Clemens

"Deer noises"

- Clem, probably

Clemens was a CAHniverse Hirsch original character.

Background
Clemens, son of Sonje and Ewald, is a member of a strange and secluded race of shapeshifting deer folk called the Hirsch that live in relative harmony with the Treants on a small, almost perfectly flat island surrounded by cliffs. Clem had fallen in love with one of the Treants, something that, despite the two races' good relations with each other, wasn't looked upon in a good light. Their respective kin tried to drive the pair apart, but they could not be separated, and instead the couple was shunned. Clem and his love didn't seem to mind terribly, instead building a raft together and sailing to the mainland when their people shunned them, finding a nice, secluded place to settle down and take root. Literally, in the case of Clem's plantlike lover, who truly came of age and, once they had picked the perfect spot, had sunk their roots into the ground and become a true tree, rather than a free-roaming sapling.

They lived in an easy bliss together, the shapeshifting deer and the sapient tree. Though proper speech became rarer and rarer between them, it was only because they understood each other more and more without the use of words. Unfortunately, there were dire consequences to having settled off their home island- though Clem was rather hearty and didn't suffer much under the new diseases they ran into, his love wasn't quite so lucky. They passed away from a disease rather common among trees in the area, but unlike the other trees, Clemens' Treant was unable to withstand and fight the sickness off, and passed away.

Clem was wrought with grief, having worked himself to the bone trying to save the love of his life. Though he had been trained in herbalism by his mother, and having excelled in it with the tutelage of his love, it hadn't been enough to save them against something neither had ever encountered before. Frustrated that this loss may have been avoided if he had been more knowledgeable, Clemens vowed to learn all there is about every plant he can, setting forth to journey where-ever his feet can take him to study the flora of the world, with the aim of becoming a great botanist and herbalist.

Personality
Naïve and gentle, Clem likes nothing more than to be free to while away his days running through trees, chasing birds, and tending to plants. He knows very little about wide world, about strife and war, and serious topics can come to quite a shock to him. He was very sheltered, his parents shielding him from the more "grown up" things until they felt he would be ready, only to now be too late to teach him what they thought he should know about being an adult.

Clem is generally a nudist, his people having no need for clothing. This doesn't usually mesh well with other societies, much to Clem's confusion.

Appearance
As a deer, Clemens has a gray pelt, with jet black spots and black antlers. His build in terms of body and antler shape is similar to that of a mule deer.

In his humanoid shape, he retains the color and pattern of his pelt as the coloration of his skin- gray skin with black spots all along his back, the back of his neck and shoulders and part of the backs of his arms and thighs, and on the topside of his tail. He also retains deerlike ears, antlers, a tail, and digitigrade legs ending in hooved feet. His skin is also fuzzy like suede, or like the skin of a peach.

Clem's facial structure consists of a large-ish broad-bridged, slightly rectangular nose that is almost perfectly straight, shaped almost similarly to the muzzle of a deer. He has plain, fuzzy eyebrows, and somewhat plump lips with no cupid's bow, the upper lip an uninterrupted curve. He has almond-shaped eyes, the far corners tilted up, and he has an almost permanent smile.

His fluffy, unkempt hair is a darker gray than his pelt/skin, and his eyes are a misty silver-gray. He is very tall, even discounting his black antlers, which have about four full prongs each, with a small fifth on its way. He is broad shouldered and narrow-waisted and hipped, with the shoulder-to-hip ratio of a dorito. He is leanly muscled, however, mainly built for speed and maneuverability with strong legs and thighs, though his arms are strong as well.

Usually naked, due to being a nudist, as deer have no need for clothes!

CAHniverse!
He's sorta Around. Initially very confused by the idea of wearing clothing, he's started to pick up that his natural state makes others uncomfortable. He doesn't understand at all, but he's accommodating, and has started wearing a few articles of clothing for the benefit of those around him.

He has also befriended Paaver, whose antics with hurting himself causes the poor Clem a lot of alarm and worry. He is completely oblivious to the fact that Paaver wants to bang him super hard.

The seemingly large amount of carnivorous people in the area makes him pretty nervous.

Sims 2 Screenshots
A series of screenshots from an attempts to create Clemens in The Sims 2, however his hair color is incorrect, and the skintone, though a similar shade, has inaccurate details such as a facial pattern and no gray spots- I had to make due with what I had. His normal humanoid form also retains deerlike legs, unlike the sim. His ears outside of Sims 2 are also more deerlike and probably fuzzy. That's his facial structure, though!