kievan rus. (wip)

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Name: Kievan Rus.
Age: Four years.
Gender: Male.
Sexuality: Bisexual.

Base Color: Kievan is a relatively bland wolf in terms of coat color. His pelt is a smattering of grays, whites, blacks, browns, and tans like most regular gray wolves. He does have a distinct golden undercoat, though it only shows along his sides.
Mutation(s): Kievan possesses the ability to convert radiation into usable energy in a process similar to the photosynthesis of plants. Due to the constant source of never-ending energy, rest is unnecessary. He can essentially run, fight, hunt, etc without ever growing tired.
Markings: Like a saddle, a faint golden trident rests on Kiev's back. The color of the marking matches his golden flanks where his undercoat shines through. The marking, oddly enough, resembles the Ukrainian Tryzub.
Eye Color: Both of Kiev's eyes are a brilliant yellow-gold, mixing the regular yellow eyes of a wolf with the striking gold of his trident-shaped marking and his colored sides.

Defects: No wolf's brain, nor any other creature's at that, is built to stay awake forever. Ki's mutation makes it so that sleep is unnecessary for his body to function. The continuous processing of information, new and old, conscious and automatic, that his mutation forces his brain to endure keeps Kiev's mind reeling. Without valuable REM sleep, Kiev's mind simply isn't built to handle what his body can. Because of this condition, Kievan suffers gaps in his memories, irritability, irrationality, and hallucinations. Ranging from walking trees to talking rocks and twisted monsters in the shadows, Kievan's mind has become a broken and shattered Wonderland. His fragmented mind has created a truly mad hatter.

Personality: Kievan's original personality remains unknown since the only time it really shows is after he sleeps (which is exceedingly rare). Because of the stress on his mind, and the lack of REM sleep, he suffers multiple mental afflictions that have altered and contorted his personality into a confusing cocktail of quirks. While Kievan can suffer mood swings, they are relatively rare in comparison to his hallucinations. Ki often becomes lost in his own world and, in his mind, could live a day in a matter of minutes. Such is his life. Because of this, many automatically assume he is crazed and dimwitted, but his visions and the things he says during always have hidden meanings, betraying a hidden intelligence. What Kievan lacks in physical power, his brain makes up for with an analytical mind that can work out even the most complex problems, making him a brilliant strategist and organizer... If one can deal with his insanity long enough to realize it.

Having have lived a very confusing and disorientating life, Ki is attracted to others for company, as they help ground his mind and keep him in the real world. Since he grew up on his own, he lacks some social know-how and is prone to say things incredibly blunt or rude without the intention of offending. It's only through instinct that he ever grew to understand relationships, especially purely physical ones. One of the things that best keeps him sane, as it is one of the few times he let's his guard down enough to cease using his mutation, is mating. Most males mate to carry on the line or to show love, but to Kievan, it is a game of how much he can tire himself out and finally get some rest, which helps to keep him sane for a few days afterward. No matter what he's tried however, nothing is the sure fix for his broken mentality that he's searching for. The only thing that truly scares this brute is the thought of being trapped in his hallucinations, permanently dreaming, but never sleeping. The one recurring obsession of his is finding his pillar of support. His great escape. His cure.

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