She is smiling at your antics.

Name: L’ilisht (Actually Lil’ Shit but he was too young to realize it was an insult at the time, and L’ilisht just…kind of stuck)

Appearance: As a second-generation chimera, this guy is ugly. He still has four eyes (two of which are compound prey eyes, two of which are humanoid predatory eyes), his skin is somewhat chitinous (it has a slight sheen to it, it has less “give” or stretchiness than human skin, it feels somewhat hard, and has a very pale blue tint to it), and he has a secondary pair of smaller arms located about half a foot below his regular arms. To accommodate this, his shoulders are broader than average, resulting in his torso having the basic shape of an inverted triangle. His hair is short and black, though it is more akin to the spines on a hedgehog. He has no ears, just a foldable membrane designed to help keep his ear-holes from being plugged with debris. However, he can flare this membrane out to look somewhat like an ear. An eldritch, chitinous, tiny ear.

He’s about 7’3” tall, and weighs just over 400 pounds. Standing with his arms resting at his side, he’s around 3-feet wide across the shoulders. For reference, that’s nearly twice as wide at the shoulder as the average male. Part of this is absolutely owed to his altered body structure, but even at his lower arms, which are closer together, he’s quite a bit wider than your average person.

Age: 20

Species: 2nd-Generation Dragonfly chimera

Gender: Male

Occupation: 1st year student

Personality: Not. Friendly. Always alert. Doesn’t like being touched. Not many people bother to learn beyond that. He has little in the way of loyalty or desire for friends, and likely seems like a sociopath to those who don’t try to get to know him. He’s not a sociopath, he just hates people and interacting with people, to the point where he actively discourages it.

Openness to Experience: 15
Neuroticism: 65
Agreeableness: 5
Extroversion: 5
Conscientiousness: 90

Attributes:

Strength: 9
Endurance: 6
Constitution: 8
Agility: 3
Dexterity: 7
Intelligence: 2
Wisdom: 3
Charisma: 2

Magic Type Preference: Physical Enhancement

Innate Magic Talent: Alteration of physical attributes (primarily weakening and strengthening). He uses this mostly to augment his already-amazing fighting talent, moving faster than somebody with his body has any right to, and hitting better and harder than would be considered possible for anything other than a first-gen chimera or monster. While he can technically alter the existence of other beings, his poor affinity for Vision and Compromise make this somewhat difficult against anybody, or anything, with real training or discipline.

Interests: Training, Fighting, Exercising, Sparring
Skills: Fighting, Survivalism, some cooking, Hunting, Shooting, Swordsmanship

Biography: L’ilisht was born two a pair of 1st-generation chimeras. As one might imagine, those parents are no longer among the living, having been the targets of the hatred, pity, or disgust of most of the living things on this planet. Monsters killed his parents, along with quite a few other first-gens living in a small village West of Mordhaben’s. He was around 4 when this happened.

At 8 he killed his first monster with an old shotgun he’d found. 10-gauge slug to the head will put most things down, as it turns out. Now, the recoil damn near broke his arms, mind you, but the damn thing died.

Over time, he slowly headed East, taking shelter where he could with and traveling with the few survivors of the village who stuck together. They were the ones who gave him his name, as bringing a large, withdrawn, broody little child was a bit more of a hassle than they wanted, but they weren’t monsters, some might say ironically.

Eventually, they settled near Mordhaben’s, managing to get by while L’ilisht trained with magic and with martial equipment, eventually to the point where he decided that hunting monsters wasn’t what he wanted to do with all of his time. Even if he spent the rest of his life making up for those years on the run by fighting, hunting, and killing monsters, he’d prefer to be better at what he was doing.

Equipment: 10-gauge shotgun (loaded with slugs), .357 revolver, claymore, monster-hunting armor (akin to half-plate from DnD)

Name: Honehe Bitter-Tooth

Appearance:
Honehe is a 6’5 walking talking wolf-like monster. He is covered head to toe in thick grey hair, which he keeps well groomed. His eyes are brown. His hands are humanoid in nature, capable of gripping like any person while retaining wolf-like nails, and his legs are more akin to a wolf’s hind legs. The array of sharp, vicious teeth in his mouth make it so that no matter how he smiles, he always looks a little sinister. Honehe wears light and loose fitting clothing, as wearing too much would only make him all the hotter due to his natural hair and coat.



Age: 17

Species: Monster, Lupine, ML

Gender: Male

Occupation: Student

Personality: Honehe comes from a place where humanity is unwelcome, but he has learned that it is better to treat your enemy with a thin veneer of politeness than to actively provoke them. Honehe has little love in his heart for humanity or anything resembling it, but he keeps his tongue in check around them and pretends he’s perfectly okay among their society. His façade is not impenetrable, and either asking too many questions or hanging around for too long will begin to betray the contempt beneath his words.

Honehe is far more sociable depending on what species he is conversing with. As should be blatantly obvious, his fellow monsters are the perfect conversational partner for him. He will eagerly converse with them and attempt to endear himself to them. First and especially monstrous second generation Chimeras are tolerable, although they will be greeted with less enthusiasm. The more human-like the Chimera, the terser and more reserved his conversations with them shall be, and those that cannot be distinguished from humans will be treated as though they were.

Aside from concerns of humanity and species, Honehe is a dedicated student with a genuine desire to learn more. He loves nothing more than the feeling of progressing and getting stronger. In spite of his disdain for them, Honehe is not averse to learning more about humanity and their society. He would never admit to his true reasons, but one could guess that he sees it as important to learn from one’s enemy.

Openness to Experience: 50
Neuroticism: 40
Agreeableness: 30
Extroversion: 50
Conscientiousness: 80

Attributes:

Strength: 7
Endurance: 5
Constitution: 5
Agility: 7
Dexterity: 2
Intelligence: 6
Wisdom: 4
Charisma: 4

Magic Type Preference: Material Manipulation
Innate Magic Talent: Manipulating Earth and Rock
Interests: Exploring, Hunting, Learning, Picking at the flaws in human society
Skills: Running fast, Tearing flesh from bone, Finding things by scent

Biography: Honehe’s ancestors were originally a tribe of nomadic monsters that roamed around the continent. It wasn’t until his father’s generation that the tribe underwent a transformation. Having strayed too close to Airelosia in their travels, their tribe came under attack and suffered brutal losses. Aenohe, Honehe’s father, assumed leadership of the battered tribe and lead them to settle in the tribe’s fabled homeland in the mountains north of the Unoctocan Empire. There, he laid out a plan for them to found a nation that would bring together monsterkind from all over and form a people’s home for their own. Dubbing themselves the “Akamina Free Commune”, Aenohe intended to learn from human society to better the lives of his kin. He would assimilate technology, systems, and other beneficial ideas while attempting to maintain the otherwise monstrous identity of his people. His people included both Monsters and Chimeras that could be decidedly identified as at least partially monstrous, a policy that earned him the ire of more than a few. While the Commune is neither large nor popular, it has attracted a small yet devoted following and possesses a great deal of natural resources that it trades with others.

Few among the population of the Commune have anything but contempt for humanity, but Honehe has learned his father’s methods of treating with the enemy. He grew up absorbing his father’s personal philosophies and ideas, and he always told him that the only way to succeed was to learn, even from those that you couldn’t stand. Honehe’s experiences with humankind were from watching his father wheel and deal with travellers, merchants and others, always coming out smelling of roses and acquiring a beneficial deal for the Commune. While he could never master his finesse at masking his intentions, he certainly learned how to pretend he wasn’t tempted to just spit on the humans he met. He also picked up his father’s refined manner of speech and tries to mirror his elaborate vocabulary when he can.

Honehe personally preferred to spend his time roaming around the environment near the Commune. He loved nothing more than to poke through old caves and find things that lay forgotten. It was during his travels that he discovered his penchant for manipulating the earth around him. While initially pleased with his discovery, he soon became apprehensive when Aenohe broached the idea of going to study magic abroad. Honehe had no desire to live in human society, no matter what there was to learn, but Aenohe soon won him over with his pragmatic reasoning. There was something to be gained by studying the human’s methods of using magic, he was told, and he agreed that it would be a good idea to learn them so they might benefit their own people. Thus, Aenohe used his business contacts and influence to arrange for Honehe to attend Mordhaben’s, with sizable “donations” being offered to those open to helping an outsider gain admission.