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Date this form was created: 10/11/14
Full name of Character: Danvix Akara
Reason, meaning or purpose behind the name: In his native language, it means 'Innovative Mind'
Nickname: Danvix
Reason for nickname: His name isn't really nickname material, so people just call him by his first name.
Race: Sytax
Occupation/class: Back on his homeworld, he was a very famous gun architect. A few years ago in his past he was a Nomad bandit king. Nowadays he's just a nomad, working for himself and his survival.
Social class: Low, he lives in complete solitude other then his midget

.:| (Blank Stare)Physical Appearance|:.

Age: 246
How old they appear: 50-60
Eye Color: Purple
Glasses or contacts? None
Hair color length and style: His hair goes down to around where his neck meets the rest of his body, it's a bit messy but he keeps it well made. He has lots of grey hairs due to his age and he doesn't cut it most of the time.
Weight and height: 8'4" (2.54 metres) 195 lbs (no gear) 253 lbs (gear on)
Type of body (build): He's muscly under his clothes, but no where near as much as Brick and he's no Mordecai, he's a little average, carrying heavy gear and running long distances causes him to grow some muscle but age and the fact all day he sits around and does nothing all day keep up with him.
Skin tone and type (i.e., harry, slimy, scaly, oily, fair, burns easily): His skin is flaky, and very dry. It is not smooth but not crocodile skin.
Shape of face: Benedict Cumbercatch or Allan Rickman
Distinguishing marks (dimples, moles, scars, birthmarks, etc.): All over his body, almost every inch of it, has purple markings like a zebra. He wears the mask in the lower right corner to hide his face so human just think he's a very tall person and not from another dimension.
Predominant feature: His markings and the fact that he's eight feet tall intimidates people
Is s/he healthy? Euuuuughmmm... Sort of, he'll drink, but only if it's a party or something or if he really needs something to calm him down. He's old for a Pandoran, very old. He can't keep up with the younger people (and technology) but he tries his hardest since he once had a daughter and it was difficult to keep up with her. He can run very long distances but not too long. He is extremely strong, his minigun (even with the thing split into two parts) is around 300-400 pounds. To take into perspective, The Heavy from TF2 says his minigun is 150 kilograms, that is 300 pounds. In short, he's an old man, but he's not to be underestimated.
If not, why not? Or why are they healthy? Just explained without reading ahead, whoops.
Do they look healthy? Why/why not? He looks old, wrinkles, greying hair, etc.

.:| (Blank Stare)Favorites|:.

Character’s favorite color: Green, he doesn't see much of that color on Pandora and it makes him smile.
Least favorite, why? Blue, he associates that color with sadness.
Music? He plays the violin, although he's a bit rusty since he doesn't know how to repair his own violin and hasn't played in a long time. 
Least favorite music, why? Rock and Pop, he finds it primitive and stupid.
Food: He eats humans, when people ask him about it he says 'I'm a Sytax, this is a human. You are a human, that is a chicken, two different species and you eat the one less likely to survive. plus, don't the rats eat people too?'
Literature: Mystery
Expressions: (i do not understand, me has small vocabulary)
Expletives (curse): (same as above)
Mode of transport: Walking, it provides exploration and that's what nomads do. However when he's sick or just not feeling it he will use a fast travel or car.
Hobbies: Drawing, his hobby is what got him fame

.:| (Blank Stare)Personality|:.

Habits: He thinks about his old memories of his daughter and wife, he also speaks in his own language from time to time.
Greatest Strength: He's super strong, and excellent at surviving and killing people in ways no one would know
Greatest Weakness: His Sytax lineage makes him extremely targeted out of fear by bandits, meat by creatures, and money by Hyperion. He's also very slow at trusting people, speed in general, and adapting to new environments, which is unlike a nomad.
Soft spot: He has a soft spot for kids and young women. They remind him of his wife and daughter. Since there are next to no kids on Pandora he sees midgets as substitutes. Which is why he let Stripskin live with him in the first place, however lately he doesn't see a child in Stripskin anymore. He's pretty good at hiding emotions anyway.
Is their soft spot obvious, why/why not: People think he doesn't like midgets due to tying Stripskin to his shield, however he stands highly against them.
If not, how do they hide it: He lives in complete solitude. He is very quiet about his emotions and doesn't show emotion on his face.
Biggest Vulnerability: He can never trust people completely, he has major trust issues.
Most at ease when: He has a nice book and a cup of tea, or he's in the middle of a crowd and his minigun is ready to shoot more.
Most ill at ease when: When he sees a badass and his action skill isn't ready yet.
Priorities: Draw lots of guns, find a person to make those guns, and kill anyone who gets close to him
Philosophies: 'If you steal something from me you're my dinner'
How they feel about themselves: They see themselves as a vicious killing machine who designs the best guns and kills with the best guns.
Past failure they would be embarrassed to admit: His brother stole his art and left him for dead on Pandora.
Why? Because it shows he's weak and not protective

.:| (Blank Stare)Background|:.

Hometown: Unknown
Type of childhood: Normal, but with a horrible younger brother and no father
First Memory: his brother punching him in the face
Most important child hood event that still effects him/her: His first drawing of a gun
Why? Because it started his fame as an architect
Education: Normal
Religion: Athiest
Finances: None, he made everything he owns

.:| (Blank Stare)Family|:.

Mother: Ulana Akara
Relationship with her: She died when he was 136 (20-30) from drinking problems
Father: Unknown
Relationship with him: He never knew him
Siblings, How many, relationship with each: One, a younger one who was very selfish.
Children of siblings: Unknown, he doesn't know if his brother has a successor (he hopes he doesn't).
Other extended family: None
Close? Why or why not: Never knew them

.:| (Blank Stare)Traits|:.

Optimist or pessimist? Why? Pessimist, he looks down on humans for their nature on Pandora and his own race for how every single punishment for breaking the law is death.
Introvert or extrovert? Why? Introvert,  he's not a very talkitive person and he doesn't have very good people skills. He kills and eats people.
Drives and motives: If someone is getting close to his house in the Southern Shelf, he will attack. It's nothing personal, he just wants to protect what he has left since his brother took everything and sent him to this shithole planet.
Talents: He is a master artist. He can draw anything he wants to, but what he is especially good at is guns. He can draw elemental guns without obsticles, high damaging guns no sweat, burst fire, sniper rifles, tediore guns no problem. He has so many ideas for guns however he can only draw them, he has no skill in actually physically making guns. He's always left that to the engineers.
Extremely skilled at: Drawing, cooking, survival
Extremely unskilled at: Engineering, 
Good characteristics: Strong, loyal, trustful, clever,
Character flaws: unable to trust others, overprotective
Mannerisms: He is a gentle giant. He's not able to control his strength either. For example, if he were to pick up a minigun it'd be no problem, if he were to pick up a puppy or kitten then it would probably die by being squished. He also hates having to look down at the people he needs to talk to all the time since he's so tall. It hurts his neck.
Peculiarities: With his mask off (and it's off most of his time) people can clearly see the markings on his face. It's a part of his skin, he can't wash it off or change his skin color so people can't see.  His stripes scream out to everyone "HEY! ALIEN OVER HERE!!!"
Biggest regret: When he was sent to jail because his brother framed him, he missed his daughter's first opera. She also never learned he was in jail until he was in the Borderlands dimension.
Minor regrets: Not shooting his brother in the face when he was a kid.
Biggest accomplishment: Selling his gun designs to companies and becoming a millionare
Minor accomplishments: Becoming a nomad bandit king 
Darkest secret: He's constantly paronoid of his brother coming back to steal the rest of his works and kill him off.
Does anyone know? Nope, he once told Skinstrip but he forgot and went off to eat Bullymongs.
How did they find out: I just told you oh my god-

.:| (Blank Stare)Perception|:.

How do they relate to others: Skinstrip is the only person who Danvix actually likes as a person in this dimension. In his own dimension he was a bigshot and here he used to be a bandit king.
How are they perceived by strangers: A giant who is going to kill them/be killed by them.
Friends: Skinstrip, Brick (The Slabs and the Akara (Danvix isn't creative with clan names) are allies), Roland, Mordecai, Bloodwing, and Lilith.
Wife/husband/lover: Irena Orenan.
The Hero/Heroin: Um...
How do they view the Hero/Heroine: He first heard of the four new Vault hunters when they beat their huge rival bandit clan, The Rippers. He sees them as completely capible of beating Jack and anything in their path. However he most identifies with Zer0, for he's an alien not home just like him.
First impression of the character: Well, characters... First impression is he thought they'd die once they meet the Slabs.
why? Because Brick, his own bandit clan would've killed them off if it hadn't disbanded when Danvix was found out as an alien
What happens to change this perception: They killed Flynt and killed everyon in the Rippers, which was impressive.
What do people like most about this character: His minigun and how he designs such wonderful guns
What do they dislike most about them: How grumpy he is

.:| (Blank Stare)Goals|:.

Immediate: Draw more guns
Long term: Draw more guns
How do they plan to accomplish them: Drawing guns
How will others be effected by this: They don't care.

.:| (Blank Stare)Problems/Crisis|:.

How do they react in a crisis: He'll panic on the inside, however in due's time he'll be calm enough to find a way to run out of the area which is gonna explode or kill the thing causing the crisis
How do they face problems: He shoots it
Kind of problems they usually run into: Bandits coming to turn him into Hyperion
How they react to new problems: He'll smile and see it as something new and exciting
How they react to change: He HATES change, which is why he's not good with adaption. He wants to sit in his little home on the Southern Shelf and draw guns and shoot bullymongs all day

.:| (Blank Stare)General|:.

Favorite clothing, why: His normal casual wear. He doesn't like wearing heavy gear around the house
Least favorite, why: Back on his homeworld it was law to wear fancy dress every day (of course you'd know the penalty for not wearing fancy dress). He HATES suits
Jewelry: None
Other accessories: None, other then his mask
Drives: I don't know what this word means
Where do they live: On the Highest mountain in The Southern Shelf, where the Destroyer's Vault is. Hundreds of feet below him are the remains of the Atlas coorporation, he doesn't go down there in fear of what the few remaining Lancemen have become.
Where do they want to live: Right where he is
Spending habits, why: He hasn't got a penny to his name, he loots whatever he can find.
What do they do too much of, why: Drawing because there's honestly not much to do up there.
Most prized possession, why: His minigun, which he likes to call 'The Destroyer' after well, The Destroyer. It's a digistruct minigun, meaning he grabs from litterally nothing and it generates bullets on it's own, unlimited magazine size, deals damage every millisecond and increases with every level, however after a while it goes away to cool down.
People they secretly admire, why: None besides his wife.
Person they are most influenced by, why: None
Most important person in their life before story starts, why: His wife and daughter.
How do they spend the week just before the story starts: In his  house, drawing.

Danvix Akara was born and raised in the dimension of The Destroyer, the final boss from Borderlands 1. In this dimension, every single law has a penalty of death. Danvix never knew his dad and his younger brother never did either. His mom was an okay mom, but later after Danvix moved out she developed drinking problems. Danvix's younger brother, Quten, was a selfish person. He would always steal things from his older brother and wanted all of the attention on him. Danvix didn't mind this, in fact he let him have all the attention so he could focus on drawing and arts and his own life. He was a very clever boy, knowing that in a few decades he woon't have a mom to look after him, so he made himself strong and independant. Quten always had a fear of his brother's strength, he thought every little action his brother did was an insult to him. He always blamed Danvix for his own faults, he always wanted the attention to him, and he wants his brother to rot in hell. Danvix started drawing guns around his teenage years, he was old enough for a job and got profit by selling his guns to companies. Quten was ENRAGED. Danvix was getting more attention then him, an INTROVERT getting MORE ATTENTION.
By the time they were legally adults in their 150's (About 40-50). Quten stole one of Danvix's works, and ran up to one of the companies, claiming Danvix was stealing his works for profit. He also tried to make his story sound as sad and desperate as possible. So Danvix was arrested for copyright and his brother got all of Danvix's money and used every little peice of art Danvix ever made to continue his 'legacy'. Danvix was to be executed by being fed to The Destroyer, The Sytax's god and diety. All criminals, for any crime, were to be fed to The Destroyer as sacrifice. Danvix had his hands bound, he was ready to be fed to The Destroyer. In a way, he was eaten by the monster. However when he was The Vault opened in the Borderlands dimension. The blast from being sent into another dimension flung him into The Destroyer's cirtical hit area (I have no idea if it's an eye anymore) and he was trapped in there until The Destroyer died. He was thrown in front of the four Vault Hunters who freed him, he was concious enough to grab a Guardian Mask and put it on before he was knocked out cold in nothing but jail clothes.
When Danvix woke up, he was in New Haven in Zed's clinic, healed up by Dr. Zed. Not knowing any English and confused as to why this stranger had no stripes on his body, he asked where he was. Zed looked at him in confusion and asked him what Danvix was, Danix looked at him confused. he knew there was a clear language barrier between them. For the years he was in New Haven, he was taught English by Helena Peirce and what this planet is and what inhabits it by Tannis. Roland loved his designs for guns and Brick was fond of how tall and strong Danvix was for his age (Danvix told him he was in his 50's. Telling him he was 200+ might make Tannis even more stalker-ish). After the destruction of New Haven Danvix became a bandit king by recruiting nomads and marauaders to his clan, Danvix was completely fair to prisoners from The Bloodshot and Firehawk clan, letting them become part of The Akara and live if they can tell him what his race was. All of them failed by saying he was human. His became allies with Brick after learning he became a bandit king himself. Frequently they had raids against Hyperion and drank copious amounts of alcohol, Danvix also learned what a dog was.
One night after another sucessful Hyperion raid and some new prisoners, Danvix and Brick got drunk again, Danvix was so intoxicated his mask fell right off, exposing his stripes to Brick, who of course freaked out at intellegent alien life. Danvix explained to him calmly that he was a Sytax, he was sent to be eaten by The Destroyer and came out in another dimension, how famous he was in his own, and how his brother was an ass. Brick forgived him for keeping it secret, so did Lilith and Roland and Mordecai. The Slabs never knew, Brick kept it secret from them since he knew those idiots would spill the beans to the whole planet. However, The Akara clan got the news and tried to drug Danvix to turn him in for profit. Danvix was ENRAGED by this and killed almost everyone in the clan, only Skinstrip stayed loyal and stayed with Danvix. The clan disbanded and died within a week. Danvix got the materials he needed to live on top of the snowy area of the Southern Shelf near The Vault of The Destroyer and lives there today, shooting and eating anyone who comes by.

Character sheet not made by me. But the extra few backstory paragraphs were.
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