Kuroo the Griffin

## Kuroo

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"**ooh cream filled baked goods? sounds delicous!**"
—Kuroo in response to overhearing a goblin hitting on another goblin who said "Hey girl, you headin to the bakery? cause it looks like you could use a cream filling" With Kuroo completely missing the innuendo
"**Well ruffle my feathers..**"
—A phrase Kuroo sometimes says as an exclamation, amazed, or in astonishment
"**Life is tough, It isn't all sunshine and rainbows, believe me, It's a stormy world out there, and sometimes you can't whisper above the thunder, but you can fly anywhere.**"
—A saying Kuroo learned from his mother, essentially a way of saying don't focus on what you can't do, because there so much more that you can do

**Kuroo the Griffin** is an original character designed by Frostybites16. Kuroo the Griffin resides in the Jonah's Mythical Ark universe.

Kuroo is a griffin who lived in the snowy mountains of the enormous supercontinent, known far and wide as Valliera, which is a world full of extant, extinct, and extraordinary creatures known as the mythicals.

## Biography

Kuroo's early life is as of now unknown.

One day he woke up and went for a flight, finding a paper on the mountains. "A Great Flood is going to consume the land! But don't worry, Jonah has built an ark to carry all of the beasts young and old, small and large!" the note read, but Kuroo didnt think much of it and went about his day. later though the flood did come and his entire cave was flooded. He flew for what seemed like days, before finally finding the Mythical Ark and crash-landing.

## Appearance

Kuroo is a huge, owl-like griffin with a heart-shaped facial disk, a dog-like head, the ears, body and tail of a cat, and the beak, wings, talons and feathers of a bird. He also sports a pair of horns on his head and a small crest on his snout. Unlike most griffins, Kuroo only has 4 limbs; 2 legs, and 2 wings. He's a quadrupedal creature, using his folded wings as front legs and thus creating a very feline shape, while each wing has 3 large, tridactyl digits for climbing and gripping onto things. He can move bipedally as well, although it’s a very cumbersome process. He has the beginning of a short mane starting to grow, having longer feathers around his chest and neck. At the base of his tail he has a set of smaller wing-like feather structures, aiding him in his gliding. He also has a small fan of feathers at the tip of his tail. Notable features include a small scar on his forehead, and his left horn is chipped, a piece of it having chipped off when he crash-landed onto the ark, but it is steadily in the process of healing back.

Kuroo is a melanistic individual, his feathers are jet black on his tail, wings, and nose, while having dark reddish-brown feathers on his face and underbelly, as well as fine black-and-white speckles covering his body except on his face. His dark coloring has a faint purple tint. His eyes are turquoise, but can change colors depending on his mood, shining red when aggressive or angry, glowing white when excited or attentive, and yellow when he's curious or sees something of great interest. When his eyes are glowing or shining, there are no visible irises or pupils, albeit light highlights do occasionally appear.

## Personality

Kuroo behaves much like a typical domesticated dog or cat at times. Kuroo is a quite diligent and strong-willed individual, being caring and emotional, never hesitating to help or rescue someone in danger. Kuroo easily befriends others, such as Welba, Azure and Marshy. He is curious and friendly, but Kuroo is a creature one would do best not to make an enemy of. once you have earned his trust and shown you are a good friend, there isn't a thing he wont do for you.

## Abilities

**Natural Abilities:**

* **Chimeran physiology:** Kuroo can best be described as a chimera, a creature composed of several different animals. This gives him the abilities of all the species he embodies: the strength of a dog, the agility of a cat, and the flight of a bird.
* **Enhanced strength:** Because of his massive size, Kuroo is incredibly strong, capable of destroying stone structures and smashing groups of enemies with relative ease.
* **Enhanced agility:** Kuroo can climb and leap great distances that would be impossible for most beasts. This is embodied by his cat-like traits. his large, tridactyl feet are also quite wide, making him an effective swimmer.
* **Neck Mobility:** Kuroo can rotate his head more than 360° and has the unique ability to turn his head in nearly any direction like an owl.
* **Flight:** Kuroo can fly great distances and is able to achieve altitude to soar above the clouds, and can glide for long periods of time.
* **Silent Flight:** His feathers have a leading edge shaped like a comb and a trailing edge with a fringe; these funnel air smoothly over the wing and dampen the sound.
* **Enhanced durability and healing:** Kuroo can take massive amounts of damage. Most swords and spears do not affect him, he also heals very fast, as he does not bleed very much from spear wounds and can quickly get up from even life-threatening wounds.
* **Prehensile tail:** Kuroo's tail acts as an extra limb, being able to use his long tail to grasp things.
* **Enhanced senses:** Thanks to his dog-like attributes, Kuroo has incredible senses of smell and hearing. This helps him find items of interest in the environment.
* **Venom:** Kuroo can produce venom. The venom is made in venom glands that are connected to hollow spurs on his hind legs
* **Bioluminescence:** Kuroo’s horns glow
* **Ocular Illumination:** Kuroo has the ability to project light from his eyes when he is in dimly lit areas.
* **Darkvision:** Kuroo has the ability to see in the dark
* **Eyeshine:** The color of Kuroo's eyes change depending on his mood. The huge eyes shine red when aggressive or angry, glow white when excited or interested, they are yellow when he sees something of interest, and when his eyes are turquoise, he is calm and friendly. his pupils will contract greatly when he is satisfied, closely resembling a more humanoid eye.
* **Electroreception:** millions of specialized electroreceptor skin cells are arranged on his beak which allows him to use electrical impulses to locate objects
* **Electrokinesis:** Kuroo has the ability to control and manipulate electricity. Capable of producing self-generated blue sparks of electricity.
* **Electricity generation:** Kuroo can fire a continuous bolt of electricity from his tail, as well as a built-up pulse of explosive lightning.
* **Stealth and Camouflage:** Being melanistic has its advantages. Kuroo's dark feathers make him hard to notice, especially at night or in dark places. Kuroo can move with silence even in pitch black conditions, and be one with darkness.

## Weaknesses

* **Water/Rain:** despite being an amazing swimmer, Kuroo lacks a preen gland that most other feathered animals use for waterproofing their feathers. The preen gland secretes an oil that repels water, but without it, his feathers get waterlogged easily and he temporarily loses the ability to fly. He also cant fly in rain very well, as he struggles to fly when the weather is extremely wet. He can fly in mild rainfall ok, but will struggle in heavy rainfall, and eventually leave him grounded with waterlogged feathers until he dries off again. Despite this though Kuroo actually does love water and will willingly go for dips if he knows he doesn't need to worry about flying in the immediate future.
* **Small spaces**: Kuroo's size is not always an advantage, and the well-meaning beast has trouble squeezing into tight spots (although not from lack of trying). He's also rather clumsy as, he gets his head stuck in things such as windows and regularly knocks stuff over.

## Relationships

### Family

* **Unknown Parents:** Parents (Deceased, killed by humans)

### Allies

* **Azure the swamp siren**
* **Welba the swamp siren**
* **Marshy the swampmaid**
* **Matt the Neko**
* **Upe the griffin**
* **Rico the Superb Griffin-of-Paradise**

### Enemies

* **Coal the Gargoyle:**
* **Rhedo**

## Trivia

* Kuroo was created on November 24th, 2021.
* Kuroo's ideal Voice Actor would be Justin Briner.
* Kuroo's themes are Birds by Imagine Dragons, Take To The Sky by Owl City, In Arcadia by Marcus Warner, and September - Sparky deathcap (Sped up) Instrumental loop.
* Kuroo is something I've decided to call a "Chimeragriff" a term I coined that means that he is a griffin thtat is a hybrid between several different griffin species. This means that "Chimeragriff" is more of a nickname for this kind of griffin, not a distinct species, meaning two chimeragriffs might look completely different depending on one griffins they are hybrids of.
* Kuroo exhibits some owl-like behaviors, such as making hooting noises at the end of his laughs and screeching when he is enraged.
* The process of creating Kuroo was a fun one, he has three main design inspirations, those being the Tricos from the last guardian, Alexander Ostrowski's Griffin, and Barn owls, specifically This Photograph of a Melanistic Barn Owl and thought "hey I'mma make an oc based off these"
* In the world of Jonah's Ark, Griffins are classified as monotremes, making Kuroo such, hence features like the electroreception and venomous spurs. He is a feathered mammal.
* Kuroo prefers eggs above all kinds of food and would usually be seen trying to steal some off of other creatures around his homeland, but he only eats the eggs of non-sapient creatures if he can help it.