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name: Louis Anderson Snakefin
age: Nine
gender: Male
eyes: Deep, ocean blue
skin: Olive
hair: Oily green, streaked with ocean blue

height: 4' 0
weight: 27 kilos

likes: Louis is very much the Eel on the outside as well as on the inside. His most favorite places are dark, small and enclosed, and his most favorite things are either wet or food. That being said, he is also quite shy, and isn't easily identifiable with notable likes or dislikes. He does like playing with dolls, however.
dislikes: Despite being quite shy, Louis is very easily aggravated, and when provoked can be sent into a frenzied, blind, "attack" mode. When he comes back to his senses he is usually quite upset over what he has done, therefore dislikes and distrusts anyone who could possibly provoke him. He avoids loud people, tough-looking people and roughhousing children.

visible traits: A long Eel tail and fins on his arms and legs
other traits: Waterbreathing, Dim Light

personality: Louis is an exceptionaly shy and quiet little boy, with a fear of new people, places and things. He preffers to cuddle up in a big blanket in his dark room and sleep then communicate openly with people or play with other children, and stays well out of the way of the louder and more rambunctious children as often as possible. He is exceedingly shy around people he is not familiar with, though he loves people once he gets to know them, cuddling them and getting them all slimey as often as possible. It can be said that once he has gotten attached and familiar with someone, he is quite difficult to get away from, though why anyone he'd choose to trust would attempt to abandon him is beyond explanation.

notable talents: Though he is shy and difficult to study, it seems as though his most prominent talent is swimming (a given, due to the aquatic nature of his DNA) He can remain submerged for an indefinite amount of time, breathe underwater, and is quite maneuverable and skilled in underwater navigation.

history: Notes from the Faction have shown that Louis was orphaned at quite a young age, after his father murdered his mother, then shot himself. Louis lived in the home his parents died in for a few months until he was discovered by an orphanage. The faction happened across him quite early, then, and he has been living with them for quite a while.

Louis was born into the typical, average family. He had no older brothers or sisters, and his two parents considered him their "last hope." They had simply conceived him in an attempt to save their marriage, and with the birth of an eel-finned boy who was constantly covered in slime and able to breathe underwater, their marriage only got worse from there. Beatings and fights and breaking things, punching holes in walls and bruised eyes were just day-to-day things. Louis' father attempted to drown him on his first birthday, drunk enough to forget that the boy could breathe just as easily under the water.

It was a year later, when Louis was two, that he tragically lost his parents. Drunk, enraged and attempting to cut bacon with a knife, Louis' father turned on his mother and slashed her throat over the dinner table. He then retrieved his favorite pistol from his jacket, and put it in his mouth, killing himself in front of his only son.

It wasn't long that Louis was trapped in the house alone. He survived off of whatever food he could manage to scrape up, and gingerly avoided the blood and smell of the two dead bodies who had once been his parents. After only a short amount of time, he was discovered living there by a local, and the orphanage nearby was contacted to come and take him. Hd lived in the orphanage for quite some time,