About
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My Little Town - Simon&Garfunkel
❖ G E N E R A L
|NAME|
Jack "Tige" Doyle
|GENDER|
Male
|SPECIES|
Human;
Sub-species: Canine
|BREED|
American Pit Bull Terrier
❖ P H Y S I C A L
|HEIGHT|
5'7
|BUILD|
Athletic.
|AGE|
Appears to be mid-twenties.
|EYES|
Chestnut Brown
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Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon&Garfunkel
❖ His general dress is a mixture of style and casual, and almost always with the bandanna that has become his trademark. Clothing isn't important to him, so long as it's wearable. Cleanliness is a plus. Style is a modern take on 1920's-1940's era fashion.
Warm weather: Usually a close-fitting shortsleeve shirt with a leather vest or suspenders depending on the weather and his mood that day. Short-sleeves more commonly than long. Bandanna. Usually jeans or trousers. Will often don a flat cap or newsboy cap.
Cold Weather: Any warm shirt will do. Typically accompanied with vest. Brown leather overcoat, sheepskin or bomber jacket.
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Homeward Bound - Simon&Garfunkel
❖ Born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, New York and descended from Irish immigrants, Tige is a New York pup at heart no matter how far from home he has traveled. And he has traveled far indeed.
❖ T's origins start in the slums of the Bronx, where he was once an amateur prizefighter working his way up through the ranks. A controversial match that left a bitter mage left to plot revenge resulted in the man being cursed into the form of a brindle pit bull. Stuck in this form for decades, the dog would traverse the country, never staying in one place for too long, as it would be far too suspicious for an ordinary dog to live for twenty or thirty years! Eventually stumbling upon a sorceress, who took pity on him the dog was granted the ability to shift back into his human form, albeit a form that had not aged since being 'trapped' within the body of the canine. Jack Doyle, or "Tige" as he'd nicknamed himself, traveled the country ever since, scraping cash to purchase black market glamours and learning to balance his ability to shift between man and dog.
The Man
❖Can be compared, in physical appearance, as a hybrid of James Cagney and Ernest Hemingway, and Marlon Brando, when they were in their prime. Short , stocky, and sturdy, the former Jack Doyle is as tough as they come. Growing up in the rough part of town in New York City, he is a graduate of the school of hard knocks.
The Dog
❖American Pit Bull Terrier. Tige descends from the classic "game-bred" dogs bred from stock imported from across the pond generations ago. Athletic, hard-muscled, and up for anything, he was the perfect accomplice to the equally hard-nosed Jack.
T H E C U R S E
❖ Shapeshifting
Tige has three forms he can take. He alternates most commonly between full human and full canine when out and about, though has the ability to take an intermediate anthropomorphic form. It is in the latter form that he feels most comfortable in, however, and will revert to this form once he deems it safe to.
❖ Out Of His Comfort Zone
Being of another era, Tige is forever 'behind the times'; when it comes to technology, trends, and current events, he is constantly playing catch-up. Commercial airlines, television, cell-phones, and the internet are foreign concepts.
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Confident from nose to tail. Adaptable to any situation.
❖Tige can and will dial the charm any number of notches to please. It's the pit bull in him.
❖He is normally a friendly fellow, full of personality and vim and vigor. Once the figurative "gloves" are thrown down, however, all bets are off.
As the old adage goes, a pit bull may not start a fight, but he will damn well finish one, or at least until he drops.
❖ The physicality of the pit bull is about balance.
You will not find over-exaggerated musculature, a monstrously proportioned head, or plate-sized paws. He is an athlete. Nothing more, nothing less.
SPEED: +1
STAMINA: +2
STRENGTH: +2WEAPON: +1
ARMOR: 0
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Bookends - Simon&Garfunkel