[App] I'm a shaaaaaaark
Character: Ed'Rashtekaresket (aka Ed)
Series: Young Wizards
Age: Older than Atlantis, the hills, and YOUR MOM (10,000+ years old at least)
Job: Distress Call Response Team (of one)
Canon: Young Wizards is...a series about young wizards, who save the universe by staving off entropy and the Lone Power (aka Satan) with wizardry performed by using a special language that all things can understand. Because of the lack of a language barrier, Young Wizards also has a reputation of employing a lot of non-human characters. Ed is one such character. And the first and most important thing you'll notice about Ed upon meeting him is that he is a shark; literally over 90 feet--two and a half full-length buses--of bone-pale Great White Shark. This is, of course, not all that there is to him. Nita and Kit, the main characters early in the series, travel to the bottom of the ocean in order to perform an intervention. And Ed, it turns out, is one of twelve key elements of the Sea's version of the story of Original Sin, that whale-wizards representing various 'Masteries' must periodically reenact to keep the Lone Power sealed in the bottom of the Atlantic.
Although Ed himself is not a wizard, as a participant in the Song of Twelve he has still been given a 'Mastery.' As Master Shark (kind of like the king of sharks), greatest of his Mastery, he takes plenty of pleasure in doing his job--that is, ending distress. It's understood by all creatures in the Sea that showing distress (fear, anger, pain, any number of sufferings) around Ed is basically offering themselves up as a meal. With a role like that, one might expect Ed's personality to be gruesome or sadistic, but that isn't the case. Pain is, to him, a fact of life, and it's not the pain of others that he enjoys but the act of performing his function well--sharks are made to be predators after all. Shark though he is, he doesn't kill mindlessly; those who can "cast out fear" have nothing to fear from him. Aside from the sense of hunger that hovers around him, one gets the impression that he is observant and intelligent, courteous but confident, with a cool, dry sense of humor. His long years of life have left him somewhat distant and emotionless. But a good deal of that is also to do with his philosophies; one who's job is to end distress obviously shouldn't feel distress himself. A pragmatic and realistic creature, he tends only to believe in things that can be experienced, though he doesn't deny that others may believe in more metaphysical things.
Note to the canon-familiar: I'll be taking Ed from the end of the book and thus assuming he.. doesn't have to breathe. And is somehow free to swim around as he pleases.
Sample:
Well met, young denizens of Camp Fuck You Die. Though I am familiar with many human harbors, it should be no surprise that this is the first time I've had the opportunity and ability to swim on the Land, ocean-bound as I normally am. It seems to me this place isn't as impressive as the High and Dry, your city of 'Manhattan'. But it's only sensible that not all human colonies are as large as that place. Yet even here humans have gathered in such numbers. I find it odd. There are no large, thinking creatures in the Sea foolish enough to form pods or schools with as many members as are found here... After all, such great gatherings would make them simple for the hungry to find. And in the open water it would be difficult to know if a straggler in a group of that size were to...well, go missing, for example.
Though perhaps it isn't the size of the population you should be looking to. The amount of distress I sense from some here would be more than enough to bring many of those under my Mastery swimming, were they around... Again your practices is different from the creatures of the Sea: the whales spend much of their time singing, but rarely so self-indulgently about their pain and suffering. For some of you it seems even the body becomes a medium for expressing these songs of distress. Why do you mark yourselves with black things and part the hair in such a way as to obscure your sight? To purposefully distinguish yourself so, for no other purpose than to announce your suffering...humans have too much to distract them from simply surviving. Can it be that humans, without natural enemies, believe that putting on displays of distress in this way does not put them in danger?
Oh, but it seems I have neglected my introductions. Naturally as creatures of the Land you aren't aware of the specific danger you're in when you show your pain recklessly before me. I am Ed'Rashtekaresket, known by all who swim as the Master Shark and the Pale Slayer, the one over whom no Power in the Sea or above it has Mastery. I and those species under my Mastery are summoned by distress, our senses tuned to pain. In the Sea, distress, after all, is a sign of sickness or weakness; easy prey, in other words. So you can see why I can't help but note how much suffering can be sensed here. And even humans should know enough about sharks to understand that if you go about believing--how does the song go...? "These wounds they will not heal," was the line, wasn't it? Well, it should be obvious that such sentiments are the equivalent of, I believe the term is 'chumming the waters,' luring with the scent of blood.
Having heard all that I've said, I warn you only once more: beware your unfettered emotions, young ones, lest I be forced to cut this conversation short before it has truly begun. It would be a simple matter for me to devour two or three of you at a time, as if you were mere sea bass. Now that you know what you do, answer me this, young ones... Is your pain done?
If you can claim still to be sad and alone, I would gladly see to it that your distress is, shall we say...put to rest.
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Voting | 98.3% | 58 In 1 Out
Series: Young Wizards
Age: Older than Atlantis, the hills, and YOUR MOM (10,000+ years old at least)
Job: Distress Call Response Team (of one)
Canon: Young Wizards is...a series about young wizards, who save the universe by staving off entropy and the Lone Power (aka Satan) with wizardry performed by using a special language that all things can understand. Because of the lack of a language barrier, Young Wizards also has a reputation of employing a lot of non-human characters. Ed is one such character. And the first and most important thing you'll notice about Ed upon meeting him is that he is a shark; literally over 90 feet--two and a half full-length buses--of bone-pale Great White Shark. This is, of course, not all that there is to him. Nita and Kit, the main characters early in the series, travel to the bottom of the ocean in order to perform an intervention. And Ed, it turns out, is one of twelve key elements of the Sea's version of the story of Original Sin, that whale-wizards representing various 'Masteries' must periodically reenact to keep the Lone Power sealed in the bottom of the Atlantic.
Although Ed himself is not a wizard, as a participant in the Song of Twelve he has still been given a 'Mastery.' As Master Shark (kind of like the king of sharks), greatest of his Mastery, he takes plenty of pleasure in doing his job--that is, ending distress. It's understood by all creatures in the Sea that showing distress (fear, anger, pain, any number of sufferings) around Ed is basically offering themselves up as a meal. With a role like that, one might expect Ed's personality to be gruesome or sadistic, but that isn't the case. Pain is, to him, a fact of life, and it's not the pain of others that he enjoys but the act of performing his function well--sharks are made to be predators after all. Shark though he is, he doesn't kill mindlessly; those who can "cast out fear" have nothing to fear from him. Aside from the sense of hunger that hovers around him, one gets the impression that he is observant and intelligent, courteous but confident, with a cool, dry sense of humor. His long years of life have left him somewhat distant and emotionless. But a good deal of that is also to do with his philosophies; one who's job is to end distress obviously shouldn't feel distress himself. A pragmatic and realistic creature, he tends only to believe in things that can be experienced, though he doesn't deny that others may believe in more metaphysical things.
Note to the canon-familiar: I'll be taking Ed from the end of the book and thus assuming he.. doesn't have to breathe. And is somehow free to swim around as he pleases.
Sample:
Well met, young denizens of Camp Fuck You Die. Though I am familiar with many human harbors, it should be no surprise that this is the first time I've had the opportunity and ability to swim on the Land, ocean-bound as I normally am. It seems to me this place isn't as impressive as the High and Dry, your city of 'Manhattan'. But it's only sensible that not all human colonies are as large as that place. Yet even here humans have gathered in such numbers. I find it odd. There are no large, thinking creatures in the Sea foolish enough to form pods or schools with as many members as are found here... After all, such great gatherings would make them simple for the hungry to find. And in the open water it would be difficult to know if a straggler in a group of that size were to...well, go missing, for example.
Though perhaps it isn't the size of the population you should be looking to. The amount of distress I sense from some here would be more than enough to bring many of those under my Mastery swimming, were they around... Again your practices is different from the creatures of the Sea: the whales spend much of their time singing, but rarely so self-indulgently about their pain and suffering. For some of you it seems even the body becomes a medium for expressing these songs of distress. Why do you mark yourselves with black things and part the hair in such a way as to obscure your sight? To purposefully distinguish yourself so, for no other purpose than to announce your suffering...humans have too much to distract them from simply surviving. Can it be that humans, without natural enemies, believe that putting on displays of distress in this way does not put them in danger?
Oh, but it seems I have neglected my introductions. Naturally as creatures of the Land you aren't aware of the specific danger you're in when you show your pain recklessly before me. I am Ed'Rashtekaresket, known by all who swim as the Master Shark and the Pale Slayer, the one over whom no Power in the Sea or above it has Mastery. I and those species under my Mastery are summoned by distress, our senses tuned to pain. In the Sea, distress, after all, is a sign of sickness or weakness; easy prey, in other words. So you can see why I can't help but note how much suffering can be sensed here. And even humans should know enough about sharks to understand that if you go about believing--how does the song go...? "These wounds they will not heal," was the line, wasn't it? Well, it should be obvious that such sentiments are the equivalent of, I believe the term is 'chumming the waters,' luring with the scent of blood.
Having heard all that I've said, I warn you only once more: beware your unfettered emotions, young ones, lest I be forced to cut this conversation short before it has truly begun. It would be a simple matter for me to devour two or three of you at a time, as if you were mere sea bass. Now that you know what you do, answer me this, young ones... Is your pain done?
If you can claim still to be sad and alone, I would gladly see to it that your distress is, shall we say...put to rest.
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Voting | 98.3% | 58 In 1 Out