NEXUS CHRONICLES : PLANET ZAR

Hush & Sakay

BONDED TO McKALE

BASICS

Name	Hushaiju & Sakay	Gender	Bi-gender/Non-binary (afab/amab)
Species	Phoenix/Sira Hybrid	Pronouns	she/her & he/him
Age	Adult	Color	White
Height:	3'1" at shoulder	Size Class:	Small
Residence	Mwari Station	Occupation	Resident Hooligans
Origin	The Abstract Destiny

Personality

Hushaiju and Sakay might not be able to masquerade as the opposite gender (pheromones and all that, you know) so they settle for the next best thing: impersonating each other. They might not be identical twins, but they still milk the game for all it's worth! One thing is for certain, though--they do their darnedest to keep secret which of them really owns which name! Is Sakay the male, or the female? They each respond to both names and erratically switch around the name they refer to the other with, even in private. Perhaps it would be best to name them BOTH Hushaiju-Sakay and be done with it? It's the closest they can come to imitating McKale's own gender-swapping--at least when they're in their natural forms.

Once they're in human form, they assume the semblance of identical twinnage that their natural shapes lack. They each retain their true gender, of course, and but their pale-skinned and white-haired human-forms are androgynous and with the proper attire they can appear a somewhat tomboyish girl or a vaguely effeminate boy. Though they cannot disguise themselves as one gender versus another as distinctly as McKale can (the female can't assume stubble nor can the male produce bosoms), they absolutely excel at dressing as the same gender together and continuing their game of who-is-who.

It should be little surprise, then, that these two will probably live in their human-forms just as soon as they've mastered the trick of maintaining them.

McKale him/herself always knows which kitten is truly which, of course, but the rest of the world? Good luck!

Abilities

FIRE IMMUNITY

invulnerable to fire

FLAME PYRE REINCARNATION

When old age arrives and it is time for the hybrid to die, they can build a pyre and burn themselves upon it. They will then rise again from their own ashes, once more a newborn kitten. They will be self-aware and remember things like their name and how to speak, but it will take them a while to recall their whole vocabulary, nor will they have any memories of their past life/lives. They will remember things as they grow up again.
If they were previously bonded, their bond still lives, and is around when the hybrid reincarnates, the new kitten will instinctively re-bond, but they will not actually remember anything about their bonded until they age and recover the appropriate memories.
The hybrid cannot reincarnate from being killed unless they are slain upon something suitable as a funeral pyre.

SHAPESHIFTING

human form

TELEPATHY

the ability to speak mind-to-mind

VERBAL SPEECH

the ability to speak vocally