Katangi Mboya

Katangi Mboya is a character from the Requiem In Blue canon written by Zahhak.

Early Life
Little is known about Katangi's early life. At the age of thirteen he was sold to an aging farm owner as a slave. Five years later he escaped with the farm owner's daughter, having killed one of the slave handlers. At the age of twenty-five he signed on permanently as Ntemba Ayo's first mate. Since then, he has made a name for himself as the silent, intelligent, deadly first mate of the Devouring Wind.

Appearance
Katangi is about 6'2" tall, and very lean and thin. He is almost skinny, but too tough and strong to really qualify as such. His face is gaunt and his eyes are piercing, almost black. His skin is exceptionally dark, even for a Kher (the race from Sahem, the centre of the empire), approaching the colour of coal or onyx. His eyes are very dark as well, but his hair is more of a deep-ish mid-brown.

He has the number 83 tattooed on his left wrist. You can guess why.

He tends to dress in a heavy canvas kaftan with a thick leather belt. He wears trousers of a similar material that disappear under the kaftan, and are held in place with a second belt. His boots are heavy and armoured, with metal plates bolted to the leather to protect them from all the risks of piloting an airship. On his belt he carries a six-shot revolver and a long, straight dagger like a kindjal. On his face he wears an altitude mask attached to a filter on his back by a leather hose. Lastly, he wears a leather harness that attaches to a pair of enormous, canvas wings with metal struts that hang on his back. They're mostly kept in a folded position.