Dragunov
#3 of Bio pages
Dragunov My friend of a while now and a great supporter of my work behind the scenes. He was included as a thank you in my last story, and rather liked his rough treatment. He is working on a story with his own character based in the setting. I expect it will be considered cannon when it is finished. I will post it here as well, giving full credit to my friend of course.
Name: Dragunov Brevich
Species: Rat
Fur: White with an unusual blue undertone
Hair: Long and pale blue, similar to the elusive colour to his fur.
Eyes: Green
Age: Unknown, appears to be in his early twenties.
Height: Six foot four inches
Weight: One-hundred and eighty-seven pounds
Special Training: A skilled journalist. Dragunov has a knack for finding out information. He is decent with a blade, and proficient with pistols. Dragunov is trained as a sailor.
Characteristics: Blue coloured sun shaped marking around his left eye. This is a marking given as a right of passage. Overly verbose at times, Dragunov is rather eloquent in his speech. Dragunov is absolutely terrified of sharks, becoming catatonic in their presence.
Origin: Dragunov was born on an island nation far enough away that most don't know it even exists. He learned to fish from his father and used his skill at it to both sustain himself and pay for schooling.
The rat turned out to be an excellent writer and a magnet for trouble, making him a natural journalist.
Writing for a paper grew boring after a while and he returned home. This would prove his undoing.
A local girl whom he had known for years attempted to force him into marriage. Dragunov refused and was attacked by her family for his impertinence. She had told them he had managed to impregnate her, and through cunning manipulation, managed to obtain the aid of distant relatives of the more criminal persuasion to make him her own.
He was given the choice of marriage or death that night, and Drag chose to marry her. They locked him in a shed and prepared the ceremony with his village priestess.
The man left to guard him fell asleep in the night and Drag managed to escape into the jungle before marching along the coast back to the city, some six days later.
He set fire to the apartment building he lived in to panic the men waiting for him there and to fetch his remaining funds and possessions before he dove into a cart he had paid a farmer to hold waiting under his window, escaping for the second time in a week.
The rat made his way to the pier and onto a ship bound for foreign parts far from his now dangerous home.
During the several month long journey, he learned much of the language of the land he sought.
His arrival in the city was uneventful, though he soon found work with a small tabloid style paper.