Dyes her hair back to blonde after every good full moon, lets it natural if something bad happened
Often wears tiger striped clothes for fun
Bite mark scar on her left ring finger, fades a little with every shift
Personality
Enjoys time alone, pushes herself to be more social for her tiger’s sake
Keen sense of observation
Easily suspicious of others, puts herself self
Loyal once trust is earned
Sarcastic when comfortable with someone
Not always caring about consequences
Tends to behave around humans and psychics, but plays very rough with other weres, vampires TBD
History
Only child of a well-off family on the East coast, last name and town lost to history
Ran away from home at 17 with her high school sweetheart
They tried to make things work, she got a waitress job in a diner
And he made some... suspicious friends, then had a personality change that made him more aggressive and overall unpleasant
One day was an argument, the other a proposal
But in lieu of an engagement ring, she came home one evening to a tiger in their apartment, who bit her left hand, stealing two fingers
And her humanity
Turned out the suspicious friends were all weres and one of them had turned her boyfriend a few months ago
They joined the group, in which she was the only woman
Things were okay though, and their was a new hope of fixing things between her and her boyfriend, and maybe even start a family
Their relationship never fully recovered from this, being an on and off thing, but still caring for each other through it all
The first few years were tough, but the group, despite being often harsh, helped them both through it
After she started remembering her shifted time, she made a point of going for wilderness strolls out of the full moon period to develop the bond between her and the beast
In her early twenties she went from diner jobs to bartending, enjoying the precision needed to create drinks
As she grew more confident, she started being more vocal in the group, trying to defuse conflicts and redirect the energy towards sparring.
The idea of leaving and trying the solo life was starting to sound appealing sometimes, but this was her family now, and more importantly her tiger's, who thrived in the company of others
She was fulfilled in her solo adventures with the monthly extra shift, getting closer and closer to the city, learning to navigate it
Successfully "convincing" a nomadic vampire group to keep going and not get settled in town got the tiger leader to officially claim it for the group and install a strict "tigers only" rule
Years passed, and on one of her solo adventures, she met a werelionness and promptly escorted her out of town, with a few slaps and nibbles
They became friends despite this rocky first meeting and would hang out a lot
Despite her asking for an exception to be made for her friend, she was still attacked by the leader one fateful night and didn't survive the attack
It was then that she decided she would leave, but her boyfriend wanted to try something different: a challenge for leadership. Despite asking him not to do, he issued the challenge and got killed in the process
This was the last straw
Maybe there would never be a child in her life, but this group was not the right place for this anyway
So she left the state and changed her name
Starting at this point, she lived only one year in a place, and then moved on
If at first it was to avoid being found, after a while it became a quest to find the Right Place
She took self-defense classes along the way to consolidate what she already knew from sparring and got good enough to teach the basis as well
Arrived in Ridgefield in May of 2024 and looking forward to see if Colorado had this special something she was looking for