Aged Chi Ref Sheet - WIP

"Crushed by iron.
Drowned in a lake.
Frozen and shattered.
Smothered or slaughtered.
Best of cases, eaten alive.
One of these, try as you might,
my deary girl, you won't survive"~Pandora Black.



"See the problem with violence, is it's always retributable. And the problem with retribution, is it can rebound, too."~Chi
"Don't judge a book by its cover--no matter what the cover is!"

Ok, so here's my unfinished ref sheet for Dark, for OCTs and all other non-Furcadia-related uses of my shameless girl ^^


Most of her glowing markings' designs are here for your reference, but not her BLASTED knee marking. Thing's a bitch to draw, and I plan to do so soon, to update this (actually I'm working on ANOTHER ref cause I hate her face in this one :I), but in the meantime, here's an older ref that features it--the design hasn't changed at all, so it still works, even when I've revamped a couple of the others c: [link]

Anyway, on to the info!!!

Name: Chi Darkfire
Alias(es): Dark tail, among others. I call her 'Dark' in an affectionate way c:
D.o.B.: June 13th, 1329 - 6:42am (HOLY crap that's some precise DoB!)
Age: 3122 years
Gender: Female (but can shift)
Weight: A shocking 24 lbs (Yes, she's supposed to be RIDICULOUSLY light-weighted)
Species: Demonic shifter (but prefers a targiversed wolf appearance)
Orientation: Bi--Mild female preference.

Textual ref:
Coat color: Black.
Belly, stockings, gloves and inner ears: Blood red.
Outer ears and hair: Bright red.
Eyes: Pupil--black; Iris--red, silver, green; Sclera--white.
Glowing markings: Bright orange. They look like running lava.
Spikes: Metallic black.
Skin: Black or various shades of DARK gray (instead of red)
Blood: Black with a hint of a reddish glow
Apron's colors: BRIGHT GREEN (not yellow), blood red outlines.

Short description: She's, to avoid more complex naming issues, a demonic shifter with a normally motherly, protective personality. Usually though, and ESPECIALLY in times of peace, where she doesn't need to worry a lot, she's a notorious cloud cuckoolander with a tendency to flirt with, basically, anything that's available for a screw. As a result (or probably the result OF), she's got very quick wits when she speaks, often turning things around for dirty jokes covered in euphemisms--specially if she's flirting. When not flirting, she spends her time taking hearty naps or growing plants or, if the chance presents itself, sparring with a willing partner (OR, in the odd case, doing some actual hunting) to, you know, keep herself competent. Her style of fighting heavily fluctuates from fire-based to bone-manipulation to shape-shifting, but, if she can help it, she'll always stick to melee--she is, after all, a strong-bodied trickster with a naturally flexible body. For a good amount of the time, she doesn't need anything else to defend herself: She's somewhat proud, but not stupid. If her opponent defeats her that way, she'll take it--it's not worth the fret to seek victory in ALL the small fights. However, she'll up the ante if her life, or an innocent's for that matter, is threatened by an obviously difficult opponent.

Personality: Merry, upbeat and lively, she's usually all out for being a goof. She loves acting cute for others, but has a grim sense of humour, too--it's not at all entirely unexpected to see her spreading her jaws both ways (vertically AND horizontally) to get a spook out of anyone fearing her just out of her demonic appearance. However, most of the time she's more for absorbing knowledge about others than to give useful info about herself. Not quite reserved though, she simply happens to go TMI whenever someone asks her stuff--usually in the sexual manner. She loves being treated as a pet.

Combat: Plain and simple, she's a trickster. She loves to fight with claw and teeth by counterattacking and using her foe's body against them, but also enjoys giving her foes a chance at beating her. After all, it's no fun to win over a foe when you've got a natural advantage as a demon--it's much, MUCH more fun and exciting to win (or lose) through merits below your own. However, she's hard to trick herself since she's always learning from her foe and has plenty of background experience. If they have room to step up, she'll do so as well to keep up--up to and including attempts of dismemberment. However, she's heavily protective of anyone she's got any kind of attachment with: she won't actively pursue victory if she likes her foe (attempts to push them to their limits aside). But dare to threaten the life of her pet, or anyone she cares about, and you'll see how much of a death bomb she really is--she doesn't care about her life as long as the innocent don't get harmed.

Background: Dark's world has already suffered World's End; it came in the form of an all-out, hatred-based, World-and-Dimension-Wide War, that ended up extincting several species, mortal and immortal alike. She herself had to kill people close to her during the centuries it lasted, for reasons varied--however, the worst case was having to kill her own husband. Only reason she didn't reach insanity were the company she kept at home (basically from where she fought most of her battles), her will to keep them alive and botany. Yes, she grows plants. And can do some handy blacksmithing, too. However, and despite having worked in bars more than once through her life (the hoe), she still fails something fierce at cooking and serving drinks (among several other mundane activities).



Quirks:
* She has a penchant for shiny things, loves flowers and generally dislikes clothing: those damned things get burnt too easily!!
* She also has a very dark sense of humour and will often scare others for her own amusement; but if she likes someone--even if a little--, you bet your life she'll keep them out of harm's way by whatever means necessary.

Traits:
* Her tail is about as long as the rest of her body, and quite fluffy to boot--but while that thing's a comfortable pillow/blanket/whatever for people she cares about, it's also a very effective drill and whatnot: it's NEVER wise to grab her by the tail during bloody combat, ESPECIALLY if she's aiming to kill!
* Her 'teeth' are all actually metallic-looking, yellowish fangs.
Her irises are SILVER, but are better defined as tri-coloured: * The outlines are green, blending with said silver at the center, which then becomes red near the pupil. Their colors and form shift quite predictably depending on her mood, but they're usually canine.

Notes:
* Dark's ears constantly twitch if there's sound nearby. This is because of her acute hearing sense: She can hear a beating heart from a block's distance, and louder sounds from even further away. Of course, this trait means something along the lines of a concussion grenade is...devastating to her nerves, to say the least. However, the acuteness to them means she can detect anomalies in someone's body, and/or 'see' beyond walls with ease--they actually are sensitive enough for her to echolocalize things from within a short distance (she had plenty of practice for this during World's End).
* Millenia worth of experience and interaction with empaths (and having been married to one once) have given her plenty of knowledge about psychology. Mix this with the above and you've got yourself a reliable lie detector: She's only been fooled thrice in her entire lifetime.
* Her body's messy genes have made her a magic sponge--which means any direct contact with magic has a permanent effect in her and leaves a mark behind, to boot. Her seven marks are each a magic scar, some gained of her own will, some by accident and one in combat (the one on her shoulder). Of course, this means the more contact she has, the more thrown off balance her body gets. Only one of these marks actually helped stabilize her (her knee's mark), but she's still not taking her chances with magic. EVER.
* Because of the mess mentioned above, medicines, drugs, chemicals and THE VAST MAJORITY of food items will have some sort of poisonous, toxic, acid or otherwise horribly negative effect on her. Don't get me started on water and BY ALL MEANS keep liquor away from her (while we're at it, don't ever let her sneeze over flour, either).
* Her body's temperature is naturally above what's to be expected of a normal being at all times. To say she's got a constant fever is a simple way of stating her temperature.
* SHE CAN BLUSH. Given her personality, it's understandable for someone not to expect her to blush, but she can. Her cheeks and ears tend to flush into a darker shade when she does.
* While we're on this, scritching of her ears is heavily counteradvised. She doesn't become aggressive as a result if you do, but rather...well...you'd probably not want to know. :jackrabbit:
* Her left arm also seems twice as strong as the rest of her body, which is a lot to say already...
* She's modified her bones to be able to endure MASSIVE damage by themselves (hence why they look so different), and so it takes about a ton and a half to break any of them, and two to do her skull or spine. Her light weight also works with her in that she can move so much faster than a demon should, and being fiery herself, usually this means 'up to and including blazing-fast'. However, she's not very good at steering at such speeds, and wears herself out MUCH faster.



Skills:
Shifting: gender, form and shape. However, not colors nor her general appearance. This means that, as a horse, rat, wolf, rabbit or faux-dragon (yes, that REALLY is the full species list she can assume) she'll maintain her color scheme, spikes, tail length, marks, fangs, eye colors.........you get where I'm going with this. If she uses this during a fight, it's in high-tiered-combat--usually, her foe will be as much of a trickster as she is, meaning she'll have to trick THEM via changing tactics every three seconds.
Fire: Most of the genes in her body (she's a genetical mess, but that's one of the things to figure out) come from her mother, a fire demon through and through. As such, fire is her element, and it's where she can move the best. She can breathe fire, set herself on fire, the works. However, if she studies, and can understand an element-based attack's mechanics, she can make a fiery version of it. Her pride and joy in this toying is the EMB--basically a three-phased beam that is first a high-temperature laser (kinda, since 'fire' can't make 'lasers'), then explosive, then EMP (she needs electricity being put through her for this). She seldom uses it though, as the energy she needs for it allows for a single shot at a time, often leaves her heart racing and to top it off carries such a kick that it's not uncommon for her to be thrown 12 feet away from where she was standing, and end up severely burnt, maimed and tattered in the process. Instead, she'll use it to breach walls or deal with mechanical barriers.
Bones: The expectable reason for her to be able to shift her bones and turn them into melee weapons (among other things) jutting out of her body would be that she's a shifter. However, this isn't the case as she's got two more souls within her, and one of them, the one that possesses this skill, is so blended in with Dark's own that this kind of movement is second nature to her. Still, it's not a natural skill, so she can't use them without harming herself in the process (thankfully, her body can regenerate most tissues).
Pocket Hell: You won't see her use this. Ever. At all. Never. No-no. Unless she REALLY sees it worth the trouble, she won't use this: it's basically a personal dimension she inherited when she took her third soul in. However, because of the amount of chaos and pain in it (since she's not anywhere near immune to it), she risks her sanity JUST by using it. As previously stated, unless her sanity is a good enough prize for her to pay over a fight, this thing is like the plague as far as she's concerned.

Obviously, as of right now, the 'Strengths' section has clearly been covered. So instead, let's skip to the 'Weaknesses' section, ja?

Weaknesses:
* Electricity. The EMB started off as a way to transmit large amounts of electricity out of her body, since low voltage can, and WILL give her a heart stroke. It has happened before, so obviously she doesn't like it.
* Ice. Should I even explain this one? Yes? Ok: as warm as her body is, it's not immune to temperature changes. It does not render her immune to being frozen and, actually, being frozen to death is one of her biggest fears.
* Air. As a fire creature, she needs plenty of air to oxygenate herself and fuel her fire. Obviously, this means that strangulation and smothering (and drowning and kicking the wind out of her in a fight) are nightmare fuel for her. Strangely enough, tickling her also causes her to have breathing issues.
* Weight. She's just retardedly light-weighted. It takes a toddler not to be able to just pick her up and swing her around if the need arises (needless to say, it's easy to blast her across an entire room or further away) c:
* Despite being able to regenerate, there IS a limit as to how much damage her body can handle at a time. Her brain requires plenty of oxygen, so if her circulatory system is seriously hindered, she'll start feeling lightheaded, and will eventually black out.
* Unless she's kick-your-ass-off-and-force-you-to-eat-it pissed or has been fighting an opponent that can both dish out and receive damage (or she's fighting for her life or anyone nearby's), she's actually very gentle with her foes when she fights. It's not uncommon for her to avoid wounding her opponent and in turn allow herself to be hurt--she does, after all, usually root for her opponent.
* Related to the above, she's kind of proud in combat in that, if she's forced to submit and there's really no point in continuing the struggle, she'll do so and lose with dignity. She's not a dominant girl, believe it or not: she'd much rather follow others than take the lead. What this means is, she won't make use of cheap tactics in combat if there REALLY is no need for them: she fights fair and square whenever she can.


More info can be found in this HUUUUUUGE (understatement) form: [link]


If STILL questions arise, I DON'T BITE D: I -encourage- questions about my OC; I've been fleshing her out and giving her different levels to keep people feeling like they don't know her for years! So feel free to ask me anything regarding her!

Chi is (c) me, do not steal, etc etc etc.