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Sucre Island
Doya Senzae
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Otter Pop
Details
Aliment Traits and Anatomy Details
Otter Pops are canonically made out of ice, sugar, and a type of flavoring, so following that dichotomy...
His hair isn't anymore delicate or stronger than normal human hair, but depending on the weather it gets more stickier or "wet" when warm while its more fluffier and stiff in cooler conditions. Because of this he can easily dye his hair and wash it out with warmer water, which is why you may find him walk home with red hair and come out with blue.
It's incredibly hard to encourage new hair growth on him, since his body recognizes hair growth and skin repair as possibly the same thing, even then it first comes out as thick patchy clumps that are translucent and almost uncomfortable to look at, so, no lumberjack Doya.
The lower arms and legs are covered with a thicker layer of sugar and ice, which the thickness fluctuates with the weather, but also his cleanliness! The reason why he hasn't got the sugar crystal growth on the normal parts of his skin is due to him being consistent with showers and taking care of himself, good for him!
With that said his sweat is sweet, with the express purpose to insulate him instead of letting more leak out, this is why he has to take a desk job or every night he has to peel off the sugar cacoon that envelops him, while doing its job, it gets increasingly more uncomfortable and impossible to move in the longer he leaves it on.
This is why you tend to see him get bulkier during the colder months while he tends to be more lithe in the hotter months, and why you might see him eat a lot more.
The reason why his lower arms and legs are more swollen isn't completely figured out, some suspicion is laid with his father's side of family having a history of swelling and boils to increase body mass for a evolutionary niche that was lost to time, for now the growth has stopped but there's thoughts and hypotheses that when he gets much, much older he'll grow boils, and if he's totally honest Doya would rather prefer that then male pattern baldness.
This also means the underside of the arms feel like regular skin, if not colder, and have the same "stats" as the rest of him, that's right the sugar cacoon happens there too!
His actual ears are longer than whats considered normal, they don't end up in a point like elf ears, instead they're like... human ears but stretched horizontally, doesn't effect his hearing, but it's something thats been developing over the years.
This only is an effect that happens when he gets out of a hot shower, but his skin gets stretchy, not grotesquely stretchy but enough for you to think hm thats not what skin usually does!
It should also be mentioned his body is cooler than other foodies, but it also gets, so much more sweatier than other foodies.
His fake ears on top of his body are immobile and don't move according to his emotions, but they sag if its too hot, and they also can be oriented differently, his parents think they were supposed to be horns like his mothers but they softened, rounded out and caved slightly over the years, so they just look like ears.
His tail has nerves, meaning that it can move, but it moves in one mass instead of like a snake, so imagine a dog tail where it moves in one movement instead a cat's where it can curl. If the sugar coating was removed maybe, but it's a hassle to remove it. It's a subconscious movement as in it responds to his emotions but more like a spike or dip in mood, so anger, happiness and stress causes it to go up, while sadness, calmness and exhaustion makes it stay down and slowly wave.
The paw pads are actually the calloused parts of his hands and feet, caramelized over years of duress (if he ever got into heavy labor they would be more amber and dark brown) and realistically wouldnt be in the distinct shapes they are if he didn't file them. If they got out of hand he wouldnt be able to flex them, but since they're now raised compared to the rest of his paw, this doesn't seem to be much of concern anymore.
His eyes are also inflicted with the same effect, if they become more darker its a sign he has stressed his eyes too much, meaning glasses are going to be needed, but not for now.
Personality
When going out, Doya can be found to be a very chatty and socialable creature of nature. It is a lot of fun to talk to him, and if you end up being in his friend group he turns out to be incredibly brotherly, looking out for you and being incredibly dependable. He is also one of many talents, although not being perfect at all of them, being more brain than brawn, he uses them to be helpful and tends to do what he can do best.
He means well, obviously, and is up for anything, but that doesn't mean he can't face the facts, if the situation calls for too much he will be the first one to pull the band=aid off. Whether or not feelings are hurt are not a factor, but when the rain passes over he will be there to pick up the pieces with you.
But despite willing to go through all that for others you won't find much vulnerability with him. The problems you start to find with him are more superficial and easily passable as quirks, and end with him being more bland than he would like to admit.
To make a decision, a plan, and follow it through is admirable, but to make that your whole life is a recipe for disaster. Yet when unsupervised that's how Doya ends up being a lot of the time, he doesn't have any goals, any aspirations to follow through, enjoying life is one thing, to not gain anything out of it is another. If he faces an event that requires him to think on his feet he's frozen in place, his thinking is archaic, he knows what is right and what if wrong but he isn't fully aware when the world changes and needs him to catch up.
However he is trying and is ever so lucky to be surrounded by people who will thaw him out.
- Brotherly
- Passionate
- Sociable
- Capable
- Realistic
- Agreeable
- Unambitious
- Orderly
- Overthinker
- Ritualistic
- Conventional
- Reserved
Likes and Dislikes
- Animated Content
- Math
- Seafood
- "Ugly but cute"
- Extreme Sports
- Improvisation
- Death Metal
- Fermented foods
Biography
To be prim and curt, Doya was a rancid little child who had a rude awakening. However to be more clearer, he was a little ball of energy that tended to be a lot for people. Gung-ho, incredibly stupid and was known to get hurt physically. Emotionally? Not so much. The boys he hung out with were cut out of the same cloth, shenanigans tended to be afoot whenever they were together in this small little town he lived in. But he was different at home, he was more quieter and liked to practice his hobbies。His parents tried to encourage this side of him outside of the house, but weren't really successful. But you know, no big wig schools were ever going to look at how you were before 13, and he seemed to excel at math at english, a clean record. It was okay to leave this little boy to live in this world as a little spark that they secretly hoped would be tamed, but never put out.
But strangely a switch flipped in him one day and that kid never returned.
Maybe it had something to do with harmones, maybe it had something to do with his friends going to different schools, and maybe it had to do with the town changing, but Doya was more quiet. Threw himself into the world behind the screen, but grew more studious, with stellar grades and a promising future, and in this small town, wasn't that the best outcome?
So off Doya went to a college that would encourage his education further, far away from his hometown and farther away from all he's ever known. In a strange place with a vague idea of what he could possibly want and what he had to do to get it, he wasn't fully expecting to make friends to shake the world his growing years had fogged up.
It was a boarding house with 5 people, all of them with their own issues, yet strangely they were all brought together with their growing pains and someone who wanted them to be a family, or at least people who would comfortably call each other friends. Doya's college experience may be muddied up by the partying he did, but it was possibly the most vulnerable he had ever been. He left with a proper degree and a group of people he wasn't going to let go or let get hurt.
Skip a year or so and you end up with him at a cooling period, a plateau, not peaking but he wasn't at rock bottom either. A stable job, a healthy interest in anime, friends he visited from time to time and a house in the woods with a weird aardbark he affectionately made his pet. One of his friends has gotten a weird girl she has to look after but there were weird people everywhere and he was friends with a lot of them. That was fine, he can live like that for the rest of his life if no tornadoes, earthquakes or avalanches had any funny ideas.
So then here's this girl....
It really was supposed to be a meet and greet. He followed her on socials, he liked her cosplays and when he learned that she was going to a convention that was on his schedule the idea was just to say "Hi I am a really big fan of your work" and LEAVE but man if she wasn't charming, with a wink and flick of her business card boom here he was up, cold and in middle of nowhere and in front of the only building for possibly miles.
He had brought his torn jacket to get patched up, but it was also more of an excuse in case this all went south. But Polly turned out to really welcome his company, and they became really good friends, soon becoming lovers. For a good couple of years things were bound to be the same, maybe a few friends moving away for greener pastures but this was okay, he could live with this as his happy ending.
SO ANYWAYS CUE A JOB TRANSFER.
The details were unclear, but his bosses from upstairs recommended that his skills would flourish in an island populace far away. He would get a choice of where to make his residence, moving expenses covered and all, his answer would be needed by next week.
It probably would've taken him all 7 days to make his decision, there was no salary increase and nothing would substantially change, a change of scenery didn't seem worth it for something that would ultimately lead to a net 0.
BUT WHEN THERE IS A BABY- yeah the decision was made in a couple of hours. Here's hoping for a good couple or something years of peace if all this resolves itself cleanly.
Inventory
- Rose Gold wedding band
- His "flip" phone
- Hankerchief
- Notepad
- PushPop Lite
- Sketchbook
- Wallet
- Thermos
Extra Notes
- His ears are long, not an artistic style choice
- His hair, arm and leg topping can be dyed any color, default is pale blue
- He's fluent in English, he will often read and write in his native tongue
- He draws in his free time, amateurly but he draws
- Never ask him to make a joke, he goes to classic and overused puns.
Relationships
Wife
Polly Senzae
The fire that's lit under his butt, adds a upbeat rhythm to a disc that has been on loop. In a way her sharp flavor cuts your senses, she cuts through whatever sticky muck that freezes Doya in his tracks and keeps him moving and wanting more.
Best Friend
Aria Baleno
College pals, he used to be worried about how she would run around in the hole she dug herself in, but now he doesn't seem to be so worried. Although there's some distance between them now, they keep in touch like it was the old days.
Minature Menace
Daaz Baker
A little kid he used to babysit back at his previous place, he's a little worried about how he's been adapting to the new place but it's good to see that Daaz never stops stealing the good drops whenever they play Poke-mon together. Hm now thinking about it-
