Overview
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A Sophisticated Squamate
Statistics
~Name: Johannes Diderik van der Waals
~Species: Kuhl's Flying Gecko (Ptychozoon kuhli)
~Sex: Male
~Age: 34 years
~Appears: Within the latter half of his physical prime.
~Body: A slight, lissome, lean-to-the-bone figure with a flat tail, webbed digits and wing like flaps of skin running from the neck to upper leg. Being a Gecko, this dashing arboreal lizard's palms and prehensile tail are lined with spatulae tipped setae that allow him to adhere to virtually any surface near indefinitely. Notably, his fingers and toes seem to be "double jointed", but this is a misnomer. In actuality they merely bend in the opposite direction of human digits.
~Weight: One-hundred and ninety pounds (190lbs), his gecko's tail accounted for nearly a third of it.
~Height: Five foot ten inches (5'10'') with an additional two feet (2') of prehensile tail behind himself.
~Facial structure: Like most of his ilk, and indeed a great many closely related reptiles, his face is best described as a slightly oblong wedge. A pair of aerodynamic fins fanning out from where his jawline ends.
~Color of eyes: Storm grey with vertically slit pupils and a very high color vision threshold.
~Skin: Johannes' scales are small, granular and non-overlapping, with scattered, large keeled tubercles. Most take on a mossy greenish-brown much like the hue of antique bronze that grows darker along his underbelly, though linear designs of light kobe decorate his head and back.
~Hair: None, though a series of horny bumps ridge his angular brow and snout.
~Voice: Decidedly masculine with a very thick, throaty accent full of hard Rs, As that sound like Os, and Ds that take on a T sound if they end a word.
~Fashion: His stylish military garb consists of a hussar's dolman, its sleeves and breast latticed with heavy horizontal gold braid fashioned into Austrian knots; a matching pelisse slung over his left shoulder; coloured trousers with similar trim at the front; a chaperon; and Hessian boots. An ornate sabretache rounds out the accoutrements, its flat surface heavily embroidered with a royal cypher.
-Personality
Greatest joy in life: the special comradery that exists between soldiers that have experienced the crucible of combat together.
Most at ease when: Gliding from great heights.
Greatest strengths: As could be expected by his rank of Brigadier, Johannes' greatest strength lies in leading men to war and, God willing, back.
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: An incorrigible showoff.
Likes:
- Dutch Cuisine
- Fine Vintage Brandy, particularly Cognac Vieux
- Adventurous women
- Heights
- Wide open spaces
- The night sky
- Racing
- Clockwork mechanisms
- Braggarts, chiefly himself
- Patriotism
- Multiple partners
- His trusty mount
Dislikes:
- The Turks
- Muslim Magic (Sihr)
- Disobedience
- The Sea
- Stuffy intellectuals
- Picky eaters
- Iambic pentameter and verse drama in general.
- Strong perfume or cologne
- Beggars
~Orientation - Straight
~Interested in - Hussars have a reputation for being the dashing, if unruly, adventurers of the army. The traditional image of the hussar is of a reckless, hard-drinking, hard-swearing, womanising, moustachioed, swashbuckler. Johannes does not err far from the archetype, seeking amorous encounters and daring-do when not on campaign.
~Most attracted to - Having grown up mainly in the company of amphibians and other reptiles, Johannes finds most mammals to be exotic lovers. Taking particular notice of udder bearing bovines and women with the distinctive nipple rowed underbellies of litter bearing canines.
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Doodlez
The Brigadier prepares for a friendly spar at the behest of a eager young parakeet...
Johannes in the buff. Highlighting both his general build (1) 'wing' flaps and (2) flat, setae lined tail.
