Calder - New Character Submission

[Arlo]

Player Nickname:Arlo

Name:Calder
Codename:TBD
Age:Unknown, appears mid-late20’s
Date of Birth: He’s not sure. Before humans started dumping things

Height: 5’11” in his human form
Weight: 190lbs in his human form
Hair Color: bright white/blonde
Eye Color: bright blue
Place of Origin: somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
Nationality/Race: Mer-Folk
Classification/Origin of Powers: mythological creature
Status: resident
Occupation: TBD

Personality Profile: Perpetually sunny disposition despite the horrors of the world around him. Just convinced that most things can be fixed if you come at it with a smile and most people can be helped if you just give them the benefit of the doubt. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a bad side. Fully capable of getting angry but it does take a LOT to push him that far. Mostly due to the fact that he’s a little (ok a lot) on the dense side and just won’t understand the insults or jibes or such that are thrown his way. Or he will take them the wrong way and somehow make them into a compliment. He’s what happens if cotton candy and coffee had a baby and it somehow walked out into the sunshine and wished you a good morning.

Physical Description: https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/510595676518261699/ (his normal form)
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b8/3f/47/b83f ... 81a9b2.jpg (what happens when he gets angry) (Feel free to use text, an image, or both.)

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General Power Information: A siren with a heart of gold, muscles of iron, and a brain of cotton candy.

Ability One: First and most basic he is a Siren. Just like the lore he can lure in those he focuses this ability on with his voice. It would be similar to a psychic ability, making the listener see Calder as their, or bearing their, most ardent desires. It isn’t something he can turn on and off, so no singing unless he wants to entrance a person or the people within hearing distance. Just barely within hearing distance it pulls you closer, but the closer you get the stronger the affect until you are fully sucked in and cannot break free. The affects would last an hour and then wear off naturally, leaving the victim with a hell of a hangover. Of course for any of this to work a person needs to be able to HEAR him.

Ability Two: Feats of strength. Naturally stronger than the average human anyway as a mythological creature decades upon decades of swimming and living under the pressures of the ocean have made him very strong indeed and able to achieve great feats most normal humans would find impossible. This is mostly just lifting very heavy objects to peer underneath and see what might be interesting under there. (not to superman levels, no ripping safe doors off walls for him)

Ability Three: We’ll call this one “dumb luck”. He has incredible luck at times bordering on the comical. An entire group of people can be searching for an object that simply cannot be found, but he (having no idea what that object is) will accidentally trip over it and toss it over his shoulder and into the group searching for it because he thought it was just garbage. He’s dumb, but he’s lucky. This is part of how he has survived for so long.

Drawbacks & Weaknesses: Overexerting his voice is the same for him as anybody else. If he overdoes it he will become hoarse and need to rest and it won’t be as easy to use that ability. He is a merman so he does need to be in the water a great deal of time. He can shift to a two legged form and be out of water but he will eventually dry out, just like a fish out of water, and it will eventually kill him. His life under the water has left him a little clueless about life on the ground, but given the pollution problems he’s decided to learn to deal with it.

Skills: Almost anything involving the water. He IS a merman after all. Swimming is his biggest strength, no need for breathing equipment, high pressures don’t bother him. He is simply impossibly self confidant and cheerful. Everything is wonderful and everything will work out because everything is wonderful. Including him.

Background : Mostly spent in the Ocean. At first being able to swim closer to the surface was relatively safe but as human technology developed safety decreased and he had to descend further and further into the depths. Dealing with sea creatures comes naturally to him, knowing which plans are animals are edible and which are to be avoided and which are more likely to eat YOU is definitely an asset. As the seas became more and more difficult to navigate thanks to wars and underwater machinery he retreated to the larger lakes. Humans had mostly abandoned them unless they were near urban centers by this point. Unfortunately that peace didn’t last long because pollution became a problem. As did encroaching humans. Humans were utterly fascinating of course and he was able to sort of keep up, a little, with human culture by observation and things he found discarded in the river. However since damning for power has become a thing the river is just no longer habitable. So now he has had no choice but to climb his way out and find sanctuary elsewhere. (“Oh my GOODNESS that girl has the most BEAUTIFUL blue hair! I’ll follow her! Ooooohhh, what’s this place?”)

Criminal Record: None, nobody has been aware of his existence until now.

Quirks, Extras, Random Character Facts: Hates most vegetables. Prefers to eat meat any chance he gets. Will almost always get distracted by sweets since it’s not something he’s had a lot of. Hates carbonated water. (IT BURNS!) Doesn’t really remember his family at this point, they’ve been gone a long time. They might still be around somewhere, he’s not sure. He doesn’t seem bothered by this. BUTTERFLY!