Post by Exphilos on Mar 26, 2010 9:20:21 GMT -5
Full Name: Exphilos (“Out of Love”)
Age: Unkown. It's physical appearance is so bizarre that to question it's age is a bizarre thought to have when observing this form. It is fully developed, Exphilos knows that much for it's childhood was spent wrapped upsidedown in a spun silk cocoon.
Race: Elemental, though others might call it an abomination.
Powers (if Fallen angel or other): Whilst Exphilos hasn't exactly got atmoskinesis it has got an effect on the world around it. The world appears to hold it's breath when Exphilos steps into the fray: clouds about to burst with rain hold back in suspended stasis until Exphilos has passed. Exphilos' body is too heavy to fly and cannot run for long however due to the rhino horn it's charges are impressively powerful.
Appearance:
Exphilos is the basic shape of a genderless human but with very unhuman differences. Instead of a human head Exphilos has the head of a rhino, a little narrower and shorter than the animal's. The skin is grey and winkled but turns pale and soon to human flesh on the shoulders. The rhino head has a human scalp of long brown hair that floats about the head as if submerged in water. Two long plats hang down either side of the rhino's head. Instead of rhino ears there are tufty brown deer ears where a human's should be found. Upon the brown hair is a Mohawk of red plume like that of a Roman Centurion's helmet, it is attached in place by golden thread. Either side of this Mohawk sprout two long and pronged deer horns with sprawling forks. The left antler has a small wind-chime made of metal attached to it, the right antler is caught up in broken green-leaf branches as if once snagged and wrestled free.
Around the rhino-human neck is a collar of thorns like a fallen halo which presses into the hard and soft flesh.
On Exphiloss's left shoulder is a plate of rounded onyx crystal, designed like some shoulder armour cupping the ball-socket joint of the human arm. It is twinned on the right side by a plate of opal, pale pastel colours like that of oil spilt on a wet road with sun shining upon it. They represent dar and light.
The human chest is an open cavity as like a cracked open nut. The egg-shaped dome inside is crammed full with bloomed rose heads. Amongst these red roses is a beating human heart pulsing in the cavity. To keep the roses in place and protecting the heart, ribs of rose-plant stems hug the cavity. They are adorned with red thorns and are a striking solid dark venom green to contrast with the plush red of the roses.
Exphiloss's thighs are human until the knee cap where below which the legs become those of a goat with the hooves of a horse. The left leg is a patched black and white coarse fur coating, the right leg is simple mellow brown hair.
The hooves are shining and leave behind U shaped prints in the earth behind Exphiloss.
Exphiloss has four massive growths on it's back which manifest into what we would call wings. They are settled like the wings of a dragon fly, not jostled for space but evenly spread. Exphiloss's upper left wing is that of a bat, almost as large as the body is itself. It is complete with a bat-arm splinting the fine web of thin skin. The grey bat skin is tattooed with what appears to be a lonely mountain seen of misted hill forms under a sea of stars on a dark night. The bat-fingers are coated in snow and ice and webbed under a velvet curtain of spider webs. Mist eminiates off this wing and trails around after Exphiloss.
In this diagram you will see the Pollex which is a thumb above a significant bend in the wind. Upon this bend on all the wings is a golden disk. On the bat wing this disk is inscribed with the letter W to represent the season, Winter and the element Water.
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Reflecting this wing is the opposite season: summer and Earth. This wing on Exphiloss's upper right shoulder is in the shape of a butterfly's. It's pale red, pinks and purple pastel coloures with the Su golden plate nestled in the bud of a blooming rose in the crux of the wing point. Like the bat wing is tattooed in pictures, this wing is also decorated in faded enlarged heads of wild flowers in full bloom.
Below this wing on the lower right side is the Fire Autumn wing. It is made from the branches of a free in the grips of fall. Where feathers should be, leaves of gold, bronze, red, yellow and orange adorn this wing. They are lush and ripe nearer the wooden branch which bones the wing in the shape of a bird's. Lower down the wing however the leaves become brown and crispy until finally an eternal red flame engulfs the lowest part of the wing.
The final wing on the lower left side is the wing of Spring and Air. It is coated in fresh and soft swan feathers, floating and graceful. Pale white and creamy blue it has ever so slight green seeds caught up in the fluffy down feathers to symbolise the growth of spring.
Exphilos claps a staff in it's right hand, the staff is dark and straight until it's crux where it opens up into a four-fingered hand. This hand holds a globe gemstone between it's finger tips, the orb itself is of an unknown gem coloured blue and green. What makes it so remarkable is that the colours of the gem have separated themselves and have formed into a perfect scale replica of the earth itself.
Exphilos' naked body is shrouded in a floating scroll which wraps about his middle. The parchment never touches the flesh and drifts magically around the body. It is adorned with ink writings of knowledge and prayer.
It's voice is an unhuman synthetic genderless sound. It's akin to the voices in the videos on this page:
www.symphonyofscience.com/
If you couldn't imagine all that, here are some resource pictures to stimulate your mind:
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www.rainbowsendbb.com/Images/forsale/munday2.jpg
www.apexresourcegroup.com/images/Roman_Officer_Helmet.jpg
www.faycullen.com/sotm/opal_tourmaline/opal_2.jpg
www.jciworldcorp.com/jewelry/GemOnyx2.jpg
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www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/960/90058929.JPG
www.swanparadise.com/image-files/trumpeter-swan-majestic.jpg
www.horrornews.net/exclusives/images/vampire-bat.jpg
twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/images/butterfly.jpg
infohost.nmt.edu/~holstien/Blog_Images/AutumnTreePano_080229.jpg
www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/miniature-rose-1.jpg
wayoffside.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/heart.jpg
www.prodigitalconsulting.com/amygoalen.net/naturegallery/bin/images/large/rose_thorns.jpg
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Personality: Exphilos is above all shy and compassionate. It holds great love for nearly every being in the universe. It longs to talk with people about their ideas and philosophies, about themselves and their experiences however it finds it painfully hard to approach people for it is always questioning itself. It feels deep empathy for people around it and longs to rid the world of suffering, pain and despair, this might appear like a selfish goal to an empath but Exphilos truly believes the world can live in united harmony.
It is a truly loving being who is affectionate to many. It tries not to hold grudges against wrong doers but those who will not heed it's words of wisdom or who insult it's aloof form, Exphilos is hurt deeply. It turns away from these people and tries not to allow it's growing depression to consume it, for Exphilos is lonely. Whilst deer, swans, bats and trees might exist, goats and flowers too- they do not exist in a totality that Exphilos does, it is the only known mismash of all these things. It feels universally connected and yet at the same time wholly othered by this sense of uniqueness. It did not have parents, it remained in an enlarging chrysalis until the peek of it's full development from when it left the woven silk cocoon and walked the earth alone. It has never seen another just like it, but others similar. However to combat this depression of aloneness Exphilos reminds itself that good things such as love, laughter and friendship exist in the world. It seeks these out and enjoys watching people express kindness, gratitude and humility. These are things which remind Exphilos the world is worth saving, it is not merely a land full of pain and murder.
Job: Philosopher, teacher and wanderer. Exphilos walks the plains to better people through conversation. He questions people in order for them to question themselves and realise their full potental. He is on a quest to find Azmald Himself and question into the ethicality of his selective saving of Mankind. Exphilos appears to feed off knowledge itself which might explain it's ceasless wandering.
RP Sample
Jezeron looked at Persian and offered him a seat with a wave of his hand, knowing how the poor man's spine must be cracking at walking upright. Though he held Persian at arm's length, not liking him in the slightest.
"The law outrules mistreatment. If your pets don't want to be pets, then you shoudn't have them. You have no Godly right to own skins. If they're happy being pets then they shouldn't wander off. I advise you to better pick your crop." He sighed and put his hands under his chin to ponder on it.
"What makes you think pets and traders aren't equal in the first place?" He offered gently, knowing that the simple solution to all of this was for Persian to simply not bring his pets here. Or keep them on leashes.
".... Your pets might get into danger wandering off. Talk to them seriously about the issues they might encounter. This should make them willing to stay by your side for protection, however your intelligent pets might argue that nothing bad can happen as ever individual is protected. .... Anyway. Why should I change a law to suit you when it'd damage everyone else in the land? That's selfish. Everyone must be treated equally and such you cannot be exempt from the law."
He didn't really feel bad, but he liked making peoples' problems go away.
"The most I could do is go and ask your pets to behave themselves." He looked over his specs at the man, softly but cautiously.
Face Claim:
White Rhino || Rhinoi111.photobucket.com/albums/n149/wildchildzoom/faceshclam.jpg
