Jerrik Arvydian

Physical Appearance

• Long silver/light gray hair with a slight blue tint, typically worn with framing bangs and the rest in a ponytail that trails to his mid-back
• Icy blue eyes
• Fair skinned
• Somewhat tall in height
• Physically fit with a well muscled, athletic build
• Numerous scars all over body, most notably on his left cheek, right arm, and chest/abdomen
• Slightly pointed ears, but they are usually covered by his hair

Clothing Style

Jerrik's primary outfit includes a black long-sleeved bolero-like top that leaves his chest and abdomen area exposed. The area around the neck/collar is covered in black fur like an attached scarf, and the ends of the sleeves are dark blue. He typically keeps his left sleeve rolled up short, and he also wears short black gloves with rectangular cutouts on the back of the hands. He wears cloth wrappings around his wrists, but only the one on his left arm is visible since his right sleeve is typically rolled down. He also wears black pants and black leather knee high boots.

His armor pieces include a silver shoulder plates with blue cloth lining the underside and hanging slightly down below the plates like epaulets. He also wears silver knee guards, and flexible leg-guards from his knee plates to his mid thigh. The leg-guards have more rigid silver lining along the tops with more flexible white material below the silver, and he wears two blue leather belts to hold the sheaths for his bladed weapons: one around his hips and the other across his chest and over his left shoulder. The sheath on his back also has an additional black strap that goes across his lower chest.

For more casual situations, his outfits tend to have a similar style except without the armor pieces. He doesn't frequently wear shirts, mostly because he doesn't get cold due to his ice dragon heritage, and he tends to stick to similar colors of black, blue, and silver. While on missions with his flight, he will wear a shirt and chest armor to protect himself sufficiently, but he doesn't necessarily like it.

Personality

Jerrik is a fierce and intense demon hunter with an arrogant attitude, thinking himself greater than others due to his heritage. He takes his abilities in combat and weaponry very seriously, and there's nothing he enjoys more than besting others with his honed skills. He can at times be unpleasant to speak with or be around since he is often boastful and condescending or dismissive of those "beneath him," but there's no doubt that he takes his responsibilities seriously and is reliable on the battlefield. He is capable of being cooperative and supportive in combat even if he isn't fond of those he's working with, and he won't compromise a mission for the sake of his own ego. He is passionate and relentless in pursuing his goals and always works to get what he wants, yet this can also make him a rather aggressive and uncompromising person around people who don't cooperate with him. He has a firm respect for those who are established to be his authority figures, and he is stubborn in following orders and assignments given to him. People on his level or beneath his authority tend to get intimidated into following his lead or submitting to his will. He's always blunt with his words and often rude with how brutally he can phrase things, but at the very least he can always be relied on to be honest, since his pride is too great for him to resort to being deceitful.

Jerrik tends to work best either on his own (either entirely alone or with only Larimareth) or only with hunters he deems on equal level or above him. When plans are running smoothly or when he's left to his own devices, he simmers down a lot more and tends to be rather quiet and aloof. He's adept at handling the wilderness and relying on his senses to guide him, and if even he were to encounter someone "beneath" him, as long as they were cooperative enough, he would be a reliable ally in guiding them both through adversity. He tends to think rather highly of himself and has a short temper, so staying on his good side is probably the best way to not be exposed to his elitist and abrasive side. For the most part he looks out for himself and only is cooperative for the sake of missions or the bigger picture, but when off duty one shouldn't expect him to be sympathetic or helpful in any sense. He does, however, treat those who benefit him or Larimareth with their work, such as the non-hunter workers around the compound, with sufficient respect. Despite the fact that he views himself above most others around him, he does not believe in treating the laypeople disrespectfully if their work is necessary to keep things running smoothly. He tends to be more mellow around low-level workers around the compound simply because he's observed a lot of the other hunters try to use their standing as an excuse to treat them poorly, and Jerrik tends to only direct his elitism toward other hunters that should theoretically have the same skill set as him rather than other workers with differing expertise.

Abilities

• Iyce rifting - rank 3/5
• Shapeshifting - dragon
• Skilled in melee combat, particularly with light bladed weapons
  • His personal weapons are a shortsword with a wide blade and a similarly styled but thinner-bladed dagger
• Skilled at dragon-riding and combat in flight
• Immune to cold due to his ice dragon blood

Strengths

• Confident, fierce, and dauntless
• Focused, relentless, and thorough
• Observant, resourceful, sensing, and instinctual
• Assertive, honest, and quick witted

Weaknesses

• Arrogant, elitist, and dismissive of those "lesser" than him
• Aggressive, controlling, and always wants to have things his way
• Opportunistic, overly blunt/harsh in his speech, selfish, and short tempered
• Sensitive to extreme heat and isn't very good at reading other people's emotions or expressing his own more complicated feelings

Backstory

Jerrik's mother was a member a native tribe settled in the frigid mountains of Fjora, Drayconess. The most valued tradition of the tribe was to provide tribute to the ice dragons that lived among the peaks of the mountain range, and like everyone else, his mother was taught the ritual of preparing the tribute and arranging it at a shrine that lay halfway between their village and the closest dragon lair. The tribute would ensure they would maintain favor with these ice dragons and they would be watched over and protected from invaders or natural disasters on the mountains. Apparently his mother encountered one of the elusive dragons while setting out the tribute, which was highly unusual since the dragons tended to wait until the tribe members left before accepting. She never fully elaborated on her motivations, but she disappeared into the mountains for almost a year before she returned to the tribe with a child. It has been established that this child, named Jerrik, was hers and had the blood of a pure blooded dragon of the Fjora mountains. The other members of the tribe still allowed her back to resume her life, but she was treated as a deviant and disgrace for crossing that societal line and mingling with the dragons, whom they viewed as sacred and beyond their worthiness.

Jerrik on the other hand seemed capable of doing whatever he wanted while growing up among the tribe, and few members dared to cross him. His mother made it clear to him that he had "sacred blood" in his veins from his father, and he asserted his "nobility" among the tribe at the threat of calling down his father's wrath upon them. Jerrik never actually knew if his father would actually do anything or was even watching over them specifically from the mountain peaks, but he enjoyed acting like he knew his father would punish those who slighted him or his mother. This seemed to lessen the public discrimination against his mother, particularly in his teenage years. He physically trained himself while growing up to be a warrior, both to defend the tribe and also to eventually brave the mountains to seek out his dragon kin and potentially his father. Apparently when he finally did visit the dragons, he was charged with the responsibility of seeking out one of their missing kin, an ice dragon named Eisa. According to them, Eisa had left the mountain years ago with another member of the native tribe, and they were currently in a "war" against a "plague across Drayconess." Jerrik was accompanied by another dragon of the mountain, Larimareth, who was his half-sister from their father, and the two travel out to a place called Ecquinox where Eisa had been since her disappearance.

It was here that Jerrik learned that this "plague" was actually the increased presence of demons spreading all across the land. Eisa and her companion from Fjora's native tribe, a woman named Merete, had traveled to Ecquinox by chance and had trained here with the other demon hunters to combat the demonic spread for over two decades. Jerrik and Larimareth decided they should join their cause as well, mostly because it seemed the only way to potentially appease the dragons of the mountain and to convince Eisa to return was to end this war against the demons. The two gradually worked their way up to fully fledged demon hunters over the years, and the pair has been a part of the hunter general's personal flight with the other elite hunters for several years now.

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