Zachary Formine Refsheet
Refsheet of by far one of my oldest still running characters. But this time, he's finally getting a proper design.
Zachary Formine
Born to the Formine family- a tycoon/media mogul family, more akin to a mob. They had close ties with the Jem family, in particular Darius.
When Zach was being brought around while the adults did a meeting, Zach found the young Zeydaan- 7 years younger than him, and immediately developed a budding friendship.
Zach and Zeydaan remained friends into adulthood, though career drove a wedge between the two in a way. While Zeydaan tried desperately to find a purpose, Zach was forced into the path of academia. Becoming a geography teacher at a local private school for several years until a day when a student, when posed with "Quiet down or pay attention, or you'll end up at a dead end job as a failure of a person" replied "Like you sir?". This reply shook him to his core, and he left the job to persue a grand purpose.
Zach is determined, charismatic, if not exactly thinking on a grand scale. Often leading him to get in serious trouble. He was obsessed with Dragons, even from a young age, wishing to become one knowing full well such a feat could be possible in a world full of magic and advanced technology (once asking Zeydaan whether they would be able to bite them given the fey dragon genes.
Zach had also wanted to form an adventuring party with Zeydaan and their other friends, namely Asriel Reinsford, Ashley Galactica (now his wife) and Lilith Ogrash. Zeydaan had refused noting that the lack of access to their fey powers made them useless- Zach made them promise they would join his group when those powers manifested. A promise Zeydaan/Isabella felt more than happy to comply with when they developed their powers at the age of 18.
Zach used to be fully human when in his pursuit to become a dragon, he was on the trial run for the first artificially induced transformation processes. The process went wrong, and left his DNA in flux between human and a partial dragon (a state Dr. Reinsford describes as 'not even a kobold, hence the self-appointed title of 'half kobold'- though with the added abilities of impressive heat resistance and immunity to transformative effects- as he is technically constantly in a state of transformation. Ever the optimist, he saw this as a complete success.
Zach explored for a few years trying to find his thing- when he came upon a miraculous artefact; the PSI-Disk (named by him, it doesn't have any psychic abilities). A strange frizbee-shaped ring that excretes and endless supply of nitroglycerin-like fuel, with a rare catch that it hardens into a glass-like structure when a current is passed through it. Several months of research and testing lead to him working out how to weaponise it and make a fully-functional set of power armor from it. Though the armor depicted here is the absolute apex of the technology, designed mainly by Alvis Zo'Harrison- the first editions often had the disk on a backpack leading to some rudamentary thrusters.
The armor is heavy, relying entirely on the fuel to move, and produces a massive amount of heat in the process. Zach's half kobold biology does make it so he won't feel the effects of the heat himself. The fuel can be projected as explosive rounds, form into scythe like blades and powerful (if limited thrusters).
Him and his wife live in a converted art gallery, which has become the base of operations for his adventuring party, dubbed "The Hawkmoths"- Zach will sometimes return to work at schools at times when not adventuring, bringing stories of battles and artefacts from other worlds as educational seminars.
For a time, Zach lived in a converted train carriage on an abandoned service track, before moving into the Hawkmoth's main base of operations, the Cliffside Barracks.
Zeydaan, Lilith and Ashley joined onto the party immediately. Asriel declined due to pursuing medicine though offered to help on occasion if people got seriously injured. Alvis and Iffy XC-B00P would be added on later as permanent members. Zach tends to get the majority cut of any bounty/reward, with the permission from others, many treating it as a second job/hobby compared to Zach himself, though the money tends to go back into the party during missions.
Zach is beyond everything a people pleaser, he often wants to see people succeed, whether that be out of general friendship or not liking when people 'are just spending all day moping'. He is definite in his position as party leader despite his lack of powers or smarts, being skillful in knowing how the team can train and equip themselves. He is also the proclaimed 'King of Heatups', while not presenting much talent in cooking perse, he is able to make any heatup/oven bake meal (or instant ramen) taste like it came from a gourmet restaurant. A skill invaluable to the Hawkmoths during long trips involving camping.
The Hawkmoths also gave Zach the callsign 'Oxbow' as a fun jab at his teaching history.
Zachary Formine
Born to the Formine family- a tycoon/media mogul family, more akin to a mob. They had close ties with the Jem family, in particular Darius.
When Zach was being brought around while the adults did a meeting, Zach found the young Zeydaan- 7 years younger than him, and immediately developed a budding friendship.
Zach and Zeydaan remained friends into adulthood, though career drove a wedge between the two in a way. While Zeydaan tried desperately to find a purpose, Zach was forced into the path of academia. Becoming a geography teacher at a local private school for several years until a day when a student, when posed with "Quiet down or pay attention, or you'll end up at a dead end job as a failure of a person" replied "Like you sir?". This reply shook him to his core, and he left the job to persue a grand purpose.
Zach is determined, charismatic, if not exactly thinking on a grand scale. Often leading him to get in serious trouble. He was obsessed with Dragons, even from a young age, wishing to become one knowing full well such a feat could be possible in a world full of magic and advanced technology (once asking Zeydaan whether they would be able to bite them given the fey dragon genes.
Zach had also wanted to form an adventuring party with Zeydaan and their other friends, namely Asriel Reinsford, Ashley Galactica (now his wife) and Lilith Ogrash. Zeydaan had refused noting that the lack of access to their fey powers made them useless- Zach made them promise they would join his group when those powers manifested. A promise Zeydaan/Isabella felt more than happy to comply with when they developed their powers at the age of 18.
Zach used to be fully human when in his pursuit to become a dragon, he was on the trial run for the first artificially induced transformation processes. The process went wrong, and left his DNA in flux between human and a partial dragon (a state Dr. Reinsford describes as 'not even a kobold, hence the self-appointed title of 'half kobold'- though with the added abilities of impressive heat resistance and immunity to transformative effects- as he is technically constantly in a state of transformation. Ever the optimist, he saw this as a complete success.
Zach explored for a few years trying to find his thing- when he came upon a miraculous artefact; the PSI-Disk (named by him, it doesn't have any psychic abilities). A strange frizbee-shaped ring that excretes and endless supply of nitroglycerin-like fuel, with a rare catch that it hardens into a glass-like structure when a current is passed through it. Several months of research and testing lead to him working out how to weaponise it and make a fully-functional set of power armor from it. Though the armor depicted here is the absolute apex of the technology, designed mainly by Alvis Zo'Harrison- the first editions often had the disk on a backpack leading to some rudamentary thrusters.
The armor is heavy, relying entirely on the fuel to move, and produces a massive amount of heat in the process. Zach's half kobold biology does make it so he won't feel the effects of the heat himself. The fuel can be projected as explosive rounds, form into scythe like blades and powerful (if limited thrusters).
Him and his wife live in a converted art gallery, which has become the base of operations for his adventuring party, dubbed "The Hawkmoths"- Zach will sometimes return to work at schools at times when not adventuring, bringing stories of battles and artefacts from other worlds as educational seminars.
For a time, Zach lived in a converted train carriage on an abandoned service track, before moving into the Hawkmoth's main base of operations, the Cliffside Barracks.
Zeydaan, Lilith and Ashley joined onto the party immediately. Asriel declined due to pursuing medicine though offered to help on occasion if people got seriously injured. Alvis and Iffy XC-B00P would be added on later as permanent members. Zach tends to get the majority cut of any bounty/reward, with the permission from others, many treating it as a second job/hobby compared to Zach himself, though the money tends to go back into the party during missions.
Zach is beyond everything a people pleaser, he often wants to see people succeed, whether that be out of general friendship or not liking when people 'are just spending all day moping'. He is definite in his position as party leader despite his lack of powers or smarts, being skillful in knowing how the team can train and equip themselves. He is also the proclaimed 'King of Heatups', while not presenting much talent in cooking perse, he is able to make any heatup/oven bake meal (or instant ramen) taste like it came from a gourmet restaurant. A skill invaluable to the Hawkmoths during long trips involving camping.
The Hawkmoths also gave Zach the callsign 'Oxbow' as a fun jab at his teaching history.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Kobold
Gender Male
Size 3600 x 2400px
File Size 3.03 MB
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