"Don't worry, you're in the safest tentacles in the galaxy!"
Tyvk is a fairly average specimen of the Vyxuuli species, standing one point three meters tall. Like all Vyxuuli, his head resembles that of a squid analogue, with four pale white eyes and and six prehensile tentacles that shroud his beak. A hard, flexible exoskeleton covers much of Tyvk's body, including the top and back of his head. Two long tentacles sprouting from his sides function as arms, terminating in three, smaller tentacles Tyvk uses as digits. Four more squat tentacles serve as locomotion, and are just agile on land as they are in the water. Tyvk's skin and exoskeleton are rippling shades of purple, but like all Vyxuuli, he can instantly change the colour of his exterior to blend into any background.
ATyvk comes across as a friendly, jovial being, happy to pitch in with his superior engineering skills to fix problems. If he sometimes hesitates, surely that is the sign of an insatiable mind grappling with structural conundrums that would cripple lesser intellects. Despite his higher intelligence, Tyvk is careful never to take advantage of others, and sometimes always knows the right thing to say to peoples of all walks of life, the low and the high.
Still, the stresses of being the specimen of ingenuity occassionally get to Tyvk, and he seeks the company of his crew in these times, who have become like a second family to his prestigious one back on Vythuulrys.
Tvyk spawns from prestigious lineage of Vyxuuli shiprights, the Slipsails. Since the halcyon days of the Common Shore, the Slipsails became renowned for building sailing ships to ply the trade routes on Vythuulrys, which over the centuries, expanded into building space ships. Propelled by their immense fortune, the Slipsails took their place amongst the Conglomerate, and Tyvk is the living embodiment of the ingenuity of the great Vyxuul race, an engineering protegy of his age. He will bring glory to all Vyxuuli aboard the Unity.
Unfortunately, "Tyvk" is an imposter. His actual name is Vyrthuuk ("Vie-er-thook") Yawl, a con artist on the run from the Conglomerate. Facing execution as a criminal, Vyrthuuk stole the real Tyvk's identity in a desperate gamble to escape his fate, and took Tyvk's place aboard the Unity.
It is only a matter of time until the real Tyvk tracks down Vyrthuuk; he knows and fears this. However, he hopes his place in his newfound family will somehow protect him from the cold shores of consequence.