Original art / character design: evelar Character now belongs to me: LuxV
Character notes: Name: Hickory Woods (not their birth name) Sex/Gender: AFAB. Genderqueer. They/them pronouns. Species: White Rat (not true albino) Age: Mid-twenties
Where most white rats are city-dwellers, Hickory has always loved the great outdoors. They live on the edges of the city by necessity, but get out into the wilds as often as possible. This causes them some problems as, while not a true albino (blue eyes!), their pale skin and fur mean they burn very easily in the sun - so they tend to dress both practically, and to cover up as much as possible. Paired with an androgynous build, they can pass easily as either sex most of the time. Ironically, they do love opportunities where they can get some of their kit off outside - night-time skinny-dipping being a favourite, when they can get away with it. Hickory chose their first name when they became an adult, rejecting the feminine name that they'd hated since birth.
This picture captures a fantasy-universe version of Hickory, where they're a druid, working to maintain the balance between city-folk and the untamed wilds, taking students from either world and showing them the importance of the other, and how to respect it.
In a modern-day world, they're still a teacher, teaching PE, but running extracurricular activities - hiking, camping, anything to get kids out into nature, and working at camps over the summer.
Likes: Camping, hiking, nature. Dislikes: The city, crowds. Ambition: To learn to cook better. Sexuality: Pansexual - although prefers relationships with women. Kinks: Exhibitionism, BDSM - switch, prefers to sub to women and dom men. They do sometimes develop a crush on their older students - they'd never initiate anything, but fantasise about getting caught by a student during one of their naked sessions in the wilderness...
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