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Yufei
GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 6' 1"
AGE:Appears in his 40's, he's actually around 70
SPECIES: Human / Dogman
HEIGHT: 6' 1"
AGE:Appears in his 40's, he's actually around 70
SPECIES: Human / Dogman
Yufei is a dogman (werewolf that doesn't transform) that found a corpse, was going to eat it, and then things went awry and he ended up in the dead guy's body. Yufei is actually the dead man's name which he started using because it was on the work badge attached to his belt, read for him by a helpful hiker totally perplexed why a guy dressed like a janitor was ten miles into the forest.
He's been human for about two weeks and it's not going great! He thought this would be so easy too.
Dogmen are what people call bipedal werewolf like creatures, approximately eight feet tall. They're not humans that can turn into wolves, the dogman form is their natural state. Living in small packs they roam the forests hunting, deer, cougars, stray humans that wander too far into their territory. Whenever they're hungry, anything is food, but they hunt for fun as well, for the thrill of the kill. They're vicious, territorial, and intelligent.
In the pacific northwest the packs are extremely spread out, though they'll attack each other on sight. For the most part they're the apex predator around, and they'll live until they're killed, usually hundreds of years. There's a few roads that cut through the forest, single lane, sometimes dirt, always treacherous. Generally the packs avoid the roads, there's nothing there for them, but for one member, who was more curious than others, the road was a constant source of fascination.
While padding along one of the dirt roads during a severe storm he came across a car, mangled and smoking, the doors torn off the hinges from colliding with a tree. Sniffing around he jumped on top of the vehicle, ripping it apart with his claws to get the tasty treat of a human out of it. Grabbing the corpse in his jaws he headed into the forest to chow down. But something felt strange, like he was being watched; setting the body down he put a paw on it, ready to defend his dinner from whatever this was. Probably one of those big hairy people that liked to throw rocks.
Instead what he saw were dozens of black shadowy figures peering at him from the edge of a clearing. For a moment they stood there, watching then all as one they charged owards him, though they didn't seem interested in him, they wanted the corpse, and seemed very focused on that specifically. So while the dogman snarled and snapped and swiped them with his claws, they managed to get the body away from him and literally vanish into the woods. Being a cryptid himself he was used to supernatural things, but this was completely different.
Even though they had disappeared, he had their scent and could track them for miles with only that. He tore through the woods, bursting in on them as they were doing some sort of ceremony, the corpse laying in the middle of a strange glowing sigil with blood flowing out of it. Dug into the ground beneath it were channels leading to small dishes collecting the blood. As that happened there was sand starting to pour into the body from nine hourglasses that sat shattered around the edge of the circle. The dogman had no idea what the intention was here, but he also didn't care, entirely focused on his stolen snack.
And that's how a dogman charged into a demonic possession ceremony and knocked everything over, ruined the ceremony, and got himself trapped in a dead guy's body.
One moment he was slashing and snarling, shoving one of the shadow figures down into the blood and causing an unholy shrieking sound before it was consumed into ash. But the next moment he felt like he'd jumped into a frozen river, his body completely stiff and numb. He tried to wail and yelp, but no sound came out.
Then he woke up.
Startled he flailed, elbowing the steering wheel and causing the horn to sound, then jerking backwards because how was he in the car? He hadn't been in the car, he couldn't even fit in the car.
There was a lot more scrambling and he tumbled out the open door, catching himself on his hands in the dirt, and finally actually seeing his hands.
Well, there's that screaming he had tried to do earlier.
Permissions
OOC
Backtagging: Always
Time Zone: PST
Off Limits: Nothing.
IC
Physical Contact: Definitely, he's all about that
Flirting: He'll be awkward and probably try and leave but sure
NSFW: Unlikely. He's a virgin, he's not interested, and he's even less interested now that he's suddenly a different species.
Fighting: Yes
Injury: Fuck him up yo
Death: Lemme know first but sure
Psychic/Mind Reading: Go ahead, I try to give enough in narration to know what he's thinking
Mind Control: Hard pass.
Powers
Smell: He has a powerful sense of smell so lemme know what your character smells like.
Death Sense: He can sense all living and dead things - can he tell if your character is alive? Dead? Or opt out and he'll be confused.
Tracking: He can track by scent (this won't work in private quarters) but if you'd rather he not find your character let me know.
For Yufei:
Smell: He smells of petrichor, pine, and dog.
Death Sense: Very, very dead.
Tracking: He's easy to find. Follow him wherever.
Backtagging: Always
Time Zone: PST
Off Limits: Nothing.
IC
Physical Contact: Definitely, he's all about that
Flirting: He'll be awkward and probably try and leave but sure
NSFW: Unlikely. He's a virgin, he's not interested, and he's even less interested now that he's suddenly a different species.
Fighting: Yes
Injury: Fuck him up yo
Death: Lemme know first but sure
Psychic/Mind Reading: Go ahead, I try to give enough in narration to know what he's thinking
Mind Control: Hard pass.
Powers
Smell: He has a powerful sense of smell so lemme know what your character smells like.
Death Sense: He can sense all living and dead things - can he tell if your character is alive? Dead? Or opt out and he'll be confused.
Tracking: He can track by scent (this won't work in private quarters) but if you'd rather he not find your character let me know.
For Yufei:
Smell: He smells of petrichor, pine, and dog.
Death Sense: Very, very dead.
Tracking: He's easy to find. Follow him wherever.
Come Sail Away App
PLAYER
Name: Sydney
Age: 38
Contact:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
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Permission Post:Here
CHARACTER
Name: Yufei
True Name: *dog chuffing noise*
Canon: Original
Age: 70 (His body looks 40's)
History: There's a write up Here but the synopsis is that Yufei (the human) sold his soul to a demon, and when he died drunk driving, the demons came to collect. But a curious dogman in the forest got there first because he wanted to eat the corpse. A whole lot of things went wrong when they did their soul claiming ceremony because delicate sigils and candles and blood rituals aren't designed to have a whole ass cryptid launching themselves through it and knocking everything over. The dogman ended up in the body of the human, the demons didn't get their soul, no one walked away happy from this event. (Except original Yufei who escaped his soul being snatched). So now Yufei's dead body is being used by a dogman who's not pleased with this and would very much like to get back to being a dog, even if being able to talk now is pretty cool. So is having hair, that's fun. And having the ability to think like a human instead of a creature with no real concept of the future - also rad. Okay it's about 70% bad, 30% neat.
Powers/Abilities: Eye Shine - If shined with a light source, his eyes will reflect like an animals.
Heightened Senses - He has a very sensitive nose and incredibly good hearing. Unfortunately, his vision is worse now and he can't see in the dark anymore, though he can see better than an average human in low light.
Physics is for Other People - He can leap across things without a running start, he can climb vertical surfaces as long as they're not completely smooth, he's way stronger than he should be, and he can tear things apart without much effort.
Let Me In - Like most cryptids he can't cross the threshold of someone's living space (or tent so long as it has something like a doorway) without being let in. (Either verbally or with gestures) He doesn't actually know this because he's never tried to get into someone's house and he's just convinced tents are made out of some impenetrable material he can't claw through for some reason.
Don't Call for Help - He can make electronics go to static and stop functioning.
Seek and Destroy - So long as he's gotten the smell of someone at some point in the past he can track them if they're within a mile or so and know how long it's been since they were at a specific location. Nerfing this on the boat by saying it doesn't work in the cabins so he can't just track every single passenger.
Detect Life - He can smell all living (and dead) things and tell them apart from inanimate objects immediately. For example he could identify a corpse in a room full of mannequins or fake plants versus live plants. (He's onto you 5g cell tower in the forest pretending to be a tree)
Blood of the Dead - Yufei's body doesn't have any blood in it anymore, it's been replaced with sand, and he'll leak out like an hourglass if cut. Functionally there's no visible difference when looking at him, it's only when he's damaged that the sand is apparent. Which also means he no longer produces any body heat. He's also in the body of a corpse, so he doesn't need to eat or drink or sleep. If he eats he'll throw it up eventually because he doesn't have a digestive track anymore. He doesn't naturally heal, his hair doesn't grow, and he has no heartbeat. He does breathe, because it's muscle memory, but he doesn't need to. He still feels pain, and if he's injured he'll need to go collect all his lost sand and put it back inside him to fully function again. When the sand runs out he'll die.
Inventory: Yufei's clothes (he was a hospital janitor), leatherman tool, screwdrivers, pens, bottle opener, steel toed boots, a lighter, his name badge.
Job History:
Forest Cryptid: Lurked in the periphery of hikers' vision. Stole food and items from them, left bite marks on their cars. Killed, ate, terrorized and stalked obnoxious Cryptid Hunters who tried to find his pack.
Aspiring Demon Hunter: Tracked demons through the forest, bit the crap out of them. Successfully killed a demon in one of their own summoning rituals.
Horrifically Bad Human Impersonator: Pretended to be a hiker and fooled absolutely no one. Carried on three (3) conversations with real life humans who did not suspect a thing!They did. They totally did.
Suppressions: He is trying so hard to pretend to be human because he knows that if humans find out what he is they'll kill him and he's very squishy now. Not only is trying to hide that he's a dogman, but this body is dead. Humans don't like dead things very much. He also is trying to not think about how much he's enjoying some of these human things, and if Yufei's body worked properly he might want to stay like this. He doesn't want to be a human! He wants to get back to himself!
Greatest Fear: Realizing that he might like people better than his pack.
Greatest Desire: He thinks it's to get back to the forest and his pack, but really it's to be accepted by any pack. Humans or dogs.
Greatest Regret: Not eating this guy at the car.
Sample: TDM with Philip
Name: Sydney
Age: 38
Contact:
Permission Post:Here
CHARACTER
Name: Yufei
True Name: *dog chuffing noise*
Canon: Original
Age: 70 (His body looks 40's)
History: There's a write up Here but the synopsis is that Yufei (the human) sold his soul to a demon, and when he died drunk driving, the demons came to collect. But a curious dogman in the forest got there first because he wanted to eat the corpse. A whole lot of things went wrong when they did their soul claiming ceremony because delicate sigils and candles and blood rituals aren't designed to have a whole ass cryptid launching themselves through it and knocking everything over. The dogman ended up in the body of the human, the demons didn't get their soul, no one walked away happy from this event. (Except original Yufei who escaped his soul being snatched). So now Yufei's dead body is being used by a dogman who's not pleased with this and would very much like to get back to being a dog, even if being able to talk now is pretty cool. So is having hair, that's fun. And having the ability to think like a human instead of a creature with no real concept of the future - also rad. Okay it's about 70% bad, 30% neat.
Powers/Abilities: Eye Shine - If shined with a light source, his eyes will reflect like an animals.
Heightened Senses - He has a very sensitive nose and incredibly good hearing. Unfortunately, his vision is worse now and he can't see in the dark anymore, though he can see better than an average human in low light.
Physics is for Other People - He can leap across things without a running start, he can climb vertical surfaces as long as they're not completely smooth, he's way stronger than he should be, and he can tear things apart without much effort.
Let Me In - Like most cryptids he can't cross the threshold of someone's living space (or tent so long as it has something like a doorway) without being let in. (Either verbally or with gestures) He doesn't actually know this because he's never tried to get into someone's house and he's just convinced tents are made out of some impenetrable material he can't claw through for some reason.
Don't Call for Help - He can make electronics go to static and stop functioning.
Seek and Destroy - So long as he's gotten the smell of someone at some point in the past he can track them if they're within a mile or so and know how long it's been since they were at a specific location. Nerfing this on the boat by saying it doesn't work in the cabins so he can't just track every single passenger.
Detect Life - He can smell all living (and dead) things and tell them apart from inanimate objects immediately. For example he could identify a corpse in a room full of mannequins or fake plants versus live plants. (He's onto you 5g cell tower in the forest pretending to be a tree)
Blood of the Dead - Yufei's body doesn't have any blood in it anymore, it's been replaced with sand, and he'll leak out like an hourglass if cut. Functionally there's no visible difference when looking at him, it's only when he's damaged that the sand is apparent. Which also means he no longer produces any body heat. He's also in the body of a corpse, so he doesn't need to eat or drink or sleep. If he eats he'll throw it up eventually because he doesn't have a digestive track anymore. He doesn't naturally heal, his hair doesn't grow, and he has no heartbeat. He does breathe, because it's muscle memory, but he doesn't need to. He still feels pain, and if he's injured he'll need to go collect all his lost sand and put it back inside him to fully function again. When the sand runs out he'll die.
Inventory: Yufei's clothes (he was a hospital janitor), leatherman tool, screwdrivers, pens, bottle opener, steel toed boots, a lighter, his name badge.
Job History:
Forest Cryptid: Lurked in the periphery of hikers' vision. Stole food and items from them, left bite marks on their cars. Killed, ate, terrorized and stalked obnoxious Cryptid Hunters who tried to find his pack.
Aspiring Demon Hunter: Tracked demons through the forest, bit the crap out of them. Successfully killed a demon in one of their own summoning rituals.
Horrifically Bad Human Impersonator: Pretended to be a hiker and fooled absolutely no one. Carried on three (3) conversations with real life humans who did not suspect a thing!
Suppressions: He is trying so hard to pretend to be human because he knows that if humans find out what he is they'll kill him and he's very squishy now. Not only is trying to hide that he's a dogman, but this body is dead. Humans don't like dead things very much. He also is trying to not think about how much he's enjoying some of these human things, and if Yufei's body worked properly he might want to stay like this. He doesn't want to be a human! He wants to get back to himself!
Greatest Fear: Realizing that he might like people better than his pack.
Greatest Desire: He thinks it's to get back to the forest and his pack, but really it's to be accepted by any pack. Humans or dogs.
Greatest Regret: Not eating this guy at the car.
Sample: TDM with Philip
Powers and Abilities
Yufei still has some of his supernatural abilities, but not at full capacity. And a few new ones he's not aware of yet!
Eye Shine - If shined with a light source, his eyes will reflect like an animals.
Heightened Senses - He has a very sensitive nose and incredibly good hearing. Unfortunately his vision is worse now and he can't see in the dark anymore, though he can see better than an average human in low light.
Physics is for Other People - He can leap across things without a running start, he can climb vertical surfaces as long as they're not completely smooth, he's way stronger than he should be, and he can tear things apart without much effort.
Let Me In - Like most cryptids he can't cross the threshold of someone's living space (or tent so long as it has something like a doorway) without being let in. (Either verbally or with gestures) He doesn't actually know this because he's never tried to get into someone's house and he's just convinced tents are made out of some impenetrable material he can't claw through for some reason.
Don't Call for Help - He can make electronics go to static and stop functioning.
Seek and Destroy - So long as he's gotten the smell of someone at some point in the past he can track them if they're within a mile or so and know how long it's been since they were at a specific location.
Detect Life - He can smell all living (and dead) things and tell them apart from inanimate objects immediately. For example he could identify a corpse in a room full of mannequins or fake plants versus live plants. (He's onto you 5g cell tower in the forest pretending to be a tree)
Blood of the Dead - This is a new one that he's yet to discover, Yufei's body doesn't have any blood in it anymore, it's been replaced with sand, and he'll leak out like a sandbag if cut. Functionally there's no visible difference when looking at him, it's only if it's exposed to air that the sand becomes apparent. Which also means he no longer produces any body heat - poor guy is always cold now. He's also in the body of a corpse, so he doesn't need to eat or drink or sleep. If he eats he'll throw it up eventually because he doesn't have a digestive track anymore. He doesn't heal, his hair doesn't grow, and he has no heartbeat. He does breathe, because it's muscle memory, but he doesn't need to. He still feels pain, and if he's injured he'll need to go collect all his lost sand and put it back inside him to fully function again. When the sand runs out he'll die.
Eye Shine - If shined with a light source, his eyes will reflect like an animals.
Heightened Senses - He has a very sensitive nose and incredibly good hearing. Unfortunately his vision is worse now and he can't see in the dark anymore, though he can see better than an average human in low light.
Physics is for Other People - He can leap across things without a running start, he can climb vertical surfaces as long as they're not completely smooth, he's way stronger than he should be, and he can tear things apart without much effort.
Let Me In - Like most cryptids he can't cross the threshold of someone's living space (or tent so long as it has something like a doorway) without being let in. (Either verbally or with gestures) He doesn't actually know this because he's never tried to get into someone's house and he's just convinced tents are made out of some impenetrable material he can't claw through for some reason.
Don't Call for Help - He can make electronics go to static and stop functioning.
Seek and Destroy - So long as he's gotten the smell of someone at some point in the past he can track them if they're within a mile or so and know how long it's been since they were at a specific location.
Detect Life - He can smell all living (and dead) things and tell them apart from inanimate objects immediately. For example he could identify a corpse in a room full of mannequins or fake plants versus live plants. (He's onto you 5g cell tower in the forest pretending to be a tree)
Blood of the Dead - This is a new one that he's yet to discover, Yufei's body doesn't have any blood in it anymore, it's been replaced with sand, and he'll leak out like a sandbag if cut. Functionally there's no visible difference when looking at him, it's only if it's exposed to air that the sand becomes apparent. Which also means he no longer produces any body heat - poor guy is always cold now. He's also in the body of a corpse, so he doesn't need to eat or drink or sleep. If he eats he'll throw it up eventually because he doesn't have a digestive track anymore. He doesn't heal, his hair doesn't grow, and he has no heartbeat. He does breathe, because it's muscle memory, but he doesn't need to. He still feels pain, and if he's injured he'll need to go collect all his lost sand and put it back inside him to fully function again. When the sand runs out he'll die.