Standing at a more than respectable 42", Eligos is built less along the lines of a tank and more along the lines of an acrobat. Tall, but with flat, toned muscle stretched taut over a sturdy frame that is hardly hidden beneath a thin sleek coat that will do even less to hide the scars he will inevitably acquire. Massive paws even for his height took some getting used to, but his facial features are a masculine version of his mother's more delicate beauty. One could say he bears the face of an angel. It certainly makes him pleasant to look at.

A base of charcoal gray, very dark but not quite black, is the most prominent of the colors on Eli's pelt. However, the most noticeable color is a gold, smudged and gradiated through his fur along the bottom of his neck, up his sides and up his hindlegs from the hocks, slowly fading into the charcoal and striped here and there throughout even its most saturated areas with streaks of the dark gray. The same gold, saturated, touches his face in a blaze from halfway up his muzzle to the top of his skull, and streaks beneath his blood-red eyes like clawmarks dripping in gold. True black stripes his fur along his back, tail, and forelegs and engulfs his forepaws and the last half of his tail. He is an interesting mix between his dam and sire in appearance, a darker, muted palette taken from each and painted across the canvass of his form.

Since his encounter with a witch one year, Eligos in addition sports gold streaks along his shoulders that fade into flecks of gold across his shoulders and back. He also sprouted a pair of eland horns, glossy black with gold spiraling upwards along each edge. His gold markings now glow as well, with touch causing a brighter glow to ripple out along his markings - fainter where the gold is not so saturated, heavier where it is.appearance

Eligos is a quiet one. He doesn't tend to put himself forward immediately, preferring to stay back on the outskirts of groups and observe rather than be the center of attention, but this isn't for lack of confidence. Because if there's one thing Eli is, it's supremely confident, in himself, in his ideals, and in his family. Overconfident, in many ways, particularly when Eligos is young and doesn't have enough experience to know the limitations of reality. He is also headstrong and stubborn, though he doesn't get directly confrontational about it so much as he internalizes much of his skepticism and just does what he thinks is the right way anyway. Only people who really get to know him tend to see that, though, all hidden behind that quiet, watchful exterior.

Eli is surprisingly patient and levelheaded. It takes a lot to rile him. He'll stoically accept heckling, teasing, and bossing... up to a point. One toe over that point, though, and he snaps. Not a raging-ball-of-fur rage, but a systematically-murder-your-family-and-salt-the-earth rage that is, luckily, carefully tamped down into a methodically-kick-the-shit-out-of-you-until-you-cry sort of rage when it is an Abraxas who pushes him too far. He doesn't lose control, though - he has an almost scary amount of control over himself even in the worst moments. But he is definitely that quiet kid that kept to himself that no one expected to snap and start sniping people from the clocktower, you know?

Being the quiet, strong, thoughtful and unassuming type, he tends to come across as a nice guy, but he has few or no close friends. His natural reserve may come across as shyness, but even if he were highly sought after Eligos would be friendless by choice, any overtures in that direction being gently rebuffed to give him that bubble of personal and emotional space that he craves.

In a fight - and Eli will get into a lot of those despite his patience - Eligos will tend to hold back at first to observe and learn his opponent, but don't make the mistake of assuming it is cowardice or reluctance to fight that drives this restraint. No, no, Eligos is a physical sort and loves a fight. But it isn't ever just about the fight to him. No, Eli uses it as a way to learn his opponent, to get in their head, to see what they are really like... and then to use that knowledge against them and break them down. He's confident enough in himself and his abilities that even every loss is a win to him, because you learn as much from a defeat as from a victory.

Eligos' loyalty is solid. As stubborn as he is, how could anything change his mind? But with his father, it's more than just loyalty. It's hero-worship, plainly and simply. For no one else does Eli make the assumption that Eligos doesn't know better than they do, but for Malleus, Eligos knows Malleus' word is law and more than that, if Malleus says it, it's true because to Eli Malleus is the Abraxas, is the morning and evening star, and what he says will be made so. Nothing in life matters as much to Eligos as his father's regard and respect, and Eli will unhesitatingly do whatever his father asks of him. It's not even a question for him.personality

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