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lostwithinatrace★ Character Information ★
Character Name: Shikeo
Character Age: 18
Character Species: Human, Trace
Current Health: Some cuts and bruises, but overall stable
Outfit: here
Character Canon: Trace: Perfume
Link to History:
Shikeo lived alone with his stepmother in a house in the forest surrounded by flowers to mask the seductive scent that they both gave off. When he was young, his stepmother gave him an hourglass necklace. The stepmother told Shikeo to take care of it. Shikeo only left into the world when his stepmother passed away.
Shikeo was found by Timber in the alley, wearing dirty clothes and injured. When Timber checks on his wellbeing, he became allured by Shikeo’s scent, but neutralized the effect by smoking a cigarette. He carried Shikeo back to his apartment, tending to his wounds. Shikeo wakes up with a loud yell, throwing things at Timber and calling Timber a pervert. Shikeo and Timber part ways and Shikeo comes to live in an orphanage. He meets Dambi, another orphan. A monster called a Trouble attacks the orphanage, and Timber comes to save them, taking in both Dambi and Shikeo from that point forward. They move to a city that's under the radar.
One day, Shikeo is resting on a bench in the park as he waits on Timber to return with Dambi. A man approaches Shikeo asking to hear a song, but Shikeo declines. The man becomes enticed by Shikeo's smell. Shikeo ends up fighting him off. Timber blows cigarette smoke into the man's face and sends him on his way. Dambi emerges to point out a Trouble. Timber defends Shikeo and Dambi, defeating it.
When Timber catches a cold, Shikeo decides to do the performance for today. When he tells the public that Timber is sick, he's given money, groceries, and medicine to help. Shikeo returns home with these. The next day, Timber talks to the doctor who offers them a place to stay. Back at home, Shikeo bathes from a tap and then wakes up Dambi to help her get ready to bathe. When something in a pouch falls from Dambi's pocket and hits the floor, Shikeo is curious, but Dambi yells. Shikeo apologises before trying to steer her outside to bathe and notices the Trouble nearby. He tells Dambi to run towards town without looking back. He throws his jacket on her, and runs off with the Trouble chasing him. Dambi runs to the town and finds Timber, telling him what happened, and Timber runs off to save Shikeo.
He finds Shikeo bloodied. He destroys the Trouble and rushes Shikeo to the hospital. Shikeo awakens and finds Dambi looming over him, asking if Timber left, what would become of them. Shikeo yells at Dambi about how it's too dangerous to stay with him. That she can live peacefully with the townspeople, and promises to visit her sometimes. Dambi screams at him in return, saying she doesn't care anymore if he ever remembers again, and throws her pouch on the ground, shattering its contents. She runs out of the room. Shikeo stares at the ground, staring at what fell out of Dambi's pouch: an hourglass like the one Shikeo wears.
Canon Point: Chaptre 7, after Dambi shatters her hourglass and Timber leaves to talk to Hyungnim.
Canon Iteration: Original canon
Character Age: 18
Character Species: Human, Trace
Current Health: Some cuts and bruises, but overall stable
Outfit: here
Character Canon: Trace: Perfume
Link to History:
Shikeo lived alone with his stepmother in a house in the forest surrounded by flowers to mask the seductive scent that they both gave off. When he was young, his stepmother gave him an hourglass necklace. The stepmother told Shikeo to take care of it. Shikeo only left into the world when his stepmother passed away.
Shikeo was found by Timber in the alley, wearing dirty clothes and injured. When Timber checks on his wellbeing, he became allured by Shikeo’s scent, but neutralized the effect by smoking a cigarette. He carried Shikeo back to his apartment, tending to his wounds. Shikeo wakes up with a loud yell, throwing things at Timber and calling Timber a pervert. Shikeo and Timber part ways and Shikeo comes to live in an orphanage. He meets Dambi, another orphan. A monster called a Trouble attacks the orphanage, and Timber comes to save them, taking in both Dambi and Shikeo from that point forward. They move to a city that's under the radar.
One day, Shikeo is resting on a bench in the park as he waits on Timber to return with Dambi. A man approaches Shikeo asking to hear a song, but Shikeo declines. The man becomes enticed by Shikeo's smell. Shikeo ends up fighting him off. Timber blows cigarette smoke into the man's face and sends him on his way. Dambi emerges to point out a Trouble. Timber defends Shikeo and Dambi, defeating it.
When Timber catches a cold, Shikeo decides to do the performance for today. When he tells the public that Timber is sick, he's given money, groceries, and medicine to help. Shikeo returns home with these. The next day, Timber talks to the doctor who offers them a place to stay. Back at home, Shikeo bathes from a tap and then wakes up Dambi to help her get ready to bathe. When something in a pouch falls from Dambi's pocket and hits the floor, Shikeo is curious, but Dambi yells. Shikeo apologises before trying to steer her outside to bathe and notices the Trouble nearby. He tells Dambi to run towards town without looking back. He throws his jacket on her, and runs off with the Trouble chasing him. Dambi runs to the town and finds Timber, telling him what happened, and Timber runs off to save Shikeo.
He finds Shikeo bloodied. He destroys the Trouble and rushes Shikeo to the hospital. Shikeo awakens and finds Dambi looming over him, asking if Timber left, what would become of them. Shikeo yells at Dambi about how it's too dangerous to stay with him. That she can live peacefully with the townspeople, and promises to visit her sometimes. Dambi screams at him in return, saying she doesn't care anymore if he ever remembers again, and throws her pouch on the ground, shattering its contents. She runs out of the room. Shikeo stares at the ground, staring at what fell out of Dambi's pouch: an hourglass like the one Shikeo wears.
Canon Point: Chaptre 7, after Dambi shatters her hourglass and Timber leaves to talk to Hyungnim.
Canon Iteration: Original canon
★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★
Skills:
COMBAT: Shikeo can defend himself to some degree and has beaten up many who come onto him due to his scent. He can throw and kick back people quite a distance, and leave a good number of bruises on anyone who rubs him the wrong way. He gets his own fair share of bruises in return, though, and is almost completely defenseless against Troubles as they're too strong for him.
COOKING: Shikeo helps out by cooking to help take care of the others.
PERFORMANCE: Shikeo is said to have an incredible and enticing singing voice, that everyone wants to keep hearing it and look forward to each performance. He isn't good at playing instruments, though.
Canon Abilities:
TRACE: Shikeo gives off a very enticing scent, a pheromone, that tends to seduce people. He has no control over this ability, so he ends up in more precarious predicaments than he would like to. The effects of the scent also cause people to lose their memory of the time they were seduced by the smell. They don't remember their own actions or how Shikeo defended himself. The only ones who can keep their memory after the effects of the scent wear off are other Traces. They are still prone to being seduced, though. Traces tend to be unique to most individuals. Shikeo just happened to inherit his mother's. His scent dampens when he's critically injured.
Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: Shikeo's easiest form to take will be a calico house cat, and may develop ears and a tail in bouts of strong emotion.
Role Reasoning: While Shikeo could align clearly with some Legend values, he'd much rather do the serving and being loyal to those he wishes to form bonds with. Besides, he'd just be nothing but confused with being associated with Legend. He wouldn't know how to deal with it, much less with the idea of being a leader. He'd be constantly worried that he's always leading others to make wrong decisions and that his role as a legend would be pressuring him to be good at what he isn't in that respect. He's better off following through with others ideas rather than sticking to his own. Besides, having an animal form that neutralises his scent would be a huge boon. It might take some coaxing to get him to be human for a while.
★ Personality ★
Please choose one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:
Option 1. Summarize your character's personality in general and what their full potential would look like to them and what they would be willing to go through to meet that potential and what gaining that potential would mean to them. 400-800 word requirement.
Shikeo seems to be relatively unassuming and easygoing. He gets along easily in conversation with others and is even polite by default. He seems to be relatively popular due to his singing voice and thus attracts attention quite a bit of the time. He continues to show how much he cares for others, especially for Timber and Dambi, by the way he goes out of his way to help them out. Because of him being so innocent, Timber says that he is mentally defenseless.
Shikeo is aware that his scent seduces people and tries to act accordingly around others, trying to mask his scent or steer people away from him when necessary. However, he can get prickly real quick when he knows he's about to be in a bit of a mess. He gets angry and tries to warn others to stay back. If people don’t listen, he is quick to get violent with unwanted attention. He’s called people perverts and thrown many punches and objects to defend himself.
Shikeo is protective and will put his life on the line for others, especially for Dambi. Such as when he lures a Trouble away so Dambi could escape could escape, despite knowing his life was in danger. However, his being protective can mean shoving people away when he knows he can't protect them. He tries to assert what he feels is for the best regarding the dangers of his scent being present, even if others disagree.
Shikeo can be a doting parent type of person. He fawns over Dambi, even after he finds out she's sixteen, and is firm but gentle, and even says. When he finds an injured Timber, though he panics, his first thought is to get him warmed up before getting him to the hospital for care, and even subsides his questions to get him through. He comments that Timber and Dambi's company means he doesn't feel lonely anymore. He's also able to apologize when he is wrong.
Shikeo has mixed responses to taking orders. He accepts a fair amount of orders, especially if he knows he’s crossed a boundary. But if he feels it’s for the better good, he'll override the order to fulfill his own ends. When Timber disappears, even though a note from Timber tells him not to look for him, he chooses to do so anyway to hear Timber's explanation. However, he does admit he feels guilty for having to deceive people over these things.
Shikeo tends to live in the moment and makes decisions quickly in the best way he knows how. Thinking of the future is limited, as he just is looking to survive and help Dambi and Timber do the same. Making plans or solving a problem long-term seems to be out of his reach, and he will make judgements with the information he has right there, finding little time for speculation. He does this with others' best interests at heart. Because he doesn't always think his actions through, he forgets to pay attention to what he's doing and attracts problems when he’s trying to help others.
Despite being mostly defenseless, he prefers to deal with problems head on instead of running away if he’s able to. If he notices someone tailing him that isn't a Trouble, he will try to talk to them and will be very direct, asking what they want and why. As long as his personal bubble isn’t invaded, he would rather talk things out. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to realise that this opens him up to a world of dangerous possibilities. He manages to get kidnapped because of this, as a matter of fact.
Overall Shikeo prefers to be a civil, compassionate person. He listens to his conscience, even if it means putting himself in danger. He prefers not to be alone and cares very much for those close to him. He opts to take care of others, behaving like a parent sometimes. He simply wants what is best for everyone involved and his actions reflect that.
Shikeo's potential would revolve around controlling his scent and protecting others. It was revealed in canon later on that he could learn to control his Trace, and therefore stop attracting so many problems, be it monsters or unwanted advances. But he has to know it exists first, and then perhaps have ways that help him learn to do so. (He doesn't opt for it in canon, though). Otherwise, he would like to be stronger and a better problem solver to help those around him stay safe. And coming to these reveals would make him come to his full potential. To be willing to reach for it, he would have to form strong bonds that are able to give him new information and aid him in accomplishing these things.
★ Player Information ★
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