Midnight

[dragoneyez]

Your character's full name: Midnight Waters
Age: 20
Species: Sea Otter
Gender: Male
Appearance:

His fur it black as Midnight, he has entense piercing dark eyes and he is armed to the teeth.

He's no creature you want to run into in the dark. Midnight bares a large scar accross his chest from a sword, his arms and paws hand have hundred claws marks from his battles.

His ears are frayed and he has a small blue tatoo of a fish hook on his left cheek. He also has a pike tooth hung around his neck.

Midnight is armed to the fangs one glance is all it takes to know that he's no creature to be trifled with. The sea otter has a cutlass and a recurve composite bow at his back, a large hunting knife at his side by a pouch made of treated seaweed and a formable battle ax tucked in his eel skin belt.

Belongings:

Belongings:
Cutlass sheathed across his shoulders, black recurve composite bow and arrows overtop in opposite direction along and long harpoon usually for fish, battle ax at his belt, large pouch made of cured seaweed that is on the belt of his left hip. containing smoked fish, flint, compass needle and thread.

Job or Position:

He is on a six year journey of wandering as a test and right of passage to become a man and a warrior.

Personality:

Midnight is cold as the northern waters he is from and very dangerous individual. He travels along waters keeping to himself as much as possible. There's not much known about him because he usually no one sees him as he passes by and if they do they never live to tell. He is from the north and a part of a secretive band that send out their young warriors for six years as right of passage. His main diet is meat, preferring fish but he has no qualms about eating his enemies insides if he's hungry. He is savage, but has sense of honor and admires strength and prowess in battle, stay out of his way treat him well and he'll leave you be.

He may be and act cruel and uncaring, but this is do to the way he was brought up and largely expects the world to act the same way toward him. Kindness and hospitality foreign are him and it is quite evident by his scares he is not dressed to receive such.

History and Background Information:

Again, Midnight is from the north and part of a very secretive, very savage clan that send out their young warriors for six years to prove themselves as a right of passage. His lifestyle of growing up was stoic, he was not even permitted to sleep on a bed or palette for his people viewed that such luxuries would make there people lose there edge in battle. Midnight was trained up as a warrior in very harsh northern environment, he knows nothing of mercy... it was kill or be killed. As the was the culture of his clan, from an infant Midnight was even forbidden and discouraged all emotion. In seclusive clan the children were forbidden to laugh in public, no smiles, no jokes. Midnight grew up in a place were the music was low and grim and the songs mournful melodies of constant state of death. His elders did not tell him stories of cheer and happy endings, no... stories spoken around his camp fires were not pleasant ones... there are no happy endings for the brave warriors... only death with honor at a gruesome horribly ending sparing no details and if he cried for the fallen heroes their slain loved ones, he was beaten and was not fed the following day, and if he cried while being beaten he was not permitted it eat for a weak... As dark as his name Midnight was taught the darker realities of life and to embrace them as a warrior should... for the only true hope and the most a warrior should ever desire in life is a righteous ending.

Like all young warriors he was sent out alone on six year journey as a test of and right passage to become a man and a warrior of his clan. In his journeys he has encountered pirates, hordes of vermin, other otters and even had the bad run with a hare portral... which was accustomed to dealing with all say for the hare portal... this encounter however was one he has never forgotten and he now has a deep loothing for them.

as he has journey to fresh water streams taking a liking the warmer waters of the south and the abundant food.

Any other details:

Code Words: -Correct-

[Tirael]

Alright, let's see here...

You wrote more about Midnight's clan than you did about Midnight...while it's good that we know where he came from, we don't really know much of anything about him. His personality needs a bit more dimension/depth, and there should be more about his personal history. Overall, it needs to be more focused on him.

[dragoneyez]

k

[dragoneyez]

coolbeans! how is that?

[Tirael]

Erm...about the history...it still sounds more like a description of his day-to-day life than an actual biography. You know, who his family was, what happened as he grew up, what he accomplished, when he left to go on his rite of passage, etc. Sorry if I sound picky, we just need to know this information. Once you do that, it'll be accepted.

[dragoneyez]

got it

[Rocky]

Hold up. Crossbows aren't allowed, are they?

[Treble Tiderunner]

I believe not, and neither are lighters.

[lorki]

Replace it with a good Ol' Bow and maybe a flint rock. It'll be good.

[Rocky]

And what of the harpoon? That's not a trigger thing, right? Could you explain it a little?

[dragoneyez]

Why aren't crossbows allowed.

A massive crossbow was used in an attempt to kill the warlord Cluny the Scourge.

[Tirael]

And note that that was the only time a crossbow appeared. In the book we all take to be the least reliable as an information source because Jacques was still figuring out his little world. We just don't want crossbows, and rules are rules.

[Rocky]

That crossbow wasn't necessarily meant to be a crossbow. It was just meant to shoot something at Cluny, and no one invented the crossbow in redwall.

[dragoneyez]

not in redwall... but perhaps an outside redwall in the northern lands some might carry them

[Tirael]

It doesn't matter, crossbows aren't allowed, and this isn't the place to debate it. Rules are rules.