Sync is a moray eel. His mer half starts higher on him than most, due to the need to change the way his body is built, as eels move with a more circular motion than the up and down of most fish-based mers, with his tail being slightly more than twice the length of his human torso. His whole body is a little slimey to the touch, due to the mucus it secretes. This lets him get into smaller spaces that most have trouble moving through, though it also tends to mean he's usually covered in a light coating of sand. His hands are completely webbed to the finger tips. Sync also possesses the moray eel's secondary set of jaws, due to his throat not working as well as most. They sit against his throat, the bones able to be felt by touching his neck, and extend out into his mouth when he needs them to grab and pull something in. Anything they grab, he can't let go of without something to help lever them open, so he does need to be mindful of what he bites.
Senses wise, Sync's sense of smell is incredible, and he will describe most things by how they smell; this is mostly because his eyesight is rather shoddy - if it's not close enough for him to reach out and touch it, it's blurry.
Magic wise, his abilities are rather strong, focusing more on the destructive side of things. His favoured spells usually have something to do with wind or lightning, an odd preference underwater but it's how he is. Sync has developed the ability to 'smell' magic, able to identify spells by scent unless they're deliberately hiding what they are or they're totally new to him.
His history isn't developed entirely to leave it free for castmates to work with. Sync was always prone to wandering, which was enough for him to get captured by a human fishing boat one day. Rather than let him go, they sold him to the highest bidder, leaving him to be tortured relentlessly and kept in a small aquarium he could barely move in. Eventually he was freed, but by that time he had lost near to all memory of his life before being imprisoned. At one point after this, he learned to use his magic better from a mentor, and withdrew to being a loner who stuck to the reef and hated being around others.
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fifthreplacement) wrote2016-10-06 11:39 pm
Merfolk
Sync is a moray eel. His mer half starts higher on him than most, due to the need to change the way his body is built, as eels move with a more circular motion than the up and down of most fish-based mers, with his tail being slightly more than twice the length of his human torso. His whole body is a little slimey to the touch, due to the mucus it secretes. This lets him get into smaller spaces that most have trouble moving through, though it also tends to mean he's usually covered in a light coating of sand. His hands are completely webbed to the finger tips. Sync also possesses the moray eel's secondary set of jaws, due to his throat not working as well as most. They sit against his throat, the bones able to be felt by touching his neck, and extend out into his mouth when he needs them to grab and pull something in. Anything they grab, he can't let go of without something to help lever them open, so he does need to be mindful of what he bites.
Senses wise, Sync's sense of smell is incredible, and he will describe most things by how they smell; this is mostly because his eyesight is rather shoddy - if it's not close enough for him to reach out and touch it, it's blurry.
Magic wise, his abilities are rather strong, focusing more on the destructive side of things. His favoured spells usually have something to do with wind or lightning, an odd preference underwater but it's how he is. Sync has developed the ability to 'smell' magic, able to identify spells by scent unless they're deliberately hiding what they are or they're totally new to him.
His history isn't developed entirely to leave it free for castmates to work with. Sync was always prone to wandering, which was enough for him to get captured by a human fishing boat one day. Rather than let him go, they sold him to the highest bidder, leaving him to be tortured relentlessly and kept in a small aquarium he could barely move in. Eventually he was freed, but by that time he had lost near to all memory of his life before being imprisoned. At one point after this, he learned to use his magic better from a mentor, and withdrew to being a loner who stuck to the reef and hated being around others.