Yatsa Gunbu

A cheerful and friendly sylvari with several vespid physiological traits.

Appearance
Yatsa Gunbu has narrow shoulders with wide hips and broad thighs, and long legs that taper into two-toed feet. He is capable of standing and walking in either a digitigrade or plantigrade stance, varying his height by four inches. Six stiff wing-like leaves sprout from his back, each articulated at the base, although incapable of flight. His lower jaw is articulated side-ways, capable of splitting open horizontally to get a better grip on tougher foodstuffs.

His bark is primarily orange, with metallic purple accents, and tough but smooth. His large eyes are dark red, and his skull is capped by a large mushroom. Yatsa's glow is bright green. He has little personal odour, with only a faint smell of peat.

From time to time, the mushroom grows branching asomata that eventually spore and die off.

Personality
Yatsa Gunbu is cheerful and optimistic to the point of naivety, despite his age. He's very emotive and wears his heart on his sleeve, and he can easily have his feelings hurt if he perceives someone as mocking him. Despite how friendly he is, he's rather self-centered in his thinking, although never maliciously. He can be somewhat literal, and often has difficulty reading other people's emotions or body language, particularly sarcasm.

He has great skill with illusions, but prefers to use it for innocuous things, like party tricks, rather than using his magic to trick or prank people.

When Yatsa's mushroom is sporing, he feels a strange compulsion to ascend to greater heights. Literally. He climbs tables, staircases, roofs...


 * Likes: dressing up prettily, sweets, tea, experiencing new things, people-watching
 * Dislikes: bright lights, constant loud noises, beer & hard alcohol, people who unnecessarily kill bugs

Background
Yatsa Gunbu was a rather unpleasant sapling - loud, disrespectful of his mentors, and a bully. However, he suffered a serious head injury after a fall when he was only 5 months old, and a talented mender attempted to heal the damage done to Yatsa's skull by patching it with a unique fungus species. Fortunately, the mushroom filled in the damage rendered and triggered some magical abilities. Unfortunately, it also grew partially into Yatsa's brain over time, and as such, he suffers from severe headaches and occasional fits.

Friends

 * Solwen - friend, crush
 * Judicael - friend & mentor

Other

 * Phineus - mender

Trivia

 * Yatsa is loosely based off mud-dauber wasps and tarantula hawks.
 * Yatsa Gunbu's mesmer illusions disperse into a cloud of white and purple bees.