Doggie

[dogwood]

Name: Houndswood

Alias/Nicknames: Doggie, Dagger, Dog/Dagwood

Age: 17

Sex: M


Race: It would be more accurate to state his lineage. Doggie was born first and only son to a clan of women descended from ancient forest spirits, i.e. Dryad and so forth.


Appearance: His hair is short, a soft, leafy green in color, a pair of bangs framing his face. His eyes are Honey colored, and his skin complexion is a tawny brown color. He's of average height, about 5'11'', and has a rather slender, almost femininely curved shape and build. He bears a birthmark that resembles more of a tattoo on his left side; a series of four petaled flowers that start inches to the left of his naval and run up toward his ribs.

History: Doggie was born the first and, until found otherwise, only son to a clan of strong, almost amazonian-like women descended from ancient forest spirits, such as the Dryad. As such, being such an oddity, the sister women all treated and still treat him as their own, and more to his displeasure, as something of a Prince.

Growing tired of his family's constant smothering, allowing him little to no choices of his own, Doggie sneaks off to roam about the earth on his own. Of course, despite his best efforts, so long as there are trees and grass, his aunts and sisters are always nearby to aid him when he's no longer able to defend himself.


Personality: He's a kind, warm sort of kid, and very generous, despite his rather pampered lifestyle before his departure. He enjoys a good prank now and again. Though he finds that people are often distant and defensive, he tries to make as many friends as he can. Unfortunately, as trusting as he is, it opens him up for getting into alot of trouble with more unsavory characters.


Clothing/Armor: He wears a short sleeved jacket and a form fitting shirt underneath, the sleeves about mid-fore arm length, boot cut jeans and a pair of hiking boots. In a backpack he carries a pair of greaves for when combat becomes necessary and several other survival aids. A canteen is clipped to his belt at his lower back and rests over the knife.

Weapon(s): A sheath clipped to his belt, resting horizontal at his lower back holds a long, bayonet style knife, longer than a dagger and shorter than a short sword. He uses it more as a defensive tool, catching a blade between the knife and loop at the hilt much like that of a Japanese jitte.

Abilities: He resembles more of a Japanese henge rather than a simple tree spirit. A goblin, almost. He has minor skill in creating illusions, mostly to confuse or unsettle foe such as creating formless phantoms or even borrowing the faces of others he's touched.

Like his aunts and sisters, he is able to merge with trees and move through them as a means of travel or escape, however if the tree takes damage while he's inside of it, so does he.

He's able to temporarily harden his skin to almost stone-like strengths, resisting most injury but still able to take damage with enough force.

He has a minor healing factor, though major injury still requires medical attention

As an offensive ability, he is able to harden, sharpen and extend the fingers of his left hand like spears, but only with his left hand. The rest of his family are able to do this with both hands.

As a last resort when he feels there's no other option, Doggie is able to release a special reserve of energy all at once. This heightens his senses and reflexes and allows him to move at his body's physical limit. This also increases his strength. His hair turns white and his honey eyes become copper colored. However, he's only able to remain in this state for several minutes and is only able to enter this state once in a yet to be determined period of time. While in this state, Doggie refers to himself as Dagger, and will only answer to Dagger. His personality also becomes less kind and generous and more ruthless and cold. Almost sadistic. Because of this, Doggie doesn't like entering the altered state, and often won't if he doesn't have to worry about protecting others.