Haruspex

WIP
 
This character belongs to Soi-ke.
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Haruspex 	Haruspex
 	
Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	soi-ke
Attribute 	dissection
Element 	water
Colour 	ivory
Animal 	clouded leopard
Alignment 	chaotic good
Character Information 	Character Information
Age 	20 (hy)
Gender 	trans girl
Orientation 	ace-aro
Tribe 	SkyWing/Kami
Occupation 	student - healer pathway
Residence 	Camp Gin Chi
Relatives 	Azamuku (father) - unnamed mother - Hierophant (adoptive father)
Allies 	Shio - her pet tarantula
Enemies 	tbd
Likes 	opening things up to see how they work - fighting and adrenaline - animals and wildlife - aimlessly running around in the forest - putting things together again - quiet, ambient sounds - life
Aversions 	yokai - being misunderstood or prejudged - being unable to express what she actually means - being made fun of for her mispronunciations - loud noises - bright light - situations where she's unable to help - the destruction of nature - death
Powers and Abilities 	create tactile illusions - steady talons and medical knowledge - surgery skills - not bad in a scrap
Weapons 	falx - surgical instruments
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=== Description ===
Haruspex is a bizarre derivation of the SkyWing form, almost unrecognizable as such at a first glance. Her colours borrow from the foothill leopards of the Sky kingdom, all pale ochers, pastel sand, and stand-out regions of darkest brown. Her scales are dappled with a particular spot pattern, mottled and wispy like storm-clouds. Her narrow, almost slit-like eyes are reddish-orange in hue. Each brow is lined with a patch of white scales, look like exaggerated eyelids. The membranes of her wings are a cold brass colour, similar to that of her horns. Her cheeks and forelimbs are freckled with a few sparse black dots.
Her resting posture is low, yet not hunched. Haruspex has an awfully hard time standing still, always pulsing or bouncing on the balls of her feet. There is a sense of tension and energy to her, as if she is always on the verge of bursting into movement. When standing up straight, she is a good bit taller than most of her peers. In line with SkyWing convention, her wings are large and powerful, such that she whips up buffeting gusts in her flight. 
This unusual SkyWing's tail is fluked, like that of a cetacean. Her horns split halfway down their length, ending in two distinct prongs. Their bases are ringed in smaller needle-like bone protrusions. The demikami's snout is long and raptorial, her exaggeratedly curved teeth poking out from her jaw, even when her mouth is closed. Haruspex's ears are large and rounded. Her scales are small, round and overlapping, impossible to pick out from afar.
Haruspex has large talons, with elongated, sharp digits that look almost skeletal at a glance. They are unnaturally steady and still, especially compared to the rest of her frantic body language.
The SkyWing is often seen wearing mismatched armor of Shio's invention. She is never spotted without a small, rigid bag, her precious surgical tools guarded within. Rarely, on perhaps a night of mourning, one might see her done a peculiar purple hat and cloak - the symbol of office for her lineage of physicians. 
=== Personality ===
*is quite extroverted, will seek out a conversation
*uses strange metaphors and figures of speech
*not a great teacher, comes across as either too simplistic or, more often, too complicated in the way she explains things
*a somewhat morbid sense of humour, that doesn't always translate perfectly
*comes across as kind of off-putting in the words she chooses to use
**Common Draconian is her second language, and she's only started learning it a couple of years ago
**her ability to understand it is significantly better than her ability to speak in it
*her primary tongue is an old skywing language, and she'll often use expressions and phrases from it
*yearning to be truly understood, since Hierophant died there's no one else she knows that speaks her language
**it's possible that she is the only one that still speaks the language, her lineage of outcast physicians kept using it out of tradition and it's likely that it's been forgotten by everyone else
*she doesn't want the language to die with her
*exceptionally good at reading body language when she's not distracted and she's focusing on the conversation
**very good at discerning when someone is lying
**is also good at telling when someone's feeling blue, and when it's the kind of blue that she can help them with 
*personally tries to be as truthful and honest as possible with her feelings
*very positive, can-do attitude, demonstrates great enthusiasm for basically everything she does
*loves physical activity, running and jumping around
*very energetic, always ready to break out into movement
*has developed quite a passion for friendly sparring and easily befriends followers of the warrior pathway
*quite a jolly attitude, will compliment people while fighting them
**not a psychological tactic or anything two-faced, she just naturally feels like saying it
*curious about everything, not even going to hesitate before poking a dead body
*desire to expand her pool of knowledge, feels achievement in figuring out the workings of nature
*understands things best by dissection - opening them up and seeing their components and inner workings
**her lineage of physicians were known for an ancient edict issued by the skywing queen, giving them permission to confiscate and dissect the corpses of the recently-deceased
*quite skeptical, requires sufficient explanation before she can be expected to accept something
**a bit distrustful of magical means of healing, has much more respect towards and confidence in other healers who use their knowledge and skills to patch people up
*not very reverent of the Kami, doesn't care too much about them, they were completely absent for most of her life
*content to wander the world and absentmindedly wonder and muse on it, easily distracted when it comes to things other than surgery and combat to some extent - matters of life and death
*enamored by life in any form, the life of animals, of dragons, of culture
*views death as the ultimate enemy, and is quite afraid of the things around her dying or disappearing
*takes surgery and healing deathly seriously
**she has to be as focused as she can, in order to help one cheat death. no easy task
**similar mentality when it comes to fighting - sparring against her peers can be fun and jolly, but truthfully it's so that she'll be able to defend herself and the things and people she loves when yokai come for them
*comes across as fearless and unfazed by even the greatest disasters
*is actually absolutely terrified when it comes to healing wounds and yokai encounters, but is well-trained to not let that affect her performance in the slightest
**is able to disconnect from her fear and keep calm in grim situations
*quite desensitized to sensory fears, the sight of a dead body, the scent of rot and festering wounds doesn't affect her at all
*she has seen many dead bodies in her life, many ghastly sights
=== Competencies ===
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=== History ===
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Category:Work in Progress
Category:Characters
Category:SkyWings
Category:Content (Soi-ke)
Category:Occupation (Healer)
Category:LGBT+