Post by Chimera on Aug 7, 2018 19:58:53 GMT -4
CHIMERA
BASIC INFORMATION
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias: "Instinct"
Player Name: Keiran
Faceclaim/Series: Pina / Beastars
Age: 17 (July 16th)
Gender: Male
Affiliation: UA Academy
Height: 2m (6'5") (2.05m [6'7"] w/ the horns)
Weight: 75kg
Hair/Style: White Fur speckled with Gray, Full-Body
Skin/Scars: Fur
Eyes: Red, round, somewhat effeminate.
Notables: Well, to start with...he's got horns...
Player Name: Keiran
Faceclaim/Series: Pina / Beastars
Age: 17 (July 16th)
Gender: Male
Affiliation: UA Academy
Height: 2m (6'5") (2.05m [6'7"] w/ the horns)
Weight: 75kg
Hair/Style: White Fur speckled with Gray, Full-Body
Skin/Scars: Fur
Eyes: Red, round, somewhat effeminate.
Notables: Well, to start with...he's got horns...
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Appearance:
Living up to his name, Chimera is more animal than he is human, though the doctor's he's known swear he is, in fact, still human genetically. His body is covered in a dense white fur speckled with gray. This fur is about two centimeters thick with a texture similar to a long-haired cat. He possesses a pair of long, limp ears and large feet of a rabbit; has the long snout and sharpened canines of a dog; a tail similar to that of a lion's; and the wide, curved horns of a goat. The only human-like part of his appearance would be his eyes...if not for their bright, blood-red color and square pupils, again, like a goat's. He's also surprisingly muscular under all of that fur, with broad shoulders and arms for lifting, as well as long, strong legs for running.
For clothes Chimera's preference tends to fall into "whatever will fit". Not a lot of shirts can go over his horns in an easy manner, so lately he's preferring button-ups or things with very wide head/neck-holes. He also needs wider pants legs than normal for getting his large rabbit feet through. As such, he winds up in baggier or looser clothing than he might prefer otherwise, but beggars can't be choosers.
Chimera's hero costume consists of a sunny yellow jumpsuit with no sleeves, a thick leather belt at his waist, and what appears to be boxing tape wrapped around his paws. Around his neck are a pair of golden "doggy tags", one with the insignia of UA on it, and the other with a silver "I" for "Instinct"--his hero name.
POSITIVE
✔ Persistent, Loyal, Playful, Kind, Sarcastic
NEGATIVE
✖ Thin-Skinned, Forgiving, Fretful, Easily Distracted, Sarcastic
LIKES
✔ Music, Meat, Naps, Robots (if he didn't he'd be dead by now), Flowers
DISLIKES
✖ Loud Noises, Smoke, Doctors, Judgmental Looks, Blood
Personality:
Although Chimera's past has left its fair share of scars on him emotionally and mentally, he is the sort of person to continue going not just despite of that pain, but because of it. A trusting individual, he comes to care for people quickly, and will try to make friends with anyone who shows him some level of kindness. Once accepted Chimera is a loyal friend who will put up with a whole lot of bullshit (some of which he probably shouldn't let go) for the sake of keeping his friends happy. That doesn't mean he won't snark and tease them endlessly. He will also worry excessively about his friend's well-being and make a point of checking on them if anything feels wrong.
However for all Chimera puts up with in terms of what his friends and "friend" dish out, there are still some things that can break his ever-friendly demeanor. Being called a "freak" or worse cuts him up with ease, and it takes a lot of effort to keep from breaking down over every insult he gets. He hasn't perfected it yet, but he's improving by the day. Chimera just wants to be the best person he can possibly be, to prove that those like him can succeed in this strange new world of Quirks. He pushes through tests and challenges until he is literally unable to move anymore. If he makes a mistake, he will do his damnedest to do better next time.
He just wants to be a good person, and an even better hero.
He's getting there.
Living up to his name, Chimera is more animal than he is human, though the doctor's he's known swear he is, in fact, still human genetically. His body is covered in a dense white fur speckled with gray. This fur is about two centimeters thick with a texture similar to a long-haired cat. He possesses a pair of long, limp ears and large feet of a rabbit; has the long snout and sharpened canines of a dog; a tail similar to that of a lion's; and the wide, curved horns of a goat. The only human-like part of his appearance would be his eyes...if not for their bright, blood-red color and square pupils, again, like a goat's. He's also surprisingly muscular under all of that fur, with broad shoulders and arms for lifting, as well as long, strong legs for running.
For clothes Chimera's preference tends to fall into "whatever will fit". Not a lot of shirts can go over his horns in an easy manner, so lately he's preferring button-ups or things with very wide head/neck-holes. He also needs wider pants legs than normal for getting his large rabbit feet through. As such, he winds up in baggier or looser clothing than he might prefer otherwise, but beggars can't be choosers.
Chimera's hero costume consists of a sunny yellow jumpsuit with no sleeves, a thick leather belt at his waist, and what appears to be boxing tape wrapped around his paws. Around his neck are a pair of golden "doggy tags", one with the insignia of UA on it, and the other with a silver "I" for "Instinct"--his hero name.
POSITIVE
✔ Persistent, Loyal, Playful, Kind, Sarcastic
NEGATIVE
✖ Thin-Skinned, Forgiving, Fretful, Easily Distracted, Sarcastic
LIKES
✔ Music, Meat, Naps, Robots (if he didn't he'd be dead by now), Flowers
DISLIKES
✖ Loud Noises, Smoke, Doctors, Judgmental Looks, Blood
Personality:
Although Chimera's past has left its fair share of scars on him emotionally and mentally, he is the sort of person to continue going not just despite of that pain, but because of it. A trusting individual, he comes to care for people quickly, and will try to make friends with anyone who shows him some level of kindness. Once accepted Chimera is a loyal friend who will put up with a whole lot of bullshit (some of which he probably shouldn't let go) for the sake of keeping his friends happy. That doesn't mean he won't snark and tease them endlessly. He will also worry excessively about his friend's well-being and make a point of checking on them if anything feels wrong.
However for all Chimera puts up with in terms of what his friends and "friend" dish out, there are still some things that can break his ever-friendly demeanor. Being called a "freak" or worse cuts him up with ease, and it takes a lot of effort to keep from breaking down over every insult he gets. He hasn't perfected it yet, but he's improving by the day. Chimera just wants to be the best person he can possibly be, to prove that those like him can succeed in this strange new world of Quirks. He pushes through tests and challenges until he is literally unable to move anymore. If he makes a mistake, he will do his damnedest to do better next time.
He just wants to be a good person, and an even better hero.
He's getting there.
HISTORY
Chimera was born without a name, according to his files at the adoption agency. His mother and father, a furiously religious pair, are unnamed as well. This is because upon seeing their child come out with goat features and covered in fur, their first idea was to tell the doctor to kill it. The doctor, instead, did the humane thing of calling Child Protective Services and having the mutation inflicted babe brought to a safe location. It was CPS that gave him the name "Charlie Rhoads"--named after the doctor who protected him and the first family that took him in--and for the first six years of his life, Charlie was in the system.
It's difficult for any normal child to be in foster care. It is no easier, nor is it any more enjoyable, to a child with such an obvious Quirk and such inhuman features. From house to house, family to family, from indifference to horror stories and sometimes even fond memories, he lived through enough ridicule and terrible people to crush his faith, despite his young age. More than once his "parents" would attempt to shave of his fur, or clip his claws, or file down his teeth. Other times his "siblings" would be his torturers. One particularly cruel older sister tried to force-feed him all the foods she had been warned not to feed their pet dog.
While it didn't poison him, being tied up by a much taller person and having things shoved into his throat was a traumatizing experience. He still can't stand grapes.
However, as he grew older, less houses were interested in taking him in...which was something of a godsend for him. He would stay in respite houses for a few days at a time and then spend the rest of his time wandering about the CPS offices that had space for children to play in. For three years this was his new life, and surprisingly it was easier for people to avoid the goat in the room when they only needed to put up with him for a few days at a time. He doubted he would ever find a family.
Then, to Charlie's surprise, a family got in contact with the CPS from across the Atlantic. They had been seeking out Quirkers in the foster system, heard about Charlie's story, and said that they wanted to take him in. Although he was skeptical, it wasn't like he had any other place to go, and so Charlie left to live in Britain.
The family consisted of two women whom had adopted a number of children with mutation Quirks. Flora and Masayuki were a darling couple; Flora, whom was Quirkless, had lived alone since coming out to her family as a teenager, while Masayuki had a minor mutation Quirk that made her skin incredibly sensitive to pretty much everything. The two had both been shunned by those they loved and, after meeting and falling in love, and decided to fight against children ever having to feel that way themselves. Chimera agreed to stay for at least a week.
They were everything he'd ever wanted.
Now just passed his tenth birthday--and having given himself the name Chimera to distance himself from his childhood--he opened up to his new mothers with an attention hungry heart, and met his many siblings; his sister Angelica tried to take a bite out of him in her endless curiosity, younger still Nadia was a reckless ball of energy, and the youngest (at the time) Jacob was sweet and curious--and all of them were highly visible mutants, just like he was. And all of them were loved and cared for, just like how he wanted to be. If there was anything in Chimera's life that he .
Despite all the love Flora and Masayuki had to give to their children, caring for and raising a happy house of fire-breathers and fliers and various other dangerous things was not cheap or easy. Masayuki made good money using her Quirk to be a lab-rat for various cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies, but the work would drain her or leave her in pain for days on end. As he grew older and the talk of an honest-to-god hero school opening up in Japan reached all corners of the globe, Chimera had one goal: Become a hero for the sake of supporting his family.
Admittedly the first year of this "hero school" had its highs and lows. It was the first time Chimera had been around so many people his own age who had Quirks, and his weak social skills and thin skin made him an easy target for the pricklier members of the student body. Even when they didn't mean him any actual harm he took too much too personally, and for a while he was too nervous to even make friends. The few that he clung to, including his roommate and a few of the more aggressively friendly persons in his grade, helped him to crawl out of his shell bit by bit.
And then there was a fiasco during a school field trip, and Chimera came to the very, very horrible reality that even if he wanted to be a hero, and even if he was around people who wanted to be his friends, the rest of the world was still not so kind. Semper Fi gave Chimera pause in his dream. If there were people in the world that were willing to assault or even kill a bunch of children just because they had Quirks, then was that a world he really wanted to live in? That he wanted to protect? He was tempted sorely to drop-out and return home and live a life as far under the radar as he could manage, but before he had the chance to think that through, he was approached by one of his more eccentric classmates who literally begged him to speak in a video interview about Semper Fi. Chimera reluctantly agreed, still unsure in himself or his future as a hero...but as he talked, and talked, and talked, he felt more things falling into place in his head.
He wasn't becoming a hero just to support his family, but to prove to a world still on the fence about Quirkers that he could be a hero. That he wanted to be hero in spite of--or even because of--the push-back against them. Sure he was still left in tears by the end of it, but there was where he really felt like he had a reason to stick with the hero program beyond his personal reasons. He had a point to prove.
It's difficult for any normal child to be in foster care. It is no easier, nor is it any more enjoyable, to a child with such an obvious Quirk and such inhuman features. From house to house, family to family, from indifference to horror stories and sometimes even fond memories, he lived through enough ridicule and terrible people to crush his faith, despite his young age. More than once his "parents" would attempt to shave of his fur, or clip his claws, or file down his teeth. Other times his "siblings" would be his torturers. One particularly cruel older sister tried to force-feed him all the foods she had been warned not to feed their pet dog.
While it didn't poison him, being tied up by a much taller person and having things shoved into his throat was a traumatizing experience. He still can't stand grapes.
However, as he grew older, less houses were interested in taking him in...which was something of a godsend for him. He would stay in respite houses for a few days at a time and then spend the rest of his time wandering about the CPS offices that had space for children to play in. For three years this was his new life, and surprisingly it was easier for people to avoid the goat in the room when they only needed to put up with him for a few days at a time. He doubted he would ever find a family.
Then, to Charlie's surprise, a family got in contact with the CPS from across the Atlantic. They had been seeking out Quirkers in the foster system, heard about Charlie's story, and said that they wanted to take him in. Although he was skeptical, it wasn't like he had any other place to go, and so Charlie left to live in Britain.
The family consisted of two women whom had adopted a number of children with mutation Quirks. Flora and Masayuki were a darling couple; Flora, whom was Quirkless, had lived alone since coming out to her family as a teenager, while Masayuki had a minor mutation Quirk that made her skin incredibly sensitive to pretty much everything. The two had both been shunned by those they loved and, after meeting and falling in love, and decided to fight against children ever having to feel that way themselves. Chimera agreed to stay for at least a week.
They were everything he'd ever wanted.
Now just passed his tenth birthday--and having given himself the name Chimera to distance himself from his childhood--he opened up to his new mothers with an attention hungry heart, and met his many siblings; his sister Angelica tried to take a bite out of him in her endless curiosity, younger still Nadia was a reckless ball of energy, and the youngest (at the time) Jacob was sweet and curious--and all of them were highly visible mutants, just like he was. And all of them were loved and cared for, just like how he wanted to be. If there was anything in Chimera's life that he .
Despite all the love Flora and Masayuki had to give to their children, caring for and raising a happy house of fire-breathers and fliers and various other dangerous things was not cheap or easy. Masayuki made good money using her Quirk to be a lab-rat for various cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies, but the work would drain her or leave her in pain for days on end. As he grew older and the talk of an honest-to-god hero school opening up in Japan reached all corners of the globe, Chimera had one goal: Become a hero for the sake of supporting his family.
Admittedly the first year of this "hero school" had its highs and lows. It was the first time Chimera had been around so many people his own age who had Quirks, and his weak social skills and thin skin made him an easy target for the pricklier members of the student body. Even when they didn't mean him any actual harm he took too much too personally, and for a while he was too nervous to even make friends. The few that he clung to, including his roommate and a few of the more aggressively friendly persons in his grade, helped him to crawl out of his shell bit by bit.
And then there was a fiasco during a school field trip, and Chimera came to the very, very horrible reality that even if he wanted to be a hero, and even if he was around people who wanted to be his friends, the rest of the world was still not so kind. Semper Fi gave Chimera pause in his dream. If there were people in the world that were willing to assault or even kill a bunch of children just because they had Quirks, then was that a world he really wanted to live in? That he wanted to protect? He was tempted sorely to drop-out and return home and live a life as far under the radar as he could manage, but before he had the chance to think that through, he was approached by one of his more eccentric classmates who literally begged him to speak in a video interview about Semper Fi. Chimera reluctantly agreed, still unsure in himself or his future as a hero...but as he talked, and talked, and talked, he felt more things falling into place in his head.
He wasn't becoming a hero just to support his family, but to prove to a world still on the fence about Quirkers that he could be a hero. That he wanted to be hero in spite of--or even because of--the push-back against them. Sure he was still left in tears by the end of it, but there was where he really felt like he had a reason to stick with the hero program beyond his personal reasons. He had a point to prove.
