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Gaia Name: Selig Hecht

Character Name: Selig Hecht
Race: Elf
Age: 28
Sex: Male

Selig (Drawn by me, DO NOT STEAL)

Appearance: Selig is one you could pick out of a crowd of 4 billion without much trouble. Probably due to the gleaming golden crown he wears. Or it may just be the frogs that follow him around and often cling to his clothes. (Just follow the "ribbits?")
It certainly couldn't be his clothing. Which are plain in a way. A simple white vest and pants. Or maybe not so simple, as they are decorated with golden chains and valuable jewels alike.
He wears no shoes. Which isn't surprising. With that many frogs, who wouldn't be scared of squishing one or two under their boots?
But besides that he's fairly normal. With bright green eyes and short, scruffy black hair. His ears are long as an elf's ears would be. Or maybe longer, as they reach past the back of his head. His left ear is decorated like his pants and vest, in gold jewelry.
Selig also carries a string of dolls at his side, but those don't look too terribly important.

Abilities: Charisma, Read Lips, Attract Frogs, Silence (Attract Frogs and Silence will be elaborated on in my posts )
Powers: Puppeteer

Weapons:

Frog Blade: Quite an interesting weapon. It has a scimitar-like blade, and the whole sword is bright green in color. And it seems to be the frogs best friend, as they are drawn to it.

Dolls: Aha! A deceptive item indeed. Or maybe not, seeing as he is a puppeteer.
Anyways, these amazing little things are expertly made. Created to look like his opponent. EXACTLY like his opponent, except small enough to fit into the palm of his hand.
And unlike most puppeteers, Selig does not use these to control. He merely uses them as...submission tools. As he twists and pulls to inflict pain on his enemies. Using his sword to inflict the actual damage.


History: Selig is sometimes well known for his endeavors and trials in life. Some of them where quite horrifying, others as amazing as could be. But all of them well known to those who care to listen to the crazy drunk man in the corner of the bar, telling stories about demons and soulless puppets. And of one particular puppet.
Selig.
You see, Selig was once a young boy(As most men where. xD ). Very different from what he is now. And one day a demon came to his town. This demon was well known throughout the community, as several towns before had fallen to his lies, and the rumors had spread as to where he was going to go next.
The demons name was Valeij.
He was a very intelligent demon. And his goal in life was to one day become a god. Rising in rank using the souls he stole from powerful warriors. He sealed the souls in dolls, which then became animate and followed him from town to town.
And, although we grieve for those fallen towns and their dead, we're not telling their story right now. This is a story about Selig's town. And how Kothar, Selig's father stepped up to protect his home and family from the demon Valeij.
Yes, he stepped up and fought until Valeij collapsed. Not quite dead yet, but getting there.
In a final effort to save himself, the demon Valeij killed Selig as the town and Kothar's family rejoiced around him.
Kothar couldn't bear the sight. In his desperation and grief he begged Valeij to return the boy's soul. Which Valeij agreed to do, if, in return Kothar nursed him back to health.
But there was a hitch. The demon Valeij didn't have the power enough to capture the child's soul. And it had left this world.
So, to keep his end of the bargain Valeij created a personality of sorts to fill the boy's body. And when he was fully revived, Valeij forced the personality from his mind and into the body.
Kothar was thrilled when Selig awoke. But Selig had no idea of what was happening. His entire past was gone. He didn't know who Kothar was. He had no memories of anything except for what Valeij had created.
And that was that Valeij was a god. And from then on he was worshiped as such. Kothar followed suit, trying to spark some kind of memory as he did.
But it was futile. Selig treated him like a father, but not as a son. All his care went to Valeij. All his love and time and energy.
Kothar sent Selig to different academies to try and get him away from the demon, but Selig merely packed the demon away and took Valeij with him.
The students of these academies began 'mysteriously' disappearing. And a change in Selig's personality was finally evident. He was still a kind, shy young man, but he was also mischevious and almost narsaccistic in nature. Having and showing no love towards others, even when they opened up to him.
But after visiting an academy called the "Twilight" Academy, Selig found help. Great numbers of people helped him realize the wrong in Valeij's ways. Even if the demon was trying to create a "perfect world."
His tight group of friends all helped him through. Helping him fight until when, in the final battle, Valeij was frozen in a massive block of eternal ice. Frozen because if Valeij died, Selig would die as well. He was only a figment of Valeij's imagination, after all.
Selig left after finishing his studies. Left to discover new things and find new friends.
And now he's ventured here.....

Animal Companions: Groups of frogs tend to gather around Selig, and so they are his companions.

(Blargh, semi-long profile. >< BTW, Selig is one of my old RP characters, so yeah... explains the long story, no? Not really. That's not the whole story. xD If anyone's interested in reading his story, please PM me. )

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Character name: Squeekers

Race: Human/Part Beast:Tiger
Age: 10?
Sex: Unkown

Appearance: What a tiny, adorable and interesting creature this is. The body of a "boy," but long pointed ears.... and a tail. Long, black and orange like a tigers. It wore run down shorts that reached it's knees, and a vest that had seen much better days. It also had a thick black collar around it's neck with a few links of chain hanging from a loop. It's hair was white as could be, with sticky black tips. And no one really knows what the substance in it's hair is. Maybe they'll find out one day....
Squeekers is short, and walks on all fours. With huge, strong sharp teeth hidden behind its deceivingly cute lips. And small black claws sticking out of it's fingers and toes.
Other then that, it's quite cute looking.

Weapons: Teeth and claws


History: A short, and almost uneventful history. Squeek was once a servant of Valeij, much like Selig was. But there was a little more to hat story.
See, when it was young, Squeek was a boy. A very happy, very playful young boy. It's family where a group of tiger-like creatures from a land far, far away from the one it's in now. It had a brother.... Squeek can't remember his name though. He was very strong for his age, and usually destroyed things unwittingly.
But that's a different story.
Anyways. Squeek was playing outside one day, when a demon came to town. And, can you guess what happened next, and who this demon was? Right, the demon was Valeij, and he kidnapped Squeek seeing great potential in the little creature and then physically altered him to make him a better fighting tool.
Squeek died though.... so Valeij repeated the process he'd used on Selig, and it worked.
Squeek came out with amnesia, only knowing that Valeij was it's master.
So it protected him, as it was trained to do.
After several years, Squeek met it's brother again.... and it's memory started to come back, despite the loss of it's soul.
Valeij, fearing the loss of a very good bodyguard, discouraged this, and ordered Squeek to destroy it's brother. But it refused.... and soon after, the final battle between Valeij and Twilight Academy left him eternally frozen.
Now Squeek is somewhat free.... it likes to wander now. And it still hears Valeij's voice through the connection it has with him. But it ignores him. Unless of course, Squeek feels like talking. Which it's not very good at.....

(A weird and badly written profile. xD )