Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150530162910/@comment-107.60.223.23-20150603084757

1) Basic info:

§   Name: Dolma Cabernet (Dolma: a Greek grape leaf snack, Cabernet: a red wine)

§   Team/occupation: retired hunter, vineyard caretaker

§   Species: Dolphin Faunus

§   Age: 58

§   <span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:white;mso-themecolor:background1">Sex: male

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in2.25pt30pt;background:black;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:white;mso-themecolor:background1;background:#1A1A1A">  But he was caught every time he tried to escape for one reason or another and always punished in different ways. One day, the captain had had enough of these escape attempts and therefore almost whipped Dolma to death. The only reason Dolma didn't die was because a Hunter raid stopped it and arrested the pirates in the nick of time. All the Faunus were then freed and either went on their way or were sent to the best orphanage depending on their situation. Dolma, however, was immediately adopted by the Hunter's leader, Giovanni Cabernet, and well taken care of. Dolma was given private tutorship to bring him up to speed on all the subjects he was behind on, a safe haven from the world around, and a father figure in the Hunter who fed, clothed, and sought to know him. Dolma took like a fish to water to Giovanni and realized that he really wanted to follow in Giovanni's footsteps and become a Hunter. So Giovanni sent him to a well admired beginning fight school and took him under his own wings. Dolma graduated top of his class and was immediately accepted into Haven Academy.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in2.25pt30pt;background:black;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; color:white;mso-themecolor:background1;background:#1A1A1A">  There he became leader of team DAPN (Daphne), and became partners with Ariadne Aspros, a sweet, innocent human girl. As the school years went along, he steadily fell deeper and deeper in love with her but she had fallen in love with Nico Emo, a withdrawn, brooding human who Dolma just couldn't shake his habitual distrust of even after a year together as teammates nor with Nico's partner, Pinky Wilcox, a laid-back kind of guy but not in a comforting way. Dolma thought maybe it had a basis in jealousy but still he wondered even as he learned to work with them on several missions. Therefore, he really was worried when he could not find his teammates anywhere on campus the month before graduation, worried enough to actually look in the woods. He was there in time to stop the kidnapping of Ariadne and there. in his rage, he discovered how to turn people mad using his semblance, Pinky being his first victim. Nico just ran after that and was never seen again while Dolma kept his eye out for Grimm, released her from her bonds, took her back to their room, and reported everything to the headmaster. Both of them still graduated since Dolma had justification for his rage and wasn't in complete control while raging. Ariadne was too scared from the incident to think about actually being a Huntress so Dolma got down and proposed. She said yes and they were married within the week. Giovanni died shortly after the wedding in the line of duty and Dolma wasn't sure what he would have done without Ariadne to help comfort him. But duty called so he left his wife in charge of the Cabernet vineyard estate while he went off and did everything and more to make Giovanni, Cyan, and Ariadne proud. But he always made sure to come back regularly to keep their love alive and so produced ten kids while in active service. And he loved his kids and made sure to be part of their lives too, encouraging them to do what they loved but also discouraging immoral behavior. So when he finally retired, he was content to be with his wife, tend the vineyard, and visit with all his kids though duty through adventure did still sometimes hearken him.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in2.25pt30pt;text-indent:-0.25in;background:black;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings; color:white;mso-themecolor:background1">§   <span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:white;mso-themecolor:background1">Semblance: Growth-the Manipulation of Living Plant and Animal Cells: allows Dolma to remotely encourage cells to speed up the growth process or grow bigger than usual, usually in plants but is also in animals and people, prefers to just tamper with plants and fungi since they do not have souls and usually thrive through his power while animals are usually uncomfortable and whiny and humans since they have souls and he would hate to have his semblance used on him, but if riled up and pushed in a corner he knows how to rapidly age a person or how to promote madness through the growth of certain brain cells, Dolma cannot however change one animal or plant into another one and cannot reverse the changes he makes, also can run out of energy if he isn't careful with its management with the human brain growth and the age acceleration skills being the most energy intensive

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in2.25pt30pt;text-indent:-0.25in;background:black;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family: Wingdings;mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings; color:white;mso-themecolor:background1">§   <span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:white;mso-themecolor:background1">Notes: Dolma's based on Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and madness who turned pirates who captured him into dolphins, I choose Mistral to be his home kingdom since it seems that there's a Greek theme with the characters who originally hail from there (Pyrrha and Neptune, definitely, Mercury a maybe), I didn't fully name the kids and tell their stories since I needed to wrap up

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