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Name: Tuja
Name Meaning: It's very close to the Indonesian word for "seven."
Nick-names: Jaja, Featherbrain
Image: Ahahha.
Birthday: October 2, XXXX
Zodiac Sign:
Age: 7 [Mental equivalent to a 16year old human]
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Asexual; feels affection for any gender, but has no sexual urges.
Single or Taken? Single
Species: Gryphon: Cuckoo / Lioness
Height: Five feet tall, whether seated or standing, due to torso length.
Weight: One hundred and fifty pounds. Lions are hefty critters, yanno.
Eye Color: Dark brown
Hair Color: Brown-gray.
Affiliation: Unknown
Religion: Unknown
Occupation: Wanderer!
Birth Place: Unknown at this time
Location: Unknown
Most Used Phrase(s): Pending
Character of Mine Most Likely to... Pending
Finished Threads: Pending
Current Threads: Pending
__________________I n-Depth Stuff
Physical Description: Five feet tall, with the front part of her body taking bird characteristics, specifically those of a yellow-billed cuckoo: her head is rounded, with large dark brown eyes, soft white feathers around her face, down the front of her throat and chest across her belly. The feathers on her head, shoulders and back are a soft brownish gray. Her ears are long and tufted, like a lynx's, and very mobile. Her beak is about a foot long, curving slightly before coming to a sharp point; sharp enough to injure but no where like a raptor-type bird's beak. It is gray on the top, and yellow on the bottom. She sometimes wears an elaborate leather harness-type mask, decorated with long feathers, beads and shiny pieces of glass.
Her front legs are like those of a bird: scaled and taloned, though her front paws have five talons. She's very dexterous, able to use her paws as hands, though she has to be careful not to claw people or what she's holding. Her grip is very strong, and her talons very sharp. She usually wears leather bracelets with crystal shards and feathers at about the "elbow" point of her arms.
Her body starts morphing into a lioness's directly behind her shoulders. Her fur is short and soft, brown-gray along the back and the outsides of her legs, white down her belly and the insides of her legs. Her tail is longer than a normal lioness's - about seven feet in length. Instead of ending in a lioness's tuft, it ends in a fan of gray-and-white feathers.She decorates it with leather straps and crystal as well.
She has a respectable wingspan - eight feet per wing, giving her a wingspan of about seventeen and a half feet once her shoulders are added in. Her feathers are the same color as the rest of her - the long flight feathers darker than the rest of them, the undersides of her wings are white, while the top, "outer" sides are the same soft gray as her head-feathers. She does not decorate her wings.
Personality: Cheerful, bright - both as in "happy" and "intelligent" - and bubbly, with a mischievous streak as wide as her wings. She's painfully honest, optimistic to a fault, and highly resilient, easy to trust. She doesn't take things personally, tending to let things roll off her shoulders like water off of a duck's back.
She does get sad, but when she does it doesn't tend to stick around. Her negative emotions are like flash-floods: not fun to be a target of, by any means, but disappearing as fast as they come.
She does have a few quirks - she thinks like a predator, at times, and has the attention span of a goldfish, as well as a bird's fascination with all things flashing and shiny - but hey. We all have our faults, yeah?
Weaknesses: She's too trusting at times, she tends to take things at face value instead of looking into motivations. She talks too much, and doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word "tact." She has a short attention span, drawn from one "shiny" venture to another as soon as the previous activity or conversation bores her. She's a horrible liar. She can't taste sweet things. Her ears are very sensitive to loud, piercing noises; her nose is sensitive to strong smells - spices, chemicals and the suchlike; and her eyes are sensitive to rapid changes in the light. Going from very bright to dark would be no problem, but going from dark, dim or regular light to very bright would cause her extreme pain.
Strengths: Her basic animalistic abilities - hearing, smell, sight - and her ability to learn. She rarely makes the same mistake twice, and if she does make the same mistake twice it is because the events leading to the mistake held no similarities to the previous mistake. She's very, very strong, and her ability to fly gives her an advantage to some. Once her attention is drawn to something that seems "off," like the motives of a person being less honorable than they seem on the surface, she can analyse things remarkably quickly: her mind has to have the signs pointed out to her first, though.
Likes: Shiny, glittery, glowing things. Fish, talking to people, talking at people, puzzles, taking things apart, flying, playing with people, wrestling. Catnip.
Dislikes: Mean people, very bright light, loud things. Water in large amounts, tight places where she can't spread her wings. Being considered an animal. Putting things back together. Extremely hates horses.
Magic/Abilities: The ability to make herself seem as if she's not there, kind-of a cower that prevents people from noticing her, or - if they already know she's there - making it difficult to remember that she's there. Strong willed people will be able to remember that she is there, and people who are expecting it will be able to override the misdirection. But if someone enters a room, expecting it to be empty, and she's there using this ability, the typical being will not notice her presense unless she gives herself away somehow. Supposedly, as a gryphon, she should be able to instinctively know when people are lying - but she seems to either not have this gift or it hasn't manifested itself.
Family: Tonic, father, living.
Garuda, mother
Hama, older halfsister, living.
Tyla, older halfsister, living.
Jimi, older halfbrother, living.
Foxwink, older halfbrother, living.
Loki, older halfsister, living.
Oboie, older halfsister, living.
[Tuja]
Kilo, hatchbrother [younger by ten minutes], living.
Asa, hatchsister, [younger by ten minutes], living.
Biun, younger halfsister, living.
Kou, younger halfbrother, living.
Tuhu, younger halfbrother, living.
Friends: Pending
Foes: Pending
History: Pending
Commentary: I like Tuja. She's a fun character - hoping to fill up the "Pending!" bits soon.
