SHORT HIATUS NOTICE! i hate to do this so early but i’m going on a short hiatus from today until tuesday ( 5th~9th july ) and i won’t be at home or have access to a laptop until then (i can’t take my laptop with me as it’s technically not mine, it belongs to my dad’s school). i’ll still be around on discord via mobile so i’m happy to keep plotting with people but i won’t be able to work on threads or answer tumblr ims for a few days! i’m going to london for the nct 127 concert! c:< see you all later!
It is not with any great pride that Dal chooses to darken the fisherman’s doorstep for a second time. Indeed, showing up where he had faced failure before is a joyless affair. The seaside winds are stronger than the breezes of the mountains and the scent of salt in the air aggressive. Dal feels he stands out like a aching thumb, pained and as red as his robes all in their boastful scarlets, nor had he managed to act the part of casual visitor even once since he had come flitting about the harbour. Since he had been turned away, his attempts to come asking after a certain someone with whom he had certain issues foiled far more quickly than he had expected, he had taken his time to wait about the harbour, to listen and to hopefully learn from the fisherman at the dock. Listening had, after all, proven more useful than asking. All that had achieved was questions being thrown back his way and it had made him quite cross. Rumour floats about the island like gentle sea-foam and Dal has long believed that he who listens well will soon learn what nobody tells him. Dal waits on his target, standing by the doorway of the hut of a fisherman he’d had to pay to keep him from complaining about it. Granted, he hadn’t so much paid the man as he had shoved the coins into his hand and ordered him to be quiet but Dal is not one to get caught up in the details --- not when it doesn’t suit him to do so, at least.
“You turned me away before”, he says, obstinate, when he finally catches sight of the man he’s after, “and I did not like that at all.” His voice is raised just loud enough to be heard over the the roar of the ocean in the near distance but not so much so that he has to yell; his tone is soft but sharp, a dull knife. His speech is clear and even, retaining not a drop of the aggression of before. He had allowed his status to make him ignorant and clumsy, and he had spoken too rashly before. It is little surprise that he had left empty-handed. That much even Dal, for all his brusqueness, could admit. “But, now, I want to speak to you --- did I offend you?”
soooooo i’m utterly RUBBISH at approaching people so, to make things easier on my end, this is going to be a little plotting call! please just hit the little ♥ and i’ll jump in your IMs to plot (or ask after your discord to plot over there, if you’d prefer!) i won’t be able to message people right away but i should be able to do it tonight!
hello again! it took a little longer than planned (as in waaaaaaay longer) but here’s the character intro post as promised! hopefully, this’ll help you learn a little about dal! since i already linked my app before, this won’t really be a post that deals with his plotline/backstory (although i think i might up a longer post at some point that handles that in more detail) but just a list of dal trivia & personality traits! anything i think of, i’ll likely just share as its own post. this stuff will mostly be common knowledge so, if you want to reference it in a thread, feel free to do so! i kinda see dal as the kind of guy who’s a lil mysterious and a touch enigmatic without actually being at all secretive because he’s also a bit of a showoff--- notice me and acknowledge me but don’t actually look at me for more than six seconds straight or else i’ll curbstomp you >:3c
this is just a little technical note to start with: white tigers are really just the result of a pigment mutation and not an actual breed of tiger but, since white tigers are considered sacred in certain mythology, i’m treating the spirits as their own deal. as far as i know, white tigers in the wild are super rare and most of the ones in captivity were bred that way through inbreeding. dal, as a spirit, is more based on the concept of the celestial White Tiger (Bái Hǔ/Byakko/Baekho) but he isn’t actually THE White Tiger....if that makes sense lmao
his nickname (dal, of course) doesn’t actually bare ANY resemblance to his true name but he was titled for the legendary white tiger of legend’s relation to the moon. his true name is karam, meaning river, because he was born and raised...beside the river...
he’s one of lord tagon’s personal guards. he sees this as a terribly important job and will not fail to make it known. some might think he cares more about feeling important than the significance of the post itself but he actually puts his whole being into his work and takes it very seriously. the protection of the farmers is something he also sees as important but he isn’t especially good at keeping up relations with them. dal tends to keep most of the villagers at arm’s length, partly bc he’s a shit and partly bc he doesn’t know what to do with them, but he won’t turn anybody away if approached. sometimes he’s just...a little patronising about it.
dal is dramatic. this bullet point could easily be left as is, nothing more said, but yeah, dal is dramatic. perhaps even overdramatic at times. he manages to strike a balance between imposing and showy when he needs to but he’s still a bit of a showoff at heart and he likes to make sure his feelings are known, even if he’s over-exaggerating. he can also be a bit blunt and very brusque. this makes him seem as though he might be a cold person but he mostly doesn’t think before he talks. but not because he’s easily distracted or verbally impulsive, he just doesn’t believe he needs to think first around most people. that sort of foresight is reserved for people more powerful and important than him!!
as stated in the app, he’s a bit of a trickster. this behaviour tends to be reserved for people who can’t get him back in some way because, as much as immediate threat doesn’t seem to bother him, he’s a bit of a coward when it comes to petty revenge. planned threat, designed to foil him? now that’s spooky! his trickery is never too harmful or serious because he’s not a total bastard but he’s usually less gentle about if you’ve pissed him off as some point. the easiest way to piss him off, for the record, is to make a fool of him or embarrass him. or muss him up. Do Not!!
his favourite food is all seafood. especially fish. he grew up eating fish from rivers and considers them to have a nostalgic taste but ocean fish are the real winners. dal doesn’t warm to people all that easily but, much like an npc from [insert harvest moon, stardew valley or your favourite calming job-simulator game here], hand him a fish a day for a long enough period and he might just grow fond of you (bonus points for actual cooked dishes). but i mean he’s also that npc who’s rude to you the whole time, right up until he decides to have a change of heart, so it’s really up to you if you wanna pursue that,,,
you may notice there are certain points in dal’s backstory that are just vague bc he doesn’t remember and i want to clarify that, obvious issues with giving up his true name and losing his rights to his free identity aside, uhhhh...dal gives zero shits!! asdfghjhgfds basically, if he’s decided it’s not that big a deal to him for whatever reason, he’s not gonna remember much of it unless he really makes himself try. he’s not the kinda guy who dwells on the past very much because he’s usually way too focused on what he’s doing in the present. the logic is half lmao that’s boring, i’m changing the subject and half uhhhhhh, why would i waste time thinking abt what’s already happened when i could just use that energy on being more interesting right now, dumbass. a lot of important things did happen when he was younger and that’s why the recollection is murky in those areas. remembering your very early childhood when it happened 250+ years is a big ask.
he’s a bit of a solitary guy but not by design. dal grew up alone for the most part so he’s just not really all that used to having people around. he doesn’t go out of his way to isolate himself or anything like that but he doesn’t enjoy having too many people around. too noisy. too overwhelming. dude needs his space.
i haven’t worked out any basic wanted plots or connections yet so i’ll work on that as soon as i can! for now, the only connection that comes to mind would be for an entirely new character so i’ll leave it for when i finish up the proper page!
hello!!!! ⸜( ˙ ˘ ˙) i’m coming in a little late here but hello, i’m KOSMO (she/her, 23) and i love my cats! spirited away is a longtime fav movie for me and i consider studio ghibli a huge influence so i’m already in love with the concepts here! c’: this muse right here is DAL, a white tiger spirit who lives to be dramatic and thinks he’s much cooler than he probably is but it’s ok bc that’s very on-brand for cats of all sizes, thank u,,,
my pages aren’t finished and ready but i’ll definitely let everybody know when they are, i was just p late in applying and i just got online! in the meantime, here’s my app as an easy intro! i’ll probably throw out a little list of facts later just for good measure but i just wanted to get this out very quickly & my brain hasn’t fully turned on yet.
i DO have a discord if anybody wants it for plotting so feel free to ask for it any time. tumblr IMs also work for me so please feel free to hit me up if you want but please be patient bc i have a bit of a habit for forgetting tumblr ims EXIST AHJHGFDS...for real though, i’ll be extra vigilant with them from now!
