Rika

At nine-fifteen tonight you will all be dead.
-- RIKA IS A FORTUNE TELLER HURR...

FULLREF | RIKA BEING AWESOME BY HAIRYBRAWN@TUMBLA

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Name: Rika Beccaria! 
Age: 19ish
Eye colour: Violet! 
Hair: Off white, bordering onto warm grey wheatish ash.... SOB WAT ARE COlOURS.
Body type: Sinewy muscles, long limbs;; skinny muscular, prominent joints kinda sorta? HE TENDS TO SLOUCH.
Short personality: CYNICAL. PESSIMISTIC, FALLEN HERO type. Right at the brink of losing it, and becoming fully Machiavellian!  
Distinguishing features: Oil-based monster he keeps in a water bottle! Sometimes goes around in a bird guise! He has burned arms that he tends to hide out of disguise. ETERNAL SCOWL. THEME IS FIRE YES okay.
Outfits: See refs for both outfits! Tends towards dirty colours and grey! Covers arms, unless he's wearing his mask.
Themesong: Bird Priest! -- Ratatat
Universe: Victoria Crossing

DETAILED PERSONALITY.

• PESSIMISTIC, EASILY WORRIED AND A SULLEN PRINCE OF A BOY. hi ill update this later he's more than that. LOL.

Abilities 

• His monster tells him things about the future! SPOILURS: XXX only tells him of bad things that will occur. Unlike his brother Peta's monster, his half has the ability to speak (as his half took the voicebox)
  
• Rika himself has trained himself to have high-pain tolerance, particularly to fire. He's rather good at controlling and manipulating fire due to some self-taught knowledge regarding pyrotechnics and chemistry. 
• It totally looks like magic (THOUGH IT TOTALLY ISN'T RIKA'S JUST SMART ABOUT HIS ILLUSIONS).

RIKA'S PAST

• UH I PLANNED ON INTRODUCING THIS LATER TOO but yeah w/e I suck at keeping spoilurs hidden HI.
• It is rumoured that what the Prophet foretells will surely come true!!
• Once upon a time, Rika lived with his older brother Peta and their wolfdogthing Sing. Rika grew up accustomed to being protected by his brother and his dog; Peta and Sing were very cheerful, and though they never quite figured out who their parents were, it didn't matter! They were cared by various families in the community where they grew up. Peta often tells Rika that all people are good! And that having all these different families means more love than two people (PARENTS) For the most part, their days were filled with exploration. 
• Then, one day at the ages of 15 (Rika) and 19 (Peta) on their adventures away from town, they come across an oil monster who promptly splits itself in two. Peta takes the part that doesn't talk, and it promptly latches onto his skin and disguises itself as freckles. He reasons that since Rika makes friends more slowly, and is younger, the company would be nice.
• Little do they know, the monster foretells things about the future. Rika had taken the half that tells only bad fortunes; Peta had taken the half that only shows good ones!
• SOOO. Things take a turn for the worse when Rika's monster starts telling Rika some fortunes HURR. The first of which was that trouble will befall someone close to them! 
• He tries to brush it off, thinking his/her monster must be joking. He becomes distraught when he finds that it isn’t…
• OHOHO...

• Rika is then told that terrible things will happen the next time he meets his brother!
• Determined to avoid fate this time around, he runs away w/o saying *~*GOOD BYE*~*~. Sing is the only one that sees him leave, but because nobody speaks animal that doesn't matter.
• ANYWAYS.
• He goes out to see if fate is avoidable. As such he travels to places of great misfortune and attempts to reverse the events that his creature foretells will happen.
• He fails each and every time, and his/her belief in avoiding the future falters. 
• Sometime later he dons a bird mask in order to gain the trust of the people he is desperately trying to save! — TRIES TO TAKE ON A PROPHETIC KIND OF GUISE IN OTHER WORDS--
• Urban legends arise b/c of him/her appearing in places just as misfortune is about to strike.
• The whole business of everything is wearing him down down down HAHHAHAHAH. AS I SAID IN THE PERSONALITY, HE'S KIND OF BEING NUKED EMOTIONALLY RIGHT NOW DURF.

RELATIONSHIPS.

• Peita: His brother is his only family (aside from Sing, their dog), and he loves him dearly dearly dearly so! HOWEVER, as I already stated, Rika is afraid of meeting with his brother and everything being ruined for forever because of the prophecy thang... AND ALSO because he is afraid of disappointing his brother! All these years apart changed him, after all! I ship them together
  
• Sing:Dies a little after Rika leaves. THEY WERE BFFs! UHH. Peta is depressed that Sing has died, and wonders why his monster didn't tell him this would happen! However, he also takes it as a signal to go after his brother, the only family he has left yes okay.
• MONSTER I'VE YET TO NAME: He secretly enjoys taunting Rika and sending him on this fool's errand HA HA HA WHAT A DICK. However, he tries to act concerned for Rika overworking himself. I secretly ship them too...
• Glim: They understand one another in an odd way.
• TAMA: OH BOY A FUGITIVE/LIVING URBAN LEGEND I BET I CAN MAKE MANY $$$$$s IF I CAPTURE HIM. o tama.

OTHER SHIT

• I named him after Pundarika (Tib. Pema Karpo). A white lotus, cherished by the Lord of Potala. I THOUGHT IT WAS KAWAII OKAY
• ILL THINK OF MORE AS I GO ALONG DURF...

CREATOR INSIGHT.

• I ENJOY... YOUR SUFFERING RIKA..
• Also, I own many many heroes, that are good no matter what! However, I've always thought that broken heroes/heroes turned antagonists are particularly interesting and tragic. 
• yes.
• okay.