Username: Cherry.Cat
Name: Rhonii
Gender: male
Extras: his best friend is a wolf spider
he loves spider collecting
he currently owns 3 spiders
Nehn's History wrote:The young and solitary viscet's name translates to "spider" as Nehn's mother wanted him to keep his culture's language with him. Although his name includes accents, Nehn's mother wanted him to just keep it simple for others to recognize and say without being intimidated by the extra pronounciations. The thought of Nehn's mother naming him "spider" came from the fact that their family has had a history of encounters of venomous spiders attacking and potentially killing family members; Nehn's mother would not have been surprised if her son were to encounter and die from a venomous spider's bite, so she tried not to get too attached to him.
Nehn has never met, nor seen, his father; his mother has never mentioned anything about her husband throughout the course of Nehn's life. His father's whereabouts are unknown.
As a child, Nehn did not make much friends, perhaps it was because of how the other young viscets would find Nehn's tail as "weird" or "creepy," or maybe because of how Nehn would catch bugs and "experiment" on them. Either way, he didn't really care nor minded if he had friends or not. Although Nehn is not much of a social viscet with others, he is very social with spiders!
About Nhen's Love for Spiders wrote:Nhen fell in love with spiders when he observed one making a web from start to finish. Although it may seem impossible to watch a spider create a web from start to finish, Nhen would not take his eyes off of the spider's silk that would come through the spinneret. Nhen would occasionally search for spiders out of boredom; that is when he spotted a golden silk orb-weaver. Well, he didn't really see the orb-weaver at first; what caught Nhen's attention was a finch all tangled up in a web. Once he saw the orb-weaver make its grand entrance, Nhen thought of a plan to make the orb-weaver his friend.
Over a course of 2 and a half months, Nhen would intentionally fool other small songbirds into the orb-weaver's net. He would hang a bird feeder not too close, but not too far, from the spider's web in a direction that would force the birds to go towards the orb-weaver's trap. Eventually, Nhen caught the orb-weaver's attention. The orb-weaver would let Nhen come close and hold it. After bonding with the spider, Nhen decided to name the spider Juct after attempting to translate and spell out "bird killer" in his culture's language.
After spending a whole year with Juct, Nhen did trust exercises with the 'weaver. One particular trust exercise included having Juct in Nhen's mouth, and hanging from the tip of Nhen's tongue with a thread of silk. Of course, Nhen never did any of these trust exercises in front of other viscets and people. In fact, Juct is a secret friend to Nhen; Nhen would never talk about or show others Juct. When Nhen would go out to places with Juct, he would actually hide Juct in his tail. Nhen's tail has a mouth that is supposed to be used to scare off enemies or predators, but his tail also has a pretty spacious cavity on the inside from where the mouth is... it's spacious enough to hold a family of spiders. Instead of having a family of spiders in his tail, Nhen just holds Juct in there and sometimes picks up fallen and injured birds with his tail, providing Juct a meal once in a while.
Inside of Nhen's tail, Juct would create a nice and comfy webbed living space. When a meal would fall through the mouth of Nhen's tail, it would fall right in front of Juct's eyes. Nhen may have spoiled Juct a lot and sort of made Juct lazy. Sometimes, Juct would throw a small spider party in Nhen's tail without him knowing. Nhen doesn't usually look inside his tail when he's off to places with Juct in his tail, so Juct would peek out to see any spiders living nearby the usual route Nhen would take; thus, Juct would send little signals to the neighboring spiders and have them sneak inside Nhen's tail.
Art wrote:Nhen and Juct wrote:Art drawn by me, user TenguInari.
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