#alatum

[pandykae]

Up to draw my lovely Characters Alatum and his partner in crime Parum?

Their current states in the void. //idunnohowtodrawblood*cough*

[uswildflowers]

Lythrum alatum

[tatum-martin]

Once, we left the world alone We took a night to call our own You stole my breath with just a glance Once upon a time, we danced

[fantroll-purgatory]

Alatum Rimosa

Alatum comes from Cinnamomum alatum, a type of Laurel tree.  Rimosa also comes from a type of  Laurel tree, Machilus rimosa.  I chose these for the names as he lives in a hardwood forest, which has an abundance of Laurel trees.  His symbol is honestly a symbol from Japanese maps that dictates where hardwood forests are located. I thought it suited him well (but if you have any other suggestions, I’d love to hear! :D), considering that’s where he lives and many of his interests reside.  Bees and wasps are a large pollinator of hardwood forests, too, but bees/wasps aren’t really his thing. I’ll explain the relevance of them later.   He’s located on Alternia, just for reference sake.   His blood color is #A11E00, in between Aradia and Tavros.   His trollian handle is  tectonicCuriosity   It refers to his interest in geology.  Speaking of interests, his interests are geology, geography, biology, botany, bird-watching, hunting, gardening, and FLARPing.  Growing up in the forest, he developed an interest for the world around him. He loves studying plants and even dabbles with medicinal usages of herbs. He’s always enjoyed studying rocks and digging down layers to study the types found in different ages. He’s an avid mountain climber, too, and enjoys researching different climates, as well as the trends of social geography. His favorite animals are birds. Birds birds birds. He adores watching them and studying them and drawing them.  He’s an excellent hunter as he’s always had to provide for himself. He’s just as good at gathering and knows the difference between poisonous and safe plants and what to avoid. His strife specibus is Hunting Knifekind, which he uses to gather meats and also cut through brush when things get thick. 

So the story you are telling here is one of the intelligent Wildman. Works fine. That said I reaaaaaally want this guy to have a huge ego because the first thing I associate with laurels is Julius Caesar, who was known for CHASTIZING PIRATES BECAUSE THEY DEMANDED TOO LOW A BOUNTY FOR HIM. Please, please let this be a part of his personality.

He’s got a second, though. Pesticidekind. This is where bees and wasps are relevant. His choosing of location when he was a wriggler was poor and he landed himself in an area quite swarming with wasps and bees. When he was younger and tried to go out exploring, he often returned covered in stings. Growing up with this, he’s come to loathe bees and wasps. He goes out of his way to fuck with them and kill them. If he sees one, he’s liable to follow it until he can smash it. His home is unfortunately surrounded by the irritating underground hives of mud daubers, who don’t much appreciate his digging. He has fun gassing them out and researching the structures of their hives.  Another way he messes with them is through his specific ability. He’s a prideful wielder of Echokinesis, or the ability to manipulate sound. It doesn’t sound too extravagant, but it can be dangerous. He’s able to conjure concentrated bursts of sound that, if shot directly into the ground, can create very small-scale earthquakes. He’s also able to create shrill or piercing sound in air and intensify noise. It’s only enough to permanently injure or erupt the eardrum if one is subjected to it for extremely long period of time, but short exposure can cause loss of balance or coordination during a fight. He’s more liable to use this on animals when hunting them than on other trolls, though. And even more likely to use it on wasps and bees. He can obstruct their communication or intercept and change signals between them, basically hot-wiring them to fight one-another. In a desperate situation, he could call on the help of any echo-friendly insect or animal (ex. ants, bats, etc.). 

I…dooooon’t know if I like this power. It sounds like 2 powers rather than one, and can get waaaaay OP (although I suppose Aradia was the same…) At the very least, I think you should limit him to a single ability; the high-pitched noise sounds acceptable as a way to disable his opponents. This tactic of grabbing support is one he’s easily up to in FLARPing. Alatum enjoys being tricky and putting things to his advantage. He’s one to easily use guerrilla warfare in a FLARPing situation and hold is understanding of the land to his advantage. Basically, he’ll do anything to get the upper hand. He’s not afraid to fight dirty.   His lusus is a Kiwi, which he adores because bird. It’s also an interesting kind that can’t fly, which intrigues him even more. He feels privileged to have such a lusi, as, because of the eat-or-be-eaten ways of the wild and the Kiwi’s inability to fly, Kiwi are going extinct. He’s very protective over his lusus because it is a beautiful majestic adorable creature and don’t you dare fuck with it it is endangered he will summon the evil asshole wasps to sting your ass. 

:) What a friggin’ cutie. I also like that he has a slightly underpowered lusus, since he’s a lowblood. His fetch modus is Trivia. To remove an item from his captchalogue, he has to answer a trivial trivia question about the object in question. He loves to flaunt his intelligence, but more often than not he ends up having to look up the answer on his husktop or in an encyclopedia. He’s just too prideful to change it. 

Hahaha I like it. He’s a Mage of Mind. I take the Mage as the active class of understanding. That means he actively understands and has direct knowledge of the aspect of Mind, and therefor decisions and logic. He often uses his understanding of people’s intentions and outcomes as well as his heightened intellect as excuses and justifications to get away with doing things that benefit himself. Though he’s all for helping as well, trying to get people to understand logical fallacies and make good decisions. Being on a team with him in FLARP is a privilege as well as a curse, as he seems to know other’s moves before they move, but he also expects his partner to understand just as easily without him explaining, and gets frustrated when they don’t. Overall he tries to be a compassionate person, but logical always comes over emotion, and his own success above the success of others.  His clothes are all in black with the exception of his symbol and shoe-laces, which are his blood color. He tends not to wear baggy clothes so they can’t be snagged on anything, but wears long-sleeved shirts so bees can’t get in. He also tucks the ends of his sleeves into his leather gloves, which he tanned himself, so that he can smash bees and wasps with his hands without being stung. His pants are, like-wise, tucked into his boots to keep bees from getting in.  He keeps his hair short so that bees can’t fly in and get stuck, as well as the advantage of not getting his hair caught on anything.

BEES?! (beads) BEES! Sorry for the picture being that I don’t have photoshop anymore at the moment because computer crash so I can’t sprite a thing.  Also I can’t think of any horns for him, so I went with simple. If you’ve got any better ideas, I’d love to hear them. :) Thank you for the time! 

Okay I uh…I like him! I feel like you could add a lot more information re: how he interacts with other trolls, but I like him! Here’s a sprite:

Hope you like!

- TR