Ryan's Gulch App

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☞ Player Information;
Name: Dante
Player Journal: falconpawch
Age: 25
Contact: TheIrradiated@gmail.com and TheIrradiated on Plurk
Other characters currently played at Ryan's Gulch: N/A

☞ Character Information;
Character Name: Toboe
Canon: Wolf's Rain
OU or AU?: OU
Canon point: I'll be taking him from post-death.

Setting: Toboe lives in a post-apolocylptic world, where wolves have supposedly been hunted to extinction over 200 years ago. While the rest of the world is on the verge of falling apart, most of humanity lives in dome-like structures to protect them from the outside. The cities inside the dome are ruled by the upper class who live luxuriously while people in the city struggle for food and to make a decent living despite a lack of resources. As for life outside of the domes, it's quite varied. There's vast deserts that are inhabited by native humans, forests filled with monstrous bugs, icy wastelands that are home to walruses the size of large buildings, as well as abandoned ruins. While it's possible for life to thrive outside of the main cities, even human life, it's heavily implied that it's dangerous and difficult to survive.

History: Here and Here!

Personality:

Toboe's considered the kid of the group, still a juvenile wolf while the rest of the group are all adults. This reflects in his behavior too, as he's more energetic, playful, inexperienced, and especially naive. He has trouble fending for himself, can be a little too trusting of others, and likes being coddled. He also has a childlike arrogance to him as well, claiming that he's fine when he's hurt or tired and pushing himself even when he needs to rest. He also hates being treated like a kid, and will get angry and protest whenever the group feels like they should slow down on his behalf.

Toboe is also the most timid of his pack, freezing up with fear or hesitating before he does something dangerous. He's scared of cats and when he first tries to find food on his own he's easily chased away after being pecked by crows. When confronted with a wolf hunter, he doesn't try to fight or run, but stands there bracing himself to get shot. He'll often need a little push first before trying to make a risky jump and when one of his pack gets captured, instead of following or howling for help, he runs back to tell the others instead, which proves that Toboe doesn't like to confront danger head-on.

There are times when Toboe overcomes his timid nature and risks his life, such as when his pack was under attack from a giant walrus. While at first he's too scared to move up, he suddenly snaps when he sees his friends getting hurt and charges forward to sink his teeth into the walrus, only letting go when the walrus finally bleeds to death. Another instance is when he and Tsume are captured by Jagura and they realize that Cheza could be hurt, which prompts him and Tsume to throw themselves against the bars of their cell to break free, even knowing that doing so could seriously injure them in their desperation to escape.

Unlike most wolves, Toboe is perfectly content living as a domesticated animal. Having lived with a human all his life, he's reluctant to have to live in the wild. After Granny dies, Toboe starts to seek out a new owner as a replacement when he comes across a human girl, and immediately tries to win over her affection. His idea of paradise involves seeing Granny again and having her take care of him, and he even temporarily leaves his pack in order to live with native humans who live alongside animals as equals, to which Toboe claims is his idea of a paradise. Even up until his death he keeps trying to find an owner that will take care of him, going as far to tell the wolf hunter that tried to kill him in the beginning, that he wanted him to go to paradise with them so that he could be by his side. He even offers the wolf hunter his body heat when Toboe finds him freezing to death in the snow, knowing that the wolf hunter would try to kill him if he woke up with him there. Also, having lived the life of a domesticated animal, Toboe is more willing to approach a human and tends to be more trusting and forgiving towards them.

Out of all of the members of his pack, Toboe is the most social of the group which has a lot to do with the fact that he hates to be alone. In fact he hates to be alone so much that he immediately latches onto a fellow wolf, Tsume, when said wolf rescues him. Despite Tsume wanting nothing to do with him, Toboe follows him around and tries to befriend him anyway. Likewise, the human girl he meets while trying to find food, he follows around and tries to worm his way into being her pet when she feeds him. Because of his need to always be around others, he tends to be the glue that holds the rest of the pack together. Whenever the pack tries splitting up, Toboe is usually the only one who gets upset about it and tries to talk them into working together again. Because of this, Toboe doesn't care whether he's in the company of wolves or humans, as long as he has others by his side.


Abilities:

Human Form: Toboe can create an illusion to make himself look like a 14-year-old boy to blend in with human society. It's a pretty solid illusion for the most part, except that in order to use his "hands" he actually has to use his teeth which can sometimes break the illusion, and he still casts the shadow of a wolf when he walks.
Telepathy: Wolves can speak to other humans and animals without moving their mouths. While in their human form, it just looks like they're speaking normally.
Increased strength/endurance: The wolves in Wolf's Rain tend to be a lot stronger then normal wolves, even being able to withstand injuries that would normally be fatal and being able to jump seemingly impossible distances.
Fast healing: During a full moon, wolves like Toboe can heal a lot quicker then normal, taking only a few hours recover from severe injuries.

How did your character arrive in Rapture? Toboe will show up thanks to the teleportation plasmid going awry. Since Toboe is also being taken from post-death, he'll wake up in a Vita-Chamber.

Network sample:

[What's technology to a wolf? Toboe is able to recognize the device as a radio of some kind, but it looks way different from any radio he's ever seen. But it was given to him, so was he supposed to keep it?

Toboe takes a minute to sniff the radio, completely unaware that the video feed is recording him. So to anyone watching, it looks as if a 14-year-old boy with short red hair is smelling the video screen. What a weirdo.]

I wonder what this thing is supposed to do? It's got so many buttons...

I don't think it's gonna help me find Tsume, Kiba, or Hige though. What am I supposed to do with it?

Log sample:

Upon waking up, the first thing Toboe expected to see was fields of white flowers and his Granny waiting for him with open arms. What he wasn't expecting was a flash of blue light, a strange noise, before tumbling out and landing on the floor of a place he didn't recognize. Before he could even register what was happening, he was hit by flood of new sights and smells. Not the smell of flowers or wolves or people he knew, but of humans. Lots of humans, and smells that he vaguely recognized from Freeze City and other towns he and the others had visited on their way to paradise.

Where was he?

Toboe was naive in a lot of ways, even though he refused to admit it, but he knew that gunshot he took to the back was fatal. The last thing he remembered was collapsing next to Quent, exhausted, weak, and aware that he was dying. Toboe had no idea what came next after death, but this couldn't be it. This wasn't the paradise he imagined. Maybe he really didn't die after all? In fact, maybe they brought him to a nearby city, and his pack was nearby and waiting for him to wake up.

As disoriented as he feels, he's not foolish to go running around in a strange place as a wolf. The moment he's more awake, the illusion of his human form comes alive and instead of a red wolf sitting next to a Vita-Chamber, it's instead a 14-year-old boy.

"Tsume? Hey, Kiba! Hige! I'm awake now! Where did you all go?"

Well, he knows only one way to call his packmates. Completely forgetting the purpose of his human form, Toboe leans back his head and lets out a loud howl. It was the easiest way to call the others, of course, and it doesn't occur to him why a young boy howling would look odd to any onlookers.