Xeric

A bust of Xeric's head

## Description

Xeric is a burly and fairly tall adult, being a whopping 6' 3" including his crest and horns. His torso and bust are covered in colour-shifting scales and are that of a tri-horned chameleon. Other reptilian features that he has are claws instead of nails on his hands and a long prehensile tail. Usually he is light green with brown and yellow flicks. The more powerful and overwhelming the emotions he's feeling the darker his colouration. Typically he wears a combination of sandals, sweaters, leather jackets, flannels or jeans all with many drawings, writing and patches.

## Personality

He has a variety of interests ranging from mudlarking and modelling to perfecting his physique. Mostly they're linked in with scavenging for fragments of the past. He's extremely social and beguiling but unwillingly tends to take control of people due to that being how he protected himself, hence his apathy and cynicism. Parties were what kept him going through life so he embodies them in many ways: he's rowdy, risky, emotional fiery and takes most things close to heart. He also quickly adapts, turns a blind eye to the important things, hates silence and detests stillness.

## Story

#### Pre-Rp

Xeric grew up in a middle-class family with his sibling Herald Ambly in Ottawa. During high-school he took interest in art and history, taking them as his main exams. He hadn't travelled anywhere outside the country until the summer of 2021, when he flew to Miami for tattoo courses. He found many like-minded peers there and had a blast until they decided to celebrate his birthday. A couple people got too drunk while others decided that setting a bank on fire was a fun activity. Though Xeric claims he didn't participate in these crimes, he still got sent to jail by association. There he was presented with a choice to either sit his sentence or go to Milgram and thus was his decision.

#### The Rp

Upon his arrival, he was quickly snatched by the researchers to be spliced with a chameleon and be put in a coma for a couple of months. While in it, he claims to have lived a second life as a university student (though he remembers nothing about the university except parties) who volunteered to work in a retirement home. The moment he remembers most clearly was when an old man, that he worked closely with, died and got flung out into the fields surrounding the facility to be instantly eaten up by a pack of coyotes. After Xeric woke up and got experimented on, he fled in distress to the fourth floor, where together with Rieko he exchanged experiences and got to know her closer. When more people joined their gang of the Thug Sissies he split off and began wandering the lower floors, inspired by Tyflos. There he met Ilya and became friends, bonding over their addictions and impressions of the place. They've fallen out a couple times because of differing opinions over that last point but generally respect and even admire each other in certain respects.

But those weren't the only fights he got into. During the Strange Passes of Time he was called by Rieko as reinforcement to combat with Red and Kiemo, after which he stuck around to help out with tending the two horribly wounded people.

## Trivia

* Another smoking character! He gets his cigarettes from Ilya.
* Astrocat has given everyone the right to kill this character.