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Character Name: Owphiyr Isidore Kokkinous
Gender: Male
Age(if any): unknown
Race: European (Greek) Phoenix
Occupation(if any): priest, wanderer, gypsy
Likes/Dislikes: Fire, food, a good time, books(or any type of learning), church bells/water(in large amounts), Nazis(no, seriously), hypocrites, death (cemeteries, graves, sickness, or anything to do with human concept of death)
Appearance: Owphiyr has short curly burgundy-colored hair that slightly resembles feathers. He has bright orange eyes and a series of cirlces that go down his left cheek that begin as yellow and gradate into red. He has pointed ears and can grow orange wings on a whim.
In his phoenix form, he looks like a hybrid crane-eagle with bright orange feathers and a dark violet colored tail. The tips of his wings turn to flames.
Personality: Owphiyr is generally quite the "nice guy" and is always looking for a good time. He loves doing favors for people and helping out any way he can. He is usually happy, but can be slightly melancholy, which is just an affect from living for so long. He is also described by his friends as a "smart-a**".
Any Remaining Background Info: Owphiyr is fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Because of this and past experience, he was accepted as a priest of the Catholic Church in the Vatican in the early 1700s. After a long while in this profession, he began wandering around Europe and the Middle East, traveling from Egypt to Russia. He did this for a few hundred years until he joined a troop of gypsies back in Germany around 1819. In 1939, the descendants of this same group were caught by the Gestapo and when the Nazis found Owphiyr, they not only charged him with being a gypsy, but also a Jew because his first name was of Hebrew origin and he spoke fluent Hebrew. After this, he was dragged to Auschwitz and was a medical scapegoat for Dr. Mengele because of hs hair and eye color. (Unlike Fengge, he cannot change his hair or eye color to a natural color.) When the Nazis realized the weren't getting anything out of these experiments, the tried torture, which, alas, did nothing. Thier final decision was to try and kill him in the gas chambers. To their surprise, he didn't die. They tried hanging him, nothing. Then finally, (this was a really bad idea on the Nazis' part) they tried sending him to the crematoria and burning him alive. Being a phoenix, this did even more than nothing, it healed him. So they just left him in the camp to whatever fate he was meant to have because they were too tired of trying to kill him. He was left in Auschwitz for two years and was then transferred to Bergen-Belsen until it was liberated in 1945 and went back to wandering again...as far away from Germany and Poland as possible...and now lives in the U.S. as a curator for the Smithsonian.
 Chibi-Speck · Fri Jan 30, 2009 @ 04:01pm · 0 Comments |
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