Name: Kivan Ganallay
Nickname: He doesn't have one but wouldn't be bothered by one.
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Physical Description:
Kivan has brown hair that has been lightened by the sun. His skin has a tan from being outside and working on the farm. His eyes are a vibrant green that consist of different shades and flecks of green. He is about five feet ten inches in height. His body is lean and muscled from years of swimming and other work. His feet are long and wide, great for swimming (but not so much for wearing shoes). His hands are webbed up to the first knuckle of each finger except the thumb. He has a series of scars on his side from a shark bite. It is possible to see where each tooth sank into his flesh.
Personality: Kivan is the kind of person who will see that someone is angry or upset and try to make them feel better. He has lived on his family's island for all of his life with his older sister and two younger siblings, a brother and a sister, as well as his parents. He has a close bond with each member of his family and usually can't bear to see them upset. However, if he is angry or annoyed with them, they know it and he will pick on little things just to make someone as unhappy as he is. When he isn't unhappy/angry/annoyed he feels regret for what he did when experiencing that emotion, but he remembers the vicious self-fullfilment feeling of bringing other people down too. He generally believes that life is a thing to be experienced all the way and tries to live it as positively as he can. One can usually notice him to be a happy, caring individual.
Magical Power/ability: Kivan can alter parts of his body: he can grow gills on his neck, he can thicken the lobes of his fingers and make his fingernails go to a point and have poison sacs hidden underneath his fingernails, and he can make himself have water lids on his eyes like a crocodile.
Likes: Swimming, trying new foods, his family, fish, stories, fresh water, the ocean, doing a job well, looking at the stars, dolphins, white noise
Dislikes: It being too hot, being thirsty, the job of converting salt water to fresh water, sea urchins, being angry
Strengths: Kivan is usually happy and upbeat and tries to make others the same. He is a good swimmer and can breathe underwater due to his ability. He is hardworking (except when it comes to things he finds boring) and he can actually like work, depending on what it is. He has a good memory, especially for stories.
Weaknesses: One of the biggest things he finds frustrating is he has no sense of smell. As his parents never taught him, he cannot read outside of symbols his family has made and ones used in the market. When he gets bored he gets depressed much more easily than normal. He has little experience with people outside of his family. As for the weakness of his ability it is painful to grow gills initially, the poison sacs in his fingers can fill up and begin to ache, and if he has the water lids on his eyes for too long they begin to itch.
Fears: Sharks, failure, being abandoned, being angry and getting out of control, being eaten
Bio: When Kivan Ganallay was born his parents were disapointed. His hands did not have the webbing the ones of his older sister did. His parents, who had married for their hopes of passing down webbed hands to their children almost as much for love, were happy when webbing grew between his fingers, even though it was just a little. As he grew more siblings were born and his parents never told him of their initial unhappiness of his hands. Life on the family's seaweed farm was tough and physically demanding, yet Kivan loved it. There was something new every day: small fish had slipped throught the protective netting and gave live birth to babies, tasty crabs found refuge from aquatic predators (but not from human hands and creature claws), the slimy creatures inside shells laid their eggs in ruffled cases, and the giant marine plants grew edible berries that could be enjoyed on the spot. As his power developed his parents allowed him to explore the ocean outside the farm. He became the family's fisher, along with his creature. The one job he dreaded was the process of making fresh water. Using glass tool called an evaporator he would make fresh water by: putting salt water in the end above a fire, boiling the water until it evaporated, the steam would then go through a tube that led to a chamber in the cold ocean, the steam would condense into fresh water, the fresh water would be taken and poured into the water storage, and then the salt crystals would have to be scrubbed out. It was boring, tedious work in Kivan's opinion. Luckily he didn't have to do it often as his younger brother liked doing better than he did. One day while he was out swimming Kivan speared a fish. The smell of the dead fish attracted a shark, who attacked Kivan before the boy could throw away the fish. He was left with some scars from a bite on his side. From this he gained a fear of sharks and for a while he didn't leave the protective netting of the farm. His courage gradually returned and before he knew it he was back in the wild ocean. He went to the market with his family on days to sell their crop every once in a while. After the long boat ride to the market island he was always stunned by the amount of people and good to be bought. Life with his family was good for Kivan, but sometimes he wondered about other trails he could follow.
Creature type/ appearance:
Kivan's creature, Retha, is about 5 feet at the head in height. The yellow-green on her body glows in the dark, good if you want to see but bad if you want to hide. The dark blue fur on her back and chest is soft and thick. She can fly with her wings, but she isn't the best at it and uses them more for swimming (like a ray uses its sails). In the front of her mouth the teeth are sharp fangs but in the back (in her cheeks) her teeth are flatter and molar like. Her tounge is long and she can lick nectar out of large flowers with it as well as use it to grab and put food in her mouth.
Creature Name: Retha
Creature Gender: Female
Creature personality: Retha is a brutally honest creature. She never lies. When she is asked a question she doesn't really want to answer she will either not say anything or say part of the truth, not the whole. She doesn't realize that people don't always want the truth and that sometimes they just want comforting, if false, words. Loyalty is another one of her attributes. If you win her respect and friendship, you pretty much have it to the end. Her faith in her companions can blind her to their faults, though. She loves to learn new things and has even made up her own alphabet, one that she uses to record things especially important to her. She hasn't shown anyone the dried kelp leaves she keeps her secrets on, not even Kivan (though he knows about them).
Creature Likes: Similar to Kivan's except she likes sweet things too
Creature Dislikes: Similar to Kivan's except she doesn't mind some anger every here and now (she says it keeps her balance), she doesn't mind the heat, but she doesn't like being disapointed or lies
Creature Strengths: Honest, loyal, inventive
Creature Weaknesses: Sometime is honest to a fault, loyalty can blind her, she can come off as aloof and uncaring
Creature Fears: Fire, being alone, sharks, sudden loud noises