Lazarus Xiaoyu

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Lazarus is quite a pretty boy to behold. He has long, wavy hair that he usually ties up into a high ponytail. He has a toned skin complexion and a nice face structure which compliments his darker eyes. He is quite small, both in build and length. His body will always remain rather skinny, as he has a hard time bulking up. He has, however a slight muscular build do to his daily activities and training. His body is clearly more build for being agile and quick rather than fighting and using brute strength.
Lazarus has a hard time wearing clothes that are skin tight and prefers clothing that is kinda loose and easy to wear. This extends to his shoewear aswell. Rather then wearing fancy shoes he is often seen barefoot or with simple sandals.

Lazarus' mermaid form is based of a lionfish. When he is in this form he becomes quite larger and seems to bulk up, increasing in weight and length due to the mass gained by the tail. His tail is sleek and long, making him up to 2 meters and 20 centimeters in length tail included. His tail is decorated with different fins and weird looking extensions. These extensions are barbs, extentions of the spine that seem to grow along the tail and part of the place between his tail and his upper body. These barbs contain a neuromuscular venom. With proper treatment an incident will not result in much complications. But left unchecked and without proper care the venom can take down an adult human in about 1 to 2 business days. The venom gets injected by being stung by these barbs. Lazarus has no control over this whatsoever, resulting in him stinging people without his consent.
As a mermaid Lazarus remains his skin color, his tail, however, becomes a bright variety of reds, oranges and a creamy white. He has beatyful fins which are rather large and flashy. Fins can sometimes be found between the barbs. There are beautiful patterns found on his tail, such as swirls and spots. In his mermaid form his hands become slightly webbed with a translucent layer. There's slight colorations found in them similar to his tail. In his neck he develops some scales which flow over slightly into his cheeks. here you can find his gills. The scales on his neck and face are mostly a silverlike/creamy whit color with a handful of scales being a bright orange.

One word; idiot.
Lazarus is not the brightest when it comes to common sense. He has a hard time understanding that some situations can be dangerous and acts rather childish and impulsive from time to time. He is a thrillseeker, always looking out for his next adventure. Being an absolute extrovert he loves meeting new people and making new friends. He is quite social and finds it easy to talk to others, even though he is quite awkward and blunt sometimes. He gets his energy from being around people and always actively seeks out to be with someone. This makes him a bit clingy, but also very enthusiastic. He is easily impressed and influenced by others as he has quite a gullible mind. He has an innocent demeaner resulting in him not quite understanding some more adult themes. He is funloving and his one goal in life is to make others happy and please them. He is usually seen as a clown and doesn't mind that title at all. He does not like tense situations and will actively seek out peaceful ways to diffuse situations like these. He has a soft spoken voice, but is quite loud all around.
Due to him being sheltered all his life, he has a hard time understanding different views. However, he is open to other opinions. He is easily hurt, emotionally, and does not handle heavy negative emotions well. He can have emotional outbursts if upset, resulting in him crying. A lot. He is quite sensitive, for now.

Can turn into fimshy when touch de water.

Lazarus story began before he was even born.
Linus was a sailor, an honest and hard working man. He worked for a wealthy family, being able to work smaller and bigger boats as he pleases due to his experience and upbringing. Diona was a more mysterious lady. With fair skin, deep green eyes and long wavy red hair. She was quite a sight to behold, catching the attention of all men when she arrived in Dawnmire. Linus, who was also in the city for business reason, also laid eyes upon her. And well, the rest of the story was more like a fairytale then anything else. Crossing eyes, they fell in love immediately. It was, as they would call, love at first sight. The next days they spent more and more time together, growing ever closer, and eventually resulting in a lustful night.

But he was a travelling man and she was not from here.

Diona dissapeared the morning after. No note, not even a hint that she was ever there. Linus had lost the love of his life and all he could wonder was; why?

As weeks turned into months... He would sometimes be gazing up at the starry night, wondering where she was, what she was doing and whatever he did wrong to make her leave. Their time together was the best he ever had and he was almost certain that she must have felt the same way. However, when arriving back in Dawnmire after another business trip, he could not believe his eyes. Waiting, at the docks, was her. She was looking more beautiful as ever and when he got of the boat, they embraced eachother loving. Together once again, it was perfect.

It became clear that she was pregnant of his child. Shortly after this news he proposed to her and they got married shortly after. It was a simple celebration, rather cheap, but it was good enough for them. As the family settled down in Dawnmire, Linus quit his job as a sailor and started working in the mines. They bought a tiny house at the edge of the city. All was well. Simple, but well.

She gave birth to a healthy baby boy and they loving named him Lazarus. He was almost identical to his father, only really having his mothers thick and wavy hair. To his parents, he was the purest form of perfection. He was their son, this was their happy little family. They were happy and everyone around them could say; this was their happy ending.

But that's the thing about the happy ever after... Right? They never tend to stay. And neither did theirs. One faithful night, Linus came home to an empty house. This happened quite often as his wife would go on walks with their son all the time, atleast that what she would say to him. And maybe he should have believed her... And remained in the house, waiting for her. But that night, for whatever reason, he wanted to join the walk with his family. Down the cliffside, along the beach, where her footprints were still visible, he followed her. It did not take long before he could hear a beautiful melody being sung. He had never heard her sing like that. It was absolutely stunning... ANd he wondered why she did had never sung to him like that...
Maybe it was the moment, or maybe it was the shock. But when he saw her in her true form, he froze. She was a mermaid, holding onto their baby who was holding out his hands in the salty water. When their eyes locked, both of them felt silent. Seconds turned into minutes. And as reality set in... She started to panic. Quickly she moved her body, trying to escape the beack and move to open waters. The baby, that she held on to into her arms, started to weep as the water entered his body violently. Linus had to act quickly, running up to her to grab his child from her. One more time, they looked at eachother, before she dissapeared... For good, this time.

The thing was that he did not hate for being merfolk. In fact, he wanted to protect her, wanted to shelter her, from the world that was so cruel to her people. But she did not give him a chance. She did not hive their son a chance to know his mother. But she did, however, leave a book full of notes for her husband. In it were weird texts that, at first, were almost impossible to read. However, after reading the book through and through, he finally realised that she left him an encrypted message. The entire book was a written history of her expierence as merfolk and what she had to endure and secrafice for being one. AFter reading her story, Linus was deadset on protecting his son from a similar faith. That night he packed everything, stole a boat and went to one of the lemurian isles. He eventually found a tiny island that seemed to be a part of beautiful and rich coral reef. He decided that this would be his new home.

Therefore Lazarus was raised on quite literally an uninhabited island. It was just him, his father, the birds and the fishes. They lived quite a peaceful life. His father would fish daily and Lazarus would work the land around their tiny, self built hut. They kept chickens that Linus bought on the mainland and had different plants that provided them with vegetables and fruits. Most of the plant and seeds were bought on the mainland, as Linus would go back once a month to get all the essentials. Due to being raised just by his father, who was always working very hard, Lazarus never received proper teaching. He never learnt how to read or ever heard stories about religion and humanity. All his father would talk about was his mother and the ocean.

Lazarus loved his life on the island, but he would often feel lonely. When telling his father that he felt lonely, the man would say that he could make friends with the birds and fish. Lazarus felt a bit insulted by the manner, but eventually warmed up to the idea of the bird thing. His love for birds eventually grew from this.

Father had always told him that going in the water was prohibited. And as he almost drowned near the reef when he was 10 years old, he followed this rule closely. His first transformation was therefore not in the water. He had spilled some of his drinking water over his upper body somewhere around his 14th birthday, resulting in him transforming for the first time. Lazarus was quite shocked and scarred at first, but his father wasn't. The man explained to him that he was just like his mother and therefore merfolk. And that from this day onwards he would always transform whenever touching water.
Lazarus had a hard time adjusting to his new life. He wasn't careful at all regarding water and would transform all the time at random due to him bathing or just spilling water. This would make the boy very angry sometimes as he would hurt himself a lot. Eventually his father caved in and a few months later he learned the boy how to swim and use his tail. First holding onto his dad and eventually swimming on his own. Still being quite afraid of the water they were small steps. But baby steps were better then no steps.

Everyday Lazarus became more and more bold, going further and further and exploring the reef. He was rarely home and would finally embrace his merfolk side. However, his father had split feelings about this. he did not want his son to leave, just like his wife left him. But he also did not want to limit his son and keep him trapped on the island.

It was just supposed to be a talk about growing up.

Why did they have to fight?

Why was dad... bleeding?

One sting was enough to make Linus bleed... And make him very sick the following day. Lazarus did not know what to do and before he knew it, his dad had passed away. As the boy had never seen a dead person or experienced loss, he did not know what to do. He ran away from the hut and his fathers corpse to hide in the coral. He wept for days, being to scared to return to his home.

The thing was, that he did not know about anything else beside his home. he eventually returned, only to find that his fathers corpse was taken care of... And that someone else was now living in the hut. Lazarus had never seen another human and was quite shocked by this. They ended up having a sort of argument, which resulted in the man pushing the boy in the water. However, after seeing what he became, the man stopped his assault on the boy. He introduced himself as Guivre. Lazarus introduced himself aswel and quickly explained his situation to the older man. The man told him that he would take care of him from now on. And... He did.

It was relatively the same. Guivre would sometimes leave for a long time, but he would always come back. As it turned out, the man was also merfolk. He did not have a fancy tail as he did, but the man could still teach him more then his dad ever could. Guivre taught him how to hunt live fish as a true merfolk. After his first taste of fresh, raw fish, Lazarus was hooked. It instantly became his favorite meal and it would be all he would eat from this day onwards. Living with Guivre wasn't all that bad after all. The only thing that was kind of weird was that, once a month, the man demanded him to give him ones of his barbs. Not understanding that they contained venom, he would always give the man what he wanted.

Years went on like this, where Lazarus would spend more and more time inside the water and less on land. This did not seem to bother Guivre and they never really got into an argument or fought. However, one day, Guivre told him to pack his stuff. Not really understanding what was happening, he did what the man told him. Guivre took Lazarus to the mainland. A first for the now young man, as he had spent all his life inside the water and on his island.

- Lazarus has a pet goose, her name is Kwak, and she wears a pretty pink bow around her neck. She loves to waddle around Kwak and joins him whenever he goes for a swim. Out of the water she is often being carried by Lazarus.
- Lazarus does not like cooked or prepared food. He prefers catching his own fish and eating it raw.
- Lazarus has hayfever, but this never was a big issue as he has always lived near the ocean.
- Lazarus knows how to operate a sailboat thanks to his father.
- Lazarus could not swim before he discovered he was merfolk. When he was 10 he almost drowned, resulting in him sometimes still being scared that he will not turn into a mermaid when touching water, resulting in him drowning.
- Lazarus views Guivre as his big brother and is not aware the man is using him for his venom.
- Lazarus has very soft skin.
- Lazarus has a skin condition resulting in having weird spots forming all over his legs. The spots are perfectly round and darker in skin tone. They don't seem to effect him all that much.
- Lazarus is scared of big mammals, curiously he is not afraid of big fishes, sharks and sea mammals.
- Lazarus' favorite colors are bright yellow and soft pink.
- Lazarus knows how to play the flute.
- Lazarus is quite handy when it comes to knitting.
- Lazarus is a very skilled swordsman, but does not use this skill very often.
- Lazarus loves birds