Description
(4/18/2017 Update: darkened her skin tone to better suit her features)
Name: Siretha Squaami
Nickname(s): Si (only by her brother)
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Race: African Bush Viper
Tribe: Snake Tribe
Height: 1,75m / 5’7ft
Weight: 55 kg / 121 lbs
Eye color: green
Appearance:
Obscenely thin and flexible, slender.
No teeth except the two poisonous retractable fangs.
Forked tongue.
Elliptical pupils, large lime green eyes.
Heavier than she looks.
Has some muscle, especially in the tail.
Doesn’t have hair, instead scales cover her head, shoulders, and go downs her spine, eyebrows are also scales.
Her tattoos are in the back of her hands, and feet.
Weapon: ---
Personality:
She’s like a ‘little ray of sunshine’, joyful, curious, happy, always with a friendly smile.
Very impressionable and excitable. But her excitement is contained, she’ll clap her hands and bounce happily in place. But she never raises her voice, she is not a loud person, and her movements are always soft, gracious, and fluid, never abrupt. She can be quite quick in her movements though (she is a snake, so has quick reflexes)
She is a sweet girl, eager to learn make new friends, to keep the peace.
Proud where her tribe and species are concerned, but that’s not always evident, she doesn’t usually look proud. But if she feels her species/tribe or herself is being despised, she will look proud and act that way. She will look down on you, be cynical and patronizing and will keep smiling with veiled disdain for you.
Always serene.
Stealthy and silent.
Will agree with you and then probably do what she wants anyway.
Very responsible and cautious.
Likes to try new things.
Very curious almost Pandora curious sometimes
If she’s really getting mad with the lack of respect, she will firmly push you way with her tail, she won’t dignify you by touching you with her hands. In very extreme cases she will hiss and bare her fangs at you as warning. After that, you are responsible for the consequences, and you’ll have no one to blame but yourself...
Likes:
Trees, being hidden in the foliage observing others, sunbathes, heights, showing off her flexibility, to be respected
Dislikes:
Talking about the past, too much fur/hair, disrespect of any kind towards others she feels deserving of it, and specially towards herself and her kind.
Background:
Born in the oasis city where reptiles were looked down upon, despised.
She and her brother were street performers there, since they were very young, that was how they contributed to support their family.
When divisions began her family had different opinions, but they all ended up in Rajikan’s side, some against their will.
Because of that man’s crazy ideas, they tried to rid Siretha of her scales. They grew back eventually, but she has some scars, and very bad memories.
As soon as they could, Siretha and some others fled to the Rebels camp, and then accompanied them on their journey through the desert. It wasn’t easy at all. Some of her family and friends died during the desert cross. She was really sad… But an older snake woman took Siretha and her brother under her care, though they were old enough to be on their own. But in difficult times like those, a friendly hand is always welcomed.
Now in Arhzung, she has an opportunity to start anew, and she has put the past behind her, she won’t talk about it, she just wants to forget it. This is her chance for a new life, and freedom she has never had. The only thing that remains are her traditions and her family's tattoos that she intends to continue.
She is very attached to her younger brother that also survived, and they perform on the streets together.
Additional info:
Swallows food whole: splits it in pieces and swallows it.
Can slightly displace lower jaw,
Very soft and ‘dragged’ voice, almost a whisper.
She slides ‘ethereally’ through the ground.
Excellent night vision, she is mostly nocturnal(?)
Siretha ©