Roleplay

[b]Name:[/b] Lance Savage [b]Height:[/b] 5'8 | that but metric [b]Build:[/b] Lean, dude is on the skinny side but has muscle [b]Race:[/b] Skadi [b]Age:[/b] 24 [b]Gender:[/b] Male, he/him [b]Appearance:[/b] Lance s has grey eyes with cat-like pupils (meaning can be both rounded and slitted) and under the right conditions Lance’s eyes will have a green eye shine. If you can get Lance to sparkle, not something he'll do often, it's often shades of red or other fiery tones. Aside from that Lance tends to wear a darksteel ring depicting a snake coiled around a ruby with a few pieces of citrine set in the scales (worn on the ring finger.) [img alt=""]https://64.media.tumblr.com/ee5723b1c134f60de16c0b3d9e30ca75/d89341d7de9e81d1-61/s1280x1920/d4ff549eafdbb77720681f681f1c3506d9eadca3.png[/img] [b]Personality:[/b] Lance is rather calm and laid back most of the time, and friendly towards just about anyone. He’s also got a nice bit of sarcasm and is a fan of cracking weird jokes that have a slightly dark undertone to them. Lance is a theater kid and that means that yes he’s weird, and fully aware of it and cannot be shamed by it in any way. Towards other people he’s rather open and willing to let you talk about your problems with him, but won’t force you to either as that’s not cool. But, do know that he’s not just a weird slightly over friendly theater kid no matter what. You mess with the things he cares about and Lance will end you. [right][i][color=darkred]As for the feral side it seems to be a bit darker, like probably came up with five ways to kill you… And for the most part is fairly passive in terms of how often it tries to take over. It’s the more feral and instinctive side, usually only sparking up mental arguments and only coming out verbally if Lance is entering a feral state of mind. The thing is, this is Lance’s survival instinct at its core and it has only one goal in a full take over: Survive. That usually means killing/harming to feed…[/right] [b]Abilities:[/b] [color=Purple][b]Shadow Manipulation:[/b][/color] Lance can make shadows move in unnatural ways, create shapes/things with them, and most notably get shadows to behave like oobleck. Oobleck is that stuff that is both solid and liquid depending on what you do to it. Lance can temporarily make shadows solid but cannot make it retain that quality for very long before it starts behaving more like oobleck again. This means his creations often have a weird movement to them unless he’s using it for something (ie: a blade becoming solid as he strikes with it). Lance can also control the possibility of his creations to make it so that the shadow object would pass through you harmlessly. (ie: ‘stabbing’ you in the heart with a shadow and all you feel is a slight shiver as he made it harmless)... Yes Lance can take hold of the shadows in your body and do some real freaky stuff, that is probably quite painful, but he’d rather not as it’s harder to do… And it feels wrong to him to just do that to somebody unless they did something like that to him first. Lance’s shadow manipulation often responds to his emotions/intentions subconsciously, meaning that his shadow often moves and twitches or he might create shards in a moment of irritation without meaning to. There is a secondary major part of Lance’s shadow manipulation that is the ability to hide within a shadow of a similar size or bigger to him and move between two shadows by ‘Shadow Melding’. Lance cannot be harmed normally while in a shadow and can only interact via shadow manipulation likewise. He CAN be pinned in place by standing on the shadow he’s currently in or forced out with enough light. Lance is limited in shadow hopping by either what he can see or by his memory of how the shadows fall in a place. If Lance is in a shadow of similar size to himself, there is a slight tell that he’s there… The shadow will become darker and more well defined. Lance has a very weak form of ‘mind reading’ if you’d even call it that. Lance must be touching shadows with you and this can be accomplished by a dark area mind you, but at most Lance can just sense that there is a mind, the rough location of it, and your mood/foremost thought. By that I mean he can tell if it’s internal screaming or you’re planning something. Lance cannot gather any sort of coherent words from this so your secrets are 100% safe. Due to the fact his sister has more mind based powers, Lance naturally learned to hide some of his thoughts from her. To a mind reader his obscured thoughts feel like a thick shadow is covering them. It’s not perfect nor is it always active in Lance’s mind either… [color=Crimson][b]Vampiric Regeneration:[/b][/color] Lance's regeneration is always active, even if just healing off dead cells. But, the act of regenerating causes him to get hungry/thirsty (in proportion to the wound) and that would be fine and all, but it's blood that he needs to facilitate proper regen. The reasoning is that to heal at the rate he does, his metabolism speeds up to meet the demands of his regeneration. The kind of blood consumed doesn't matter, as it would be a pain for him if he was blood type locked. Burns entirely screw this up, as his vampiric regeneration can't heal them but his body still acts like it can. Creating a negative feedback loop until he can heal the burn at a slower natural rate all while still dealing with the metabolic drawback. This tends to ease up a bit in the dark, due to it helping Skadi heal naturally but never fully goes away either. [color=Crimson][b]Blood Wyvern Shifting:[/b][/color] Lance can take the form of a 20ft long wyvern-like creature that is flightless. He can partially shift and is rather comfortable doing so (mostly in the form of his eyes, teeth/tongue, palms [to be gecko-like], and the tail along with patches of scales) He has permanent retractable claws from this along with being faster and stealthier than most others. Lance can hang upside down by his tail and grip surfaces with the gecko pads on his hands. Lance’s senses all got way better as now he can see in the dark just like he could if it was daylight, he can hear things better than most can, but Lance’s sense of smell became his most powerful sense… And he’s hypersensitive to the smell of blood. If fully shifted, Lance can breathe out frigid purplish-black flames (like compare it to touching dry ice/liquid nitrogen) This is a more simplified image but it shows the whole body, and the second is a closer look at the face. Ignore the notched spine, he doesn't have that scar here. [img alt="The rare instance of Lady showing off purely original pixel art that didn't require a base"]https://64.media.tumblr.com/775969c1980b9281bd8dc3d622aad00c/d89341d7de9e81d1-e4/s400x600/3c59230d932808310fd9c343365dcafee7818eb1.png[/img] [img alt="The original that this is based on has been lost to the wilds, thus the similarity to my discord pfp"]https://64.media.tumblr.com/541c744c6afd36cc02f4399527b0171f/d89341d7de9e81d1-b8/s2048x3072/dd1ce01137829e9f02a8f68d7303c74c97bb3608.jpg[/img] Another thing worth noting is that even when not shifted, Lance can partially unhinge his jaw and has a rather weak gag reflex. This allows him to swallow something the size of a pool ball rather easily (as opposed to difficulty in normal humans). This is due to the more reptilian influence of his shift, and habit of consuming meat along with blood. In other words this means Lance can and will swallow small animals up to the size of a large rat that he intends to eat. Due to his inability to fully or efficiently digest all parts of his prey, Lance coughs it back up as a pellet. To an extent he needs to cough pellets in order to stay healthy for the same reasons birds of prey do. (yes he can do other creatures too, this is just one that he got really good at mimicking. I'll explain below.) [b]History:[/b] Lance comes from a rather interesting family as on his father's side is a mix of medic and other kinds of public servant jobs (guards, doctors, rescue, ect.) paired with monster hunters while on his mother's side there's a fair few actors and writers among other forms of art. Lance was more into theater but willing to learn how to defend himself. However, you see his father's side has a tradition that goes back to when they were mostly monster hunters where when the Skadi in their family turned 17-18ish they would be forced to intensely study and observe one particular kind of monster of their choosing so that they could take that form purely from memory. This was a way of improving their ability to slay the beasts. Though more modern members of the family aren't really forced to do this, but often do so to keep the tradition alive. Lance decided to do this, not necessarily for the power it offered, but just to see if he could. After all, he's an actor deep down and he wanted to see if he could study something so well shapeshifting into it only took the memory… And well it took him two years of shadowing a terrifying creature around the caverns and a journal full of notes and drawings of the wyvern-like beast but Lance managed to do it. Shapeshifting stuff aside, Lance made friends with a Nymbetheos alchemist named Adara. He actually works at her shop between acting jobs and clearly they love each other, after all they have been engaged for three months. As for why he wants to go to the surface? It's a mix of curiosity and wanting to see if there's any sort of new thing he can bring back for Adara to use in her alchemy. [b]Trivia:[/b][list] [*]Lemme know if I need to hit him with a nerf dart and I will gladly do so~ [*]Lance is super pyrophobic (fear of fire), even with Adara's help [*]The ring he wears is an engagement ring that has a very minor enchantment on it that's intended to lessen his weakness to light/fire (not completely remove it ofc just makes little things like tiny sparks or overly bright light much less painful and gives a bit more time before an actual burn will form in most cases.) [*]Some of Lance's abilities could just be written off as a side effect of studying one beast for like two years, but I saw that note and decided to have some fun with the concept of being super observant like that. [*]The reason his biolume leans warm is due to his love for Adara, subconsciously manifesting in a similar color to her magic. If you can convince him to do it to provide a bit of light however, you'll notice that he goes for yellow/cyan/white as those illuminate better than other colors. [*]I might make Adara a full character later, but the limit says one and I obey rules. [*]Lance hates anything that fully covers his fingers, that's the real reason why he wears fingerless gloves. [*]He has the photic sneeze, meaning if light hits his eyes in just the right way he'll sneeze (ex: stepping outside on a decently sunny day). [*]Lance uses his own claws instead of pens, dipping them in ink to write/draw. He keeps a little sketchbook, a few different colors of ink (including black), and a rag that has several ink stains on hand for a reason.