abadbitch: (follow me)
2023-10-14 12:22 pm
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[sticky entry] Sticky: what we are

PLAYER

NAME: Vonn
CONTACT: PM this journal - ZestIsChaosHour on Discord
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE: Pacific timezone / slow-paced during the week, medium pace on weekends
BRACKETS/PROSE: Prose preferred, but will mirror tagging partner
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: discussions of pregnancy, visuals of owls

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Yes, Nika is tactile
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Yes, definitely! Nika is good at brawling!
RELATIONSHIPS: A possibility, but not the first thing on her mind
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: As a werewolf, Nika has a mild empathic connection with her pack. A powerful psychic could probably exploit it.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: No notable talent for, or resistance to, magic
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Nika has two forms -- human and wolf. While in each form, she is visually near-indistinguishable to a normal member of that species. (As a wolf, she is larger than average, and her forelegs have shoulders with a greater range of motion.)
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Sexual violence is a trigger for Nika, and she may have a bad reaction to being tied or pinned down in a bedroom setting. Proceed with caution.

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING: Yes
THREADHOPPING: Yes
FOURTHWALLING: Please clue me in via PM or tag narration if you are psychic or have experience with werewolves. You may notice that about her. Otherwise, Nika doesn't have obvious tells.
NOT INTERESTED IN: No plots to do with sexual violence or pregnancy, please.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL: Nika is 5'6" tall, with a well-musicled but compact build. She has light brown skin, black hair, and black eyes.
AURAL: She has a mid-range voice for a woman, slightly nasal. She has times where she is not particularly talkative. She has a loud, boisterous laugh, when you can get it out of her.
OLFACTORY: There's an earthy, woody undertone to her natural scent similar to oakmoss. When she can get it, Nika prefers to use vanilla-scented bodywash and soaps.
DEMEANOUR: Nika's 'worksona' is gruff and tough, where she often acts as the "muscle" to back up Rue's fast-talking cleverness. On the rare times that she's 'off the clock', Nika is quieter... preferring to observe people.

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abadbitch: (serious)
2023-10-14 10:42 am
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how we got here

Nika was supposed to be an average human and live an average human life. She wasn't supposed to be attacked by members of a rogue werewolf pack when she was a young teenage girl, and when it happened, she certainly wasn't meant to survive.

Nika wasn't supposed to be part of one of the old therianthropic families, but she was taken in after it became clear that 'the gift' had taken root in her after the attack. And once she was part of that family, she wasn't expected... wasn't supposed... to show an interest in the ways that the supernatural world policed itself while remaining hidden from most of humanity.

Nika has never been good at doing what she was supposed to.

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Nika Casimsiman is a member of the Thiessen Pack -- one of several old lycanthrope families in the United States. She's not related to them by blood, and none of the Thiessens gave her 'the gift' of the bite, but the matriarch decided that she would be adopted in. And so she was.

The attack that turned her into a werewolf was perpetrated by a rogue pack -- one that had been started by a discontented son of the Pemberton Pack. This self-styled "alpha" basically created a gang, gave them the strength and animal nature of werewolves, and called it a pack. Young Nika was saved from certain death by the intervention of a pair of enforcers.

Part of the motivation for taking Nika in was ensuring that she knew how to safely handle her inner wolf. And another part of it was a long-standing rivalry between the Thiessen Pack and the Pemberton Pack... it was salt in the wound to the Pembertons' dignity that the Thiessens shielded the consequence of their son's foolishness, when the Pembertons would like nothing more than for Nika to disappear.

She learned everything she could about the hidden supernatural world that she'd fallen into. The enforcers who'd saved her life were a vampire and a werewolf, paired up to work on keeping the peace since allowing the two communities to self-police themselves hadn't worked. This was a common setup -- allowing werewolves to step in to put a stop to vampire criminals, and vice versa.

Nika grew up to become an enforcer herself. She is frequently partnered with Rue Garcia, a vampire who is just over one hundred years old.

Unfortunately, the enforcers are stretched rather thin and rarely have time to do anything but work to keep secrecy in place. So Nika really has no idea what work-life balance is. Currently, it doesn't bother her, because she's still pretty idealistic about getting to help people and keep the peace.

[EDIT (12/26/2024): I have changed the name of the pack that took Nika in, from Dunbar to Thiessen. (See the final paragraph of the "Becoming a werewolf" section of the Wikipedia article on "Werewolf" for the story of Thiess.)]