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Post by milkfeather on Jul 2, 2012 23:34:59 GMT -5
Name: Milktail
Gender: Male
Age: Young Adult
Species: Griffin
Lion Pelt Color: Snow-White Lion
Feather Color & Style: Falcon, white with a few dot-like flecks of caramel brown
Eye Color: Turquoise
Residence: Royal Rocks
Occupation: Owner and head barista of “Odio’s Coffee and Milk Bar.”
Talents, Skills: His skill at mixing milk and coffee drinks comes from years of practice as an apprentice. Give him the name of any coffee drink and he’ll fix up the most delicious version of it you’ve ever had. Also, he’s a good listener, a dear-heart, and just an all-around pleasant Griffon.
Likes: Mixing drinks, making customers happy, and helping others.
Dislikes: Bullies.
Character Personality: Milktail can be summed up in one word: amiable. After having turned around a hard life as a youth, Milktail repays the kindness shown to him by being kind with everyone. He always shows a smile on his face and a sweet attitude towards everyone he meets, and he has a soul lighter than the foam on his cappuccinos. At times he’s even too nice, willing to be friendly and helpful to anyone, including those who would take advantage of him, and he’s an easy target for bullies. Also, even if his business is suffering, he never turns down a customer, even if they have no money to pay.
Milktail is the proprietor of Odio’s Milk and Coffee bar, and is a whiz at preparing milk drinks, coffee drinks, porridge, cheese, butter, and yogurt. (He’d sell ice cream but he can’t afford to keep a freezer with that much ice.) Griffons from all around come for his coffee and stay for his barside manner. He’s always willing to listen to someone else’s troubles, and at times can offer pretty helpful advice. Beyond his kindness and skill with drink mixing, he is as naïve and innocent as a small child. Other griffons have been known to try to take him under their wing and show him the ferocity of their race, but any attempts to toughen him up have failed. Milktail’s unshaken optimism always trumps the most hardened Griffon’s cynicism.
Bio (optional) : A native of Royal Rocks, Milktail was left abandoned at a young age, and to this day does not know the identity of his parents. He spent his early days as a nameless street urchin, gaining the nickname “Milktail” since the majority of his white fur and feathers were grayed by dirt except the fur of his tailtip. Growing up, he depended on the kindness of other griffons and somehow managed to live meal to meal on the scraps given to him by others.
One day, Milktail’s hunger grew so strong that he felt forced to do the one thing he never wanted to do: steal. An elder griffon stopped to rest near the alley where Milktail slept and left behind the barrel around her neck. Milktail snatched the barrel and ran with it into his alley only to discover the barrel was full of coffee beans. Sadly, Milktail returned the barrel to its owner. The owner, a Griffon named Odio, was overjoyed she got her shipment back and as a reward, gave Milktail his first mixed coffee drink. Milktail took one sip and fell in love. Finding a kindred spirit in the young griffon Odio took him in as an apprentice and taught him everything she knew.
Then on the 18th anniversary of their meeting, Odio fell ill and was confined to her bed. For a month, Milktail ran the bar by himself and tried to nurse the aging Griffon back to health, but it was no use. As Odio began to breathe her last, Milktail confessed he had taken the barrel of coffee beans. Odio laughed in absence of last words.
In memory of Odio, Milktail has taken over Odio's Coffee and Milk Bar, and out of respect to the kindness of the Griffon who taught him everything he knows, he has made a silent promise always to treat others as kindly as he was treated by his mentor.
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Post by Stygg Whitefeather on Jul 3, 2012 8:23:18 GMT -5
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Post by milkfeather on Jul 3, 2012 8:32:18 GMT -5
Thanks. I added those details, and I appreciate the offer of the Roc. I will have to come up with a clever story about obtaining it.
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Post by Stygg Whitefeather on Jul 3, 2012 8:37:10 GMT -5
Excellent! See you in the rp!
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