Meredith

by **Meredith** on August 29th, 2014, 5:29 am

Model: jaco van den hoven

Name: Meredith
Age: 25
Languages: Common (Fluent) Fratava (Basic) Tukant (Poor)
Sex: Male
Birthday: 90th day of Fall 489AV
Height: 5’11”
Race: Human (Svefra)
Birthplace: The Suvan Sea
Current Location and Housing: Riverfall - An apartment in the Cora Apartments

by **Meredith** on August 29th, 2014, 5:47 am

Appearance

Meredith can be described as twitchy, nervous and scrawny, with sad eyes and soft effeminate features. His eyes are like the sea and always seem sad and thoughtful. He’ll often smile, but never with his eyes unless he truly means it. His light brown hair falls to his chin in slight waves and is always soft to touch and kept knot-free enough for him to get a comb through it. His lips are pale pink and full, but have often been bitten or chewed out of habit, and so they almost always seem sore or dry. His oval shaped face is as thin as the rest of him, with high boney cheekbones and a rounded jaw. His face, overall, carries a sort of endearing ‘cuteness’, that he will deny every time it’s mentioned.

Meredith would probably be considered underweight, and a little malnourished. His skin is lacking colour, and his ribs, hipbones and spine can be faintly seen if he were to ever take his shirt off. Embarrassed about this, he tends to hide his body by wearing something baggy, and is trying to eat as much as he can to build up some of his lost strength again. He walks with a very slight hunch, and has a few nervous ticks like twirling his hair around his fingers or rapidly moving his eyes or blinking. Moreover, Meredith’s body is covered in small, but permanent scars from his many slave owners. Luckily his face is untouched, but his back, arms and chest are forever marked.

There is one mark on Meredith that does not fill him with shame, and that’s the Mark of Oceanus, from his god, Laviku. It moves around his body from day to day but usually appears on his back, lower neck and chest, or on his leg.

by **Meredith** on August 29th, 2014, 6:05 am

Character Concept

On the surface Meredith would appear meek, and painfully shy. He’s managed to gain a good many mental disorders that limit his ability to socialize effectively, and often leave him short of breath when caught in a confrontation or in a large group of strangers. His opinion on himself is quite low, and he doesn’t like talking about his past or about his scars.

Meredith wants to show compassion. He wants to be passionate about something again. He wants to fall in love, have friends, family again. He wants to be liked. But he simply cannot fathom it anymore. He feels empty and alone. He tells himself that compassion and trust are flaws, and that he is strong for distancing himself from the world, but really he’s a coward. He’s afraid to start a new life, because he’s afraid to lose everything again. He’s deathly afraid of change now, and prefers to remain stagnant. He’s content with his little job as a seamstress, where he can hide behind colourful fabrics, and decorations. His dreadfully pessimistic outlook on the world has left him virtually friendless by his own doing.

This personality is almost the complete opposite from what he was as a child. Growing up in a tight nit community of Svefra’s in the Tideskipper pod, Meredith was a rambunctious, mischievous and lively child. Now, his own mother probably wouldn’t recognize him, he’s changed so very much. He is simply out of love for anyone, especially himself. He does take pride in a few things. His love for the sea is still a big part of who he is, and he often prays to Laviku, his god. He also has a love for painting, drawing and singing, three things he used to do as a child in the many Svefra gathering around a campfire on a beach he attended. These things he used to share with as many people as would listen to him, but now his talents remain under a shroud of meekness.

If one were to get through to him, they would find out that Meredith is zealous, artistic, and vibrant with a love for adventure, and hot summer days spent swimming in the sea.

by **Meredith** on August 29th, 2014, 7:09 am

History:

Meredith began his life upon a Sevfra boat to a single mother who raised him as any other child of Laviku. He was taught to swim, tell stories around the campfires and to sail a boat. He was a popular child, with many friends, and a passion for adventure. When he was just 8 years old, he found his Tavan, a beautiful bottle nosed dolphin he rescued from a fishing net one day. When he was fifteen, one of his best friends, a partially insane blonde boy named Yarrow

allowed him to experience romance for the first time, and a fleeting, but happy relationship followed. All of this changed when they hit a storm they could not negotiate on the seas. The great ship was capsized, the members of the pod were scattered and Meredith was narrowly saved from death by his Tavan, and the two of them survived the storm, only to enter a new kind of hell.

Lost and alone with nothing but the soaked clothes on his back, Meredith was ready to die. He walked a long way, trying to find other survivors, but no one else was to be seen. Instead, Meredith stumbled across a group of slavers who killed his tavan, and forced him to come with them to Kenash where he was to be sold to a slave plantation. Grieving over his Tavan, his mother, his lover and his pod Meredith found himself tossed into a life in chains where he was abused and separated from the sea. It was like everything had turned upside-down in a matter of a few days. Day after day his mental stability grew ever more fractured, until he had become a completely different person.

The years in Kenash were the darkest years of his life, and every day without his pod, without the sea, without everything he’d taken for granted as a teenager was like a fresh wave of agony. His only comfort were they few slaves he formed a friendship with. He even fell in love with a girl in his plantation called Ana, and both of them used the other for comfort in their shared situation. Ana was the only light in his life, so when he lost her, it was the final ingredient to his misery. She simply couldn’t handle it anymore, so she decided to get herself killed in the only way she knew how. She attacked her master viciously with every intention of killing him. But she wasn’t strong enough, and she was executed for her crime.

After that, Meredith was to be exported to another city somewhere far away. It was then he was rescued by a team of midnight skinned men who intercepted their slavers and took their slaves to Riverfall to be free. Meredith was just 24 at this point and the Akalak’s offered them a place in the city, if they wanted it. Most of them left, but Meredith stayed, simply because he was too broken to go anywhere else. He had some skill in sewing and tailoring from his days with his pod and so chose to become a Tailor in Riverfal. He now lives alone, refusing to get close enough to anyone to care about them, too afraid of change to do anything differently or improve his life.

by **Meredith** on August 29th, 2014, 7:41 am

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by **Meredith** on August 30th, 2014, 4:48 am

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by **Meredith** on August 30th, 2014, 9:35 am

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