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Age: over 18
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Characters currently in-game: N/A
Triggers/Fears/Squicks: Zoomed in visuals of spiders, anything involving feces, worms/insects inside a living body.
Character Motivation: To save the multiverse (or so he was told).
VOLUNTEER PROFILE
Name: Tolemi Pagoda.
Age: 22
Physical Appearance: Profile
Point in Timeline: August 2020, three months after arriving in Tannery Hill, Colorado, right when a group of hunters makes their way into town looking for a retired hunter who lives on the outskirts of the small rural village.
World Description:
This is a world might seem similar to our own, only Were-breeds exist that have lived alongside humans peacefully and then not-so-peacefully as they disputed over territory and Weres rejecting human authority over them. The fighting and deaths became great enough that Hunters and Weres agreed to a treaty that gave stronger Weres authority in their territories as long as they didn’t unjustifiably attack humans, disrupt human settlements that already existed, given them right to approve or refuse new settlements, and Hunters would limit their hunting to Weres who had gone fully feral and/or committed crimes against humans. But while the stronger Breeds and clans were safe and honored within the treaty, “lesser” Breeds were left out of the dialogue and protections. Weaker breeds like the Jackalope are used as fodder and prey, hunted by stronger Weres and Hunters alike as easy kills due to their vulnerable beast-forms and their weaknesses against iron and silver.
Even in the year 2020, Jackalopes hide themselves and use a nomadic lifestyle to stay under the radar from stronger Weres and Hunters so as to not be killed or taken as thralls. Jackalopes have a strong culture of nonviolence and avoidance of conflict, to the point that they may even leave behind some of their own family and children if they are caught and think their family drove (unit) in danger of being caught, saving the many at the cost of the one or few. This is due to the curse that led some of them turning into feral carnivorous beasts who would kill their own kind for food when they allowed themselves to become too enraged or feed on raw meats. This didn’t stop them being prey for other Weres as they are still greatly smaller and weaker, but it devastated their population at the time. It’s been so long that few living Jackalope know this truth about their culture. Jackalopes also have a very strict view of mating, as they want to limit the number of litters each Pairing has if only to make it easier for them to hide them and keep them safe. Mating season is natural imperative to them, but they are encouraged to avoid mating when in their beast form. Instead it’s encouraged to mate in human form or with humans to avoid the chance for large litters.
History/Background:
Tolemi is a Jackalope from a very large family, third oldest in the third litter who was sent off into the world after gaining the ability to shift into his human-form as is the Werehare custom, and has been traveling on his own for eight years, using the Bramble underground network to stay in contact with other Jackalopes when he can, and to help him with funds or connections if needed to maintain his low profile. He even created his own last name “Pagoda” by picking it off the name of a kiosk in a mall he was in using a public telephone after he was first pushed out on his own.
He worked at a fast food restaurant first and then got a job as a waiter at restaurant called The Corkscrew where he met Josiah, the owner and led chef. When Josiah was injured he pulled Tolemi into the kitchen to be his arms and it’s been love at first spice ever since for Tolemi. Cooking, baking, barbecuing, all of it. The culinary arts became his passion. He stayed in that town for over a year, but would eventually move on and travel, studying and taking advice from any cooks or chefs he could meet while he did so while keeping himself as low key as possible.
Unlike majority of his brethren, Tolemi doesn’t agree with the belief of nonviolence and “Flee to be free” in the face of hunters and other Werebreeds. From the loss of many of his siblings as his parents fled when they were discovered and then an attack by a mugger wanting his tip money after work one night, came the realization that avoidance of all conflict left him vulnerable to even average humans with a weapon. This pushed him to want to become stronger and capable of taking care of himself, so he took the advice of a friend, Ren and began working out, taking mix martial arts and kickboxing courses and training himself to be prepared for the next attack.
He isn’t going to run anymore and he’ll go after anyone who comes for him, although he doesn’t go out of his way to look for confrontation—most of the time. In the various towns he’s found himself in, Tolemi has studied and practiced to gain a very strong skill in the culinary arts, and often looks for jobs that allow him to cook or bake, but he also does other odd jobs and handyman work to keep himself fed, as he doesn’t like relying entirely on the charity of the Bramble.
He came to Tannery Hill three months ago because he picked up a newspaper that had missed the trashcan thirty miles west in another, larger city, and saw the wanted ads included a request for a night cook at diner. The fact such a small town would be looking elsewhere for a cook made him feel like perhaps it was a sign and he hopped on a bus and rode it into town. He’s been there ever since.
Noteworthy Positive Characteristics:
Resilient - Tolemi has lost family and friends, and knows he could be killed if a Hunter or another Were gets the drop on him, but he’s not giving up. He’s living life in a mix of hypervigilance and “give no fucks” attitude where he’s almost challenging people to come at him and try and take away what happiness he’s found for himself. He doesn’t run away or give up when things get hard because things have always been hard, to him, and it makes him feel like if he can’t make it then his parents made the wrong choice to save him instead of other siblings they left behind while on the run.
Compassionate - Tolemi will always have a soft spot for those he sees as weaker and more vulnerable than himself, especially children. He remembers the feeling of being that person, of needing the extra help, and can be impulsive at times about putting himself out there to help others even if they didn’t perhaps ask for it. Whether it’s helping a little old lady weed her garden, stepping in when someone is being disrespected, or even pushing a lonely kid on a swing at the playground, he can’t help his desire to make people feel less weak or alone than they were.
Loyal - He doesn’t let people in easily but when someone has proven themselves to him, Tolemi will never give up on them. He will stand by them, won’t leave town without saying goodbye, and if he comes back that way has to take the time to see them. Not a lot of people matter to him intimately and those that do are very important to him.
Adaptable - Tolemi has had to change his story about who he is and where he’s from more than once in his life and he knows how to adjust his behavior and demeanor in order to fly under the radar. Not always easy to do for someone like him, but he does what he needs to in order to survive. There are things he refuses to compromise on, but overall he’s willing to play up the traits in himself that the people around him are responding positively to, like when he played up the Young Man In Need of Maternal Guidance to get a job from an elderly woman who ran a restaurant in Arizona whose children had all moved away from home. Sure, he was missing his mom at the time and probably needed a maternal influence, but he really just played it up even more to get her sympathy.
Noteworthy Negative Characteristics:
Stubborn Temper - While not someone who gets easily worked up, Tolemi has a temper and a lot of deep-seated anger over his lot in life and that leads him to becoming confrontational and aggressive at times when maybe he doesn’t need to. He tries to keep himself in check, as he doesn’t want to make a scene if he doesn’t have to, but if he feels he’s been insulted, that someone weaker/vulnerable needs help, he’s going to make his opinion known and not back down. He lost one of his jobs because he started a fight when some newbie showed up into town to visit a friend and insulted his garlic scallions and insisted on getting a refund AND a free meal. Like hell would he let that stand.
Fear - Much of what Tolemi does, his grumpiness, his blunt way of speaking, and his distrust of the world is because he’s never quite let go of the fear of the unknown, of the possibility he could be killed or taken captive as a thrall. He tries to portray himself as strong and unafraid of what may come, now that he’s stronger and able to protect himself, but the fear has been there his whole life.
Rude - He can be polite, cordial, and even flirtatious when he wants to, but often he just doesn’t. Tolemi doesn’t care if people like him unless it’s in the context of work and keeping a paycheck and assumes they are potential threats first, so why spare courtesy on them unless he sees them as someone vulnerable that needs it. He talks in a blunt, rough manner, as if people are guilty until proven innocent and it can make it hard want to get close to him at first. And even in the case of a job, he’s a nomadic person, so there are times when he still doesn’t care enough and if he loses his job or gets on someone’s bad side, he just ups and moves on to the next place.
Inferiority Complex - Tolemi feels that everyone sees him as lesser because he’s a Jackalope and the need to prove himself affects a lot of his decisions, including letting his temper and stubbornness get the best of him when it shouldn’t, such as starting a fight over someone saying his meat wasn’t cooked well enough.
Character Fears:
Silver, iron, having his antlers ripped out (permanently amputated), turning into a bloodthirsty beast and being caught in his Jackalope form and put into a cage.
Powers/Abilities:
As all Jackalope who make it to Near Grown years, Tolemi has the ability to shift between his beast-self and his human self. He also grows antler-like horns as all Jackalope do (although male Jackalope’s horns are much bigger and taller) and if cut off they grow back, but slower each time. A werehare has superior speed and agility to most Weres, an enhanced sense of sight, smell and hearing, and they have the ability to camouflage themselves temporarily by blending into their surroundings with glamour type magic that makes people overlook their hiding spots. But this only works if they are focusing on being disguised and only lasts for fifteen minutes at most.
Jackalope also have an instinctual understanding of nature, being able to recognize edible and poisonous foods and also having a bit of a intuitive green thumb in regards to plants, knowing what to do to help them grow and thrive. They can't talk to plants, but they have a very low-grade empathy towards them in a way, sensing how they are doing and what they need.
Personal Item: A 2.5lb bag of sunbrine root, which is a plant that can be ground up and steamed into a broth to help Jackalopes overcome silver-poisoning or turned into a medicinal paste to heal burns caused by iron.
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Action Log Sample: Log Sample
Player name: Kathrine
Age: over 18
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: N/A
Triggers/Fears/Squicks: Zoomed in visuals of spiders, anything involving feces, worms/insects inside a living body.
Character Motivation: To save the multiverse (or so he was told).
VOLUNTEER PROFILE
Name: Tolemi Pagoda.
Age: 22
Physical Appearance: Profile
Point in Timeline: August 2020, three months after arriving in Tannery Hill, Colorado, right when a group of hunters makes their way into town looking for a retired hunter who lives on the outskirts of the small rural village.
World Description:
This is a world might seem similar to our own, only Were-breeds exist that have lived alongside humans peacefully and then not-so-peacefully as they disputed over territory and Weres rejecting human authority over them. The fighting and deaths became great enough that Hunters and Weres agreed to a treaty that gave stronger Weres authority in their territories as long as they didn’t unjustifiably attack humans, disrupt human settlements that already existed, given them right to approve or refuse new settlements, and Hunters would limit their hunting to Weres who had gone fully feral and/or committed crimes against humans. But while the stronger Breeds and clans were safe and honored within the treaty, “lesser” Breeds were left out of the dialogue and protections. Weaker breeds like the Jackalope are used as fodder and prey, hunted by stronger Weres and Hunters alike as easy kills due to their vulnerable beast-forms and their weaknesses against iron and silver.
Even in the year 2020, Jackalopes hide themselves and use a nomadic lifestyle to stay under the radar from stronger Weres and Hunters so as to not be killed or taken as thralls. Jackalopes have a strong culture of nonviolence and avoidance of conflict, to the point that they may even leave behind some of their own family and children if they are caught and think their family drove (unit) in danger of being caught, saving the many at the cost of the one or few. This is due to the curse that led some of them turning into feral carnivorous beasts who would kill their own kind for food when they allowed themselves to become too enraged or feed on raw meats. This didn’t stop them being prey for other Weres as they are still greatly smaller and weaker, but it devastated their population at the time. It’s been so long that few living Jackalope know this truth about their culture. Jackalopes also have a very strict view of mating, as they want to limit the number of litters each Pairing has if only to make it easier for them to hide them and keep them safe. Mating season is natural imperative to them, but they are encouraged to avoid mating when in their beast form. Instead it’s encouraged to mate in human form or with humans to avoid the chance for large litters.
History/Background:
Tolemi is a Jackalope from a very large family, third oldest in the third litter who was sent off into the world after gaining the ability to shift into his human-form as is the Werehare custom, and has been traveling on his own for eight years, using the Bramble underground network to stay in contact with other Jackalopes when he can, and to help him with funds or connections if needed to maintain his low profile. He even created his own last name “Pagoda” by picking it off the name of a kiosk in a mall he was in using a public telephone after he was first pushed out on his own.
He worked at a fast food restaurant first and then got a job as a waiter at restaurant called The Corkscrew where he met Josiah, the owner and led chef. When Josiah was injured he pulled Tolemi into the kitchen to be his arms and it’s been love at first spice ever since for Tolemi. Cooking, baking, barbecuing, all of it. The culinary arts became his passion. He stayed in that town for over a year, but would eventually move on and travel, studying and taking advice from any cooks or chefs he could meet while he did so while keeping himself as low key as possible.
Unlike majority of his brethren, Tolemi doesn’t agree with the belief of nonviolence and “Flee to be free” in the face of hunters and other Werebreeds. From the loss of many of his siblings as his parents fled when they were discovered and then an attack by a mugger wanting his tip money after work one night, came the realization that avoidance of all conflict left him vulnerable to even average humans with a weapon. This pushed him to want to become stronger and capable of taking care of himself, so he took the advice of a friend, Ren and began working out, taking mix martial arts and kickboxing courses and training himself to be prepared for the next attack.
He isn’t going to run anymore and he’ll go after anyone who comes for him, although he doesn’t go out of his way to look for confrontation—most of the time. In the various towns he’s found himself in, Tolemi has studied and practiced to gain a very strong skill in the culinary arts, and often looks for jobs that allow him to cook or bake, but he also does other odd jobs and handyman work to keep himself fed, as he doesn’t like relying entirely on the charity of the Bramble.
He came to Tannery Hill three months ago because he picked up a newspaper that had missed the trashcan thirty miles west in another, larger city, and saw the wanted ads included a request for a night cook at diner. The fact such a small town would be looking elsewhere for a cook made him feel like perhaps it was a sign and he hopped on a bus and rode it into town. He’s been there ever since.
Noteworthy Positive Characteristics:
Resilient - Tolemi has lost family and friends, and knows he could be killed if a Hunter or another Were gets the drop on him, but he’s not giving up. He’s living life in a mix of hypervigilance and “give no fucks” attitude where he’s almost challenging people to come at him and try and take away what happiness he’s found for himself. He doesn’t run away or give up when things get hard because things have always been hard, to him, and it makes him feel like if he can’t make it then his parents made the wrong choice to save him instead of other siblings they left behind while on the run.
Compassionate - Tolemi will always have a soft spot for those he sees as weaker and more vulnerable than himself, especially children. He remembers the feeling of being that person, of needing the extra help, and can be impulsive at times about putting himself out there to help others even if they didn’t perhaps ask for it. Whether it’s helping a little old lady weed her garden, stepping in when someone is being disrespected, or even pushing a lonely kid on a swing at the playground, he can’t help his desire to make people feel less weak or alone than they were.
Loyal - He doesn’t let people in easily but when someone has proven themselves to him, Tolemi will never give up on them. He will stand by them, won’t leave town without saying goodbye, and if he comes back that way has to take the time to see them. Not a lot of people matter to him intimately and those that do are very important to him.
Adaptable - Tolemi has had to change his story about who he is and where he’s from more than once in his life and he knows how to adjust his behavior and demeanor in order to fly under the radar. Not always easy to do for someone like him, but he does what he needs to in order to survive. There are things he refuses to compromise on, but overall he’s willing to play up the traits in himself that the people around him are responding positively to, like when he played up the Young Man In Need of Maternal Guidance to get a job from an elderly woman who ran a restaurant in Arizona whose children had all moved away from home. Sure, he was missing his mom at the time and probably needed a maternal influence, but he really just played it up even more to get her sympathy.
Noteworthy Negative Characteristics:
Stubborn Temper - While not someone who gets easily worked up, Tolemi has a temper and a lot of deep-seated anger over his lot in life and that leads him to becoming confrontational and aggressive at times when maybe he doesn’t need to. He tries to keep himself in check, as he doesn’t want to make a scene if he doesn’t have to, but if he feels he’s been insulted, that someone weaker/vulnerable needs help, he’s going to make his opinion known and not back down. He lost one of his jobs because he started a fight when some newbie showed up into town to visit a friend and insulted his garlic scallions and insisted on getting a refund AND a free meal. Like hell would he let that stand.
Fear - Much of what Tolemi does, his grumpiness, his blunt way of speaking, and his distrust of the world is because he’s never quite let go of the fear of the unknown, of the possibility he could be killed or taken captive as a thrall. He tries to portray himself as strong and unafraid of what may come, now that he’s stronger and able to protect himself, but the fear has been there his whole life.
Rude - He can be polite, cordial, and even flirtatious when he wants to, but often he just doesn’t. Tolemi doesn’t care if people like him unless it’s in the context of work and keeping a paycheck and assumes they are potential threats first, so why spare courtesy on them unless he sees them as someone vulnerable that needs it. He talks in a blunt, rough manner, as if people are guilty until proven innocent and it can make it hard want to get close to him at first. And even in the case of a job, he’s a nomadic person, so there are times when he still doesn’t care enough and if he loses his job or gets on someone’s bad side, he just ups and moves on to the next place.
Inferiority Complex - Tolemi feels that everyone sees him as lesser because he’s a Jackalope and the need to prove himself affects a lot of his decisions, including letting his temper and stubbornness get the best of him when it shouldn’t, such as starting a fight over someone saying his meat wasn’t cooked well enough.
Character Fears:
Silver, iron, having his antlers ripped out (permanently amputated), turning into a bloodthirsty beast and being caught in his Jackalope form and put into a cage.
Powers/Abilities:
As all Jackalope who make it to Near Grown years, Tolemi has the ability to shift between his beast-self and his human self. He also grows antler-like horns as all Jackalope do (although male Jackalope’s horns are much bigger and taller) and if cut off they grow back, but slower each time. A werehare has superior speed and agility to most Weres, an enhanced sense of sight, smell and hearing, and they have the ability to camouflage themselves temporarily by blending into their surroundings with glamour type magic that makes people overlook their hiding spots. But this only works if they are focusing on being disguised and only lasts for fifteen minutes at most.
Jackalope also have an instinctual understanding of nature, being able to recognize edible and poisonous foods and also having a bit of a intuitive green thumb in regards to plants, knowing what to do to help them grow and thrive. They can't talk to plants, but they have a very low-grade empathy towards them in a way, sensing how they are doing and what they need.
Personal Item: A 2.5lb bag of sunbrine root, which is a plant that can be ground up and steamed into a broth to help Jackalopes overcome silver-poisoning or turned into a medicinal paste to heal burns caused by iron.
VOLUNTEER SAMPLES
Network Sample: Text Sample
Action Log Sample: Log Sample