Lekker Oakenhoof

### Alias(es)

Lekky, Lekk, Leks, Lekksi, Stripes, Stripey, Stripey-Boy, Jackass, Long-Ears, Mohawk, Horsey.

## Biological Information

### Weight

560 lbs

"**Oh go choke on an apple**"
—Something Lekker often replies with when he's annoyed with someone and/or thinks someone is a jerk
"**Actually I'm a boy-**"
—Something Lekker often has to clarify given his feminine appearance
"**Wadduya think I look like huh? a jackass? ....... Don't answer that-**"
—Lekker

**Lekker Oakenhoof** is a fan character designed by Frostybites16. Lekker resides in the Dungeons & Dragons universe.

Lekker is a centaur ranger, who travels across the land as a nomadic wonderer with his trusty lizard at his side.

## Biography

Lekker was born a healthy and strong foal, into a loving family. and of all the foals he was the most curious and explorative. He could also be a bit of a nuisance to some of the other adult zebranaurs in the tribe, But everyone loved him nonetheless. By the age of 1 he was learning his first words, and by two years we could run just as fast as the adults.

Zebranaurs are nomadic by nature, as Lekker and his family travel throughout the years through various plains, forests, and mountains, making temporary camps all along the way. Lekker has grown older and is in charge of feeding the family's goats and ostriches in their pen. When he’s not doing that though, he enjoys wandering around the forests that surround his tribe and even climbing small mountains from time to time. He also enjoys horsing around with the other young centaurs. Lekker learns valuable skills from his father and his mother, who is the shaman of the herd.

One day he was on a morning run and saw a smoke in the distance, he looked closer and saw it was a bush on fire. Not wanting to spread, he ran over and started stomping it out with his hooves, but as he did so, a small fireball shot out of the bush, leaving a trail of flames on the grass as it darted away, Lekker chased it, needing to stop whatever the heck this thing is from starting a forest fire. He chased it and quickly caught up to it. He had it cornered, and he drew his bow to shoot the little ball of fire, but then the flame fizzled out, revealing a little baby lizard, no bigger than 7 inches long. Immediately, Lekker put his weapon away at the realization. It was a strange little creature, six legged and looked like some weird mix of a salamander and a chameleon. The little lizard hissed at Lekker, still showing open hostility and anger towards him. Lekker gestured to the little half-chameleon that he meant no harm, extending his hand to as a sign of goodwill. Though cautious, the little lizard reluctantly crawled up Lekker's hand, accidentally burning Lekk's hand a little due to his heat, but he managed to calm it down.  Lekker then offered it a small piece of dried meat that it happily gulped down, establishing a newfound bond with the lizard. Lekker decided to name the little guy Vuuryiax, and the two have been together ever since.

## Appearance

Lekker has the upper body of a humanoid and the lower body of a zebra. he has soft feminine facial features, and long lashes. He is lightly built but the same time strong and stocky. He sports a bristly mohawk followed by a short mane of coarse black & white bristles running from the middle of the lower back up to the nape of the neck. and he has very long elf-like ears, which are long even by centaur standards, and he has a long thin tail with tufts of fur on the very tip,

His skin is very dark brown on the humanoid half of his body which is even darker around his forearms and ears, with some white stripes on his forehead and ears. He has 3 white dots on each of his cheeks and subtle little freckles. White stripes run down his neck back and some wrapping around to his shoulders and fading at his forearms and some on his stomach. These white stripes then fade to black stripes and his dark brown skin fades to white fur upon reaching the horse half, the rest of his body is covered in black and white stripes with brownish grayish shadow striping between the black, which is most noticeable on his flanks and rump. Like his hooves, his nails are also black. One of Lekker's notable features is his bright blue eyes, His irises are vibrant blue and his scleras are a much lighter blue, Lekker is the only one in his tribe/herd with such an eye color, with all the rest of his family having either brown or black eyes. His tongue is purple, prehensile, and reaches e a little over a foot long.

Lekker usually wears a quiver and he wields a thick wooden bow wrapped with strips of cloth dyed cyan, as cyan is the color of Lekker's tribe. Sometimes he wears a hoodie, usually cyan or pink, and sometimes he wears nothing at all. Sometimes, usually when hunting, in order to improve upon the natural camouflage granted by his heavily striped lower body, it is customary for him to paint his humanoid portion with vegetable dyes in dark stripes or other patterns.

## Personality

Lekker is a kindhearted, sometimes shy, sweet and gentle centaur who also fun-loving and fiery-spirited, and can also be very very stubborn. He is very athletic and enjoys running free with his friend Vuur perched on his shoulder while practicing his archery. He is friendly to the animals and finds peace and balance with nature and life. He is very adventurous and brave, as he enjoys wandering around the forests and plains that surround the territory of the temporary camps his tribe set up. Lekker is mostly opposed to the idea of being ridden, however he would let a close friend or someone he is fond of ride him, he really doesn't mind or have a problem with it than, but the suggestion that he be used as a pack animal however is met with derision and rightfully so. Riding Lekker is something that really needs to be earned for him to consider it. Lekker's jokes are more often practical than verbal, he likes a good slapstick joke, or a prank or something along those lines. Lekker dislikes unstable ground, has a fear of heights, and dark and enclosed spaces. Lekker likes to paint intricately whorled patterns on tanned leather tell stories or simply as decoration. Lekker is a terrible liar, so instead when in a situation where he needs to he will usually tell the partial truth or tell a twisted version of the truth so things are better in his favor, so that in the event the other person *does* find out its like, "well *technically* I actually did say this," and then the other person is like "well the way you phrased it didn't seem like it" type of thing, he is very good at finding loopholes in situations when he needs to. Lekker's favorite food is chocolate.

## Abilities

**Natural Abilities:**

* **Fey:** Being a centaur, Lekker's creature type is fey, rather than humanoid, which makes him immune to many spells
* **Speed:** Lekker can run at speeds of up to 44 mph.
* **Charge:** Lekker can run full speed toward a target and hit hhem with a melee weapon or give them a lethal kick.
* **Hooves:** Lekker's hooves are his natural melee weapons, and he can use them to make unarmed strikes
* **Equine Build:** having an equid lower body, Lekker is very strong and can lift, pull, and carry very heavy objects.
* **Natural Camouflage:** Lekker is covered in zebra-like stripes, these markings, which might seem very bold, actually give him great camouflage when hiding in the partial sunlight that filters through dense forests and tallgrass prairies, giving him advantages on stealth.
* **Darkvision:** Lekker can see in the dark
* **Ocular Illumination:** Lekker can project light from his eyes when in dimly lit areas.
* **Resist Cold:** Centaurs are also known to have immensely toasty body-heat, which keeps them warm in calm Winters, with or without clothes.

**Skillset:**

* **Survivor:** Lekker has proficiency in Survival, which measures one's ability to navigate, hunt, track, predict the weather, read the landscape, identify animal/monster markings, etc. He is very good at managing living or traveling in the wild and being aware of the dangers therein.
* **Bilingualism:** Lekker can speak Elvish, Sylvan, Common, Kentaur, and Minotaur.
* **Archery:** Lekker is a master of ranged combat, able to shoot his arrows with amazing precision, and with his little firetail lizard by his side, he can actually light his arrows on fire! When lit, this arrow sets alight any highly flammable materials on impact, and does the normal attack damage from the base weapon plus an extra fire damage. He prefers to take down his enemies from afar and generally avoid close combat when he can, he is fairly good at close combat, but would rather not have to deal with it if he doesn't have to.
* **Close Combat:** Lekker is skilled at using his thick wooden bow as a melee weapon to eliminate targets, and his hooves make for deadly weapons too.
* **Dancing:** Lekker loves to dance and is very skilled at it

## Trivia

* I don't remember when exactly I created Lekker, but I do know it was some time during either September or October of 2021
* I always like to imagine if my OCs had voice actors/actresses, who they would be, but for Lekker, well, I haven't thought of anything yet, but he has a soft higher pitched voice.
* When Lekker laughs, it starts out as regular laughter, but then quickly dissolves into zebra barks. It's just a fun little quirk to his character I came up with that I found humorous.
* Lekker has some Okapitaur (a centaur with a humanoid upper body and an okapi's lower body) heritage on his mother's side, which is the reason for the few features Lekker has that aren't traditionally seen in Zebranaurs, namely his long purple tongue and abnormally large ears. He's still very much a zebranaur though, he just has some Okapitaur blood in him.
* The name "Lekker" is Afrikaans for sweet/pleasant. I would've given him a more D&D sounding name, but when I first made Lekker, he was not a D&D character, in fact he was created for an entirely different project, and it was later that I repurposed him for a D&D. By that point his name had already been Lekker for like a year and a half and it stuck for me, so I didn't change it. His middle name "Birchelly" is just a butchered spelling of *"Burchellii"* in reference to the Burchell's zebra, my favorite zebra species. his last name "Oakenhoof" has less of a backstory to it, it is apparently a fairly common last name among centaurs, and I just thought "Lekker Oakenhoof" had a nice ring to it.
* Lekker was my first ever human-looking OC, before him I had really had only drawn animals, and non-anthro ones at that, But then, a little over a year ago (at the time of writing this, Oct/5/22/) I drew him, and over time got better at it, and I was also able to meet some amazing people who are now close friends through making Lekker, and now I also have a bunch of ocs, while non of them completely human as of now, I do have alot of humanoid characters now, and while I may have other ones that are my favorite, Lekker will always hold a special place in my heart for being the first in an ever growing line of ocs I love dearly, and for kickstarting me on an amazing journey.
* Lekker's themes are Sting - Taking The Inside Rail, Touch The Sky, and Here i am - Bryan Adams.
* Lekker's design was inspired by this beautiful centaur artwork by fydbac, and I tried to get the colors and patterns as close as I could but I'm still workin on it. Also when designing Lekker, specifically his stripe patterns, I chose the Burchell's Zebra to base it off of, because it is my favorite type of zebra and favorite species of horse in general

## Gallery

Lekker main artworkLekker lineworkLekkerLekker reading a "book" (slightly older drawing)Some slightly older Lekker sketchesFirst ever drawing I made of LekkerLekker (Hero Forge)Lekker with Vuur (Hero Forge. Vuur is represented here by a baby dragon because Hero Forge doesnt have any lizard or chameleon familiars optionLekker laying down (Hero Forge)Angry Lekker (Hero Forge)Lekker wearing a pink hoodie (Hero Forge)Lekker's size compared to that of a dwarf, a human, and a minotaur (Hero Forge)