Post by spot on Jul 24, 2019 3:00:37 GMT
Tarzan the basics Tarzan• nicknames • Hairless Wonder, Hairless Runt, Lord of the Jungle, Ape-Man, Leader of the Family, King of the Gorillas, T. age • 20 primary standing • Enchanted Suns Soldier secondary standing • Leader of the Gorilla Family faction • Enchanted Suns species • Human gender • Male sexuality • Straight the appearance origin • Tarzan height and weight • 5’7, 275lbs overall appearance • Tarzan is a tall Englishman with a nobleman’s blood and his father’s aquiline features. This is offset by his intensely focused and constantly curious green eyes and long brown deadlocks, as well as his wild tan complexion. His spine is curved from walking along his knuckles like an ape, but every muscle in his body is tightly honed, tapping into everything man could be if left to primal instincts. He wears a single lioncloth and goes barefoot, since his toes are incredibly flexible. the personality overall personality • Tarzan feels things incredibly deeply, with an animalistic lack of restraint, beginning his life wearing his heart on his sleeve. This makes him very honest at first glance. He loves with the strength and ferocity of a protective mate or mother ape. He looks at the world through the eyes of a human mind in a wild beast's lifestyle. His anger is wrathful and apparent, usually inspired by cruelty, arrogance or prejudices. His curiosity about new objects and even uncharted experiences is untamable and he makes no effort in the world to hide it. He usually does whatever he believes is right without any second-guesses, doubts, or changes of mind. Growing up in a passionately emotional family of gorillas, he doesn't comprehend any of the social tiptoeing or manners that his fellow humans do. Tarzan is heroic and honorable despite growing up among wild animals. Where many would think that might cause him to be selfish and vicious, the opposite is true. Tarzan cares kindly and compassionately, almost as an instinct, for even complete strangers. Without a thought, he leaps headfirst into danger with the bravery of a mighty lion to save anyone in trouble. This is a sign of how much he values life and those weaker than himself. While he used to be curious and exploratory almost to a fault, (complete with a bit of an identity crisis as the only human in the jungle) since deciding who he is and taking over the role of leadership in his group, he has become more grounded, serious, mature, and ever more thoughtful instead of reckless. That doesn't mean his monkey-business sense of humor doesn't shine through every now and then. He still loves the exhilaration of a romp through the woods, playing a good prank on his buddies or even mother, and trying new things. Tarzan is fiercely loyal to his friends and gorilla family, taking his responsibility very seriously. His late foster father, Kerchak, imparted to him the importance of being selflessly loyal and true to those he cares about. Tarzan would easily lay down his life for any of his friends. As transparent and selfless as he usually is, Tarzan is not without faults. As much as he hates cruelty and prejudices, he holds a tendency to have a few himself. Maybe it's due to the fact that his biological parents and would-be foster brother had been killed by leopards, but regardless, he holds very little love for predators, especially big cats. This leads him to fits of passionate anger and sometimes violence towards them without thinking his actions all the way through. Thankfully, he is merciful and values life. Tarzan also still struggles with some insecurities at times. He harbors secret fears, though he doesn't always succumb to them, that he will be rejected, mostly by Jane and his new human companions, but also sometimes even by his gorilla family, coming from a childhood struggle to decide who he was and where he fit in, whether or not he truly belonged. This also causes him to overreact if he feels he is not being accepted for who he is. In fact, Tarzan is prone to overreacting in a lot of scenarios, being boisterous and bordering on confrontational by nature. Also, although Tarzan has gained simple, fundamental truths and experiences that lead to the wisdom of a leader, he can still be incredibly naive when it comes to being duped by men or people of the modern world; his kindness, compassion, and willingness to please can be, and indeed has been taken advantage of and exploited in the past. He is secure in his knowledge of the wild and nature, but insecure when it comes to everything else, well aware of his own ignorance and being prone to trustingly taking strangers who know more about the world outside his jungle at their word. the history overall history • Lord and Lady Greystoke were Tarzan's wealthy parents, English, and they were marooned on the coast of Africa, the only survivors of a terrible shipwreck accident, around a year after Tarzan was born. Instead of resigning themselves to death or wandering in vain until it found them in the wilds, man and wife worked together to create an enormous treehouse out of what they could salvage where they could make a new life for their budding family, safe from prowling predators on the jungle floor. Or so they thought. Tarzan's parents were killed in bloody slaughter by a fiendishly violent leopard, renowned among the beasts as the ruthless Sabor. The infant Tarzan would have been easy pickings for such an apex predator, but he was rescued and adopted by a female gorilla named Kala. Kala, kind and gentle mate of the great silverback, Kerchak, had recently lost her own baby to the very same spotted culprit. Armed with a nurturing heart of compassion and strength enough to rival even the fearsome big cat, she heard the baby's cries, raced to their source, and snatched him away from the claws of death. Upon rejoining her gorilla family with her hairless human ward, she was met with confusion, disgust, and pity. Her husband, Kerchak, was distrustful of anything new or different that might harm his family, and was still grieving over the loss of his own child. Though initially furious at Kala's intentions of adopting the baby, he mercifully allowed the child to stay in the family, but refused to accept him as son. Despite this, Kala raised the baby Tarzan with the most loving of motherly instincts. She and Terkina, her fun-loving, immature niece, were Tarzan's only friends within the gorilla clan—others continued to treat Tarzan with a measure of annoyance and distaste throughout his growing years. An elementary-aged Tarzan did not understand why he was so different from the other gorillas; he knuckled around on all fours like them, tried to climb, swing, and travel as fast as they could, and prove himself one of them, but to no avail. Kerchak didn't help matters; all the boy wanted was the approval of the big, respected leader, and all that he received was cold disdain bordering on hatred. Needless to say, his childhood was not miserable. He made friends with Tantor the elephant, and Terk always hung out with him no matter what her friends said about the Hairless Wonder. And always his mother was there with quiet encouragement, wise advice, and endless love. When he had the approval of no other animal in the jungle, Kala stayed with him. Under her unconditional love, Tarzan resolved to make Kerchak, and everyone, see that he was no different from them. He would be the best ape ever! What the curious and inventive human boy lacked in the stamina and speed that the other beasts had, he made up for in finding shortcuts through the trees, inventing tree branch surfing and his own crude weapons, and honing his gymnastic agility. There was no doubt that he was the most creative and genius 'gorilla' in the family. Ten years later, Tarzan was just beginning to surprise Kerchak with his resourcefulness and drive. Before a new relationship between them could be forged, however, something else happened that shook the lives of the jungle animals. Humans were in Africa. Professor Archimedes Q. Porter had sailed all the way from England with his animal enthusiast daughter, Jane, to study gorillas. John Clayton, their hired bodyguard, headhunter and guide, accompanied them armed with his rifle, and seemed to take his job a little too seriously. In actuality, Clayton was only along for the trip in order to hunt down the gorilla families and take them back to England where they could be sold. Neither Jane nor the Professor were aware of this, nor would they have approved. The animals of the jungle hadn't ever seen creatures like this before, except for Tarzan, who was so like an ape that they did not consider him the same species. Kerchak ordered his family to stay away from the strangers, but once Tarzan met and rescued Jane Porter from a horde of angry baboons, discovering that she was so like him, he couldn't obey. She was smart. She came from another place alien to his home—one where there were creatures like him. All of his childhood questions resurfaced. A whole new world, so many things to learn, and she, Jane, at the center of it all, beautiful and bright. He had never seen anyone like her. She was kind to the animals, even the unsavory ones; birds and monkeys seemed to adore her. She was curious about his world as much as he was about hers. She was his introduction to the element of his nature that he'd never been able to identify. She was his guide to knowing what and who he was, really. Tarzan's obsession with the humans, and their desire to find and study his gorilla family, came to a head when Tarzan disobeyed orders and allowed his new pale friends to meet with the beasts while Kerchak's back was turned. When the primate leader arrived and saw the scene, he was furious. Tarzan fought with his would-be foster father, something he had never dared to do, to keep Jane and her fellow explorers safe. Kerchak revealed his profound disappointment in Tarzan, and the man's misery drove Kala to reveal to him the treehouse home of his infancy and pictures of his real parents. Tarzan, manipulated by Clayton, resolved to leave the family he had betrayed and go with Jane to London. Unfortunately, Clayton and the crew of the ship captured the naive ape-man, Jane, and Professor Porter so that they wouldn't get in the way while he captured the gorillas. All seemed lost until Tantor and Terk burst onto the scene and freed the heroes. Tarzan rushed to his family's aid with the help of Jane and her father, and they managed to free the apes, but not before Kerchak was shot down while defending Tarzan. The mighty human chased Clayton into the treetops and defeated him, but the relentless madman would not accept it and ended up killing himself by accident in the entangled vines. When Tarzan reached Kerchak, it was too late. The silverback passed on ownership of the gorilla family to Tarzan, accepting him as his son, finally, and entrusting him with the promise to protect them. Tarzan accepted this, coming into his own as Lord of the Jungle. Jane and the Professor decided to stay in Africa indefinitely, and Tarzan was married to his one true love. Since then, he has faced many dangers as he protects the family and makes new discoveries with Jane and her father. Through it all, Tarzan has defended the jungle from menaces like Hissta the giant serpent, Bolgani the rogue elephant, and even turned back sicknesses. He has befriended the Waziri tribe, fended off the mutant leopard kingdom of Opar, and encountered the strange dinosaurs of Pelusidar. He has defended his title from rivals and usurpers like Kerchak's old foe, Tublat, and led the family through mudslides, hurricanes, rockfalls, and earthquakes. He is learning how to adapt to the human world clashing with his own, meeting the Porter's civilized friends from England, fending off hunters and poachers, and learning to deal with menaces like Colonal Stocade or fools looking to exploit the jungle for money. Tarzan was on an expedition to a different part of Africa entirely when he saved the lion king. Professor Porter had encountered strange tremors with his equipment, odd readings on his instruments. Some of the animals in the jungle had begun to act weirdly. Jane opted to stay home with the gorilla family sheltering in their treehouse until her father could return with news and sent her highly capable husband to watch over him. Professor Porter found the geography outside their jungle suddenly wrong. He took the maps and data back home on Tantor, but Tarzan stayed. He’d heard from surrounding animals that there was a king in this wide open pridelands and his curiosity won out. He was investigating the stampede of wildebeest in the gorge when he noticed one lion’s treachery against another. He saved Mufasa and joined the cause of the Enchanted Suns... the role player alias • Spot age • 23 pronouns • She, her how did you find us? • MY FRIENDSSS! other characters •Simba |
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