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 Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 12:19 am
Name: Ka'hal (Kay-HA-ul)
Race: Wind Earthling (1/4 Ice Earthling)
Gender: Male
Class: Prentice > ??
3 Base Traits: Brash, Dependable, Resourceful
Personality: When it comes down to it, Kay's ultimate concern is taking care of those he loves, everything else is secondary. When the safety or livelihood of his family is at stake he'll throw himself into his work and keep his tongue in check, doing everything in his power to accomplish his goals. Kay is fiercely protective of his loved ones, and his ultimate joy is taking care of them in whatever way possible, sometimes sacrificing his own well being for their sake.
That being said Kay is also loud and blunt, and even with his loved ones he can come off as rude or noisy. He also has a tendency to make hasty decisions without weighing the consequences fully. Kay is suspicious of people he doesn't know, and while he will never turn away someone in need he will weigh the well being of his companions above those of a stranger.
However, Kay has never been on his own before, without having to look out for someone, so if he was by himself his actions would certainly be different. If he was on his own, he would always choose to help someone in need, and feels incomplete without others to rely on him. In a way it gives him his self worth, and in this way he is just as - maybe more dependent on Aedan than Aedan is on him. On his own Kay is more reckless and acts without regard for his own well being.
Kay has a bad temper at times, which can lead to shouting matches or insults, but he will rarely resort to violence to settle a problem unless it's in self defense.
Description: Kay is average height for an Earthling, with pale skin (slightly blue at extremities (like tips of his ears, fingertips, etc.), thanks to a small fraction of Ice blood, but it's so small it probably wouldn't be noticeable unless you really looked). His hair is a bright blonde (yellow), slightly wavy. Cut jaggedly short on one side of his head (around his ears), the other side is slightly longer, falling just past his shoulders and layered. The hair on the bottom is the color of an Ice Earthling's - once they left home Kay grew it out so that the blue hair is longer on one side than the blonde hair. His eyes are blue, but around the pupils there's gold/yellow like Ice Earthlings Example
His crystals have a somewhat rockier texture, but they're pink like a Wind Earthling's, and large, speckled on his shoulders, with smaller teardrop shaped crystals along his collarbones and elbows.
Clothing: Brown pants, with Green leggings underneath. Nothing hugely specific clothing wise, although I think his clothes would be more Orange/Brown inspired, with a bit of yellow and green for accents.
Accessories: Long yellow cloth is tucked through his belt (which is orange) at his left hip, pulled across his chest to hang over his right shoulder. Can be removed and spread to become a larger blanket/shawl.
History: Born into a nomadic group of the Wind Earthling tribe, Kay was raised to be capable and strong - able to move on from place to place since he was young. Much like any other Wind Earthling, Kay felt content to move from place to place, and didn't harbor any grand ideas or aspirations to become a strong warrior, or merchant, or anything of the sort. He was just happy to take care of his family and move from place to place.
Kay was treated like any other youngling, given praise and support from his family and those in the tribe. Kay's grandfather was an Ice Earthling. Being mixed herself, Kay's mother (Ka'lani) took in a young mixed child as a youngling when his mother passed away, feeling sympathy for the child. From that moment, Kay took this fellow youngling, Aedan, under his wing and the two became inseparable.
As a youngling, Kay's hair was kept short, so his natural hair coloring wasn't obvious - and without an outward difference from his other tribe members it was easier to get along with them - by the time he was a Prentice he was treated like any other Wind Earthling, even if he was 1/4 Ice Earthling.
Living in their own little worlds most of the time, Kay could almost ignore the way Aedan was treated - until they got older.
As time passed Kay realized that his treatment of Aedan was unique among the tribe. While not outright cruel or hateful to him, the members of the tribe had trouble accepting the young boy. His Shifter heritage was stranger to the tribe than Ice, so Aedan was often excluded and blamed for any ill fortune the nomadic tribe ran into.
By the time they became Prentices, Kay could no longer ignore what this treatment had done to his gentle friend, and so one night when Aedan was pushed past the breaking point and begged to leave (perhaps expecting to be calmed until the moment passed), Kay agreed and the two stole away into the night, deciding to travel away from Sauti and into more unfamiliar territory - perhaps to find a more accepting place.
But no matter what, Kay can't let Aedan know how heavily the guilt weighs on him abandoning his family in the heat of the moment. He's helping his best friend, and he could never imagine abandoning him or letting him suffer a moment longer, and yet... and yet.
RP Color: #CC6600
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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:49 am
I'll start with his description first. His description for the most part seems fine to me, but there is one thing that I just can't see happening, which is being born with two toned hair. It just wouldn't be biologically possible. That being said, there are hair dyes, so either the hair color can be all blond, or you would have to change it so that he's dyed part of it to be the blue of the ice tribe. And if he has dyed it, the next question I would have to ask would be why? With Ka'hal being as loud and brash as he is, how does he manage to keep his tongue in check when being protective of his loved ones? How hard is it for him? Does he ever slip? He left his family to be with Aedan while he traveled away from the group. How was he able to come to that decision so quickly in the heat of the moment with his need to protect and take care of those he loved? How does he handle knowing he abandoned his family? Has he heard from his family since? Would his family come to look for him?
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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:06 pm
Alrighty, thank you for the wonderful critiques as always!! <3
Kay probably would dye his hair, in that case. The reason being that he knows Aedan is going to attract attention since he's mixed. Even if Kay himself is only 1/4 Ice Earthling, and could pass as Wind easily, I think he feels that making his own mixing obvious would somehow make Aedan feel better, or at the very least not make Aedan alone a target. That being said Kay doesn't think most things through, so he probably thought it was a fun idea and by the time he changed his mind his hair was already dyed.
I assume that traveling with the same earthlings for his entire life left him feeling close to his entire tribe, and even while being on his best behavior he's not exactly 'polite'. It eats him up inside that while he wants to protect Aedan from being ostracized, he still respects the others in his tribe and at most would glare or question their actions. When it comes to his tribe, he probably spent years internalizing this guilt about his inaction - and that other than a few mutinous glowers and jabs at the other Wind Earthlings, he hasn't done much to help Aedan's situation (other than be supportive and hope things turn out for the best). So he can hold his tongue, but only when it comes to his own family/tribe - now that Kay is out in the real world, anyone treating Aedan the same way will probably get chewed out or at the very least threatened.
I think the decision to leave was taken because of the aforementioned guilt. He spent years feeling useless, like he couldn't help Aedan, and guilty that Aedan depended on him when Kay couldn't open his mouth to scold his family/tribe about their behavior. So in a rush, the sudden prospect of being able to help Aedan somehow - mixed with pent up resentment of the tribe for this one issue came to a head. They're Wind Earthlings so they travel light anyway, so I'm assuming they left within the next few hours and by the time that righteous indignation calmed down they were far away, and Aedan was showing signs of happiness and relief at leaving. For Kay he would've felt this was too late to turn back.
He doesn't handle abandoning his family well. Kay tries to put a cheery face on for Aedan, but it'll come to a head eventually. Cypher and I talked about how Kay and Aedan leaving is still fairly recent, and since they aren't participating in the war he's assuming his family is (or at the very least they're too distracted to follow). His family would probably search for him, after everything calmed down.
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Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 2:15 pm
Alrighty :] Sounds good then.  Journal
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