Likari Blackstar
Full Name - Likari Blackstar
Preferred name(s) - Lika; Lady Blackstar for formal occasions
Age - Depends. At the start of the timeline, Lika is young, only a few hundred years old. That's the equivalent of 18-19. At the other end of the spectrum, she's nearly nine hundred years old. That's equivalent to the tail end of her twenties.
Race - Lokte hybrid.
Home World - Zakia
Height - 6'2"
References - Here!
Make sure to read the description; the references have some consistent mistakes between them.
Description - Lika looks like your typical wolf girl at first sight. She has the ears and tail of a wolf with a mostly human looking body. She also has claws and fangs, of course. Her teeth in general are sharper and more pointed than a human's. Her hair (and by extension, her ear and tail fur) is a very deep black. There is one lock of white-silver hair over her right eye. Her hair is long (reaching about mid back), straight and has some volume to it. She prefers to wear it down, though she also wears it in a braid or ponytail. Lika's eyes are bright green, with no touches of yellow or gold. She's tanned from her time outdoors. Lika prefers to stand with her weight on the balls of her feet, not on her heels. Lika's fit as well, with some muscle to her since she's very active. Despite this (Lika loves to spar with live weaponry), she doesn't have many scars. Lokte have an advanced healing factor. She does have some, though, and several of them are visible.
The first are the scars on her face. They were first caused by a blessed knife, and later exacerbated by the claws of an animal. There are four thin lines with slightly jagged edges. The longest scar goes from the apple of her cheek down past her jaw. The others aren't quite as long.
The rest aren't in such highly visible spots. There is a thin line on the underside of her left wrist from a ritual requiring her blood. There is a small crescent mark right where her neck meets her right shoulder. Depending on what she wears, it can be seen. The last scar comes about when Lika is older. It's from when she got pinned to a tree with a cursed sword. The scar is located on the left side of her torso, extending from just under her collarbone to the top of her breast. It appears on both her chest and her back, and is fairly large and thick. Lika does not display this one if she can help it.
Tekteks/Clothng -
Use these Tekteks or the refs for clothing. If none of those work, use your imagination!
Personality - Lika is a wolf, first and foremost. She categorizes life in terms of her Pack. There's Family, Pack, Not-Pack, and Enemies of the Pack. Years of being feral have affected her deeply; this is only one way it shows. Lika is quick to anger when she thinks something isn't right, and she's very passionate and protective of her Pack. She doesn't trust very easily, and can come off as closed off when she doesn't know a person. There is a wildness in her that, even when she's very old, never fades away. She growls and barks and uses her ears and tail in her expression. Lika shows her fear by becoming more aggressive; she shows a lot of negative emotions by becoming more aggressive. She's fairly smart as things go, but not very educated. She has a gift for languages and fighting, but not for much else. She will work hard to attain what she needs.
Character History - Lika was born and raised as Likari Roon, a halfbreed with a wolf lokte mother and a seemingly human father. She had a happy, busy childhood in the small village of Arda, her hometown.
At a very young age, a traveling dagger master visited the small village to speak with Lika's mother, the resident herb alchemist. During the meeting, little Lika managed to find her way into the master's things and pull out one of his blades. Lika's mother was horrified and tried to stop her daughter, but the master stopped her, saying that Lika held a natural talent for the art. He decided then and there to retire in Arda and teach the young girl all he knew. He taught her for thirty years, and died the day after Lika's 32nd birthday. Lika was quite proficient in dagger fighting by that time, and has only improved since then.
Lika was also taught the basics of herbology by her mother, but she expressed little interest in the subject and didn't get very far with it. Despite that, Lika always went out with her mother on collecting trips. Lika had a very close bond with both her parents, and she told them everything. However, in her sixtieth year, Lika's bond with her father started to disintegrate, and neither Lika nor her mother knew why. He grew more hateful and violent everyday. His negative feelings came to a climax when with the help of the local angel priestess, he convinced the strongest villagers to lead an attack on his wife and daughter. Lika's mother managed to send Lika away in time, but got caught herself. Lika also got caught later, and was dragged back to her mother. The sight of her mother's broken and battered body awakened the Lika's darker side, and she went on a rampage. No one in Arda survived, innocent or no.
Lika spent the next forty years of her life in the deep wilderness, hunting and learning how to survive. She became feral as the long years passed, essentially a wolf in human's skin. Eventually, through a series of unfortunate events, she ran into Mekonis Sunstreak, who bound her and took her to his lord's remote estate in order to be recivilized. It was a long and harrowing process for Lika, but a successful one. Lika would always have mental scars from those years, and always listen to her instincts first, intellect later. After her rehabilitation and consequent employment at the estate, Lika met and eventually fell in love with Niko Whitemoon, the lord of the estate in question. She did not learn of his surname until late in the relationship, though she didn't care either way. Ir was also during this time that several of Lika's dormant bloodlines activated, and she learned that she was a Blackstar, one of the Godborn clans.
Unfortunately, this discovery was not a happy one. Along side her dog blood, Lika had also unlocked the angel blood that had lain dormant in her father -and now her- veins. Her angel blood conflicted with her lokte blood, and Lika was slowly dying. Only a ritual of Bonding between her and Mekonis, bonding them as blood siblings, saved her life by bringing her blood into balance. Still, Lika always has to be careful with what she does in regards to her abilities. Her angel blood will always be a burden on her, limiting her severely and threatening her life on a daily basis. Her hybrid status is kept a secret from the public, and many of the other Royals.
Abilities
Telepathy - A gift Lika has possessed all her life, Lika can read some of the thoughts of others. The more familiar she is with a person, the better she can read them.
Empathy - Telepathy and Empathy are always paired together. Lika has little more than a touch of the Gift, enabling her to discern the intent behind thoughts, read her mate's stoic face, and determine the general mood of a person.
Earth Manipulation - Lika has the ability to call small tremors and create a staff from the ground beneath her. She can do little beyond that.
Fire Manipulation - Lika's most used ability. She showed a natural aptitude for it, and is able make flames appear with the tiniest amount of heat. This ability lets her walk through fire unscathed, call her own fire, and allows her to Firewalk; essentially short range teleportation.
Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Smell, Spiritual) - As a wolf lokte of the Blackstar clan, Lika has certain enhanced senses. The affected sense organs are also highly sensitive to overstimulation and touch. Since Lika has an enhanced spiritual sense, she can smell the general Alignment of a person, and usually what race they are, if she can recognize it. Her ears are affected by this sense as well, though it is a negative impact; anyone who touches her ears send Lika into a world of pain. She often reacts on pure instinct, lashing out with teeth and claws to make the pain stop. Only the select few who Lika has bonded with, or, very rarely, those who are compatible with her spiritually, may touch her ears.
Enhanced Stats (Speed, Strength, Flexibility) - Lika is naturally strong and fast, and has trained since childhood to be extremely flexible.
Poison/Disease Resistance - Lokte of all kinds are immune to most diseases. Those of certain clans, usually reptile or insect, are also immune to many poisons. Those of the Blackstar clan have unusually high poison resistance, and as Lika is one of them, she has it as well. Poison is still a danger to her, as certain kinds can tip the delicate balance she needs to survive.
Weaponry
Daggers (Master) - Lika has a pair of mastercrafted daggers she keeps on her at all times. As they were made with her in mind, they have the ability to channel some of her energy into devastating attacks.
Daggers
Sword (Proficient with broadsword and greatsword) - Lika carries the ancestral blade of her clan as a mark of her status. The blade is usually seen as a broadsword, though Lika can channel her energy into it to change its form into a greatsword. Rumor has it that there is a third form to the blade, but if there is, Lika has never unlocked it, and wouldn't know how to use it.
Staff (proficient) - Lika uses stone and metal quarterstaves. They are not her preferred weapon.
Hand to hand (Master) - Lika has been trained since childhood on how to fight with her hands and feet. Her claws and fangs only make her more dangerous.
Lika's Collar - A gift from her blood brother, Lika almost always wears this thin, black collar. It's made of a soft, durable material, and is enchanted to be fire and waterproof. It also has several places for Lika to attach charms, which can be simple decorations or be highly enchanted itself.
Personal history - Lika is my oldest character, she has changed quite a bit since I first thought her up. I've put a lot of thought and work into her abilities and talents, and into her story and bloodline. The history you see is not complete by any means, but I figure some things ought to be kept a secret, especially since the future is fluid. I know that many, upon seeing her pedigree (or lack thereof), will immediately think her a Mary Sue. I have come to accept this, and to prove quite clearly that she is not.
The next few posts will consist of these Profiles.
