Post by Damien Griffiths on Jun 17, 2010 16:07:35 GMT -5
Name: Herbert 'Herbie' Skik
Age: 14
Hair color: black rasta braids with a ruddy sheen
Eye color: dark, burnt yellow with slits
Height: approx. 1m55 (5'1")
Length: 5m34 (17'6")
Appearance:
Herbie is a naga - or naja, as he says it himself - and has a lower body like a snake's. His snake half has a yellow belly, and his back is striped in brown-black and yellow (based off the Jamaican Yellow Boa, Epicrates subflavus). at his waist, it smoothly shifts from scales to skin, which is dark and tanned. On his back, some dark stripes continue all the way up to the nape of his neck. His upper body is human-looking, conform his age. His face is slightly negroid in features, topped with a full head of curly and a bit springy black hair which he permanently keeps in rasta-braids. Don't worry, he does wash it. His hands are a bit spidery, with long, tapering fingers and longish nails. He fancies himself to look like Bob Marley, but really, he doesn't. And if he did, he's got years to grow before anyone can make the comparison.
As a naga, he's capable of unhinging his jaw like a snake, and if he had to he could practically eat a goat whole. He doesn't do this because it looks godawful and leaves him immobile while digesting the lump.
His long snake tail allows him to move overland at about normal walking speed, but he can pass by most running people if he makes an effort. In water he is at least as fast. He can easily climb up trees, by coiling around them, but vertical flat surfaces are more difficult, and he can't get over walls higher than about 4 meters.
Also, as a snake, he has a sensitive tongue, and can pick up a lot of things by sticking it out. He doesn't usually do this, also because it looks a bit silly, but he's well capable of it. His sense of smell through normal means is worse than a human's.
He is capable to temporarily change his tail into a pair of human legs through his magic abilities, though scaly patches will remain. He dislikes it, and will still refuse to wear pants, using wrap-around skirts instead.
Reversely, he may one day learn to make his upper torso more serpentine, giving himself a snake's head and cover the rest entirely in scales. He can't do this - yet.
Biography:
Herbie was born on Jamaica, in one of the small patches of forest still remaining on the island. He was one in a nest of three, but their mother abandoned them because a human incursion happened shortly after she gave birth, leaving the three young to the humans in fear for her own life. One of the three died quickly, but had been of weak constitution anyhow. The other two, both male, were picked up by a group of amateur biologists, who braught the two to a special orphanage for children with reptilian attributes.
There, Herbert Skik was named, and his sister was named Sasha. She was adopted by a wealthy family at age 10, who unbeknownst to the orphanage had rather dubious purposes in mind for the girl. Herbie remained at the orphanage, among humanoid reprilians, gorgons, and some part-demons. There, he got drawn into reggae, and from this time it is that he worships Bob Marley as an idol. He learnt every single song Marley played or sang or wrote by heart, and bought CD's with his allowance.
He was taught most basic skills children learn in schools, like arithmetic, language skills, geography, and more.
In the streets he picked up knowledge of hoodoo magic, and subsequently started gathering up bits of junk like jars, twigs, shiny stones, animal bones, and more, to use in his craft. He has one functional rod, among all this junk: a wooden rod of about two feet long, with a wrapped leather handle on one end. The other end is covered in feathers, string, small animal bones and a single animal skull, which once belonged to a small wild cat. It has some power, though it's not clear exactly how much of it.
He's also somehow managed to acquire a pet python - a snake of about 2 meters (6 feet) long, with no further special abilities. It's named Kaya, after the Bob Marley song.
Personality:
All in all, Herbie is a social animal, and likes hanging out with people - often literally if trees are near - and has a bad habit of hitting on girls, despite his age. He speaks with a very noticable accent, picked up in the streets of Jamaica, which he pruposefully thickens at times. In the same way, he pronounces his own name as "Hurr-bay".
He has a tendency to bite his nails when nervous, but will usually have a sunny disposition towards everybody and everything, unless they start criticising the music he likes.
Skills:
Dislocating his jaw - seriously, he thinks it's something grand. It mostly looks creepy, in a human face.
'Climbing' up trees and vertical surfaces up to 4m.
Hoodoo magic - though he isn't very skilled at it - yet.
Sue/Stu Traits:
Non-Human (20)
Orphan (10)
Magical (hoodoo) (10)
Owns a Magical rod (6)
Hoarder (-8)
Unattractive habits (-4)
Minority (-6)
Age: 14
Hair color: black rasta braids with a ruddy sheen
Eye color: dark, burnt yellow with slits
Height: approx. 1m55 (5'1")
Length: 5m34 (17'6")
Appearance:
Herbie is a naga - or naja, as he says it himself - and has a lower body like a snake's. His snake half has a yellow belly, and his back is striped in brown-black and yellow (based off the Jamaican Yellow Boa, Epicrates subflavus). at his waist, it smoothly shifts from scales to skin, which is dark and tanned. On his back, some dark stripes continue all the way up to the nape of his neck. His upper body is human-looking, conform his age. His face is slightly negroid in features, topped with a full head of curly and a bit springy black hair which he permanently keeps in rasta-braids. Don't worry, he does wash it. His hands are a bit spidery, with long, tapering fingers and longish nails. He fancies himself to look like Bob Marley, but really, he doesn't. And if he did, he's got years to grow before anyone can make the comparison.
As a naga, he's capable of unhinging his jaw like a snake, and if he had to he could practically eat a goat whole. He doesn't do this because it looks godawful and leaves him immobile while digesting the lump.
His long snake tail allows him to move overland at about normal walking speed, but he can pass by most running people if he makes an effort. In water he is at least as fast. He can easily climb up trees, by coiling around them, but vertical flat surfaces are more difficult, and he can't get over walls higher than about 4 meters.
Also, as a snake, he has a sensitive tongue, and can pick up a lot of things by sticking it out. He doesn't usually do this, also because it looks a bit silly, but he's well capable of it. His sense of smell through normal means is worse than a human's.
He is capable to temporarily change his tail into a pair of human legs through his magic abilities, though scaly patches will remain. He dislikes it, and will still refuse to wear pants, using wrap-around skirts instead.
Reversely, he may one day learn to make his upper torso more serpentine, giving himself a snake's head and cover the rest entirely in scales. He can't do this - yet.
Biography:
Herbie was born on Jamaica, in one of the small patches of forest still remaining on the island. He was one in a nest of three, but their mother abandoned them because a human incursion happened shortly after she gave birth, leaving the three young to the humans in fear for her own life. One of the three died quickly, but had been of weak constitution anyhow. The other two, both male, were picked up by a group of amateur biologists, who braught the two to a special orphanage for children with reptilian attributes.
There, Herbert Skik was named, and his sister was named Sasha. She was adopted by a wealthy family at age 10, who unbeknownst to the orphanage had rather dubious purposes in mind for the girl. Herbie remained at the orphanage, among humanoid reprilians, gorgons, and some part-demons. There, he got drawn into reggae, and from this time it is that he worships Bob Marley as an idol. He learnt every single song Marley played or sang or wrote by heart, and bought CD's with his allowance.
He was taught most basic skills children learn in schools, like arithmetic, language skills, geography, and more.
In the streets he picked up knowledge of hoodoo magic, and subsequently started gathering up bits of junk like jars, twigs, shiny stones, animal bones, and more, to use in his craft. He has one functional rod, among all this junk: a wooden rod of about two feet long, with a wrapped leather handle on one end. The other end is covered in feathers, string, small animal bones and a single animal skull, which once belonged to a small wild cat. It has some power, though it's not clear exactly how much of it.
He's also somehow managed to acquire a pet python - a snake of about 2 meters (6 feet) long, with no further special abilities. It's named Kaya, after the Bob Marley song.
Personality:
All in all, Herbie is a social animal, and likes hanging out with people - often literally if trees are near - and has a bad habit of hitting on girls, despite his age. He speaks with a very noticable accent, picked up in the streets of Jamaica, which he pruposefully thickens at times. In the same way, he pronounces his own name as "Hurr-bay".
He has a tendency to bite his nails when nervous, but will usually have a sunny disposition towards everybody and everything, unless they start criticising the music he likes.
Skills:
Dislocating his jaw - seriously, he thinks it's something grand. It mostly looks creepy, in a human face.
'Climbing' up trees and vertical surfaces up to 4m.
Hoodoo magic - though he isn't very skilled at it - yet.
Sue/Stu Traits:
Non-Human (20)
Orphan (10)
Magical (hoodoo) (10)
Owns a Magical rod (6)
Hoarder (-8)
Unattractive habits (-4)
Minority (-6)
