General Information First name: Taenos Surname: Gripclaw Age: 24 Race: Avian Gender: Female Sexuality: Straight Current residence: Family Heirloom Relic Ship Relationship status: Dating Financial standing: Struggling under the weight of maintaining ship Traits of Voice Accent (if any): Avian Desert (Coptic Egyptian) Language spoken: Common, Homeworld's dialect of Avian Other languages known: Learning common sign language Style of speaking: Academic, Inquisitive, sometimes teasing Volume of voice: Mid-high range Physical Appearance Height: 5'5 Weight: 117 Pounds Eye color: Brown Skin color: Gold-Yellow Feathers with white highlights. Shape of face: Narrow, looks like a canary Distinguishing features: Thin form, head plumage Build of body: Nimble Posture: Confident Typical clothing: In any moderate or cold climates thick winter clothing with a scarf. In hot climates Avian hatchling sets. Personality Likes: Crystal Technology, Tea, Closeness, hot climates, string music, singing, calm conversation, honesty. Dislikes: Callow attitudes, Rain, Cold Climates, Soldiering, wroth. Education: Personally tutored to be a Vizier. (Assume administrative degree equivalent) Fears: Floran Teeth (Phobia), Losing Ship, Being the last of her family line, Stargazers Personal goals: To become employed using the talents and education she'd been blessed with growing up with the ultimate goal of being able to support her ship's full power. General attitude: Playful and Cheery on good days, somber and humble on bad ones. Religious values: A heretical Kluexism sect native to her homeworld that strove to remove the need for bloodshed. General intelligence: Socially average, education-wise high up there. General sociability: Introverted, enjoys up to medium sized crowds. Health Illnesses (if any): Nil Allergies (if any): Minor Allergies to various jungle pollen Sleeping habits: Wakes up around noon, sleeps a little past midnight. Energy level: Medium to low depending on time of day. Eating habits: Corned meats, smoked meats, berries, and nuts favored. Memory: Can be a touch forgetful, keeps notebook on hand to make up for. Any unhealthy habits: Paranoia History (Please note that parts of the backstory are cut/only glossed over for IC discovery or to avoid metagame) Taenos was born and grown on her desert home planet of Sharwing, a colony founded hundreds of years ago by Kluexian reformists. Their presence in the galaxy was largely low key but after learning of their presence the main priesthoods of the faith declared the Sharwing's beliefs to be heretical. The people of Sharwing took after egyptian styles of construct and based their economies on crystal technology, craftwork, and commerse. Taenos's family, the Gripclaws became relevent about a dozen generations before her birth, as minor advisors and court assistants for the administrative class of the planet. Who followed a hybrid constitutional monarchy. As they grew in relevency some of their ancestors were named Viziers in high courts, with one notable example having made it to the title of grand vizier and widely praised by the pharaohs he served. The family ingrained every subsequent generation of children to strive for the same prestigious position and to serve with all their heart. Taenos was tutored as a chick privately, having been born into a time where the family had well reached a high class. She was naturally gifted to absorbing knowledge from a young age and enjoyed arts and music. When she was nearly finished her schooling to become a hands on assistant to her father, the second in line for the grand vizier title, and a promising relationship blooming with a guardsmen in training the planet erupted into a planned coup. The rebels stormed the capital in days, Taenos's own lover among the soldiers breaching the city, having denounced his love for her at the outbreak of the conflict. The Gripclaws in this time had loaded as much of their family legacy, books, chronicles, gold crafts, even some of their buried loved ones and moved them to a ship that had been theirs for a number of generations. The ship was a relic by galactic standards, its powergrid completely run on crystal technology and incompatable with most modern power converters to allow anything but avian technology on board. With it they fled the planet, but not before her own father had been captured alongside the pharaoh, keeping to his post until the end. With only her, her mother, and a number of disloyal servants who would abandon the ship in time they ventured out as refugees. Having made it to a place known as the junction, a mostly desolate planet with extremely hostile life that served as a trading post to the local galactic market they set down. Her mother would soon succumb to illness, badgered on by the heartbreak of losing her husband. Taenos was alone, and stayed there for about a year before meeting Huckleberry. Who she immediately latched onto as a big brother figure after saving his life from a dogbear native to the planet. She's been ghosting after him ever since, scraping by on the pixel supply her family had escaped the planet with. But the cost of maintaining the ship that represents her entire family history is high, and her spending ability for personal effects is limited. At time of writing the ship is in a slow high orbit and on low power. Relationships Parents: Father is captured and presumably killed, mother died of grief year later. Siblings: Nil Any enemies (and why): Potentially Stargazers if they ever learn of her heretical disposition, homeplanet grounded factions because backstory. Children: Workin' on it. Friends: Corchea, Xin-Jhi, Tizu (Begrudgingly) Best friend(s): Huckleberry (Who is seen as a big brother figure to her) Love interest (if there is one): Erin (Nailed first date yo) Combat Peaceful or violent: Unafraid of starting a fight if she feels justified. Weapon (if applicable): Compressed bow infused with Avian crystal tech, Avian talons. Style of fighting: Distance maintaining with traditional archery. Will fight hand to hand with her talons in a pinch, the type to go for the face. Others Occupation: Unemployed at time of writing. Current home: Her Family ship Favorite types of food: Definitely smoked meat Favorite types of drink: Tea, Fireball Corvette Wiskey cocktail Hobbies/past times: Studying various topics, socializing, playing harp, singing, running from Tizu Guilty pleasures: Giving others a hard time as harmlessly as she can manage Pet peeves: Willfully unintelligent brickheadedness Pets: Nil Favorite colors: Red Favorite type of music: Stringed Melodies
RPed with this character yesterday and I already liked her, but man this is a good backstory. I don't think I've seen someone flesh out any avian planet's social classes this much before, it's refreshing!
