Ishma pez Taufiq

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Retired Ishma
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Joined: Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:46 pm
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Race: Wick
Location: Ol' Rose
Character Sheet: Character Sheet
Writer: Fermin
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Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:53 pm

ISHMA pez TAUFIQ
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Race: Wick
Birthday: Loshis 5th, 2690
Age: 28
FC: Robert Sheehan
Place of Origin: Manatse, Mugroba
Current Location: Old Rose Harbor, Anaxas
Occupation: Musician / Herbalist
Player Name: Fermin

Physical Description

Taufiq has always leaned more towards the human physique than that of his galdori father. While his magical heritage can be found in the angular, sharper lines of his face, his status as both galdor and human is clear in the more muscular and athletic build of his body. While he is by no means bulky, Taufiq has always been very fit, due to both a (mostly) healthy diet and a lot of physical labor.

He remains well-tanned throughout all seasons of the year, his skin marred by scars big and small; reminders of past fights and mistakes, though none are especially visible at first glance. He has his father's eyes, a brilliant Anaxi green, though the mess of curls atop his head is darker in shade than even his mother's.

There is an old tattoo of a black hand on the inside of the man's right ankle, though it is completely covered more often than not.

The wick can often be found in loose-fitting sweaters and trousers, long coats, even longer boots, and a scarf for every color of the rainbow. Similarly, on occasion Taufiq will dye a few strands of his hair a different color - oftentimes corresponding to whichever scarf he's devoted his neck to at the time.

Personality

Ishma pez Taufiq is a trip entirely his own - the wick is unpredictable, eccentric, paranoid, utterly confused, and at times, far too reckless.

That's not to say that Taufiq is a loose cannon. While he can indeed be quick to anger or annoy (and he is dreadfully passive-aggressive), he is also quite quick to diffuse. Despite oftentimes thinking irrationally in his bouts of paranoia, he is an understanding and sympathetic man at the core, and a good explanation is typically all that he requires to settle down.

When meeting new people, he can first come across as almost pretentious - this is mostly because of the narrowed eyes and suspicious glare, a consequence of the wick's diminishing eyesight. Beyond first impressions, he's friendly and open-minded for the most part, and considers most people to be friends, or at worst, unwilling enemies. Those he deems unfit for even that label are often met with his fists at first sight - Taufiq has a tendency to lash out violently when he's pushed too far or when his friends are being insulted.

Needless to say, Taufiq is protective, sometimes overly so, and feels no moral dilemma in taking someone's life if it means furthering that of his own or his friends'.

More eccentricities seem to appear daily. One such quality is the man's constant need to cleanse his home of spirits, rearrange furniture, paint the walls different colors, and burn incense at all hours of the day. It's not uncommon for someone to know that Taufiq is coming before he's arrived, as he's always soaked in the scent of different herbs and incenses.

Backstory

Taufiq was born in Thul Ka, Mugroba, though spent the majority of his childhood in Manatse.

His mother was a human native to Mugroba, a woman by the name of Jazmin Dia pezre Alajen. His father, an Anaxi galdor named Taufiq Issadore, was brought to Thul Ka in his early adolescence. The two fell in love despite pressure from both families to end their unholy union in its early stages, and within two years of knowing each other, young Ishma pez Taufiq was born.

The young family moved to Manatse hoping for acceptance, and they found it among the wicks, both human and galdor learning to stray from tradition and go with the flow. As such, Ishma was raised not by the iron fist of galdori superiority nor by a human's learned oppression, no - in fact, he was raised mainly by other wicks, while his parents were absent more often than not, too preoccupied with their new lifestyle and freedoms to devote much time to their son.

He was always witness to their antics, the young parents perhaps too enthused by the accepting wick community. Ishma grew up knowing many fathers and many mothers, considering whoever came and went from his parents' kint most often to be his parents in their own right.

As he entered adolescence, Ishma became a part of the tribe of Black Hand wicks on the island, and after years of virtually raising himself, he left Mugroba entirely with them - whether out of spite or out of the need to prove that he could, well, it was never made clear. The young wick made it to Anaxas, settling in Old Rose Harbor and falling in love with the change of scenery. These days, the man never mentions the Black Hand nor his time spent with them, however, people often assume that he was once a part of the tribe.

Eventually, he met a man by the name of Thomas Cooke, and the wick's life has been changed more by the human than he would ever dare to confess. In fact, he refuses to speak of Tom at all, though those that have known him (and knew Tom) for years know why.

Aptitude Skills

Mental
Good
Physical
Average
Social
Average

Focus Skills

Combat

Combat (Unarmed): Beginner

Linguistics

Tek: Fluent
Mugrobi: Conversational
Estuan: Conversational
Monite: Conversational

Magic

Magic (Spoke's): Proficient

Professional

Professional (Musician): Beginner
Professional (Herbalist): Beginner


Career and Income

Musician / Herbalist

Taufiq plays the oud, both for personal enjoyment and in taverns at the harbor. Besides his work with music, he also has a small herb garden in the few feet of grass behind his house, just enough to sell to the local shops and eateries.

Income: Poor

While he's certainly talented, Taufiq doesn't make a whole lot from his performances, and doesn't have enough land to grow many herbs - or the vegetables and fruits that he wishes he could have.


Housing and Inventory

Housing: City Dweller

Taufiq has a small but comfortable 400 sq. ft. house in Old Rose Harbor. The exterior of the house does it no favors; the once-red outside walls are faded from the sun and the humid seaside winds, and the roof tends to leak into the kitchen when storms pass through. The interior is homey, though the furniture is rearranged about once a month, and the walls are painted different colors just as often.

Inventory

The usual - he owns a few outfits, most of decent quality but not without rips and burn-holes here and there. He has a knife on him at most times, as well as various herbs (and some less legal substances) in his coat pockets.


Goals

Will add as time goes on.

Taufiq wants to make peace with Tom's death - as much as he can anyway.
Eventually he'd like to buy a patch of land to have a real garden.

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