Character(s) ☆Cherno's Character's - Unused/etc ☆

[Chernabog]

A place to hold character ideas that I've either had in my head for awhile or were from stories since abandoned, but I actually liked the character to possibly use again for something in the future.​

 

[Chernabog]

Name: Malachi 'Kai' Aiden Quinn
Ethnicity: American, Irish descent
Age: 25
Height: 6'0"
Hair: A natural ginger/redhead, but has dark red dye added to his shampoo/conditioner to make it appear less orange and more of an actual red. Shoulder-length.
Eyes: Green
Gender: Male [He/Him]
Sexuality: Bisexual
Job: IT
Body: Kai might appear as merely lean and lanky but both from his job requiring heavy lifting of tech equipment and liking to swim, run, and parkour every so often - [in addition to some 'interesting' methods of workout in the privacy of his home] - but his form is actually quite toned; arms, thighs, and torso especially. He has the body of a runner/swimmer though rarely thinks much of it and can often be lazy about it since his body hasn't changed much even as a teen.

Distinguishing features: Besides his hair, his ears are pierced multiple times, mostly on lobes but has one industrial piercing in his right ear. He has a full back piece tattoo and sleeves of black geometric designs that is a WIP to eventually cover his entire torso. He has quite a bit of freckles that are hard to see through his tattoos on his shoulders and back but are visible over his hips and chest. Not seen; has a tongue piercing, double nipple piercings [In a + shape], and a 4-bar Jacob's Ladder piercing.

History: The eldest of eight siblings, Kai was forced into parentification at a young age for taking care of his siblings because his father didn't give a shit and was a drunkard and his mother had to work multiple jobs to keep them afloat so he rarely got to see her. Despite he doesn't regret making sure that his siblings had a decent life while taking care of them, he was terribly estranged from his parents and once 18, left home. Over time his prowess for technology got him a job in IT support for a customer service department, but it's grueling and he's constantly abused by his bosses on an every day basis.

Hobbies: Kai prefers to use his weekends and after work to go to shows/concerts. He collects records, many of which are extremely rare and sought after. He knows how to play music for quite a few different instruments but his apartment is super strict about letting him play anything so they just gather dust. He has a cat named Lucypurr that is secretly his pride and joy. He also collects a lot of 'vulture culture' items such as bones/skulls, wet specimens, and preserves/pins his own insects when finding them, a bit of his nerdy side.

Fun Facts:

- does occasional modeling gigs as a side hustle to wear goth and fetish wear clothes that are apart of a brand made by a friend
- has an almost encyclopedic knowledge for music/albums. Even if it's for a type of music or band he doesn't care for, if he knows of the band he can name all their albums, years of release, and usually what instruments they use. He loves music in general so is willing to listen to anything to give it a shot.
- twice a year [unless helping a friend out to go to a con/event in which he does it more] he engages in body suspension/human rigging. It started out as a new sort of pain to try out and became something he deems rather spiritual, the extent that he gets in his life.
- Well versed in rope knots of all varieties

Spoiler: Faceclaim

 

[Chernabog]

Name: Wallace Thomas Abrims
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual [closeted/never explored]

Appearance:
Hair: Blonde, and keeps it long, down to his shoulders. It's usually almost always tied up into a ponytail, or tucked into a hat to hide it's long length when he goes into the local town.
Eyes: A stormy blue-gray, often looking like the ocean itself or the weather in the winter of where they're located.
Height: 6'0"
Build: Wallace is well built in his upper torso [especially arms, chest, and shoulders] and legs from years of fishing/casting nets/hauling in heavy catches. This being said, ever since his bout of TB and sometimes preferring to smoke a cigarette than eat, he's become a bit on the leaner side everywhere else. He has a constant source of fish for food, but the stares he gets whenever going into town sometimes stops him from getting other food when he's not in the mood to deal with it.
Description: Fairly tall, most would assume that Wallace seemed a bit thin until seeing that he is well toned in multiple areas under the layers of clothing he has to wear from the cold and going out on the sea. Though blonde, he only appears fair-skinned in the winter; when spring/summer hits he tans rather nicely especially after long fishing trips in the sun. The last few years of both barely surviving TB and losing his family in the process has made his facial features pull taut with worry lines and a sharpness that would most likely soften if he were to eat more regularly and allow himself time to relax. He has many scars on his hands and arms related to years of fishing, including an especially bad rope burn scar around his right forearm due to it getting caught in a net when hauling in an especially heavy batch of fish. Because he lives alone, he often lets himself grow out unkempt blonde stubble around his face, but has never been one to allow himself to grow out a beard, another difference within his family.
Short Bio: Wallace is just one of many generations of fisherman in his family. It had always been expected for him to continue his family's occupation, never once considering that he'd want anything different for himself. As he grew older, he slowly became more resentful of the fact - never having felt like he fit in with the rest of his family, and especially not the other fisherman and crew that he'd work with. Yet, all of this came crashing down when the majority of his immediate family were stricken with tuberculosis and died just a few years ago, leaving him alone as the sole survivor. Living in his family's former home on the sea he has become a bit of an outcast, the local village pariah due to survival as well as the fact that he had made it quite obvious in recent years he did not want to continue his family's business or lifestyle. Had he cursed his family? Was he truly cured of the terrible disease?

Over time, he had to resort to his family's trade in order to survive, both for fishing for himself and making an income by selling the fish to the rest of the town; the only way and reason he is tolerated. He has lived alone ever since.

Personality: The best word that could be explained to describe Wallace the last few years would be 'withdrawn.' Though not completely submerged into misery, he has mostly become forlorn after having been alone for so long and treated as a sort of pariah. Despite that he has learned to appreciate solitude and not be constantly surrounded by the local townspeople, he has become lonely. From an outward appearance the man mostly just appears to be quiet and stoic. However once getting to know him or those who knew him before his life crumbled years ago, know that he is a very kind, considerate man who would give the shirt off his back to help those in need, so long as they have not wronged him. Once upon a time, he was charismatic, and often playful, sometimes even a prankster, but never did anything especially harmful. Even when he had started to resent being forced to stay as a fisherman, he still loved his family - even those he would commonly bump heads with.

Spoiler: Faceclaim

 

[Chernabog]

Name: Aukai
Species: Octo/Octopus [Blue Ringed Octopus] 'merman'
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay*

Appearance: Aukai is a 'mer' of a blue-ringed octopus. While not the largest species of his kind, his kind is one of the most deadly, as well as dazzling to see. His 'natural' color is a bright gold, and there are dark brown/black patches of color that shift and move as he sees fit that more often than not settle around the bright ultraviolet rings on his body that glow. Because his head and 'crown' of head tentacles have mostly symmetrical rings and patterns, he is considered an ideal mate by females. [To his ire] The rings are the only 'stationary' part of his coloration, as everything else can shift and change color as needed.

Personality: Like with most of his species, Aukai is a mostly solitary apex predator. He hatched, joined his siblings in eating their parent's corpses, and has been on his own ever since. He likes this life, but often finds it to be boring; having a constant need to stimulate his never-ending curiosity. He has been able to form friendships with other mer-types that aren't his same species, and has been able to learn multiple languages easily, just by watching a particular species for a few weeks. The Octo is well-versed in the fluent 'common' language of fish-like Mers, the universal language used when communicating between different species. However, his appetite is as voracious as his need for stimulation and his skills as a predator mean that no species is off limits for attempting to be eaten. Every arm and tentacle is used to explore, as much touch-investigative as he is by sight and taste. Aukai is also highly excitable/enthusiastic and often gets himself in trouble when attempting to satiate his curiousity.

In Octo society, breeding with a female means that your life is cut short, as males enter a trance-like state and do not leave their female's side to protect their brood together, including refusing to eat and sustain themselves. By the time their young are born, the male is either dead or dying, and often the female is in a similar state. While respecting females of his kind, Aukai also has never particularly felt a need to be around them and doesn't wish to die, so has solely stuck with mating with other males.


Abilities:
- Camouflage - Aukai can change his colors to blend seamlessly into his surroundings, often able to mimic patterns and textures. Outside of danger or hunting however, this also is a double edged sword because his colors often change based on his emotions so many of his feelings are displayed openly
- Defense Displays - The rings on his body glow brightly, and can be used to mimic the eyes of predators as well as a warning. Are also used in courtship displays
- Venom - Has a highly potent tetrodotoxin that is injected from his beak when biting. It is a paralytic that can take down even creatures far larger than he due to often suffocating/drowning while paralyzed
- Enhanced Strength with Arms/Tentacles - Aukai has 8 lower arms/tentacles, and 8 much smaller ones on his head. Other than being used to explore through his highly sensitive sense of touch, they are prehensile and incredibly strong
- Body Collapse - Aukai can squish/crush/collapse his body down to anything the size of his arms and beak, as those are the only remotely hard things his body is made of
- High Intelligence - Octos are known as some of the most intelligent species in the ocean, being master hunters and tacticians
- Beak/Bite Force - Octo beaks are incredibly hard and sharp, able to bite through even the thickest rock and shells/carapace
- Ink - Able to squirt out massive streams of ink in the case of needing to confuse and disorient whatever he's going after, either as a means to make a quick escape or attack
- Limb Regeneration - Aukai can grow back any of his limbs/extremities, but it is a slow process
- Suction/Grip - Anything that is wrapped up in an Octo's tentacles has little to no ability to escape unless they happen to be slimy
- The literal best hugger in the ocean

Weaknesses:
- Little to no built-in external defense. His body is fleshy/squishy and easily torn/severed if put in that situation
- If allowed to be wounded, bleeding is often excessively fast and can lead to death quickly
- Has to eat fairly constantly. Having to control such a large brain and complicated limbs requires a lot of food
- Aukai is a 'leap before you look' type of being. While highly intelligent, his need to stimulate his curiosity often gets him in trouble. Is a highly clever idiot.

Spoiler: Faceclaims

[Have yet to draw the rings/patterns here - but good image of body proportions]


[older/a bit outdated in the face but still mostly accurate for his mouth stuff on the right]


[also mostly outdated art, but good baseline colors]

 

[Chernabog]

Name: Lance Seung Parks
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Pansexual

Short Bio: Lance was born to a Korean father and British mother, and commonly traveled between Asia and Europe growing up, especially as his mother was a architectural historian and father a noted librarian and researcher. This sparked his interest in different cultures, leading him to pursue an anthropological and humanitarian way of life including his studies into adulthood. He is now an assistant/intern professor of anthropology and archaeology. He often goes out on field work, digs, fieldwork/etc and has done so even since he was young along with his mother. In his spare time he practices MMA, but has also learned a few specific fighting styles of different cultures after learning of them over the years. He has also learned from his mother about architectural illustration and likes to draw ruins and other interesting buildings he visits/items that capture his interest.

Appearance:
Hair: Dark brown/black, goes to his shoulders but usually wears it in a ponytail.
Eyes: Light brown
Height: 5'11"
Build: Lean-bodied, but has built muscle in his shoulders, arms, and legs from his time training

Personality: Despite being an all-around nerd with his deep-dive into academia, Lance has the heart for adventure while also having a bleeding heart when it comes to humanitarian subjects. He is firm believer in 'live and let live' when it comes to cultural artifacts and protected spaces/peoples. He has gotten in trouble in the past for returning rare and precious items back to their descendants/cultures where they were taken from either without permission or during colonialist invasions/take overs/etc. Despite this, he often doesn't have much time for committed relationships, and has left many a broken heart in his wake, though rarely intentional.

Spoiler: Faceclaim

 

[Chernabog]

☆ Name: Waruk Galahna'ar
☆ Age: 25
☆ Gender: Male
☆ Race: Orc [Is actually 75% orc, 25% human - one of his parents was half]
☆ Sexuality: Pan

☆ Appearance: Despite not being full Orc, Waruk still stands at 6'8", even taller than some of of his kind that are of full blood. While still made of rippling muscle, he's mostly leaner than that of others in his clan and it has helped with making him both powerful, but faster than most. Noticeably, he has a head full of thick auburn hair, and his body hair is the same color; rather uncommon for his kind. His eyes are naturally rust-colored, almost matching his hair, but one eye has become discolored to an icy-blue from an injury that damaged that eye, it going along with a deep scar on the same side of his face. He still has vision in that eye, though it's not as clear as the other. One of his tusks on the opposite side of his eye is actually broken, but shows signs that it is slowly growing back. The other tusk is adorned with a silver bangle that was made to swirl along it's length. His skin is much more of a grass, almost jade-color green instead of a traditional emerald or even a mossy gray-green. He is painted with the markings traditional for men of his tribe and his pointed ears have multiple piercings.

Waruk comes from a tribe from a more jungle environment, so prefers to wear minimal/simple clothing when not actively traveling or engaged in battle or colder weather.

☆ Personality: Towards strangers, Waruk is often no-nonsense, gruff, often stoic and just the general 'strong, silent type.' However, once getting to know him he's often rather playful and quite the sass master.

☆ Short Bio: Waruk is respected in his tribe, being as he has ended up being a jack of all trades of sorts - he's powerful/skilled in physical battles, has learned a bit of magic, and picked up multiple languages quite easily. This has led him to become his tribe's main appointee for relations with both other orc tribes as well as other species/races/etc - which has made him also well-traveled. His tribe is on the smaller side, and a bit more isolated because the jungle they live in is both dangerous, as well as not many want to tolerate its environment.

Spoiler: Faceclaim