Dbugeq

Name: Dbugeq
Age: 18….alive, unknown if counted since birth.
Birthday: January 8[sup]th[/sup]
Gender: Male
Species: Gryphon
Category: Citizen (?)
Career: N/A (He’s a forest dweller atm)

Appearance Description:

• ~He’s fairly big, with a height of 5”1’ at the shoulder and a weight of 420 lbs
• ~Having the front half of an archaeopteryx (The raptor-like ancestor of modern birds), he once had muddy-coloration feathers. However, upon revival his feathers were changed and now he has black feathers with two white streaks, one on each side of his body, as well as a third one that goes from the tip of his head to the tip of his tail. His front paws aren’t like those of an archaeopteryx though.
• ~His wings are black with white primaries and secondaries feathers. He has two fully formed talons with four fingers and opposable thumbs where the claw once was which he can control with full freedom. This allows him to use his wings as arms if he ever needs to.
• ~He has the back half of a smilodon (Also known as the Saber-Tooth tiger), just like before his fur originally had muddy colors, but now is black, with the continuation of the lines starting on his archaeopteryx half. His front paws are also like those of an smilodon.
• ~Instead of having a smilodon tail, his tail is like that on an archaeopteryx. The fan-like feathers around it are white.
• ~There is a white row of larger feathers that go along the white line that starts on his head, even on his smilodon half.
• ~His claws are white. His “beak” starts black, but the tip has a white marking.
• ~His beak is full of small yet awfully sharp teeth. He has two smilodon fangs as well though, which are just as sharp (His beak has a shape to successfully accommodate these fangs without looking too weird now hindering his ability to eat).
• ~He can open his mouth to almost 120 degrees, allowing him to use his sharp long fangs.
• ~He has quite a bulky and muscular build, which can be successfully intimidating to those that see him.
• ~He has amber eyes.

Personality Description:

• ~Confused: Not exactly surprising. You would also be confused if one day you are a creature living in the middle of a world ruled by the law of the strongest, without any technology or weapons that weren’t your claws and teeth, and the next you wake up on the modern world.
• ~Out of date: He is extremely out of date, not knowing anything about the actual world or how it works.
• ~Scared: Huge metal birds now occupy the skies that he shared with birds smaller than him, furless creatures have sticks that spit fire, huge rectangular monsters surrounds him from every direction. Everything is so new to him and he has no idea of what he’s even facing him. He may appear aggressive or even insecure, but what actually assaults him is fear, almost borderline to terror.
• ~Somewhat feral: Given the way he lived for most of his life, he is actually somewhat feral and has trouble by acting anywhere near a civilized being. He really needs some help to understand what is good or wrong anymore, as well as manners.
• ~Naïve: He knows so little of the things around him that he could easily believe the things people tell to him, if he understands them. He could think that certain ideals or social structures are bad or that a tombstone is actually a good gift for someone in the hospital if you tell him this. He simply knows no better in this whole new world.
• ~Lack of modern vocabulary: His vocabulary is mainly composed by words in a language so ancient that none even has records of it even existing, the language that he used to communicate with the few packmates he had. While this could come out as a golden mine for anyone studying the ancient world it isn’t that great when he’s trying to communicate with other creatures in these modern times. He’s starting to pick up random words, but not exactly linking them to the right meaning at times (As an example, he links the modern world “Scientist” to a creature without a hear, a source of pain, a creature that can only be evil, someone that MUST be killed if he doesn’t wants to be killed first).
• ~Quick thinker: He can react and make surprisingly good decisions in half a second, as back on the times he used to live you had to do so unless you wanted to die on the spot.
• ~Quick learner: He may not look like it, but he actually learns quite quickly about the world around him and can pick up all kinds of skills or learn by watching others do a certain task. Unluckily he doesn’t indiscriminate info what can easily make him learn things on the “wrong” way (Like inaccurate historical facts or the wrong way to use or certain tools)
• ~Strategist: He’s an amazing strategist, able to make quite complex fool-proof plans for nearly all kinds of situations as long as he can understand them and is aware that the situation has a probability of actually happening. The only downside is that he is used to pack life and making plans for him alone is something new to him.
• ~Mentally though: He has gone through so much in his life that he had built up quite an unusual toughness. He had seen family members die and get devoured at only meters from him, he had been forced to leave his very own mate behind for his survival to knowing he was dooming them to a potentially terrible death, he even had to run for miles with a broken leg once just to not be left behind by his pack and ignore the agonizing pain it caused him.
• ~Iron will: He has a huge determination that can’t be hindered by literally anything, developed by his mental toughness.
• ~Adaptable: He has learned to adapt to whatever life may throw at him, making him able to survive almost anything. However, he never had as much trouble adapting to a change as the one the modern world brings to him.
• ~Survival instinct: In his mind there is one thing that he considers his most important goal…survival. He will do literally anything to survive, regardless of how cruel or desperate.

Species Abilities:

• Flight: Defying many scientific studies, he can indeed fly regardless of his archaeopteryx anatomy, reaching a maximum speed of 30 mph (50 km/h), however, if his feathers get ruined in any way (ripped, burnt, wet) he won’t be able to fly. However, even if his wings are incredibly strong he can’t stat on the hair for longer than a full hour, as he’s more of a ground/gliding creature, so he only flies when he really needs to. He can carry up to 350 lbs for short periods of time while flying (Up to 20 minutes).
• Heightened senses: While his hearing is not exactly exceptional, his sense of sight and smell are. He can smell fresh blood or the prey he’s chasing up to a kilometer away, and while his vision is average during the day, he can see perfectly during the night and, if he really needs to, he can even use infrared vision. Don’t point strong lights towards his eyes as it can blind him temporarily though. Strong scents can successfully confuse and disorient him rather easily as well.
• Enhanced strength:
  Given the harsh times that he lived in, his strength is greater than any actual gryphon’s, as he would need it to take down the megafauna he used to feed on. While not to the point of actually being considered super-strength, it’s still worth of respect and even fear.
• Endurance and Stamina:
  Just like his strength, his stamina and stamina are somewhat greater than that of a usual gryphon to allow him to chase down his prey and fight it so he could feed on it. This only applies when he is on land though, as they are adapter for land better than air. If his kind was attacked on air or forced to stay flying for longer than usual they would tire out to the point of passing out or even be knocked down with a single blow.
• Hindered speed, flexibility and agility: His strength, endurance and stamina comes to a cost of speed, flexibility and agility. While he can maintain a speed on land of up to 46 mph (75 km/h) for up to 3 minutes, he will get extremely tired after, and consequently will usually only reach speeds of up to 30 mph (50 Km/h) unless it is an emergency. Unluckily his agility and flexibility are so low he tries to avoid situations where he could need them at all. This makes him be forced to be either an scavenger or ambush predator.
• Gryphon characteristics: He only eats raw meat or fish in emergencies. Eating anything else will make him fall terribly ill, even cooked meat isn’t something his stomach can handle very well. His bones, unlike modern species of gryphons, are not hollow, reason why his speed on land and flight are below the average.

Powers:

Camouflage: He can literally change his colors to blend perfectly with his surroundings for up to 15 minutes. While impossible to spot if completely still, this doesn’t makes him completely invisible though, and keen eyes may be able to spot him as he tries to move. Also fully open terrains are his worst nightmare, as if there isn’t anything for him to use to camouflage himself with he can still be spotted. He usually uses this ability to either hunt or try to get away from a dangerous place without being spotted.

Paralyzing glare: Through a glare he can successfully paralyze any being regardless how big or small for up to 10 minutes. However, to be able to do this he needs to look to whoever he wants to paralyze straight to the eye. Creatures that lack eyes or are simply blind are completely unaffected by this ability. He usually uses this ability to either hunt or try to get away from a dangerous place if his camouflage ability fails.


Biography:

He was born many, many years ago. He was part of a pack of 12 gryphons that shared his characteristics. He was raised to survive in a world where danger was always lurking, where survival was a must, a wild world indeed. From a full family where he had 3 brothers and 5 sisters, he was between the 3 that managed to reach the 10 years of age.

At his 12 years he had to witness how her only surviving sister was rounded by a pack of other predators and could do nothing as she was killed and eaten before him as he and his brother ran back to the pack to not be the next ones. At his 16 years he got himself a mate, yes, on those times you really couldn’t exactly wait as long as you ca today to get a mate, as you don’t even know if you’re going to wake up to see another day.

He loved the female gryphon and she loved him, but their relationship was forced to end abruptly as the volcano, which base they used as a home, became active and had a violent eruption. One of the boulders severely injured the female, shattering her hips and breaking her right wing, while a smaller one broke his back leg. With a shattered heart, he was forced to leave her behind as carrying her would only hinder him or any other pack member and lower their chances of survival. Plus, a gryphon with a shattered hip bone and wing was as good as dead in the world they lived in anyways. Even he with a broken back leg had way better chances than her.

Most of the rest of his life was relatively normal for a gryphon on those wild times, until one day at his 18 years of age, a forest fire surrounded him and his pack. All of them but one made it out alive…The one that didn’t made it sacrificed themselves so the whole pack didn’t perished in the flames, against everything they had been taught about putting themselves before everyone else even within their own pack for a reason not even them could understand. This gryphon was none other but Dbugeq. He has no memories of this though.

Many years after his death, in the modern times, his remains where dug up by a group of scientists. These scientists weren’t satisfied by just taking these bones to Manta Carlos and re-assembling them together to later on donate them to the museum or whatever they could do with them, but decided to go even further. It is not known how they did it, just that it was a mix of science with magic, as well with some modifications to the body itself in the process for reasons just as known as the method they used to bring him back, but in the end where there was only a pile of bones belonging to an ancient creature, stood a very confused gryphon.

For a long time, tests were run on him, and he was far from happy or comfortable. Whether these scientists knew if he was sentient or just an animal given how old and different from the current gryphon species he was, it is unknown. However, once they decided it would be a good idea to see how high and fast he could fly on a dome, thinking they had managed to successfully tame him.

They clearly hadn’t, and he escaped by smashing through the crystal dome.

Since then he had been a dweller of the forest. Confused, scared and without any idea of where he is or how he even got there.


Additional Information: I really hope that in the future he goes from forest dweller to an actual student of SA, however, he will need a ton and a half of help before he is ready to attend to any class. Also, his name can be translated from his language (Which I made up) to "Theron".