Jul 2, 2019 20:31:10 GMT
Post by Hiccup on Jul 2, 2019 20:31:10 GMT
MOUSE, The Royal Tailor
[Name] Mouse
[Nickname] Weirdo, Creep, Stalker
[Age] 20
[Pronouns] He/Him
[Affiliation] Sohai
[Rank/Occupation] Mouse serves as the Royal Tailor and occasional whisperer.
[Alignment] Neutral Good
[Dragon] If applicable, who is their dragon?
[Personality]
Mouse is a young man of very few words, just as his name suggests, he tends to be very quiet and soft spoken when he does use his voice, but he usually wont unless he has to. He is cripplingly shy, to the point where it is incredibly rare to see him out and about during the daylight hours when everyone is awake. He would much rather wander the halls and go about his business under the cover of night, when no one is around to talk to him or acknowledge him. He likes to blend in, though he isn't even remotely unfriendly, in fact he loves to make friends, his method of making friends is simply somewhat...Outlandish.
Aside from being an incredibly gifted tailor, he has become very proficient in the art of dollmaking, but rather than whimsical dolls or creatures or imaginary beings...Mouse makes dolls of people, people he's met. When a new face is seen around the palace, Mouse will spend several nights and some days watching them, taking in every detail of their person, so that he can affectionately recreate them in the form of a lovingly made doll. People he's especially fond of he'll usually keep, but for the most part he tends to leave them on pillows in the night as a gift to his new friends. People who know Mouse well know that he means no harm in this compulsion, but newcomers tend to find the squirrely little man unsettling in the way he stared and doesn't speak, some even going so far as to accuse him of some form of voodoo curse.
Mouse knows the palace like the back of his hand, he knows every nook and cranny, every secret tunnel and hidden passage. It's this knowledge that allows him to move about the palace completely unseen, leaving some to wonder if the small tailor even exists. He is very quiet and unintentionally good at sneaking, which has also earned him the title of Whisperer, not a lot goes on in the palace that Mouse doesn't know about, and he trusts Ashriji enough to willingly report anything he hears to her. She is likely the only person who has ever seen or spoken to him at length, and the only person he truly trusts.
[Backstory]
No one is entirely sure where Mouse came from, even he doesn't entirely remember his life before Sohai, but a missing eye hidden by scruffy hair tells a rather grim story for the unfortunate boy. In reality, Mouse was once the son of a travelling merchant's guild, massacred by raiders en route to Sohai. Mouse was badly wounded in the event and left for dead in the desert, where he would be picked up and brought to his new home. He lost much of his memory due to his injury, and suffered quite a bit of brain damage in the process, the most likely cause for his somewhat naive and innocent behavior. He was a master with his hands though when it came to designing clothes, and his talents eventually caught the eye of Ashriji, where he was given a place of comfort and security in her court as the Royal Tailor.