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Personality Tanis is soft-spoken and quiet. She does not act violently except in defense. She enjoys being a servant and having a leader to look after her. Appearance Tanis has the upper half of a young woman, but from the waist-down has the long tail of a snake. She has living vipers for hair that defend by biting anyone who tries to harm her head. She is covered from head-to-tail-tip with black scales, each scale fringed with reddish-yellow. Her soft underbelly scales are pale yellow. Powers Tanis has no exceptional powers except the basic Gorgon stone-gaze, which turns enemies to stone if she meets their eyes with her own. This power she cannot turn off, and must hide under an illusion or wear a blindfold to keep people safe. The snakes that compose her hair are poisonous, each one with the venom of a puff adder (which can kill a grown man). Pre-role-play history Tanis lived far to the south in servitude of an evil yuan-ti queen until the day an order of holy knights destroyed the queen and the other servants, leaving Tanis as the only survivor. She travelled north after the event. Role-play history Tanis first met Princess Michelle in her travels, a few days east of Dondolon. She had been ordered by Gim to give Michelle a masking and illusion necklace that would hide the princess from Dechaerrim's senses. When Dech learned of this, he inflicted injuries on Tanis that would have been fatal without magic to keep her alive. Her asp-hair bit and poisoned him, allowing her time to be healed. Tanis met Dech again later in another city, but this time he did not harm her, instead sharing rounds of a random potion with her. Eventually she asked/agreed to become his servant, and moved in with him and Jayden at the anthro-tiger kingdom. Eventually she grew bored of being his servant (and likely uncomfortable with how he used her for testing unknown magical items' properties, which resulted in losing all of her valuables, deforming her body near to the point of death, and making her relive her worst memory and have other vivid hallucinations). She left the castle, striking out on her own once again. Soon, however, winter hit, and her cold-blooded physiology shut down in the snow. She sought shelter in a ruined basement in the ravaged remains of Lakeside and nearly died of hypothermia but was found and rescued by Adam and Vex, who was then in spider-taur form. She developed affections for him because of their "monstrous" kinship. Soon, she was kidnapped along with 24 other people by Gim onto a tropical island in a pocket universe. She then made her affections towards Vex known, and he refused her, until he was mysteriously transformed into a naga himself and placed under a love charm. He was just as mysteriously turned human again, and Tanis had no moral choice but to break the charm on him because his love was not genuine. She then was mysteriously transformed into a human, and ran away broken-hearted, where she was met and comforted by Derrin. After turning back into a naga (again, mysteriously), she managed to befriend and affect him and then immediately entered a romantic relationship with him. Current Status Tanis now lives in the Lakeside Mansion with the others. Family Tanis has no known living family. |