Post by Django on Jul 1, 2017 18:10:10 GMT -5
Name: Fulvia "Smiley" Aquila
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Species: Red Fox
Occupation:Cryptid Traveler
Physical Appearance:
Smiley's fur is unnaturally red, a rich scarlet that looks like it was dyed with the blood of her prey. Her eyes are a startling emerald green, and unchecked cataracts make her pupils a foggy bluish color. Dark circles have pooled under her eyes, but they only serve to make her eyes look more startling. She's a big girl, tall and broad. Her underbelly and the tip of her brush are creamy white, and all four paws are brown, with one white toe on her back right foot.
She handles broken glass and blades a lot, and her paw pads are littered with cuts and scars. Her wide ears are pierced with tiny silver hoops, three in each ear. She has a Y-shaped scar running down her chest to her belly that often itches her. Other smaller scars around this one are from her own claws.
Smiley got her name from her extremely wide smile. Somehow her mouth can stretch into a smile that looks like it goes twice around her head. The sight is terrifying. Her teeth are over large for her mouth, much thicker and longer than a normal fox's teeth, and some of them stick out when she closes her mouth. She wears an emerald cloak the same color as her eyes, and always wears the hood so only her mouth is visible.
Possessions:
Beneath her cloak are dozens of bits of broken glass tied to several ropes around her waist, making unearthly clinking noises when she moves. A tattered gray tunic is the only other item of clothing she owns. She carries around an old copper compass with a running fox painted on the inside of it. A small green bag holds an assortment of surgical knives and a pair of black leather gloves.
Personality:
Smiley is a very unpleasant fox. She has no social tact, and she acts like she'd rather eat you than speak to you. She revels in the rumors of her monstrous nature, and has perfected her "monster smile," as she calls it. Her high-pitched laugh sounds like a coyote being strangled while howling and gargling chunks of rock. It's LOUD, and carries for miles around.
Smiley has cataracts, so her eyesight isn't the best, but her hearing and sense of smell are impeccable. She grunts a lot to communicate, but if she's actually interested enough in a conversation, she can be academically articulate. But she finds most creatures boring, so it's rare she shows off her vocabulary. Her voice rivals Batman's in regard to hoarseness, anyway, so she doesn't use it much anymore.
Her favorite thing to do when she comes across a village or encampment is to let loose her famous howl into the night, and cut open anyone fool enough to investigate. She is incredibly strong, and can win most fights by brute force alone. Of course, she most often fights with beasts who are smaller than she is.
She has never eaten anyone in her life, but she's totally okay with people believing that she has. She's a scientist, and she enjoys dissecting living things. She's particularly a fan of exsanguination, as the smell of blood is one of her favorites.
She was once partially dissected by someone else, and she can sometimes still feel the paws of those who opened her up, so she tries to alleviate the feeling by standing in a moving current or under a waterfall. Because of her past trauma, she suffers recurring nightmares about the event, and very often wakes up screaming.
Overly-aggressive, Smiley will not hesitate to attack if she feels cornered or threatened in any way. She bites, scratches, uses her glass shards or surgical knives, and basically doesn't fight fair at all. But this is only if you're ever close enough to encounter her. She likes to be the misty figure in the distance, who laughs her way into your nightmares.
If you happen to catch her in a good mood, and you prove that you're at least as smart as she is, conversation with Smiley is surreal and enlightening. She knows everything about the anatomy of most creatures, since she's taken apart most creatures one way or another. She'd make a fantastic doctor if she actually cared about the sanctity of life.
Smiley can't even act nice. If she had to pretend to be anything other than an angry surgeon intent on relieving you of your blood, she would fail utterly. Which is why she doesn't try. Her smile is reserved for scaring others and relishing in the joy of dissection. She has not smiled kindly since she was a kit.
She doesn't feel most kinds of physical pain, having been through the almost literal wringer and survived. She's not invulnerable, but it takes a goodly bit of force to really hurt her.
Strengths:
Physically strong
Isn't hurt easily
Highly intelligent
Keen sense of hearing and smell
Weaknesses:
Poor eyesight
Socially inept
Psychologically broken
Unable to make friends/allies
Occasionally self harms
History:
Smiley was born Fulvia Aquila to her parents Julius and Fulvia Aquila, who lived extremely far south of Mossflower woods. Her mother died in childbirth, so her father gave her her mother's name. Fulvia lived a pretty standard fox life until she and her father were attacked by a radical band of rats who called themselves The Order of the Green Forest, and who were intent on "purifying" those they believed to be "impure" everywhere they went.
In the attack, Fulvia killed one of the rats, able to overpower him because of her strength and size, even at a young age. Julius was killed, but Fulvia was spared because of her abnormal size and large teeth. The rats studied her for years, opening her up and trying to figure out what made her so different. They felt all around every organ, made her perform ridiculous feats of strength, and subjected her to psychological torture of unspeakable kinds.
Finally, Fulvia snapped. Having become nearly impervious to physical pain, she took on all her captors at once, slaughtering them and escaping with their surgical equipment. It took her physical scars years to recover, but her mind never did. She took two of the rats' green cloaks and sewed them together with sutures to make them long enough for her.
Out on her own, she spent most of her time crying, eating, or standing under a waterfall and trying to stop feeling the rat paws inside her. She ate what she could find, trapping small birds or fish. She scratched at her scar so much she made new ones around it that took their sweet time healing up.
Every few hours she would have to stop moving and simply cry. Horrible, gutting sobs of despair and anger and fear. This went on for two years before one day, the tears turned to laughter. Horrible, gutting laughter of despair and anger and fear. She cried and laughed so much that her smile widened, the bags under her eyes deepened, and her voice was utterly destroyed. Her need for revenge grew. It wasn't enough that she had killed her torturers, the rest of the world needed to hurt like she did.
She didn't get her nickname until her early twenties, when she attacked her first village. In the dead of night, she surprised a group of three mice walking to their home. Two mice escaped to tell the tale, but the other became her first dissection victim. The two other mice spread the word of an evil smiling fox ghost who'd stolen their brother. And when his body was found with his organs strewn about or missing, and most of his blood on the ground, everyone naturally assumed the fox ghost had eaten parts of him.
Word spread quickly. Smiley the surgeon fox soon became widely known in the southern reaches of Mossflower. Many beasts claim to have spotted her, or they know someone who was taken by her. Travelers report her hideous howl to nearby villages, who then lock their doors and keep to their homes during the night, until there are no more sightings of Smiley. She's responsible for almost a score of deaths and disappearances in southern Mossflower.
She started her glass collection after coming upon the wreckage of a merchant caravan. The driver was already dead, having been raided by bandits before she got to him, but the broken bits of glass bottles he'd been selling were everywhere. Smiley was fascinated by her reflection in them, and collected as many as she could carry. She tied them around her waist using rope she also pilfered from the merchant, and really liked the sounds they made as they jingled around her. The sound is much scarier at night.
She can't remember when her sight started going, but one day she looked at her reflection and noticed her pupils had gone a bit foggy. Her father had cataracts, so it was hereditary and inevitable. Her other senses make up for it. She bought a compass when she crossed paths with a merchant from the far north. Another fox who sold dozens of different trinkets. She let him go, not bothering to dissect someone she'd done a fair deal with.
Currently, Smiley simply terrorizes pockets of Mossflower wood with her howling and unethical surgeries. Her aggressive energy has somewhat ebbed since she was first free of her captors, but she's still not a beast to mess with.
Relationships:
Julius Aquila - father, deceased
Fulvia Aquila - mother, deceased
The Order of the Green Forest - former torturers, all deceased
Other:
Smiley hasn't dissected any beast bigger than she is, because she tends to flee when she senses she may not win in a fight.
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Species: Red Fox
Occupation:
Physical Appearance:
Smiley's fur is unnaturally red, a rich scarlet that looks like it was dyed with the blood of her prey. Her eyes are a startling emerald green, and unchecked cataracts make her pupils a foggy bluish color. Dark circles have pooled under her eyes, but they only serve to make her eyes look more startling. She's a big girl, tall and broad. Her underbelly and the tip of her brush are creamy white, and all four paws are brown, with one white toe on her back right foot.
She handles broken glass and blades a lot, and her paw pads are littered with cuts and scars. Her wide ears are pierced with tiny silver hoops, three in each ear. She has a Y-shaped scar running down her chest to her belly that often itches her. Other smaller scars around this one are from her own claws.
Smiley got her name from her extremely wide smile. Somehow her mouth can stretch into a smile that looks like it goes twice around her head. The sight is terrifying. Her teeth are over large for her mouth, much thicker and longer than a normal fox's teeth, and some of them stick out when she closes her mouth. She wears an emerald cloak the same color as her eyes, and always wears the hood so only her mouth is visible.
Possessions:
Beneath her cloak are dozens of bits of broken glass tied to several ropes around her waist, making unearthly clinking noises when she moves. A tattered gray tunic is the only other item of clothing she owns. She carries around an old copper compass with a running fox painted on the inside of it. A small green bag holds an assortment of surgical knives and a pair of black leather gloves.
Personality:
Smiley is a very unpleasant fox. She has no social tact, and she acts like she'd rather eat you than speak to you. She revels in the rumors of her monstrous nature, and has perfected her "monster smile," as she calls it. Her high-pitched laugh sounds like a coyote being strangled while howling and gargling chunks of rock. It's LOUD, and carries for miles around.
Smiley has cataracts, so her eyesight isn't the best, but her hearing and sense of smell are impeccable. She grunts a lot to communicate, but if she's actually interested enough in a conversation, she can be academically articulate. But she finds most creatures boring, so it's rare she shows off her vocabulary. Her voice rivals Batman's in regard to hoarseness, anyway, so she doesn't use it much anymore.
Her favorite thing to do when she comes across a village or encampment is to let loose her famous howl into the night, and cut open anyone fool enough to investigate. She is incredibly strong, and can win most fights by brute force alone. Of course, she most often fights with beasts who are smaller than she is.
She has never eaten anyone in her life, but she's totally okay with people believing that she has. She's a scientist, and she enjoys dissecting living things. She's particularly a fan of exsanguination, as the smell of blood is one of her favorites.
She was once partially dissected by someone else, and she can sometimes still feel the paws of those who opened her up, so she tries to alleviate the feeling by standing in a moving current or under a waterfall. Because of her past trauma, she suffers recurring nightmares about the event, and very often wakes up screaming.
Overly-aggressive, Smiley will not hesitate to attack if she feels cornered or threatened in any way. She bites, scratches, uses her glass shards or surgical knives, and basically doesn't fight fair at all. But this is only if you're ever close enough to encounter her. She likes to be the misty figure in the distance, who laughs her way into your nightmares.
If you happen to catch her in a good mood, and you prove that you're at least as smart as she is, conversation with Smiley is surreal and enlightening. She knows everything about the anatomy of most creatures, since she's taken apart most creatures one way or another. She'd make a fantastic doctor if she actually cared about the sanctity of life.
Smiley can't even act nice. If she had to pretend to be anything other than an angry surgeon intent on relieving you of your blood, she would fail utterly. Which is why she doesn't try. Her smile is reserved for scaring others and relishing in the joy of dissection. She has not smiled kindly since she was a kit.
She doesn't feel most kinds of physical pain, having been through the almost literal wringer and survived. She's not invulnerable, but it takes a goodly bit of force to really hurt her.
Strengths:
Physically strong
Isn't hurt easily
Highly intelligent
Keen sense of hearing and smell
Weaknesses:
Poor eyesight
Socially inept
Psychologically broken
Unable to make friends/allies
Occasionally self harms
History:
Smiley was born Fulvia Aquila to her parents Julius and Fulvia Aquila, who lived extremely far south of Mossflower woods. Her mother died in childbirth, so her father gave her her mother's name. Fulvia lived a pretty standard fox life until she and her father were attacked by a radical band of rats who called themselves The Order of the Green Forest, and who were intent on "purifying" those they believed to be "impure" everywhere they went.
In the attack, Fulvia killed one of the rats, able to overpower him because of her strength and size, even at a young age. Julius was killed, but Fulvia was spared because of her abnormal size and large teeth. The rats studied her for years, opening her up and trying to figure out what made her so different. They felt all around every organ, made her perform ridiculous feats of strength, and subjected her to psychological torture of unspeakable kinds.
Finally, Fulvia snapped. Having become nearly impervious to physical pain, she took on all her captors at once, slaughtering them and escaping with their surgical equipment. It took her physical scars years to recover, but her mind never did. She took two of the rats' green cloaks and sewed them together with sutures to make them long enough for her.
Out on her own, she spent most of her time crying, eating, or standing under a waterfall and trying to stop feeling the rat paws inside her. She ate what she could find, trapping small birds or fish. She scratched at her scar so much she made new ones around it that took their sweet time healing up.
Every few hours she would have to stop moving and simply cry. Horrible, gutting sobs of despair and anger and fear. This went on for two years before one day, the tears turned to laughter. Horrible, gutting laughter of despair and anger and fear. She cried and laughed so much that her smile widened, the bags under her eyes deepened, and her voice was utterly destroyed. Her need for revenge grew. It wasn't enough that she had killed her torturers, the rest of the world needed to hurt like she did.
She didn't get her nickname until her early twenties, when she attacked her first village. In the dead of night, she surprised a group of three mice walking to their home. Two mice escaped to tell the tale, but the other became her first dissection victim. The two other mice spread the word of an evil smiling fox ghost who'd stolen their brother. And when his body was found with his organs strewn about or missing, and most of his blood on the ground, everyone naturally assumed the fox ghost had eaten parts of him.
Word spread quickly. Smiley the surgeon fox soon became widely known in the southern reaches of Mossflower. Many beasts claim to have spotted her, or they know someone who was taken by her. Travelers report her hideous howl to nearby villages, who then lock their doors and keep to their homes during the night, until there are no more sightings of Smiley. She's responsible for almost a score of deaths and disappearances in southern Mossflower.
She started her glass collection after coming upon the wreckage of a merchant caravan. The driver was already dead, having been raided by bandits before she got to him, but the broken bits of glass bottles he'd been selling were everywhere. Smiley was fascinated by her reflection in them, and collected as many as she could carry. She tied them around her waist using rope she also pilfered from the merchant, and really liked the sounds they made as they jingled around her. The sound is much scarier at night.
She can't remember when her sight started going, but one day she looked at her reflection and noticed her pupils had gone a bit foggy. Her father had cataracts, so it was hereditary and inevitable. Her other senses make up for it. She bought a compass when she crossed paths with a merchant from the far north. Another fox who sold dozens of different trinkets. She let him go, not bothering to dissect someone she'd done a fair deal with.
Currently, Smiley simply terrorizes pockets of Mossflower wood with her howling and unethical surgeries. Her aggressive energy has somewhat ebbed since she was first free of her captors, but she's still not a beast to mess with.
Relationships:
Julius Aquila - father, deceased
Fulvia Aquila - mother, deceased
The Order of the Green Forest - former torturers, all deceased
Other:
Smiley hasn't dissected any beast bigger than she is, because she tends to flee when she senses she may not win in a fight.