Ayr Morncer

Ayr| 39| December 20| Male | Coyote Shifter
Supporting| Healer

In his human form, Ayr is a man of average height with a well defined, muscular body. His features make him as being of Native American descent, but his skin and hair are bleached white by the dual nature of his soul. His eyes are bright yellow, like those of a wild canine and his ears are long and pointed and covered in fur that starts out white and grows darker near the tips. He carries himself proudly, but also with a hint of playfulness to him. His smiles, even the genuine ones, have a natural hint of sarcasm to them. Because of the nature of his shifting, he wears looser clothing that he can don and doff easily.

His Coyote form is likewise average, only being two feet tall at the shoulder. His coat is a dark tan with flecks of gray and bands of a lighter tan. His eyes are oddly intelligent in this form, too intelligent to be a normal animal. Likewise his muzzle always bears the hint of a mocking smile. He wears his shifter tags prominently on his right hind paw (his right ankle in his human form).
Coyote Form

Ayr is a dedicated member of the community and an even more dedicated father. He loves his children and wants to see them grow. Likewise he loves his community and wants to help it prosper. However there is a melancholy behind his eyes; even after all these years he still mourns the loss of his life partner.

Behind his friendly, helpful personality there is a mischievousness though. His help is touted in trickery and pranks, and he is compelled to mock those who look for or expect easy answers.

Ayr is incredibly in tune with the spiritual world around him. He can sense spirits and petition them for help in many matters, mostly getting advice in how to approach a situation. He can do a few specific things with this power:

Take a spirit flight, which leaves his body unconscious and allows his soul (in the form of his human soul and the spirit of the Coyote, never separated) to traverse the spirit world. In this realm, they can see the invisible and the spirits. They can view events in the real world but not be seen by those who cannot perceive spirits or interact with the real world. They can speak to people in the physical world, but only one person at a time and only while occupying the same "physical space" as that person. While Ayr is on a spirit flight, his body requires neither food nor sleep and will not age, but is still susceptible to being harmed. If his body is killed, his spirit will be left to wander the spirit world forever.

Beckon spirits to remove bad luck and heal the wounds of others. This takes time, energy, and in more extreme cases a sacrifice of some sort. For minor wounds and bad luck, it merely takes ten to twenty minutes of concentrated effort. For more major wounds, it either takes two to three hours of concentrated effort or this time can be cut down to the ten to twenty minutes, but doing this will cause Ayr to need bed rest for a couple of days after. The last form of healing, used only on the most grievous wounds or most severe bad luck, takes both hours and leaves Ayr drained for several days after. This can be averted if Ayr or the subject relinquishes something important to them to the aiding spirit (a sense, a limb, a memory, etc.).

Coyote Form - Ayr can shift between his human form and the form of the Coyote. In this form, he has senses equal to those of a Coyote. His clothes do not shift with him, other than his shifter tag.

No Easy Answers - In matters of spiritual or emotional growth, Ayr is incapable of telling someone directly how to fix their issues. Instead, he must intentionally try to trick them into figuring out the answer themselves.

Liar, Liar - Ayr's lies are more believable than normal. He can even trick magical lie detection, fooling just about anyone into trusting his words. He can even cause illusions that are nearly impossible to break to cause someone to perceive one thing as another. He can only create these illusions if he intends to use them to help someone grow or work through a problem, and the illusion breaks when the person achieves the goal associated with the illusion.

Ayr was born in a different time, in a different place long ago. He was chosen by the spirits as a young man to lead his tribe in the North American Plains. His first spirit flight gave him insight into the world around him. But his third spirit flight left him lost and trapped in the spirit realm for decades. When he found his way back to his body, his people were gone and he was left alone. He hid among the society that had grown up around him, living as an outcast for the most part.

Every so often, he would enter the spirit realm somewhere safe to hide, where he could remain 'asleep' and vanish from memory. He did this several times, missing much and always needing to catch up with the more and more modern world. From time to time, he was approached by representatives from Manta Carlos, offering him a place to live. Each time he refused, not wanting to leave his homeland. Eventually he woke up and found that the world was much more tolerant.

He met a woman whom he learned to love dearly. Eventually they married and before long she was pregnant with their first child. There were complications though, and the modern doctors could do nothing to help them. In desperation, Ayr (as he called himself now) chose to take his wife on a spirit flight and consult the spirits. She was unprepared for the journey however, try as he might to help her, and her spirit became lost. Ayr too lost his way in searching for her. He knew that if he did not return to his body, both she and their child would die. He was approached by Coyote, who offered to return him to his body. But in exchange, Ayr would have to give him something. The man agreed, desperate to try and save his family.

The time he was gone was too long however and his wife had already suffocated due to the frailty of her body. Woefully, Ayr cut his infant, still premature but potentially viable, out of his deceased wife. Ayr pleaded to Coyote to save his newborn son. Coyote said that he had already agreed to give something up. If he wanted another favor, it would have to be something really valuable. So Ayr offered up himself. He would let Coyote live and walk with him for as long as he wished, and never be able to comfort or teach his child the way he wanted to. The deal was struck and Koda was saved, and Ayr was changed into what he is today.

Knowing he could no longer pass for human and not wanting to abandon his child to strangers, Ayr sought out Manta Carlos on his own. Once he settled into the island, he began offering his services as a healer to the people there. He eventually adopted a young girl, Kealani, and took her into his home. He has spent the past several years training Koda, his son, to help and eventually take over his business while simultaneously nurturing Kealani to decide for herself what she wants to do with her life.