Post by zachariastessaro on Dec 30, 2009 20:17:40 GMT -5
»First Threads
Name: Zacharias Tessaro (Calvin Bachman)
Nickname: Zach
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Birthday: May Seventeen
Species: Shifter
Appearance
Hair: Medium Length brown hair, center parted
Eyes: Green
Complextion: Mildly swarthy
Build: Broad shoulders and chest, but narrowed very sharply to the waist and hips, long limbs and corded muscles
Attire: Neat and well fitted trousers and shirts, calf high, worn brown boots with a tightening leather wrap strap
Vocals: Think Christan Bale (but not guttural Batman)
The Loom
Personality: A carefree spirit for the most part, Zacharias has no qualms about turning tail if there's no one to see, but in the presence of others, he tries to be calm and heroic, sometimes to the point of foolhardiness. In particular, he would do anything a woman with child asked him to, with complete dedication.
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Strengths: Dexterous hands and good eyesight (though nothing preternatural), strong enough to lift the average person, and something of a wizard with a needle or loom
Weaknesses: His willingness to assist pregnant women could lead him to trouble or danger though it hasn't yet.
Abilities
Active: None
Passive: Shifting
Weapons: For self defense he carries two Torpedo darts, which are a foot and a half in length, pointed at both ends, but only half an inch in diameter in the center, used for throwing, stabbing, or as effective clubs being about 2 lbs each
Animal Form: A rat
History: Born as Calvin Bachman into an arranged marriage between a weaver and a merchant's son, Zacharias is the oldest of three, and the most gifted with his mother's skill with thread and needle and loom while both his younger sister's are more inclined towards their grandfather's business sense. Money was always tight because the family had high competition in the area, but they always had the finest outfits to disguise their troubles.
When he was seventeen Zacharias left against his mother's protests, knowing his work would never flourish in a city of so many weavers, silk dyers, tailors and seamstresses.
He wandered for a year before settling in a port town called Nusquam, befriending a young woman named Clara who was a dyer. They set up shop together and she possessed all the sensibilities for running a business that he had lacked, laying dormant as he spent more time with his mother than his grandfather. They were best friends for ten years and their income was stable and comfortable for two people. Zacharias never got in trouble for the attention he paid to women with child simply because people generally assume he is very courteous and nothing more.
This changed when Clara became pregnant and even to preserve their friendship Zacharias could not resist his desires. So after a year he left what had become his home and visited his family, only to discover both of his sisters married and expecting. Distraught by his own perversions, he left again until, seven months ago he sailed into Exodus Town. He changed his name and set aside his life long craft for a long time, working at the docks for barely livable wages until he could live with himself again. Now he is working his way back into threadwork, his great love.
Living in lower class housing with his family, the only place he and his mother could work their weaving undisturbed was the basement, where all the rats were, and Zacharias has a natural ability to focus to the exclusion of all outside stimuli. When he couldn't sleep he would weave in a meditative state until morning came and he felt as rested as if he'd slept but yards of work had been accomplished. When he was thirteen he decided that would be the safest place to experiment with his maturing body parts, which fortunately for him he was right as just before he climaxed he transformed into a rat. It didn't last, but it scared him badly, though it didn't keep him from trying again and again, the end result always the same, so he learned to hold it off as long as possible. By the time he was thirty he learned how to shift without requiring sexual gratification, but whenever he did get some he still shifted.
Family:
»The Tapestry
