Grigor

(Original Character Description posted by Bog on November 1, 2020)
Name: Grigor

Gender: Male

Species: Spotted/Barred

Age: 19 days.

Description: Appears to be a large Spotted owl chick Currently appear as a white downy ball with a darker face and a pale bill. Personality: Starting off as extremely curious like most owlets Grigor has lost most of his curiosity along with most of his urge to develop social bonds. He is growing to be self centred caring more about his survival and growing into a strong owl to stay wanted by the academy. Underneath Grigor has a growing feeling that there is something fundamentally wrong with himself and is becoming obsessed with proving that thought wrong.

Backstory: Prior to his snatching Grigor was the first to hatch of his parent’s clutch. From what he remembers of them they were distant, strict, and both exceedingly vain. Grigor was snatched while his family, likely chosen for his size compared to his hatched siblings. Recently he has come to accept himself as unwanted and has begun to resent his family as a result.

Basic Info
Grigor was created on the server on November 1, 2020, His introduction post by player Bog occurred two days later in the #pit-1 channel, Grigor was portrayed as an owlet who had been snatched with the majority of the other owlets yet until that point had simply not been focused on. Though not outright stated in his initial submission Grigor has a near obsessive fear of being considered weak or useless and of being abandoned. This is directly tied to Grigor believing the propaganda St Rutholus Academy teaches, consequentially believing he was given to the academy rather than snatched. Due to the events of the Bloodbath and Graduation Grigor suffered a sever nervous breakdown, at this point it is unclear if he will recover.

Currently Grigor is a yellow owl assigned to warming eggs.

Pre-RP History
Grigor is the product of a rather scandalous affair between barred owl noble and a spotted owl. To avoid negative repercussions Grigor's mother gave him away to his Aunt and Uncle who lived in the shadow forest. Though they accepted his egg into their nest they were overall rather uninterested in him choosing to focus more on their chicks. It is extremely likely that they viewed Grigor poorly or otherwise as a "stain" on their reputation. Given what Grigor has remembered of them it is clear that they are extremely prideful of their spotted owl heritage.

The Bloodbath
During the Bloodbath Grigor attempted to flee from the carnage but was trapped within a crowd of frantic owlets. Before escaping he witnessed the death of two npcs within the crowd. After escaping Grigor was attacked by an unknown spotted owl, this made Grigor fly into a fit of rage. During this fight it was implied that this other owlet may have been one of Grigor's unnamed brothers, however it has not been confirmed. After strangling the other owlet he proceeded to apologize to the corpse before becoming catatonic. Luckily he was not attacked by other owlets after this and survived the bloodbath.

Graduation
After the events of the bloodbath Grigor was escorted to #the-river. It is here that Grigor started to believe the dead owlets were looking and speaking about him. This was worsened when Cron fell out of the dead owlet pile and began moving. The sight of the horribly maimed owlet moving, combined with the rest of the situation convinced Grigor that the dead owlets were being resurrected. Fearful that the undead owl would be sicked on the remaining owls Grigor went yeep until another owlet brushed passed him. At this point he focused on the fire that was being set up for the dead owlets and became mesmerized by the lights and sounds of the flames. At one point he became so fixated on the fire that he did not realize he had been moved into the line to wash up regardless of the fact that he had little blood on him.

Shortly after this Grigor approached Lazarus (AsheR), who he believed to be dead after being thrown from the highest point at #the-river. Eventually he managed to deduce through some rather odd mental gymnastics that Lazarus was alive, something that angered him internally as 'alive owls cannot teach you how dead owls function'. Eventually due to Lazarus and Saphir (Firecrackerwolf, Currently Ritz on the Rise) both telling him that dead owls do not speak and not listening to his ravings Grigor closed himself off again. When it was time to swear loyalty Grigor drank the binglejuice-blood mixture, though initially disliking the drink he eventually came to enjoy it as it calmed him down. Grigor decided that this peaceful feeling was because he had sworn himself to the academy, giving him a sense of real acceptance.

Having killed during the bloodbath Grigor was placed into the yellow owl group. Though told that this group would be his new family Grigor did not feel particularly happy about this, as he felt like he was unable to connect with any of his new peers. Later as Sulohtur (AsheR) was assigning the yellow owls their jobs Grigor received the job of egg warmer. The idea of this job frightened Grigor, as he was worried that it would be too similar to having a family and that he would become attached to the owlets he helped hatch, something that in his mind would make him venerable to weakness.

Trivia
- Grigor has developed a habit of plucking his own feathers. On one occasion doing so to the point of drawing blood.

- December 11, 2020 Grigor uttered the words: "Hello, I believe you are dead, that is quite tragic."

- As of his creation Grigor has been unaware that he is a hybrid and believes that he is a spotted owl. This is because Grigor was raised by his aunt and uncle, a pair of proud owls with their own clutch of owlets.

- It has been implied that Grigor has some form of crush on Sulohtur.