Torus Whitaker
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My purpose is to bring happiness to others
Torus is a scientist living in the capital city of Hunamaal, Zajena. He specializes in biology (plants & animals) and cultural research. His main job is to gather information for different scientific studies. Torus works closely with the government and has a high status.
Humble . Polite . Sophisticated
Traits. Torus is a person, who always tries to remain professional in every situation. He is selfless and polite to the extreme and never really thinks about himself. Bowing down to others is a very frequent habit of his. He is very dutiful and obeys every higher level's command without question. Torus rarely forms or voices any opinions and instead goes along with everything others say, especially those who have more influence and power. In many ways Torus is a pushover and a doormat, who often ends up getting used by others without him noticing. Torus is also very cowardly. He is definitely the person who flees first when the situation is looking bad. Despite all this, he is really good with regular socialization. He is good with words and doesn't feel any pressures while talking to others. Not even holding a big speech in front of many people seems to scare him. After all, if that is what is asked of him, that is what he must do.
Torus finds joy from sophistication and education. He especially likes reading books. Every now and then he also likes to enjoy operas or other concerts. Spas are also a very frequent aspect of his day to day life.
Ideology. Torus views the world from a very biological point of view. Everyone has their own meaning in life and if they don't, they either live because of routine or fear of dying. What gives Torus meaning is giving other people happiness and gaining some in the process. That is why he wants to be useful for the society and why he works so hard. This is also one of the reasons, why he wants to make so much money. He doesn't care about money itself but giving it to those in need. He is single handedly trying to level the differences between the poor and the rich. Although he knows perfect equality is never possible, he does his everything to make the world just a little bit better place.
Reputation. Among the nobility Torus is a well respected scientist. Inside Hunamaal's goverment, he is almost like a pet. Although Torus does have a slightly awkward relationship with his co-workers as they think he is "too perfect." Especially having government pet's reputation evokes a lot of jealousy and annoyance. Even then nobody dares to say it out loud. Often Torus's co-workers let him tag along just from guilt and pity because they are too afraid to show through their actions that they don't actually want to hang around him. For this reason they often try to keep Torus busy with work. Luckily for them it doesn't take much effort, after all he is quite a workaholic... Opinions of him among the regular citizens are very divided though. Some think that his work is very important for everyone, others think that the government with their pets sticks their noses in other's businesses too much. Some have never heard of him.
Keesrians as a race. Torus is a keesrianriido. They are extremely rare in the world and are known for their beauty. Their skin is piebald/spotted although Torus only has small faded blue spots and patches. Other traits of keesrians are large wings and skin covered horns on the forehead.
All riido races are able to transform into one or two animals/creatures and are capable of controlling one or two elements! Only the most powerful ones are able to perfectly control both transformation and elements. Torus controls air and can transform into a harpy eagle. His transformation skills are better than element controlling skills.
Hunamaal. Torus lives in a country called Hunamaal. It is the furthest country to the south on the continent of Remnai and is by far the coldest. Temperature there can range anywhere from -45°C to +5°C and snow covers the ground almost all year round. Torus lives in the capital city, Zajena and his apartment is situated on the highest level of a tower like building that is connected to a scientist community space.
Hunamaal is ruled over by Lord Ralypher Wulfanthor
「 Design Notes 」
- Golden ear cuff only on the left ear
- Transformed form of Torus is a horned harpy eagle (Bird not to scale on the ref)
「 Act I 」
As the only child he had been set with very high expectations from a very young age. Torus was so to speak born with a silver spoon in his mouth, born to a rich family with both parents posessing a high education. Torus was every parent's dream child. He was able to meet these high expectations and has a successful well paying career. Even then he has always felt like an outsider among all the other riidos.
Throughout his whole life, Torus has been considered a gifted child. He was born with an extraordinarily good memory. (hyperthymesia) This is one of the reasons, why he was able to climb up the social ladders and attend universities at such a young age. He is not really much more intelligent than anyone else, but his ability to memorize information has come handy time and time again. However there are two sides to this coin. Because of constantly studying, attending quiz competitions and other such things, he never really got to have a childhood and he never learned to make friends outside of shallow acquaintances full of meaningless courtesies. Turns out after meeting his parents expectations, there was no more congratulations, nothing to really achieve. Quickly life became dull and even the most gifted child was forgotten about.
「 Act II 」
Because of Torus' inability to create meaningful relationships, he was left very vulnerable and lonely. For that very reason he fell into an extremely toxic relationship that continued on for a while as he always came crawling back no matter how much he got hurt. After all, he finally had someone that was willing to spend time with him. Although after some of the worst arguments, Torus heavily relied on his wine consumption that resulted in an addiction of some sorts. The final straw that ended the relationship, was after a very bad argument that made Torus shut off from all of the surrounding world. He barely spoke, reacted or ate but after a while in the care provided by Lord Wulfanthor himself, he got a little better. Although still unable to ever forget the past events.
Later on Torus discovers his airbending skills have gone mysteriously completely missing. At the same time Soul shows up at his house. (Someone he rescued from Nayrandja and got to know better) Torus gladly takes them in and slowly discovers his nurturing parent side. Before this he would have said that he wouldn't mind having kids of his own but that it was something he never really thought about. Now Soul has become everything to him, his own child. Slowly he also starts to fear losing Soul as they are a lab made "experiemental" riido with their own faults and health issues. After some unfortunate events with a couple of other riidos, Torus starts to feel unsafe in his own home in Zajena so he purchased a "summer" manor from the countryside of Hunamaal and hired a guard/buttler. He hasn't told anyone about this new place in the fear that someone who'd want to hurt him discovers the place. For now, he's temporarily living peacefully there with Soul although he hasn't really officially moved there yet.
「 Likes 」
- ✦ Books
- ✦ Operas & concerts
- ✦ Hot baths
- ✦ Own bed
- ✦ Northern lights
「 Dislikes 」
- ✧ Being nude/in little clothing
- ✧ Public display of affection
- ✧ Touchy people
- ✧ Coffee
「 Trivia 」
- • Torus isn't very fond of sweet desserts but doesn't mind them.
- • Although not athletic, in bird form Torus can travel very long distances.
- • Hunamaal's glaciers are his favorite place to be.
Ralypher Wulfanthor. In many ways Lord Wulfanthor is almost like a father figure and a role model for Torus. Torus has deep appreciation for him but views their relationship mostly as work related although he knows that it's much more like a father-son relationship. Ralypher is the only person he wholeheartedly trusts.
Soul. Someone, who Torus helped getting out of Nayrandja while he was on a work related mission there.This little riido can be a little naive and childish sometimes but Torus would do absolutely anything to protect and care for them. He views Soul almost as his own child and loves them very dearly. Later on he takes Soul in to live with him in Hunamaal.
Galeid. Ex-partner. Torus doesn't really know, how to feel about him. But he's afraid that he'd find himself crawling back to that person again. He wants to keep distance because he isn't sure what would happed if they met up again.
