Character: Elm Deen

**Elm Deen**

**Appearance**

Elm has numerous and extremely unorthodox or strange features on his body. He stands at the approximate height of 6’7” and weighs approximately 180.2 lbs. Elm’s body shape is rather feminine, this being due to his past gender. He has curves which he sort of despises but enjoys because of the clothes he can fit into; but thanks to a sex reassignment surgery, his chest is rather flat at the expense of a scar spanning across his torso. Elm has a dark complexion, his skin a deep mocha shade. His face has bright white spots; all of which vary in size, they are presumed to be freckles of some sort, and they decorate his cheeks and the bridge of his nose, some of the spots are on his shoulders and arms; rather furthering the “freckle” effect. Elm has bright blonde hair, contrasting with his dark complexion, it could be considered to be bleach blond except for it’s more obvious yellow pigmentation. His hair is almost always covered by some color of beanie or hat - Elm prefers beanies though. He wears beanies or hats because of the annoying and crazy mess his hair usually is, under the beanie his hair is most likely pulled up into a bun or some sort of braid to prevent it from tangling and getting in his face- though it seems useless as the back part of his hair is always kept up, never the front. Elm’s hair is fluffy and curly, when it isn't being hidden by some sort of fabric or pulled up into some messy annoyance. His hair, when down, is at shoulder length, a few centimeters past his shoulders. Elm, despite his skinny build, has an extreme amount of muscle mass on his body, it mainly being due to his species’s habits of climbing and battling for random objects, his muscles aren’t necessarily shown thanks to his biology and former gender but the point still stands, he is able to lift rough 200-250 lbs.
Elm has some fat on his body, mainly on his thighs and upper arms. Elm has slate gray colored eyes with long eyelashes, he is considered to have kind eyes. They easily reflect light and give off a beautiful glow of blue when he is placed directly into light. The man has two protruding ears, they mimic the shape of a deer’s ears, they’re long, the outer color is the same of his skin, the inner bits of his ear are a light brown color. His ears, when touched, are extremely sensitive but soft to the touch, a soft light fur covers the exposed parts of his ears. Elm has two horns on top of his head, the color matches the inner bits of Elm’s ear. His horns are hard to the touch and rugged, it has a blunted point, seemingly shaved down. Elm’s upper lip is naturally black, that being due to his biology. His nails are also a permanent black, he typically trims his nails as short as possible.
Elm has few piercings, he has his tongue pierced, usually he keeps a small black ball resting on the flesh, he also has his ears pierced, though it seems he usually doesn’t wear any type of earrings in his ears except for maybe a loop here and there. Elm has numerous tattoos on his body, that being thanks to his tribe which uses tattoos to mark certain events or for simple decoration. A child could get a tattoo at the early age of 6 in his tribe, though it is rare for a 6 year old to be allowed one. The tattoos on Elm’s body as of now is a rather large design of vines and a rose on his inner forearm, it spans most of his inner forearm , another tattoo on the man is of two hearts, opposite of each other, placed on top of one another while seemingly joint. The tattoo has an infinity sign going through both of the hearts, it resides on the back of his neck; right at the base.  He also has a few scars on his body, mainly because of past surgeries for his gender reassignment. He has a scar spanning across his chest, one on his lower stomach, and overall a few scars from past events. One of those scars is on his upper left shoulder, another on the right side of his torso, spanning a few inches across his side. Elm’s clothing choice is rather modest, he has trouble showing off his body due to scars and self insecurity. He usually wears large or oversized tee shirts and hoodies with a pair of skinny jeans along with his distinctive beanies. Elm also has a pair of glasses that he typically wears when he forgets to put in his contacts, they’re circular with a thin wire frame, the wire is painted black, the lens make his eyes seem bigger than they actually are. His hands are slightly rough, having been scarred from years of climbing on rough terrain.

**Personality**

Quiet, responsible, and kind. It was easy to describe Elm in his whole being. It's really obvious about his traits and his understandings of others. He isn't always the best person though. Against what it seems, Elm can get pretty flirty when placed in a situation with a person who is rather susceptible to it. He enjoys seeing the reactions of the people he flirts with and he is fully prepared to be smacked or hit in the groin. He actually expects the actions to happen at least twice in camp. Elm usually has a very calm and collective demeanor, but it is easy to trigger his temper or jealousy. Elm has anger issues which leads to Elm being placed in rather unfavorable situations, the boy tries not to panic or let his anxiety get the best of him when these situations arise in his lifetime. Elm doesn’t particularly like to get into fights but has a rather long history of getting into these situations either way, it may seem that Elm is constantly looking for a fight but truthfully he is just searching for different reactions to his actions.

Elm is overall interested in the physiological differences in creatures and people around him, he enjoys seeing the differences in personalities and reactions to what he does.
 Most of the time Elm cools off his temper quickly and is able to control his jealousy even if both of them are clear problems he hopes to work on controlling. Elm is extremely vulnerable to jealousy and it's one of the traits he hates most about himself and hopes to fix. The boy typically gets jealous when it comes to certain things like having to accept his friends get busy with people other than him or having to watch couples be together. When it comes to his jealousy over couples, it doesn’t have to be between two people he likes or even knows - romantically or platonically - the jealousy is rather of the happiness he typically sees between romantic partners.
 Elm can be rather protective over the people he grows to trust or care for, his protective nature is mainly because of his mother's influence on his life. He typically can be described as caring.
Elm truthfully has minor trust issues because of the way his biology works and some bits and pieces of his past. He doesn’t like being open with people because of the way people seem to react to him being open. He is extremely honest and blunt that it could be considered brash or harsh. The man finds lying causes unnecessary problems for himself and others around him, lying is something that he finds particularly odd which adds onto the fact that he’s rather brutally honest.

**Skills, Abilities, & Weapons**

Magic

His magic is pretty straight forward. Elm has Wound magic. He can either heal wounds and give up his energy or reverse the healing of a wound and gain energy. You can tell which one he prefers.

Skills

**Climbing**
Elm is pretty good at climbing, with his long limbs and strength he is able to scale numerous types of platforms, granted there is a lot that Elm doesn’t know about climbing he can manage a lot. He is used to working with his family and tribe and carrying a large weight on his back when climbing. This was one of the main ways they got supplies to their village. His village teaches young faun males to climb but since Elm was born a female, he has less experience than most the climbers in his village. But due to his climbing, his hands are scarred from it.

**Sewing**
 Because of the fact that Elm was born a female, he was taught many skills that his village thought a female faun should do, including sewing. Elm is way out of practice but he finds it nice to sit down and sew a few things together. He typically makes clothing, granted with enough practice and patience Elm could make beautiful clothing but he finds that he simply can't sit still enough for it. He has numerous unfinished products and projects. He uses a lot of random items he finds in his work, numerous types of pearls or crystals are used in his work. While Elm never finishes a project, when he is committed enough to it, he could get darn close, he just requires a bit of motivation for him to succeed.

**Instruments**
The reasoning behind this skill may shock you, the reasoning that Elm has this skill is not because of his ability, rather he has this skill, again, for the fact that he was born a female. Women in his herd were supposed to provide entertainment and music during rituals and mainly were supposed to sing for them, but thanks to Elm’s lack of speech, he typically used instruments mainly sticking with guitar and the flute. He hasn’t mastered many instruments, he prefers sticking with the guitar since that was the way he discovered his ability.

**Animals & Children**
As you may not expect, this has nothing to do with Elm’s original gender. Elm has a sense of calmness and confidence that he typically is able to work well with children and animals. He likes to work with both children and animals. Since children were rare for his herd thanks to the lack of the female gender, Elm wasn’t exposed to many and grew attached to the children in the village. He was able to work with and understand the behaviors with children thanks to this. Granted, Elm is no expert on different species kids but he believes he has at least some idea for children since they mainly support the same mindset. Since Elm grew up in a very remote location, it wasn’t rare for wild animals to wander into the village. Elm studied the behaviors he witnessed with these animals and grew easily comfortable with them, he enjoyed having different things to study and work with. Elm was able to study different species and learn more about their behavior and was able to becomes familiar with the animals which furthermore led him to working well with strange creatures

**Family, Relationships, Opinions**

Currently, Elm has little to no relationships simply because he's from out of the country and he just moved into the area.

Harpio
Harpio is the literal light of his life. He loves her with all his heart, only issue is though- is that she views him as a simple friend. She's beautiful, kind, playful. Everything he ever wanted, and there she says "Elm is one of my best friends! Come on man, stop trying to hook us together.

Amora
Sweet, hyper, playful. Amora is one of the newer people he has met. He has taken her out to dinner and has worked with her for a little bit. He isn't too sure about her just yet from the description Harpio gave her.

**Background**
(Temporary Background)
Elm was a happy child born in a secluded village in Ireland. He was born around the date March 4, under the Pisces astrology sign. He was birthed into a big family, having 4 older brothers and a younger sister. Elm was a very chaotic child, while he was quiet he typically had a hard time not making trouble. It was clear, even at a young age, that Elm had a heavy gender dysphoria, he was typically found practicing the male gender’s roles in camp rather than what he was supposed to. Elm was a rather quiet child and the Shaman’s, or doctors in his tribe, had diagnosed him with selective mutism. The idea was rather loose around him since he still had the ability to speak in any situation, but it provided a small reasoning for his usual quietness. Elm was the only girl in his family until he was 4 and his younger sibling was born. Elm was considered small, even for a female Faun and his siblings typically teased Elm for it. But Elm didn’t let it bother him in any way other than to motivate him in his tasks. He typically was found training or doing something productive. Elm didn’t really take notice of his gender dysphoria until he hit puberty, he found that his body was weird. He didn’t enjoy the differences he had from his childhood into puberty. He had easily came out to his parents, telling them the problem he was having. Of course,
Elm was not the first Faun to have this issue, and his family rather accepted it well. On the other hand, his family had slightly pressured him to wait and get the transition until he was older and already had a kid, which ended up giving him anxiety. At first, Elm agreed, he figured he would be fine with the minor discomfort of his female body, but as he grew older and his parents grew more serious about it, Elm found that it was too much for him to take and had asked to start the transitioning process. During this time, Elm had started to focus on his studies of both gender role responsibilities in the camp. He had kept practicing playing the guitar while at the same time was trying to build up his strength to take up the responsibilities of a male Faun. While he was working on making himself stronger and transitioning, Elm relied heavily on his instruments for comfort when he was stressed or needed a break from the outside world. He would find a place out in the village and go out to play his guitar and sing. Usually this was done in solitude as he didn’t like people hearing his songs and music. Elm usually sang songs that came from his traditions and culture, as they were the main ones he was taught as a child. But during the night of a particularly stressful day, Elm had started to sing about his emotions and feelings of resentment to the being above who made him the wrong gender. Of course, he didn’t mean this, but was rather venting through a song. This was when his magical abilities started showing through. Elm had struck a wrong cord as he played, breaking a guitar string. When the sting had snapped, the old scar on his hand opened up, he thought that it was because the string hit him. This wasn’t the encounter that had made Elm realize he had abilities though, repeatedly, small things had occurred when Elm had emotional problems or breakdowns. After Elm’s full transition did he finally notice the magic that seemed to radiate from him.
Elm’s tribe usually wasn’t magic oriented and they typically had a few mages in their tribe. The tribe usually only had Element mages born into the ranks and truthfully only knew how to train the Element mages rather than a Healing mage which rather left the male on his own to learn about his abilities and where they came from. Elm wasn’t exactly desperate to learn about his abilities, especially considering that Elm had no reason to. One day, on the other hand, Elm had gone into the archives of his tribe to find something to read. He finally, after a long while, moved away and lived in a different city.