Semsenir, The One of Shadowed Heart
The 15th Keeper
(a.k.a. Sem)
Semsenir is the 15th of the line of Keepers, and one of the few who tries to use his position to be truly good. He works hard to help as others as much as he can, and goes out of his way to keep grounded in his humanity, but in return has gone through many things that have challenged him and even broken him down along the way. In some ways it is a burden he brought onto himself, but in others it seems that he is merely Fate's favorite chew toy.
Despite this he continues, hoping to make a positive change in the universe and help it continue on for the better.
This does not, however, make it any easier.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Can change depending on the environment he is in, but he tends to be a rather short but fit young man, with a strong physical build with lean but dense muscles, like that of a gymnast. He can sometimes be taller and more lithe, or shorter and smaller in frame, but well toned muscle is the closest to his true form.
Body Features
Sem has fairly fair skin, but with more pink to it than some. He tends to keep most of his body pretty well hairless, making it easy to identify when his body his well toned. His skin is flawless, without any scars, most of the time. While short he is surprisingly fast and agile, being adept and running and martial arts, among other activities.
Facial Features
Sem keeps himself clean shaven, and his facial structure is not overtly masculine. But the most notable thing about his face is that he always keeps his hair down in front of his right eye. It hides his eye and goes down to his cheeks and bends out, with the outside edge of it tending to form into almost feathers, with three feather like spikes of hair at the right edge of his face.
Identifying Characteristics
His most common identifying feature is his hair. No matter what form he takes it tends to follow him as much as possible, with something covering his eye with the jagged pattern of his hair.
Physical quirks
Sem is right handed generally. When stressed or anxious, he's been known to run his hand through his hair, either through what's on top of his head or finger-combing the hair over his eye. He always makes sure to carry himself in a friendly, unintimidating manner unless he specifically feels the need, but sometimes can still find it hard to be intimidating since he is rather short.
Special abilities
He has been known to use a couple different abilities, but the most common ones are his extreme healing factor (able to heal his body of anything, and then totally reform if something drastic like his body disintegrating or being decapitated happens) and his ability to manipulate the shadows. He mostly only uses this to defend himself from other powered people, but it can slip out of his control at times of extreme emotional duress.
Apparel & Accessories
Sem enjoys a variety of clothing, but especially T shirts and flannel shirts, jeans, scarves, sweaters, and athletic pants. He tends to wear sneakers or athletic shoes that are good for climbing and hiking as well as day to day activities. A shoulder or drawstring bag is also not uncommon for him if he carries stuff with him, but if he's in the forest or hunting, a quiver and maybe smaller bag is much more common.
Specialized Equipment
He always likes to keep a couple things with him, notably a bow and his knife. He has a couple bows, some of which are even collapsible in some manner, though if he knows he's going to be hunting he prefers to take his more traditional bows. He also constantly keeps with him his knife, which is an old hunting knife with a faded decorated hilt, so it usually doesn't seem special, unless someone takes the time to closely inspect it. He maintains it well, keeping it sharp and the leathers of the hilt well oiled.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Sem was the apprentice of Brook, the Ethereal Revolutionary. She taught him many skills and gave him deep convictions to help those around him, and he has spent the rest of his years trying to put everything she told him into practice. He was a successful Keeper for a long time before taking Elizaveta as his apprentice. Despite his best efforts, she turned evil soon after receiving her powers and betrayed him, something that he still very much tends to blame himself for. Since then he has spent a lot of time drifting from planet to planet, making many friends but trying to avoid setting down roots in one place, and eventually tends to drift on.
Gender Identity
Sem identifies solidly as male. Even when he might happen to be put in a female form, he suffers serious gender dysphoria and still identifies as male, even if he sometimes hides it. He does not necessarily feel the necessity to be masculine, and his preferences in dress and accessories is based much more on his personal comfort and tastes, but he very strongly identifies as male and uses he/him pronouns.
Sexuality
Sem considers himself to be heterosexual, preferring partners that identify as female. Generally, he is willing to accept any partner that identifies as female no matter of their history, though he tends to be less comfortable if his partner has male genitalia. He has a very wide range of preference, even known to commonly hit it off with nonhuman races or vaguely female entities. He is happy to experiment in general, but generally will not compromise on his gender preference unless the prospective partner seems feminine, and then he has been known to at times.
Mental Trauma
Unfortunately, his time as a Keeper has greatly effected him. He has very serious anxiety and chronic depression, and is known to have bad anxiety and panic attacks at times. He also has very long running PTSD from many events during and after his keeperdom, which combines with his other afflictions for extremely negative results. He has been known to sometimes dissociate when severely stressed, and has on multiple occasions had breaks from reality (though one may argue that that is a normal part of being a Keeper).
Intellectual Characteristics
Sem is actually surprisingly excellent at spatial challenges, and this is easily seen in his prowess with a bow, being skilled enough to hit even the toughest moving targets at a great distance. He enjoys spatial puzzles and loves to find patterns. He has a good memory for music and surprisingly good memory of faces, especially with how many people he's known. He also has a strong emotional and empathy center, which drives him to be compassionate and understanding of others.
Morality & Philosophy
Sem is solidly altruistic and works to give everyone a second or third chance if he believes that they may change their ways. Despite everything that he has done as part of his Keeperdom, he works not to kill others unless it is necessary, and works to abide by the laws of the land as much as possible. The thing he holds the most sacred is body autonomy, believing that people have an individual right to say and control what happens to their bodies, and has extremely strong convictions about consent in relationships and people being forced into aspects of relationships that they did not want. But, he is also himself sexually promiscuous rather than conservative, believing that people should be open to spend their time and enjoy their bodies as they want, and he tends to want to enjoy it by spending time with other like minded people.
He works to be respectful of all of his partners however, paying attention to their needs and making sure all parties are satisfied by the encounter. He is also vehemently against manipulation in relationships, questionable consent, and any kind of mind control, in any situation. His goal in life is to help others achieve better lives, and he gives every part of himself to do this, many times at the cost of his own health and sanity.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Mostly works to help people, has a deep seated sense of justice and likes to try to help bring equality and keep people from being hurt the ways he himself has been hurt. He will give everything to help those around him, and works to make every world a better place.
Savvies & Ineptitudes
He's very acrobatic and has amazing aim with ranged weapons, especially bows and arrows. He also has a good knowledge of chemistry and how to apply it to his work. He also has good survival training and wilderness survival tactics. He can be decent at magic but tends to avoid using it, and some of the finer points of societies can be lost on him at times if it's something he's not used to. There may be some things he's not good at, but he's an incredibly good liar and fairly good actor, so he can generally fake it.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes: Fall colors like the red of leaves and of his hair, warm oranges and browns; feathers, wings and fur; ears and tails like those of many mammals like dogs and cats; warm sunlight, clear blue skies with a couple of clouds, a refreshing breeze, and spending time outside; A happy smile and soft friendly touches; the warmth of a heavy blanket or kind lover wrapped around him helping him feel safe; cinnamon and vanilla, honey and wild rose scents, likes warm pastries and warm drinks and the smell of warm breakfast foods in the morning.
Dislikes: The red of blood, crusted milky whiteness, the pale and dark of death; tentacle slime gripping him, sharp claws pressed against his skin, the bite of cold metal waiting to cut; Bitter cold, scorching heat, harsh weather and being forced out in it away from where it is safe and warm; rough hands grabbing and holding, pulling, digging into him, dirty fingers feeling him all over, being held down, a chiding or demanding voice telling him to stop struggling; the coldness of a lonely bedroll on the floor, an empty room, a locked door; the smell of old blood and metal, of bodily fluids clinging to his body, the taste of them in his mouth, the taste and smell of memories that will never go away.
Social
Social Aptitude
Very charismatic, respectful when appropriate but can be a little more flirty when it's appropriate. Confident when speaking to those of the female persuasion, but a little bit more on edge when it comes to speaking to men or other genders, especially physically intimidating specimens. Generally well versed in etiquette and acts very open and sincere, which tends to get people to like him, especially when he offers to help them often. He can go between being a bar regular to being a rebel leader with little hardship, but always will take the time to listen to others perspectives and complaints. On a normal day he can be fairly extroverted, but on his bad days he can have a lot more trouble and anxiety being social, tends to cover this up by lying about his mental state to keep others from worrying, even if sometimes it only makes things worse.
Alignment
Chaotic Good
Species
Children
Gender
Male
Eyes
Green
Hair
Rusty red, fluffy, comes down around the top of his neck. Part of it falls over his right eye and off to the side, and he prefers to keep it there.
Height
5'4", usually
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