Teldra

Backstory:
Teldra grew up on the native homeworld of the species of sergal and nevrean, the planet of Tal. On Tal Teldra was raised in the typical cultural tradition of male nevrean to be beautiful musicians and artisans. Being trained in the various arts, Teldra learned many things from different cultures of neighbouring towns and expanded his tastes in music and cultures.

With all this knowledge and experience, Teldra became a popular musician and icon of the ideal of Judda for many in his local area. A concept of a being, usually male, regarded with almost sacred reverence for almost divine-like grace and beauty. He would use his gains and position to create a music company and a soap kitchen charity.

Then when Telda was at the very peak of his life with friends and family, he was abducted.

He was abducted while traversing the mountains by a modified talyxian-stalker. The beast damaged his wings during the struggle and took him to secret research facility, of which was ran and guided by a Talyxian Rooter by the name of Dr. Spencer.

In this facility he would be subjected, like many other abductees, ethically questionable yet paradoxically humane and relatively harmless experiments and studies on their bodies and DNA in Spencer’s desire to understand and improve the native species of the planet’s biology and genetics.

When the facility could do no further research on him and others, they were sent off to be taken off world by mysterious aliens. These aliens having contacted Dr. Spencer many years ago and the convinced the researcher to commit such a breach of ethics for the betterment of the inhabitants of Tal. Unknown to Spencer that these aliens would commit far worse acts to the subjects handed over to them.

Fortunately for Teldra and the prisoners, the aliens’ journey back to the site of their horrific activities were interrupted when attacked by a rival alien ship. In the ensuing chaos, Teldra managed to escape with the aid of an unusually large female Northern-Western hybrid sergal with a golden eye and a female were crow. The three fled in an escape pod.

They were founded by a nearby planet’s space fleet. When they arrived to the planet, Teldra and the sergal would be aided in registration for temporary citizenship. However, due to a typo error in the documents for the nevrean, he found much to his chagrin that he was listed down as female.

The three would spend several years on the planet. Werecrow eventually left them, but not before she aided the remaining duo with a black-market doctor who gave them enhancements of biological, technological and magical nature. Though wings, much to Teldra’s despair, would never fully recover.

Teldra and the sergal would eventually part ways as well. For many years he spent his life in many intensive manual labour jobs as the locations he could afford to stay at did not offer any jobs suited for his natural talents and experience in the arts. Eventually he had a bad run in with a criminal organization that forced him to flee the system. Teldra found himself working various jobs that put even his enhanced body and mind to the absolute limit as he struggled to survive.

The experience worsened his trauma and depression, and Teldra eventually decided that he had enough of the galaxy. He went back to his home of Tal. He hoped that seeing his loved ones and friends, or even just their descendants might aid in healing his mind.

Within a short timeframe, Teldra arrived in Tal’s system and set down on the planet’s surface to walk back home.

He found to his wonder that his hometown was now a city, and that wonder would turn to sadness as the reality slowly set in for him. The last descendants of his friends or relatives had either passed away or left for parts unknown. The home he remembered was long gone.

Alone in what used to be his hometown; a revelation struck Teldra hard as he gazed into a fountain’s waters. Teldra’s strained memories recalled the bright, rich, feminine and youthful musician he was when he looked into the mirror or reflection of himself with family, friends, associates and strangers around him.

For many years since he was gone, Teldra either refused or was too preoccupied to pay heed to his state. What peered back from the water’s reflection at him was not an innocent youth in the prime of his life.

What peered back at the sobbing Teldra was a masculine, world-weary, dour, heavily scarred and colour faded nevrean.

Broken at the revelation, the grief-stricken Teldra left his former home.

Teldra with his resurrection vessel, travelled to a great cliff’s edge. There he pondered on whether to walk off the cliff’s edge or not with his vessel in hand.

He then found himself shocked to find that he was not alone, and much to his surprise a familiar figure came across him. It was the same sergal that he escaped the alien ship. After a brief awkward silence between the two on the cliff’s edge, they talked to one another about what lead them to this point.

The sergal about her past and her attempts to come to terms with it on Tal, and Teldra about his current state. The sergal then turned to leave, but not before she offered for Teldra to join her in her travels.

Teldra pondered on Jade Shannon’s offer. For once in a long time, he did not feel truly alone. That tiny sliver of hope and desire away from the emptiness and pain fought the fears and doubts that made such a chance seem like a false cruel hope.

After much debating he finally came to a decision on what his fate would be.

He accepted her offer. She then revealed her name after all those years, Jade Shannon. And so, the two sit there together for hours before they journeyed off together. The time together, through personal struggles and dangers, gradually brought something back to him.

While he could not perhaps ever be fully restored back to what he once was, he could recover enough and perhaps thrive as something anew. The proof being when he looked in the mirror. The dour, world-weary, colour worn and masculine nevrean with gruesome scars of before was now a vibrant, strong, fair and graceful being with gradually healing scars. And a friend standing at his side, smiling back along with him in the mirror.