Dalia, the Inu

There's some point in the life of many characters where they grow a bit and the creator finds out that they act different from what the creator intended in the first place. Sometimes characters define their personality on their own and thus develop. I think that exactly this thing happened with my Inu Dalia so I wanted to rework her Bio and also the thread since the last one got off topic after a short while. I think she's a bit more mature and fleshed out now, I also got rid of some flaws and unnecessary traits she never really showed anyway.


Say Hello again to Dalia! :3





(pictures made by me ^.^)





Name: Dalia
Species: Inu
Sex: Female
Height: 5'8 feet
Hair: light Brown with a hint of red
Eyes: reddish brown
Fur (on tail): light brown with a hint of red, white tips on ears and tail
Predation: Reluctant
Food category: 1-6 inches


Likes: Playing around, being petted, Discovering something new, smells and tastes, growing eatable plants like Mushroms, cooking
Dislikes: chocolate (it's poison to her!), being colorblind, the colour red (since she can't see it), unfriendly people
Favourite Food: Doesn't matter as long as its tasty! (Mostly anything she cooked, except for fish)
Location: Differs, she may be actually anywhere due to her teleportation magic (as shown below), usually in Negav where she has her home and shops.


Appearance
Dalia looks like most Inus do: She has a overall, 5'8" tall, adult human body and a few wolf/dog-features. Let's take a look at her human body portion first:
Dalia has, like most Felaryans, a pretty nicely composed shape and is being considered attractive to most other Inus and even some humans, even though she may not be the prettiest girl around her body, looking as if she was at her mid-twenties, still has its own charms. Her Arms and legs are relatively thin, so are her hips, giving Dalia a overall thin and long appearance, even though the legs still do seem athletic and somewhat muscular, thus prooving that Dalia is a very good and ongoing runner. Her tender hands and cute feet seem to be a bit bigger than average but are still well shaped and pretty, just like the red-brown eyes that hold her slit-shaped pupils, even though the latter may seem a bit creepy if you look at them in some sort of twilight. Beneath her eyes are a relatively small nose and mouth, however, if she wants, Dalia can fit much more into that mouth of hers than you would expect!
Dalias long hair and fur are light brown coloured with a slight hint of red/orange while the tips of her ears and her tail are completely white. That colour sheme is sort of unlucky because some people tend to mistake Dalia for a kitsune, even though kitsunes do have a slightly more reddish fur than Dalia does. As already mentioned Dalia has some dog-features with her ears being one of those. Dalia doesnt have human ears, they are completely missing and instead replaced by the canine ears that stand up from the top of her head in a slight angle.
Her fluffy tail is about as long as her legs minus her feet, so even if she stretched it straight down, her tail wouldn't reach the ground.

Now that we have taken care of her body, lets take a look at Dalias clothing.
Dalia isn't the richest person in Felarya and doesn't really like fancy stuff, so she usually goes with some sort of standard-dress which is explained below, even though one may see her in different clothing from time to time.
First there is her shirt, a long sleeved, beige Pullover that's not especcially fancy but comfortable and warm. In addition she wears black pants that have a V-shaped cut above her butt in order to give room for her tail. The pants go straight down until they almost reach Dalias ankles and are relatively close to her legs, thus emphasizing her natural long shape. The feet are usually covered by open, brown Sandals which are just as comfortable as the rest of her clothing.
Dalia also wears a black collar around her neck with a small magical bell attached to it (for further informations look up the magic section of this bio). Another feature is a red scarf that's wrapped around her waist and which functions as a belt. The last piece of clothing is a small sack of spores that's connected to her belt. It contains magically enhanced mushroom-spores which function as her defensive weapons in combat, just like her enchanted dagger she's hiding inside one sleeve of her pullover.



Personality:
Dalia is a pretty open minded and friendly person. She's like a humans best friend and tries to be nice to everyone, though her intention often is unanswered and many people find her nature plain annoying, because she's kind of clinging as hell, following or talking to random people, just because they smell nice or seem to have an interesting background. This, along with that fact that Dalia naturally smells a little bit like a dog, especcially when she's wet, gave her a more or less pretty bad reputation in her hometown Negav and so Dalia is more interested in new people like Adventurers who come to a halt in Negav and often have something new to tell. Dalia is very curious about their stories, she likes to hear about places she hasn't seen before and just loves to discover new things, even though she keeps forgetting about half the things she just found out, so one may easily call her a little bit absent minded and easily distracted as well.

If she decided that you're not only interesting, but also that she began to like you, you're either one of the luckiest or unluckiest persons in Felarya - depending on your thoughts about having a partner who follows you (all the time), cooks for you (and hinders you from eating anything else than her food), talks to you (a lot, you can't believe how talkative she is), and occasionally marks you with her scent by rubbing her tail against you, even claiming you as her property, in case you're a human whom she more or less considers potential pets. Dalia likes the idea of turning around the habit of making dogs a humans pet by making a human into her pet. Unfortunately she hasn't found any human yet who was willing to fulfill that role and Dalia is usally given a weird look after claiming someone as her pet.  
But pet or not, it happened a few times already that Dalia just decided to follow an adventurer out of Negav and accompany him on his quest, whether he asked for it or not. This doesn't always come in handy, as Dalia is easily frightened and she has a habit to just flee when a Predator appears that seems to be a bit too dangerous. So Dalia is everything but reliable in combat. Luckily that means that you don't really have to protect her either since Dalia is able to teleport away from most dangers on her own, due to her teleportation bell.
But up until that point one may consider Dalia as a helpful companion that you can not only trust but also one that takes care of your wellbeing by enchanting your equipment with some more or less useful spells, as well as cooking for you, since one of her most loved hobbies is cooking for herself and especcially for other people. Finding some new recipes, getting new ingrediences and try to suprise her guests by completely new inventions is one of her biggest goals - and she even suceeds in like... 7 out of 10 tries. The other 3 are either meals with a weird side effect when Dalia tried out a new enchantment or when her inventions are way too... let's say... creative... to taste anything near to eatable. But still, where else would one be able to find magically enhanced food that even tastes great in 7 out of 10 tries?

If offered, your best choice is to accept her meal since Dalias joy can easily be turned into sadness or even anger. This is thanks to her tendency to be either exeptionally happy and sway her tail in joy when you give her a treat, pet her, scratch her behind the ears or play with her, but Dalia also gets pretty depressed if not aggressive when she thinks that she's being ignored or treated wrong. One could say that Dalia seems to be overly emotion-driven since she can be easily manipulated by her feelings if someone knows about that weakness. She does lack self control, which may possibly be an exquisite feature in bed, but proves to be impractical in her daily life. Dalia is a really social Inu and when she's all alone or treated badly, she seems to wither like a dried out flower until someone treats her nicely.

Just like humans, Nekos also do have a special place in Dalias mind as she treats them like other Inus. She doesn't differ between cat and dog/wolf, unlike many other Inus or Nekos who may even have a grudge against each other about territories and the like. This is a good thing because Dalia travels around a lot (mostly trying to teleport between the cities, using gunthers escaping bell) and one of her goals is the rosic neko village where Dalia has become some sort of common sight, even as an inu and especcially, when she hides her tail. which she usually doesn't, as Dalia is very proud of her appearance. She likes to tease people especcially with her tail (and thus leaving her scent on them) and well built legs, but she's not slutty or anything like that. Because last, but not least it is to say that Dalia has some sort of high sense of moral and considers herself to be a lawful good girl.


Job:
Dalia is running two adjacent stores in the outer ring of Negav, known as "eat and defeat". While the left store is some sort of small restaurant, the other one is a weapon store. The latter doesn't sell actual weapons, but instead a customer is supposed to bring his weapon with him and give it to Dalia. She will then try to enchant that weapon for a price. While Dalia has a stock of relatively secure enchantments which work everytime as intended, one may also ask her for a more specialized enchantment. those are usually of a better quality, but since Dalia doesn't use them very often, she sometimes mixes up a few runes or spells or materials, causing the enchantment to change. Even though the enchantment will still work as intended, more or less, it may have a few extra features that help or hinder you while using this enchanted weapon and thus you may get much more than you've asked for. There have been cases where someone just wanted a flaming enchantment on their dagger and later they got a eversharp blade covered in pitch black flames that never cease to burn. But as with most about Dalia, these enchantments are best described as random and sometimes your weapon even didn't change at all until it literally exploded in combat. Luckily for her, Adventurers who suffer from those very rare bad enchantments don't survive long enough to spread the rumors.
Her restaurant is a bit more popular and it sometimes confuses people that Dalia is running both stores on her own. The food smells and tasts really nice and is widely known for its quality, even though it is rumored that Dalia actually uses magic to enhance the taste of her food. That becomes just too obvious when Dalia tries out a new, unknown enchantment on the food, causing the customer to puke, mutate, teleport, shrink or disappear right away. Fortunately for her, there are few to no rumors about these incidents because most people don't react to her food when they eat it, but rather later during digestion.  


Hunting habits:
As one would guess, Dalia is also a carnivore who hunts and eats living things too. Sometimes she may trade food like a good old steak for money or items, another day she has to go outside into the jungle and search for food by herself. All in all Dalia rarely hunts as she eats meat as well as vedgetables, so seeing her out in the wild is a rather unusual event.
When hunting, Dalia tries to be stealthy until she spots an animal of her choice, usually rabbits or other small beings but also Animals up to horse-sized things. After she spottet it, she will try to get as close as possible, which is sorta far away because of her own strong scent. As soon as her prey seems to notice her, Dalia runs straight towards her target, ringing her magical bell until it teleports her right next to her prey. Additional to being super-fast this method of teleportation often suprises her victim, giving Dalia an opening to attack with her Dagger. If that doesn't work she'd fight the animal by using her Dagger, feet and fangs in close combat or using some of her mushrom spores to use different effects on her prey, like stunning or confusing it, she sometimes even turns it into another being accidentally! Its said that "Nathan the strong" once attacked Dalia and by pure luck she threw some spores onto him, turning "Nathan the strong" into "Nathan the mouse"... End of story: Dalia took him home and a few hours later Nathan smoothly slid down her gullet whole and alive, followed by a sip of red wine.

But eating her prey alive is merely an exception, Dalia usually doesn't do that, unless she's really starving or you're a tiny that's either annoying her or literally asking for it. And when she does eat someone, she usually doesn't eat that tiny right away but keeps it as a delicasy for a special occasion, often taking her time and combining her tiny with an exceptionally good wine - fitting to the situation.



Abilities:
Smell and Hearing:
As an Inu Dalia has a very good nose as well as very good ears. Like almost all Inus she can use her nose and ears to the extent of having a complete sheme of the world around her, just by analyzing their smell and sounds. She may smell some food or danger from a few miles away and may act according to it.
All of this goes at the cost of her sight, though. Since an Inus eyes are pretty weak she can't see very good at long distances. Adding to that, she is also colourblind which annoys her to the point of going into some rage mode if you ever mention how pretty the colour red is (since she can't see any red at all) NEVER make a comment like "you have such wonderful red eyes" to her or you get yourself killed! Well... almost... But it'll still hurt!

Endurance:
As an inu Dalia is a very good and long lasting runner, she has an endurance to follor her prey over miles without starting to sweat. It is pretty much needed though since she may not be the fastest or strongest predator around, so mostly Dalia has to rely on her stamina and the work of her magical items in order to catch anything.

Cooking:
Dalia is a very good cook and her meals are preferred by almost anyone who ever ate it. At least, if their food didn't have some weird enchantment on it...

Enchantment Magic:
Dalia is a decent magician and an apprentice of the pretty much unknown, yet awesome Mage called "Sis". Because of this, Dalia knows a few little tricks, mostly involving enchantments of existing items since her magic is still too weak to work on its own. Despite that lack of abilities her rather original use of Enchantments gives her some weird, yet effective methods of surviving in the Felaryan world.


Magical weapons:
Being a grown up person who has to work for her money, it seems only natural that Dalia is capable of enchanting weapons and items for other persons to use. They only have a little amount of magical power compared to the legendary weapons of great mages, but their effects still come in handy and Dalias work is popular enough for her to survive. The most popular items in her stock would be the collar of endurance which allows a person to go to their limits when it comes to straining their own body (doesn't actually increase a persons abilities though, just helps to overcome one's weaker self) or the dagger enchantment simply called "fang" which seems to cut wounds twice as deep as they usually would, effectively giving the dagger the effectiveness of a shortsword. Dalia herself actually does hide one of the "fang" type daggers inside her pullover in order to defend herself if necessary. As you may notice, most manipulations are named after something related to a canine in order to make people remember HER work and thus appreciate Dalia.

Teleportation Bell:
There is a special bell attached to her collar. Originally it has been one of gunthers escaping bells she "got" from a guy called Nathan the strong. You ring it and after a few moments the magic is charged up and teleports you to a place you want. However, it wouldn't have been a "Gunthers" Item if there wasn't any disadvantage to it, since the bell rang out loud and its effect would be set into motion at a random time. Thanks to Dalias Enchantments she got rid of that extremely loud ringing (as an Inu with extremely good ears that sound was almost killing her and it also keeps the predators from hearing that sound over 12 miles) making it a quiet little ringing instead and the teleportation kicks in more often, though it is still random. However, when Dalia is traveling or hunting she has this bell exposed, letting it swing from side to side the whole time as she runs towards her destination or after her prey. Knowing she has lots of stamina, she just has to follow her prey and keep an eye on it, until at a point that bells effect will suddenly kick in and teleport her right next to her prey (if she aimed at it) or some safe place if she needs to escape or simply travels. This method of movement gave her the nickname lightning since it seems like Dalia may actually move as fast as lightning. If she doesn't need the bell, she usually sticks it into her pullover, keeping the bell from swinging enough to prevent unintentional uses and keeping it from making noises.

Mushrom magic:
Dalia loves food and she also loves enchantments... What happens if you put both things together? well, you gotta be be sure it won't do any good! That Inu girl keeps enchanting food from time to time, either to test new effects, to suprise people who eat it or just for the heck of it. If a lucky or unlucky guy eats her "improved" food, the effect will kick in after a few moments or during digestion, depending on the particular enchantment. For unknown reasons Mushroms seem to work best with Dalias magic, even though she may enchant almost any kind of food exept for living beings. Probably it is because mushroms are close to the felaryan soil and thus absorb a great portion of its magic during their growth. However, this affinity to enchantments gave Dalia the idea to call it mushrom magic.
Those Mushroms have an additional suprising effect, since not only the mushroms themselves are enchanted, but also their spores. Dalia always stores some spores in a little bag in order to throw it at an enemy and as soon as they come into contact with them, the effect will do its work like the person would have eaten it.
The mushroms effect may be as intended from Dalia, but for other people it's best described as random, since you never know what she's testing out next. Though she does have some favourites, like the one she used on many unfriendly people before, turning them into mice and there are also poisoned ones for fighting predators in the jungle. But it's unknown if Dalia really has lots of control over the enchantments she performs, as she seems to forget about half of her recipes after she used them once, causing her to "discover" the same enchantment several times without remembering it at all.

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