Essentials

Though tall and heavy, as his primary heritage would suggest, Maverick exhibits a few doggish traits in his conformation, chiefly in the tapered extremities he inherited from an array of maternal ancestors. He has thick fur, soft and longer than average, that lies flat except where it spikes slightly around his shoulders and neck.

With a square chest and broad shoulders, the hybrid is streamlined and well-formed. His frame tapers slightly into a leaner waist and a body that has clearly been conditioned by a solitary lifestyle. With a raging metabolism, his ribs can easily be felt beneath the deceitful cloak of his fur.

He is multi-colored and bears countless scars—only a handful of which are visually discernible—retaining a perpetually shaggy and unkempt appearance in all forms. Maverick never takes off his two necklaces, and has (nearly) shoulder-length hair when he shifts.

His eyes are expressive. A deep and rolling shade of teal blue hiding green, like glass orbs remnant of a mythic lagoon.

• Humanization: Low to Moderate—with a preference for practicality.

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Coloration

• Fur: Zeus and Sandrift
• Markings:
  • Westar and Mystic
• Optime Hair: Zeus, with a few faint streaks of Sandrift
• Eyes: Paradiso
• Nose and Paw Pads: Black
  • Claws: Black
• Scars: Melanie

Palette

Modifications

• A deep, horizontal scar on his left side, sitting under his rib cage and running from stomach to back
• MONA is carved large and messy across his left bicep
• Bite marks at the base of his throat, slightly to the right
• Four very faint claw marks on the left side of his neck, the topmost scar following just under the line of his jaw
• A full jaw-print on the back of his left thigh
• Missing index finger on left hand/paw
• Burn scar on the inside of his right wrist that has been modified into the stylized scarification of a serpent swallowing the sun
• Countless small scars across his body, hidden mostly by fur
• Small nicks on his fingers, from wood-carving

Adornments

Maverick has a minimalist look, carrying very little with him unless absolutely necessary. In Optime he will typically wear pants and almost certainly be armed, but the only thing he never takes off is his necklaces.

• A Ruthenium curb-link necklace
• A gold ring hanging from a thin silver chain
• Camo pants, torn at the right knee
• A large canvas backpack (khaki), handmade and poorly crafted
• A hand-guarded buck knife, kept strapped to his right leg
• A tribal knife, kept strapped to his left leg
• Brown sweatpants (Winter gear)
• An earthy, floor-length cloak with a mass of crow feathers and a rim of black bear fur making up the collar (Winter gear)

Lupus

115 pounds ( kg) · 35 in ( cm)

• Wolfish and solid, appearing doggish only in the pattern and length of his fur.

Secui

199 pounds ( kg) · 44 in ( cm)

• Hunchbacked, Maverick is a broad bull of a creature in this form, and favors it for fighting and hunting large game.

Optime (Preferred)

265 pounds ( kg) · 6 feet 8 inches ( cm)

• A finely built form, crafted from a life of abuse and an intensely lonely survival.

Traits

Hypocritical, misguided, sad, protective, and grumpy

• Outlook: Pessimistic
• Sociability: Medium -- he hides the fact that he detests (almost) everyone very well.
• Expression: Typically frowny, unless feigning a lighter emotion
• Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Motivations

• Surviving
• Not being hurt (emotionally)

Fears

• His father

Spirituality

Maverick has no faith to speak of. He tends to believe that life is governed my mere chance and (good or bad) luck.

Biases

• Gender: Thinks females are the devil and males are their demon puppets
• Age: Dragonfly has made him fear/hate children, because he thinks he raised her to be a terrible person

Sexuality

• Kinsey 1: Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual.
• Demisexual "...does not experience sexual attraction unless they form a strong emotional connection with someone."
  • Previous heartbreak has made him incredibly wary of expressing his honest feelings for another.

Interests

• Likes: Dragonfly
• Dislikes: Everything and everybody else

Substances

• Under Ophelia's influence, Maverick became addicted to tobacco and smokes at least twice a day.
• Avoids alcohol and other substances because he remembers how violent his father became after indulging.

3.1  Family: Mikaelson

• Mother: Desdemona
• Father: Sven Mikaelson
• Siblings: —
• Ward: Dragonfly

• Extended:
  • Aunt/Surrogate: Yuka Mikaelson
  • Uncle-in-Law: Ea Felt

3.2  Relations

Key Relations

• Dragonfly is the pup he rescued during a flash flood. While he is the one who saved her life, she is the one who saved him from a perpetual life of bitter loneliness.

Positive Relations

• Yuka and Ea, his paternal aunt and her slave-mate respectively, raised him as a child and tried to protect him from Sven's madness. He regrets abandoning them.

Neutral / Negative

• Sven is Maverick's father, who became abusive after his birth caused Desdemona's death. He tortured and mutilated his son until nearly killing him just after his first birthday. Maverick's nomadic life is contingent on the idea that his father still hunts him.

• Ophelia Hemlock led on the young and naive Maverick before breaking his poor little heart.

Minor Relations

• Sex: —
• Friendly: —

• Enemies: —
• Murders: —

Combat

• Education and Learning: Physically abused by his father, Maverick had to learn at a young age how to fight. Because he could never defeat Sven, he developed his defense before offense and is considerably more apt in the former.

• Feral (Master): He is best fighting on all fours with tooth and claw.
• Close Range (Journeyman): Brute strength makes him a decent opponent, but he is not well-practiced.
  • Weapon skill: Knife, Dagger
• Long Range (Apprentice): Very unskilled.
  • Weapon skill: Spear, Throwing Knives

• Has a high threshold for physical pain. There aren't a lot of things that hasn't been done to him already.
• Fights like a Beserker, relentless and furious. Hulk Smash, bro.
• His willpower is incredible and his reactions are reflexive rather than determined.
• If his skills can be honed, Maverick would be a fantastic fighter.

Hunting

• Education and Learning: More out of necessity than practice, Maverick has become an exceptional hunter.

• Tracking comes particularly easy to him. He is familiar with all signs of prey and can tell if an animal is sick by footprint alone.
• He is infallibly patient when awaiting the "right moment", making hims fairly accurate.
• Maverick has exceptional hearing and relies on it heavily. He often just closes his eyes and listens.

• He usually hunts in feral form though has recently been adjusting his practice to accommodate weapons.

Skinning & W0od-carving

• Education and Learning: Maverick once witnessed a trader whittling a horse out of wood, and has since taken up the practice as part of his silent, ritualistic venting. His skill in skinning prey devolved from this.

• Usually makes abstract shapes out of stripped bark, since it is the motion of cutting that soothes him, but he is just as capable of making animals and the likeness of others.
• He skins almost every kill with varying degrees of precision depending on how agitated he is -- another outlet for his repression.
• Endures small nicks and cuts on his hands.

• Concentrates wholly on cutting, enters an almost trance-like state that is difficult (and ill-advised) to rouse him from.

Physical

• Tobacco is not Maverick's friend. His lungs are compromised, and though he has yet to show any symptoms, he is (unknowingly) genetically predisposed to cancer.

• His scars ache in the cold, making him quite stiff if he doesn't stretch before action.

Mental

• Maverick has sociopathic tendencies. He finds it difficult to relate to others and will actively pretend to care if only to fit in or keep his inner disassociation at bay.
• Though he feels very little, his actions might suggest otherwise or even imply that he wants to feel something.

• His childhood abuse has manifested in him a sense of suppressed rage that expresses itself in tiny nuances (i.e. aggressive wood-carving) or completely when he is alone. Maverick is incredibly prone to overkill.