I will have more art added soon when i finish my sketches and hopefully even make a habit of coloring them in the future.
Username: Chhayawolf
Mule SN's: Chay W. RawlingIoDM Newbie? (Y/N):Yes
Serum: Serum 54 Giant river otter, 103 serum (optional)
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Name: Chay w. Rawling
Age: 20
Birthplace: Oxnard, California; the future Los Angeles
Sign Aries
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 130 lbs
Eyes: Light gold-brown
Skin: Light, fair
Orientation: Straight
Voice: On the soft side, a bit motherly at times, sounds younger than she looks.
Ethnicity Mostly Irish and a German with a hint of Euromutt.
Favorite foods: Jerky, pasta and bakery sweets
Hair: Wavy grown out bangs in the front, the weight of her hair pulls it down straight in the back towards her bum. Golden brown at the front and at the ends of her hair and turns darker towards the scalp.
Appearance: She's not runway model material but her natural beauty puts her on the 'easy on the eyes' side of the visual scale. Two hooped earings in each ear. Sickly and pale looking, the dark circles around her watery eyes persist no matter how much she tries to sleep. She always wears a longsleeve shirt under a t-shirt, usually with slightly baggy jeans and working boots along with some sort of Gilligan style hat or head wrap. Has a scar on her throat from multiple traquiotomys and another few on her left hand from a few nasty bites with a wild otter. A small scar on her head that's hidden by her hair.
Current Occupations: So far has been working as geologist/volcanologist (volcanos not vulcans )
Personality: Used to be feisty, eager to explain random facts about animals or nature to anyone who would listen, cheerful and outgoing but reserved when she felt the need to be. Now she's is very withdrawn, lethargic, rarely speaks since she's fighting to catch her breath after a fit of coughing and seems to be unaware of her surroundings half of the time. Because of Chay's hallucinations and slowly losing her sight in one eye she tends to be a bit slow on the uptake when it comes to reacting to something out of the ordinary. In response she doesn't react normally to a crisis involving a scene that can be confused for another hallucination. She's almost eerily relaxed unless it starts to hurt her. On the upside her resulted 'desensitization' will likely help her keep calm if in limited amounts to spend more time trying to do what's needed to be done instead of crying over spilled milk. Humor seems to be the best way to help her get through life the best, i doesn't take as much energy as crying and she's tired of taking the depression and whinny route.
Likes: Teaching her pet rat tricks, animals, re-enacting at pirate faires, chocolate, sleeping, Tai Chi, exploring, swimming, fishing, crocheting, crafting things with her hands.
Dislikes: Spiders, heights, conflicts, her domineering businessman for a father, people smoking, worsening allergies, her annoying hallucinations, taking medicine, crowded places, feeling confined or restricted, anyone that dares to hurt her rat.
Strengths: When setting her mind on something she can be a bit, obsessive, others call it persistent allowing her to push through and be able to get things done even if she's not at her best. Not the most adept living in the city Chay's true colors show when she plays 'survivalist' out in the forest building natural shelters with what's available around her. Always feeling the need to keep her hands busy she's learned craft things like sewing and crocheting allowing her to make what she needed instead of buying at an overpriced store(it doesn't count for her clothes). Most of what she learned was from watching a lot of Discovery Channel while she was growing up leaving her with an interesting array of knowledge from removing leeches to what not to do during a bear attack. And they say that tv isn't educational blaugh
Weaknesses: Indecisiveness. Obviously at current she's coughing and wheezing like she has the advanced stage of emphezema so she's not very strong nor completely THERE but at least she still has her sanity. Even though she spends lots of time outdoors, her fair complextion causes for some nasty sunburns, sunscreen doesn't seem to protect her for very long so she tends to make it a habit of covering up any exposed skin. If anything happens to her Poppie she would likely go ballistic with anyone responsible since she practically considers the rodent as her lil daughter. She's not the best at communicating with people, Chay tends to have a hard time trying to explain to someone what she's trying to say. Most likely because her allergy symptoms usually shooed away the people around her thinking that she was sick leaving her to find social interaction with the less judgmentally hindered; her pets. Not particularly a people person in general her behavior can be somewhat spontanious switching from joyful to irritated even if its not directed at them. Her hallucinations and dreams seem to play a role with how she'll be during any time of day.
Phobias:Glossophobia, arachnophobia
Family: Grandmother(deceased)- Never had a chance to see her since she died before Chay was even born.
Grandfather(deceased)- Chay didn't really get to know him even though she moved into his house to care for him for four years with emphezema.
Father(enstranged)- He does care for his daughter, but the methods that he uses are far from conventional. He considers working her to the bone and making her go to class even if she has the flu as a way of "preparing" her for the real world.
Mother(close)- Spent most of their time together out of any other family member until they started sharing their time with the newborn niece.Always was a worry wort when it came to her daughter leaving her sight for any extended period of time.
Older sister(slightly disheartened)- Her sister is actually her half sister on her father's side. It didn't seem to affect their relationship until the sister had her daughter. They've had a few tense discussions about how to raise the child since Chay was needed to help raise her. Its left their sisterly relationship a little skiddish.
Niece(close)- At almost two years old she's a wriggly bundle of energy. You'd never think she was a preme. Whenever she got into a fit of crying, seeing her auntie Chay always seemed to bring a smile to her tear covered face.
Poppet(inseperable)- Gifted to her by a friend that started out as a joke saying they had a family resemblance; they both sneezed a lot.
Education: Highschool, College AA, AS and BS degrees.
Hobbies:If Chay's not swimming or fishing she's likely to be exploring forests around her in places that she's been sent to do her job. She's been known to crotchet/sew, make her own bags for her things because with her line of work she tends to wear them out rather quickly.
Habits: As adventurous as Chay tends to be, her worsening condition has made her a bit of a homebody. When she reaches a different destination such as a new hotel or apartment she will mentally mark it as her home and rarely leave that location unless she absolutely needs something or transfers to yet another location. If she is left with nothing to work her mind her hands tend to move themselves trying to find anything around to to keep her occupied. And if she's left in an empty room then she'll eventually stare off into space with random bodily twitches making you wonder what's going on in her head. When sitting somewhere she tends to spend half the time fidgeting around with her legs over an armrest or even crouching making it hard for any person that may be talking to her to focus on any task at hand(not the best habit when you go in for a formal job interview). No matter where Chay goes, except for when she's swimming she always has her rat Poppet with her stashed away in her handmade bag whether it be her distain for caging up animals or in constant need of comfort using her as a kind of security blanket. Chay feels like she's missing something important like a part of herself when she has to go somewhere without her rat. She has a habit of balling up her anger instead of facing the person that's causing it. Only to later on to create small outbursts of distress being triggered by smaller annoyances aka the straw that broke the camel's back.
Abilities:Identifying rocks, knowledge of volcanic activity, scuba diving, swimming, fishing, crocheting, sewing(mostly patchwork and mending), Tai Chi, a little bit of stick fighting and kickboxing for the sake of self-defense, teaching rodents tricks, climbing- but she doesn't like heights so she wouldn't go up any more than a few feet, crafting various items from hats to shelters(she's no MacGyver though, its not very likely the object that she makes will come out well unless she's had a lot of practice such as her bag-making)
Background: Since a very young age she's been out in the backyard studying bugs or staring at the animals during visits to the zoo. She would spend more time playing with pets than her friends when they would come over to show off their new puppy or kitten. Everyone was certain that she would be a sort of veterinarian when she grew up. Later on though, her relatives began to wonder if she had become allergic to animals and barred her from working with them there after.
When Chay was about to have her ninth birthday her family had to move into her grandfathers house to take care of him. The house was absolutedly filled with newspapers going back to the 1970's along with other old dusty goodies that went back even further. Not the best place to be raised when everyday was filled with fire hazards. Well apparently his habit of smoking picked up from WWII turned from pnemonia to emphezema. Quite a nasty irreversable and degenerative disease that basically makes your lungs lose its youthful rebound leaving you coughing up the last ten or twenty plus years of junk you've been inhaling while smoking.
Supposedly he was only supposed to live only another six months. While the months moved on the house was properly cleaned ridding it of any lung irritants to help prevent any further damage that could be avoided. At the same time Chay's well-being seemed to improve as well. As the months of care turned to years Chay was able to learn how to cook and clean for her grandfather while her parents were at work. Sadly she spent more time with her pocket pets that had to be kept at the other end of the house instead of what time was left with him.
During a visit to one of the neighbors dogs Chay had a little run it with a stray canine tooth while she was harmlessly trying to give the dog a hug. At first she didn't even know what happened since she was still in shock from her initial meeting with the ground....until blood started dripping down her face and onto her arms. Three hours in the emergency waiting room,two bags of ice and a roll of paper towels later a rather unsavory nurse demonstrated why she needed skinstaples. By proceeding to re-open the wound allowing a pool of blood to well up and cramming some gauze over it. Chay never had a stronger will to punch someone out in her life it hurt so much. But after a greet with the much gentler doctor and three skin staples she was free to go home. She never saw that dog again, it wasn't his fault.
Four years after Chay had first moved to Grampa's house, she found him laying down at the bottom of the steps that he was trying to walk down. His health quickly gave out and he slipped into a coma before finally dying in bed with Chay and her parents standing around. The noisy air machine that had provided him with oxygen for so many years was turned off. Leaving the entire house deathly silent.
While she was in highschool she began to vomit frequently unable to eat or even drink for the past couple of days. Chay's mom had to bring her into the emergency room three times before a doctor found her severely dehydrated and distressed. They gave her steroid heavy medication to bring down the swelling in her throat and FINALLY diagnosed her with "possible" allergies.
In the upcoming months her sinus infections became more frequent and harsh. She was always tired but couldn't sleep because her frequent coughing would keep her awake for days at a time that no amount of Nyquil and codine filled cough medicine could fix. It was only after she would pass out from exhaustion that would allow her some rest but only for a couple of hours before the coughing would start up again.
By the time Chay was in college she had a bad scar on her throat from the traquiotomys the doctors had to perform from her persistent bronchial spasms. What seemed to help her was scuba diving to study shield volcanoes and vacant flooded lava tubes. Not only did she not have to worry about pollen but her coughing fits would diminish completely until she had to come back to the surface.
Quite recently Chay was completely incoherent and hospitalized for multiple complications such as but not limited to: bronchial swelling, degenerative loss of sight, uncontrollable coughing, wheezing, loss of motor skills, severe abdominal pain, vomiting and hallucinations.(although she had been suffering from hallucinations earlier on, they have become too apparent for her to avoid people from noticing her talking or reacting to something even though the room was empty)
This can't possible be just because of some silly allergies! Could it?
If you wanna know what's the REAL trouble with her highlight>>> Her allergies are troubling her but it only plays in half the role of her agony masking the real trouble, she makes a nasty discovery that she somehow got a parasite in her brain ewww. Buahahahaha, poor girl.
She REALLY likes ratties Art by Chhayawolf
Animals I'm hopeful for: just giant river otter with wings (they wouldn't be functional enough for flight making her try to figure out what they WOULD be for).
Her rat Poppie
Name: Poppet but they call her Poppie
Age: 1 1/2 years
Likes: Grooming Chay, eating avocado, getting neck rubs, constant snuggling, gnawing stuff
Dislikes: Other rats, being seperated from Chay, cheese, waking up
Personality: She completely thinks she's a dog and acts like one too; such as playing fetch with a super bouncy ball, content to sleep her days away in Chay's bag or on her shoulder but once she's awake she's extremely hyper trying to pick play-fights with people's hands.
Appearance: Black hooded with brown splotches running down her back.
