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4/10/2018 Accepting all characters! Open Alpha roles
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Djoser is a complex character in a way many others would not openly expect. Crude, rude and a brutish bully, he is bold and aggressive in his pursuits, fearless and reckless with a tendency toward tunnel vision, his focus narrowing down on his prize. But for all the energy and aggression that he can put into a task, he’s actually fairly flaky, not stubborn at all and easy to redirect, easily distracted by other desires and needs. He’s a greedy, gluttonous thing, out for himself and only himself in this world. It takes a lot to befriend him, and takes even more to tolerate him, he is loud and he is almost abusive with his words, even toward his comrades. He’s a very violent character and loves to play fight, roughhousing and wrestling with anyone he comes across, even if they’re not entirely willing, he doesn’t really have a concept of personal space or boundaries. He never takes no for an answer and will always poke, pester and annoy others to get what he wants out of them. But, though social and gregarious, he has no trouble entertaining himself and can keep to himself just as easily as he can get on with a big group.
A simpleton, Djoser has often been compared to a pup half his age in his ability to be occupied by almost anything, no matter how small. A glittering puddle in the grass or a funny shaped cloud can get his attention just as quickly as a fight or a potential mate. Even once you have his focus, it’s hard to keep hold of it and having it is no real prize. Djoser is an idiot, easily confused, stumped by big words and complex plans. He can only follow simple directions and short explanations before boredom sends him wandering off in another direction. One needs to be short and direct with this striped hyena, treating him like a child doesn’t offend him, if anything it’s beneficial to everyone involved. Fortunately, he is big, standing 29 inches tall at the shoulder and weighing 126 lbs, and fierce with a love of violence, he is a fighter, a ferocious warrior and a stiff unyielding bodyguard for anyone clever enough to take advantage of him. He’s useful, even without brains to back up his brawn.
His favorite thing to do is playfight and whenever boredom strikes he will start nipping at the nearest paws and tails. But he also likes to swim and sit in ponds and streams on hot days. He’s very easily entertained by water.
They say that his left eye, which has a permanently constricted pupil and is a lighter blue color than his other normal eye, can see into the souls of other canines, pulling out pieces of information such as when they are lying, bits of their past memories, knowledge they may have and information and so on. Fortunately, Djoser’s best friend Blink is blind and cannot see the wild eye for himself, it supposedly only works through eye contact and therefore the blind fennec is immune to its effects. It only works while the other animal is looking directly into the wild eye and it can only strip a certain amount of information at a time, like a printer conveying information, Djoser must take and read its effects and it takes a moment so he usually only gets bits and pieces of things before the other dog looks away and the effect is broken. He cannot choose what information is gathered either, it is random and comes to him like a daydream, he's not even aware of its power as of yet. To his knowledge, his eye just looks funny. The same contact with the dome that caused this mutation of his left eye also increased his IQ but indirectly. He is still very much a dunderhead, easily confused and distractible with a short attention span. But his tendency to misunderstand things seems to come full circle and he will almost randomly come to a brilliant conclusion in only the strangest of ways, bumbling his way into genius completely on accident. The wild eye helps, as sometimes he gains sudden knowledge from a dog he happens to be looking at, but it can happen independently too.
History
Djoser was born in the local zoo, one of three striped hyenas in a litter bred purposefully by the staff to increase the species numbers but not release them. Originally, the plan was to sell the male pup off to another zoo for breeding purposes but they never got the chance. Djoser grew up pretty ordinarily, it was just his mom and his two sisters in the enclosure, they had no clan and lived a solitary life just the four of them, so Djoser learned very early on how to entertain himself and keep himself busy when the girls were not interested in his company.
His older sister Berenike was the one who taught him to be violent and aggressive. She was the dominant pup in the litter and constantly hogged the food and attention from the zookeepers and visitors, always causing a ruckus, always up to mischief. So when the dome came down and the humans retreated, leaving the animals in the zoo to fend for themselves, she was the only one left after a short time of them being trapped in their enclosure with no food and no water. Their meek and mild mannered mother died off first, then their runty sister Feme starved. Berenike, cold and heartless, had no trouble disposing of the bodies for her own survival.
Over time, the walls of the enclosure began to break down as the humans, worried about their own survival inside the strange dome, quit with the upkeep of the zoo. A small, strange looking fox fell into the enclosure when the wall crumbled beneath him and immediately, Berenike had eyes on him. She wanted to eat him, they were both starving at this point, the fennec was but a snack at best but it was one they both desperately needed. But the fox got to Djoser first. With his quick wit and clever tongue, he convinced Djoser that they needed each other and, twisted and confused by the white fox’s words, Djoser rose up from where he was slumbering, dying, and struck his sister down with a swift snap of his jaws. He was larger and she was weak.
He didn’t devour her body.
Instead, he and the fennec figured out a way to use the rubble from the crumbling concrete to climb from the enclosure and escape into the city, where rats and cats and even other dogs sometimes became the rungs of Djoser’s ladder back to full health. He was still young and there’s some chance he still has some growing to do, which is startling because he’s already big for a striped hyena. But he is healthy now, even slightly overweight with a tendency to over-hunt and gluttonously hog all of the food he and his little white friend manage to catch. He is indiscriminate in his hunger and will eat anything from human garbage to fish to rats to other canines. Cats are a particular favorite snack of his but he finds them hard to catch as he is a creature of strength and not speed, they tend to out-maneuver him. But sometimes Blink helps.
Blink the fennec fox is his constant companion and is a sort of guiding light in his life. He does whatever the fox tells him to, with or without a moderate amount of fussing and complaining, and Blink really directs the two of them around the city and about their daily business. If it were up to Djoser, they’d just look for food constantly and maybe nap in between meals. Blink keeps them on course. Still, they are both loners and can be found separate just as often as they are together, coming together to sleep and in times of strife but otherwise strangely trusting and independent.