Spartak, the two-faced deer (bio)

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Physical gained an almost new set of senses | Emotional 96%, regaining new and different energy from the mask | Mental the mask has become a complete part of his face now, controlling his central thoughts and processing center of the brain

Life is a test, with little tests riddled in between...



Jennie and Spartak
By Jennie



Current Updates
I thought I had died. For what seemed like a very long time, my mind was separate from my body; fighting a force that was both unseen and untouched. Yet, I could see and touch it. I never could while I was awake. Darkness surrounded me on all sides. I felt like I was one with the room. When a foreign entity came into the room, I could feel it try to take me over. This happened over and over again for a very long time. Eventually, I could feel myself slipping, loosing control of my power to hold back the foreign energy. I lost the battle. It took me over completely.
***
When I woke up, all I was able to see was smeared color. A kind of faded, old array of colors that seemed to have melted over my eyes from a while ago. I could move parts of my body all perfectly; it was just the struggle of not being able to see anything that made me cautious. I could have just woken up from a deep sleep and it could be years in the future for all I know. Made it to the lake, sniffed the water, and took a long, cool drink from it, gulping and sloshing the water around in my mouth. I paused for a moment, then dipped my entire head in the water. Still feels like the water I used to know. The colors that had melted over my eyes began to wash off in the water. Raising my head up from the water again, my vision came back to normal. Looking around at the interesting weather, I realized that my vision was actually better than it used to be. It wasn't the future, no. But the gods had made it twilight. Then, finally remembering who I was, I froze. Slowly, I bent down to peer at my reflection in the water. The mask...it wasn't there. My fur had the patterns of the mask tattooed into it, but the mask...wasn't there anymore. This didn't surprise me as much as it made me afraid. Where was the mask if it wasn't around me when I woke up? The melted colors over my eyes, the patterns from the mask on my fur...the mask must have sunken right into my skin. Ever since I had woken up from the sleep, kept noticing something different about myself. My eyes were highly sensitive to different shades of light and shades of colors, and could analyze something about a particular object from a long distance away. I could predict what a squirrel or a bat would do before it did it. My sense of smell was amazing me; I was able to smell the sweat of a deer standing all the way at the other end of the forest.
I could hear the wind rustling the leaves of a specific tree all the way from the birch forest. The only sense that didn't seem to have changed was my touch.
April 19, 2014

Previous Updates
A deep sadness had echoed through me in the past week or so that seemed to come with its own anger. Every morning I woke up and touched the mask cemented onto my face. More squishy and flesh-like every day. I felt like screaming, but I couldn't. It had melted over my mouth. Thank the gods it hadn't reached my nose yet. Everywhere I went, people would gawk at me; fawns would shriek and run away. Sometimes I'd trot down to the pond and look at the ugly deer staring back at me. At least it hadn't covered my eyes. But I wish it had. I didn't want to be alive. Who was I? Was I just a figment of their imagination? I began to doubt myself; not recently, but long ago, when I thought that the mask I was given had meant something good. Yet it had just deteriorated from that moment. Loner. Outcast. Monster. Nobody called me Spartak. I was starving, for both food and attention. It was when I noticed Lady in the distance that I raced after her. Not so much as for playing, or even attention that I had wanted so badly. Just for food. Her help. I was afraid that if I tried cutting the mask away from my mouth, that it would hurt me and not the mask. I could feel it, as if it were a part of my body now. What started out as a cry for help ended up with Lady in Red racing off after a tease. Unlike all of the other times where I wouldn't have a care in the world and play around with her, I followed her, trying to scream. It was so muffled, my scream was barely above a whisper. I was dying for a pinecone or a even a bite of grass. A desert was inside of my mouth. A squishy, melted smile hid the thirsty frown. It mocked anyone who came near to get a closer look. One last look at myself in the water told me that I was loosing weight. My shoulder bones had begun to jut out of my back like mountains, and my spine followed like an archipelago. Jevir had once talked to me about energy. That when it is used up, it doesn't just disappear. She explained that everything goes somewhere. I have reason to believe that the energy from the mask had gone into my body. And that Jevir had gone away. Where to, I don't know. March 10, 2014





Spartak in human form: x

Biography
Born in a mushroom ring next to a frog. Adopted by Jevir. Has a tendency to overreact and get paranoid often, especially around naked deer. He can't stay still for very long and is easily distracted. But it really catches his attention if you run around with him. Spartak had gotten the full sectretary bird pelt cast on him by a very old deer, wearing a skull mask, space beluga pelt, and those strange, big red antlers. His pictogram was just a jumble of other symbols on top of each other. Spartak thought of him as his father, because he never had one, but he hasen't seen that deer again. Later, as Spartak had become a young adult, a mysterious deer had cast The Deer of the Dead mask on him, altering his appearance dramatically. He searches for this deer to thank them, and he often wonders why a deer would be willing to give such a great mask to...a deer like him? Then something went wrong one day that changed the young buck's life forever...
I'd been drinking from the pond for about a minute when I looked up, and there in front of my face was another deer....who looked exactly like me. This freaked me out a bit and I scooted back so I could have room to stare at him. My size, just a little skinnier, my same mask...and the same colorings I have on my pelt...except--where was the color?! It was supposed to have color in it. The deer stared at me with an eternally smiling expression. Was that how I looked? Growing anxious, I peered down into the pond to see my reflection. I was...glowing? I watched my reflection start to blacken, and sink into the pond, creating a small whirlpool. Everything in the pond drained into it. Frozen to my spot at the edge of the water, I lifted my head, only to see the deer was gone. Things seemed to be slightly different from then on. Like an out-of-body experience, as if I was watching a movie play before my eyes, but did not feel a part of it. I ran without stopping for hours on end, to every part of the forest. The feeling like I wasn't quite there....that I was slipping away, to somewhere unknown, was riddled on my mind. I skidded to a stop in front of an innocent fawn when I thought I heard Beorn's roar. I lifted my head, and roared back. The fawn called to me as well, but I didn't seem to hear him at all, and brushed past the little guy. I wasn't myself. I wasn't myself at all now. I was...something else. Oseaan. This time the sound hit my ears like a wave of cool air. Slowing down, but not stopping, my ears went to the front of my head and yearned to hear the sound again. Kio. Cassiopeia. I picked up my speed, and almost ran past them. It was controlling me. I knew it....it had to be something ----- the mask! Going against the strong force willing me to run away, I struggled to turn myself around and face them. My friends. How could I walk away from my friends?? It wasn't me, though. It wasn't me. I made my stiff leg bow to everyone, including one that I did not know. It was all I could do to keep myself from exploding at them. Rage. Hatred. What in the forest was happening to me?! Out of the corner of my eye, I could see that Kio had started dancing. A chain reaction; everyone started dancing after her. I forced myself to dance. This coldness, a cold so deep and penetrating, seeped its way in under my fur...sinking to my hind legs and spreading into my chest. Sit down, it said. So I sat, without thinking. From behind my mask, I saw that everyone stopped and stared at me. Worried looks. I was worried, too. I had to get it off...before it ate me alive. It was filling me up, filling a void inside of me. But not with good feelings, no... The feelings of darkness, deep fear, loneliness, depression, and the most twisted and angry feeling I'd ever felt in my life took me over on the spot. Whatever was inside of the mask....was finding its way into my soul. I had to get it off. Now. My head snapped into action, and I swung my neck around, pounding and scraping my face into the dirt. I slammed the side of the mask into the ground, but it wouldn't budge. Automatically, like a robot, I rose from my spot, leaped over to a tree, and whacked my head into it as hard as I could.
I was only hurting myself. Warm liquid trickled down my neck, leaking from the side of my head. On the outside, I looked to others that I was hurt, and confused. On the inside, a battle was being fought with an unknown force...which was now dragging me down to the graveyard. It wanted to go back. I cryed out, trying with my hooves to pry it off by the edges. It was no use, and I felt my body traveling to the dark place, with very little of myself still left. It wanted to be there.....and now so did I. There was no stopping this force, only giving in, for it was far too powerful to let a mere cervidae control where it was going to go. The force that had taken over my body seemed to be happier here, and moved me like a a puppet. I sat in places and did things that a deer shouldn't normally do, but I couldn't feel any pain. I could just see it on my body, and stare in horror at my broken legs. What did this spirit want from me.....my body? A temporary body to dwell in. This force was not using it wisely, though. October 9, 2013


*Some of these are links, feel free to click and find out*

Name: Spartak

Nickname: 'Tak'

Gender: Male

Forest Birthday: July 3, 2013

Age: 2 years; young adult male

Appearance
Size: #17

Speaks in: this color, his voice sounds like Elijah Wood's

Set: Secretary Bird pelt and antlers, Deer of the Dead mask. Cannot wear any other mask; the dotd has become part of his face.

Personality
Shy around red deer, because the color is almost hypnotic (in a good way).

Species: Seneca white deer/Melanistic deer. Two rare species, his father being melanistic; his mother being Seneca. He shares both of their traits, melanistic on his back and legs, Seneca everywhere else on his body.

Mother: x
Father: x
Spartak: x


Likes to prance around with anybody, anywhere, play with friends and fawns,

and enjoys sitting in sun patches in the forest. Will sometimes play as a fawn.

Low emotional health, gets shy, or sad easily.

In some cases can get angry if provoked long enough. Will protect friends from mean bucks, naked

deer (which he finds to be some of a threat from his past experiences), and mean does. He may

look a bit creepy to some, but under his mask is a kind, yet sensitive buck.

If he is interested in meeting your deer, but is feeling shy, he will seem to linger nearby, or stand off

to a distance and observe.

Adopted Offspring
Has accepted to care after---: Hovis

Friends
Seeks out the company of these deer---: Kio, Jennie, Ben, Beorn, Flyleaf, Lady in Red, Xan, Cassie, Calder, Oseaan

Acquaintances
Wants to know these deer better---: Chemtrail, Danieru, Svitiplyn, Abraham de Lacy, Matthew, Nemesis, Rhoda, Sabel, Ivo, Judaius, Eleanor, Jergens, Craig, Rolandd, Lyra, Uitfawn/Lem, Galene, Lavender, Tago, Flait, Lilitu, Stymfalia, Oira-Oira, Fria, Elzire, Ferlish, Lats'vel, Rhea

Interested In
Potential mate---: none right now

Enemies
none at the time---:



From left to right: Oseaan, Spartak, and Hovis

Extra


Family: Jevir (foster mom)

Orientation: heterosexual

Scent: Pinecones and spicy treebark. Will also smell a little like the deer he has just been in close contact with.

Likes: deer who introduce themselves if they are new, flower patches, mushroom rings, being with friends, dancing with ANYBODY, running long distances, eating white tree fungi (favorite is oyster mushrooms), bringing all of his friends together to the same spot, to hopefully introduce his friends to other friends, likes his favorite song, loves all of his close friends and his foster mom, Jevir, rain, snow, GIANT mushrooms, BZD, and twilight

Dislikes:some naked deer, working out phobia of naked deer with Kio

Events: Spartak has participated as a Challenger in the 2013 Rut


Challenger


Spartak has witness the arrival of the BZD on October 9, 2013, and on October 31, 2013



From left to right: Koriana, Cassiopeia, Spartak

Miscellaneous / Art?
Art by me: x x x
Art by Greyhorn: x
Greyhorn's DA: *
Art by Jennie: x
*Some art may not be just of Spartak*
I would like to thank the following people for helping me with this bio: Ireth, for making the template, HolyMaria, for editing some things for me, creating the picture of Spartak, and for being such a great friend, Youtube, for the music tracks:#1: The Danny Elfman and Tim Burton 25 Anniversary Music Box, #2: Royksopp - Keyboard Milk, and #3: Cosmic Supernatural - Kid Loco. Thank you to ICSS Productions, for making this bio possible. Spartak is an IC character, and does not represent DeerUniverse in his actions.




Spartak and Jennie


Spartak and Jennie

HolyMaria's picture

first track!!!!

first track!!!!
<3 <3 <3 <3 I'm so happy I could help you, it was really a pleasure for me :3
and congratulations for learning to edit the sections!!!
I'm a bit busy with college and work this days, but I hope to meet Spartak soon in one of Kío's shorts visits to the forest these days

<3 <3 <3 <3
DeerUniverse's picture

Yes, thank you for helping me

Yes, thank you for helping me with this cool bio! I couldn't have done it without your kindness and patience of sending the code in an email and your knowledge of css! I also hope to see Kio in the forest, too! Spartak will be so happy! xD
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
SoliloquyChryseis's picture

Track

Track Smiling
TheDaninator's picture

Whoa! Nice bio. I'll be

Whoa! Nice bio. I'll be Trackin' if ya don't mind (:
DeerUniverse's picture

Haha! ok, thanks!

Haha! ok, thanks! Smiling
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
Vala 's picture

Hello, love this bio...

Hello, love this bio...<33
" ~ Lady in Red ~ "

♥ ♥

DeerUniverse's picture

Thanks! Actually, the temlate

Sticking out tongue Thanks! Actually, the temlate was sent to me by Holy Maria! She's good at css and showed me where to edit without messing up the code. I learned a lot about css from her in just 2 days.... xD
Anyway, I was very greatful for her help and patience with this bio and sometime hope to see Kio and Lady in Red in the forest! Laughing out loud
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
HolyMaria's picture

Naah, I didn't do nothing,

Naah, I didn't do nothing, just helped editing the great ICSS Productions template for you <3 <3, and now you know how to do it yourself!!
About the picture of Nireda, you have to go to
http://animals-and-all.deviantart.com/art/Style-Your-Deer-166428229
and press the "Impr pant" button of your keyboard, then open paint and paste the image there, but it won't have invisible background, you can choose a nice background from the options though, or if you want, I can always make one for you :3
DeerUniverse's picture

Oh, I went to the link you

Oh, I went to the link you sent me and I looked at my keyboard and saw that I didn't have a button like that. Sad Thank you, though. My keyboard is kind of new, so I guess it left out important buttons like that one. That would be great if you could make a picture of Nireda! You know what she looks like, right? Thank you so much for helping! ^_^
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
DeerLover777's picture

HolyMaria, did you help

HolyMaria, did you help DeerUniverse with getting a character pic like the one above?
I've been trying to figure out how to transfer an image like that onto a bio page for a long time.
I read your comment before posting this one, visited the link, and tried to find an "Impr pant" button, only to realize there wasn't one.
To conclude, DeerUniverse recommended me to you concerning the images. I would appreciate it greatly it if you could make one of these for my char Beorn, Spartak's friend. A picture would nearly complete this time-consuming piece of work. Please, I hope it's not too much to ask...
Meet Beorn
HolyMaria's picture

of course I'll help you both,

of course I'll help you both,
I'm kinda confused about Nireda's look, if you could post here what's the set you want, I'll make one for you both and send the link with the pic Smiling
I'm going college now, I'll return in abouth 6 hours (It will be about 1 am here... damn Sad )

well, just post here your sets and I'll make a pic for you

<3 <3
HolyMaria's picture

And congratulations

And congratulations DeerUniverse for adding the music to the bio!Exclaim!!! Laughing out loud :D
See it wasn't hard? you just needed a liitle support <3 <3
DeerLover777's picture

Beorn's set is Orca pelt,

Beorn's set is Orca pelt, maskless and orca default antlers with Poppies. The front half of his body is that of a bear's, but I'll gladly accept a pic of what he looks like in-game.
BTW, good luck with college (:
Meet Beorn
DeerUniverse's picture

Ah, yes! Thank you! I am

Ah, yes! Thank you! I am beginning to learn more about the world of css, but I still have a lot to learn! Thank you for starting me off on it! Laughing out loud
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
DeerUniverse's picture

Oh, I'm sorry! Nireda doesn't

Oh, I'm sorry! Nireda doesn't have a set, but she has Real deer (dark) pelt and Noh antlers, according to the Style Your Deer page. I'm sorry I can't post a picture of her here, I don't know how. ._.
If you have college work or anything that's more important than this, then please, do it first. I wouldn't want to get in the way of your priorities. And thank you. Smiling
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
DeerLover777's picture

Earlier you requested a

Earlier you requested a close-up screenshot of your Spartak, and, since you couldn't take screenshots at all on your operating system, here is the pic you requested:
http://i.imgur.com/FcNzOhB.png?1
Just copy the address bar of the window that it's in and put in your bio, maybe!

P.S. Sorry it's so tiny - I can fix that if you want
Meet Beorn
HolyMaria's picture

Here's Nireda just copy

Here's Nireda Smiling



just copy this link [***IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mIPMOP3.png[/IMG***] (ERASE THE *****)
and paste it in the code

HolyMaria's picture

and here's Beorn same

and here's Beorn



same here, copy this link [***IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/nqbuvt.png[/IMG***] (WITHOUT THE ***) and paste it on the code


glad I could help you both <3 <3 don't forget to give credit to the fantastic style your deer application!
DeerUniverse's picture

Awesome!! You Rock!!!! I'm so

Awesome!! You Rock!!!! I'm so happy and greatful that I could get help with this! It makes me feel so special that I have such amazing friends in this community! Thank you again!!! <3 ^_^
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
DeerUniverse's picture

Thank you, DeerLover777!

Thank you, DeerLover777! Thank you for taking the picture, because I cannot take pictures with my kind of operating system. Its fine that its tiny---I could put it on my homepage, maybe. If I knew how.....Thanks! Sticking out tongue
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
DeerUniverse's picture

Yay! As you can see, I did

Yay! As you can see, I did it! Its the perfect kind of tiny xD Thank you!
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
DeerLover777's picture

I'm really ecstatic that you

I'm really ecstatic that you have a picture for my deer!! However, you got every detail correct except for the antlers. They are default Orca, the white ones with black tips. I am sorry if I confused you with my description. And I am even more sorry to have to ask you if you could please make one more of these for Beorn with the default antlers that go with the orca pelt??
Meet Beorn
DeerLover777's picture

DeerUniverse - happy to help

DeerUniverse - happy to help you out, friend :3
Meet Beorn
HolyMaria's picture

mmmmm, could you check how

mmmmm, could you check how are the antlers called in the Style your Deer application? Smiling

http://animals-and-all.deviantart.com/art/Style-Your-Deer-166428229
DeerLover777's picture

I checked the link you

I checked the link you provided - the antlers are called "Default (Orca)".
Meet Beorn
HolyMaria's picture

ok, sorry for my mistake

ok, sorry for my mistake :S

here it is





and here's the link [**IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/14d34sj.png[/IMG**] just erase the **

glad I could help :3
<3 <3
DeerLover777's picture

It's perfect! *flails*

It's perfect! *flails* <3 <3
I really appreciate your efforts on helping me with this, both pictures are great!! Thank you SO MUCH!!! Laughing out loud
Meet Beorn

Trackity track! Yes the fawn

Trackity track!
Yes the fawn was mine ^^
It was my OOC character ^^
DeerUniverse's picture

Cool! :> OOC character? Can

Cool! :> OOC character? Can you control them both at the same time or do you have them in windows..?
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire

OOC means Out Of Character,

OOC means Out Of Character, so the character is a way my deer-sona... I sometimes play as a doe and sometimes as a fawn. Laughing out loud
I have them in windows. I play as two or more characters more than not often, though I really don't reccomend it to you, because it might lag the game.
DeerUniverse's picture

Oh, ok. Coolio!

Oh, ok. Coolio! Laughing out loud
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
DeerUniverse's picture

I was wondering how you get

I was wondering how you get the game to run in two windows...very interesting! Shocked
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire

I just open the game twice!

I just open the game twice! Well you can do it if you want too, but the game tends to lag and is slow if that's so, and you had problems with your game so I do not much reccomend it to you, but honestly I'd like seeing Spartak and Nireda in game at one moment Sticking out tongue
DeerUniverse's picture

Well, ok! I can

Well, ok! I can try...actually, how many times do you click on the leaf icon to open the game twice? I did it once, but I can't remember how I did it! :0
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire

I open it once on desktop,

I open it once on desktop, then find it in my Start bar and open it once again from there Eye
DeerUniverse's picture

Ohhhh!! gosh, why didn't I

Ohhhh!! gosh, why didn't I think of that?! :0 That's genius!!! My start menu is screwed and confusing due to my Windows 8 program, so I will run a few test trials to see if it works first. Thanks!! Laughing out loud
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire

Oh, look what I discovered!

Oh, look what I discovered! Click on TEF on your desktop four times, but very, very quickly and you have it opened twice! Laughing out loud
DeerUniverse's picture

Holy cow...you're right!!!

Holy cow...you're right!!! O.O it opened it twice for mine, as well!!! What a discovery!!! ^_^ Maybe I'll see you in the forest---with Nireda AND Spartak at the same time........

0.0 XD
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire

Sorry, I was asleep that

Sorry, I was asleep that time... Back to school is near, I can't stay up late anymore :/ XD

Anyway, do you know the name of the song you currently have here? I love the song, I'm listening to it every day!
DeerUniverse's picture

Oh! Yes, I know what you

Oh! Yes, I know what you mean! I have to go to bed sort of early now, too. The song is by Royksopp! Its called "Keyboard Milk". xD the name is weird, but the song is good, and I like weird and good..so i picked it for Spartak's bio, because he is both of those things.. Smiling
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
.Ru.'s picture

Hello there, I think I saw

Hello there,

I think I saw your deer in the forest today! My Xan was running around with him and lots of other colorful deer who I didn't know.

This biography of yours is pretty interesting...I will be 'tracking', as they say...

"If your eyes could speak, what would they say?" -Max

Profile art by me
Brawny045's picture

Oh! why, thank you .Ru.! ^^

Oh! why, thank you .Ru.! ^^ I did notice a fawn with a circle and a few lines under it, was that Xan??
He was very polite, as most other fawns are a bit immature, in sometimes good ways, and bad ways. When Nireda was a fawn, she would be immature in some ways. But now she's an old deer, and saves running around for when she has the energy to. Thank you! I am tracking your bio, too. Its very interesting...
*Nireda*
TheDaninator's picture

hello again

hello again
DeerUniverse's picture

Oh, ok! I see, but it is

Oh, ok! I see, but it is still interesting. Smiling pls let me know when its finished, thanks!
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
.Ru.'s picture

You don't have to track my

You don't have to track my biography just yet - you see, it's unfinished. But I appreciate that you are interested (:

"If your eyes could speak, what would they say?" -Max

Profile art by me
DeerUniverse's picture

Huh? it seems that your

Huh? it seems that your comment is missing! How did you do that? Make your comment disappear?! Shocked
haha! now it looks like I'm talking to myself....
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
HolyMaria's picture

finally nobody was leaving

finally nobody was leaving :hahahah
StagnessBlue's picture

Hohoho, this is awesome! I'm

Hohoho, this is awesome! I'm watching this fella.

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DeerUniverse's picture

Hahaha!! Thanks, Blue! I'm

Hahaha!! Thanks, Blue! Eye I'm watchin' you too. Laughing out loud
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
StagnessBlue's picture

Hehe, thanks! I'll try to

Hehe, thanks!
I'll try to make a cool bio for you to watch XD

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"I didn't say you couldn't, it's just highly unrecommended."