Sparrow Kethil
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:22 pm
Name: Sparrow Kethil
Age: 18
Race: Werewolf
Physical Description: Shoulder-length grey hair (generally a tangled mess) and blue eyes, pale skin that doesn't burn but doesn't tan either. She's slender, but has curves. As a general rule, she doesn't get cold, so she wears shorts, no shoes, and a variety of t-shirts in bright colours. If it's below freezing outside, she will make the concession of wearing a pair of trousers. She's quite pretty, but for the most part not enough that people would get over her attitude and come over to speak with her.
Possessions: No major things as such, no house or horse or any other method of transport or accommodation. She doesn't carry weapons, or anything other than the clothes on her back and a backpack that holds spare clothing.
Powers or Strengths: She's good at improvising, and if she's in danger she can effortlessly change into wolf form. In addition, any nearby chairs, sticks, glass bottles, oars etc are handy in a pinch. She's strong and fast in wolf form and in human form, although only fast for a human or wolf, not supernaturally so. She can heal herself of anything other than wounds inflicted by silver and a beheading, although severed limbs do not grow back, and can sense when magic is present or being used, although she can't use it.
She is good at telling when people are lying or hiding something.
Weaknesses and Flaws: She has never been able to master the half-and-half shape of wolf and human - it's either one or the other. Her social skills are sorely lacking as she tends to say whatever comes into her head as soon as it gets there. Silver is damaging, and causes her discomfort to even touch it. She's quite small for a werewolf, and is better at running than actual fighting. She can fight, but she's had no formal training and everything is raw and without finesse. She is far better at fighting as a wolf than as a human because it is easier for her to rely on her instincts.
She is easily riled and dragged into arguments or fights which she mostly loses or abandons because if she gets too passionate about something she starts growling instead of talking. This is not always meant as a threat but can be misconstrued by most people.
She is also ridiculously honest. She calls it like she sees it before she realises she is being offensive, and even when she does and tries to lie, she is completely transparent.
She cannot write and can only read very slowly.
History: She grew up fairly wildly with her mother, spending most of her time in wolf form so that they could hunt more easily, and as a result she has very little knowledge of how normal society works, and as a result has a keep-away-from-me vibe that discourages approaching. Then, when she was twelve, a normal wolf pack came into their territory, and her mother was killed trying to defend her, telling her only at the last minute to go someplace where there were other people. She also advised her to find her father, who had been too attached to the human side of his nature for things to ultimately work between them.
Sparrow managed to run away and arrive at a town, bruised and exhausted but in human form, and beg sanctuary. She was sheltered and taught the basics of being human until she was attacked and accidentally reverted to wolf form. She left before she was kicked out.
Since then, she has travelled around the country alternately stealing and hunting for food, trying to gain information on her father. There have been several leads that led her around on a wild goose chase, and she is no further along at age eighteen than she was when she first started searching. She only continues to search for her father because it gives her something to do, and if she didn't she wouldn't know what to do with herself.
Age: 18
Race: Werewolf
Physical Description: Shoulder-length grey hair (generally a tangled mess) and blue eyes, pale skin that doesn't burn but doesn't tan either. She's slender, but has curves. As a general rule, she doesn't get cold, so she wears shorts, no shoes, and a variety of t-shirts in bright colours. If it's below freezing outside, she will make the concession of wearing a pair of trousers. She's quite pretty, but for the most part not enough that people would get over her attitude and come over to speak with her.
Possessions: No major things as such, no house or horse or any other method of transport or accommodation. She doesn't carry weapons, or anything other than the clothes on her back and a backpack that holds spare clothing.
Powers or Strengths: She's good at improvising, and if she's in danger she can effortlessly change into wolf form. In addition, any nearby chairs, sticks, glass bottles, oars etc are handy in a pinch. She's strong and fast in wolf form and in human form, although only fast for a human or wolf, not supernaturally so. She can heal herself of anything other than wounds inflicted by silver and a beheading, although severed limbs do not grow back, and can sense when magic is present or being used, although she can't use it.
She is good at telling when people are lying or hiding something.
Weaknesses and Flaws: She has never been able to master the half-and-half shape of wolf and human - it's either one or the other. Her social skills are sorely lacking as she tends to say whatever comes into her head as soon as it gets there. Silver is damaging, and causes her discomfort to even touch it. She's quite small for a werewolf, and is better at running than actual fighting. She can fight, but she's had no formal training and everything is raw and without finesse. She is far better at fighting as a wolf than as a human because it is easier for her to rely on her instincts.
She is easily riled and dragged into arguments or fights which she mostly loses or abandons because if she gets too passionate about something she starts growling instead of talking. This is not always meant as a threat but can be misconstrued by most people.
She is also ridiculously honest. She calls it like she sees it before she realises she is being offensive, and even when she does and tries to lie, she is completely transparent.
She cannot write and can only read very slowly.
History: She grew up fairly wildly with her mother, spending most of her time in wolf form so that they could hunt more easily, and as a result she has very little knowledge of how normal society works, and as a result has a keep-away-from-me vibe that discourages approaching. Then, when she was twelve, a normal wolf pack came into their territory, and her mother was killed trying to defend her, telling her only at the last minute to go someplace where there were other people. She also advised her to find her father, who had been too attached to the human side of his nature for things to ultimately work between them.
Sparrow managed to run away and arrive at a town, bruised and exhausted but in human form, and beg sanctuary. She was sheltered and taught the basics of being human until she was attacked and accidentally reverted to wolf form. She left before she was kicked out.
Since then, she has travelled around the country alternately stealing and hunting for food, trying to gain information on her father. There have been several leads that led her around on a wild goose chase, and she is no further along at age eighteen than she was when she first started searching. She only continues to search for her father because it gives her something to do, and if she didn't she wouldn't know what to do with herself.