THE BASICS
Username : slanndalous
Lunarian Name : Tenzin (Tibetan for "Protector of Dharma")
Sex: Female
Origin: Tibetan
Alliance : Legion
Path : Priest
Conduit : Her father's hand-held prayer wheel
Services Offered : Presently - She can bless the Legion, initiate rites and rituals, guide those through the afterlife and into reincarnation. She's lost her talent for manipulating elemental energy, but she can teach those sensitive to the skill.
Future - She will be a powerful priest who will be able to open up a monastery and teach her version of The Way. She will also be an asset for interrogating prisoners of war. It's true that Tenzin does not like to hurt or torture other people, but she sees her duty as merely releasing a burdened soul into the light of unbiased truth. That's not so wrong, is it?
❀ Appearance!
Skin Tone : Dark, red tonesBody Style : Lanky, underdeveloped, androgynous
Hair Color/Style : Shaved head at the academy. Black peach fuzz is about all anyone ever sees. As time goes by, she lets her hair grow out into a short mohawk to parody the ceremonial Tibetan headdresses worn by the higher-ranking lama and to be willfully disobedient.
By the time she graduates, it'll be a decent-sized mohawk.
As a Tenryujin, it'll be an impressive plume of mohawkness and everyone will be all "AMAGA IT'S SO AMAZING!"
Eye Color : Sea green
Clothing Description : At the academy, Tenzin wears a yellow Tibetan monk undershirt to cover her chest, although it isn't really covering much up to begin with. She wears a bright red robe over it (shown in picture above); however, she lets the sleeves hang around her waist instead of wrapping it correctly around herself.
When she becomes a soul conduit, she will have the same yellow and red theme, but idk some cool looking robes or something. I'm open to the artist's own inspiration.
As a Tenryujin, I want her to have some kind of long cape/shawl made out of the fabric from her father's robes once she is big enough to actually use it. Other than that, I am open to the artist's own inspiration.
Accessory Description : As an academy student, none.
Since she is a monk I can't really think of anything at the moment.
Unique Attributes : She is very androgynous looking. As an academy student, she is very flat-chested and could be mistaken for a pretty boy fairly easy.
As she grows up and becomes a soul conduit, she will be a little more curvy, but she will still have a strong jaw line, wider chin, and high cheekbones that make her look like a handsome woman or a short, young man. She tries to wear a little more make-up during this time as well to help sway indecision, but even still it doesn't always work.
She embraces her handsome features as a Tenryujin, content to be a medium of both genders in some ways. It represents the neutrality of The Way that she will inevitably embody once again.
Her scales are a speckling of white and sea green (representing the Tibetan snow lion).
Also, her ears are unusually big for such a small kid, but she'll grow into them.
Personality : Word count - 583
Book smart - There's no question Tenzin knows The Way well. She has a photographic memory and enjoys reading, researching, and exploring more about the one field she excels in. Of course, her prowess ends there. Living as a monk all her life, she has had very little knowledge of how the outside world works.
Her common sense is a little stilted in some situations. She lives in the now and rarely considers future planning. Academically, she is very hard-working and diligent in other practices beside meditation, but even so sometimes critical thinking can take a bit of activating before she can productively use the knowledge she has gained during her academy days.
Vengeful - After her father died, the void she felt was filled with a bottomless rage that consumed her. She left the monastic life to live one of vengeance. That opportunity was found within the halls of the Lunarian Academy. She struggles with the reckless disposal of human life in this war, but she cannot forgive those who killed her father. The only thing that lets her sleep at the end of the day is that fate is final, and if she is destined to shed blood, then that is her Way, if just for the extent of this incarnate lifetime.
Generally, this manifests as prejudice and hostility towards those on the Nobles' side
Dichotomous - Tenzin is no longer sure of her place in the wheel of fate. She thought it was beside her father, but that ended all too soon, and she became adrift, angry, and virtually alone. These emotions she feels conflict with the teachings of her father, the rules upon which she based her life around. When he died, she was no longer certain The Way was the right one.
She tries things from all ends: gluttony, starvation, violence, peace, revolt, harmony, etc. and ultimately comes back to the middle with no real answer. There are times when she wants to rid herself of The Way, but she cannot help but cling to what she knows best.
She is eager to try new things despite the warning signs to stop. She won't forget the first time she got s**t-faced and ended up puking her guts out all night.
Hypocritical - As a former monk trying to keep to The Way and the roiling hatred and attachment to vengeance she feels against the Nobles, she is a whirlwind of juxtapositions and contradictions. She is quick to point out others' flaws so that they can learn from them; however, she can fall short in her own assessment of herself as her raw emotions get the better of her.
As some kind of revolt against the fate of her deceased father, she is content to dabble in the extremes, to experiment. Not that she will admit to it or allow excess and attachment from others.
Thoughtful - Despite her grudge against the Nobles, against The Way, she still conforms to the tributes and rituals that the monks perform for the laypeople. She is content to offer what little she has to someone without anything, to recite funeral rites, answer questions, etc. because she still understands that there are needs of the soul and someone must instruct them even if she does not believe in the processes that filter them any longer.
Thoughtfulness is too ingrained in her to be intentionally selfish or hurtful toward strangers (except if they are Noble... she hasn't found unconditional compassion for them quite yet).
Hobbies :
Fishing - Tenzin is not very good at it, but that isn't the point. Caught between mountains and lakes, the monastery's best supply of food comes from either donations from the nearest town or by fishing. Frustrated by her failure to support the monastery, she grew to resent those who were far more skilled than she was. She was good at The Way, so why couldn't she achieve greatness in other fields?
Eventually, her father told her to think about it as part of her training. Incorporating the principles of disassociation, peace, and meditation, she saw fishing as a way to hone her detachment of material emotions. The purpose became the act of fishing, not the product of catching. She still sucks at it, but has grown to love it as an activity to calm her mind and reflect on her deceased father.
Meditation - Obviously. It helps to quell the newfound rage within her, though her evolution as a enlightened monk has hit a plateau since the death of her father.
Drinking - Tenzin is quite the lightweight when it comes to drinking, but that's good for someone with no money. She indulges in it to help relieve her mind and forget about her father for a time. She is not an alcoholic, but she could be in danger of it if she can't reconcile her feelings and leave them behind.
Likes : Meditation, research, fishing, liquor, sweets, being alone
Dislikes : Fighting, arrogance, chit chat, killing, unscrupulous behavior
Hates: The Nobles
Quirks : She tends to see through people rather than focusing on them when they are talking with her.
Tenzin rubs her head a lot because she's not used to the feeling of hair as it grows longer.
If someone likes to talk way too much, she sometimes interrupts them, stating that she has better things to do with her limited time on earth than waste it listening to a fool.
She gets really emotional when she is drunk. She will get unusually loud, smart mouth people, start fights, and sometimes she will cry after the night is over.
Tenzin's voice is a little rough and deep for a girl, but it is rather noticeable that it does come from a girl. She also talks really fast since she is used to reciting sutras very quickly.
