Dulled:

his senses are fairly top heavy and his nerves are pretty damn dull the lower down his body or his limbs you get (minus his palms and fingertips). particularly dead areas include his eyelids, the area of his forehead, his knees and the backs of his knees, his feet specifically the bottoms, his upper-upper arms around the biceps, and moderately so the tops of his lower arms. the scar on his leg was very poorly fixed do to it being one of his first major injuries and it wasnt known well how to heal his body, and its so dead he almost cant feel anything at all- thus if he does ever feel something touching it he gets very stressed, as he doesnt like people messing with the area.

Sensitive (+)

his nerves get thick again and hes particularly sensitive around the hips, thighs, shoulders, waist and chest, ears, and his neck. youll notice the glow in his cheeks- where he can process heat signatures, as any snake man can expect. the areas incredibly sensitive to touch, particularly temperatures- he will flinch and be a bit shook up if it were burned or his cheeks touched an ice cube. its quite disorienting. the sensitivity of his lowerlip can also induce a bit of extra venom production if you touch at it a little too much with something particularly warm, as its also sensitive to heat signatures. he exhibits a strong sensitivity in the back of his neck where a lot of his “6th sense” and associated things are processed, partly why hes incredibly good with direction and orientation, and why its pretty ineffective to approach him from behind. its also the area in his body that best receives “energy” signals and processes, as well as the base of his spine. if you were to zap his spine with electricity, fun fact, you could create a conductive circuit with his spine at those two points, and he would be unharmed. the rest of his body is not the same, so dont electrocute him! he’s got fairly developed mammary glands and chest for a creature whos body more aligns on the masculine sign, like squared shoulders and fairly broad framing, but despite the development, its unsure if hes capable of actually lactating, let alone lactating something that wouldnt be toxic or poisonous. since he is capable of reproducing in both directions as he’s intersex, theoretically it might be possible.

Sensitive (-)

Koyol (nicknamed Kyle) is a mutant amalgam of many things- mostly Snake, but also Human, Earth, Plants, and other animal composites. He came into existence at an unknown point in time with the mind set of perhaps a small animal where as “one day, I was there” and slowly developed more human feelings like curiosity and questioning, to which he eventually left the whole he came into existence in. His agine speed decreases as he got older, and he spent many many years as a child, “civilized” by a human village that caught him and passed around like a plauge between homes as he’d outlive every family since he aged so slow. He eventually becomes an independent adventurer and traveler, and makes many great discoveries, including finding a Gem of Power, a special artifact known as the Universal Emerald (which isnt actually an emerald its Tsavorite) as well as his life long companion, an Animal Spirit in the form of a Snake from an Egg that would never hatch which Koyol found in his original Hole, so named Katrina. with the Emerald, Koyol’s travels massively expanded, and he went from having traveled everywhere in his own land to Traveling an infinite number of other worlds which he studies in grave detail. He picks up new incredible skills from each universe he visits and has even met many other versions of himself, including his Self from Svet’s universe. Over the course of his travels, others  who could travel between worlds or had a knowledge of him refered to him as a nonexistant mystery beings known as The Man They Call Universe, as well did Koyol’s constantly increasing powers and skills make many think he was a god and many universes develop cults in his dedication.He’s recognized as a Snake Prince in his home world, and a god or King or many other titles in others. Svet’s world recognizes Koyol as a Transient God- a god that was once mortal but has such immense power, they can no longer be considered mortal. He has a massive arrayal of skills and abilities from ordinary mundane things he’s learned by studying cultures like Cooking, Instruments, Weaving, Writing, etc, to great powerful abilities that come from other universes, like Flow Alchemy that he learned from a universe he calls Alchemhaven (aka, the universe of Full Metal Alchemist), or Water Controling skills from another universe, Avatara (aka, the Universe of Avatar the last Airbender). As a part of being a mutant, Koyol’s body is productive of a strange and difficultto study ‘energy’ similar to radiation that can be dangerous to others over a prolongued exposure lasting years- for example, his childhood companion and one-time brother Kal, who has become severly deformed, lost two limbs and some fingers to a slowly decomposed body, and is still alive despite having known Koyol when he was a child (his aging process has slowed along side Koyol’s, but at a lesser rate, and physically he appears to be 45). Another mutation of Koyol’s mutant DNA has been a deteriorating Psychosis, more likely from an increase in bad experiences over his very long life. However, Koheu is a second being withing Kyle’s mind and within his soul, essentially a second person completely, that comes from being amutant and has been recognized as Koheu, Ender of Worlds. A chaotic, hateful man inside kyle’s head that is far beyond reason, and knows everything koyol can and do everything he can do. Kyle’s greatest passion is to Learn and to Travel, and over his life he has adopted 4 children, including his only son who has a grandchild. He’s a fiercly protective man who’s Loyalty is is at a dangerously lethal level, and his anatomy and body are all sorts of strange. He’s established his own group called the Rainbow Squad, a massive collection of people with special skills seeking escape from their original lives and to make the multiverse a better place, including training programs for abandoned children who are housed there, and massive workings of members and affiliates. Koyol is incredibly old and his biological downtick has officially stopped, and he no longer ages at the physical age of 24. Svet jokes the Koyol has to be at least half his age (which is a joke, because Svet doesnt have an age and has always existed.), and frequently refers to Koyol’s age as ‘about half as old as forever’. 

Svet on contrast has a very different life story. He’s an ethereal being that was both there before time- therefor, before there was a before- and came into existance when the first light and the first heat could exist. as an Old God he is physically Immortal and unbound to a single body or even having a form at all. His life is a blur of partial omnipotence as he watched the universe form around him, within him. He knows every god, even the Void Gods that never existed, excluding some ‘newer’ Demigods or other sorts that only newly reached divinity. As long as there have been humans, Svet has been fascinated with their lives. At one point a Tyrannical dictator, at another point pretending to be a human himself, and currently just living as a god among people. Svet has almost always been a popular deity among people and has had many temples, shrines, and wars have been fought in his name. While a light hearted man on his most usual, he is a wrathful and dangerously powerful person who makes almost no corporeal sense. He’s a man of a million loves, a million friends. He has a single daughter. and while fiercely protective and Loyal... there are parts of him that would make others think otherwise, and many have eventually figured that out after a lifetime in his companionship. History on Svet is surprisingly sparse and it seems his go-with-the-flow lifestyle has meant much of his life is lesser known to others.

most of my characters tend to share specific ideals or traits strongly because im not sure how to portray other things- per example, many of my characters are Polyromantic or Polysexual, since i personally dont really see the concept of why someone would be conflicted loving two people and blah blah blah. the point is, all my characters are similar in a certain angle.

However, the conundrum of these two to me is always fun, because they to me are so... similar, and yet, there is virtually every possible reason to call them complete opposites, even down to fundamental cores.

Examples.

Koyol has lost many loved ones over the course of his long life; he finds the memories of them all very painful, and lives in constant dread of each person he knows dying, and knows they will. Contrastingly, alough Svet has also lost many over the course of his long life, He is disconnected from this sort of pain then a normal person or most gods are. His attachments are lesser, he mourns very shortly, and rarely worries or thinks twice about the passing of someone he knows,

Koyol lives a very isolated way that would make it seem as though he’s Distant, but in actuality, he gets attached very quickly and very strongly, and sees most people he knows as family. Svet, while living an outgoing and friendly, active life and meeting many people and many relationships, is actually incredibly distant from most if not all people, and cares deeply for incredibly few people in his life to the point it is very surprising.

Koyol and Svet share a strong strain of protective nature and loyalty. However, Koyol is self-sacrificing Loyal to even people who barely consider him an acquaintance. to those he values he would even readily die just at their request if they wanted him to. Svet on contrary is not self-sacrificing, or at least not nearly as much as Koyol. He will go out of his way to help friends, but wont go so far as to give up his own for simple friends or even others closer to him.

Svet is a very forward, touchy person and communicates bast with his hands, and is very physical-contact oriented. Koyol, on contrast, will most likely never touch you if he neednt. In his culture, even light touches were considered very intimate. He is also just naturally a not-touchy person and would prefer to keep a good personal bubble from others.

Svet is incredibly sensitive and is constantly aware of anything touching his body or the stream of fir- be it every fiber of his clothing to every particle of dust that settles on his skin, as a result of his body being a ‘projection’ of sorts. Koyol, contrarily, has two layers of “skin”. the top layer is extra flesh and skin and his sense of touch is extremely dull. Occasionally he sheds this layer (which is a disturbing messy process) by flexing the second layer- a layer of razor sharp, uniquely hard black scales that tear the top layer of green skin off. This layer is incredibly sensitive, though not as much as Svet’s. While his top layer is very, very dull, his hair is quite sensitive. dont pull it. hes tender headed.

Koyol’s curiosity and interest is incredibly studious, and he wants to learn essentially everything. if he doesnt know it, you can talk his ear off and he’ll be intrigued. Svet, however, while paying attention, is doing so more out of courtesy and more so to learn about you then because he actually ever cares about a topic- he rarely does.

all of Koyol’s traits/skills are hard earned, for the most part. he worked and learned them. Svet is more of a savant with natural skills in things he enjoys.

Koyol will rarely use your name. In his culture, using a name specifically to you face is intimate. He only uses names to refer to another person when talking to someone, and otherwise uses nicknames. Also, in his culture, most names start with a K or have many Ks. Svet uses names consistently, and prefers full name use to shortened nicknames (referring to Chelo as Chelovek, or calling Koyol by his name rather than his eaiser pronounced Nickname Kyle.).

Koyol is fluent in almost any language he’s ever heard of, and can communicate with any culture he’s ever met- the biggest exception to this is that he cannot use Sign Language, not for a lack of trying; he can read it easily if someone signs to him, but his hands are not flexible enough for signing and many of his gestures look wrong. to the contrary, Svet only knows Sign language, Morse code and English and has shown to have great difficulty learning new ones should he try, and rather learns more universal languages that arent spoken. He’s currently trying to learn computer Binary and how to read various Ciphers.

While they both strongly enjoy cooking and are very good at it, Koyol cannot taste sweet, hates sour flavors, and loves milk; Svet cannot taste sour even in a human body, loves Sweet flavors, and cant stand milk. They both enjoy cultural dishes. Koyol strongly refuses on drinking if he can but is fairly easy to peer pressure into it, and is a surprisingly loose-lipped drunk; Svet loves partying and quite enjoys a drink but its nearly impossible to peer pressure him into it- or anything- and is a very cut-loose, party-type drunk in any body except his normal firey one, where alcohol makes hime a more angry drunk as it reacts with his core. 

Names arent really something you USE in Koyol’s society. Names are titles like Baker or Soldier with a personal twist- Koyol as a King was named Koyol, and the word itself doesnt have a MEANING beyond “king” but it was a name he changed as he held it. It means “snake” and “king” and “merchant” and “killer” and “explorer” but litterally, it only means King. 

Because names were titles, they werent used to refer to people to their face. When your speaking to Karpe- “The Baker” literally- you do not say Karpe to Karpe’s face. Using peoples names was... intimate. you were speaking to what they are in their core. Instead people made up nicknames- and these changed rapidly, from person to person, joke to joke, flirt to flirt.

Per example- Koyol has a boyfriend name Myrus. Koyol only ever says the name Myrus when Myrus is not around, because to him, that’s kind of indecent. When Myrus is around to witness Koyol speak, Koyol uses a nickname. Kyatel, Kotri, Kyhon. These are all derivates of words in his language that once meant love, lover, or loved one. Myrus’ specific nickname is Kyatel (derivative noun of “loved partner” or “loved mate” or “mine, loved”), and Koyol uses this word to refer to Myrus when Myrus is present, or to call to myrus directly. Instances of actually using Myrus’ name would be reserved for in private, just the two of them, or no one else around that Koyol is not comfortable enough around. 

It’s not explicitly and intimate sexual thing, either. Koyol and Sayrus are best friends. Koyol does not use Sayrus’ name in Sayrus’ presence either, but as they are extremely close, Koyol uses Sayrus’ name sometimes when they are alone or if Koyol is particularly comfortable with the company. Sayrus’ nickname is Kyhon (derivative noun from “loved one” or “beloved family member” or “essential member”). 

Koyol’s people never recognized eachother with names or with nicknames, because there could be countless Karpe “Bakers” in town and it was very uncommon people would understand who you refered to with your nicknames out of the Karpes that were present. An essential piece of the way they referred to eachother was Pronouns- not gendered pronouns, but pronouns of rank and refrence. It was a complicated structure used with Name Titles, sort of like descriptive repuations, and this structure does not translate into most languages. An example was Bessmertnyy Koyol; The pronoun Bessmer was synonymous with ageless and tnyy was with unkillable. (Bessmernyy itself in irl means immortal, which is the simplified definition Koyol uses)

To describe which King people were talking about, they called him Bessmertnyy Koyol. To his face, they used any number of words. 

Koyol has since stopped using Pronouns in this way, because it often does not make sense to people to refer to others with discriptive pronouns when people have custom personal names. He doesn’t have to describe to anyone which Sayrus he is talking about. And people use pronouns around here specifically to refer to gender, so the point seems moot. He did however adopt his pronoun, Bessmertnyy, as a last name to adapt to the contentions of names people use. He’s had millions of names, though, so Bessmertnyy is more of a fallback if he doesnt have something better. This is also why Koyol adopted the nickname “Kyle” because technically, calling him by Koyol is just calling him “king” and most people do not like that once they understand it’s a title. If asked- his name IS KOYOL, and he will say so, but Kyle is also appreciated. Both feel intimate to him.

Watch him get flustered if a friend says his name to his face, or says it while he’s doin somethin else in the room. Flushes all nice. it’s cute.