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Phe's Terigons
Image Credits: Meiker Salchipapa Pop Star
Name: Kohl
Bonded to: . From:
Age: 503 Born in: what passes for winter in the desert
Soul Name: emsh Known By: self, Rush Found: doesn't even remember when
Sex: female Mate Status/Sex Preference: Recognized, Lovemated to Rush, attracted to plenty of people
Children: Son Reed (born -14 arrival)
Parents/Relatives: parents long dead, possible siblings alive but still in desert
Original Tribe: cat-blooded Dune tribe. Arrived to Bald Mountain: 160
Height: 3'10" Build: slender, busty, will gain weight when able to relax beyond survival
Hair Color, Length, Style: naturally red-brown, but kept dyed in more brilliant red, black, white, or whatever is at hand; cleverly styled generally short
Eye Color, Size, Shape: brown, shiny, large and friendly under bushy brows
Skin Tone: tanned, with tattoos she's done (and had others help with)
Voice Quality: husky, deep for a female or one of her build; always smiling, with big teeth
Clothing -- Summer: tries to keep cool under silk robes
Clothing -- Winter: cloth and silk layered skirts and vests, as shown, with boots that don't actually have heels ...
Jewlery Worn, Made: yup! lots! more than shown by a long shot; whatever she can trade for - rings, earrings (several in each ear), bangles and any sort of silver/turquoise
Tatoos/Markings/Scars: mostly black but some other shades of tattoos
Pets/Animals Kept: cats like her
Notable Posessions: tattoo equipment, which is being greatly expanded with some of the folks here that also do this work! They have a whole studio now!
Holt Function: artist, gardener
Strength: Below Average
Dexterity: Extremely High
Agility: Above Average
Health: Above Average
Size: Below Average
Intelligence: Average
Appearance: Above Average
Charisma: High
Magic Power: Above Average
Magic? How Powerful? Sending 8/10 shorter range, 6/10 longer range; ^Deep Sensing 8/10 recent, 4/10 long term; Self-Adaptation/Healing 3/10; Animal Bonding 1/10
Climate/Locations Preferred: canyons, beaches (with water!), even terrain
General Likes: sunshine, breezy days (as long as she's not collecting fibers), listening to stories
General Dislikes: rain, pushy people, losing bets
Fears/Worries: the death of anyone close to her
Special Strange Info: this character was originally designed after my tattoo artist Patty Kelley, and honestly seeing what I wrote up there... she did lose her fiancee and went into a very deep spiral and quit work for a long time. This was originally written before that time.
Basic Personality: normally happy and cheerful, but able to concentrate on work. Gets worried when scouting and hunting parties drift away from the holt for long periods
How they feel about
Humans: They're inspiration waiting to happen, even if they do smell weird
Elves -- herders: easy food, that's great
Elves -- magic users: she's learning how to use her own power now, from those who have done nothing but that thing for longer than their tribe's memory!
Elves -- bond-riders: wow - just wow! maybe some day?
Trolls, etc: they do have tattooing too, you know? stiff skin, greenish, doesn't take white pigment very well
Bond Animal Info if any: none currently *
Skills: favors the bow, but doesn't hunt much
Tools-
uses metal, wood/plant, bone instruments to tattoo, gardening tools
Focused Planting - seed planting, dirt and plant evaluation, crop rotation, foraging, all these things were her original duties in their tribe, and she did love them. But the opportunity presented itself (see below) and now she concentrates almost entirely on 'extra' kinds of plants, those which might not be edible, but can be used in dyes; she is actually quite good with crops for larger results, not just 'scatter the seeds and hope', and has been teaching others the secrets of a good tilled field
Artistry/tattooing, visualizing images, pigment making - all of this go together, for her. If she gets a new plant or a dye from some source, she will definitely put it into use immediately to test it out. She's a very good artist, looking for inspiration everywhere, but particularly getting magic involved now! She is among the few 'literate' elves, having picked up on both Human signs and symbols, but also the rarer elfin version which seems to exist here, she'd seen a distantly related version of the images that a now-dead elf from Apogee's original tribe had created, and she dutifully kept until it could be of use again.
History: ^ bit about Deep Sensing. Brought up as a gardener, able to take almost any dirt and get it to produce. Then she discovered the pigments that cling to skin - henna, kohl, etc - and began to draw. At first she only painted on top of skin but by the time she was 40 or so, she realized that in order to get the permanence she desired, there would have to be some other way... having seen some humans with scarification she decided to emulate them. Almost by accident she discovered that rubbing cuts could produce a lasting bubble of color. About this same time she developed the ability to heal herself - slowly at first but then almost naturally she heals up the testing and scrapes that she uses on her own skin before working others. The braver souls in the holt could now come to her to be permanently tattooed. But more recently, after about her 300th year, she was able to reach into the psyche of her subject. In a bit of a trance, while she worked, she would then apply unusually accurate renditions of whatever the elf needed most. She tends garden more often than not, but when someone comes to her for a new design she is more than willing.
She is painfully aware of how different she and Rush are, but once they had arrived as a group to Bald Mountain... things just happened. He's a good man, that tall pure elf, wilder than some she'd heard of or met distantly in the past.
There had been some number of these little furry flighted creatures about in the Holt for a bit, and they seemed to be able to just pop in and show up at random. Khol was okay with that, things had popped in and out of her life for quite a while before this, why not? One particularly fluffy and very brightly colored 'Terigon' came to rest by Kohl's shaped treetrunk den. There were many pots and bags, baskets and even glass jugs that were smelly and filled with colorful stuff. Powders, liquids, raw materials.
There was the sound of grunting from within the den, but not like... dirty grunting, more like 'ow, yeah that hurts ow, still hurts'. The Terigon tilted his head and looked in, but didn't see anything immediately, because there were curtained sections keeping the breeze out from the private rooms. When he reached the one where this noise was coming from, he stuck his muzzle around the hide flap, and looked on as a dark skinned elf was being drawn on, painfully, by a painted-skinned woman.
"You'll live," she promised the man, who finally stood and winced once more, as he moved his arm back into place. There were a set of stars, bright white pigments on angry red puffy skin, but obvious to the casual view. They might fade, but they would always be there.
Wuechouwie didn't duck out of the flap, when the elves noticed him there. After all, he was basically head level with them and they might have expected a visitor on two legs.
"Soooo who's this now?" Kohl asked with a curious tilt to her head. "And - why do you have my hair colors!? I had those first!"
As Summerrain slipped back out to find his own place to rest and recover from being tortured,.... um, tattooed, he got more of a look at the Terigon's long tail and vast puffy tuft of fur on its end.
Bigger than most of the wolves that had come with those wolf-blooded riders, not as large as a typical 'dragon', but Wuechouwie was no dragon. Nor was he a wolf! Kohl walked around him as he stood proudly, appreciating this newcomer's appearance.
"I don't need any of those pain-marks," the Terigon said, "I think I'm colorful enough as I am."
"Dunno how you're gonna keep that white fur clean but hey, it's gorgeous, let's go show you off to the Holt!"
| Terigon | Name: Wuechouwie (wuh chow wee 'watchout!') Gender: Male Size: small, but big for a Terigon, 3'5" shoulder - that's big enough to ride?! Colors: Red, White, Brown, Rainbow Physical Features: Terigon as normal Genetic Code: ss (large 3’) body size E1E4 (long) ears Ww (single-color) wingtips TT (tufted) tail Y2Y3 (dark blue) eyes C5C7 (red) body in ll (dark) value X4X8 (grey) furnishings in UU (light) value I3I6 (orange) wings in NN (dark) value P6P6 (wildcard, rainbow coverts) in R1R2 (grey) color in Aa (medium) value Abilities: Winged Flight, he is, in fact, 'big enough to ride', though not big enough to fly with Kohl on his back comfortably. They will stroll around the grounds, however, and when he wants to take to the air, Kohl will watch with the same adoration and appreciation she had when he first appeared to her. He is acrobatic and showy on the ground and in the air, and can do quite a few tricks given the freedom of the skies Teleportation, Nexus; it's how he got here, right? Sensing some of his kinfolk somehow, and showing up because reasons. When he teleports locally there is often a tiny amount of white fur that escapes his notice, a little glitter to remember where he was perhaps Verbal Speech, Telepathy; quippy and happy, Watchout keeps his eyes open and his mouth closed until he knows that the surprise will be perfect. He has learned terms for the minerals and plants, insects and other things that go into Kohl's dyes, and keeps those eyes out for them, to give a happy chirp and call out to her when he finds them Parents: Juefichus and Sovaeth Origin: Phe's Terigon Pairings, Nidus Caeligenus Other Info: while there are wolves around, and... probably had been some 'winged' ones at one point, there is only one similarly-sized one that's around - Ijeroi, and they make a point of flying overhead to make announcements to the Holt looking very fine. It's a shame that the white striped Ijeroi is male... |
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