Name: Zacarias

Breed: Green kingfisher

Age: 3

Parents: unknown

Siblings: unknown

Eye color: dark brown

Voice: Michel Teló (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lONZoqEQ5m0&list=FL2si4mdcJ09WOpyfL6Bzokg&index=12&feature=plpp_video)

Mate: Talina

Likes: Talina, singing, dancing, Rio de Janeiro, fish and other seafood

Dislikes: not much

Personality: He is suave and charming. Has a dry wit. He's slightly shy. Open-hearted, heady, selfless, and honest. He is open-minded and perceptive. Is intelligent, open-faced, high-minded, complacent, and clear-sighted. He is also somewhat stubborn but with good intentions.

History: He hatched in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, and was the only one of his parents' eggs to hatch. When he got his feathers, they relocated to Rio de Janeiro because of deforestation in the area. His parents showed him the rivers closest to Rio from which he could fish, as well as how to catch a fish by grabbing it out of the water. Zacarias soon mastered this, and became better at it than his parents.

     Soon he was on his own. Sometimes he hung around the local fish market, watching the fish being brought inside. Occasionally, he would fly down and grab a few shrimp or a small fish steak. One day, while out by the fish market, he saw a beautiful budgie perched on the branch of a nearby tree; she looked somewhat scared, so Zac flew over and asked if she was alright. Scared, she backed away from him. It took a while to convince her he wasn't going to hurt her. He slowly moved toward her, but stopped when the budgie began to back away. He apologized, and introduced himself after asking what her name was. She told him, nervously.

    They met and talked often in the following months, and slowly but surely, she began to trust him and not be so scared around him. Zac found out she liked to sing, and sometimes he would join in. They soon became a song-and-dance duo, and often sang duets. As they sang, they began to fall for each other, their love growing stronger each time. A year later, Zac confessed his feelings for her, by the light of a particularly lovely sunset. Two years into their life together, he was caught and eaten by a peregrine falcon. Talina was asleep in their hollow and Zac was out looking for food to bring back to her, when Tal was woken up by him screaming in the distance. She flew as fast as she could to try and help him, but by the time she got to him, it was too late and nothing could be done; the falcon was making quick work of him. Talina, upset and devastated, fended the falcon off. She looked at what was left of the love of her life, placed a wing on part of Zac that was intact, and cried, remembering every moment they had shared together. Now, more than two years after his death, Talina still keeps one of his feathers in the hollow she shares with her new mate, to remind her of the love they had for each other as well as every moment they shared from when they first met to that dark day in her life. When her new mate was about to pop the question to her, Zac's spirit appeared to Talina and smiled, telling her he was okay with it, and that he'd crossed over. After she said yes, Zac's spirit disappeared. Though Talina loved Zac more than anything, she loves her new mate more, though she doesn't like to admit it. She hasn't even told her new mate about Zac or the feather she keeps. Sometimes she has nightmares in which she sees Zac's remains and they turn into Griffin's. They scare her so bad that on nights she has those nightmares, she doesn't sleep for the rest of the night, even with her new mate at her side with his wing around her.

*Speaks Portuguese, and knows English and a small amount of Spanish

Relation to Rio: lived in Rio; he and his love interest sang in the same tent in which Nico and Pedro sang "Hot Wings"