Lyss'ai Tanaeu  Basic Information Race: Charodae Birthday & Age : 17, Day 21 of the Season of Autumn Gender: Female Languages Language 1: Char Language 2: Common Language 3: Fratava Physical Description: The Charodae are unlike any other species of Mizahar. Lyss'ai is a prime example of their alien beauty. Her skin is a deep blue-gray-green, but when the sunlight streaming down through the watery depths of Charbosi dapples across it's surface, it takes on a lilac sheen. Her eyes are like large almond shaped pearls, glowing with a luminescence that draws one to them. They change shade with her mood, sometimes the glow with the smallest hint of rosy pink, other times they take on a pale green light, and at night they burn metallic white, almost silver. There are markings around them, a few shades darker than the rest of her skin. She has a faintly protruding nose with slit-like nostrils on either side. Her mouth is slightly narrow, her lips are incredibly full and the same colour as her skin. The angles of her face are soft, her cheekbones are prominent, but not sharply angled, and her chin is small and she has long, multi-pointed ears. Like all post-Valterrian Charodae, she possesses no hair. In it's stead, a translucent dorsal fin runs from just above her forehead to the base of her skull. It is serrated in appearance and gradually fades from that blue-gray-green to black at the tips. On either side, thicker, multi-pointed fins grow outward. As you move further towards the back of her head, the fins increase in number and become larger, forming a layer of curved spikes. Beneath this layer are long, curling tentacles, darker than her skin with a more purple tone. Suckers run down their length, , lined with small, razor sharp blade-like teeth. The tentacles vary in length, some stopping at her shoulder blades while other run to just above the small of her back, with plenty of variations in between. They're made of pure muscle and are incredibly strong. She can use them the same way she uses her hands, both for simple tasks and self defense. Lyss'ai is incredibly slender and very slightly built, being only 5'3" and 115lb. She is very toned and made of lean muscle, due to very demanding training in dance, which she started at a young age. She learned the art of self defense from her older brothers, and her father schooled her in hand-to hand combat, along with foot-to-foot and any number of other combinations. She has slightly wide shoulders, but not masculinely so, long, toned arms and small hands with long, webbed fingers. She is heavily chested for someone her size. Her stomach is well toned, the muscles visible underneath the veil of her skin. She has wide hips that melds perfectly into her legs, which are long and well-formed, and her feet are small with webbed toes. Her body is very streamlined, and her natural flexibility is increased by her physical training. Character Concept: ~ Personality; Lyss'ai is a free spirit, very loving and compassionate. She is constantly smiling and there is not a day goes by that she doesn't laugh. She's outgoing and not afraid to speak her mind, not out of a sense of self-righteousness, but because she rarely thinks before she speaks, tending to verbalise her thoughts as they come to her. Highly intelligent, she learns incredibly fast, however she often finds her mind going blank when posed complex questions. She has a very good memory for small details and events, but if you ask her to do something, she'll walk off to do it and walk back a few minutes later asking what she's supposed to be doing. Despite this, when she sets her mind to something, she can do it to the highest standard, and always with a smile. She's a polite and kind-hearted person by nature, but easily frustrated and will never forget if you do her wrong. However the one thing that can infuriate her beyond the point of belief, is herself. Lyss'ai is a complete perfectionist, which, although a great advantage when it comes to things like art or physical activities, where she can work to perfection, it can be rather frustrating in day-today life. It also makes her a sore loser. Her ease to anger can sometimes leave her emotionally exhausted, this coupled with her lust to perfection means the slightest negative comment can send her over the edge, ending in her moping and wailing to herself for a few hours. She revels in praise, but more often than not, criticism kindles her to strive even harder toward perfection. She finds it very easy to empathise with people and tries her hardest to make the people around her happy. ~ Ethics; She is someone of strong morals. She understands that sometimes violence is necessary, but abhors killing and murder. One of her constant qualms is crime and punishment; she often speaks of taking it upon herself to deliver retribution to those deserving of it, but if it came right down to it, she has to wonder if she'd be able to strike the killing blow. She is very motherly and absolutely adores children, therefore despises any who would do them harm. Her feelings are also thus towards those who would abuse nature, hacking and burning to sate their greed. ~ Likes; Water, children, babies, singing, singing to children and/or babies, sleeping, nature, coral-sculpting, dancing, wrestling, stories, telling stories, talking and swimming to the surface to gaze at the sky. She does it before dawn so she can watch the sun rise, and at night so she can look at the stares. When she gets bored she follows fish and watches their daily activities, just for something to do. She loves to eat and often makes sculptures out of her food before eating it, which usually earns strange looks from her relatives. She loves her mother Isalya wholly and completely. ~ Dislikes; Males of all species, excluding her father and brothers most of the time. People who are rude and arrogant. Children who are disrespectful to their parents. Unnecessary violence. Malice. Greed. Havoc and destruction. Death. People who lust for blood. People who act coldly, without emotion. Those who would desecrate art in any form, or act cruelly towards others. |
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| Character History: Lyss'ai, sometime nicknamed Lyss or Lyssa, was the fifth child of Isalya Tanai'i and Lyo'to Yleraeu. Of her 11 older brothers, only four still live with her and their parents; Lyo, Yleru, U'syra and Sae'to, who despite their constant jabs and annoyances, are very protective of her. They are all the same age; 23, making Lyss'ai the youngest and the baby of the family. Her mother Isalya doted upon her from the day of her birth, she was the only surviving egg, and she was Isalya's very first girl. She attended school at the appropriate age and was encouraged to pursue the things she loved and was talented at. Her father, a farmer with a hidden talent for crafting jewelery and beautiful miniature sculptures would give her bracelets or small figurines for her birthday, gifts she treasured as a child and values 'til this day. Her mother taught her all she knew, how to cook, weave and play the harp, but despite all her efforts, Lyss'ai had no talent with food, fabrics or instruments. Her childhood was happy, filled with laughter and love. After she finished school, her days were spent waking before dawn to sneak off and watch the sun, a morning of farming, training in the early afternoon, followed by household chores, to clean, help cook and weave, then dancing as the water grows dark, with the evening to relax, sing to her mother and maybe to work on a sculpture. Generally their father would have given her and her brothers breaks, a few days free of chores and training to do whatever they pleased. But Lyss'ai has always been a curious soul, and so she left to explore. |
| Training (Skills, Arcana, Gnosis, Lore): ~Acrobatics - 10 ~Blind fighting - 0 ~Cooking - 0 ~Dance - 10 ~Escape Artist - 0 ~Sculpting - 5 ~Swimming - 25 ~Unarmed Combat - 10 Equipment and Possessions: Starting Package; ~1 set of Clothing; Lyss'ai wears an intricate outfit wrought from silver wire and chains, decorated with vivid coral, pearls and precious stones. The chest piece is a complex design of interwoven silver wires of varying sizes, onto which are threaded coral beads of many shapes and colours. There are also small silver discs, intricately engraved with beautiful pictures depicting different myths and legends of the Charodae. Two silver chains are joined to either side of the chest piece. They curl around her ribs, crossing over and connecting to one longer chain that falls straight down her spine. Two pieces of soft fabric make up the piece around her waist, joined by complex silver vines, rings and chains. One chain joins them at either side, connecting to rings that are looped through the material, along with the vines are two wide silver hoops, welded together in the middle, beneath which hangs another chain, housing three large pearls. One chain hangs from the middle of the chest piece, falling down 'til it reaches the large silver ring that encircles her naval. Two chains spring from it, wrapping around her waist and meeting the chain that reaches down the middle of her back. Then two chains are drawn across her hips diagonally, joining the rings looped through the back piece of material. Another two chains fall diagonally down her stomach, connecting with the two rings looped through the front piece of material. A large silver plate hangs across both pieces of material, holding it down. They are decorated with detailed engravings and set with gemstones and coral. She wears no shoes., but carries with her a long silver-green cloak. Two silver bangles curl around her upper arms, engraved with vine designs. Another two bracelets wrap around her wrists and she wears complex earrings in both ears. She wears a white gold circlet across her forehead, constructed of slim twisting threads that flow from either temple toward her glabella, where they nestle a circular piece of mother-of-pearl. ~1 water skin. ~1 backpack containing ~1 Set of Toiletries ~Food for a week ~Eating knife ~Flint & steel ~Family Heirloom ~ A black coral dagger her father made. The blade, hilt and all is one unbroken piece of glass-smooth black coral, which has almost transparent edges. It curves downwards and is scalloped at the end. ~Lores ~ Lore - Subaqueous Combat ~ Lore - Makutsi, Goddess of Water, The Rainbringer Ledger: 100gm 500gm (House cash in) Thread List n/a |
