Guivre Requin

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Guivre is a muscular man. He is outside very often, and as such his skin is tanned nicely. He has many scars all over his body. His hair is kept short-shaven. He wears simple, unrestrictive clothes and always carries his spear. He can also often be found with bags of his wares on him.

Guivre is a man who also looks after himself, first. He is not a very rational being, and will be lead by emotion quite often. He doesn't really care about what is right or wrong. He is definitely quite greedy, and will do quite a lot for money. However, Guivre is not heartless. He cares quite a bit about his protegé, Lazarus, although he would never admit to that. Guivre has a deep-rooted hate for merfolk, even though he is one himself, and is sometimes transformed into hating himself, although he will most often use violence in order to feel less bad. He is a violent person and can easily be triggered. He is suspicious and doesn't trust others easily; he also drives a hard bargain for his wares. But he has managed to build a reputation for himself, and he is proud of that.

Guivre was born in a place that is not on the maps of Odiria. His father was a woodcutter, and his mother didn't work. She was born in Odiria, but fled through the ocean for reasons Guivre doesn't know. His father didn't know that she was merfolk. His childhood was not peacful. From a young age, he was forced to work, and he and his mother were often beaten by his father. But his mother couldn't leave - she depended on Pierre to survive in this unknown territory - and Guivre didn't know any better. At age 15, he transformed into his merfolk form for the first time during a sudden rainstorm while out woodcutting. His father was furious - how dare  Amelia hide this from him! She was a fish, and so was his son, and he simple couldn't accept that. Pierre stormed inside the house, furious, and when the screams stopped and the door opened again, Guivre had already fled into the water. He swam for ages and ended up in Lemuria, the place his mother had told him about, the place she was from. When he stepped out of the water, he vowed to never go back in again, hating what he was, hating that he probably cost his mother her life. Ofcourse he couldn't keep true to this promise; he had to wash himself, and sometimes it rained. But he didn't go back into the ocean for almost ten years. In the beginning, life was difficult; he didn't speak their language and survived by stealing, until he started to learn more. He started knowing what to steal so he could sell it for more, and slowly he built contacts in the black markets of Lemuria. There were many things people wanted, even though they weren't legal; one of those things was Merfolk scales. One day, when Guivre didn't manage to sell anything for over a weak and his belly was growling with hunger, he transformed into his merfolk form and cut of some of his own scales to sell. They were the best sale he ever made, providing him nourishment for almost a month. After that, he did it again, and again. His tail is still scarred from this period of his life. When he was about 25, he spotted another merfolk, a person who spilled water onto herself and jumped into the water to conceal what she was. But Guivre had spotted  her; for a moment, he thought it was his mother. He jumped after her, into the water, and came face to face with her. When he discovered that it was only and Odirian girl, not his mother, he got filled with rage and brutally murdered her with the spear he had gotten earlier to protect himself. That was the gateway to his merfolk hunting. It brought a lot of money, and once there were whispers that he sold the scales or the hair or whatever, really, people would come to him, asking for specifics. "Can you bring me some orange scales?" "I swear saw this merfolk with a beautiful necklace and I want that necklace, please get it for me." And Guivre would always deliver.  Over the years, he built a reputation and he got better in the hunt. He even started to enjoy it. But he never had a permanent residence; that was too risky. Although many people looked the other way, his hunting and trading was not legal, and sometimes there was an overzealous police officer and he had to move his operations. On one of these moves, he spotted an abandoned hut on one of the uninhabited islands. There was only a dead man lying by the hut, who had died from a very strange looking wound. Guivre burned the body and settled into the hut. Until one day a boy showed up, almost ten years younger than he was. They got into a fight; Guivre threw him into the water, at which point the boy transformed into merfolk with long spines on his tail. Guivre connected the dots, and knew that this could be very good for him. He managed to get the boy, Lazarus, to trust him, and allowed him to live in the hut again. He even taught him to hunt in the water, so that Guivre would not need to provide food. And about one time per month, that seemed to be the sweetspot, he put on thick gloves and plucked one of the spines from the poisonous tail to infuse his spear with the poison. It made him even deadlier and gave him another edge over the other hunters. When he had stayed too long in one spot again, he took Lazarus with him back to the mainland, and set up shop in Moonbright again.

- Guivre wears his mother's golden necklace as a reminder of where he came from.
- Guivre talks in a clearly foreign accent and will sometimes use expressions or words from another language
- Guivre will never tell anyone where he comes from or that he is merfolk