Yirzi Qichosh'teil

Creator: WeepingWisteria
Roleplay: The Grand Arena
Nickname: Cicada

Age: 27
Pronouns: She/her

Appearance: Cicada is a Drider, a elf spider hybrid. While she was a humanoid body, she also has four red spider legs extending from its back that glow in the light, eight pure black eyes (two human-sized and six much smaller), and pinchers extending from her cheeks. She has reddish-brown spider fur across her neck, chest, and shoulders. Her hair is a black Afro braided in the front. She wears leather armor, metal shoulder pads, knee pads, and gauntlets.
Personality: Cicada is known for being a bit of a chatter off of the battlefield, her nickname stemming from her pincher’s tendency to click together when she talks too fast. She likes to separate the war from the home, staying positive and kind when a weapon isn’t in her hand, but becoming absolutely ruthless once blood is on the line. It can cause some true cognitive dissonance that she often copes poorly with.
Brief History: Cicada’s mother rebelled against the lead mage of her original hometown by practicing the dark arts. Rather than directly hurt the mother, the lead mage decided to curse Cicada to become a drider so her mother’s mistakes would haunt her forever more. Cicada was exiled and forced to wander the forests. After months of using limbs she could barely handle, she finally found a den of driders that took her in and taught her how to survive her new life. She grew up in two, half of her clinging to her old elf ways, and half of her adapting quickly to this new person she had become. Years later, she’s here now to prove that she doesn’t have to chose. She can be both. She win this tournament as spider and elf.

Fighting Style: Cicada is a power fighter, depending on multiple limbs to drive as much power into her blows as possible. Due to her ability to scale surfaces, she can also sneak up on people on ways others can’t. Her primary weapon is a chain weapon, which she used to disarm enemies, create danger zones, and break armor.
Weapon: Cicada uses a meteor hammer, but she keeps a simple dagger handy too in case things get too messy.
Abilities: She produces venom that can be transferred through a bite or collected to treat weapons.


Strengths: Cicada excels in chain fighting, navigating forested and mountainous terrain, and sneaking up on enemies.
Weaknesses: Their extra limbs make for easy targets and make it much easier to sneak behind them. Their weapon requires to be wound up every swing, making it very slow.
An environment you struggle in: Cicada’s limbs aren’t very stable in slick environments like ice.
An environment you excel in: Cicada’s weapon does best in open plains where there’s plenty of space for her to wind up of weapon and let her swing freely.

Other: Cicada would wish for her fellow driders to no longer be exiled.