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[glow=black,2,300]TINTALLË, THE WYVERN CHILD[/glow]

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VAMPIRIC FOX / RUSSIAN DESCENT / CURSED BY A SPIRIT

G E N E R A L
☆ TINTALLË [ TIN - TUSH - DAH ] | "TEA", "TIN"
☆ cisgender fem / she, her pronouns / orphaned
☆ currently resides in the ascendants / fireball / no titles
☆ eight months / ages every sixth / originally created [6/07/2018]
☆ has a russian accent, not thick but is noticeable

N O T E S
☆ HER CURSE IS UNDISCOVERED (AKA GREY NEEDS MONEY)
☆ she is incredibly superstitious and wary of bad omens. she does not trust spirits so will often leave offerings in exchange for them leaving her only. contrary to that, she cannot see spirits herself
☆ she strongly believes in star signs and will read daily predictions. as her birthday is considered her creation date, she is hilariously born under the star sign of cancer - she's extra edgy now.
☆ she believes in fortune and fate. she likes to offer tarot card and tea readings.
☆ upon being heavily wounded, tintallë will undergo a painful transformation into an angry, feral, fire-breathing wyvern. this is out of tintallë's control as it is a part of her "curse" which prevents her from immediately dying. it will also be triggered if the wyvern senses that tintallë will die. the only way to rid of the wyvern is to either kill it and therefore kill tintallë or to lull the beast to sleep, allowing tintallë to turn back to normal.
☆ she is unable to swim so would drown if you tossed her into a lake. this doesn't stop her wyvern transformation from occuring though.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S
☆ npc x npc / open for adoption / no siblings
☆ undecided orientation / single, but open for romance
☆ she's willing to get close to others so it is not difficult to become her friend
☆ she s wary of dangerous or intimidating people
☆ she will do her best to help those in trouble

A E S T H E T I C
☆ [MAIN BODY]: fluffy arctic fox with silver-white eyes.
her fur is long and gives her a fluffy appearance, looking desirably soft to touch. she is not particularly well-groomed. she is presentable enough to not be considered mad but upon a proper inspection, you can see that her fur is wild and almost untamed. there are strands that rebel and raise away from her common partings or parts of her fur that are knotted and difficult to groom. her tail is just as bushy as her round-looking figure as it is similarly given the appearance of size by the thick masses of fur that cover it. travelling down her fluffy appearance are her ankles and paws which are made up of shorter, much more tamed, hairs which are of a baby pink colour. the base of her tail also has the same accent of pink but starts off as a darker, dullish pink and is the same case for the tips of her ears. her nose is also the same shade of colour and she owns silvery-white eyes. her figure is rather frail and the muscles on her body which should be dedicated to battle are considered underwhelming. this is not a surprise as she will frequently choose to run away from dangerous situations.
— INJURIES/ILLNESSES: none

☆ [WYVERN FORM: UNDISCOVERED]: a black-scaled wyvern with red and yellow tipped spines which act as frills. due to her age, her wyvern form is only a quarter of the wyvern's full size. her wyvern form will reach its half-way mark when she turns 12 months
— INJURIES/ILLNESSES: none

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her transformation into a wyvern is painful and graphic. not only is she suffering the pain of dying but the bones in her body is grinding against her joints, growing in size, ripping through her skin. she feels her spine crack and slide forward, dislocate and relocate and readjust into a newer, bigger, stronger body. her organs grow faster than her bones and she often feels her heart pressed tightly against the cage of her ribs, the pointed ends squeezing at her ventricles as her body rips apart itself. her jaws begin to separate by the sides, widening with new rows of teeth enlarging and appearing. spines pull themselves out of the bloody mess of her fur that is to be replaced by black scales. the spines rise in agony, wings sprout from the forelegs and the eyeballs grow into her enlarged sockets. the first feeling the wyvern often feels upon being awoken is an undeniable rage.

tintallë’s wyvern form, at its fullest size, is 2,000 lbs (907 kg) and 20 feet long (6.2 m). she sports a 42 foot wingspan (12.8 m) and, when standing on all four limbs, reaches the height of 9 feet (2.8 metres). the size and proportions of tintallë’s measurements are based on the indoraptor from jurassic world and the wingspan proportions of a vulture.

her wyvern form has reptilian skin and spines which layer along certain parts of her body such as her spinal cord and around her head, acting similarly to frills which rise and move according to different emotions. her spines are red and yellow tipped while her scales are considered and old, dark grey close enough to be considered black. she has golden eyes with green flecks surrounding the pupil. as a wyvern, she can both stand or run bipedal – this is less balanced than standing on all fours but it is not unnatural to the wyvern’s species.

as a wyvern, tintallë is wild, uncontrollable and unable to be communicated with. the release of the wyvern is an act of self-defence and at this point the wyvern can be considered a completely different character. it cares solely about survival – consider “survival of the fittest to be its motto” – so is not entirely stupid when it comes to obvious traps. like a dragon, the wyvern is capable of breathing fire.

the transformation from wyvern back to tintallë’s original form is not a painful or horrific one. the wyvern’s body will turn into a flash of light, shrinking back into her fox body. to return the wyvern, the wyvern must be put to sleep. one could wait for it to naturally tire itself out but it is dangerous due to its relentless, destructive behaviour. powerful emotion manipulation or the music of a harp can also lull the beast to sleep. upon returning back, whatever fatal wound has been caused on tintallë will be healed to a state before near-death. this means that it is still possible for her to bleed to death and therefore die despite the wyvern’s presence. at the same time, tintallë will enter debt for the transformation and amount of energy required to both become and maintain the wyvern form. she must regain that energy or starve to death – of course, she does not have to consume everything in one sitting but the longer she leaves the debt, there more interest she gathers from her body’s own requirements for food, leaving her in a state of constant hunger. a quicker way to replenish her hunger would be to drink the blood of animals as she is a vampire and carries a fragment of the aema spirit.

the form of the wyvern is not replenished upon tintallë turning back into her fox form. all injuries it has attained will continue to be a burden upon transformations to come so must be treated accordingly to ensure the strength of the beast. however, as it is barbaric, the wyvern must be immobilised but not put to sleep. it is in a healer’s best interest to keep its tail in check and jaws clamped.

P E R S O N A L I T Y
☆ [EXTERIOR] friendly, shy, reluctant, second-guessing, reserved, loyal
☆ rational, resourceful, spiritual, cowardly, curious, gullible, superstitious
☆ [INTERIOR] lonely, untrusting, wants to be liked, overimaginative
☆ easily distracted, fragile, sensitive, emotional, judgemental, cold

I N T E R A C T I O N
☆ [POWERS] amorphous (undiscovered), fire elementals (undiscovered)
☆ physically easy / mentally easy / won't start fights
☆ peaceful powerplay allowed / can be mindread without permission
☆ underline and attack in bold / tag if needed

★ ★ ★

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HOW TINTALLË CAN BE KILLED

the nature of tintallë's curse can actually be considered a defence mechanism to stop her immediate death as she was saved from dying by the spirit, rei aema. as tintallë bears a weak immune system and is expected to have to suffer a sickly childhood, the wyvern's curse was born within her. this does not, however, make her immortal and here are some of the lovely number of ways to kill her:

☆ if the wyvern is slain, tintallë is slain. to simplify the concept, tintallë's fox form is immortal but in having her body exchanged with a form of destruction and power, she becomes mortal.
☆ tintallë can starve to death after her transformation into a wyvern. when she transforms back, she suffers a massive energy debt that is present in the form of intense starvation. should she leave herself to starve, she will die. this means that during the period of time she is in debt, tintallë can be killed.
☆ the fatal wound that triggered the wyvern transformation can still kill her. when she returns back to her main form, her wound is only partially healed to stop her from immediate death. if she is not treated, she can die from the injuries as her body will be in debt and will not be able to trigger the wyvern form again.
☆ poison can kill her. similar to the point above, upon returning back to normal the spreading of the poison only slows down. this means that she can still die if the poison is fatal as her body will be in debt.
☆ finding a way to stop her transformation into a wyvern. tintallë's curse acts through shapeshifting, a power in which she has no control over. if something were to happen to stop shapeshifting from occuring, she will inevitably die.

now you may wonder if tintallë hates her wyvern curse so much, why doesn't she just leave herself in debt? as days pass, tintallë's debt is added with interest because her own body starts to feel hungry. the debt is for the wyvern while the interest is for her fox form. at the same time, tintallë finds it almost impossible to ignore the feeling of starvation. the longer she leaves herself starving but alive, the more intense the situation becomes. she will begin to be possessed by feelings of craving and desire, possibly leading to the death of someone. eventually it will be the wyvern's instincts that temporarily control tintallë because it is demanding its debt to be repaid, causing tintallë even in her fox form, to go feral until the debt is repaid. of course, the wyvern's instincts will only be a problem should tintallë choose to stay both alive and starving for too long. if she simply chooses not to eat she will starve herself to death before then.

★ ★ ★

HISTORY
this is bound to be changed and is really just full of backstory as to how tintallë gains the curse to begin with. it also has the explanation of my former character, rei aema, who was responsible for the curse - working as a closing act for rei's story.

it begins with tintallë’s grandfather, a man who comes from generations of spirit watching. her bloodline has always been close to spirits, often befriending them and offering sacrifices in return for their blessings. upon the birth of his son, tintallë’s father, a spirit visits him to grant a wish for the child. foolishly, the grandfather desires that his son shall never have to experience grief of family members – an emotion he believed to be soul crushing. his family became immortal, unable to ever die or pass on.
as the son grew up, he desired children of his own but no matter the partner he was unable to have a child. this is because the nature of his blessing did not allow him to experience family grief, meaning he could not have children. he felt the same feeling he has felt for much of his life – a second hand grief – and became obsessed with having a child. to a demon he exchanges the life of his wife for the life of a newborn child, knowing that to create life a life must be taken. and so, tintallë was born.
but the son’s meddling had caused a rupture between himself and the spirit world. his immortal family faded, having lived for so long, faded by the weight of time and his daughter was sickly. tintallë neared death and, knowing she was all he had left, he sought another spirit.

rei aema, the immortal spirit, took no interest in saving the life of tintallë but the son begged and begged for the life of his child to be saved. rei warns him that to act against the fates is to carry the burden of an overwhelming anguish but he could not be swayed. strangely, rei quickly resigns her rejection and offers the son a goblet of rei’s own blood to be drunk by tintallë, noting that the consumption of blood will turn the daughter into a vampire. to drink from the goblet would allow his daughter a long life, a life in which she cannot die until it is truly her time. measures, as the spirit points out, will be taken so that the act of dying can be greatly avoided but she adds her catch: should tintallë take a total of twelve lives within her lifetime, rei will possess her and should tintallë still die before of old age, rei will consume her spirit.
accepting the conditions, he forces tintallë to drink from the goblet. in a few days, the daughter lives but within her body is a curse of the wyvern.

rei’s immortality + goblet
just wanted to explain a few concepts regarding rei aema. she is a character i have had for three years now and, with the rebuild, it is about time she becomes a memory and a catalyst to events rather than a developed character. she is, in fact, immortal. she explains that her immortality comes from a bad run in with death but this is never confirmed to be the case. in rei’s universe, to kill a person is to pass a godly judgement. it is to take away the life of a person in favour of your own. so, in killing a child, she is to not only live her own years but also live the number of years that child would have lived – another life. murder become a common aspect of rei’s life, so much that she has become immortal. she will never die because of the lives she has taken, the lives she is taking and the lives she will take. she is destined to forever be a murderer, a taker of lives and a restless spirit.
another thing to note is the necessity of the goblet of blood. this is because the act of drinking rei’s blood is the act of accepting a contract. without her own consent, tintallë’s nearly unkillable state is due to a contract with rei. the goblet is filled with blood because of rei’s own history as being the daughter of the founder of the aema family. in greek, aema means blood so naturally the heir to the family is expected to drink the blood of the former family head. tintallë indirectly carries rei’s soul fragment, imprinted upon her soul.