Tick

Tick

Tick is an unusually pale Elf, appearing young to others of her kind. She is rough of speech, but charming, and caries a naval cutlass with the air of someone who can use it.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Tick is tall and willowy, as are most elves, but there is something unhealthy-looking about their build.

Body Features

They has a distinctive and grisly scar running the width of their neck. Looking at it too long leads you to wonder how on earth they survived such a wound

Facial Features

They have the typical aquilline nose and pointed ears of most elves, but unusually deep-set eyes, and very pale skin and lips when they are not attempting to conceal it with makeup.

Identifying Characteristics

Beyond the scar on their neck, Tick is identifiable from their ghost-pale irises and a missing ring finger on their left hand

Physical quirks

Tick barely seems to emit any smell at all, and appears to have no body hair. They also seem to never trim their nails or require a haircut.

Apparel & Accessories

Tick is usually seen wearing practical leather armor, and is almost always carrying her plain but beautifully maintained and well-made naval cutlass. She is loath to part from the blade, and unwilling to loan it, even for inspection, though even she seems unsure why.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Tick was travelling by sea as a young child, when the ship they were on was captured by pirates. They waited while their fellow prisoners were sold for ransom, acting as a servant ashore and at sea to the pirates, but no ransom came.

Around when they came of age, the pirates offered them a deal- help crew a raiding voyage as a deckhand and be allowed to join the band as a full member. They agreed, and the voyage was successful, but a group of prisoners who clearly were not worth a ransom were captured. The pirates ordered Tick to kill them, but they refused, at which point, the pirates cut her throat and threw her overboard.

Tick, however has little to no memory of this. They know that they remember the sensation of drowning, being unable to breathe, a strange voice offering them life, and washing up on a beach with a small pouch of gold tied around their neck, and a plain but finely wrought cutlass next to them, and the deep seated feeling that the blade is important.

Education

Hodgepodge. Tick speaks in a commoner's accent, perhaps recognisable as coastal and will use seafaring slang, though she does not remember her time aboard. When speaking Elvish, however, she is almost transformed, and speaks a noble dialect.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

To find out who she was before awaking on the shore, and to understand the purpose of her blade.

Virtues & Personality perks

Tick has a great deal of perserverance. Helped by her seeming lack of fatigue and near-immunity to pain or discomfort, she is relentless in pursuing a goal.

Vices & Personality flaws

Often Tick can forget that others may have more to fear than she does. This can lead to a degree of recklessness, even with the lives of others.

Personality Quirks

Tick tends to be a carefree sort, after early on in her new life discovering that she does not seem to bleed, or feel pain in a significant way.

Tick is an Elf, with pallid skin, hair and unsettlingly white eyes. She has a distinctive and brutal scar across her neck. She dresses practically in leather armour and displays a naval cutlass prominently at her hip.

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Alignment

Neutral good

Age

25

Gender

NB

Eyes

Very pale

Hair

Ashy

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pallid

Height

180cm

Weight

61kg