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AbyssRanger
Name: Xenica Friesia
Age: 27
Class: Medic
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Equipment: Xenica carries a multitude of healing items. A needle, thread, rubbing alcohol, bandages, healing salves made from herbs she's found in the wild, a rather large and rather battered book with personal drawings detailing what herbs look like and what their effects are as well as small bit of information about how to treat more rare ailments, an emergency blanket, and various other medical supplies. She also carries a small hip-sized dagger. She collects small bits of textured items, tufts of blankets, smooth stones, bottlecaps, rough things like sandpaper. She carries small bits of wood on her, and small carvings she has made by hand using her dagger she keeps sharp with a whetsone.
Personality: Xenica is quiet, and some might say shy in disposition, preferring mostly to stay quiet and listen. Its also important to note that she seems to have some kind of natural leadership qualities, gaining loyalty through genuine kindness and a rather self-sacrificing nature. She also seems to have rather low self esteem, meaning that she tends to think herself lower than everyone around her. Xenica has a weird need to touch things, and her hands are almost always out and reaching, searching to feel something and feel more connected to the world. She seems to enjoy feeling things and will even kick of her shoes so she can feel more. Despite her penchant for putting herself down, she is an upbeat person, almost always trying to find the good in others and always willing to trust others. She doesn't hold grudges and is willing to give a nearly unlimited amount of chances to other people. There is not a lot which makes her angry, she seems rather at peace with who she is. Even when she is mad, she seems to be able to readily control herself. She's not one to ever lose her cool in any situation, and she can be steadily relied on to have some kind of answer for most questions.
She seems to be rather mature, but even she has her silly and childish side. Getting her around snow for one is going to bring out her need to make a snow fort and pelt someone with snowballs. And after you are done, she's probably going to make you something warm and swaddle you in her emergency blanket so you dont get hypothermia.
Appearance: Xenica has a more.. unorthodox appearance. one of the many who did not survive the effects of the blast and as such bears some rather unsightly mutations, which mostly present on her face. As such, she wears a mostly featureless white porcelain mask with wide set eyes cut it it which have shadowed black lenses over top to hide even her eyes from view. When she removes her mask, it will reveal that she has wide, large and grey segmented eyes which bug out of her head in a rather eerie fashion. Her nose is instead two holes in her face, and she has a mouth which stretches almost across her entire face from one ear to the other (her ears are also just holes in either side of her head). Her wide mouth is set with jagged and crooked teeth and appears to be able to open rather wide similarly to a snake's as well as set with a long, forked tongue which does behave rather similarly to a snake's tongue in mannerisms. her face is swallowed by vibrant buttercup yellow hair which cascades from the very top of her head and flows down either side of her face around the mask.
Her skin is perhaps the most strange bit about her, thicker than most might and with a sleek, yet rough quality, similar to what one might feel touching the skin of a snake. It is an almost unnatural shade of ivory to the point she almost seems yellow skinned in certain light. Her arms seem normal up until the hands, which are five jointed and four fingered. She is a rather petite woman, with a slender pear-like figure, and stands at about 5'2". Her skin is also not flawless, there are several places where she has some ugly, yet quickly fading scars, the most frightening being one which scores from her right shoulder and across her clavicle ending just above her left breast.
To hide her mutations and scars, Xenica wears a long soft brown dress with billoughed sleeves, an attached hood she will wear up and down depending on how self conscious she is feeling at the moment, leading down to a connected and corsetted underbust (with string and ties in the front and back) and a flowing skirt which cascades around her legs to hide them. Along with black tights and her thigh high boots. She will often wear an oversized cloak, shawls, belled sleeves, and anything that will help hide everything. To top it all off, she carries a large and weathered army backpack.
Backstory: Xenica's mother lived in a place which was essentially a harem of sorts, with one man who had many women following him and protected them in exchange for them giving birth to children. All mutated children were immediately abanoned outside the protected city's limits and left to die. When Xenica was born, her mother actually tried to protect her despite the fact she was mutated, and was banished from the city as well as a result. Xenica's mother was not born to survive outside the city, and wandered aimlessly for days, until she was attacked by bandits. Not having much to give them or defend herself, Xenica's mother was killed and the young Xenica was adopted into the roaming tribe of bandits. She was raised by the entire bandit crew, who gave her her name and taught her everything she knows about how to survive with her particular mutations. They taught her to be wary of non-mutated people, and through her surrogate father figure Manu, Xenica learned how to care for and treat wounds. Fascinated instead by trying to heal things rather than hurt them, she soon ascended past his abilities.
A few months ago, Xenica's group of bandits were attacked by another group of bandits, and in a rather intense moment, she was separated from them and ended up on her own with no hints as to how to return to her family. She has since migrated to the Outskirts in an attempt to find a safe haven as she knows being alone is a death sentence for her.
Other:
-She does shed her skin, but usually in small pieces due to the way she cares for herself.
-Her eyes are actually quite functional, giving her excellent night vision, as well as an improved field of vision. This comes with the ability to see in infrared (this means she can see heat in a vibrant distorted rainbow, but everything else is just greys and blacks) and comes with the price of a rather intense sensitivity to light. (this is why her mask has dark lenses to protect her eyes)
-She seems to have an extremely well developed sense of touch, to the point that she can at a limited capacity, sometimes sense things a few inches away from her body.
-She has a great love for whittling, and will often spend her time carving when she's distressed or needs to keep her hands occupied. Her whittled statues tend to be a bit warped in appearance.
-Can be a bit wary of those who aren't mutated initially but this usually passes within the first few minutes of talking to someone.
-She is currently searching for her family of bandits as they are the only family she has ever known.
-Xenica is capable of building fires, small shelters, and finding water for herself. (just scarcely enough to survive.) She also seems to be rather good at gathering fish for some reason.