Name: Amphios, also called Amphie
Age: 19
Birthday: March 3rd
Gender: Male
Species: Faun/Forest Nymph
Category: Student
Class: First Year College, Cinematography Major
Appearance Description:
Likes: Flower crowns and salt licks, but don't tell anyone.
Dislikes: Being restrained
Strengths: Amphy is justice-minded and very willful, leading him to stand up for others against people stronger than him
Weaknesses: He tends to put the safety and happiness of others above his own, leading often times to physical and emotional injury
Fears: He is absolutely terrified of fire. Seeing even a small flame gives him the heebie-jeebies, as he's seen tiny harmless flames become raging forest fires.
Habits/Hobbies: Amphios uses his Cinematography abilities to make magic trick vines. He also does unedited vines like this.
Skills / Talents: He can dance and play the flute at the same time
Personality Description: Amphios has a very keen sense of personal justice that dictates how he acts towards people. If someone is lost, it is only right to direct them to where they need to go. If someone is being hurt or abused, it's only right to stand up for them. If someone wants something that you want, courtesy dictates that you offer it before taking it for yourself.
However, many times his personal desires conflict with what he himself believes to be just. He desires people to not be lost, but he also wants to explore wildly on his own, and he just can't do that if he's directing people around. Courteously he wants to offer something, but he doesn't want to actually give it up. He wants to stand up for people, but he is not a fighter. Most of the time when he stands up for people he gets injured, and it's his personal desire to not be injured if he can help it.
Amphy is also very clumsy while he's wearing clothes. While he can be something approaching graceful while in faun form, being more human leaves him with his weight distributed much differently and his head a lot lighter. This often leads to him forgetting he's less top heavy and taking potentially dangerous and comical tumbles which he decided to capitalize on. He generally has friends film him during stunts and at random times during the day, hoping to catch him being klutzy.
At his core, Amphios is a very friendly person who likes to make other people laugh. He feels emotions very strongly, and can be very emphatic and compassionate towards other people.
Powers:
[Pan's Gift]
Pan's Gift bestows upon his descendants many of his abilities.
With his voice, Amphie can cause panic, confusion, and even weave a web of illusion around people. It only affects people within the range of his voice, and only if it comes from his own mouth--recordings of his voice have no more of an effect on people than anything else.
It also gives his descendants an affinity for nature, allowing them to commune with the forest itself and its denizens to learn the best way to care for it and protect it from outsiders. It can be described as whispering secrets to him if he cares to listen to it, and nymphs such as Amphy can respond with music.
[Minor]
[Super Speed]
Amphie can race through the trees at an incredible pace. He wouldn't call himself the fastest thing alive, but he's easily the fastest of Pan's descendants.
[Shift Pendant--Item]
Given to him by his great grandfather after begging for it for months, the Shift Pendant allows him to shift out of his goat legs, horns and big ears by using clothing. For example, wearing pants would shift his entire leg from being goat-like to being human, whereas shorts would only shift half of his legs. Wearing a hat shifts his horns away and his big ears into smaller, human ears. Seeing him in full faun form is essentially like seeing him naked.
Biography: Pan, being both a wandering prophet and also an incredibly sexual man, many people thought the old god had spread his seed far and wide and thinly over a wide land, which is partly true. Pan, a father of twelve sons, had certainly spread his seed wide, but of his twelve children he only cared for two of them after they grew older and left his side. These two children were Xanthos and Omester
Xanthos, child of Pan and a full-blooded goat, continued to wander the world, absorbed with an unquenchable wanderlust that wasn't as prevalent in his father or his siblings.
Omester was easily the most beautiful of Pan's children, possessing the gentle, deer-like features of his mother rather than the harsh gruffness of his father. His appearance coupled with his aptitude on the Pan Flute enticed a nymph named Pitys, who had scorned the affections of Pan by turning into a pine tree to escape him.
They stayed together in the forest for many years, having several children, with Amphy being the third-youngest with six older siblings, all females and all more nymph than faun. As such, his father tended to dote on him more than his sisters, teaching him the art of the Pan Flute and the dance that seemed to beckon the wilderness. Amphy took to it quite well, much to his father's delight.
His mother, a little put off at first by her first male, faun child, refused to teach him the ways of nymph magic. However as Amphy grew older and his affinity for the forest grew beyond that of his father, she begrudgingly taught him the ways of the wood and how it nurtured its inhabitants who in turn nurtured it back.
Pan would often come to visit his son Omester. He cared not much his many granddaughters, but had much to offer to Amphios. At that point in his life he'd spent much of his time guiding lost people who wandered into the forest back out again, and leading campers to food and water and fish. He believed that the bounty of the forest should be shared.
However, not everyone was so nice. Some who wandered into the forest harbored ill-will to the faun inhabitants, believing them to be demons.
A band of so-called demon hunters entered the forest. As soon as they found the nymph-faun hybrid family, they attacked with guns and fire. His sisters escaped by turning into fleeing animals and plants. All the fauns could do was run away from the hunters who tried to give chase. They didn't know the woods as well as Amphios or Omester, but the fire they'd thrown had caught. In that moment Amphy was overcome with emotions of fear and pain as the plants he'd known and befriended died in a choke of fire and smoke.
When his Grandfather Pan next visited he would ask to be turned into a human, which the wise old faun would dissuade him against. If he became a human, he could never again be a faun, after all. Instead he asked for a human guise, so he would be able to walk among them without incurring their wrath and ire.
Pan dismissed it as a child's fantasy.
But Amphy persisted and asked every time. Until finally, at last, Pan gave him the Shifter's Amulet.
With it he wrapped himself in simple cloth and went outside the forest for the first time.
And encountered a woman with a letter.
Additional Information:
Age: 19
Birthday: March 3rd
Gender: Male
Species: Faun/Forest Nymph
Category: Student
Class: First Year College, Cinematography Major
Appearance Description:
- Stands at about 5'5" with the extra height bump of his horns, 5'4" without.
- Wild black hair that looks like it would be a nightmare to comb
- His wild mane looks like it would be hard and dense like steel wool but is actually incredibly soft
- Has brown skin and deer-like features
- Markings of dots and lines all over his cheeks and nose
- Big brown eyes
- Big ears that he can move and emote with
- Ram horns that start at the front of his head and curl back
- Has goat-legs that start at about belly-button height
- He has the ability to physically change his appearance to look human with the use of clothing and accessories like hats.
- As such is usually seen in full-length pants and long sleeved shirts, wearing a hat
- Has a small tuft of a tail that tends to remain visible most of the time.
Likes: Flower crowns and salt licks, but don't tell anyone.
Dislikes: Being restrained
Strengths: Amphy is justice-minded and very willful, leading him to stand up for others against people stronger than him
Weaknesses: He tends to put the safety and happiness of others above his own, leading often times to physical and emotional injury
Fears: He is absolutely terrified of fire. Seeing even a small flame gives him the heebie-jeebies, as he's seen tiny harmless flames become raging forest fires.
Habits/Hobbies: Amphios uses his Cinematography abilities to make magic trick vines. He also does unedited vines like this.
Skills / Talents: He can dance and play the flute at the same time
Personality Description: Amphios has a very keen sense of personal justice that dictates how he acts towards people. If someone is lost, it is only right to direct them to where they need to go. If someone is being hurt or abused, it's only right to stand up for them. If someone wants something that you want, courtesy dictates that you offer it before taking it for yourself.
However, many times his personal desires conflict with what he himself believes to be just. He desires people to not be lost, but he also wants to explore wildly on his own, and he just can't do that if he's directing people around. Courteously he wants to offer something, but he doesn't want to actually give it up. He wants to stand up for people, but he is not a fighter. Most of the time when he stands up for people he gets injured, and it's his personal desire to not be injured if he can help it.
Amphy is also very clumsy while he's wearing clothes. While he can be something approaching graceful while in faun form, being more human leaves him with his weight distributed much differently and his head a lot lighter. This often leads to him forgetting he's less top heavy and taking potentially dangerous and comical tumbles which he decided to capitalize on. He generally has friends film him during stunts and at random times during the day, hoping to catch him being klutzy.
At his core, Amphios is a very friendly person who likes to make other people laugh. He feels emotions very strongly, and can be very emphatic and compassionate towards other people.
Powers:
[Pan's Gift]
Pan's Gift bestows upon his descendants many of his abilities.
With his voice, Amphie can cause panic, confusion, and even weave a web of illusion around people. It only affects people within the range of his voice, and only if it comes from his own mouth--recordings of his voice have no more of an effect on people than anything else.
It also gives his descendants an affinity for nature, allowing them to commune with the forest itself and its denizens to learn the best way to care for it and protect it from outsiders. It can be described as whispering secrets to him if he cares to listen to it, and nymphs such as Amphy can respond with music.
[Minor]
[Super Speed]
Amphie can race through the trees at an incredible pace. He wouldn't call himself the fastest thing alive, but he's easily the fastest of Pan's descendants.
[Shift Pendant--Item]
Given to him by his great grandfather after begging for it for months, the Shift Pendant allows him to shift out of his goat legs, horns and big ears by using clothing. For example, wearing pants would shift his entire leg from being goat-like to being human, whereas shorts would only shift half of his legs. Wearing a hat shifts his horns away and his big ears into smaller, human ears. Seeing him in full faun form is essentially like seeing him naked.
Biography: Pan, being both a wandering prophet and also an incredibly sexual man, many people thought the old god had spread his seed far and wide and thinly over a wide land, which is partly true. Pan, a father of twelve sons, had certainly spread his seed wide, but of his twelve children he only cared for two of them after they grew older and left his side. These two children were Xanthos and Omester
Xanthos, child of Pan and a full-blooded goat, continued to wander the world, absorbed with an unquenchable wanderlust that wasn't as prevalent in his father or his siblings.
Omester was easily the most beautiful of Pan's children, possessing the gentle, deer-like features of his mother rather than the harsh gruffness of his father. His appearance coupled with his aptitude on the Pan Flute enticed a nymph named Pitys, who had scorned the affections of Pan by turning into a pine tree to escape him.
They stayed together in the forest for many years, having several children, with Amphy being the third-youngest with six older siblings, all females and all more nymph than faun. As such, his father tended to dote on him more than his sisters, teaching him the art of the Pan Flute and the dance that seemed to beckon the wilderness. Amphy took to it quite well, much to his father's delight.
His mother, a little put off at first by her first male, faun child, refused to teach him the ways of nymph magic. However as Amphy grew older and his affinity for the forest grew beyond that of his father, she begrudgingly taught him the ways of the wood and how it nurtured its inhabitants who in turn nurtured it back.
Pan would often come to visit his son Omester. He cared not much his many granddaughters, but had much to offer to Amphios. At that point in his life he'd spent much of his time guiding lost people who wandered into the forest back out again, and leading campers to food and water and fish. He believed that the bounty of the forest should be shared.
However, not everyone was so nice. Some who wandered into the forest harbored ill-will to the faun inhabitants, believing them to be demons.
A band of so-called demon hunters entered the forest. As soon as they found the nymph-faun hybrid family, they attacked with guns and fire. His sisters escaped by turning into fleeing animals and plants. All the fauns could do was run away from the hunters who tried to give chase. They didn't know the woods as well as Amphios or Omester, but the fire they'd thrown had caught. In that moment Amphy was overcome with emotions of fear and pain as the plants he'd known and befriended died in a choke of fire and smoke.
When his Grandfather Pan next visited he would ask to be turned into a human, which the wise old faun would dissuade him against. If he became a human, he could never again be a faun, after all. Instead he asked for a human guise, so he would be able to walk among them without incurring their wrath and ire.
Pan dismissed it as a child's fantasy.
But Amphy persisted and asked every time. Until finally, at last, Pan gave him the Shifter's Amulet.
With it he wrapped himself in simple cloth and went outside the forest for the first time.
And encountered a woman with a letter.
Additional Information:
