WITCH, baltasar de soto

WITCH, baltasar de soto Sept 22, 2012 23:33:06 GMT -5

Post by atka on Sept 22, 2012 23:33:06 GMT -5

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★ D. O. B.: march seventeenth

★ H E I G H T: six feet and three inches

★ W E I G H T: one hundred eighty-three lbs.

★ A P P E A R A N C E: whenever he's not in his dog form and in public, he typically wears a set of clothes he took from an ill-fated prospector; a sweater, a jacket, a set of pants, and a pair of boots. in the middle of the wilds that he calls his home, however, he'll usually wear some set of clothes he made from various animal hides. he also wears an eyepatch to cover what used to be his right eye.[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; font-family: Arial narrow; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: 525252; border-bottom: 3px solid #f9f9f9;]★ PERSONALITY[/style][STYLE=width: 400px; padding: 10px; background-color: d5d5d5; font-family: arial; color: 313131; font-size: 11px;]★ G E N E R A L:

few people ever really see the true side of atka. to most, he is everything one would expect of a big dog: friendly, patient, loyal and protective. the very select few who have ever seen him out of his dog form tend to be put off by his altogether rather gruff exterior--you know, big, muscular man with an eye-patch on, and all. however, those who are allowed the privilege to get to know him will find that he is, in essence, the exact same as his dog form, if a little more aloof. but what does one expect from a witch who has, by and large, lived apart from society for so long? he's a hardy bastard, rarely complaining about anything and willing to put up with just about anything. living as a sled dog for so long can do that to a man. so, too, did that--and his relative isolationism--leave him somewhat blunt. it's not to say that he doesn't care for others' feelings, of course, but it just doesn't occur to him that the things he might say could hurt them, in most cases. as such, he tends to call things as he sees them, for better or for worse. (8)

★ L I K E S & D I S L I K E S:

♥ animals
♥ being left alone
♥ fields
♥ forests
♥ kids
♥ meat
♥ potatoes
♥ snow
♥ summer (in alaska)
♥ swimming

✗ blizzards
✗ cruelty
✗ fighting
✗ heat
✗ lazy people
✗ most other witches
✗ most people in general
✗ negligence
✗ picky people
✗ spicy food
✗ wastefulness

★ H O B B I E S & H A B I T S:

⋆ (basic) carpentry
⋆ cooking
⋆ hunting
⋆ leathercrafting
⋆ practicing with spears
⋆ swimming

⋆ carrying around an ice pick
⋆ remaining in his dog form

★ S E C R E T S & F E A R S:

⋆ part of the reason why he avoids people is so that he does not have to watch them grow old
⋆ technology confuses him

⋆ being found by the DWMA
⋆ being found by other witches
⋆ killing an innocent person

★ A M B I T I O N S:

⋆ to continue living in peace
⋆ to die in peace
⋆ to learn how to cook better (spices and seasonings and all that)

the parents of baltasar de soto- bartholomew and maria de soto- were on the run in the 1580s. they'd stirred up enough chaos among various communities to be hunted down, and of course, they didn't exactly want to be burned at the stake or be imprisoned for the rest of their lives, depending on who caught them first. so they ran from their homeland of spain and a branch of its unusually irate inquisition. they ran to the budding american colonies, and there they flirted with the salem witch trials as they passed through massachusetts. they ruffled the hair of indian tribes as they moved north through territories then unclaimed by european powers. their flight led them to the northernmost reaches of what would become canada scarcely a few hundred years later, where snow and ice dominated the land.

here they settled, for maria was with child. they hid themselves away in a cave that barholomew did his best to keep warm for her. he cared for her and they both prayed that they wouldn't be found. they resolved to stay here with their coming child, and to stop their chaos mongering ways--for as long as they could manage, anyway.

they endured the harsh winter and just before the summer of 1595, maria gave birth to a healthy baby boy. he would become baltasar de soto--better known as atka where he is known at all. they did their best with him for the next fifteen years, teaching him what they could about life and magic (soul protect and transform, namely, as they were really the only spell they could pass on to their dog-witch child). for living in the middle of a veritable wasteland, they did fairly well.

but in the end, they were found. shortly after the onset of winter in 1610, blood stained the snow. they hadn't made much of an attempt to hide their pasts from him, so it wasn't unexpected when he found their bodies in the woods. while he mourned their death at the hands of witch hunters, he knew that it was, to an extent, deserved. he resolved to never make the same mistakes they had.

at the very least, he knew he would not have to worry about witch hunters anymore. that was a relief in its own right. the winter had not yet taken its full grip yet, so he had time yet to wander. so he took advantage of that chance to wander away from the cave he had called his home for years. in the relatively short time he traveled, he happened across an inuit boy, barely a few years younger than him, being attacked by a bear. of course, he could not sit back and watch the kid get mauled, so he transformed into his dog form and jumped into the fray. maybe it was stupid, but he was a witch, and this was a bear about to rip open a hapless child. either way, he managed to fend off the bear by the time the rest of the boy's tribe could come for him.

they were, of course, impressed by such a display. they called him "atka," a guardian spirit. and in the next few decades he stayed (loosely) among them, between his protectiveness and incredible longevity, he only continued to enforce that image.

and one day, when he felt he was not needed so much anymore, he left for the wilds from whence he'd come. eventually he found his way into another tribe, and some time after he left that tribe, another. he lived his life like this for about two hundred years, drifting from tribe to tribe and gleaning what survival techniques he could from each one--all under the guise of a dog, or rather, a guardian spirit.

this lasted until the yukon gold rush saw prospectors rushing into the region. it was his misfortune to be swept up into it as a sled dog. he was, after all, a large and strong creature in his dog form, and was nearly identical to the typical sled dogs of the time. perhaps he would have run away from it had the first would-be prospector not nearly gotten both himself and the entire sled team killed due to his own short-sightedness. a lack of supplies is dangerous enough on its own, but in a blizzard, it is absolutely deadly. so atka, as he continued to go by on the rare occasions he gave his name, took it upon himself to get the team through the snowstorm: he hunted down a deer, rationed what supplies there were, and ensured everyone--even the foolish man--remained warm and relatively well-fed. he was fortunate enough to keep the entire team alive.

it was after the ordeal was over that he decided a new group needed his protection. so he continued on through the two-year gold rush, doing what he could to save the dogs and, in most cases, their mushers.

there were a few cases, though, where he allowed the mushers to go to their fates, sometimes going so far as to sabotage their outing by cutting loose the sled dogs. such men were cruel, more animalistic than the dogs that served them. one such man gouged out atka's right eye for biting him in defense of another dog. that was, perhaps, the only time he ever felt some pleasure in watching someone wither away under sickness and the cold, now with his one eye.

by 1899, the klondike gold rush was effectively over. he went off on his own, then, and wound up in alaska. there he built a little cabin in the middle of no where, deciding he still wanted to be away from most people. he was, after all, a witch. people with some DWMA he'd never heard of were going out of their way to hunt witches down, these days. it was like the salem witch hunt his mother had told him about but on a global scale. he just hoped that he had kept a low enough profile to remain out of sight.

such is the way atka lives his life now. primarily, he keeps to himself, barring the occasional interaction with the residents of a (relatively) nearby town he ventures to to sell off his excess hides, bones, antlers, and anything of that sort. evidently people like to keep them as trophies of a sort, even if they didn't actually kill the animal. either way, it's a way for him to make money, with which he typically buys things like canned foods so that he isn't limited to eating only venison and rabbit. perhaps it isn't a terribly exciting life, but excitement isn't what he's in for. if it were, he would be the same as his parents, and he would share their fate, albeit at a much faster rate. and that, of course, is something he does not want.

⋆ dog (alaskan malamute)

★ M A N T R A:

⋆ "let sleeping dogs lie!"

★ S P E L L S:

⋆ biting cold; can be used in human and dog form. closes his hand around opponent's body, leaving behind a cold bite wound (comparable to being bitten by a dog with icecicles for teeth). coldness spreads through the limb, or body depending on victim's relative size. can potentially numb the arm for a short period of time (30 minutes/3-5 posts). in his dog form, he bites his opponent and the same effect ensues, though with more lasting physical pain as from a regular dog bite.
⋆ freezing fountain; only ever used in dog form (he doesn't exactly care to try it in his human form for obvious reasons). urinates on opponent, causing them to slow down and become paralyzed for a short period of time (10 minutes/3 posts). as one might expect, it can only be used at short-range.
⋆ howling wind; can be used in human or dog form. lets out a howl that sends dread through the veins. disrupts the soul wavelength of anyone within a conical area ~100 ft. in front of him. effects last for about 5 minutes (2-3 posts), temporarily interrupting bonds between weapon and meister and other witches' ability to cast spells.
⋆ soul protect; perhaps the only spell atka uses more than his dog transformation, soul protect camouflages atka's wavelength as that of a normal human. only dispels it in the rare event that he has to use his magic.
⋆ transform; turns atka into his dog form, a relatively large alaskan malamute. can hold this spell indefinitely, but the full moon will disrupt it temporarily.

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[b]suikodden iii[/b]; - geddoe, [i]de soto, baltasar[/i]

★ N A M E: bree

★ C H A R A C T E R S: carmen arthur, cyr crowe, isaiah bradford, momoko kyoji.
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Post by atka on Sept 22, 2012 23:33:06 GMT -5

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