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G i v e n N a m e:: Suji
O t h e r N a m e s:: Before I changed my name, I was Taimin.
A g e:: I'm not sure. I have seen maybe 30 wet seasons...?
B i r t h d a y:: I am not sure. It was during the wet season.
O r i g i n:: Southeast Asia
S p e c i e s:: Humans call us shape-shifters.
H a i r C o l o u r:: Green with a streak of dark gray in the back, in tribute to my parent's colour.
E y e C o l o u r:: Light lavender iris with a purple pupil.
H e i g h t:: 5'8"
B u i l d:: Slender and athletic.
S e x u a l i t y:: We can adapt to any partner.
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C o l l a r:: The less aggressive kinds would be more cooperative, like lace or velvet...
C h a r m s:: I would like the book, pencil, and tree, but I know these would all be hard to find in a human or half-human. I don't have high expectations. I am willing to compromise.
C o l o u r s:: I am prepared for anything but orange, gold, and/or light pink would be the best.
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L i k e s::
☑ birds and fish
☑ children
☑ animals and nature
☑ people-watching
☑ accomplishment
☑ my people
☑ pleasing my parent
☑ learning
D i s l i k e s::
☒ polluted urban areas
☒ human settlements
☒ loud or noisy places/things/people
☒ disappointing people
☒ arguing or infighting
T a l e n t s:: I am a skilled hunter, like all of my kind. I am currently the leader because I am the best among us. My prowess with my bow is unmatched by my fellow tribe members. Though not as good as my parent, I am one of the quickest when it comes to changing my form.
Q u i r k s:: I want to learn about the rest of the world, which is an unusual desire for my people. The only world I know is this forest and my people's ways. If I say something that is offensive I probably did not mean to... Don't get angry at me, please be patient and correct me.
S k i l l s:: I can change my body wholly or in part to anything in nature. We divide nature into two groups, dsiv or tsidsiv. We can only transform into dsiv things because our customs forbid us from transforming into tsidsiv unless we have decided our final form and are ready to take it. There are many folk stories about the bad things that would happen if you turned yourself into a tsidsiv before you have decided your final form. But we can become any kind of dsiv or any mix of dsiv parts, like the wings of an eagle, the bite of a viper, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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P e r s o n a l i t y:: I am a product of my environment. I was raised by my father to distrust anyone not from our tribe and to believe that we are the one true way. I played that part well even though I have always been unsure, though I never expressed my doubts in our ways because I didn't want my parent to scold me or accuse me of being sympahtetic towards humans. I am the youngest of all my people and I feel immature, sheltered, naïve, and ignorant - like there is still much to learn and experience in this world and all that I know is just a very little bit. I want to learn but I feel that the desire is wrong because of the implications. If we are so perfect and the rest of the world is so wrong, why would I care about things beyond our homeland?
I am very unsure. I am unsure whether to be passive or proactive. Even though I am the leader, I am not leader material. I bend too easily to the will or of others. I won this position by overpowering my parent, as he raised me to do, and even after that he still ran our people by telling me what to do. Now that he is gone and I am alone, I am not sure what I should do. Having all my people - that were once my peers - now obey me unquestioningly is unsettling. I want to make things better for us but am I really doing the right thing by wanting to change our ways? Am I going to advance my people... or cause our downfall? I feel lost and I cannot mention my doubts to my people. I don't want to worry them.
H i s t o r y:: In our people, we only need one person of any chosen sex to bear a child. I was born to the former leader, Sangki. He was very proud of his abilities and accomplishments and held prejudices against all other races. He believed that we are the best in every way. I was raised to think and act like he did.
Once I was developed enough to be witnessed by our people, I quickly became friends with the only other child in our tribe. Her name was Yun and her chosen colour was blue, just like her parent. I thought we were able to discuss anything, like how we both believed that some of our customs were not good, but she was always keeping a secret from me. It came out at the ritual of change one year, an annual celebration for the whole tribe where we get to transform our bodies however we want. The form we are in at the end of the ritual will be our "default form" until the next ritual. At this particular one, my parent did something strange: he asked us to change our marks. Every one of us must have a mark on our body at all times. It is assigned to us by the current leader on the day that we will be witnessed. Even if our appearance is different than our default form, we are all identified by our marks. If you refuse to have it on your body or are seen without it, you will be stigmatized or even killed. On his order, each of us took turns removing our marks from our bodies. When it came to Yun's turn, she refused. Sangki then said it was because she couldn't make it disappear. He said she wasn't one of us. He said her parent had been attacked by a human and half her blood was one of them. Impure heritage usually means you are executed but I begged my parent to spare her. I begged for her to just be exiled. I threatened to disgrace him by killing myself and he finally agreed. She was chased off of our land and never seen again. Her parent was never seen again; we were told she took her final form that night.
After that I changed my name. I hated humans and for a time I hated my own people. I hated the humans who did this to Yun and her mother. I hated the humans who were so cruel to us that made us hate them. I hated my people for having such a custom and I hated my people for just letting everything happen without saying anything. I hated my parent especially, but eventually I realized that hating everything wasn't going to change anything. If I wanted to change things I had to become the leader. My parent wanted me to become the leader anyway, but mostly just to boost his own sense of pride. I trained myself to be the best hunter until I finally decided that I was ready. I challenged my parent, Sangki, to a fight. As is our custom it would be an unarmed fight to the death where we would rely on our own bodies and our own powers to decide the strongest. I won, but I did not kill my parent. As the new leader my first decision was to abolish our tradition of killing the old leader. I did not want to lose another of our people when our numbers were so few as it is, but I told him that it was because he was important to me. That didn't stop him from getting mad at me anyway.
Even though I was the leader and had made a change, that was all I really managed to do. My parent continued to guide me and I ended up being more like his mouthpiece than an actual autonomous leader. It wasn't until a group of my people did not return from an assault on a human settlement that I began to act on my own. I decided to stop initiating fights with the human settlements on the fringe of our homeland. I instated a rule that every member should have at least one child before they decide to take their final form. I abolished all traditions that covered executing our own kind, whether they be of pure heritage or of mixed heritage. As the leader I took the form of a well-dressed adult human; humans don't respect their children and they look down on our tribal clothes, and as the leader I must look respectable and presentable to them.
Our population of 16 aside, the biggest problem we faced was how to deal with the humans. Since we stopped attacking them, they are cutting into our forest at a quicker pace. I need to decide what to do and soon or else we will no longer have a place to call home. But in order to do deal with the humans I must understand them. I need to learn from them. The ones around here are hostile though; I need to learn from a human who does not know of our ongoing conflicts. I need one who can speak to other humans to negotiate, and maybe show my people that not all humans are bad. Maybe we can find the peace between the races that Yun and I used to talk about so long ago.
`MaliceMizer
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