Post by The Cedar Witch on Jun 5, 2020 16:38:12 GMT -5
Basics
Name: Vai (the "ai" is pronounced like the word "eye")
Alias/Nicknames: V
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Fluid
Species: Genetic Werewolf (Witch)
Age [actual]: 300
Age [apparent]: late 40s
Looks
Hair: Long brown luscious curls, meticulously cared for.
Eyes: Dark brown and sultry.
Skin: Warm olive beige.
Shape of Face: Angular features, high cheekbones.
Mouth: Full, shapely lips. Hardly smiling.
Hands: Bony, visible veins.
Frame: about 5'4" and thin
Tattoos/Distinguishing Marks: Right calf has a nasty mangled scar that looks like a shark bite.
When Transformed...
Body: Lanky wolf walking upright. Has a tail.
Face: Long and wolf-like snout, eerily human around the eyes.
Fur: Thick brown fur covers all of her body. The scar on her leg is silvery and hairless.
Clothing:
Casual: fur-lined leather jacket over a neutral or earth-toned sweater, scarves, comfortable shoes
Dressy: Red and gold silks, luxurious furs
Daily Accessories: wolf claw necklace, lots of rings (gold or platinum) on both hands, thin black gloves (in case she must touch something silver)
Special Accessories: gold necklaces, bracelets, things that jingle when she moves
Resume
Education: Nothing formal, but she is dangerously smart
Intelligence Level: Cunning and sharp
Talents/Skills The usual werewolf abilities. She is much stronger than she looks. Skilled with warding, concealment spells, illusions, and curses. Can converse with ravens.
Weaknesses: Deathly allergic to silver, the usual werewolf weaknesses. Completely incapable of any form of healing magic.
Current Occupation: Pack leader of the Bastards.
Lifestyle
Hobbies/Pastimes: Astrology, Tarot, other methods of divination, researching ancient spells and rituals
Likes: observing fights, knowing things (she's nosy, and sometimes a gossip)
Dislikes: vampires, angels
Observable Behavior
Eye contact: Piercing
Gait: Relatively slow, as if there is never a reason to rush.
Posture: Straight, as if practiced.
Personality
Vai is a self-assured, secretive individual with a quiet, commanding presence. She chooses her words carefully, speaking only when it is required of her. While it is rare for her to show affection, even to those who are deeply important to her, she is protective of her pack and her kind. She has a strong sense of justice for those who have been unfairly persecuted or abandoned. Vai has a sense of pride and honor like a warrior; valuing traits like courage, challenge, and reputation. An unquenched desire for revenge clings to her. In private, she has a hint of warmth like a tired matriarch allowing the cold front to rest.
Character Strengths: Discerning, strong willed, cunning
Character Flaws: Manipulative, cold, impatient, vindictive
Philosophy of Life: Pick yourself up and fight.
Quirks: Superstitious
Sense of Humor: Dry
Temper: Cold
Relationships & History
Relationship Status: Single
Family: She considers the members of her pack to be her family.
Friends: TBD
Enemies: TBD
Notable Connections: TBD
History:
Vai does not talk about her past. She hails from the London area. Magic ran in the Maternal side of her family, manifesting primarily with the women. Vai's great, great, great grandmother used magic to kill a member of the pack. She insisted it was an accident, but she along with every member of her bloodline were viewed with suspicion in their pack. Largely, the women in Vai's family kept the magic to themselves, avoiding any further significant scandal.
When Vai was still a young pup, the women in her family began to go missing. Not all at once -- there were a handful of months in between each disappearance. It started first with her aunt, then her grandmother, and eventually her mother. Each disappearance cast suspicion on the other members of the pack. After her grandmother disappeared not three months after her aunt, her uncle attacked and killed another member of the pack in a rage after overhearing an unsavory comment about his missing wife. The Alpha had him killed as punishment -- a life for a life. Her father never outright condemned her uncle for his actions, though he was greatly affected by the compounding tragedies and further pressured Vai to keep her magic hidden. By the time she came of age, Vai was left with the company of her delirious, dying father whom she had grown to resent.
When Vai underwent her first change, she was unable to control her magic despite carefully training to hone her control. There was an accident and she involuntarily injured one of her peers, also undergoing his first Full Moon. While he survived, the pack banished Vai as punishment.
For some time she was alone, traveling wherever she felt pulled. She suffered many close-calls with hunters and vampires, developing skills to assist with her survival largely on her own. Eventually she picked up werewolves suffering similar circumstances - banished from their packs for being different, or the last survivors of packs slaughtered by vampires or hunters. She traveled all around the world, gathering wayward wolves without packs to form her own pack of Bastards.
Places of magical significance drew, and eventually this lead her to the city, where she finally set down roots.
