Ronan D'Sai
Name Ronan D'Sai
Position Student
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Rimeri (Rimeron III) | |
| Age | 16 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6'0" | |
| Weight | 160 Lbs | |
| Hair Color | Brown with Red-Gold Highlights (Reddish Brown Fur with one white paw) | |
| Eye Color | Brown with Amber Flecks (Bright Amber) | |
| Physical Description | Ronan has reached his adult height of 6'0" but is still lacking in muscle mass. He has dark brown hair with red-gold highlights that is somewhat curly and brown eyes flecked with amber. His skin is naturally tan. He's indifferent to fashion and generally wears muted colors. In his wolf form, his fur is reddish brown with one white paw and his eyes, which are probably most distinctive, are bright amber. Species: Limited shapeshifters who can shift from human to a species similar to that of the Terran Gray Wolves (Canis Lupis) but with some differences. An adult male Rimeri, in wolf form, weighs on average 250 pounds though the human form may be significantly less. Their shoulders are built more like a grizzly or a jaguar allowing them to be excellent climbers and to use their forelegs like a grizzly in a fight. They have retractable claws and their fur resembles a dog’s coat rather than a wild wolf pelt. They have an extremely high metabolism. Rimeri form packs led by an Alpha pair with a hierarchical structure based on dominance. Packs are caring, playful and devoted to members of their pack with a strong desire to protect and educate their young, take care of the injured, and live within a family group. Physiology: > Better hearing (changes in heartbeat, respiration, breathing, etc. make a Rimeri good at spotting liars) > Better sight, especially at night > Strong and fast even in human form but without weapons, fights best in wolf form. > Telepathic as a primary means of communication between members of the pack while in wolf form. Note that its more like being in an open chat, with many people present. All can be heard when they speak but do not have privy to one another's thoughts. > Have an innate understanding of their hierarchical position within the pack. > Possible, through ritual, to form a 'pack' and to bring others into the bond formed by packmates. |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Clear-headed and strong-willed, Ronan, in particular, displays strong Alpha tendencies which means that it’s not in his nature to submit or back down when threatened. He’s independent, resourceful and highly protective of those he defines as pack. He has sharp instincts, is deeply intuitive and highly intelligent. He has learned patience, especially on the hunt, and isn’t one to shy away from hard work. He's something of an explorer by nature and highly curious, a bit of an adrenaline junkie. On the other hand, Ronan has lived through the fall of his world at the age of six and enslavement for nine years at the hands of the Orion Syndicate. He understands, because he's lived it, the consequences of actions and accepts that sometimes, even a bad idea is better than living in an untennable situation. He saw the Orion as prey and was willing, unlike most of his people, to endure the trap until he could find a way out. He hopes to one day find the family that targeted his world and make them pay for what they have done. What that looks like exactly, he's not sure. If Ronan sees you as 'pack' or 'pack adjacent', he relaxes in a way that he never does with strangers. He becomes more playful and protective. If Ronan sees you as 'prey' or even just a threat, he becomes closed off, wary, and sometimes, outright hostile. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: > Good at reading body language; can generally tell when someone is lying > Strong sense of duty and is highly protective > Languages: Rimeri (Mother-Tongue Level), Fluent in Orion, and becoming fluent in Federation Standard Weaknesses: > Traps bring out his aggressive/combative side. > Serious trust issues and somewhat claustrophobic > Nightmares, trouble sleeping > Never going to be a scientist. His brain just doesn't work that way. > Stubborn, not the kind to back down easily in front of strangers, even when its in his best interest. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | > Spending time outdoors – extreme camping, hiking, etc. > Reading - only non-fiction. There's just so much to learn, to catch up on > Hard physical exercise. It's important to him to be ready, if the Orions come back |
| Personal History | Ronan remembers home. Not the stripped down husk that the Orions left behind, but Rimeron as it was when he was there. A natural paradise without any technological presence. His people hadn't reached that point. They were nomadic, living in packs, and traveling as they willed. Meetings with other packs were generally pleasant interactions, where young adults could find mates of their own, but also, usually short. The packs preferred to be on their own. Moving as they willed. Exploring the world and taking joy in the moment. At least that's the part that Ronan remembered. And then the Orions came. Odd people, who held only one shape, with green skin and cunning behind their eyes. The pack elders, joined together as they did when a large threat was present, did not like the intruders and sought to have them leave their world. The fight was short and brutal. Owing to vastly superior technology, his people were conquered in days and those who survived where transferred by slave ships to an Orion outpost. This was the part that Ronan remembers more clearly. He was six when he was captured, when his mother died under fire from an Orion weapon. Seven when his father died in an escape attempt. For Ronan, as a Rimeri, linked telepathically to others in his pack, he felt each death as a physical thing and knew in the instant they died. Felt the individual disappearing from the pack bonds. To the Orions, The Rimeri were a curiosity they were trying to train as a new form of guard. Adult Rimeri seemed incapable of submission and were prone to rebellion even when it was in their best interests to cooperate. No amount of punishment or restraint stopped them for long; instead, they devised escape plans and fought back at every opportunity. Ultimately, the Orions were forced to kill the adults they had taken and instead, focused their training efforts on the children. It worked for a time, the children being significantly more biddable than the parents, until they reached puberty and then the problems set in. Ronan, at thirteen, had become a patient hunter. He pretended obedience, though it become increasingly more difficult to restrain himself as the days and weeks wore on, while he considered his options and figured out a way to escape. Those who were left, spoke telepathically, and recounted to each other the stories they knew of what had happened before. How the adults died. The mistakes they had made. What the Orions had done in response. Fractured. Missing details. Wrapped in pain and sadness. That all made it harder but Ronan persisted. Escape or die trying and really, he expected to die. Pretense led to mistakes. Small ones at first but over time (too much time), the guards began to relax thinking the young wolf, who seldom reverted to human these days, had been broken in spirit. Not true. Ronan remained a wolf because his expressions were harder to read in that form and the Orions wanted the wolf to be fierce. His little pack, six children all passing through puberty, came to a joint decision. They were being sold and each one would take their best chance at escape. They fooled themselves with talk about returning home, the world of their memories. Ronan joined in but he knew, somewhere down deep where he didn't want to face it, that there was no going back. Only forward into an uncertain future. Escape or die trying. When it was his turn to be sold, he was placed in a crate and loaded onto an Orion transport. When it reached its destination, he was moved to a warehouse that smelled as though no one had been there for some time. When it got quiet, when it was dark and no one was around, Ronan shifted to human. They had stopped expecting him to shift. Not even under torture. He remained in wolf shape and banked the rage inside of him. Now, human again, it took him a minute or two to reorient himself and then less than a half hour to free himself from a cage meant for animals, not for a teenage boy. Outside the cage, he shifted back to wolf and made his escape. Freedom was good. Hard because there was so much he didn't understand but Ronan was a patient hunter and he started to work it out. By the age of fourteen, he had found his way, in human form again, onto a transport headed for Earth. He didn't understand about the cold of space and nearly died in the cargo hold but they found him. Warmed him up. And at fourteen, he was safe on Earth where his real education began. For two years, he lived on Earth. It was an enormous cultural shock that took months and months to overcome. The counselors noted that while withdrawn and quiet at first, he opened up once he'd made the internal identification as 'pack adjacent' with respect to the counseling and teaching staff at the facility where he lived and displayed an active intelligence and an inquisitive nature. It was also noted that he took particular interest in the Orions, wanting to learn as much about them as he could, and that he always slept in wolf shape at night. |