Christopher Otari || "Kit" || 17 || Selkie || Bisexual
Skills & Abilities
Abilities
Kit has a natural affinity to the water â being a selkie makes him an excellent swimmer, enables him to stay underwater for long periods of time, grants him very minor but useful healing properties when in contact with water, and allows him to swim in the coldest of temperatures without harm. For the most part he is able to shift from both human and seal form at will, but can be triggered when in human form, to shift into a seal when under stress, or fear. Another ability that comes with his selkie blood is the oldest and most common â manipulative, seductive powers. This can be inflicted on non-selkie women and in some occasions, men. Although this is one of the selkieâs most famous and prominent powers, it is uncommonly less effective and even weak to Kit. If inquired, Kit often states that he has had little experience with this skill, and is quite happy to be without it as he believes that when made habit; it becomes a greatly dishonest practice.
Skills
Kit has very little experience on land, therefore near to none in non-supernatural abilities. He only has one peculiar skill, and that is an uncanny deftness in lock-picking and breaking into enclosed places.
Weaknesses
Most likely due to selkie genetics, Kit becomes nauseous when on land for too long. He will need to return to the sea, or retreat to a bathtub for a short time to regenerate.
Fears
Ships || Flames || Being unable to save someone
from drowning || Losing the ability to shift into
a seal / human
Personality & Traits
Water // Beach // Quiet // Summer // Sand
Books // Tea // Home made things // Unnatural coloured hair
Watches // Stories // Candy // Cigarettes // Children
Sushi // Citrus fruits // Watermelons // Small animals
Big dogs // Fables // Fairy tales // Children's stories // Couches
Cars // Alcohol // Television // Scissors // Cats
Coffee // Fire // Microwaves // Snakes // Insects
Cursing // Bigotry // Fishing // Spicy Food // Crowds
Clumsy // Friendly // Curious // Energetic // Observant // Loyal
Most of Kitâs life was spent underwater. As a seal, Kitâs human mind is somewhat ânumbedâ down into a more animal nature. He is noted for being extremely curious and playful, making him a friendly visitor of the shore for young children. Of course, to most, he appears as simple a frisky seal that frequents the oceanfront. When Kit shifts into human form, it takes him several days to fully settle in his new body. Because of this, Kit may appear shy, timid, and sometimes, overly inquisitive and friendly. He can stare for too long, and become dazed, often making others uncomfortable. To the open-minded, his little habits can appear somewhat endearing.
Biography
Kitâs life in the sea is little known, even to himself. After all, he spent most of his years as a seal, and when someone spends most of their time as an animal not much is remembered. Several key events are engraved into his memories, however. And they begin with something in the water. When Kit was quite young, perhaps eight or nine in human years, he made his first contact with a human. It was a boy, a small boy. He was chasing after the waves when he ventured too far into the blue. Soon, his tiny body was tugged and swept further and further away from the shore. His cries and screams were drowned under the might of the waves, disrupting the silence of the sea and bringing Kit to alarm.
They were both at the shore. Kit jerked and shuddered, his new body meeting land for the very first time. He breathed in deeply and too quickly, causing sharp pains in his lungs. The boy who drowned was limp under his arm, almost cold as the sea in the black of the night. Kitâs heart raced in his chest as he pressed his spotted, webbed hands onto the boyâs bare chest, frantically shaking him in fear. Moments after a girl came rushing to where they were, but when she came within eyesight to Kit, she screamed. For what she saw was her brother, limp and cold beneath a whiskered, spotted, half human creature with the tail of a harbour seal. She screamed and cried and threw stones and sticks at the half-human boy, driving him back into the sea and far away from the oceanfront.
Front that moment on, Kit was never seen at the shore, or even at Teraton for quite some time. That is until now, when rumour had it that Teraton was now home to more like his own.
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