𝐑𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀

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↠calling ➳ The Ninth Circle. His former handler gave him this title to represent the ferocity and sheer fiery force he'd put forth into his time as a sentry dog and lead dog of a K-9 assault force in the French military. The ninth circle is often referred to as the worst and most brutal level of hell one could possibly reach.

↠birth name ➳ Bastien.
   ⊱ pronunciation, Ba—stee—ehn.
   ⊱ sole meaning, Venerable and revered.
   ⊱ origin, After portraying exceptional levels of maturity, power, and intelligence even at a young age during his first round of training, his owner finally decided on Bastien to serve as a rather fitting name. One that also tends to roll nicely from the tongue.

↠biological sex ➳ Male.
   ⊱ gender, Male.
   ⊱ pronouns, He/Him/His.

↠species ➳ Canis Lupus Familiaris.
   ⊱ breed, 100% purely bred Beauceron.

↠romantic orientation ➳ Demiromantic.
↠sexual orientation ➳ Demisexual.

↠age ➳ Eight years of age.
   ⊱ birth month / time, November 27th.
   ⊱ zodiac, Sagittarius.
   ⊱ birthstone, Peridot.

𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐀

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↠base pelage ➳ Sleek ebony mixed with a hint of burnt umber at the snout.
   ⊱ accentuating palate, A bit of tan on the backs and insides of his legs.

↠eye shape ➳ Almond and slightly slanted.
   ⊱ eye color, They are a very dark shade of brown almost to the point of passing for black.

↠anatomy,

Bastien never went through a period in his life where his body was seemingly at an awkward state in terms of being underweight or lacking in proper muscle. Due to his breed harboring rather pure bloodlines— his line especially possessing strong genetics due to coming from a hardy working family— Bastien was pretty much always exceptionally built. Even as a young pup, his skeletal structure was thick and sturdy, as it truly needed to be in order to support the muscle mass he was to gain later on. He is thick of bone and rather lofty, reaching a height of twenty-seven inches at the shoulder and due to such height and his burly build, he weighs in at one hundred and twenty pounds.

He has layers of thickened muscle that has toned and gradually grown during the years he served in the military, stretching in a defined manner over his biceps/shoulders, broadened chest, and well proportioned hindquarters. Though it mostly covered by his full and slightly lengthy pelt that makes him appear just a tad bulkier than he is. Overall, Bastien could be widely mistaken for a Doberman from a far distance and while he is obviously most certainly not one, his specific breed makes up one part of the Doberman's origins. The two share the same pelt pattern and coloration for the most part but their builds normally run widely different.

For Bastien, he is nearly bordering on on a pelt color of solid black. However, he does still harbor a light tan coloring down his legs and if one were to manage a closer look, they'd catch a better glimpse of the dark, burnt umber brown shading toward the front of his muzzle. Aside from all of that, the male is predominantly sleek obsidian. His ears, once floppy and rounded at early puphood were cropped to stand upright at a very fine, curved a triangular point to compliment the broadened shape of his head. His tail, instead of being docked down to a nub like a Doberman's, is left to its length and appears thicker and closer in resemblance to a shepherd's tail.

↠scarrings, On the left side of his face he bears the scar of a bullet that grazed him starting at the side of his muzzle and stretching to his cheek. He also has a scar of where a bullet entered through his right hind leg and exited on the other side. It did go right through the bone, breaking it,  and even though it is healed as best as it could have been, he walks with a bit of a permanent limp.

𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐒

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   ⊱ moral alignment, Neutral good.

↠inventive or consistent, Inventive.

↠curious or cautious, Cautious.

↠efficient or easy-going, Efficient.

↠organized or careless, Organized.

↠energetic or reserved, Both, depending.

↠friendly or challenging, Depending on who, he is relatively friendly. Though he is mostly challenging.

↠compassionate or detached, Detached in some manners.

↠dominant or submissive, Dominant.

↠logical or emotional, Often logical.

↠possessive or lenient, Depends.

↠sunrise or moonhigh, Sunrise.

↠selfish or selfless, Greatly depends.

↠food aggressive or generous, Mostly food aggressive but this changes depending.

↠merciless or merciful, For the enemy, he was trained to be nothing but merciless.

↠trusting or skeptical, Very skeptical with unfamiliar faces. When he was working, it was a crucial part of his training for his handler to keep him from being so trusting of just anyone or anything.

𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐌

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⊱ psyche,

—Bastien has been a persistent 'go-getter' from the moment he could fully understand his wants, goals, or any ambitions he may choose to set out for himself. He grew up within a family where nothing was ever handed to you freely on a silver platter. His parents made sure to engrave within his head that being fed by others would only make you weak, lazy, and ultimately useless to society as a whole. Bastien learned, through many a trial and error, that to get whatever it was one desired, it had to be earned. Fought for and won fairly. He developed a rather forward, unabashed manner of going about achieving certain things, no matter how it was to be done. Bastien doesn't harbor hardly any shame for the way he carries out his own ambitions and he would like to think it has all taught him great perseverance. The beauceron is a canine that, when he knows what he wants, he goes after it with unwavering determination. He knows his ambitions and is fully aware of his own strength, and if others were to take him for a bastard because of it, he'd be alright.

— Despite the methods he may execute, which may not set well with all, in order to achieve something, Bastien can be a rather authoritative figure unless he under someone he finds that he can truly respect. His intentions are most often not to be taken as arrogant or prideful. He does not believe in the trait of self-serving, mostly, and will not tolerate it within the behavior of others. Bastien tends to think in the best interest of others; or at least, he does try to at all times. His actions are not to benefit himself, unless it truly comes down to it, and usually come out benefitting others as he would like to be seen as a trusting and reliable individual. Despite how he has an awful time trusting others. A canine that can spare protection and guidance for others instead of keeping it all for himself. It was what he was bred to do. Protect and serve. That, he would fiercely do.

— Most are likely to deem Bastien as standoffish and unapproachable due to the seemingly rugged and 'abrasive' manner in which he carries himself. That isn't entirely the case, however. Now, the male does tend to widely linger on the unfriendly side of the spectrum though he mostly only possesses such a venomous behavior towards any outsiders or canines that he is not familiar nor comfortable with. With his own fellow canines he comes to care for, it is more of an extremely 'tough love' situation as he doesn't necessarily find it all that easy to just allow emotions to surface and cloud everything all the time. However, this is not to say that if another wronged him to an unnecessary degree that he wouldn't let them know exactly how he felt and what he thought about it. It is very possible to have this male thoroughly pissed off with you for a lengthy periods of time, depending on the severity of what has been done.

— Bastien is no stranger to displaying signs of detachment or aloof mannerisms. Though this is mainly set aside for when there is an extreme task at hand to focus on or, in most rare cases, where another has severely damaged his trust or has done something brutal against him in general. He can become frigid and malignant with others rather easy. His tolerance for blatant misbehavior, disrespect, and the like is very low, if any at all. The brute is more or less extremely careful with how he hands out his trust. Possessing a mild sense of cynicism, a canine of the outside isn't trustworthy until they are absolutely able to prove themselves otherwise. In order to let new individuals into his life, where they would then be around others that he is close with, one will not only have to work for his trust but the trust of his packmates. You cannot have one and not the other, you most have both or complications tend to rise rather quick.

— Aside from his rigid nature(in a nutshell), Bastien does in fact harbor the ability to simply relax and let loose a bit. He is able to understand and process humor, and even has a sense of one himself should anyone catch him in the right mood. To those he is more comfortable with, he enjoys teasing and joking with. Even doing so much as to do a little rough housing or running along on a small adventure.

⊱ anatomical, —

↠Fears ➳ Bastien has a strong, permanent fear of loud noises such as gunshots, explosions, and thunder as it too can closely resemble the sound of bombs going off. Even sudden and unexpected noises such as something large falling and hitting the ground hard. If he can help it, he also tends to avoid construction areas as they are an environmental trigger that brings his mind back to his days of military duty. Basically, he suffers from canine post traumatic stress disorder.

↠Stat records,

⊱ hearing, 5/10 — It is not the best as it has been damaged over time by being near gunshots and explosive noises.
⊱ sight, 8/10
⊱ smell, 10/10
⊱ stamina, 10/10
⊱ defense, 8/10
⊱ offense, 9/10
⊱ cold endurance, 7/10
⊱ heat endurance, 5/10
⊱ swimming, 7/10
⊱ bite force, Around 600psi when protecting himself and the lowest he tends to go is 245psi.
⊱ feral, 7/10
⊱ intellect, 9/10
⊱ wariness toward humans, 8/10
⊱ dominance, 10/10

𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐌 𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐔𝐒

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↠sire ➳ Jacque.
   ⊱ anatomy and relationship,
Jacque is another stud of a beauceron apart of the same breeding program that partners with the French military that Bastien and his family all come from. He is a towering male of twenty eight and a half inches at the shoulder and weighing in at a hefty one hundred and thirty pounds. Jacque is purely thick boned and muscular, possessing a short pelt of the traditional beauceron coloration of Black and Tan with the same signature markings over his face and on his legs.

Bastien had a very close relationship with his father as when he got old enough to begin training, he did so alongside Jacque and his own handler up until he was finally able to become a proper sentry and canine assault force dog. At the time, the assault force was led by Jacque and so, Bastien got to work with him nearly every single day and were only apart when Bastien and his handler were sent off on special ops and missions. It was very, very hard on Bastien for a long time when the time came for he and his handler to leave France and relocate to Mexico, therefore leaving Jacque and the rest of his family behind. Bastien suffered from depression and developed separation anxiety that caused him to remain at his home base with his handler while he received special condition and treatment like 'therapy' in order to get him back on his feet.

Jacque is nearing eleven years old, though is still alive to this day. However, Bastien has completely lost touch with him and has not seen him since he was two years of age. Jacque is retired from the French military and resides comfortably as a new member to the household of his handler's(whom still serves in the military) relative.

↠dam ➳ Anais.
   ⊱ anatomy and relationship,
A stunning piece of art to the beauceron breed, Anais is more so on the smaller and more lithe appearing side of the spectrum. However, with her own training she has proven to be just as fit as the next beauceron. She too carries the traditional pelt colors of Black and Tan and markings that resemble closely to Jacque's. However, her handler decided against having her ears cropped and left them as they were when she was born.

In the program, it wasn't very common for the dam of any pups to stick around longer than nursing and weening a litter. The mothers still had a job to do within the French militia and were often never paired with one stud more than one time. Therefore, Bastien never developed a relationship with his mother. In fact, he is almost completely unable to recall anything about her from her appearance, the sound of her voice, and even her scent vaguely. Having been thrown into training as soon as he was old enough, Bastien did not even have the time to wonder why his mother never stuck around. He didn't have time to develop a disliking or even hatred for her. Hell, even now it is hard for him to do so since he doesn't even know her.

↠siblings ➳ Maeva, Reine, Jean-Claude, Marcel, Gérard, Celine.
   ⊱ anatomy and relationship,

All were pretty much traditional beaucerons in appearance; Black and Tan pelts. Some predominantly darker than others. A few had the cropped ears and others did not.

Bastien and his siblings were close for a long while, though that is simply meaning they were trained together for the first couple of years of their lives. However, he did not manage to get along with every single one. His eldest siblings, the first and second born; Gérard and Marcel, didn't particularly care too much for their younger siblings. They had a very awful sense of pride and even a god complex that led them to think they were better than others in every way. They were also prone to bullying and physically did so with Bastien at times as well to the point of breaking into full on dog fights during training. Marcel and Gérard were immediately placed into another group and Bastien remained with the rest of his siblings where they worked tirelessly together. They even joined the canine assault force with Bastien led under their father for a while.

Bastien's memories of Maeva, Jean-Claude, Reine, and Celine are very fond and it pained him to leave them behind as well. He has no idea where they are present day or if they are even still alive. However, Gérard and Marcel were transferred to a base in Germany and the rest of his siblings are still serving in France.

  [ Left to right: Maeva, Gérard laying, Bastien sitting straight, Celine, Reine, Marcel laying, and Jean-Claude]
↠step-kin ➳ —
   ⊱ anatomy and relationship, —

↠mate(s) ➳
Adelaide.
— First and past mate.

Colette.
— Second and past mate.
   ⊱ anatomy and relationship,

Adelaide was a lovely, sleek and short furred female with clear markings of Black and Tan. She was built in a more slender manner but still possessed a decent package of muscle and a well proportioned anatomy. Her handler had her ears cropped as well.

If Bastien had a relationship with this female at all it was not a very good one. He was introduced to her a little while after he had just taken over the canine assault force after his father. She was a newer recruit and one with extreme attitude and an aggression problem that had developed and was not being properly addressed by her handler. She and Bastien clashed almost every time they had to interact. However, she did end up giving him his first litter of beautiful pups before her handler took her elsewhere after weening.

Colette came in the form of a rare appearance for her breed. Where black usually covered the pelt, she had a mix of dark grey, silver, with black patches and tan legs and muzzle. She was tall and more sturdy and physically built than Adelaide.

Bastien knew Colette from when he was months old and still in training. They were quite possibly the best of friends and remained as such for a long time. She was even apart of the assault force that he led and when he and his handler relocated to Mexico, Colette and her own did as well. From there they were practically inseparable, continuing to work together until she gave birth to their two pups. Bastien's second litter. They were together from then on and Bastien was by her side even as she developed dilated cardiomyopathy; a disease that causes part of the heart to enlarge and cease to function properly. It was a case that got worse rather quickly to the point where there simply was not enough time for doctors to try and save her. Even as she passed, Bastien was at her side.

↠love interest(s) ➳ —
   ⊱ anatomy and relationship, —

↠offspring ➳
First litter — Amelie(daughter), Augustin(son), Lisandro(son), Stephan(son).

Second litter — Clemente(daughter) and Dior(daughter).
  ⊱ anatomy and relationship,

Bastien's relationship with his first litter was average but did not last too long. He aided in their training and even had them work with him in the assault force, though after a years each of them and their handlers were transferred elsewhere. There were no ill feelings between he and they. Bastien understood it was the price he had to pay in his line of work; knowing that any of his offspring could be sent anywhere in the world at any point and there was a high possibility he'd ever seen them again. He was just glad their foul mother didn't stick around long enough to teach them her bad attitude.

[Left to right: Amelie, Augustin, Lysandro, and Stephan]

Bastien's second litter, while they are halfway to being a month old, are his absolute pride and joy. Of course, he's a proud father of all his children, but due to being relatively close with his two young daughters, it merely deepens their bond. At an earlier point, Bastien's handler passed away and he ensured that his daughters arrived at a good home. For Bastien, he had long since taken to life on the streets. He made sure they remained at the military base in Mexico where they were adopted by their own handlers to begin their early stages of training.

[Left: Clemente. Right: Dior]

↠friends ➳ —
  ⊱ anatomy and relationship, —

𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒

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↠accessories ➳
He wears a shining silver chain collar like the one pictured below.

↠fun facts ➳
• He has a very rugged yet strong and thick French accent. At times, it is rather hard to for him to speak clear English.
• Knows very little Spanish, but of course enough to get by.
• He suffers from canine PTSD.
• Likely the gang's oldest long term member.

↠voice claim ➳ —

↠creator ➳ Toxi.
  ⊱ date of creation, 24th November, 2020.

↠current roleplays ➳ Street Lights