Banian Blacktide [WIP]

[Banian Blacktide]

Race: Human, Svefra Age: 24 Gender: Male Birthday: 15 Fall, 490 Birthplace: Suvan Sea Appearance: At 6'2, this young man carries himself with a lazy confidence. Solidly built, with muscles corded from years of sailing the Suvan sea, his is a powerful bearing tempered by an easygoing - if somewhat roguish, smile. Dirty blonde hair, bleached by the sea and sun, curls over his ears and brow in an artlessly tousled manner. Providing a striking contrast to his impossibly blue eyes, his skin is evenly tanned where it is visible, but a good percentage of it is hidden beneath tempestuous tattoos, the Oceanus mark manifested as cresting waves across his shoulder-blades and over his left shoulder. Character Concept: While many that identify as Svefra have a habit of not taking life too seriously, Banian has mastered it as an art form. Sailing and hunting by day, gambling and other more lecherous pursuits by night. Despite his predilection for partying over more intellectual pastimes, Banian is by no means as air-headed as he might seem at first glance. An avid explorer and dauntless risk-taker, his enthusiasm for life and the prosperity of the pod are among some of his better traits. It really is just too bad for him that his praises are sung far less often than his name is cursed and bedamned by friends and foes alike. Character History: Banian was born on a balmy Fall day, the wind in the sails and gulls circling overhead - an ideal day for being born really. It's too bad then that the circumstances surrounding his birth were so far from ideal. The second of a set of twins, labor had proven too strenuous for even a woman as strong as his mother, and she died in the process. Their father no longer in the picture, it left the two infants without parents, something which in other cultures might have been a tragedy, but in the Svefra didn't actually make much of a difference - the boys were cared for in their pod like all the other children. The boys were named Banian and Tarquin, and were inseparable as far as twins go. For all their attachment to one another, they were as different as night and day. Being nearly an hour older than Banian, Tarquin was fairly close to insufferable when it came to pulling rank, so in retaliation, Banian made it a habit to be as foolhardy as possible to give his older brother something to worry about. Teasing each other came naturally, but it was when the pair ganged up on the other children that they truly shined. Masters of mischief and mayhem, they terrorized other boys and scandalized the girls, all with a fairly good-natured sort of joviality. No longer children, the two have branched out and found their own interests, but it is still fairly rare to see one without the other. Banian's inclinations lead toward partying and piracy; there is no event unworthy of a bonfire and no threat to the Svefra way of life unworthy of a slaughter, and he knows how to get either one started with a flair. Tavan: Barnacle is Banian's companion, of a sort. The ten year old sea lion weighs in at over 1,500 lbs. and nearly 9 ft. long - to call him anyone's "pet" would be absurd. Be that as it may, Barnacle and Banian have an agreement that goes something along the lines of 'sea lion points out fish and human tosses spare fish overboard and no one gets hurt.' Barnacle's relationship with Tarquin is a bit more strained, considering that Banian's twin has a tavan that has actively been trying to eat him for a decade now, but family dysfunction is part and parcel of being Svefran.