by Allassanachassanya on August 20th, 2016, 5:26 pm
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.Human appearance:
As a human, Ssanya stands at a height of 4 ft 5 in. She has warm, light brown skin and long dark hair that she usually leaves lying long and wild around her shoulders and down her back. Her face is somewhat average, with an often indifferent expression on her features. She has brown eyes that gleam when she smiles. She is slim. Most of the time, she is dressed in lightweight, neutral colours, although during Autumn and Winter she will always wear a scarf to stave off the cold. In addition, her mother's bone talisman always hangs from a cord around her neck, hidden by clothes or her scarf. A tiny, tooth-mark scar mars the flesh of her neck, delivered by Allister, in Summer 517. Along her side is a scar, left there by a monster unknown near to Ravok in Summer 518.Dhani appearance: As a dhani she is small for her species, at only 10 ft. She is larger than the males in her family, but only by a little. She is patterned all over with light browns and beiges, with a cream underbelly. Over her eyes are peculiar eye ridges that provide shelter from bright light. As she is a rattler, she has a rattle on the tip of her tail, which is dark, almost black. In this form, she is roughly 1.5x stronger than a regular, untrained human, and is very quick and agile with her movements.Snake appearance:As a snake, Ssanya is 6ft long. She is patterned in the same way as her dhani form, brown and cream in a speckled pattern over her scales. Her eye ridges are also quite prominent. In this form, she moves in a peculiar fashion, sideways rather than forwards, more at home in the warm sands of her home than the colder climates in the north. Behaviour and diet:During Autumn and Winter, Ssanya feels the cold keenly, and will need to sleep or be inactive at night to conserve energy and heat, whilst moving and being active during the day. In hotter climates, she more often chooses to sleep during the day and only come out at night. Ever since moving away from Ekytol, Ssanya doesn't really need to follow these patterns, out of habit she prefers night to day for this reason.
As a dhani and snake, Ssanya's diet mostly consists of rodents, and sometimes larger animals such as rabbits, but rarely anything bigger due to her size.
A small note on venom:
Ssanya has small venom glands which produce venom less strong than other rattler species. However, bites from Ssanya can cause: swelling, pain, dizziness, chills, shock, and can cause you to bleed without clotting. She could probably kill a human through venom alone, unless the affected were treated. Luckily for you, Ssanya doesn't bite- much!*Edited as of: 17/11/2016, to show more accurate rattler Dhani sizes. Appearance
Character Concept
The cycle of death...
Chassanya is a dhani driven by a curiosity gained when she was a youngling. Curiosity surrounding death. From a young age, Ssanya was very aware of the presence of death: She came for her two aunts as they were out hunting, She took a brother away before he'd even lived. Ssanya was even a bringer of death when she hunted. It fascinated her that as soon as someone or something died, its life and its soul were gone. A simple thought, really, but one that captivated the young snake.
Living through remains...
Her morbid fascination with death tied neatly with malediction - the magic she learnt from her mother. Although Chassanya wasn't terribly important to the family, being a middle child who showed little interest in leadership, her relationship with her mother was strong. Through her, she learnt malediction- her mother's first love. Through the magic, a death brings meaning to the world, even after they are gone. In a sense, they are living through their remains, a thought that Ssanya found deeply fulfilling and endlessly fascinating. After her mother's death especially, the girl turned to malediction to remember her mother and understand death. Malediction, in a sense, is the lens through which Ssanya views the world.
The drive to survive...
It was after her mother's death that Chassanya realised that her heart didn't belong to life in the nest. She loved her family, but she also knew that she had the wanderlust in her. She wanted to know more about her mother's magic, to discover what she could of the world, just as her mother had done before her. Despite this desire, she is not one to plunge head first and foolhardily into danger. Having grown up in the desert, she is well aware that Mizahar's pockets of civilisation are pebbles in a pool of danger.
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Last edited by
Allassanachassanya on October 9th, 2021, 5:50 pm, edited 15 times in total.
All 's' sounds are hissed in Ssanya's speech.
Resolve score - 30/100