I’m looking for another player interested to buy this miserable young slave. Sooner or later that new owner may discover the boy’s ability to shift into a mighty animal.
If treated at least half way decent the boy may become a loyal servant or pet depending on his actual form or even a close companion.
I hope for an active, regular partner because for this character will only work connected to his new owner. I started this character in another game but sadly it was abandoned by the games owner so it died!!!
I hope there’s anyone out there who will take pity on a young starving slave or at least has use for a slave!
Will it be okay to do the sale over the tavern owner?
Is it okay to borrow him for that scene or is there a player for him?
Character Bio:
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Name: Tiger (doesn’t remember his real name and is used to be called MUTT and other nasty things so he choose this simple name for himself)
Race: human – tiger shifter (hidden magic of nose ring and collar only allow the two full forms and tapping in the abilities of the tiger form)
Age: 12 (looks quit a bit younger)
Height (human): 4’7”
Weight (human): 45lbs
Physical description:
Human from: Tiger is a small and very skinny boy and his body shows the abuse and hardship of years of slavery. His white blond hair had never been cared for as long as he remembers so now it looks more like a hopelessly tangled mane that goes down to his shoulders than a human beings hair. Only Tiger’s deep blue eyes don’t fit to a badly treated slave boy and show his still unbroken spirit. Tiger never wore a shred of cloth in his whole life but still his skin is only lightly tanned and shows the countless scars of unsafe work conditions and severe beatings as well as the three big ugly slave brands on his left buttock, left shoulder and right breast. His skin is also tattooed all over with a tiger like pattern of stripes that look a lot like that of a real tiger. Miraculously only his face escaped serious scarring. Tiger’s human form is stronger than on would think from the sight of it. There are no obvious muscles but the play of his tendons below his skin may show a good observer that he is stronger than he looks.
But what really catches the eyes of the observer is the very large and heavy nose ring that is driven through the boy’s septum and the heavy spiked collar around his neck.
Tiger form: Changing into his animal form Tiger’s appearance transforms into that of a strong, young and beautiful snow-tiger who is even bigger that a normal bengalian tiger. Even in this form Tiger has a lot of scars and two brands on his left buttock and right shoulder but luckily his fur hides them well from sight. Because of lack of food the tiger is also on the skinny side but far less than in Tiger’s human form and here the tiger’s muscles clearly show the strength of this body. In his tiger form the nose ring fits a lot better to the nearly full grown tiger’s size while the spiked collar grows in size fitting to the tiger’s bigger neck because of the magic in it.
Powers or strengths:
Survival, hunting, tracking, fishing with his bare hands and other outdoor skills that come naturally thanks to his animal side. Unarmed combat and quarterstaff thanks to his early fight training.
Heals surprisingly fast. Mostly immune to cold weather thanks to his snow tiger part. He still feels the cold especially in his human form and doesn’t like it but even in a snow storm he will not freeze to death or get ill.
He is quite good at running on hands and feet as he had to do this a lot while pulling heavy rocks through narrow mine tunnels.
Strengths: Able to access some powers and abilities of his animal form when in human form like the tiger’s stamina or sense of smell.
Weaknesses:
Tiger was never able to really train his transformation so he still has no full control of it. Generally he’s able to change forms at will but he still needs quite an amount of concentration to do it and sometimes it just doesn’t work. Even worse is that sometimes he changes forms without wanting it.
Another problem is that he’s only able to transform his own naked body. That makes wearing clothing a risk for the Tiger because if he suddenly starts changing the cloths of his small human body will never fit the big tiger form. This means excruciating pain for Tiger until the transformation process will stop and return him into his human form. The same applies for every other thing worn by Tiger and even transforming from tiger form to human form will be as painful. Maybe not always impossible but as painful!
Being a lowly slave for nearly his whole life Tiger never learned any social skills and being sweaty, smelly and dirty is just as normal for him as is eating with his dirty fingers or just sticking his face into a bowl like some animal.
Possessions:
The big heavy nose ring that’s driven through his septum and is strengthened by metal plates on both sides of the septum so it’s nearly impossible to rip it out. The heavy spiked collar around his neck that’s not totally a restraint but also a form of protection for his throat. Both of these items are magically enhanced to allow Tiger to change forms with them and they will change sizes to fit both forms. That magic also makes them nearly impossible to break. Surely brutal magical force may rip them apart but that will most likely kill Tiger in the process.
In human form Tiger may carry a quarterstaff if he can get hand on it.
At the start Tiger may also wear a rough chain harness for pulling heavy weights which also makes it impossible for him to change into his snow-tiger form (see weaknesses) as well as chained manacles on his writs and ankles. As these are normal irons they may be removed sooner or later and a buyer will get the keys for them.
History:
Tiger knows nearly nothing about his past. There are a few distant memories of his human form that make him think he was not always a slave. There are also no memories of other snow tigers. He has no idea if he belongs to a very rare species of were creatures or was somehow transformed into it.
There are also very vague memories of fire, death and weapon swinging creatures that sometimes haunt him in his nightmares but until now nothing he remembers after waking up.
In his first memories of being a slave he was still very young and barely able to walk. He was in some sort of arena that trained slaves for fighting against each other or wild animals. He had to run small errands like getting water to the prisoners or feeding some of the animals. Only a few months later he transformed for the first time into a snow tiger cub and that was the start of his own training. Despite his young age he was forced into the brutal training and learned unarmed combat and fighting with a quarterstaff as normal weapons would be too big for him. Compared to that finding a staff for his size was easy and easy to change as he grew bigger.
Tiger was about eight as he was thrown into his first real fight. He won easily in his snow tiger form but after the end he was expected to kill his enemy and despite his brutal training and conditioning he was not able to do it and was severely punished. One of the punishments was tattooing him with a tiger like Pattern of stripes all over his human body which was extremely painful for the young boy. Even with the brutal whippings he got Tiger just wouldn’t kill his foes if they went down and surrendered. Realising this might get him killed sooner or later he tried to escape but was caught and the punishment nearly killed him. His owners came to the conclusion he wasn’t worth the trouble and knowing about his ability of surviving harsh weather they sold him to an especially brutal mine high up in the mountains. But first they fitted him with the cruel nose ring and collar.
The next three years he was worked very hard in the mine. His guards knew about his abilities and how to control it so they put him into chain harnesses to keep him in the form they needed. In human form he had to pull heavy rock through small mine tunnels. Usually he had to crawl on hands and feet or sometimes even rob on his stomach while pulling the heavy rocks with his chain harness. In snow tiger form he was used for pulling wagons on the steep and often dangerous mountain roads. The most terrible punishment had not been all those terrible whippings but chaining him up outside in his human form at night so he had to lie naked in the permanent snow and suffer from the icy storms.
It was such a punishment that finally allowed him to escape about a year ago. That night it was so cold an already weakened links of the chain broke apart as he accidentally put some strain on it. Freezing so much he wasn’t able to sleep Tiger used the chance and instantly ran away. The next day he also got rid of the rusty harness and changed into his snow tiger form so not even the blood hounds of the guards could follow him.
The next months had been wonderful for Tiger. He stayed in the wilderness away from civilisation. The first days had been difficult but thanks to his animal instincts he learned hunting, fishing and all the other important skills needed for survival in the wilderness. It was the happiest time of his life but it ended suddenly.
Tiger had feasted well on a deer that night and lay down as a snow tiger. He slept well and deep and not even felt as he changed back into human form in a pleasant dream. That way he was found by a hunter who instantly recognized the slave brands. Tiger only awoke as the hunter bound his arms painfully behind his back and it was too late to change forms. Not even knowing about his abilities the hunter had him fitted with a cheap chain harness and used him as a beast of burden.
On the way to Marn Tiger tried to escape and with the hunter already in a bad mood because of his bad luck at hunting he got a very severe whipping. Chained up outside the Drunken Rat Tavern by his nose ring besides the other beasts of burden the hunter went into the tavern and left him outside without food for two days to break his will. That night the hunter got into some massive gambling and lost heavily. Left without enough money to pay his bill the tavern owner finally agreed quite unhappy to accept Tiger as payment and the hunter just left.
Covered in layers of dirt, grime and still not fully healed whip marks Tiger was just left chained outside and a sign beside the door indicated that the slave was for sale. He was not even fed and only watered because it was obvious if anyone had use for such a miserable little slave he would barely pay enough to cover the hunters bill and even that was unlikely.
