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NAME. Ryuo James Edwards. (pron. rie-oh)
NICKNAME. Otterbutt, Spud, Potato, Gearhead.
GENDER. Male, cisgendered
AGE. Twenty
BIRTHDATE. August 4th
BIRTHPLACE. Londra slums.
SPECIES. Albion River Otter
OCCUPATION. Engineer aboard the Sunbird.
PRINCIPLE SKILLSET. Blacksmithing and Engineering.
HEIGHT. 5'2.
WEIGHT. 146lbs/216kg
BUILD. Endomorph. Chunky, but hunky. Well muscled arms and chest, with a neat chub around the waist.
TAIL. Thick and stubby.
PELT. Smooth, velveteen mouse brown fur covers most of his body. His belly, chest and face are lighter, and slightly more silky. All of his fur is hydrophobic.
EYES. Deep blue.
HAIR. Messy, short and often impossible to control.
ACCENT. Refined, though a trace of an Albion accent remains..
VOICE. Ryuo’s voice very much depends on his levels of social anxiety. When feeling confident and in control, his voice is firm and well paced. Vowels and consonants are clear and his tone has sweet resonance to it. When flustered, however, Ryuo usually falls victim to word salad. He tends to speak faster than he can think, blending vowels nonsensically and starting new sentences before finishing the the first, or revisiting the same point with different jumbled words. The otter is remarked as being a talker...
CLOTHING. Wears whatever is required for his current job, though this usually means leaving his upper body bare. Ryuo isn’t used to wearing constricting clothes. He will always favour baggy garments that hang loosely off of him.
PHYSICAL STRENGTH. Whilst Ryuo might be small, he is considerably strong. A lifetime of hard labour has refined his body as such. Though he has been observed as carrying ridiculously heavy loads through the Golden Teather’s atrium, he’ll generally claim this is down to technique rather than strength.
PHYSICAL WEAKNESS. Quite self-conscious about his weight. Whilst others find his slightly tubby appearance cute or just endearing, Ryuo doesn’t take pride in his appearance. He notes that, on an island where almost every slave and most patrons are flawlessly beautiful, he looks like a potato[i/].
OVERALL DEMEANOR. Compassionate, diligent, winsome, resilient.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS. Ryuo generally comes across as someone open, honest and eager to please. He’s a sweet thing, who can more often win over first impressions with his boyish charm. He isn’t a fine jewel by any means; he’s a hard labourer, and wears the identity of one well. He’ll happily show off his work and is generally keen to do his best. Due to his bouncy and warm nature, he’ll likely come across as quite naive and innocent. Though the latter isn’t quite true, he certainly does seem to miss many social cues, seems to take figure-of-speech as entirely literal and entirely misses out on sarcasm.
PERSONALITY. Many of Ryuo’s behavioural quirks, such as his muddled speech or social anxiety, exist because he has aspergers syndrome. He’ll get easily flustered when asked questions that aren’t straight forward, though this doesn’t appear to make him seem outwardly nervous. Any anxiety he may have is concealed by his joyful, thoughtless speech. Ryuo is generous, happily going out of his way to help others. That being said, he is a notorious show off and extremely precious about his work. He cannot bear to let others interfere with his workflow, very much a believer that the only good job is one he has done himself. His diligence does, however, speak for itself. Ryuo once taught himself to juggle bottles and even firesticks, extremely well, over the course of two weeks - just to impress his superiors. Ryuo needs things done a certain way, and Primes save anyone who interferes with his ‘flow’ whilst he’s working at the forge!
ALIGNMENT. Neutral good.
TEMPERAMENT. Ryuo is usually too dense to be provoked to anger, and so remains calm and gentle almost all the time. There have been a few incidents, such as during the Fairy Migration or when drunk, when Ryuo has demonstrated a horrifying temper that could make a giant nervous. For such a small thing, he can be incredibly scrappy and angry. There have even been one or two occasions where he’s bitten his superiors.
MENTAL HEALTH. A bit of a mixed bag. Ryuo generally replays most social situations in his head and muses on his behaviour, heaping his thoughts with anxiety. His perky professional attitude is quite obviously a rehearsed performance, though it helps him function in most settings. When dealing in new situations, he’ll show signs of nervousness.
SEXUALITY. Ryuo is a 6. Despite seeking female friendships as often as male ones, he takes no romantic interest in the fairer sex at all. He is exclusively attracted to males.
POSITION. Ryuo will always prefer a submissive position, given his personality. He has very little positive self-image, despite having an especially[i/] nice butt. He can be quite prude in public, and will usually display shock and unease when flirted with. He does, however, enjoy being teased by openly flirtatious males, and it doesn’t take too much charm to get Ryuo ‘on his hands and knees’ so to speak. He has, on occasion, been the one to express interest in someone else first, but this is considerably rare - more often, he’ll make subtle (or not so subtle) hints that he’s feeling frisky, in hopes that his target will move on him.
ROMANCE. Ryuo isn’t interested in any kind of relationship. He isn’t new to them, but is far more interested in his profession. Additionally, in spite of acting like a notorious prude, he prefers to keep his options open and play around.
LIKES. Swimming. Blacksmithing. Engineering. Cider. Dicks. And fish.
DISLIKES. Arrogance. Anyone disrupting his workflow. Excessive heat. Magic. Vaginas.
LOVES. Showing off.
HATES. His physique.
PHOBIAS. None.
BIRTHPLACE. Ryuo was born in the city of Londra, in Albion, and had spent the vast majority of his life there. The Edwards family wasn't well educated and close to absolutely poverty, possessing only basic living standards. The slums his family occupied (known as the Otter Slums by Londra locals) were heavily populated by other otters, to the point where hundreds of them flooded the streets wall to wall. Those born in the Otter Slums rarely left, and the otters had their own distinct culture and slang. They were highly communal, but wary of outsiders.
FAMILY. The 'Edwards' family was quite popular in the Otter Slums. Ryuo is the fifth born child of Doris and Adam Edwards. The family home consisted of Ed's parents, two uncles, three grand-parents, one niece and two nephews and all of Ryuo's siblings; four brothers and seven sisters, cooped together in close quarters. Though Ryuo was raised well by his parents, his upbringing was primarily handled by his older brother, Ed.
CHILDHOOD. Ryuo was quickly singled out for having a highly recollective memory and mathematics skills, despite having little to no real education. He spent most of days fooling around with his family, and spending time with other street otters from his community. Unlike most in the Otter Slums, Ryuo found work very early; he was taken as a blacksmith’s apprentice from the age of six. The hours were long and the work was intense, but Ryuo came to adore his smithing mentor and grew fascinated with the trade. He was one of very few otters in his neighbourhood to have any sort of wage and an admirable profession.
ADOLESCENCE. Ryuo’s reputation as the local ‘fixer’ grew. Not a week went by when Ryuo wasn’t at the house of his neighbours fixing a pipe or mending a door. He was well loved by his community, and his talent for smithing was starting to rival his mentors even at age twelve. Sensing this, his jealous mentor actually began to manipulate Ryuo and block his development. Ryuo, being too innocent and naive to sense this, grew steadily more depressed over the next six years as he encountered frequent failures, lacked any development and couldn’t see any sort of future for his profession. He was as much a victim of his poverty stricken upbringing as he was his mentor’s jealousy. Ryuo was considering leaving the trade entirely, when he became convinced by his mentor that his skills were inadequate. He became quite deeply depressed with his home life, particularly with the departure of his older brother Ed (who had become heavily affiliated with local gangs).
ADULTHOOD. During a swimming trip out to sea, Ryuo was seized by patrolling bandits and sold to local slavers. Sensing his worth, the slavers dispatched him to the Golden Teather to be put up for sale. Initially afraid, Ryuo quickly played up his value as a smith, despite his low self-esteem, and found himself extremely well received by his superiors. He was given access to a glorious forge, a long list of exotic patrons to work for and a strict set of rules that proved to be exactly what his structured mind needed. In slavery, he flourished. He advanced his skills beyond smithing to clockwork engineering, all the while maintaining the ins and outs of the Teather and fixing almost anything he could get his hands on. He picked up new skills quickly as his sense of accomplishment grew. Thanks to the machinations of his older brother, Ed, Ryuo was freed from the captivity of slavery and now works as an engineer aboard a fabulous airship.
BLACKSMITHING. Ryuo’s primary passion in life is metalworking. In particular, his skill as a weaponsmith is comparable to few others. Possessing a strong recollective memory and a fierce talent for design and creative thinking, Ryuo will pour his heart and soul into the creation of new fantastic weapons or tailored pieces of armour, specifically designed with a target patron in mind. Ryuo’s knowledge of warfare and its technologies often outshine highly seasoned veterans, whom he finds himself repeatedly educating over the weapon options available to them. This has a habit of irritating most patrons, of course, who dislike being spoken down to by a small otter who’s never properly swung a sword in his life when they may have served in many battles and fought within dozens of gladiatorial arenas. Nonetheless, Ryuo knows his craft extraordinarily well, and carries it out with a backbone of professionalism that isn’t faked or rehearsed, unlike many of his other interactions.
ENGINEERING. Being a rarer and more exotic profession, Ryuo’s path into the craft of engineering is ongoing. He is, by no means, an expert yet - but is well on his way. He has the right mind to craft practical solutions to various problems, such as broken plumbing or clockwork devices that require complex mechanisms to function. There are very few things he will not be able to fix or build, and those things he can’t he will obsessively study until he can.
DIET. As you'd expect of an otter, Ryuo likes fish. However, his diet is extremely varied, and he eats about as much as one would expect of someone his build.
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