nightelf37: Since I asked for it, I'm getting a third entry from LeviathanTamer after so long, not that I mind. And like the second entry from him, it explicitly connects to another profile.


Fictional Work: Mayan Mythology

Character: Acat

Name: Acat

(According to LeviathanTamer: "I can NOT find anything that works. This is the problem with dealing in a single dead language. I can't reuse words and there's only a set amount of colors, no hues or shades, in this language, none of which fit. Heck I can't even find the words for what could represent him. Even then they wouldn't be pretty Skin Carver, Flesh Knife... this guy is only the God of Tattoos for crying out loud! There aren't even sacrifices made in his name, just prayers before tattooing someone!")

Gender: Male

Backstory: Acat was from a relatively small tribe. One that only JUST survives by hunting. Within this tribe, there was a kid who was 14 years of age and had but two skills; 1) he was an excellent carver, and 2) he was a tattooist, which was made evident by the amount of people in his village with such beautiful body markings. One day, a warrior came across the village and wondered who could have such skills. When the villagers led him to the kid, the man commissioned him in making a God Tattoo, which was a tattoo created using Dust-infused ink. The kid complied without hesitation, and worked on the warrior for three days. When he was done, the man had a-full body tattoo of a raging torrent of water, with lightning coursing through it. The man was impressed, revealed himself to be the current incarnation of Chaac, and that he was going around looking for the current incarnations of the different deities. He believed he just found the current incarnation of Acat, and thus the boy was renamed to Acat, and the village people were integrated into the Temple City, while Acat was to be trained to utilize his skills for the tribes. A few years later, the Kingdoms found the tribes and Acat was sent with Quetzalcoatl, Xolotl, and one other to Beacon Academy as part of the exchange program.

Appearance: Acat is a 17-year-old human with light brown skin. Due to his fighting style, he bares as much skin as is socially permitted, wearing only shorts to preserve modesty (as loincloths are inappropriate), and is barefoot most of the time, wearing wooden sandals only when walking with no footwear is prohibited (e.g. Beacon hallways).

(Sorry, LeviathanTamer, but I personally don't think being barefoot all the time is a good idea. I at least stated in Milla's profile that it was against academy regulations—though that could easily be just Haven Academy and not Beacon—to go barefoot. I mean, Qutezalcoatl does wear sandals, and it's safe for me to assume that Xolotl does too.)

He is slim but well-muscled, not to mention bald. However, what everybody notices first are the numerous tattoos covering his entire body. Some of these tattoos are colored, while others are just lines. The tattoos depict the classical Dust elements, animals, and even a couple weapons, yet oddly enough these tattoos occasionally change completely.

Personality: Acat's a friendly person, but he does tend to drift off and go back to his ever-constant task of working on his own tattoos or someone else's. When questioned about tattooing, he becomes like a very enthusiastic teacher and may end up answering 10 different questions that they never had known about tattoos. The best way to anger him is to constantly try to disrupt his work, though that is thankfully(?) nigh-impossible; only outright attacking him and things more severe than that count as "bothering him".

Weapon: Acat carries around a satchel filled with different inks and cartridges of Dust as well as a single sharp knife with a tip no bigger than an Exacto (X-acto) Knife and several wood carvings. This is because the tattoos on his body are his weapons, the elemental ones in particular, which can unleash the equivalent of several Dust crystals.

Semblance: Acat has the rather peculiar ability to make his art come to life. This is why he carries around carvings and tattoos of animals onto his body. The more detailed the work is, the more stable it is. Also, what the art medium is affects it. As such, the carvings can come to life and become full-sized and his tattoos can remove themselves from his body, which frees up room for more tattoos. Anything brought to life this way only has a set amount of time before dissipating. This Semblance only works if Acat himself does the drawing.

Fighting Style: Summoner/Mage. Acat stands by in the rear and lets his tattoos of various animals and monsters fight for him while attacking anything that gets close with his elemental tattoos. Since he can't exactly carve more tattoos in the middle of a fight, he spends his spare time making more and more tattoos.

Hobbies/Interests: Tattoos and Carving were his life in Deep Menagerie. But now that he has the time, some people have been seeing him sculpting. Those that have seen his art fight wonder if this means he will be getting some permanent pets.

Dislikes: Amateur Artists who make no attempts to improve themselves, people that manage to disrupt his work, and—surprisingly enough—Dust. He complains about how it doesn't mix with ink all that well, so he has to spend days making batches of Ink Dust. This has led to him intensely disliking Dust in any form, despite the fact that he must use it himself.


nightelf37: Paradox, don't rush me. Hiccup's in the queue. Dio Brando, who's Dio Brando?

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