Lachlan Stromness

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Lachlan Stromness (Pronounced: Lock-lahn) Also goes by "Lachie."

Age: 17
Species: Sea Otter
Gender: Male
Appearance:

Lachie is covered head to footpaw in a typical, darkly-coloured brown shade of fur, the only exception being that of his belly, which fades softly into a creamy, light brown patch of fur.
Like his father, Lachie possesses two, deep blue eyes, that, unlike his father's, probably do perceive everything about a beast. In addition to the dissimilar perception, Lachie maintains the use of both of his eyes, whereas his father is completely blind in one eye. The only downside that Lachie can find to this is that he doesn't get the privilege of wearing the eye patch, which, at least in his eyes, makes anybeast looker more intimidating.
Lachie's usual attire consists of a short-sleeved or sleeveless (during warm seasons) light blue/teal-ish shirt, faded black trousers (though not quite so faded as to constitute renaming them gray), and black boots similar in hygiene to that of his father's (they probably haven't been washed in seasons). During colder seasons, he prefers the aforementioned light blue sleeveless shirt resting over a rather warm, long-sleeved shirt, of which, he has five exact copies, all white in color.
Lachie stands proportionally around 5'10 in feet, a good foot shorter than his father. Thus far, Lachie has grown very gradually, developing at a rather slow pace, but it is expected that, as his father before him, he will bloom late, probably reaching his father's height. Lachie has a strong build, just as his father, and is rather burly in stature for an otter of his seasons. You see, he is aware of his father's size, and intends to surpass him upon reaching his full height. He isn't nearly as intimidating in appearance as his father, but is still strong enough, that, were he not so dependent on his cane, he might make an attacker think twice.
He has several scars from various incidents, but not nearly as many as his father, who doesn't really look any different from any other hard working otter of his seasons. Although Lachie is clean of all tattoos, he intends to change that in coming seasons.

Belongings:

Lachie is unable to walk very well, still recovering from wound that would have, if any worse, confined him to a wheelchair. Instead, the young otter uses a cane to provide the necessary support. Until the muscles in his left leg are properly healed, he will be incapable of walking with much ease, let alone running at all.

Job or Position:

Lachie has too few seasons accumulated to have an actual job, but he is often hired as a seer, or simply private investigator. Generally, seers aren't for hire, but well-known as the Stromness name is, Lachie advertises, in a way, and therefore has an easy time of finding clients.

Personality:

Outwardly, Lachie appears to be a carefree, optimistic, somewhat obnoxious otter. But on the inside, he is...well...pretty much exactly that. Although this, of course, is not always the case, as everybeast shows different sides, it does describe Lachie's general attitude. He prefers to keep something of an optimistic outlook and achieves this by attempting to take virtually nothing seriously. This behaviour mainly consists of the frequent placement of various random remarks between the sentences of a more relevant dialogue, especially those in which he is not included intentionally. The reactions he receives from doing so are negative, as would be expected, but for some reason, probably one similar to that of a dibbun who enjoys splattering pudding on the wall or his oblivious friend, he quite finds the reactions amusing. Despite this blatant disregard for etiquette in speech and/or the thoughts of the general public, Lachie manages to maintain a certain level of respect, though whether through goodhearted intentions or sheer intellectual efficiency as a seer remains uncertain. That he lacks the solemn demeanor of his father, however, is an understatement.

Inwardly, Lachlan can be a far more serious individual. Like his father before him, he is a very stubborn, determined otter. When he has set his mind on something, it cannot be unset. Paw in paw with this stubbornness is his presumably inherited overprotective side that, also like his father's, can take the form of an overly-controlling one. Overall, Lachie is very much like his father, but acts otherwise.

Another exception to this similarity is the difference between their minds. Barr is simply a sensible, relatively normal individual in reference to the mind, but Lachie is slightly different. Rather than settle for average, he constantly tries to develop his mind beyond that of a typical otter of his seasons. However, he is not as eccentric about his studies as other such beasts, but rather prefers to learn neither the easy nor the difficult way, but instead the fun way. For instance, he learned of the nature of gravity at the age of five by tossing pastries upward in such a way that they would land on Lachina -- this ultimately resulted in what Lachlan and Lachina would come to know as the "pastry incident." To learn about the nature of more sentient beings (i.e., beasts), he will ask a few questions, and watch their features and habits as they answer, all the while saying the strangest of things in order to play with their minds. Somehow or another, Lachie will finish the conversation knowing possibly more about the one to whom he was speaking that his/her friends might know. If anything, Lachie can learn of any and almost every secret faster than anybeast Barr knows of.
As mentioned before, Lachie has also been gifted with a photographic memory. This is similar to Alison's "identic tonal memory," per se, but rather than remembering sounds, pitches, tones, and such, Lachie remembers images, colors, patterns, and basically anything he sets his eyes on.

Lachie's most significant mental attribute is that of being a seer. Lachie is the first goodbeast-seer in many seasons, as most seers of the past and present have been and still are vermin. This makes Lachie's claim a rather far fetched one, but he compensates for this almost ridiculous claim through pure talent. Although he can easily discern much about anybeast he meets during only the first few conversations, he also learns things that he couldn't possibly know were he not a seer -- or could he? Nobeast is completely certain if he is a seer or not, not even his father. His sister, Lachina was the only one to ever know the answer, and she never told anybeast, deciding that it would be more fun that way.

History and Background Information:

Lachlan was born just before Barr and Aileen arrived at the shore on their trip across the Western Sea. Lachina was born soon afterward. Or was Lachina born first? Truthfully, neither of the parents could remember which of the otterbabes was born first, and to this day, nobeast really knows. Lachie and Lachina would playfully argue back and forth over the matter in seasons to come.

Barr wanted to raise his offspring based on his view of their future, and at the time, he favored the idea of raising otters who made little mistakes. And so, he decided that he would teach the two to notice everything necessary -- if one notices everything, then one will not miss anything, and if one does not miss anything, then little room is left for error. Well, nobeast could notice everything -- it took several beasts to do that. Instead of trying to teach both otters to notice everything, he thought that he would teach each of them to notice half of everything. This way, the two of them together would notice everything with only half the effort. Makes perfect sense.

As well as training mentally throughout his life (so far, at least), Lachie was raised working almost as hard as his father. Barr didn't want to work Lachie as hard as his father had, but as hard as Barr had worked, his idea of light work wasn't exactly...well...light. But then, it didn't seem to affect Lachie at all. If anything, the physical activity kept his mind active, and sped his ability to process thoughts.

Lachie and Lachina had many little adventures as they grew older. The most memorable was one they had around the age of five -- the pastry incident. Neither ever spoke of the incident except to each other, because every time they tried to tell another beast, neither could get a single word across that wasn't broken up by laughter. Nobeast knew what had happened, but everybeast knew how funny it was. Various other times, the two would be caught messing with somebeast's mind by combining their skills; Lachie might ask some random beast awkward and unusual questions, while Lachina stood a short distance behind that beast signaling to Lachie as to how truthfully he/she answered. If the one being questioned noticed Lachie glance at Lachina, he/she would turn to see her pulling a strange face at him/her, and meanwhile Lachie would run away so that when the beast turn to look back at Lachie, the otter would be gone, whilst Lachina "disappeared" as well.

Lachlan and Lachina's most favorite form of mischief was when Lachie would be a seer. Nobeast believed him at first, of course, so he would point out a few things about them that he noticed on first glance. Naturally, he'd be told that anybeast could notice such things, at which point, he would place a paw to the side of his head, close his eyes, and tell him/her something that (at least seemingly) could not possibly be known unless he were a seer. Sometimes, he would be asked for help with some usually petty matter that the "client," per se, believed only a seer could resolve. Lachie brought Lachina along every time, not only because she was his twin, nor that the whole scheme was her idea, but because she was the best lier he had ever known, and knew how to keep a story believable. Despite resolving every problem they were initially hired for, the two would over-dramatize everything (including the paw-to-the-head-closing-eyes thing), making it so painfully obvious that they didn't know what they were doing, that their "clients" would wonder if Lachie really was a seer. If so, he was the least serious one ever. (Some of this brand of humour rubbed off on six-seasons-old Alison, to the disapproval of Barr and Aileen.)

At the age of fifteen seasons, Barr announced that the family would finally be sailing away to live on Green Isle. Apparently, Barr had some extra business to finish first, so Lachie, Lachina, Alison, Kirsty, and their mother were all sent ahead of him. Lachie looked forward to living on Green Isle -- he would finally be able to associate with otters such as himself aside from his sisters. Lachina anticipated the same thing, but both of the twins were already planning what to do with their next victims.

Lachie remembers little of what happen on the ship. Something caused a tremor in the ship, and it soon began to sink. The next thing he knew, he was swimming away from the sunken ship, desperately trying to hold onto Kirsty, who had injured her leg and couldn't swim. He doesn't remember what happened entirely, but somehow, Kirsty slipped away from him while Alison, Aileen, and everybeast visibly on board was pulled down with the ship. He can't bring to mind anything about Lachina during that time, but he is certain of one thing: he was the only survivor of the shipwreck.

Lachie found himself washed up on shore, crying until he no longer could. Disoriented, he began walking in what he thought to be the direction from which the ship had come. He didn't realize for a good measure of time that ships don't travel inland. Upon regaining his composure, he began walking back in what he knew was the direction from whence the ship had come. But he found nobeast. The place he had once known as home stood barren and empty. Not even the wind seemed to stir. Lachie feared the worst -- that his father was captured. He is now making his way resolutely through Mossflower, a somewhat ingenious plan in mind.

May it be noted that within the first week of his searching, he found that he could no longer rise to his footpaws; his left leg would not allow it. Somehow, he got by with a walking stick, which he eventually whittled down into a nice cane.

Any other details:

Here's something Lachie doesn't even know: Two members of his family are alive.

Moving on...

Friends and acquaintances: Barr Stromness - father
Aileen Stromness
Lachina - sister - twin
Alison - sister
Kirsty - sister

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