Xipil (main)

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ART NOTICE: both left and right sides are the same. His (body) stripes don’t need to be exact, face stripes DO need to be. His tongue is forked and blue - same shade as his eyes.

OPTIONAL: his fur is static, so feel free to include lightning sparks and the alike! It’s also optional to make his eyes glow - which happens when he uses his powers ^^ 

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CHARACTER PROFILE 

Name meaning: ‘Noble one’ or ‘one of fire’. It’s a name with an Aztec origin. 

Age: 5,000 +

Birthday: January 1 

Species: Raijū 

General information about the species: Raijū translates to ‘thunder beast’ and they are essentially divine beasts/magical creatures from Japanese folklore. Raijū live in the sky. They ride bolts of lightning to the world when thunder claps, and create mayhem wherever they land. Like causing fires and overall mass destruction. 

Abilities/powers: Flight, levitation, weak telekinesis, powerful lightning manipulation/control, powerful weather manipulation, cloud walking, average air manipulation, average fire manipulation, lightning breath, heat/cold resistance, shapeshifting (can turn into a human(ish) form), self-healing, omniscient, immortality, size alteration, magic.

Personality description: Xipil lives above the clouds and rides the lightning bolts down whenever lightning strikes. When he does so, he generally creates mayhem wherever he goes; setting fires and causing mass destruction. He pretty much goes wild and feral when he ‘descends’. Sometimes he does this by accident, but often on purpose. He doesn’t holds much love for those living in the ‘lower world’ and tends to look down on others, thinking he’s the big deal. Xipil is quite arrogant and egoistical, even prideful, and has honestly no idea how he’s even supposed to interact with others so he’s quite socially awkward as well. He is fast both physically and in his thinking, deadly to those who stand before him, and he can be rather merciless. Yet he’s shown to be patient, and even kind, with those who have managed to gain his trust. He is deeply loyal to those who somehow managed to get past his prideful and self-centered nature. Generally he’s only ‘feral’ when he rides the lightning down, otherwise he’s much calmer and might even be described as harmless.

Likes: Xipil really enjoys running across the skies and creating thunderstorms and bringing the rain. He’s also very fond of himself and shiny/glowing things, owning hoards of treasures and being rather protective over it. While he’s not the biggest fan of the lower world, he does likes the food and alcoholic beverages. He especially likes dango and sake, he can often be found holding either when below the clouds.

Dislikes: He’s not the biggest fan of social interactions, and crowds as a whole, and prefers being on his own. He doesn’t likes sunny days as much as he does rainy days, and he’s also not the biggest fan of vegetables. He also hates it when anyone wakes him up when he’s sleeping. And have mercy on the souls of the fools who would even dare think about stealing anything from his treasures.

Hobbies: Watching thunderstorms; it’s like a flashy music show to him. He also thinks it’s fun to dive down into the ocean from great heights! Xipil also enjoys finding/receiving new treasures for his ever growing collection. We also cannot forget sleeping, which is perhaps his greatest pastime activity. He’s especially fond of sleeping on top of clouds - his beds are even made from it.

Backstory: Xipil has been born during an intense thunderstorm more than roughly 5,000 years ago. He does not have any parents and is instead more like the manifestation of lightning and storms come alive. When he was still very young he did not yet have control over his powerful abilities; he tended to accidentally create natural disasters by sneezing and a few species might have gone extinct because of him. As he grew up he naturally gained more control over himself. While he was still destructive - as lightning tends to be - it was noticeable less than before and it only happened when he actually followed the lightning down. In his (hidden) home in the skies he was much calmer. Xipil has also spend a great deal of his time asleep, often for hundreds of years at once, and he tends to create catastrophic thunderstorms capable of wiping out entire towns if an unlucky soul were to wake him up. When he’s awake he generally spends his time running across the skies, creating thunderstorms, and occasionally following the lightning down and creating mayhem. He has little interaction with others (except for killing them in a frenzy when he descends down), but in the cases where someone stumbles across him, the way he acts depends on where he is. In the sky he’s generally a majestic and rather harmless being, but on the ground he’s feral and downright dangerous and terrifying. Depending on if he’s in a good mood or not, he might even be willing to share his wisdom or answer the questions others would want the answers the most off. For this reason, some daredevils have decided to search him up. This did not always end well.

One day, his life gets turned upside down by the arrival of a certain wrecking ball of blue chaos crashing into his life and refusing to leave. This wrecking ball being one of his younger siblings, Necalli. While Xipil treated him with some distain and generally tried to ignore him, even snarling in his face as he tried to convince the younger Raijū to leave him alone, he was still - unknowingly - the only sibling who did not fully push Necalli away. And then Xipil found his younger brother basically clinging to his side, turning a deaf ear to his complains and threats, following him around and basically refusing to leave. Eventually, Xipil started to get used to Necalli’s presence and he begrudgingly accepted his brother’s presence into his life.

Trivia 

- Being born on January 1, Xipil always likes to say that the New Years fireworks are in celebration of his birthday, to announce the news to the world. (It’s not obviously, but it won’t stop him and good luck convincing him otherwise)

- He has personally built his palace. He has lived there ever since. Before this he was like a nomad, traveling from one cave in the high mountain tops to the next. He has always lived as high above the ground as possible.

- His favorite color is blue. His least favorite color is red. He doesn’t have a specific reason for disliking the color red, he just dislikes it.

- While many objects in his treasuries are priceless in value, there is also ‘junk’ among them. Xipil cares less about the value of the object and more about whether it’s pretty and sparkling or not.

- Unless sleeping for a long time, he spends at the very least three hours a day admiring himself in mirrors. For this, he got a great mirror collection.