Character Base

• Character Name: Tsume
• Age: 2 in wolf years, 17 in human years.
• Canon (Date/Year Released)/Canon Point: Wolf's Rain (2003), Between Episode 26 and 27
• Items Coming Along: Nothing!
• Content Warnings for Character: Animal cruelty, apocalyptic scenario, end of the world.

Original Deerington Application

• Link to Accepted Deerington Application: Here.
• Additional Adjustments to include: In canon, Tsume is initially cold and aloof towards the ersatz pack that gets formed out of five wolves. He's snarky and rude to them, condescending, and generally unpleasant to be around. It's later revealed this is a desire not to get hurt again, for his last pack was all massacred and the survivors cast Tsume out for being a coward. But soon, through the persistence of his packmates Kiba, Hige, and Toboe, Tsume begins to open up to them. While he's still a bit gruff, he begins to protect them and honestly believe in their goal of reaching Paradise. There are several moments where he puts his pack ahead of his own desires, something he never could have done at the beginning of the series. When the wolfdog Blue joins the pack, he's able to accept her with only a small grudge held for the fact she'd hunted him and the other wolves in the past.

On the other hand, Tsume has had no good experiences with humans. A Noble named Jaguara, one of the humans that rule the entire wasteland, sent her troops out to annihilate all wolves. As a young wolf less than a year old, Tsume was traumatized and saw humans as nothing more than cold, cruel murderers. Running around with a group of humans around his own age didn't improve their standing in his eyes, for he saw how quickly they would turn on each other to save their own skin. Encountering hunters and soldiers in his pack's quest for Paradise only added to his mistrust of them. While some of his pack have had positive experiences with humans, Tsume still sees them as being scum, lower than wolves and even dogs in his eyes.

Tsume was only in Deerington for a few months before the dream ended. Still, he did grow in small ways. He learned to, if not outright cohabitate with human beings, then to at least tolerate them. He even used the safe houses that had been designed for the Sleepers when he was forced to take cover from monsters in town, which gave him a chance to safely interact with the humans without feeling it would endanger his life. To say he likes any humans now would be pushing it but he at least can be in the room now without either feeling threatened by them or feeling like he should just contemptuously ignore them. This became most evident in his interactions with some of the teenagers in town like Bella and Peter. Being (mentally) around their own age allowed him to let down some of his walls, even though he occasionally treated them less than kindly.

The presence of werewolves in town also allowed Tsume to experience human beings who could turn into wolves, the opposite of what he is. He took a shine to couple of them like Robyn and Jojen immensely, seeing them as closer to being what he is than anything else in town, and seeing it his duty to show them how to be proper wolves. This was especially evident since Tsume was lacking a pack and specifically looking for that same connection he had with his back in his home world.

Just a slight update for Tsume as he and his pack have left Jaguara's Keep and are traveling with the humans still towards where Paradise is at. This doesn't change too much about what's going on with him, it just gives him back a sense of purpose as to what he's working towards.

Deer Country Attributes

• Canon Powers: Illusion powers mostly, explained on his original app.
• Blood Type: Paleblood
• Omen: A Dusk Lycanroc Tsume honestly wouldn't trust an Omen that didn't resemble him in some way, so it'd have to look like a wolf of some kind. The Lycanroc is a wolf-like Pokemon that also has three forms: Midday, Midnight, and Dusk form. Each of the different forms has a different personality and the Dusk form resembles Tsume's most closely. To quote from the Bulbapedia: "The Dusk Form Lycanroc shares traits from the previous two forms. Its stance, calm demeanor, and loyal nature are shared with the Midday Form. However, it also shares the Midnight Form's fighting spirit, including the red, glowing eyes at the moment of attack. Due to only evolving at sunset, the Dusk Form is considered the rarest of the three forms. The Dusk Form of Lycanroc is rather difficult to train due to its temperamental nature." His name is Elatha and he doesn't talk much, preferring to let his body language reveal what he's thinking.
• Blessed Day: May 15th
• Patron Pthumerian: Bausphomette. Beyond the physical aspect of Baus appealing to Tsume in the form of a wolf Pthumerian, the idea of being true to oneself appeals greatly to the wolf's personality. Despite walking among humans, blending in with them with his power of illusion, he's never sought to be one or to even truly get along with them. He's always stayed as he truly is: a wild animal, not tamed or gentle, but vicious and independent. While Tsume stays true to himself, this doesn't mean his personality is static. He often takes opportunities to learn and grow, becoming a better person, or at the very least a different one. The personality he has when the series starts and the one he has when it ends are very different from one another. He learns to change for good from the experiences he goes through.
• Blood Power Manifestation: Tsume's blood power will unfold in the form of prophetic visions and the ability to walk through dreams. They will wax and wane with the moon, being the strongest when it is the full moon and weak to the point of being nonexistent during the new moon. The prophetic visions will often show him several different ways a scenario might unfold and Tsume will have to figure out which one is real. It will become clearer when he or the people in the visions make a definitive decision. Walking through dreams will be more straightforward and allow him to access people both during their good, bad, and nonsensical dreams.

The Player

• Player Name: Shade
• Player Age: Old (31)
• Player Contact: Light_shade or Lightshade#4738 at Discord!
• Permissions: Here.

Link to your reserve for this character: Here.

Other Characters

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Link to Character 1 overall AC: Here!
Link to Character 2 overall AC: Here!
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⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Only if he knows you well.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure! He gets into fights all the time.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: He's very gay and is really only attracted to other wolves, but I'm all for some confused flirting by people who think he's actually human.

SEXUAL CONTENT: Not likely to crop up but sure.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Let's talk about this first if anyone's trying to read his mind so I can give an idea as to what they'll find there.

MAGIC/POWERS: The detailed answers can be found in his app but the long and the short of it is that Tsume is a wolf that can cloak himself in an illusion that makes him appear human. If your character wouldn't be fooled by this for any reason, just let me know!

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Healthy considering all the times he's been shot up, with an X-shaped scar on his chest and apparently he's covered in a lot more.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: Taxidermy. Seriously, he's horrified when he comes across stuffed wolves in the series. Also the hunting of wolves.

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: I am a chronic backtagger and am happy to keep a thread going as long as I'm getting regular tags. If I'm only getting one tag a month on a thread, I'll likely drop it because it's taking too long and my motivation for it will be gone.

FOURTH WALLING: Good to go on this! I figure what's a few more issues for him to work out?

THREADHOPPING: Good with it as long as everyone in the threads are communicating!

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS/TRIGGERS: I'm not easily offended by anything.

ANYTHING ELSE:

OOC

Name:Shade
Contact: Light_shade or Lightshade #4738 at Discord
Over 18?: Yes
Other characters: N/A

IC

Name: Tsume
Canon: Wolf's Rain
Canonpoint: Episode 26
Background: Link!

Personality: -Loyal. Tsume's loyalty is not easily gained. It takes a lot of time for him to see his fellow wolves as his pack, but once he does, he will do whatever he can to protect them. For those younger or weaker than he is, like Toboe and Cheza, he shows a soft spot, willing to do whatever he can to make sure they're alright.
-Cynical. Tsume is definitely the most disbelieving of the wolves when it comes to Paradise. Where Kiba is a blind zealot, Tsume questions this belief at every turn, always the one to ask why they're heading towards a place that might not even exist.
-Loner. Tsume first and foremost tries to push everyone away. He feels that the only way he can keep from getting hurt is by keeping everyone at arm's length. He's often lonely, but he feels this is better than opening his heart, and possibly ending up with it broken.
-Sarcastic. He always has a smartass or sharp comment ready at every turn. Usually, it's at the expense of someone else, so that he further distance himself by making fun of them, and therefore not having to care about them.
-Emotional. Beneath the gruff, sarcastic surface, Tsume actually feels things very deeply. He holds onto things for a long time, such as considering himself a coward long after he's proven in the present that he's not. Losing one of his packmates at the end of the series emotionally devastates to the point where he starts crying, something he's shown at no other point doing.
-Grudge-holding. Tsume holds other people to as high a standard as he does, and if they wrong him, he doesn't easily forgive. Blue hunts him when she still considers herself a dog and he's the least forgiving when she joins the pack. Even though he was brainwashed at the time, he still is the most angry with and refuses to let go of the fact Hige unknowningly betrayed them all.

Abilities: -Human illusion: The greatest power that wolves possess is the ability to project the illusion of a human being. The illusion resembles a human being entirely except for scent, and while it does age as the wolf ages, the clothing they seem to wear never changes. Since this is only an illusion, physical signs and limitations still remain. Any injuries sustained in their wolf form reflect on their human illusion. Paw prints remain in the ground, shadows and reflections in mirrors show a wolf rather than an animal, and any attempt made by Tsume to touch someone results in them feeling teeth rather than a hand. It is shown at certain points that certain parts of the wolf bleed through the illusion when the wolf is feeling emotional, as Tsume is shown at several points in the series to be possessing sharp, wolf-like teeth when upset or distressed rather than his human ones.

Certain people can see through this, usually those who have put their minds into another state. Those who have consumed enough alcohol, those who have a mental illness which affects the way they perceive things like dementia, and people who have gotten a physical brain injury like a concussion. It's shown that people specifically looking for wolves have a greater chance of being able to see through the illusion, but this requires a great deal of concentration, and doesn't always work.

-Communication: The wolves in the show are shown to have a form of one-way projected telepathy to communicate with humans and other animals. They can use it even if their mouth is physically occupied.

-Animal communication: Building off the above, it's shown that they can communicate with all animals in the show, including ravens, owls, horses, and cats.

-Moon powers: The wolves are linked closely to the moon and have some abilities connected to them. They have an almost innate sense of finding lunar flowers, able to scent them even secondhand off a human being. They also can use the moon's light to keep themselves from getting hungry, able to do this for up to a month if they bask every night.

Personal items: He doesn't have anything on him.

Samples: Log thread
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