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Full name:: Garth
Reasons for the name(s):: The name can mean either 'the keeper of the garden' or 'an enclosed garden', and he was named for the former in hopes he would be of a benefit to the newly founded Village. Only later did he come to encompass both meanings.
Sex:: Male
Apparent Age/Approximate Age:: Garth appears to in his thirties, perhaps even late twenties, but in truth he is centuries old. He spent a very long time as an Ust.
If he/she was alive during the masacres, was he/she bonded? To whom? He was born in the midst of the slaughter, soon after the village had been set up to parents that had survived and fled from the massacre.
Rank:: Sargtlin
If a Daewl, what is his/her one power?:: n/a
Skin Tone/Apparent Race:: Dark tan, may look Italian
Height:: 6' even
Weight/Body Build:: He's built quite large, broad-chested and thin-waisted. He's around 200 lbs, most of it muscle.
Hair:: Black, which he tries to keep trimmed but usually ends up in wild array around his face.
Eyes:: Dark orange
Ear colours/markings:: Black (or dark gray) with black tiger-striped markings
Tail colours/markings:: Same as his ears
Peculiar Physical Traits:: None
Distinguishing Marks:: Black tattoo marks all over his body, especially his face. They are tribal-esque tiger stripes that swipe over his cheeks and dip from his forehead.
Health:: Tip-top physical shape, although his cholesterol is probably through the roof along with another medley of dietary needs.
Senses:: Average
Voice:: Baritone
Mannerisms:: Garth seems to present a very fierce exterior, generally grunting at others or depending on body language for communication. When he does speak, he keeps everything short and sweet. He has a way of softening around children, however. He does a lot of his work gradually, but is entirely efficient that way. Despite his gruff communication, his motions are very fluid and he often seems pensive.
Clothes/shoes/accessories:: Usually dressed in dark clothing, black in particular. Black tunic, some under-armor when on patrol, pants, durable boots. Wears a knife on his belt at all times, has one strapped between his shoulder-blades beneath his clothes just in case. Wearing a quiver and bow usually as well.
Eating habits/mannerisms/tastes:: He usually subsists on meat alone as a substance, and is pretty disgusting when he eats. Depending on what it is, he may tear it open raw or smoke it at his home. Doesn't seem to have heard of a knife or fork or plates or dishes. Then again, he never goes to anything formal for eating. Every now and then he will eat some vegetables and fruit, though he detests them. He'll eat things like fish with the bones still in if the mood strikes him, crack open a bird egg and swallow the yolk raw then proceed to eat the shell.

Significant Other/Relationship:: None
Who does he/she live with?:: Lives on his own, with a house decorated in hides and various mounted game kills.
Who does he/she spend the most time with?:: Again, he's mostly on his own. He will get together with other officers for reporting status on regular basis, but anyone else he comes back is sporadic. Sometimes he visits his father, but often avoids it. He goes farther into the village to barter with what he has made from his trade if he thinks he needs something.
Father/Relationship with him/Rank/Current Status:: His father, Geneva, is a Sargtlin. Garth's relationship with him has always been strained, because Geneva is a hard-a** and has stayed on every move Garth has ever made as a youth. He chided his mate for coddling the boy, was always pushing his son to grow up and become an asset to their village. It was never that he didn't care for Garth, he just didn't know how else to raise him but try to forcibly make the boy a backbone. After his mother died, Garth sees very little of him. However, Geneva is still alive and works as a patrol in the north.
Mother/Relationship with her/Rank/Current Status:: Azaelia was an Afya, and a being that Garth centered his life around while she was still alive. To her, Garth was a miracle of the tragedy she and her mate survived, as since he was her first and only child she doted on him strongly. Because she was weakened from sickness, Garth felt he must attend to her as regularly and as unobtrusively as he could. He took more than a century to grow from Ust because he was her little helper and he never wanted to be made to leave her. She passed away from her sickness when he was nearly two hundred years old, and it hit him very, very hard. His whole attitude changed, he put on the acceleration of his growth and spurted to Llar in a much shorter period than he had spent as an Ust alone. He threw himself into his work and submitted finally to what his father had tried to tell him all those years. She is still a delicate subject with him, but a lot of his softer values come from her.
Extra, on his parent's history: Geneva was the bonded of a man who belonged to guard of an Italian noble, Azaelia to a maid. They were mated then, and when the uprising began he learned that she had become pregnant. Begging his bond on behalf of his children, Geneva was released from his responsibility and allowed to flee. They had to travel with Azaelia's bond for a while, because she wouldn't dare leave the girl without having a safe place to put her. After taking her to her far away family, the two Jivvins fled to whatever cover they could find. They thankfully came in contact with other survivors who knew the way to go, Jivvins who had suffered from earlier revolutions and had come to wait for any survivors from the new area and lead them to the gathering. The two helped shape the Wild village as best they could, but very soon after Azaelia laid her three beautiful eggs. Geneva worked on while she and some of the other females watched over her clutch. However, only one ever did hatch, something both parents attributed to the stress the Afya was put under in her struggles. The one that did hatch was a large, and very healthy boy, Garth. Before the village could see completion, Azaelia came down with a sickness that nearly killed her. Geneva had to do what he could to help her, to help raise Garth, and with the help of the other Wilds they pulled through. But Azaelia had been left weak from the sickness and never was the same. Two centuries later, the same sickness returned and claimed her life.
Siblings/Ranks/Current Status:: He had two other siblings, none that ever actually hatched. So he is an only child.
Best Friend/Rank/Current Status:: None
Feelings toward animals:: Good eating. He likes animals fine generally, but has a particular distaste for squirrels.
How does he/she view his/her family?:: While he can't bring himself to be any sort of sentimental to his father, Garth knows he would do anything his father needed of him, especially since the other is getting along in age. He would protect his father even if he wasn't wanted.
How does he/she view his/her friends?:: Has none, but if he did he would value them as a part of himself. Like a true Sargtlin, he is selfless and would give up anything he had for his friends.
How does his/her family view him/her?:: Geneva loves his son, and is proud of what he's shaped up to be. However, he does worry for him, because Garth's attitude has done a total 180 since Azaelia passed. However, he is awkward with saying anything to his son, after all those years of emotional callousness. He keeps an eye on Garth through his own connections, Garth being wholly unaware of it. Geneva feels he needs to keep an eye on him for the sake of his old mate.
How does his/her friends view them?:: Amongst the patrols that he works and confers with, Garth would be seen as an intimidating presence. He is a Jivvin of little words and thorough work, which would put off a lot of those who are lax in their own duties. Backs get much straighter when he's around, and most don't even dare to make jokes. However, none can say that he isn't respectful or attentive when he is spoken to, no matter who they are. He's been approached for help by a brave few in private, and they would know that he's willing to give his professional advice without reprimand. Most would just see him as a hard-a**.
Who is his/her hero?:: His mother, undoubtedly. And while he isn't totally in agreement with everything the Sargtlin has to say, he does look up to Lysius.

I'm going to go through this in more detail when I have time, I just want to clear up this question for the both of you so you can take what Kep says to heart <3



You both have it wrong....and right xD And I'm sorry for the confusion, first off, Bloody, because when you asked me that, I thought you meant physical movements and base instinctual level. The difference here is that Jivvins don't function on instinct any more than humans do, and they've established a formal, self-sustaining society to avoid living like animals. If all of the Wilds had to go out and hunt for themselves, the forest would very quickly run out of deer and other game.

More appropriately, the Wilds raise livestock just as we do, but rather than cows and chickens, you could expect deer and ducks. They raise animals that they can blend in to the wilderness, but they raise them in disguised paddocks and farms nonetheless.

Jivvins do, however, hunt for sport, just as humans hunt for sport. It wouldn't be a frequent occurrence, I'm sure, but it would not be unheard of, especially among Sargtlins. (Other ranks might not agree.)

So, to summarize, he would need a job that wasn't 'Hunter', but he could still hunt for fun on occasion, maybe make a day of it with some other Sargtlins. Savvy?

Work with that, and I'll have more notes for you when I have time <3

Okay, I think I've tweaked everything I'm going to, and to things I didn't, I'll clarify in kind.

-I meant black on black, yes. You know how black panthers are melanistic(sp?) ? Though they look solid black, they still have a dark spot pattern on them. This is the same. If the artist prefers, it could be called a lighter black for the base, a darker black for the markings.

-I don't know if this was just an amused statement or a concern, but it's not like his parents KNEW when they named him that he was going have a hard time taking his veggies. Besides, a little irony is good. Also, I mentioned that his eating was disgusting, that can definitely include him hacking up a fish bone. Animals usually eat fish whole, don't bother to debone them, would he really have that hard a time? And sometimes when humans eat them the bones thing still happens on occasion some are left out and they've survived. I imagine he crunches right through the bone, maybe eats around it occasionally but sometimes he's just too impatient. I guess once he has to slam himself into everything to be able to choke free the fish bone one time too many, he'll start being more careful rofl If it's really a problem, I'll change it, but he's retarded that way.

-Garth is a selfless kind of guy, really, but he doesn't like the thought of being used is what it is. A lot of this is attributed to what his father has pounded him about more than experience. Give to those who need, not those who ask for it. Garth's soft-hearted even if he puts up the callous front, he can't stand to see anyone in need. When he was small, he liked to do anything for anyone to get friends and when his father saw it he got reprimanded really hard. Say his mother gave him money to go out and get something from the store- well, if he met a friend along the way who wanted to go get a treat, that's where he went instead. Or maybe he was waiting to pay for what he needed and another customer came up short by him, he'd give off his money. So basically, it was kind of a problem, and he wasn't getting anything in return usually. He'd have gone without lunch or something because his 'friends' wanted him to go galavanting elsewhere or convinced him to give up his money or food. Geneva basically shamed the boy into thinking everyone was looking out for themselves, and that he needed to be a little more selfish and a lot less gullible/acomodating if he wanted to survive. Does that make sense? So Garth is kind of a sour boy now. I didn't know how or where to write it, so maybe you can help me? It's not that he would never give to someone that asked him for it, he just considers it rude and he likely wouldn't unless he really believed they needed and/or they are a cute little child. He believes kids are innocent, he'd give them about anything.

-I don't know if you're familiar with endurance/extreme training, but this sort of thing is done in short bursts. If he runs in rain, he's risking getting pneumonia by running his immune system down. So he would run, come back to regulate his temperature again to assure he doesn't get sick, then goes again on a much more planned run. He'd dry off again afterward, it's all about not putting on too much stress while still pushing the body.

-Irrational fear. Well, in my defense, some people have a fear of spiders, which one could call completely irrational being that they're smaller than a person and could be easily eradicated. I don't think the fear is completely irrational, seeing as Jivvins have been exiled, or have been threatened exile before, but even if it was the fear still exists. Just like one could fear that a black hole would open suddenly beneath their feet and they'd fall in a bottomless pit forever. Garth hasn't done anything to warrant him being kicked out of the village, he follows the rules to a tee, but it's something that would scare him to death and he'd never want it. After his mother passed away, the noted fear would be next in line. If you're sure, I'll change it, but maybe you could be a little more specific on how I'm supposed to explain the fear?