Cotton

[Cotton]

Song of the Deaf :

He whispers a faint song of what he wishes to hear • It's sad to hum when it's full of despair • The tainted dreams a poor boy sees • As they float by on the dark prairies

• Common Knowledge •

Identification • Dra-Cotton Xaii

Common Name • Cotton

Race • Mixed Blood - Symenstra/Vantha

Sex • Male

Age • 17

Birthdate • 12th of Winter, 495 AV

Birthplace • Avanthal

Current Location • Alvadas



• Appearance •

Cotton's face is marred by numerous small scars from claws. His back too has been flawed by the multiple markings of whip lashings, adding much character to his already tough, endurable and brave personality. His eyes change to different shades of brown, handed down to him by he Vantha ancestors, determined by his emotions:




Yellow Tinted • Nervous, Sad, Afraid or Confused
Light Green & Brown • Curious, Adventurous or Excited
Medium, Murky Brown • Neutral
Dark, Chocolate Brown • Serious, Irritated or Annoyed
Black • Angry, Enraged or Overly Depressed
[Rare] All Black Eye • Severe Anger, Irrational Judgements, Uncontrollable Behaviour, Hatred, Rage as well as Intense Violent Actions can occur when seen with complete blackened eyes.

Cotton has a strange tone to his flesh - during the winter he grows tan due to the natural skin's shade a Vantha has when living in cold conditions, but in the summer his darker skin fades to a pale complexion much like the other half of his ancestry has as a Symenstra. His hair colour tends to change colour in different temperatures and climates of seasons as well. During the winter, when Cotton is tanned he has dark brown almost charred black hair, but during the summer to where he has paled, he has blond hair that sometimes reaches intense whites in shade. It is as though he transforms from a Symenstra during the summer to a Vantha during the winter as though separating his two great sides of ancestry.

Cotton has always been a very distinguishable guy with his rigid, obvious facial structires and noticable, vivid expressions. His nose is probably the only thing about him that isn't pristine, for its soft appearance has it seem almost button-like and small in comparison to his high cheek-bones and complex jawline. What is very obvious to any eye are his scars. Long scars that have cut very deep into his skin from his past as a slave, being beaten by whips and lashed out by claws, he is marred by the numerous scars he carries around with him as both burden and memory.



His body is lean, yet toned and fit for tough conflict, the muscles inconspicious beneath his protective layer of skin. He weighs an appropraite weight of 146 pounds at a decent, statured height of 5 feet 7 incehs. The strange part is that he is still growing yet he has already reached past pueberty point's end. Being close to male adolescents one would be practising growing and shaving facial hair, however, Cotton had never needed to deal with this problem and only recieves shadows after long periods of time and bristly stubble after many days without fix.

Cotton has dark brown hair, most commonly mistaken for a rich black. His arms are longer than normal human extremities due to his Symentran heritage, but is only noticable when one is observing him closely and is looking for the abnormality.

• Character Concept •

Cotton is a person who is hard to get to both verbally and emotionally. Why? Because he is deaf. He is one who has come use to the thought of having never hear again and accepts this. He’s one who easily deals with bad situations of which another person might find difficult or irritating, given the thought that he has had to grow up in an abusive household. He had to continue his already shady childhood when he was taken to become a slave by many Zith and was treated harshly by their savage and inhuman ways. Being mistreated and beaten by both family member and stranger has had Cotton become shy, timid and socially incapable. The only one he is able to make a full conversation (on paper) with would be his best friend and new lover, Anzu.

He has always been quiet and doesn’t tend to complain about much, which puts him into the position of being a good friend and good “listener”. He is very understanding and in times of need can be hesitantly humorous. Cotton has never been able to hear, therefore can only say very few words. He mainly writes down his responses and thoughts to anyone who is willing to receive them. He is fully capable of reading others’ lips although some words and motions are harder to comprehend than others. Being deaf has its good outcomes, however. Good to where his eyesight, sense of observation and touch have greatly enhanced over time and practise. He never has to hear insults or screams or intolerable disrespect and unwanted noise, and whether he desires to hear someday, he doesn’t realise that to no hear can be a wonderful to have.

He is never intently violent, but knows the ways of self defence to certain levels. He tries in an impossibly hard way to avoid any conflict of others and drastic situations, for fear of being whipped or scratched severely again. Cotton’s drive in life is to help those in need and heal those in pain. He has in interest in Herbalism and healing ever since he was younger, which helps strengthen these drives. Growing to learn from books and common observation, he has come far from being a basic “bandage man”.

When put under great amounts of stress, Cotton can go out of his way to help the ones he loves and knows are in trouble or great peril. Sometimes these actions can be classified as ones made “out of body and mind” and are only used when enraged to where his eyes turn to coal black stones, filling up the sclera with darkness, of which is a rare occasion, or when he or another are threatened and need help in dire circumstances. Overall, he is a sensitive, troubled, frightened individual who just needs people to warm him with their hearts.


Likes:

• The ability to see
• Helping and healing innocent others
• Feeling the fur of different types of animals and creatures
• Creating medicines from plants
• Writing adventure stories
• Practising and learning new languages
• Being with Anzu
• Watching the sunsets and seeing birds fly
• Being appreciated
• Knowing he's done something good


Dislikes:

• The lack of sound
• The weakness of self defence
• Enclosed spaces
• Darkness
• Seeing pained faces
• Seeing personal scars on both self and others’ bodies
• Being told what to do/being treated like a slave


Hopes, Dreams, Goals & Wishes:

• To set his father in the right place
• To heal all his mother’s wounds
• To be able to hear
• Take Anzu back to his family and tribe
• To be happy and free from bad thought
• To heal all the ill and harmed

[Cotton]

• History •

The troubles started before he was born. An odd agreement and vow of marriage turned sour as a male’s fists and cold love suffocated the mind of Cotton’s mother. She was a Symenstra, he a Vantha. An odd combination of completely different blood lines. Some would question why A Symenstra would allow such harm to come over herself. Some would question as to why she couldn’t use her arachnid traits to keep the relationship in balance. The truth is, her love was tainted, the heart of a humanoid spider had been broken before and couldn’t become mended back together again. She was afraid that if she left she wouldn’t find anyone better, she felt that the abuse he gave her was his way of love and the way he has come to be. She didn’t want to be hurt more, but all the same didn’t want him to leave. Enjoying the pain and counting until death with a frigid love was the only solution to such a life as hers. She loved him and found an unwanted need to stay with him until an action of sensuality grew intense. She never wanted it to happen, and said she wasn’t ready and only a mere seventeen years of age. She was yet to become both physically and emotionally mature at her adolescent age. It could be considered as rape, but Cotton’s mother never regretted it in the end.

He was born deaf and blind, the boy, to a Symenstra mother and a Vantha father, skin an ashen pale and hair as dark as night. His eyes never opened for the longest time, shrouding worry over the poor family, leading them to believe he was born both sightless and hard of hearing from the incessant abusive actions his father gave to both heart and womb of the mother. They were partially correct with the disabilities. Cotton was born deaf, save for his vision of which started to become clearer with age. His parents started to believe the cause for his healing sight was a gift from the goddess of healing and health, Rak’keli. Cotton’s mother sworn to all gods that she heard the whispery voice of Rak’keli when she was drifting off to sleep one night. The words spoke of Cotton’s future as a healer, his kindness and traits of being a gentle soul. This was the sign of a gnosis from the goddess whom heals all, of which Cotton would soon do as well.

Cotton was a name his mother had found both ironic but truly unique and beautiful. The way the jaw snapped speaking the vowel ‘o’ and the crisp ‘t’ sounds as they were pronounced with great authenticity. The ironic way of the word was originally envisioned by his father. He said that since his son was deaf, it was as though wads of cotton had been stuffed down his ear canal, causing such a disability.

He never did hear the sound of his mother’s soothing and calm voice as it sung him mute lullabies at night, nor did he ever hear her screams that pierced the days and nights. Visuals were his only weapon and key to survival, for as he grew older, his sense of sight kept growing better and heightening from their previous blurs as a toddler. Ever since he has realised his gift, he has pledged greatly to Rak’keli for her kindness and her followers. However, his eyes he later found out held more power than just seeing. He learned that they were able to change colour depending upon his emotion. More often than not, Cotton’s irises were a strange brown and yellow, for he grew up around the environment of being both nervous, scared or sad for both himself and his mother’s safety. They grew a dark shade of black, as pitch as they go, whenever he found the coil of courage within him unfold from deep inside. His muffled shouts at the man, threatening to end his spouses life; turning from wife to son as slaps ripped across Cotton’s face as a request to keep silent. The strength within Cotton grew to an immense rage as the black essence within covered the whole of his eyes. A rare occasion soon turned common as he showed what he was capable of, earning whips and scars from their markings.

Days turned into weeks, passing by months, and then years until Cotton had reached year eleven in his mixed blood life. Things turned dark and morbid from then on as he was taken by the deadly creatures of the night to a slavery camp held by savage beasts.

[Thread of History Here - Coming Soon!]

The most graphic of the events have been excluded in this particular history clipping, but that doesn’t even come close to explain the pain, grief and sadness in a deaf child’s life.

[Cotton]

 

Languages

Fluent Language • Common
**Conversational Language • Vani
**Broken Language • Zithanese

**Note that these languages are not all very fluent. They are just listed in the order of best known. This character is deaf and cannot learn different languages at a quick pace, therefore only knows few of Vani and Zithanese. He is capable of reading lips at a competent level, otherwise he is able to read written work in Common and bits and pieces of both Vani and Zithanese.**

 

Skills

Skill	EXP	Profiency	Level
Acrobatics	10 SP	10/100	Novice
Herbalism	10 RB	5/100	Novice
Storytelling	10 SP	10/100	Novice
Wilderness Survival	10 SP	5/100	Novice
Observation	10 SP	10/100	Novice
Escape Artist	10 SP	10/100	Novice

1 Mark from Rak'keli | Gnosis of Healing [given to him at birth - more in flashback thread - coming soon]

 

Lores

Lore of Healing the Wounded
Lore of Escaping Slavery

[Cotton]

 

Clothing

•Linen Shirt
•Linen Pants
•Linen Undergarments
•Wool Coat
•Simple Leather Boots

 

Pack Gear

•Waterskin
•Wooden Comb & Brush
•Soap
•Week of Balanced Fruit Rations
•Eating Knife
•Flint & Steel
•100 Golden Mizas

 

Heirloom

Coming Soon!

 

Housing

After escaping slavery, Cotton travelled back to his home town of Alvadas with his best friend, Anzu. They own a four-person tent, but have recently found Cotton's family's old childhood cabin on the outskirts of the town. Cotton took over family's cabin after he found his way home from Xy, and is now staying there for a brief period of time, until he can figure out his friend's as well as his own next moves.

Ledger

Item	Cost	Total
Starting	+100 GM	100
Cash in Housing	+500 GM	600
4-Person Tent	10 GM	590
x3 Raisins	3 GM	587
x2 Dried Apples	2 GM	585
x2 Dried Tomatoes	2 GM	583
Common Dried Goods	2 SM/lb	582.80
x4 Walnuts	1 GM, 5 SM	581.30
Jacket [Anzu]	6 SM	580.70
Shoes [Anzu]	3 SM	580.40
Hunter/Trapper’s Toolkit	25 GM	555.40
x4 Vial of Ink	4 GM	551.40
Rucksack	1 GM	550.40
x2 Winter Blanket	1 GM	549.40
x2 50 FT Rope, Hemp	2 GM	547.40
Common Lamp	1 SM	547.30
x2 Bedroll	2 SM	547.10
x10 Tinder	2 GM	545.10
Insect Repellent	1 GM	544.10
x5 Torch	1 GM	543.10
Deck of Cards	5 GM	538.10
x2 Quill	1 SM	538
Blank Book	3 GM	535
Kama [Anzu]	2 GM	533

Total Leave Off = 533.00 Mizas

[Cotton]

Thread List

 

Spring 513

Spring Threads Go Here

 

Summer 513

Summer Threads Go Here

 

Autumn 513

Autumn Threads Go Here

 

Winter 513

Winter Threads Go Here

 

Flashbacks

Flashbacks Written In The Year 513 Go Here

[Cotton]

Family Tree




Name • Nyxic (Nye-Zik)
Race • Vantha
Age • 45; Cotton was born when he was 28
Relation • Father

• Appearance •

• Personality •

Name • Avokii (Ah-voe-key)
Race • Symenstra
Age • 34; Cotton was born when she was 17
Relation • Mother

• Appearance •

• Personality •

NPC




Identification • Anzu Macias (Ahn-zoo) (Mah-see-yahs)
Common Name • Anzu
Age • 19
Birthdate • 12th of Summer, 493 AV
Race • Chaktawe
Birthplace • Eyktol
Sex • Male
Sexuality • Bi-sexual
NPC Label • Travelling Companion
Current Location • Living with Cotton in his cabin on the outskirts of Alvadas

• Appearance •

One that looks much older than he actually is and acts, Anzu is of close relation to Cotton. Once starting off as a brotherly acquaintance turned to a loving natured companion. His hair is charcoal black, much darker than Cotton’s in comparison, of which he wears up and spiky, having him appear more sinister and tough than he claims to be. His eyes have been described as obsidian orbs that cover the whole of his eyes as though they keep many secrets and lies. Unlike his lover, Anzu has a shadow of stubble continuously growing as a go-tee and small moustache. Anzu is relatively tall, standing at a height of 5’11, carrying with him a body of chiselled muscle that isn’t too noticeable when shrouded by fabric or other material. The scars he bears from the numerous claw marks he has received from being a slave aren’t so obvious with his tan skin and rough complexion. His back remains unmarred, having an abnormal healing process, making his skin appear to be smooth and fair. His small eyes, sharp nose and average sized ears have his entire facial appearance in balance with one another. He weighs 192 pounds, with the additional look of the water he is able to store due to his Chaktawe heritage.


• Personality •

Protective, agile, active, clever and curious. Anzu has been through much in both his childhood and adolescent years. He has struggled with his past in trying to find his family much the same as Cotton. He has grown to handle difficult situations with ease and is able to use his muscular strength to both get his way and ward off bad predicaments. Ever since Cotton has come into his life, however, his mean appearance has been covered by a mask of passion and consideration. He is more protective and calm when in the presence of his lover and will do anything to keep him safe. He is a natural at being agile and uses this trait to his advantage when in doubt, but sometimes his curiosity tends to cross terms with this and can end in a bad way. Anzu has his own train of thought and can easily think of creative ways to do things, always straying from the obvious and difficult. Sometimes these ideas can become too overenthusiastic and illogical, but that is all apart of the game of life.


• History •

From the little information Cotton knows - from what he has read - Anzu came to Xy as a slave when he was only 8 years old and has grown the actions of a Zith. Up until he had met Cotton, he has been aggressive, greedy, angry and depressed. Being so young at the time of arrival as a slave in the castle of beasts, Anzu doesn’t know too much educational things. His speech is fine, but he isn’t that equipped in the knowledge of sciences and maths. His father was a highly advanced archer in the tribe of the Kalanue, and his mother was a maiden for others within it. He had strayed from his family in search of a place to stay when he came across a tented city full of strange looking creatures. Little did he know that these species were Zith. He was taken as a slave and grew up working hard and becoming a beast himself. Cotton is like the beacon of light, having him return to reality and proper humanity. More information will be uncovered as time continues to grow on between the two boys. Relations take time to form, especially if they’ve already been shattered before.

• Skills •

Wilderness Survival - 10 SP
Stealth - 5 SP
Body Building - 5 SP
Unarmed Combat - 10 SP

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