Tobias [Animorphs]

077 - Kaishi Paper “Ten-Act Poem”

Washi paper made by a first-rate craftsman. You carry it around in your pocket and use it to keep your mouth clean. - Given to Ginti

022 - Apron Dress

Clothing typical for a maid. When one wears this dress, it appears at a glance that they cannot defy their master, but in fact they’re capable of controlling said master.

009 - Chocolate-Chip Jerky

Smoked meat covered with chocolate chips. It was created as a non-perishable food by a chef who specialized in unusual food combinations. It’s not a combination you’d really want to make. - Given to Chie

053 - Lilienthal’s Wings

A hang glider model left by the aviation engineer Lilienthal. It’s filled with the dreams of humans who gazed up at the sky.

011 - Gugelhupf

A cake known for being favored by Marie Antoinette. Its name is said to mean “priest’s hat”.

073 - Moon Rock

A rock brought back from the Apollo moon landing. The composition of moon rocks varies based on where they’re taken from. This rock was taken from Mare Insularum (the Sea of Islands).

015 - Viva Ice

Strawberry-flavored shaved ice. The spoon has a lotto draw on it, and if you draw a winning one, you get another one free of charge.

042 - Ultimate Masseuse Tome

A scroll with the 708 acupuncture points of the human body inscribed in it. Any person who comprehends this can become the ultimate masseur.

081 - Star Sand

A small bottle of star sand that’s said to bring you happiness just by having it. It’s called sand, but it’s not actually rock. It’s the husks of small undersea creatures.

084 - Fishing Rod Pen

A fishing rod made so that you can have fun fishing anywhere, anytime. It can shrink down to the size of a ballpoint pen, leaving you free to carry it around.

072 - Water Flute

A flute that makes a small birdsong-like sound when you pour water into the container and blow into the pipe.

034 - Super Chinchilla Upholstery

A furry seat cover that shines a violent shade of red. Its refinement is as appropriate as possible.

WANTED ITEM: Chocolate Milkshake

This milkshake is super thick and chocolatey. It comes complete with whipped cream and a cherry on top. - DRANK

081 - Star Sand

A small bottle of star sand that’s said to bring you happiness just by having it. It’s called sand, but it’s not actually rock. It’s the husks of small undersea creatures.

037 - Palmerian Jewelry

A pendant with a palm tree motif. On a faraway island, these are traditionally passed down from parent to child, and from child to grandchild.

026 - Roller Slippers

Slippers with wheels in the heels. They were invented so that one could move around comfortably in their own home, even though nobody ever asked for such a thing.

087 - Absolute Tuning Fork

A huge tuning fork that hides the power to destroy the entire world with resonance, if used by someone who has mastered the art of tuning. It’s also good for drying out laundry.

030 - Blueberry Solid Gold

A popular brand of bracelet, made from pure gold. A product from a long-standing store loved by both men and women. Its brightness and sense of quality will get you 10% more attention.

098 - In-Vitro Rose

A rose in a test tube; very suitable for sending to someone as a gift. In the language of flowers, red roses mean “love”.

041 - Cherry Blossom Bouquet

A bouquet of cherry tree branches. In the language of flowers, cherry blossoms mean “an exquisite beauty”.

089 - Sacred Sandstorm Horn

A horn from a mysterious living creature. It’s been cut off partway through. It's said that whoever possesses this horn will be able to sense the wind.

028 - Half Safety Boots

Half-shoes that only cover your toes. Like safety boots, though, there’s an iron plate on the front of them.

067 - Vibrating Kokeshi

A round-headed kokeshi doll that begins to vibrate uncontrollably when you press the switch on the bottom. It looks sort of like a children’s toy, but who knows how you’re supposed to use the thing.

019 - Crane & Tortoise Diamond

A diamond ring that embodies the Platonic ideal of engagement rings. However, this is a glass replica.

069 - Vise

A tool to tightly clamp objects such as iron in place for processing. Even just the name gives a sense of overwhelming power.

WANTED ITEM: Bird Sweater

This sweater is crafted to be a perfect fit for a red-tailed hawk. It has holes for the wings and isn’t too restrictive. It’s light green with large, white stripes.

017 - Eternal Friendship Bracelet

A handmade bracelet made by weaving several threads together. They say that if you create one once, you can never cut it again.

003 - Coconut Water

Water that collected inside of a coconut. It’s clear as water and refreshingly sweet.

082 - Japanese Tea Cup

A Japanese tea cup from the Royal Wood luxury brand. It’s said that when you use this tableware, even ordinary water feels sweet.

032 - Silver Ring

A ring made of very pure silver. There’s a naturally-occurring pink tourmaline set into the back. If you don’t know what to present someone with, give them this.

083 - Front-Back Ukelele

Apparently, this is a kind of string instrument from a southern country. It has strings across both sides, and each side has a different sound. The front makes a very bright and light sound, while the back makes a very dark and heavy sound.


065 - Shwip-On Bracelets

Toys that normally stick straight out like a ruler, but wrap around your arm with a ‘shwip!’ when you hit your arm with them.

021 - Pure-Color Ragged Jeans

Ragged jeans that belonged to a detective whose strong sense of justice led him to bark at the sun. They’re very specifically ragged jeans. They’re frayed here and there.

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Player Name: Chi
Player Journal: winterbolt
Age: 19
Contact: winterbolt | AIM: winterbolts
Characters Played: N/A

IN CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Tobias “Fangor”
Canon: Animorphs (OU), Dangan Roleplay (CRAU)
OU/AU/OC: AU
Canon Point: Post Book 23, The Pretender + Post-murder in Dangan Roleplay
History: Tobias on Seerowpedia!

In the midst of Book 3, The Encounter, Tobias was dragged to Hope’s Peak Academy by forces unknown to participate in a “School Life of Mutual Killing” along with 29 other students. For the first three weeks, Tobias had no memories of having his morphing abilities, and therefore spent his days living as a hawk. On the fourth week he regained that memory and had the ability to shift between five different forms: hawk (his normal form, his real body), human, hork-bajir, raccoon, rabbit, and bat.

Tobias grew close with many of the students, the most notable being Elfangor (whom he knew before arriving at Hope’s Peak, and I’ll elaborate on that further later), Schuldig, and Anna. He was also close with Professor Sycamore and Lysandre, and they gave him PokePuffs to survive off of since he rarely had any appetite for raw meat (and even rarer still were the times when he got actual live mice to eat from the Monomono Machine.) Schuldig in particular was an especially important figure for Tobias, and following the Monkey Fever motive of week 4 (which resulted in Schuldig becoming deaf and Tobias becoming blind) the two lived together and functioned as a unit to keep each other safe during the week.

During week 5 (on Father’s Day no less) Sycamore gave Elfangor the letter that had been meant for Tobias, stating that the alien Prince was Tobias’ father. Elfangor met with Tobias later that day and told him the truth in the words of the letter, and the boy was both overwhelmed and overjoyed to hear that he actually had his father with him, alive and well. …At least, for now.
Five days later, early Friday morning, Tobias went for a walk to practice walking in his human morph, while Elfangor went to one of the Greenhouses to graze. He thought he was alone on the third floor, but in fact wasn’t and had been spotted by one of his fellow students, Jay Sasser. Jay Sasser intended to murder someone, and Tobias was the first person he saw- weak enough, he assumed, to not fight back.

Jay attempted to choke Tobias to death with a length of rope, but Tobias was able to get enough leverage to push his attacker away. Jay pulled out a knife and stabbed Tobias in the abdomen, forcing him to run away and try to demorph. Morphing heals injuries, so Tobias assumed that if he could get into something big to protect himself, he would be okay. Meanwhile, he yelled for Elfangor’s help in thought-speak (a form of speech used in morph like telepathy) before ducking into the Physics Lab.

He demorphed into hawk, but unfortunately Jay caught up with him and shut them both inside the Lab. After getting a few good hits in with his talons, Tobias was struck down by Jay after he threw his knife and it stabbed him through the wing. Seconds before Elfangor arrived on the scene, Jay grabbed Tobias and broke his neck, killing him instantly.

Personality:

Tobias is often called a dreamer, and his imagination is vast. He grew up in a pretty terrible family situation with an aunt and uncle who didn’t care about him, both content to simply ship him off to the other whenever they possibly could. Tobias never had many friends at school and was actually bullied pretty severely on a regular basis. The only friends in the world he could ever claim to have after becoming a nothlit (someone who has been permanently trapped in morph) are the other Animorphs.

Being a nothlit has its advantages and disadvantages. Tobias is the designated lookout for the group, using his powers of flight, impeccable vision, and super hawk hearing to keep a look out for danger when they’re having meetings or are on missions. He seems to be quick to adapt to his new lifestyle in some ways, using his abilities to lookout for secret Yeerk Pool entrances. Beyond being more powerful physically than he ever was as a normal human kid, it’s clear that becoming a hawk has actually aided in making Tobias a stronger, more independent person. Hawks are loners- they can’t rely on others to help them or they would never survive, as if they would want to. Tobias effectively transitions from a sweet, quiet boy who is a constant bully target, to a steely predator with a permanent scowl.

While Tobias now shares the instincts of the hawk, he is still a kid. A kid who has been forcefully thrown into an intergalactic war that none of them ever asked for. He was the first to ever use the morping powers, and he loved it. He was also pressing the hardest to join the fight to stop the Yeerks, refusing to let Elfangor’s death be in vain. It is impressive the amount of wherewithal that Tobias seems to have despite his shortcomings. He’s driven and determined to do whatever it takes to wipe the parasites from the planet they call home.

Tobias’ time in DRP has changed him for the better, whether he realizes it or not. He came into this place in the midst of a full blown identity crisis. For several weeks, he would barely eat, nearly starving himself to the point of having to be forced to eat something. But seeing the way people were dying all around him gave Tobias a real kick in the pants, so to speak. He was forced to figure himself out quickly to avoid complications in the future, especially since he knew that- being the only student that was a bird- he would be the easiest target if someone wanted to try to kill. All they would need to do would be to lock him in a room and he would be done for. He had to be careful with who he trusted, and a single mistake in the end ultimately took his life.

Strengths:

Upon meeting Tobias and his friends in the abandoned construction site, Prince Elfangor broke the law of his own people and gave the children something no creature other than Andalites could ever possess- the power to morph. The power to transform into any animal that they can touch. The same is true with Tobias. Though he remained in his hawk morph for longer than two hours and became trapped as a nothlit, a mysterious being known as the Ellimist gave Tobias back his morphing powers. He even bent time in such a way that Tobias was able to acquire the DNA of his former human self. The catch is the fact that Tobias’s true body is now his hawk body, resulting in him having to remain in his hawk body to acquire animals’ DNA. If Tobias morphed into his human form and remained that way for 2 hours, he would be permanently human…unable to morph ever again. Though Tobias is a lot more quiet and reserved than the rest of the kids, he’s driven to fight just as much as any of them. Heck, he’s suffered more thanks to the Yeerk invasion than anyone else, full stop. He also has nothing to lose, making him a perfect candidate for the resistance.

As far as MLJ is concerned, the morphing rules would still apply. The limit is two hours, lest he risk being permanently stuck in that form. (Though here, it would probably result in just an automatic forced demorph.) Tobias has a personal rule about acquiring the DNA of any person, so he won’t be going around acquiring other ponies or Equestrians any time soon. However, it also might be difficult for him to find animals that aren’t sentient here…

Weaknesses:

Being a nothlit is a huge burden on Tobias that none of his friends will likely ever be able to understand. He feels a sense of alienation with them during the time prior to getting his morphing returned by the Ellimist, constantly frustrated that he can’t join the others on most of their missions due to his handicap. Tobias struggles with his identity as the line between human and hawk becomes blurred. While he does eventually come to embrace his new, forced lifestyle, there is always a voice in the back of his head asking “what if?” And it’s not as easy as just morphing back into a human for two hours and becoming stuck permanently in that form. To do so would mean to relinquish his powers, taking him out of the fight for Earth. He assumes he would likely lose the only friends he has in the world, including Rachel, though she claims otherwise. How could they continue to be friends with him when his very existence is a threat to their cause? The answer: he couldn’t.

It should be noted that since Tobias was murdered before he arrives in Equestria, he will have some issues regarding exactly what happened to him. Being a predatory bird, he is already adverse to being touched, but someone trying to reach for him- particularly anywhere near his neck- has the potential to send him into an outright panic. He also cannot handle being trapped in a closed room and has trouble with small spaces to begin with. Anything closed in with a ceiling is apt to make him anxious and uneasy. And he might be a bird, but he's still very young (~13-14 years old), so a lot of what happened to him has affected him severely, mentally. Just as he suffered nightmares due to bad morphing experiences, battles, or otherwise, he will suffer nightmares about his time in Hope's Peak.

Possessions:

- A small toy replica of a Deinonychus

Pony/Animal Type: Red-Tailed Hawk | Pony form: Pegasus Pony
NOTE: I’m also filling out the information for a potential pony form for Tobias, since he will have his morphing abilities- since human is one of them, it will automatically default to pony. The image below shows both his hawk form and pony form.
Cutie Mark: N/A
Pony Picture:

SAMPLES
First Person:

[How does a bird with no hands use these scrolls properly? We just don’t know, but apparently it doesn’t matter that much here. Tobias is finding out real fast that his wings are surprisingly more…dexterous here than they were back home.
Also he can talk. That’s a thing he can do.]

So…I have a question. There seem to be a lot of normal animals around here, like rabbits and foxes and things like that. ...

[They’re…marginally cuter than normal, but that’s beside the point.]

But we’ve got talking ponies here too, so I’m having a hard time believing that that’s…all there is. Like, I’m pretty sure I’ve spoken to a dragon. A dragon.

Can someone give me an idea of what else there is here?

[You know. Purely curiosity speaking, here.
He shifts a bit on his talons before continuing, quickly.]

And uh….can everything talk here? Because I’m having trouble separating the talking animals from the non-talking ones. ..Including myself, at this point…

[He grumbles a little before the scroll rolls up and the message ends.]

Third Person:

For the first time in months, Tobias was flying again. Actually flying. Even after being in this place for a few weeks now, it was still hard to believe.

He couldn’t help but let his beak part in a loud yell of exultation as he let a thermal push him up, up, up into the clouds, well above the heads of the Pegasus Ponies working atop them. Compared to him, they were practically earth bound. Tobias was the master of the sky.
He was finally home.

He rose higher and higher, letting the cushion of air carry him up so high that the town was a mere speck below, though to his eyes he could see everything as clearly as if it was only a few feet away. From there he spread his wings and began to soar, flying over the town and over Sweet Apple Acres, his eyes falling on the groups of ponies carrying carts of apples away from the trees.

It was hard to believe. He was actually outside again in the fresh air, flying high in the sky with absolutely nothing trapping him again. He never had to go back inside again, if he really didn’t want to. And up here? Up here he was safe. No murderous bears and no killing games.

No friends, no Animorphs, no fathers to spend Father’s Day with and share his birthday cake.
…
…But he was free, at least.