Post by Kris Rios on Jan 26, 2012 2:51:17 GMT -5
Can't help myself but count the flaws
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate
Claw my way out through these walls
One temporary escape
Feel it start to permeate
Name: Kris Rios
Nickname(s): Cobra (by employers)
Played by: Archer
Age: 236
Date of Birth: February 1st
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Breed: Reptilian Werebeast - Egyptian Cobra
Loyalty: The Boil, whoever she is working for (as long as payment continues)
Status/Occupation: Body guard for hire
Abilities:
Reptilian Affinity
Character Creation Immunity: Kris is immune to all natural poisons
50 Posts Funerary: Kris can spit fire in her true and half form, to a distance of two feet.
100 Posts Goddess of Silence: Kris can render another character mute for up to four posts.
We lie beneath the stars at night
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky
Our hands gripping each other tight
You keep my secrets hope to die
Promises, swear them to the sky
Appearance:
Human
As you would expect for any Boil resident Kris has very tan skin, a few tones lighter than mocha. She has shoulder-length black hair that curls slightly at the ends and big, fawn brown eyes (or rather, eye). Under each eye, Kris has a light brown tear-drop mark. She is very slender and short at 5’1” but despite her small size, she is actually a very skilled fighter in judo and with a short sword, on top of being very quick. Her left eye and ear are missing and the left side of her face is a shredded and mutilated mess of scars. She is blind and deaf from the left side.
Kris usually dresses plainly and efficiently but has been known to wear jewellery at times. She keeps a short sword, her preferred weapon of choice, on her hip at all times and her bull whip on the other.
True
A dark brown, seven foot long cobra. In this form she still has the ‘tear-drop’ marks under her eyes, however they are now black. The left side of her face is still horribly scared and mutilated. Egyptian cobra’s venom is a neurotoxin that cases paralysis and respiratory failure in its victims. Kris has this venom in this form.
Half Form
Kris' half form is the same height and build as her human form. Her skin becomes a slightly lighter shade of mocha, about the colour of milky coffee. Most of her skin takes on the scales of her true form, although they are a lighter gold colour. These scales cover the tops of her hands and feet, all four limbs, most of her chest and stomach in a distinctive pattern and all of her face except her chin and around her lips.. Kris also gains the reptilian eye of her true form and its long, venomous fangs, but retains the scarring and damage to the left side of her face. Her hair is replaced by a reptilian crest formed from the same dark gold scales and her nails lengthen into scaly claws.
Human
As you would expect for any Boil resident Kris has very tan skin, a few tones lighter than mocha. She has shoulder-length black hair that curls slightly at the ends and big, fawn brown eyes (or rather, eye). Under each eye, Kris has a light brown tear-drop mark. She is very slender and short at 5’1” but despite her small size, she is actually a very skilled fighter in judo and with a short sword, on top of being very quick. Her left eye and ear are missing and the left side of her face is a shredded and mutilated mess of scars. She is blind and deaf from the left side.
Kris usually dresses plainly and efficiently but has been known to wear jewellery at times. She keeps a short sword, her preferred weapon of choice, on her hip at all times and her bull whip on the other.
True
A dark brown, seven foot long cobra. In this form she still has the ‘tear-drop’ marks under her eyes, however they are now black. The left side of her face is still horribly scared and mutilated. Egyptian cobra’s venom is a neurotoxin that cases paralysis and respiratory failure in its victims. Kris has this venom in this form.
Half Form
Kris' half form is the same height and build as her human form. Her skin becomes a slightly lighter shade of mocha, about the colour of milky coffee. Most of her skin takes on the scales of her true form, although they are a lighter gold colour. These scales cover the tops of her hands and feet, all four limbs, most of her chest and stomach in a distinctive pattern and all of her face except her chin and around her lips.. Kris also gains the reptilian eye of her true form and its long, venomous fangs, but retains the scarring and damage to the left side of her face. Her hair is replaced by a reptilian crest formed from the same dark gold scales and her nails lengthen into scaly claws.
Kris' half form is similar to this picture, although the scarring on her face isn't shown in the image.
As it withers
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper
As it crumbles and breaks
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper
As it crumbles and breaks
Personality:
Outwardly, Kris is a serious and businesslike woman. She is a very dedicated worker and will follow any order her employer gives her without complaint. Despite being rather bright, she is very much a follower and when she is not employed she tends to avoid people and usually takes a passive stance. Strangely enough, she has very high moral standards and refuses to do anything she doesn’t like. So she never has to face the moral dilemma of choosing between her morals or an order, Kris will do a character study on her would be employer before accepting any job.
As a friend, she is loyal to a fault and very affectionate. Kris has a hard time displaying that affection, however, and she will often just become very possessive of that person. As an enemy, Kris is dangerous. She might not go out of her way to destroy them but whenever she finds them she acts cruel and mocking.
Outwardly, Kris is a serious and businesslike woman. She is a very dedicated worker and will follow any order her employer gives her without complaint. Despite being rather bright, she is very much a follower and when she is not employed she tends to avoid people and usually takes a passive stance. Strangely enough, she has very high moral standards and refuses to do anything she doesn’t like. So she never has to face the moral dilemma of choosing between her morals or an order, Kris will do a character study on her would be employer before accepting any job.
As a friend, she is loyal to a fault and very affectionate. Kris has a hard time displaying that affection, however, and she will often just become very possessive of that person. As an enemy, Kris is dangerous. She might not go out of her way to destroy them but whenever she finds them she acts cruel and mocking.
As you shiver
Count up all your mistakes
Pair of forgivers
Let go before it's too late
Count up all your mistakes
Pair of forgivers
Let go before it's too late
History:
Family
Parents: Lilly and Sebastian - pacifist Garden Snake Shifters.
Older sister: Amy
Younger brother: Jacob (both are also Garden Snakes)
All family members are still alive but Kris has a bad relationship with them.
Kris
At age 38 Kris left home by her own choice and moved to the Boil, where she took up an apprenticeship under a human caravan guard named Neil. Neil and Kris were never close; often the only emotion they felt for each other was contempt. Regardless, Kris stayed with him until his death.
At age 79, Kris took her first solo job only to have her charge assassinated shortly thereafter much to her infuriation. She took countless assignments after this but was frequently plagued by the Deathstalker coming in and killing her charges. When she was 95, after many close calls, she caught Deathstalker in the act and attacked him, costing him his arm and her the left side of her face. For years this scarring was a source of great discomfort and difficulty for her, but she did eventually come to accept her new appearance. She will never forgive the Deathstalker for maiming her but she has learned to live with the disfigurement.
Still dissatisfied, shortly thereafter Kris took another job and met a Vulture Shifter named Ajax- a man who took up the brief role as her lover. For many years she lived with him and they worked together on guard jobs, until they got into a massive fight. After a very messy break-up with Ajax Kris became very depressed and got into a lot of trouble with all the wrong people. Eventually it got to be so bad that she had to leave the Boil for a few decades until things blew over.
Since then, Kris has continued her work as a guard for hire both in and out of the Boil.
Family
Parents: Lilly and Sebastian - pacifist Garden Snake Shifters.
Older sister: Amy
Younger brother: Jacob (both are also Garden Snakes)
All family members are still alive but Kris has a bad relationship with them.
Kris
At age 38 Kris left home by her own choice and moved to the Boil, where she took up an apprenticeship under a human caravan guard named Neil. Neil and Kris were never close; often the only emotion they felt for each other was contempt. Regardless, Kris stayed with him until his death.
At age 79, Kris took her first solo job only to have her charge assassinated shortly thereafter much to her infuriation. She took countless assignments after this but was frequently plagued by the Deathstalker coming in and killing her charges. When she was 95, after many close calls, she caught Deathstalker in the act and attacked him, costing him his arm and her the left side of her face. For years this scarring was a source of great discomfort and difficulty for her, but she did eventually come to accept her new appearance. She will never forgive the Deathstalker for maiming her but she has learned to live with the disfigurement.
Still dissatisfied, shortly thereafter Kris took another job and met a Vulture Shifter named Ajax- a man who took up the brief role as her lover. For many years she lived with him and they worked together on guard jobs, until they got into a massive fight. After a very messy break-up with Ajax Kris became very depressed and got into a lot of trouble with all the wrong people. Eventually it got to be so bad that she had to leave the Boil for a few decades until things blew over.
Since then, Kris has continued her work as a guard for hire both in and out of the Boil.
The bittersweet between my teeth
Trying to find the in-between
Fall back in love eventually.
Trying to find the in-between
Fall back in love eventually.
Roleplay Sample:
Kris was bored. It was early morning, maybe an hour or two before sunrise, and the desert was as still and quiet as the grave. The wind had died shortly after midnight so not even the eddies of gold-orange sand, bleached grey by the moonlight, remained as something to watch while wiling the hours away. It was also bitterly cold - the desert might not be touched by the snows of winter blanketing much of Litharia but when the sun went down a deep chill settled over the Boil, making it as dangerous at night as it was during the day.
And still the Shifter waited.
Stationed outside the front door of a sprawling mansion nestled close to the only oasis for miles, her only occupation was found in scanning the eerily still landscape over and over for an imagined danger that, of course, never materialised. The house was so heavily fortified and protected by a veritable army of personal soldiers that no fool would attack it - not even when one of the Boil's wealthiest merchants was staying. And yet he'd hired not one but three personal guards, of which Kris was one. Unfortunately, she was the day guard and, currently, she couldn't sleep.
So she watched.
The job would finish in a few days, when the merchant returned to his main residence somewhere in the midst of a city. She'd tolerate the boredom until then because the pay was good but after this, Kris was determined to find a job where the person paying for a guard actually needed guarding. She was sick of the endless hours watching a fat merchant plod around an over-guarded house. She wanted to feel like she was actually protecting someone.
After all, this was kind of a waste of her skills.
Kris was bored. It was early morning, maybe an hour or two before sunrise, and the desert was as still and quiet as the grave. The wind had died shortly after midnight so not even the eddies of gold-orange sand, bleached grey by the moonlight, remained as something to watch while wiling the hours away. It was also bitterly cold - the desert might not be touched by the snows of winter blanketing much of Litharia but when the sun went down a deep chill settled over the Boil, making it as dangerous at night as it was during the day.
And still the Shifter waited.
Stationed outside the front door of a sprawling mansion nestled close to the only oasis for miles, her only occupation was found in scanning the eerily still landscape over and over for an imagined danger that, of course, never materialised. The house was so heavily fortified and protected by a veritable army of personal soldiers that no fool would attack it - not even when one of the Boil's wealthiest merchants was staying. And yet he'd hired not one but three personal guards, of which Kris was one. Unfortunately, she was the day guard and, currently, she couldn't sleep.
So she watched.
The job would finish in a few days, when the merchant returned to his main residence somewhere in the midst of a city. She'd tolerate the boredom until then because the pay was good but after this, Kris was determined to find a job where the person paying for a guard actually needed guarding. She was sick of the endless hours watching a fat merchant plod around an over-guarded house. She wanted to feel like she was actually protecting someone.
After all, this was kind of a waste of her skills.