Kheisa
Dec 16, 2017 14:59:34 GMT -6
Post by Kheisa on Dec 16, 2017 14:59:34 GMT -6
Basics:
Name: | Kheisa |
Species: | Mammalian (Eurasian Red Squirrel) |
Gender: | Female |
Age: | 26 |
Native Language: | Common |
Birthday: | December 13 |
Orientation: | Bisexual |
Friends: | ??? |
Enemies: | N/A |
Bonded Creatures: | Kiro (Kitava Draconic), Taro (Byakko Shijin) |
Weapon of Choice: | Hide! Run away! Then perhaps claws/teeth and anything at her disposal, perhaps a knife or an acorn |
Physical Description:
She stands-- short. Very short. Not really at squirrel height (that would just be silly), but at 4'9". That's 4'9" stretching her squirrelly legs up to their tallest length.
Light orangey fur colors and covers her body from head to bushy bushy tail, and her head is topped with a darker chestnut mop of wavy-to-curly hair, which is usually either loose or loosely braided, especially depending on her haircut at the time. Her ears are the same orange as the rest of her body, with great tufts of fur at the end keeping them warm and making them look bigger than they actually are. The fur on her body is longer on the backs of her thighs, calves, and around her elbows year-round, and during winter she tends to fluff up and get longer fur on her cheeks and along the tops of her arms and legs. Winter is also when she tends to change colors slightly, fur dulling to a warm but muted brown and hair going similarly medium brown.
Her hands are extremely dexterous, as are her feet for that matter - squirrel feet sure are an advantage to one who prefers running to fighting! They can rotate at the "ankle," like all back paws of her rodent relatives, so she can even climb down trees upside-down, not that she usually has to. Her long, bushy, red tail also helps with balance while climbing and walking.
Kheisa's eyes are a warm brown, and she has little fangs along with her customary, more... grinding teeth, to crunch open the hard shells of nuts. Mmm, acorn.
Though not "fashionable" per se, Kheisa nevertheless has a relatively stable clothing aesthetic. She likes simple but practical clothing, which sometimes means a nice single-color dress or a skirt (to avoid having to shove her tail through a hole in her clothing just to wear it), and sometimes means pants, shorts, or jackets with lots of pockets (more places to store things!). Kheisa rarely wears shoes for lack of need, but she does have a pair custom-made for protecting her oddly shaped squirrel feet on dangerous ground (with, of course, little pockets for storing little things).
Mental and/or Social Description:
A few years ago the first word you might use to describe Kheisa was "recluse." She kept to herself, took care of her farm and pets, and rarely ventured out to do anything not absolutely necessary. But she's getting back to normal - a new normal, not the "normal" for her younger self, but normal nevertheless.
Overall you could describe Kheisa as mild, but friendly. Compared to her younger self she is significantly less energetic, and as a result less nosy and less enthusiastic, but her core motivations have never changed, and as she works back out of her shell she is trying to get back into her old habits of always extending at least a friendly greeting to the people she knows, as well as to anyone she thinks looks like they could use some friendly attention. She's usually able to get along with most types of people, at least on a superficial level.
It's important to her to maintain a productive, positive mindset. She's not willing to let her life fall apart around her again, and believes she is the only person she can rely on to prevent that. She tries to be affectionate towards anything that moves (and some things that don't) and wish peace and happiness on all she knows, but can get fatigued by her own behavior sometimes, and tries to rein it in to a reasonable amount so she doesn't burn herself out focusing on others instead of herself.
Part of the reason Kheisa tries to be universally friendly is that she has some relatively minor but still present memory loss problems - she can function through routine and schedule, but it's easy for her to forget a name or a face or an entire meeting encounter, so it's easier to be friendly to everyone (but probably ask their name again) than assume she doesn't know anyone. Another reason is that frankly, it's hard for her to not - her willpower is paper thin and she's easily suckered into doing things for others that she didn't previously want to do.
She has some hoarding and caching instincts from being a squirrel, which she tries to make sure are directed appropriately towards things like trinkets and knickknacks and tchotchkes rather than, you know, entire pets. Her house has a lot of display shelves and hidden treasure boxes filled with not-strictly-necessary objects that she saw, liked, and acquired, and just hasn't cleared out yet.
Though weak-willed and pretty weak-bodied, Kheisa isn't afraid of a little manual labor, and even delights in it after a particularly rough day. Mucking out stalls and weeding gardens is the perfect way to clear out some mental clutter.
Goals:
Do something exciting
Fully bond with Taro
Get into the Barracks with Kiro
Do something exciting
Fully bond with Taro
Get into the Barracks with Kiro
Revive Blacky
Train a mount
Stats:
Stamina: 3
Strength: 1
Resistance: 3
Dexterity: 6
Mentality: 3
Attribute:
Danger Sense (trait)
Traits:
Ambidextrous
Cat's Balance
Falcon's Grace
Really Short
Weak Willpower
Animal Empathy
Skill Groups:
Survival
Magic
Husbandry (bonus: animal empathy!)
Skills:
4 starting skill points...
+4 in Husbandry
13 from leveling
Riding (quad) (-4)
Climb (-1)
Wild Speak (-3)
Build Fire (-1)
First Aid (-1)
Plant Lore (-2)
Berry-Picking (-2)
Toxin-Wise (-2)
Literacy (-2)
3 unspent skill points
Posts:
15 in Park (1.5 levels)
--- Old Forum (12.2 levels total) ---
63 in Park (6.3 levels)
3 in Docks (0.3 levels)
4 in Avant Vall (0.4 levels)
13 in Plot (2.6 levels)
26 in Eterra (2.6 levels)
Level: 13.7