Rey's Little Menagerie

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Myeeehh, pictures will come sometime...
Working on this page. xD Lotsa characters.

RAIN
(Inflamed_Inferno on neopets)
Nicknames: None
Sex: Male
Age: 35

Orientation: Straight
Status: Widower

Physical: Tall and lanky, and very lean. He used to be well-built and muscular, but stopped working out after he lost his wife and daughter. Now Rain is very thin and almost weak-looking. He has a scar over his left eye from a knife wound when he was young. Eyes are bright, venom yellow. His hair is very deep red, with the ends dyed black. His wings are longer and thinner than a normal shoyru's, fit for gliding.
Persona: Distant but sociable, fond of watching fights from afar. Buried deep, he has the soul of a fighter waiting for the chance to come out again.

Likes: Bamboo-made furniture, Instrumental music, meditating, quiet girls, his sword- 'Aiko'(named for his dead daughter.)
Dislikes: Cars(for obvious reasons)

Talents: Rain is a skilled swordsman, and is adept at speed-reading. He's become a good gardener, too.
Habits: Staring into space, talking in his sleep. Organizing his things too much.
Strengths: Patient, kind-hearted, generous
Weaknesses: Judgmental, aloof personality, hair-trigger temper.

Social Relations: Two brothers and a sister. Wife and daughter passed on.

Past Events: Rain was born to be a companion for his older sister, that's it. She disliked him from the start, however, and he became a social outcast. Being bullied at school is what drew him to learn how to fight, gaining him a friend in another shoyru down the street. The pair of them eventually saved up enough allowance to pay for a tutor to teach them aikido, but that fell through when both families went through a financial rough patch. Rain's mother was kind enough to scrounge together money to get him a swordsmanship tutor, but he disliked the heaviness of the blade at first. He and his friend, seeking to make money on their own, got into the underground fighting scene. After Rain was nearly killed by a competitor and their secret was found out, the two split up.
They would be reunited several years later when Rain fell in love with his ex-friend's sister, Cecelia. Before he could tell her of his feelings, though, war started up, and he was forced to leave home and fight. His sword became his dearest companion as comrades fell around him. War deeply affected the shoyru, and when he returned home battle-scarred, he knew he wanted to devote himself to peace.
Finally, he was able to ask Cecelia to marry him, and within the year they were a couple. Not long after she fell pregnant with his daughter, who would be named Aiko. Sadly, fate had it in for Rain, and Cecelia died in a horrible car accident while she was driving Aiko to preschool only three years after. Since then Rain has lived in solitude and loneliness.
Job: None as of now
Residency: Apartment-searching.

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COMBREE
Nicknames: Bree
Sex: Female
Age: 38

Orientation: Straight
Status: Divorced

Physical: i66.photobucket.com/albums/h280/NAMINE_04/Art/breeanthro.png
Persona: Strong-willed and bold. She's outspoken and hotheaded as well, but grows melancholy at the mention of her past.

Likes: Nature, the forest, dogs, books
Dislikes: Industrialization, loud music

Talents: None, really.
Habits: She sleeps on the floor. Every night.
Strengths: Her outspoken personality.
Weaknesses: Same as above.

Social Relations: Three brothers, an ex husband. Two dead children.

Past Events: Combree was adopted when she was a young girl by a mother with too much love and too little money. She thought it would be just the two of them until her younger brother Rain was born. They never got along, and eventually Combree bullied him into staying away from the house when he could. When new neighbors moved in when she was 18, she found herself attracted strongly to a gelert who lived next door. They met up for dates a few times, and several years later, after the war, they were married. Moving out into the countryside proved to be a fatal mistake, however. They had felt, with one son already born and a second child on the way, that somewhere with fresh air would be good for them, away from the city. They could afford only a rundown, decrepit cabin high in the mountain forest, though the pair managed to make it look presentable in the end. Their mistake was paying attention only to aesthetics. After the winter and the birth of their daughter, they realized how unstable their home was becoming. Before they could call anyone to come and fix the building, it had collapsed from the weight of the icy freezing on the roof.
Combree and her husband survived, but their son was already gone. Their daughter died en route to the nearest hospital, and couldn't be resuscitated. The two divorced not long after, the deaths of the children weighing heavily on each's mind too much to continue a relationship where each reminded the other of something so precious lost.
There are rumors in the family that Combree's ex-husband committed suicide after the divorce was finalized, but since she's broken off all contact with him, she has no way of knowing the truth.

Job: None for now
Residency: A one-room apartment

(This is gonna take quite awhile to finish. e.e; More next time I'm on.)

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DREAMOTH
Nicknames: None
Sex: Female
(Assumed) Age: 21

Orientation: Bisexual
Status: Single

Physical: i66.photobucket.com/albums/h280/NAMINE_04/Art/dreamothanthro.png
Persona: Shrewd and manipulative, hiding a kind and sensitive heart that she herself doesn't trust.

Likes: Sushi, music, the ocean, flowers, nighttime
Dislikes: Daylight

Talents: Singing, but only after dark
Habits: Toying with her hair
Strengths: Decisive personality, quite beautiful
Weaknesses: Mute under the light of the sun

Social Relations: None

Past Events: Dreamoth is what's called a siren. Or, she was. After almost 75 years at sea(the siren equivalent of about 21 human years) her song caught the ear of a mysterious pirate who, unaffected by her song, went on to capture her and bring her to shore. For quite some time she was trapped as his pet of sorts, serenading him at all hours of the day when he wasn't sailing. She claimed her freedom when he was killed in a bloody duel at a bar, when he had taken her out to parade once more around the port town. Her mistake was in beguiling her savior with sweet song and charming smile. Though he had fought her captor and won her her freedom, he was engaged to a priestess of the darkest forms of magic. Dreamoth tempted him to run away with her that night, but they had hardly made it out of town when his betrothed caught up with them. So angered was she by the siren's actions that she cursed her with silence except under the light of the moon under which she had seduced the witch's lover.
No longer able to speak under the light of day, Dreamoth quickly became depressed as she wandered from town to town. One evening before the sun went down, it all became too much, and she attempted to throw herself over a bridge to take her own life. Thankfully a green shoyru calling himself Ruka saw her standing on the edge, and he pulled her back from the brink. Taking her home, it was later, after the sun had gone down, that Dreamoth was able to tell her wretched tale to the kind man. He bid her to seek out an old friend of his, who may be able to reverse the curse that the witch placed upon her, and they parted ways. She's thus far been unable to track down this friend, and has come close to giving up trying.

Job: None
Residency: None
Other: Instead of one smooth horn on the top of her head, Dreamoth possesses two ridged ones on either side, much like ears.

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LOTHIAN
Nicknames: Thio
Sex: Male
Age: 13

Orientation: Undecided, but with homosexual tendencies.
Status: Single (Of course.)

Physical: i66.photobucket.com/albums/h280/NAMINE_04/Art/lothian.jpg
(Full version coming.)
Persona: Timid and distrusting of anyone but his current caretaker.

Likes: Chocolate, quiet
Dislikes: Most adults

Talents: None as of yet; learning to play the guitar. (Acoustic.)
Habits: Wincing when spoken to
Strengths: Artistic and gentle
Weaknesses: Bad at academics, and distrusting of others

Social Relations: "Adoptive" older brother

Past Events: Thio was sent to boarding school at a young age by an overly-controlling mother who was far too attached to her young son. His father left the pair when he was only three years old, and he was constantly being reminded that he was 'the man of the house.' He was doing poorly in his classes, and struggling to understand the reason why even though his few male friends were all talking about girls they liked, he found not a single one appealing no matter how sweet or pretty.The pressure of school placed on him, combined with the worsening advances of his mother over the holiday breaks was too much for the small boy, who began to cut himself in an attempt to ease the emotional pain.
All this did was get him unwanted attention from his teachers, and soon he was pushed into seeing a counselor. This only worsened the situation, though, because three appointments in the man made very inappropriate comments to poor Thio, who was too terrified to go to anyone. The comments became obscene after a few more visits, but thankfully the abuse was discovered before anything physical could occur.
The counselor was given barely a slap on the wrist, but Thio's background was given an intense search. That was when social services uncovered the various complaints made about him mother and how abnormally attached she was to her son. To smooth over the length of time he had been left in an abusive situation and preserve their reputation, social services immediately pulled the young boy from his home and put him into the foster system. (His mother objected so strongly she attacked one of the agents, who ended up hospitalized. The kougra female was jailed.)
Eventually he found a home with an eighteen year old zafara with a shady past but a good heart.

Job: Too young for one.
Residency: Two bedroom apartment with his caretaker.
Other: Lothian is still very childish, and carries around a stuffed panda bear at all times.