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Zanzharalys Sen
{ALIASES}If he had anyone, they'd probably give up trying to pronounce his name and just go with "Zan".
{AGE}155
{GENDER, SEXUALITY}Male, pansexual.
{SPECIES/ETHNICITY}Starstrider elf, House Antares
{HEIGHT/BUILD}7'2", agile.
{OCCUPATION}Hunter
{RESIDENCE}Sionad tundra, sometimes dips down into the Kilanthro mountains when summer hits.
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{PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION} RED SUN; Born into House Antares, Zan exhibits the typical traits thereof. He's exceptionally tall, with strong shoulders and legs from a lifetime of running across the tundra for hunting. His skin is a deep brown with subtle red undertones, as if he were somehow always standing in firelight. His eyes are a bright orange, framed by deep red lashes and delicately angled.
RED MOON; Zan, like all of his elven kind, is full of dualities. Tall and broad-shouldered, with thick biceps and calloused hands, Zan is every bit as rough and strong as he appears. However, there's a softness to him as well— high cheekbones, full lips, long legs and curved hips lend a kind of beauty beneath all the roughness. Every step he takes is with grace, swift and silent, belied by his stature.
ECLIPSED; Unlike the rest of his kind, however, there was a particular phenomenon during Zan's birth. A solar eclipse was in progress, and as such his star's influence has been "interrupted" in places. His skin has taken on a firelight kind of tone, and there are patches where instead of being the same dark brown, it's translucent like a baby's. His spine, from the base of his skull down, is a pale line, with his bones just barely visible beneath the skin. The same is present in either of his cheeks, with splotches of pale skin barely hiding the sharpened teeth in his mouth.
Around his head is also a soft halo of light, like a corona during an eclipse, only without the ability to blind a man just by looking at it. The permanent light makes it quite difficult to hunt or maintain a low profile, and so more often than not, Zan will just wear a thick furred hood up and over his head to obscure it.
TUNDRA LIFE; Being out and on his own like he is, Zan often either has to make his own clothes or trade for the materials to eventually make into his own clothes. He's often dressed in a collection of worn fabrics, leathers and furs, with little bits of bone and antler for decoration.
{PERSONALITY} QUIET; A life of solitude on the tundra has made Zan less than chatty. He doesn't have any instinct for small talk, and what he does say is often straight to the point. Really, a lot of it is barked commands, either warning off encroachers or warning someone of danger, should he happen to come across other people in his nomadic wanderings. When dealing with animals like predators or scavengers, it's mostly just a lot of snarling and wordless yelling, and sometimes he doesn't quite go from growling to the Trader's Tongue nearly so easily. He has, embarrassingly enough, growled at people before. He tries not to think about that.
A BIT SELF-CONSCIOUS; Zan is very aware that he's different, even by Starstrider standards. To them, he's a deeply cursed individual who can only be pitied for his lot in life. To human beings, especially those who might not have made contact with the northern elves before, he's downright monstrous. Lacking consistent social contact, he's become rather awkward to be around, and this awkwardness just works to make him feel even more like "the other", which makes him even more awkward out of nerves. As a result, he can be shy, prone to blushing, and heavily avoidant of things that might further embarrass him.
UNWILLING OUTSIDER; His avoidance of shame is only matched by his desperation for belonging. The two impulses are constantly at war with one another, since it's inevitable that he'll prove himself "weird" if he spends too much time with other people, but at the same time, he's too lonely to be content as a hermit. He's prone to seeking out new groups of people, with the constant hope that this might be where he belongs. Which is a high bar for anyone to meet, and so it ends up being an inevitable disappointment.
JUST A BIT FERAL; Table manners are not in Zan's vocabulary.
Fun Facts!:- Is partially deaf in his left ear, and completely deaf in his right. Communicating involves a lot of head-tilting on his part, and trying to differentiate sounds in a lot of noise is almost impossible.
- Is a hopeless romantic. Having trouble hearing means it'll be much more difficult for him to recognize his Resonance out the gate, so he tends to get carried away with daydreams of his specific One.
- Collects and dries pine to burn, just because he likes the smell. Most of his clothing, as a result, tends to have a fire-smoke kind of odor to them.
- Is a walking space-heater. His body temperature is at a near constant lowgrade fever, which makes him really toasty to snuggle but also really susceptible to overheating.
{SPECIAL ABILITIES}N/A
{RELATIONSHIPS}His parents, who are both long since deceased.
Others to be determined later.
{HISTORY}Tragedy struck early; out on the tundra, it's hard for a family to scrape a living, and it's even harder for an opo to raise his child on his own. Sometimes you're just unlucky, sometimes a hunt goes bad, and sometimes your kid has to grow up even quicker on his own.
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