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Zarun is pretty average height for most members of his species, sporting spiky black hair that sticks both upwards and backwards out, with a single large bang coming out from the front. He has dark eyes and a rather average facial appearance, with his features being quite angular and imposing. Though young (and untrained) he has a natural musculature that makes him stand out.

Zarun never wants to be poor or wanting, or mistreated again like he was. Coming from abject poverty and having to struggle to survive, the young Saiyan currently wanders seeking fortune, strength, and most of all, a purpose. He finds himself directionless, and wants more than anything to have that direction. He wants to have a higher quality of life than he once had, and seeks for money and some kind of stability to give him that. He assumes that this and finding a purpose are one in the same.

Along with these things, Zaru wants to become stronger, stronger than anyone who's ever hurt him or is going to hurt him in the future. He despises being made to feel small or weak, and is determined to never feel that way again. His stubbornness and pride stems from a feeling of interiority and a constant need to be better than however he is now, rather than an inflated ego or sense of self-importance.

QUIRKS:

Zarun is curious about most things he can find in the galaxy, having been pretty isolated from the galaxy at large in the little cave that he lived in for so long. He is especially into food, having spent so many nights hungry, and wants to find out as much as he can about the different foods in the galaxy. He's an animal lover, and tends to find all animals endearing, even those who are dangerous predators, being quite reluctant to seriously hurt them. He can be oblivious to the sensibilities of others, and tends not to do very well in social situations, making him more quiet and reserved. His struggle for much of his young life has made him diligent and hard-working, and he hates seeing laziness in others.

To that end, Zarun is a perfectionist about things - particularly himself. He is ashamed of his past in squalor and will often hide it away, tending to lash out at others if they push for it. He is never happy with his own strength, his own station in life, and his ambition to become not only a better fighter but a stronger person for it, will likely never be sated. He does not take insults lightly, and is too stubborn to quit even if it would be better for him.

Although being an animal lover and food enthusiast, there are a few things Zarun definitely hates, one being anything resembling a cockroach or beetles. He finds them genuinely disgusting and uncomfortable, and will outright refuse to eat them. He claims that they have too many legs.

Soben

A being who Zarun regards as a little brother, Soben is a happy-go-lucky Xeno with a smallish appearance, purple skin and a hairless body. He has been there with Zarun since the start, and they have essentially grown up together, though the stronger and older Zarun often acted as their sole protector, with Soben being more technically-minded. He has since given his skills to working as a high-end spaceship technician, a job that takes him across many quadrants and worlds. Though never voicing it, Zarun sees his little brother as having surpassed him with his success and left him in the dust, but he would still do almost anything the little Xeno asked.

Born on a remote planet over two decades previously, Zarun is a being who has had very little joy in his life. He was born to two full-blooded Saiyan parents, who abandoned him to die in wastes, for some unknown reason. He was found by a small tribe, who took him and fed him, trying to take care of him. However, his natural power combined with the typical tantrums and problems coming from any baby made him impossible to take care of, and he had soon run off as a toddler after accidentally punching one of the children too hard. Afraid of knowing what damage he may have really done, the child fled into the wastes, and never saw the tribe again.

Zarun, the only name that he knew, would then begin to wander even as a young child, struggling to survive amongst the harsh wastes of what he could consider his homeworld. He stood out as strange and weird amongst the natives of the planet, finding another, similarly alien child like him after he'd become a bit older. He stood in for when the child was being beaten down, and although he didn't come out of the fight looking better, he managed to take most of the beating that the younger alien would've got. At that point, he and the younger alien, named Sorben, became best friends, and would soon be closer to brothers than anything else.

The young Zarun often hunted for animals, fought off (poorly) raiders and bandits, or handled most of the physical, and menial tasks of the too. Sorben was better at preparing food, shelter, doing everything that required more preparation and expertise to go off of. He was clearly gifted, so much so that even Zarun could tell. Thanks to this, it pushed Zarun to get stronger, enough to do some enforcement work for the local towns and earn the two some money, so they could work their way into living there. Sorben was soon handling all sorts of tasks around the town, making all sorts of money and earning the respect and adoration of the townsfolk and soon inhabitants of far-off cities. Meanwhile, his older brother was treated with suspicion and fear.

Eventually, Sorben proved just too gifted for a backwater world like the one they lived on. He left a good stack of money with Zarun, and went off-world to try and earn his fame and fortune for his technical talents. Once more, the young Saiyan felt abandoned by his only family, and was alone to wander the galaxy.

Zarun was left alone on his backwater planet by the closest thing he had to a family, so he has no connections there now. He feels a wanderlust and a desire to find a purpose or clue to who he is and can be.