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The Black Stallion of West Durem
Gaian Name: [The Black Stallion]
Name: Donovan Renee Yuhara
Age: 31
Height: 6'1"
Favorite Color: Black
Gender: Male
Orientation: Heterosexual
Pets: Rook, a little black tabby cat.
Friends/Kids: Chris Talespinner, and one he doesn't quite know about...
Canon from: N/A
Looks: Standing at 6'1" with a lean and well built physique. Not the overly muscular men who took so many steroids that their performance in bed lacked, but not the thine willowy and thin by any accounts. He resembles more a hunting cat in some aspects. His striking almond-shaped aquamarine eyes that remind one of the waters of the Caribbean or some other island coast. His face a cross between handsome and beautiful, but thoroughly masculine, from it's high-sculpted cheekbones, and a mouth that no plastic surgeon could hope to duplicate. Due to his incubic heritage, he won't likely show much hint of aging anytime soon.

Hair the color of a raven's wing is usually done in waist-length cornrows with beads woven into the braids to match whatever he might be wearing. Though usually they're black. One of his more unusual features are his eyes which are a striking contrast to his dark skin and features. Though he commonly wears shades to cover his eyes. He doesn't dress in any particularly unusual fashion. Favoring T-shirts, vintage jeans usually in a snug comfortable fit and a pair of tennis shoes. He has been known to dress up when the occasion or the setting calls for it.

Personality: Donovan has adopted something of an aura of coolness around most people. He has a way of speaking that rarely hints at whatever he is currently feeling and in demeanor, he's the polite southern gentleman who calls people "sir" or "ma'am" when addressing them if he doesn't know their name, he holds doors open for women, stands to greet visitors, etc. Whether this is simply his demeanor or his way of adjusting to his drastically new surroundings is unknown. Around those he doesn't trust or doesn't know very well he seems to show rarely any hint of emotion aside from a slight grin of happiness or maybe frown of mild irritation or disappointment, but he's rarely if ever impolite. Particularly to women who he feels due to his heritage he feels obligated to be more polite to though if a woman attacks him, he will fight back as he would any man. Perhaps just with not as much force initially...

Even in combat he seems to keep the same blank mask of slight amusement even though he may be enjoying the fight immensely. He does not showboat or seem to rub in his victories, and is not a sore loser. The losses he's had he's always learned from and remembered so as not to repeat the same mistakes.

Around those who get past that mask, he seems a very likable, positive and easy-going person. He seems to have come away from his experiences both back home and in Gaia with a more positive outlook on things now that he's had some time to adjust to what in essence is a totally different world than the one he came from. Donovan considers himself still learning and ever improving as a martial artist, musician and in accepting his heritage. He has accepted what he is and although he knows exactly what he is and what he's capable of he has the modesty to not really flaunt it.

As one would likely assume, Donovan loves women, and enjoys the company of females over the company of males to an extent; they make him feel really good. Though he does respect them and does not see them as merely a food source despite what he is.
History: Donovan comes from what most would call modern day Japan, or a close imitation thereof. His mother was a succubus named Yuriko, and his father, a human Naval officer named Glen. From what he knows, they met one night when Glenn and some of the members of his squad were out on the town, and Yuriko was out "on the hoof" so to speak. It was one of those encounters you read about in romance novels. As soon as they saw each other, they knew they had each other's number. They found that despite their differences they had quite a few things in common.

After dating for some time the two of them eventually got hitched and soon after had a son, they named him Donovan. By this time, Glen had already known what Yuriko was and what Donovan would be, but neither fact seemed to faze him too much. Many supernaturals in the world had recently revealed themselves to the general public, so the concept of a succubus wasn't too frightening. It explained a few things actually.

Donovan was raised by the two of them with a proper balance of his mother's cultural knowledge and education, as well as his father's strict training regimen and discipline. Donovan adopted both to his daily life, getting up in the morning early to practice and train, to going to school, doing good in class, etc. By his 18th birthday, his other heritage began to kick in and so Donovan began to undergo training and guidance under his mother to help control his budding powers.
Abilities: Assessing...