Post by Lanie on Mar 7, 2009 15:37:41 GMT -5
Above is a picture of Echo in her lovely winter coat.
Basics:
Name// Echo
Nicknames// Etch, Get-go
Sex// Female
Species// Grizzly Bear
Powers// Sound; Echo and Air; Scent. Echo can repeat any sound she's heard, and alter her scent to any other.
Age// Eight or nine years old
Location (may not be accurate)// The Western Pond
Echo can be found wandering over most of Kouhai, but usually sticks by streams. Normally, grizzlies hunt salmon in the year-round salmon run. But since the salmon in Kouhai don't go on a yearly run, she doesn't have to travel far to get a nice meal of fish. Her home in by the pond in Western Kouhai, but she roams into other areas every once in awhile.
Physical: Echo is a rather normal, if not large, grizzly bear. Because of the excess of food in Kouhai's spring, summer, and autumn seasons, she has been able to stack up her size and weight.
Eyes// Echo's eyes are dull and brown, though they appeared black at first glance.
Coat// Her fur is dark enough to be black in the winter, but in spring she starts losing her winter coat and she gains a sort of blond look.
Size and Build// Because of her constant feasting, there is usually no need for Echo to hibernate at all. But some winters, get too cold to bear, so she does hibernate through exceptionally bad seasons. She usually comes out of winter weighing maybe six or seven hundred pounds, and spend late spring and throughout summer weighing a good nine hundred or nine hundred and thirty pounds. At the end of a good autumn, she can bulk up to more then a thousand pounds, exceeding the average for female bears. Echo stands maybe a little more then six feet from head to tail.
Markings// Every bear hasn't been through a fight or two. Echo fights for a good feeding spot every year, and that may include fighting off other bears or the stray wolves that wander through her grounds. Or attempting to. Over the years, that accumulates scars. Most are worn and faded, but as her coat gets thinner you can see several scars across her back and sides.
General: Echo isn't too unusual in comparison to other bears, but there aren't a whole lot of bears in Kouhai.
Personality// Echo is definately a hot-head. She gets mad easily, and what you don't want is an angry bear near you. She's extremely territorial, too. Even if it's not her territory she's hunting in, she will attack and attempt to drive off anyone who hunts where she hunts. When she's not hunting, she'll be completely friendly and just toddle up to anyone in the vicinity to say hello.
History// Nothing very important happened to Echo in her childhood. She was born in winter, as an only cub, and ended up remaining with her mother for awhile. In the late autumn before she turned three, an early blizzard struck them unprepared, forcing them into an early hibernation and almost starving both of them out. In the spring after, both Echo and her mother decided that it was time to leave home.
Fighting// When she's hunting, she will engage any predator that wanders onto her grounds. She will also drive any competing bears away from her marked territory, which is basically the area of western Kouhai that surrounds the pond. As long as she's not hunting, she doesn't mind direct contact with wolves, foxes, or any other animals.
Family: Her parents were a vague, unimportant, and unremembered part of her life.
Parents// Ti (mother, deceased)
Siblings// None
Children// None
Family Background// Naturally, Echo never knew her father. The whole 'male bears eating their young' thing got in the way of any real relationship there. Her mother was a dark brown bear named Ti, so she could only assume that her father was more of a blond grizzly. She was a slow learner when it came to hunting and fighting, but she was an expert at digging, scavenging, foraging, and above all else, fishing. She left home after a blizzard almost starved her and her mother, going from the familiar safety of her series of streams to a new pond where she could etch out her own life.
Mate// None
Crush// None
More General Junk: If you want to know what Echo looks for and likes, this is the right place.
Likes//
-Company. She can't stand being alone for long, whether it means meeting another bear to getting into a fight to conversing with a squirrel.
-Fighting. Action is the easiest path to not being bored.
Dislikes//
-Being alone. See above.
Fears//
-Being kicked off of her territory. This is kind of a competitive thing to her.
-Meeting her father. It's been like a phobia to her; she never met him, and she wouldn't recognize him if she did, but the idea just makes her scared.
-Meeting someone she really cares about. That seems like a weakness to her, and she can't stand it.
Goals// To find something to do for the time being.
Accepted by Talen