Jaguar

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  1.   1.  Appearance
    1.   1.1  Basics
  2.   2.  Personality
    1.   2.1  Ideals
  3.   3.  Relationships
    1.   3.1  Family: Mikaelson
    2.   3.2  Relations
  4.   4.  Skills and Flaws
    1.   4.1  Abilities
    2.   4.2  Weaknesses
  5.   5.  History
    1.   5.1  Pre-'Souls

Jaguar was born a non-Luperci, and left at the site of his birth for an unknown reason. Witnessing his abandonment, a self-proclaimed voodoo queen by the name of Bondye, took him in and raised him as her own. She named him Jaguar because of the purple-black splotches on his tongue.

On his first birthday, when he expressed an adult interest in being like her, she shared her blood with him in ritual and turned Jaguar into a Luperci. They lived in an abandoned prison with a fanatic coven of witches, pagans, and vodouists; and though he never practiced himself, Jaguar is fascinated by the art and religion.

Bondye experimented on Jaguar, namely by coating his tongue in medicines (read: toxins) that would hopefully return it to a natural color. The only thing that became of those experiments was Jaguar losing his sense of taste. Her untimely death when he was three, drove Jaguar out into the world on his own. He seems bound by whim alone and doesn't seem to have a particular reason for doing anything.

It is upon immediate impression that he is a solitary creature, but consistently traveling with him are a mentally unstable coyote? and a vainglorious fox?.

Overview

Basics

Name

Heritage

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  • Date of Birth: 29 August 2010
  • Gender: Male
  • Luperci: Verto
  • Residence: —
  • Mate: —
  • Pack: —
  • Rank: —
  • Nickname: Jag
  • Pronunciation: jag-wahr
  • Meaning: "a large, spotted feline"
  • Origin: Portuguese

PLOT OPPORTUNITIES

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OOC ASSUMPTIONS

  • It would not be uncommon to see Jaguar or have minor conversations with him in the midst of neutral territories.

1.  Appearance

1.1  Basics

Essentials

Feline and feral by presence alone, Jaguar seems to be a direct manifestation of the creature he was named for. Everything about him is sinewy and elongated, pointed at his ends with a spiked mass of fur in the middle. Though not particularly brawny, there is no mistaking the brute strength of him.

He is completely pitch, though in certain lights a chocolate-red reads through the perpetual blackness. The only other variance to his fur are the multiple scars along his body, exposing the dull pink of his flesh beneath.

This, coupled with his almond-shaped eyes, broad shoulders, and consistently exposed upper canines, Jaguar has a certain menace about him, which brutally contrasts his intellectual manners. He wears two necklaces at all times and prefers to be bare, but on certain occasions will wear an orange jumpsuit made for a smaller man or a straitjacket.

His eyes are yellow-green, shiny and acidic like poisonous sunflowers.

  • Humanization: Low—preferring a naturalistic appearance.

uh... picture?

Coloration

  • Fur: Black Sepia
  • Highlights:
    • Burnt Maroon
  • Optime Hair: Black Sepia
  • Eyes: Starship
  • Nose and Paw Pads: Mine Shaft
    • Claws: Black
  • Scars: Melanie

Palette

 Black Sepia (#190101)
 Burnt Maroon (#3F0403)
 Mine Shaft (#292929)
 Starship (#E4EF52)
 Melanie (#E2B6CC)

Modifications

  • TBA

Adornments

Jaguar does not typically clothe himself, but he always wears the two necklaces given to him by Bondye.

  • A leather-bound, silver Merkabah charm
  • A dull, antique gold flower of life medallion
  • An orange prison jumpsuit that does not zip up, with the faded numbers 62673021 on the left breast
  • A straitjacket (because he likes the long sleeves)

Forms

Lupus

137 pounds ( kg) · 40 in ( cm)

  • Large and spidery, thin but incredibly sturdy.

Secui

224 pounds ( kg) · 49 in ( cm)

  • Stilted and brutish, this form is frightening and savage-looking.

Optime (Preferred)

296 pounds ( kg) · 7 feet tall ( cm)

  • Tall, creeptastic, and thin.

Interaction

  • Speech:
  • Scent:
  • General Posture and Body Language:
  • Quirks, Gestures, Etc.:

2.  Personality

The Anti-Hero · Rage Suppressor · Stoic Woobie · Sour Outside, Sad Inside · The Caretaker

  • Irritable, Serious
    • Perpetually grumpy, he doesn't seem to find very much joy in life. He rarely smiles and finds it hard to understand or relate to anything humorous.
    • He finds it hard to waste time. Every second counts in Maverick's world, and though he acts as if he would be better off dead, in all actuality he tries very hard to live.
    • The kid needs to loosen up.
  • Mistrustful, Lonely, Sensitive
    • Maverick does not warm up easily. He aggressively shies from relationships out of fear of getting emotionally abused. He is easily offended and tends to put too much stock in "word of mouth".
    • Though he typically acts as if he doesn't want to be bothered, he will rarely chase another off. This unusual trait seems to stem from his innate desire for company.
  • Selfless, Daring, Unhappy
    • The guilt from abandoning those who raised him has carried over into a hero complex. He finds it very hard to leave someone in need. He is level-headed and incredibly steadfast during crisis, consistently risking life and limb without a second thought.
    • He carries the weight of the past on his shoulders, and a deeply personal hurt he hardly ever shares aloud. Maverick prefers to suffer in silence.
    • Capable of carrying the burden of others with ease, he tries not to let others know of his own troubles.

2.1  Ideals

Traits

Quiet, misguided, sad, protective, and grumpy

  • Outlook: Pessimistic
  • Sociability: Low -- while he craves company, he avoids it and presents himself as unsociable when confronted with it.
  • Expression: Frowny
  • Alignment: Neutral Good

Motivations

  • Surviving
  • Not being hurt

Fears

  • His father

Spirituality

Maverick has no faith to speak of.

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

He avoids pretty much anything in this category because he remembers how temperamental his father would get when he drank or smoked.

3.  Relationships

* Does not know this person by name.

3.1  Family: Mikaelson

  • Mother: Desdemona
  • Father: Sven Mikaelson
  • Siblings: —
  • Ward: Dragonfly
  • Extended:
    • Surrogate Mother: Yuka Mikaelson
    • Uncle: 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.
  • Ophelia Hemlock led on the young and naive Maverick before breaking his poor little heart.

Minor Relations

  • Sex: —
  • Friendly: —
  • Enemies: —
  • Murders: —

4.  Skills and Flaws

4.1  Abilities

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.

4.2  Weaknesses

Physical

  • TBA
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Mental

  • TBA
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5.  History

5.1  Pre-'Souls

Sven Mikaelson, the Alpha of a small familial band of wolves, fell in love with a roaming wolfdog -- a gypsy by the name of Desdemona. After several months of courting, she chose to stay with him and his family, wanting to bear his children. Marrying, she quickly became pregnant, which proved difficult for the older woman who had never bore before and had lived her entire life as a nomad. All but one of the pups was born dead, and she cradled her only son in her last hours before passing herself. Desdemona called him Maverick.

Resultant of his father's resentment and depression, Rick was raised under the surrogate care of his aunt Yuka and her servant (lover) Ea Felt. Though only a passive participant in the boy's rearing, Sven was vicious with his son, brutally punishing him for the merest slights and abusing him as often as they crossed paths. He lashed out at Maverick drunkenly on several occasions, giving him permanent scars rather than mere bruises.

A failed hunt shortly before Rick's first birthday sent his father on a rampage against him, during which he killed Ea and permanently disfigured Yuka when they intervened. Maverick fled his pursuing father for weeks thereafter before losing him indefinitely, and to this day harbors the guilt of leaving his "mother" behind.

He became harsh and independent, well-versed in defending himself (with an added hero complex) but made by and large into a mistrustful and unsociable creature. He struggles with personal grief and the acceptance of others, finding loneliness and physical pain easier to deal with than loss and heartbreak.

Maverick traveled alone for an entire year, encountering several misadventures and a singularly tragic love, before a flash flood forced him to rescue a barely-weened pup. After a (short) unsuccessful search for her parents, he began calling the girl Dragonfly (since she could not recall her own birth name) and the pair of them became inseparable.