Tombstone Email: vel007@mmcable.com   |||   Other Aliases: Tomb; vel007 SPECIES:   Utahraptor GENDER:   Male AGE:   6 SIZE:   8'6 1/2" tall, 30'3/4" long, 1.5 tons (1,500 ibs.) PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:   Tombstone is most definitely not the most healthy raptor you have ever seen, his stomach bulging out a few more inches than all of the other raptors giving him an obese, and chubby look. While he is clearly not a weak raptor, you can't see it because the fat pretty much covers the muscles that are there, and probably were once very prominent before he put on the pounds. Other than his fat, one of the other main things a person would notice about him is that he is an entirely black raptor, with no visible non-black marking on his skin. (The markings indicating he is a Red-Snouted Utahraptor are almost non-visible to the naked eye.) Another thing you might notice about him is his bright red eye, almost glowing as you look at them. Another thing a person might notice is that he has a rather large tail, giving him a lot more mobility with it than other most raptors, which he uses to his advantage to keep his balance while he is on the attack. However, If you were to look even closer at him, one of the first things you would notice is a tremendous scar on his neck, as the only visible remnant from when he last fought Fire when his larynx was ripped out. CONNECTIONS:   Mate of Diamond MENTALITY:   He has changed a lot since he first came into Krul Territory two years ago. First off he used to have a scrapper mentality, which has quietly changed, especially since he met Diamond, and has quietly settled down from that and become to Raptor standards, quite lazy. Secondly, he used to trust no-one and would fight nearly everyone who crossed his path, however as he met Diamond and came to know her, he learned that his mentality toward others was wrong, and while he won't attack on the spot anymore he tends to be rather cautious and apprehensive around most people, excluding the few he has come to trust. Them, whom he would in most cases, at least try to protect them with his very life. HISTORY:   Tombstone was born into a small pack, with only his parents, grandparents, and him and his three brothers and one sister. By the time he was one year old, a pack of Yellow-Snouted Utahraptors had surrounded his family's territory. One night while they were sleeping, the Yellow-Snouted Utahraptors attacked, and brutalized his family killing every one in his pack except himself. The only thing having saved him, is the fact he had left to get a drink of water before they arrived. He hid from the raptors within what was once his family's territory for about a month, waiting for his moment of revenge against the evil beasts, living on very little food, and almost no water. While he knew he wasn't big enough or strong enough to take the head raptor, he knew he could at least kill one of them on his own, and that's exactly what he did. One night, while Tombstone was waiting in a tree, one of the raptors that had killed his family came out of a bush. Then Tombstone jumped the raptor before he/she even new what was going on, and managed to snap the raptor's neck. However, unlike most raptors, he then ate the Yellow-Snouted raptor, brutally cannibalizing it, all of his hatred, fear, and hunger entering his mind as he ate that sickening meal loosing all of his civilized thought for several years. Then he left that awful place that was once his home wandering from territory to territory, and place to place, eating just about anything, excluding other raptors the sickening taste of that Yellow-Snout entering his mind and causing him to puke every time he thought of it. He eventually became very depressed due to his loneliness and loss, which he covered with his strength, and bad attitude. However, due to that depression he became a rabid nervous eater, and began to gain weight, until gradually he was highly overweight to raptor standards, which he didn't really mind as most raptors he met were intimidated by his size, even though it did hamper his hunting skills. Eventually he came upon a territory, which was different from most of the others, even though his entrance into it wasn't; he was in two fights within the first month that he stayed there. After that he remained quiet for a while, and hid within the tree's, mostly thinking about why hadn't left this territory yet, he was fully healed, yet he couldn't get himself to go. Then he met two raptors, much younger than he was, there was a male named Segnoclaw, and a beautiful female named Diamond. Now to put a long story short, Tombstone somehow ended up wanting Diamond as his mate and to prove himself more worthy than the much younger Segnoclaw, he was going to get her chick back from the largest and meanest raptor in the pack, Fire. This being something which Segnoclaw at a much younger age couldn't even attempt. Tombstone then confronted Fire, and the fight ensued. However, in the end Fire proved to be much too powerful for Tombstone and in the end Tombstone was laying there, the weakest of beats coming out of his once proud heart, and a giant gash deep into his throat. Even though Tombstone was defeated by Fire, and had failed to return her stolen chick, Diamond accepted him in his near-death state over the probably more appropriate Segnoclaw, whom later ended up being a respected and trusted friend to the both of them. After two months of healing, and the realization of the fact that he had lost his ability to talk, Tombstone eventually came to a settled point in his life for about a year helping Diamond to take care of her former mates chicks as they grew. However, it ended right after that as Tombstone caught the scent of three raptors fighting in the woods, as he came around and saw it was Fire vs. the two alpha raptors, Lazerus and Charon. Tombstone sat and watched the fight, and for the second time in his life, he had the taste for revenge without the sick feeling which he had felt for so long in his life, he wanted to 'eat' Fire for what he had done to him and his mate Diamond. A little while after the two Alphas' had literally brutalized the much larger Fire. Tombstone then confronted the second alpha, Charon, and asked him to leave Fire for him, which of course, Charon being Fire's former friend refused. Tombstone's rage after that which had been held in for Fire for long releasing itself upon the unsuspecting Charon, mortally wounding the already injured raptor and causing his unnecessary death. However, before Tombstone could get to Fire, Fenrir showed up and stopped him and made it in time to see Charon's death. After Tombstone had finally realized what he had done, he swore never to release his blood thirst again and so far, he hasn't.