GENERAL INFO
Real name: Kagubatan Jacinto Manuela
First Name Meaning: tagalog word for forest, wilderness, and jungle
Initials: KJM
Proxy of: Slenderman
Proxy Rank: 5B
Proxy Job: carries out assassinations and highly intricate missions, secondary job is guarding the top secret slender mansion files
Powers: immortality, high endurance, fast healing (all due to Slenderman)
Disorders: PTED, alexithymia, IED
Disabilities: dysgraphia, RISP (chronic sleep paralysis)
Ethnicity: latino-tagalog (from dad) and manabó (from mom)
Country of Origin: The Phillipines
Languages: tagalog, spanish, manabó, english
Hometown: Rosario, Agusan del Sur, Philippines
RELATIONSHIPS
Main Boss: Slenderman
Secondary Boss: Masky
Boyfriend: Vex
Friends: Skully, Nathan, Rogue, Ben, EJ
OTHER
Weapons Proficiency: bows, revolvers, combat knives, hunting knives
Skills: archery, aeta archery, intelligence, survival skills, eidetic memory, multilingualism, generally good at deciphering any form of poor handwriting
Height: 5"10
Sexuality: aegosexual-biromantic
Gender: cis male
Age: 22
Fears: dystychiphobia (fear of accidents), bathophobia (fear of deep places and depths), autophobia (fear of being alone)
Tattoos of Tigwa Manobo men, including Datu José Padao (last image; died in 2015) from Kibongkog, San Fernando, Bukidnon.
My father who is of Agusan Manobo descent once spoke of meeting older relatives who were the last to be tattooed of their generation. I don’t have pictures of them so I can only wonder if they looked anything like these. It seems other Manobos had kept their tattooing customs for longer than my family did.
WATCH: The Save Our Schools Network Southern Mindanao posted a video of Bai Lita Ambuat, niece of the late Talaingod chieftain Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan Bigkay. Ambuat accompanied Bigkay for the past twenty years and said they fulfilled Bibyaon’s wish to be buried right away.
The chieftain sought sanctuary in Manila until her death last November 20.
Ambuat refuted her relatives, Rurelyn Mandacawan and Benito Bigkay, who requested the exhumation of the remains of Bibyaon, saying this is against the tradition of the Manobo. She also accused both of them of trying to take advantage of this matter to take money.
Mandacawan and Bigkay appeared last February 23 in a press conference with the Mindanao Indigenous People’s Council of Elders, a group that openly red-tagged the Lumad schools that Bibyaon had helped establish and defended.
For the #Talaingod Manobo, receiving a #tattoo ensures their well-being in the afterlife. Throughout the Philippines, only the Kalinga in northern Luzon and the #Manobo in #Mindanao still have living tattoo traditions. . Repost @salupongan.international
BY BALIKBATIK ON INSTAGRAM: “Manobo handembroidered denim jackets, masterfully created by Ata Langilan Manobo artisans of San Fernando, Bukidnon.”
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