heavily trimmed bush. A hand reach to brush against the bark, and then to a peculiar fruit. It was not something she had seen before, but then again she had not ever previously seen a fruit tree that she could touch and her knowledge of fruit was limited to the low-cost grocery stores. As her fingers brushed the object, it fell into her hand. It was soft, but as she played with it in her hand she found that the skin was tough; her fingernail pressing into it, even with a sawing motion, served to leave an indentation instead of breaking it. Assuming that the fruit was edible, she placed it in her right hand and used her left to pull the knife from its holder on her right forearm. She stroked the fruit with the knife, varying the pressure. The flesh didn't give, so she held the sharpened side of the blade to the hand-sized fruit and slid it horizontally along the surface. As she pushed into it little by little, the tough shell gave and a thick liquid oozed from a small hole. She licked the knife, then her hand and the fruit. It was sweet, so sweet it was syrupy. Using the tip of the knife she peeled back more of the skin, the fruit seemed to have a surplus of liquid. The edible flesh of the seed was a bright, but pastel or muted orange. She took a bite, the sticky liquid coating her chin and hand. It was mushy, but not liquefied, and the flavor was strong enough to be tasted through the natural sugar.
(Bonus points if you know what the fruit is!)
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