[✔] [Accepted] Calypso Sajnai

[Ruby 15]

 

Out-Of-Character Information

Account Name: BittaBoBittoBa

Timezone: Central

Age: 21

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Favorite rule: You can’t join in a fight mid combat, limits the confusion that combat RP often entails!

Confused rules: I’m not sure what defaulting to mechanics combat means? Am I going to have to worry about being randomly o.o.c.  KO’d by someone who thought’d be funny to kill someone minding their own business or happened to be AFK?

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Definitions

What is roleplaying?: Taking up the visage of another person or character, and acting as them to emulate their personality or inventing an identity of your own. For example, Bob from accounting moonlights as Heliodor the Monk in his D&D live action roleplay group on the weekends.

What is metagaming?: Using information from outside of the game/roleplay or gaining information disingenuously gained to further or foil roleplay for personal gain or reason. For example, Father Reinald is a staunch (but bigoted) cleric and he starts befriending  Heliodor the Monk due to their religious convictions. Reinald’s player reads on Heliodor’s background that he’s secretly gay which would conflict with Reinald’s morals. Ergo the player decides to abruptly starts calling Heliodor blasphemous slurs despite the information being unknown to Reinald and nothing else to trigger it.

What is power-emoting (powergaming)?: Performing actions in roleplays that are: absurd for the character to perform, offer no ‘wiggle room’ for the others to react to, dictate what other characters do, or just flat out make no sense in the situation.  For example, one player decides that Heliodor will juggle Reinalds in the air with the lift of his finger and decides that he smacks him so hard with his staff that he flies into space and burns up in the sun into itty bitty pieces before Reinald has time to stand up.

 

In-Character Information

Character’s name: Calypso Sajnai (formerly “Ma’Kalip”)

Character’s sex: Male

Character’s race: Kharajyr; Kha'Pantera Kha’Cheetrah mixed

Character’s age: 23

Biography: Calypso was born as Bo’Kalip to a humble herder of a village at the foot of a mountain monastery in a plain between the few breaks of jungle in Karakatua. His father did well with livestock and trade, but only as well as someone in an isolated village can. When a small plague hit, he couldn’t afford to keep both Kalip and his bokolos so he had to give Kalip to the monastery.

 

When taken into the monastery, he was falling a bit behind the other monks and his teacher bestowed him the name Ma’Kalip as a play-on of the priestly title Ja-. His duties consisted of mainly of chores dealing with cleaning and animals, his most important being the coop keeping the messenger birds for communication. It was from constant letters that he got a small glimpse of the outside worlds which instilled wanderlust in him.

 

Unfortunately, monks are generally poor. But fortunately, calypso had a plan. He would write several letters posing as an estranged viscount who was a distant relative to the recipient and ask for minas to help regain his title in promise to share regained wealth with him. The plan was working but since hoarding money and other personal possessions was frowned upon, Calypso decided to hide it in his teacher’s secret alcohol stash so he’d be at fault if he tried to out him. Calypso told him that he’d only want a portion of it to leave, and that the rest the teacher could do with as he pleased.

 

One night Calypso snuck out with a pack of things and waited out till the morning so he could buy a Bokolo from his father. He went to where his childhood home once was, only to be greeted by a steward as his father was “Incredibly busy”. While Calypso grew up and became an adult, the world beneath the monastery changed unnoticed by him. Apparently his father had become the new Ra of the village when he was a monk. He bought a bird and went out. When asked for his name he wanted to say Bo’Kalip but didn’t have the heart and just went with Calypso.

Now he’s currently just travelling by himself taking up wherever the wind takes him, he has a particular keenness to being a courier.

 

 

Personality:

Traits:

+Mindful: Though it may not always be externally apparent, Calypso usually pays close attention to what's going on. Watching his posture, following the leader, and acknowledging details were a big part of his background. Additionally, this mindfulness has formed a sort of inherent reverence for things. Or at least on the outside, which allows him to fake it long enough to make for pleasant company.

+/-Curious : It’s a cliche for cats to be a curious bunch but this manifested in Calypso from a young age.  Some of his favorite hobbies was collecting bugs and odd finds which still remain today. Unfortunately, He always had his horizons set beyond his small village and it was inevitable that he would have left even before being kicked from his monastery.

+/-Esthetic :  The lighter side of Calypso’s vanity is while he is focused on his looks, he has an affinity for aesthetics in general. He often take’s great pride in decorating spaces. He even used to embroider the robes of fellow monks before his teacher made him stop. He feels aesthetics have a much more powerful effect on the psyche than others may believe, thus it is important think of them.

-Vain : Even while practicing the strictures at the monastery, Calypso was always  focused on his looks and getting caught over petty details. Some of the oft remembered phrases of his teacher were , “Ma’Kalip, why’sa yu waxing yu’s hair when yua needs ta be waxin de floor!” or early in the morning, he’d bang on his room and yell in his old age, “Ma’Kalip! Stoppa polishing yu’s wood, and startsa polishing dem vases! Before yu’s hand cramps!”

Likes:

Bathing

Animals

Seafood

Dislikes:

Confrontation

Insects

Unexpectedness

Ambitions: Becoming an Author: Calypso is bit of a passive individual, so he is in a lack of grand ambitions. The one thing on his mind since leaving his home temple was the prospect of writing about his journey or even writing something smaller like a cookbook. Anything he could stick his name on to be known for.

 

Talents:

Playing Music: Due to his passiveness, Calypso figures he may never get around to writing some grand book to be known for. But he figured his travelling tales may at least be useful for inspiring songs. He has skill in the sitar and flute that he picked up from his time in the monastery.

Stewardship: Monks in a monastery have to be self efficient and most of the chores in the temple fell to Calypso.  As such, he has skills in tailoring, cooking, washing, and most house chores. One of his favorite hobbies is making his own scented soaps and perfumes for a nice clean bath.

Animal Husbandry: When he was still living in his village, Calypso cared for animals. And when he lived in the monastery he took care of their birds and actually handled the messenger pigeons. One of his memories were of a pig named Bobbit who was huge and would always try to bite Calypso’s toes.

 

Weaknesses:

Skittish: In spite of all the images of brave collected souls that “monks” inspire, Calypso is far from that. He can actually become quite frightened, even if he tries his best to hide it. He also tends to handle stress poorly when things don’t follow the “plan” he set out in his head.

Hypocritical: In truth, Calypso will preach about the virtues of following the way of Bayla when prompted. And while he does believe in them, he can sometimes act against these beliefs by pure fault. Most notably, he’ll be ready to gamble like a thief when he’s done drinking like a sailor.

Passive: Monks are often disciplined into being passive as this helps them work as a whole and teaches them to respect the whims of their teachers. This has carried with Calypso into his adult life where he is very passive, often as an attempt to avoid conflict. It is sometimes very hard for him to say no.

 

Appearance: This spot-covered Feline carries with him a slight build and silky skyblue clothing of light composite, which may be seen as immodest even by Kha standards. But they keep him cool, require little upkeep and he finds them quite fashionable. The shape of his head could be considered round for a Kharajyr, with a relatively short muzzle and a “buttoned” nose. He styled the dark fur on his head tofeather back and his eyes are bright piercing blue with slight dark rings around them that taper to the corners of his muzzle. And as for his muzzle, In contrast to his walnut and creme body, it is quite dark like his spots with an almost leathery looking texture. The only light spot here would be around his lips, where they are drawn to with a light beige color and coming to a point to his nose, giving him the appearance of a perpetual smirk.

 

Skin:

 

 

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