The Character
Linden Elliot Harper is a 24 year old witch living in the fictional city of Midvale, Arizona. Though surrounded in dry, red dessert, the city itself is vibrant and alive, with magic and technology combining in wondrous ways.
Linden is the third and youngest child in his family; his father was a wizard, while his mother was non-magical. His older siblings, both his brother and his sister, are wizards; a bit of a black sheep, Linden chose to become a witch instead, which his father begrudgingly accepted after a few years of dissention.
The difference between wizards and witches, you see, isn't a gender thing, but more a matter of methodology and focus. Wizards control their magic, harnessing it with the help of wands and complicated chants, while witches prefer more natural magic, using things like stones and plants and their own bodies to harness their innate power. For this reason, some people refer to witches as "hippie wizards".
Linden went to a co-ed school with magic and non-magic students alike. After graduation, he did two years of advanced schooling at a local magics college, but dropped out after realizing he didn't really know what he wanted to focus on.
Now, Linden works in a local odds and ends magic shop and lives in an apartment with Flint, his black likoi, which is a type of cat with 5 eyes and whose parts are used in healing spells and potions; Flint is a rescue and is missing his tail, which was presumably cut off to be used for just such a thing.
Appearance
Linden has brown eyes and wavy black-brown hair. His skin is pretty average, not really tan but not fair, and he's about 5'10". His clothing is pretty out there a lot of the time, and often consists of a lot of interesting patterns, pins, floral print, ripped jeans, shirt with musical symbols or sayings about magic, and things like that. He has multiple piercings in his ears and black tattoo sleeves on both arms; the tattoos are a mish-mash of different spells, some runic, others symbols, Latin, Japanese, Arabic, or geometric. The only non-spell thing he has in a five-eyed likoi skull at the top of his arm, for Flint.
Flint the Likoi Cat
Likoi are a closed species of my own! They're a semi-hairless cat (modeled and named after the Lykoi cat breed) which are mostly hairless on their faces and lower legs and sometimes tails. Likoi have either 3, 5, or 7 eyes; myth says that the more eyes they have, the more powerful they are. Their "odd eye", the one in the middle, can act independently of the others, sometimes staying closed as they look around or staying open when the rest of the eyes blink.
3 eyes is common, 5 is uncommon, 7 is rare. 9 is "godly", almost never happens. Same with 1. They never have an even number.
Their fur colors cover the full range of natural colors and patterns as seen on any mammal species. Feline colors and patterns are most common, while canine patterns are uncommon and other mammal patterns, such a deer or okapi, are rare.
For the fur, a bare face is common and a furred face is uncommon. Bare ears and furred ears are both common. Extra fluff inside the ear is uncommon. A furred neck is common, a bare neck is uncommon, and an extra-fluffy neck is rare. Furred legs and legs that are bare on the bottom half are both common; fully bare legs are uncommon. A ridge of longer fur down the spine is uncommon or rare depending on how long it is. A furred tail is common, a bare tail is uncommon, and a fluffy tail is rare.
Some likoi have small horns: single-pronged horns are uncommon, while ram or multi-pronged horns like deer antlers are rare.
Likoi can also have a second set of ears (rare), a second tail (uncommon) or split tail (rare), and 6 legs (rare).
Their sizes range from a typical house cat (common), to a medium sized dog (uncommon), to a "petite" or "toy" likoi (rare) which is as small as a normal 4-6 week old kitten.
For teeth, normal cat fangs are common, longer fangs are uncommon, and tusks are rare. Claws are always retractable; a longer "raptor claw" on the hind feet is rare. A normal cat tongue is common, a longer tongue is uncommon, and a split tongue is rare.
Feel free to ask me about getting a likoi of your own!
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