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[notachickenhawk]

Player Information

Name: Matt
Personal Journal: atrypical
Age: 23
Contact Info: AIM: demony0uko, Plurk: atrypical
Other Characters Played: Ken Amada [AU1], Naoya [OU], Allelujah/Hallelujah Haptism [OU], Dark Pit [OU]

Character Information

Character Name: Tobias
Character Series: Animorphs
Character Age: 15ish mentally, physically about 13 in his human morph, physically 2-3ish in hawk form
Character Gender: Male

Original Canon
Canon Point: End of Book 43
Background Link: Tobias and all the books. How do I summarize 43 books I know at least one of you is a huge enough nerd to know the series.
Personality: Tobias used to be a shy boy, a dreamer, and an artist. He was bullied relentlessly in school, only occasionally saved by people like Jake. He felt unwanted by his aunt and uncle, and kept his head down as much as he could. He felt weak and powerless and didn't know how to change at all.

After he and the other Animorphs started fighting the war, though, he starts gaining self-confidence quickly. He learns - eventually - who his father is, though it's a pretty dramatic reveal. His uncle is revealed to be one of his fellow Animorphs, Ax, and he bonds with him quickly. Possibly most importantly, though, he develops an intense crush on Rachel. Though they don't go very far (for one the species difference, for another they're both young and also fighting a war), their relationship is one of the things that drives him.

He fights with himself, trying to moderate between human and hawk. He has trouble with the drive to survive matched with normal human desires for companionship and friendship. He comes off as aloof sometimes, even if he doesn't mean to. He has a fierce independent streak now, and doesn't want to show weakness - because in the wild if you're weak, you're killed, and his hawk brain knows it. He doesn't want to lose all his humanity, but it's a constant struggle to remember simple things like warmth and touch.

Tobias, even in human morph, possesses a strong 'predator' instinct, due to all his time in his hawk form. He also has a little trouble with human mannerisms like not staring intensely at people and using his fingers. He's still kept his human intelligence, though, and is good at practical problems and figuring out ways around things. Even if someone is 'prey', that doesn't mean he'll bully them - he still remembers what it's like to be harassed, bullied, and unwanted.

He jokes around a lot, and pretends that things are all right, but it's pretty obvious from his narration that things are never all right. Especially after he gets tortured by Taylor, a Sub-Visser in the Yeerk hierarchy, he has flashbacks and trouble dealing with the stress of what happened. It's difficult for him to deal with things like that, since not only isn't that something that he can really ask anyone about because teenage boy embarrassment, but it's also difficult because of the need to keep secrets.

He doesn't really care. He pushes through because of the predator mindset, because he doesn't really have any other options. Besides, he can't stop - everyone needs him. They're the only hope for humanity, after all.

Abilities: In his hawk form, Tobias has access to the bird's natural eyesight, hearing, flying abilities, and talons. In addition, he also has the following morphs and all the physical abilities of them:

Red-tailed hawk ('natural' form), raccoon, Hork-Bajir (Ket Halpak), human (himself), racehorse, bottlenose dolphin, hammerhead shark, fly, mole, bat, mosquito, deinonychus (unusable, Sario Rip morph), seagull, african elephant, flea, rabbit, baby seal, polar bear (Nanook), sperm whale, giant squid, chimpanzee, bull, eel, mountain goat, Andalite (Ax), orca whale (Swoosh), Nartec, honeybee, human (Taylor), Taxxon.

In theory he can acquire any being's DNA (or equivalent thereof) and morph into them.

He can only stay in a form for two hours in canon, or risk being trapped in that morph forever. Since that happened to him once already, he's not eager to have that happen again.

Sample Entry:

Test Drive Meme
Dear Mun Post