Character Analysis
"Necessity is the mother of innovation."
Physical
Standing at five-feet eight-inches, Stri is built tall and lankly. His muscles - those that are there, anyway - are lean and not overly developed. He has a slight gut (nothing he can't hide by contracting his abs) which stems from his general lack of exercise. His legs, by contrast, are better developed than the rest of his body from years of running around as a courier for his father.
His face by contrast seems lacking of fat, and is made of hard lines and slabs of stone. He keeps his hair short so it doesn't interfere with his work, and his beard shorter for the same reason. He seldom finds time to shave though, so his face is usually covered in a day-old growth of stubble.
When at home Stri usually wears plain brown trousers an an equally plain white shirt. Cotton is his fabric of choice, but during the winter he usually wears a woolen sweater and heavy slacks to stave off the cold. These also happen to be his work and school clothes. When he goes out, he usually wears a hooded robe. Why, he could not tell you; indeed, he had no qualms about people knowing him, and he had nobody to hide from. It was simply a habit instilled in him by his father.
Psyche
Stri is a people's person at heart, and he loves spending time with people, be it in class listening to a lecture, working on a cooperative project, or eating together and sharing a pitcher of mead. He likes to think he has a logical mind, but sometimes his emotions can get the best of him. He usually spends his days engrossed in a class or with his nose in a book, but his nights are spent with inventiveness. His goal is to create a new invention, one which will benefit all of Mizahar, and this need to create something pushes him to research, observe, and discover all that he can.
Background
Note: This is temporary until I can write a more in-depth background. I'm feeling exceptionally lazy and want to get this rolled out and ready for action.
Stri was born to a relatively well off merchant in Syliras, and he was employed by his father to do various tasks for the store. It was from him he learned rudimentary math and the concept of large numbers, and he showed a keen intelligence for the sort, so much so that his father had him do the ledger and bills for the store they owned. He continued being mentored by his father in mathematics, and learning the more complex maths such as geometry made him see the world in a different light.
An uncle who also lived in the city worked as an Animator, and it was from him Stri learned what he knows about Animation and Glyphing. Somewhere along he picked up fiddling with simple machines, which he knew well from mathematics, and he imagined the possibilities for the combination of his skills with levers, pulleys, gears, and the like with his aptitude with Animation. ON his twenty-third birthday he decided he was old enough to venture off, and somehow procuring his fathers blessing he took a good sum of money and traveled to Zeltiva to study in the university there. |
by Stri Navasarjaka on November 8th, 2011, 3:28 am 
