Haha okay we've come to this section. I seriously applaud you if you make it through all of this without dropping any I.Q. points- my thought process is complicated and senseless and I'm sorry if it annoys you.

I don't know if you noticed above but I tried to give his parents names similar to his own, combining birds with other random objects or just keeping the bird name. I think I failed- I'm probably going to redo those names and probably all the other names in this application later (aside of course from Papercrow because that's brilliance.)

Papercrow is a cub forever. It comes from a mutant gene (several in fact) that have warped his entire DNA so that once he reaches a certain growing point all growth hormone production is instantly discontinued. He is frozen at the stage that this happens, and though it varies from host to host on average most cubs stop growing about six months after birth, when they're developed enough to live normally and capably. Another trademark of the gene is the development of specialized abilities beyond what is normally seen in any animal. These can range from extended physical abilities to any measure of paranormal powers. Anyway, Papercrow was born with this and therefore has these two quirks to him.

Papercrow's 'immortality' is really more of a misnomer as Papercrow is still subject to death like every other living creature. Even to death from old age, but so far none of those afflicted with the defect have died, even after a thousand years, so this might be proven wrong. (though it won't be; Papercrow will still die eventually, but not for a very very very very long time.)

So anyway Papercrow is no less fragile than any other cub on the planet, he's simply not growing.

By now he's about a hundred and twenty and has outlived both his parents and all of his siblings, and is close to the same age as his grand-nieces/nephew's children. It's a hard concept to grasp, but think of how awkward it is to go visit their house and find that every family portrait for over a century has the same unchanging white cub in the corner. People where he lives don't understand it really but all have come to accept it. Papercrow has become sort of a fixture, like a local landmark or monument, he just gets a lot less tourists is all the difference.

Now that we're on the subject let's brainstorm a bit about where Papercrow lives.

Boondasbar is a tropical island with more things that can kill you than all of Australia and Africa combined. Even the geography of the place seems out to get you. The island stretches for about two hundred miles in a gentle arc, and never in any once place does the island's width exceed thirty miles. Every side of the island is sheer with cliffs the shortest of which are about a mile down straight into a poisonous surf teeming with every form of toxic sea life imaginable. The current is distinctly ship-unfriendly and the extensive reefs and treacherous lava formations around the bay make navigating through them a near deathwish. Only the most desperate of merchants and pirates are able to make it through to Boondasbar's one and only harbor, and usually they have just cause.

Boondasbar's jungles are so thick even the natives have trouble trailblazing, though most of them don't even bother- while the sea is undeniably dangerous the jungles have proven ten times as deadly, with carnivores uncannily good at moving through the dense underbrush and reptiles and insects the like of which would make the bravest of men soil their pants. The only really amicable animals available are the birds and so the natives have taken a ridiculous liking to them, enough to base a lot of their legends, artwork, and hey even names on them (I. FAIL.)

For as harsh a place as it is to grow up on Boondasbar's people have always managed, living close to the shores on colorful one-room flats built almost on top of one another. The largest town is concentrated around the harbor (makes sense) and sees more action than the rest of the island put together. Because Boondasbar is so dangerous it's a haven for pirates; professional naval forces don't like to risk their expensive ships in the tide so the pirates are more or less perfectly safe there. Boondasbar's people put up with them because they are rich, and because they are so poor a civilization the pirates can't loot much from them.

Anyway that's an overview of Papercrow's nation/hometown/etc, not an easy place to live, highly secluded from much of the outside world, but never unexciting. (eek also; Papercrow is the only one in his entire country to have this mutation. Right now he doesn't even know that he isn't totally unique with his condition, so he doesn't know that there might be complications in the future.)

What else have I got for Papercrow...

OH. I hope this doesn't set you against me, but another Baby Kougra appealed to me the other day and I thought that perhaps she and Papercrow could grow to be friends.

Her name is Cienal and I wanted to give her the same mutation as Papercrow, except that she was frozen in her growth cycle a lot later than Papercrow and so is built much longer and larger than himself. She's still a cub, she's just bigger is all. And she has different powers than he (which is the norm for the variants of this disease) and has been alive for much longer than Papercrow, so she knows the ropes a bit better. Therefore she knows that there are sides to the mutation that aren't so pleasant. When, if, once, she finally meets Papercrow she'll fill him in and they'll go on adventures wheeeeee.

1. Common courtesy people, you've probably read the general rules for other sets, these belong to me. Please don't abuse them and make me take them down :(