Name: Sayid
Nicknames: ((We'll see))
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Faction/Race Monster
Subspecies is a Hameh
Personality:
Although cheerful isn't the first word that would typically come to mind when someone says 'Blood Drinking Murder Bird", it's a pretty good description of the first impression many people have out of Sayid. This is sometimes followed by additional descriptive terms like 'arrogant' and 'not @*#^@ING funny.'. He'll admit to the first one, since he can legitimately say he's blood relatives to royalty (It counts, right? It totally counts.)... but he debates the second. Making people jump when he delivers his species famous blood curdling scream isn't just funny... it's HILARIOUS, and testing it out on other students is one of his favorite games. He rarely does this more than once, maybe twice if the reaction is really good, but he loves it too much to surrender the activity entirely. In spite of this one trait, he considers himself to be staunchly anti-bullying, and that attacking the weak and the 'innocent' (note that his ideas of this are... subjective.), is a trait of low minded creatures...
Especially for a monster, who's stereotype he fits poorly, he can come off as arrogant to a fault, vain and convinced of his own good looks. (His plumage is glorious, is it not glorious? Of course it is.) Surprisingly however he's aware that there is a difference between wanting the best and -deserving- the best. He is determined that he will deserve all the wealth of his dead 'parent' some day, but right now, while he covets and seeks out luxuries, that's what they are, luxuries, not rights.
He believes that every moment alive should be celebrated in some way, every emotion savored... but is also remarkably casual about death, without which he would not exist to begin with. This leads him to be a bit fearless, since he's less than concerned with the idea of dying, and pain, rather than the threat of death, will probably do more to encourage him to be less reckless with his person.
He loves a good story and a good hot drink, (the closer to the temperature of fresh blood the better.), and definitely adores fine fabrics. Embroidered silk is a favorite.
If he has one particular bias, it's anything snake related. Snake related monsters give him the heebie-jeebies, probably because of the tendency of many 'real' snakes to eat birds. Naga, Gorgons, and Quezalcoatl... he can't get comfortable around them, though creatures with only incidental snake like traits don't bother him quite so much. It particularly doesn't help if the species in question actually -does- eat birds, and trying to so much as joke about nibbling on a feather or claw is right off the table of acceptable behavior.
He's actually a little impatient to get his chance to enter the other world and fulfill his purpose, which for him is like having an itch you can't scratch, but he's well aware that he'll best get vengeance if he's skilled enough to take it, at least as long as his target doesn't pass on without him. That would be rather disappointing, since he's not entirely sure what he'll do afterward either. There doesn't seem to be a guide book for this sort of thing, and he's hoping that school will give him some pointers.
His impatience to fulfill his purpose and failure to fear death bleeds into his other behaviors. He attempts to be patient, even zen like, but his meditative attempts to be thoughtful and still are usually interrupted by high speed finger tapping, sighing, and intermittent preening. He slows down to rest, but loves to be doing something, anything...just to be doing, and fixates on activities that prevent him from feeling as though he were doing nothing. Even a single cup of tea can become the fixed point of his attention, just to be doing something.
Having grown up with Reapers, and not being bothered by ghosts means he may well not fit in with some other Monsters, and he envies those with natural shapeshifting traits, and he'll take distinct offense with other students who hear 'monster' and think he's just crass and boorish. (Although he does approve of a good party.) So there are definitely places where he'll have trouble finding exactly how he fits into the bigger picture, but he's sure that when he gets his wings straightened out, he'll soar, literally and metaphorically.
Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy? Sayid, as a young Hameh, is out to hone his skills to do his duty, and also, he has to admit, to hone other skills to make sure he has something to do afterward. He was born to take the life of someone who murdered a prince, surely these skills will apply to further scare-tactics?
FEAR: "Iskoonee" ((Named for the Hameh's cry, which means "GIve me Drink")): Sayid, like a vampire, drinks blood, and although his thirst will only be truly 'quenched' by the target he was made to destroy, he's happy enough to try and take a drink from anyone with blood. This 'fear' obviously works very poorly against creatures that have another substance in alternative to blood, very toxic blood, or no blood at all.
Later, when he's more trained in using his natural arsenal, his bird like talons will come into play, and he'll use them to draw blood from, and injure, students weather or not they're safe to drink from.
It's questionable if his ability to track a victim can be trained to apply to others. ((Probably not while he's a student.))
---Natural Ability: As a vengeful 'Death Peacock' , I'd have to say probably flight, if currently limited since he's still young.
((Truthfully I picture a bird form Hameh as not a true visual match for a peacock, but as a startling and predatory cousin, combining some of the flash, and plumage with sharp talons and an sharp beak, making them both elegant and dangerous.))
Physical Description: Dark skinned, rather Middle eastern, with a very white, amused grin, Sayid is a wiry young man, but not as breakable as one might imagine him to be, similar to the deceptive delicacy of a swan or crane. He's lean but muscled so a closer study would reveal to the observant that he's not going to break at a casual blow, though his taste for elaborate clothing may draw the eye away at a casual glance. If someone wants to make the mistake of thinking he's a delicate little murder-bird, Sayid isn't going to correct them, he'll let them figure it out for themselves.
His wings especially are particularly powerful, he's a large bird, and it takes strength to get that off the ground. Although it would seem like an obvious route to attack his wings to keep him on the ground, someone doing so may find themselves tossed about, bruised and battered at a greater extent than they might expect, assuming they haven't had the experience to know how strong a flight-capable birds wings can be.
Bird Form: As above, the startling cousin of a predatory bird and a peacock, Sayid sports elaborate plumage, primarily in vibrant greens and purples. Both his wings and long tail are almost gaudy with eye marks, similar to a true peacock, but the peacocks poor flight ability has been replaced by an more powerful, streamlined hunters body, and accessorized with a sharp beak and wicked talons, all the better to grip their destined prey and drain their life.
Eye Colour: Red brown like drying blood
Hair Colour/Style: Black, redish highlights
Skin Colour: Middle Eastern
Clothing Style/Colours: Sayid favors black splashed with rich, peacock like colors and delicate details, and wears anything he puts on like a prince's robes.
Extra: Purple and Green feathers, possibly ornate wings.
References: See Ende's drawing
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History:
As a variant of the original myth, Sayid was formed from the fear of an prince growing up in a highly war torn state, growing up deeply paranoid, and for good reason. Murder was definitely on someones mind. Repeated hints, and attempts, caused the fear to build and grow, forming in a Pumpkin, and becoming so intense that when the Prince in question was actually felled by his murderer, the fear, the thoughts of vengeance and murder, and the final touch being the fear of death, all came together to bring a tiny, feathery ball of Vengeance Seeking Murder Bird into Halloween. (so cute.)
Hameh being a fairly uncommon race (how many murdered princess can you name off hand?), he was raised not by other Hameh, but by a Reaper, the same one who went for the residual fear left from the Murdered Prince. Sayid views the victim of the murder as one parent, and the murderer as the other, and the Reaper as sort of a kind aunt or uncle. Not a parent, but an important part of his life.
As such he tends to be interested in and somewhat fond of Reapers in general, and treats many of them, even the ones who had nothing to do with his fledgling days, as sort of distant cousins and uncles.
Although while he treats most reapers as if they were related in passing, he speaks of the murderer as one might refer to a parent, even with a slight degree of fondness. His eventual desire to drink the murderers blood, he treats as though he were waiting to give his 'parent' a warm embrace.
He wouldn't exist, after all, had a crime not been committed, regardless of how much his 'parent' may hope he doesn't exist at all. In spite of this (rather creepy) fondness for his living parent, he doesn't seem particularly conflicted about the idea that he exists to kill him (or her). After all, it's only death, and the crime needs to be punished after all. If the murderer should happen to become a ghost, he even knows plenty of reapers who will be happy to ferry him back to Halloween, and they can work out the details of their bizarre 'relationship' then, once the business aspect of everything has been completed.
As far as he's aware, (and he may be wrong), his dead 'parent' did not become a ghost, but moved on, though he doesn't blame him for this. Being murdered, he figures, is probably rather stressful, and Sayid pictures himself as independent enough to deal without.
He's certain he'll know his target on sight, and is drawn to them on a gut level, but otherwise the human world is rather beyond him. .
Sketch by Endejester! 
