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Shale Horizon; Pilot Echo
« on: October 27, 2017, 09:38:08 pm »
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Name Shale Horizon
Age 44
Gender Male
Species Kulshedra*
Ethnicity Aedolian
Height 6'8"
Occupation Pilot Echo; Haviah Harpies PR
Residence The Citadel, Haviah, Aedolis

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Physical Description

Shale is Kulshedra meaning that while humanoid and born on Aedolis as a native citizen he has features that are not entirely human. From his brow to his toes he has a smattering of light mossy green scales. They do not cover his entire body but can be found on his forehead, cheeks, shoulders, back, hips, thighs, feet, and tail. His back and tail also have thick, protruding ridges or spines running down them. At his throat he also has a darker green smattering of scales that form what looks like a gem.

His facial features are rather chiseled and sharp with a well-defined jaw. When he truly smiles, his grin splits into a massive grin that literally reaches up to his velvety soft ears. He can open his jaw quite wide to reveal a sharp set of teeth. As a rule though he remains quite polite and prefers small, closed-lip smiles for his coworkers and neighbors. His yellow eyes always are smiling and complement the color of his skin and scales. His hair is kept long though he usually ties it back. It is black with green streaks to match his scales.

As for his body, Shale is built like a tank. He is the ultimate apex predator in appearance. His body is broad-shouldered and heavily muscled. Even in his preferred attire (a full dress suit and tie, no less) it is evident that he is a strong and attractive male.

Personality

In contrast to his appearance though, Shale is a complete gentle giant. He could no more harm a fly, let alone fight someone. He is a calm and collected man. Shale is slow to anger, possessing a great deal of compassion and patience. He often is seen as quiet though that is mostly because he puts a great deal of thought into what he wishes to say. He is the kind of person that does not want to hurt another person's feelings and will do what he can to prevent it. The Kulshedra is an excellent listener and observer. He is traditionally good at reading people and tries to come up with ways to keep those around him happy.

Magic/Abilities

Telepathy: He is a rather average telepath, able to pick up loud surface thoughts and convey messages back and forth across short distances to those that are open to receiving them.

Empathy: Shale possesses a broad yet unrefined ability to feel what others around him are feeling. He can shield lesser emotions out to an extent so that he is not constantly being bombarded by every little thing around him but he nonetheless finds even doing that to still be quite exhausting. His empathic abilities are a deeply embedded part of him as he uses them to read people the same way as one would read body language. He cannot always read things right but it helps him function. Without it he would be completely lost.

The one time when he first tried to stop using it altogether after finding out he was empathic, was a month of utter hell. Shale could not function or converse with people. Everyone became angry with him and he could not understand why. Once he accepted being an empath as a part of him did he finally find his stride again.

Shale is not capable of manipulating the emotions of others nor of knowing what causes someone to feel angry or sad, only that they are. After a day of dealing with everyone and their emotions he has had to find ways to detox and recuperate so that he does not become overwhelmed and over-sensitized. The more he feels that way the less he is able to function as it is physically taxing on him as well.

Also while rare as he trained hard to control himself, it is possible that someone's emotion could be so pure and strong that not only would he feel it but that he would embody it. A person in a rage in the next room could send him into furiously slamming things about and snapping a people in irritation. It is rare though for him to lose such control. One thing that does help him though is knowing where the emotions are coming from so that he can identify "this is me and this isn't me."

Relationships

Royal Bloom: His current secret crush

Folklorn: Shale's grey, heavily armored, male dragon. He's very claws-off with Shale. The dragon has next to no interest in what the Kulshedra does as long as he falls in line, something Shale is more than eager to do. As such the pair have a quiet and indifferent relationship.

FurbabyFamily: The animal shelter that he volunteers at after hours and on the weekends. He's never told anyone at work that he does this but it is the ultimate stress relief for him to cuddle and love on all the little furbabies.

History

Shale is quite young even for his kind. He has only just reached his age of maturity 14 years ago. Growing up in Pyre town with other Kulshedra, there was always a handful of bullies that tried to make his life a living hell but otherwise things were good. He was a scrawny, little thing and usually kept to himself, preferring to play with his toys than the other children's taunts. They never had to say anything for him to know how much they hated him and his weak, sickly appearance either.

At 15 he was tested and found to be not only an average telepath but also a very strong empath. Suddenly everything he had ever perceived about people around him made sense. He was not a freakish creature of nature but a Candidate on his way to Pilot-hood. At ATC he was bullied horribly in Stages 1 and 2. It was not until he hit Stage 3 and began to hit a major growth spurt that finally people began to back down from him. He quickly became the hulk of a male he is today.

Upon graduating at 24 he was given a job working as part of the Haviah Harpies PR department. He greatly enjoys his job, finding it something both productive and soothing in its routine and challenges. The problems only started when Shale found himself completely falling in love with a certain lovely Harpy lady. He's a fool for Pilot Bloom though he's probably spoken less than a handful of words to her in all the years they've worked around each other.

*Credit to Kulshedra lore goes to Draconian who let me use it with her permission.

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