Essentials

• Species: Wolf-dog.
• Fur:She has slightly longer fur than an average Great Plains Wolf. It's thick and very water-resistant.
  • Optime Hair: She keeps it long and wavy. Ash dyes some pieces. She puts beads and charms on the few dreadlocks that she's formed.
• Facial Features: Her muzzle is longer than average due to her dog heritage, but other than that she has the ears and face shape of a wolf.
• Build and Size: She's neither overly tall or extremely short. She's overall in good shape. Ash has a relaxed air about her, and carries herself with an easy confidence.
  • Lupus: Wolf-like. She's stockiest in Lupus and Secui forms.
  • Optime: Ash is built from lean muscle, but she doesn't have a perfect, rock-hard body; she's no body-builder, and her love for alcohol has softened her up in a few places. Her bust is average—neither overly large nor exceedingly small. Her waist is slender, and while her hips are curvy, they're not too disproportionate to her top half.
• Humanization: Yes, very humanized. Often wears Accessories like her knife belt, but rarely wears clothes.

Coloration

• Fur:
  • Her front/underside is a mix of Wheatfield and Gold Sand. Her sides are Soya Bean. A Bordeaux stripe runs from the top of her head down her spine.
• Markings:
  • Soya Bean sock markings on her hind legs, the toes on her front paws, and the fur just above her paws on the front of her legs.
  • The tip of her tail is Bordeux.
• Eyes: Blue Bayou
• Optime Hair: Bordeaux. She likes to dye a strand or two in Voodoo and Viridian. She also has a few dreadlocks worked into her hair that she beads and hangs charms from.
  • Nose and Paw Pads: Kilamanjaro

Palette

By Despi + Katie!

Modifications

• Scars: She's gotten her fair share of cuts and bruises. There are a few small ones on her back and arms, but her fur usually covers them She's also got a few knicks in her right ear. Claw marks run across her left hip and right shoulder, scars with a story behind them that she's never told anyone.
• Piercings:
  • Two hoops on the outside of her left ear
  • A simple stud in her right ear
• Tattoos: None

Adornments

Jewelry and Accessories

• She always wears bandana around her upper left arm. It's the same color as her hair dye (Voodoo)
• Ash is usually seen wearing a belt that holds weapons, such as her naval dirk and throwing axes.

Clothing

• She prefers being mostly nekkid ;)
• Will wear baggy shorts or a harem skirt every once in a while
• Dons a bandeau-like top on rare occasions

75 lbs (xx kg)
27 in (xx cm)

Lupus

Ashyra's least-used form. She has the build of a Great Plains Wolf, although her fur is a bit longer. Her dog heritage gave her a muzzle longer than the typical wolf muzzle. Her Lupus form doesn't adequately show her athletic physique.

140 lbs (xx kg)
40 in (xx cm)

Secui

The more powerful of her quadrupedal forms, Ashyra uses Secui primarily when crossing long distances on her own. This in-between form is stocky and muscular. Her pelt is longest when in her in-between form, giving the illusion of additional mass. This form is well-adapted to a life around water, as there is webbing between the digits of her paws. Although this form is proficiently suited to her lifestyle, Ashyra only uses it slightly more than her Lupus form.

165 lbs (xx kg)
5ft 10in (xx in / xx cm)

Optime (Preferred)

Ash is almost always in her Optime form because she enjoys the benefits it brings to her humanized lifestyle. This form isn't as bulky as her Secui form; her build is athletic, but not stocky, and she has decent curves. Mellow by nature, Ash usually has a relaxed posture. She carries herself with easy confidence. Her scars are most visible in this form

Traits

Straightforward, stubborn, mellow, sarcastic, flirty, intelligent, sneaky, clever, observant but not great at always interpreting social cues properly

• Outlook: Ash is a realist. While she can be optimistic, she can accept when things aren't going well
• Sociability: Extroverted, dominant
• Expression: Dominant?
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral, working toward True Neutral

Motivations

• Survival
• Pleasure
• Freedom
• Winning/being "Number One"
• Being the best fighter ever
• Having fun
• Protecting her brother, Jassick

Fears

• Suffering: Ash doesn't like being uncomfortable very often. She tries to avoid situations where she would have to do a lot of work, be tortured, etc.
• Loss: Losing competitively, but more so losing people/things she cares about. There aren't many things Ash really, truly cares about, and the only person she loved fiercely was her brother, but those few treasures are things she will defend viciously
• Losing her autonomy: Ash doesn't give in to authority figures unless they really earn her respect. Even so, she still worries about being caught in a power structure because her freedom could be taken from her.

Biases

• Packs: She doesn't know much about the packs of 'Souls. She will be disdainful toward "traditional" packs, or those that are quick to demand full submission from their own and others.
• Species: Ash has worked around many different species, particularly when her crew was around New Orleans, so she has few biases. She's used to seeing Jackals as slaves, and may give them a harder time, but holds no other significant biases.
• Non-Luperci: This makes no sense to Ashyra. They can't do as much as Luperci, and she sees being humanized as being better. Plus, she also thinks non-Luperci are more likely to be in strict, traditional packs, so she is slow to warm up to them.
• Gender: She usually assumes that males think females are weak, and will try to manipulate that. Oddly enough, she can be bothered by females who seem like they're actually weak.
• Color: She's seen all sorts of canine pelt colors and doesn't care about that
• Sexuality: She doesn't have biases for or against homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality. Asexuals confuse her because she's kinda horny sometimes lol
• Age: She appreciates the elderly for what they can teach, but doesn't like it if they act like they know everything. Ash thinks young'uns can be cute and admires their zeal. Taking care of pups, though, is foreign to her. She would be really confused if she had to pup-sit.

Sexuality

She has a strong sexual and exclusive romantic preference for males, and would only be sexually interested in females as a one-time thing. Kinsey scale 1. She's had very few sexual encounters, and they were all exclusively casual—she's been focused on other things for most of her life. She likes to flirt, but it's more of a manipulation tactic she uses to further her understanding of someone's personality. Ash hasn't had any romantic partners, but she would want a monogamous relationship; she doesn't get close to many people, but she can be overbearing in her protection for them when she does.

Interests

• Likes: Relaxing, sparring, weapons, sneaking, spying, drinking, winning, eating, swimming, outsmarting enemies, any kind/body of water, shells, kittens/cats
• Dislikes: Being bossed around, losing, the "traditional pack" structure, forced submission, having her choices taken away, misogynists, rigid traditions, law enforcers

Substances

Avid alcohol enthusiast. Smokes weed when she can find it. Will try anything once. She lets people do what they want, but she pities addicts.

3.1  Family: Families

• Mother: Characters Deceased
• Father: Characters Unknown
• Siblings: Characters Jassick Umbren
• Half-Siblings: Characters, Characters, Characters
• Children: Characters

• Cousins: Characters, Characters
• Extended: Families

3.2  Relations

Key Relations

• Characters IS YOUR CHARACTERS FAVORITE THING EVER!!!1111one

• Characters is your character's bro, too

Positive Relations

• Characters is all "sup homes" to your character

• Characters is also your character's buddy-old-pal-old-friend-of-mine

Neutral / Negative

• Characters is a giant butt

• Characters also has many butt qualities

Minor Relations

• Sex:Unnamed NPCs
• Friendly: Characters, Packs

• Enemies: Characters
• Murders: Characters

Combat

• Education and Learning: The captain of her old crew, a seasoned duelist and brawler, trained her himself. She was apprenticed to him shortly after her first shift. He oversaw all of her training and hand-picked elite crew members to teach her about weapons he couldn't. He was a harsh and ruthless master who forced grueling training upon her. She got a lot of practice while raiding along the river. He also taught her basic military strategy, enabling her to control her physical skill with a tactical mind. Ash spars or practices solo as often as she can. Combat is an art form for the pirate woman.

• Thrown Weaponry (Master): Ashyra's favorite weapons are her throwing axes. She has a good eye and steady arm that are rarely thrown out of whack. Constant practice in many different places to be able to compensate for variations in wind speed, precipitation, light/visibility, distance, and space. She can also throw daggers, although she's best with the axe.
• Armed Combat (Master): The advantage of preferring throwing axes is that they can double as close-ranged melee weaponry; she's deadly with a tomahawk in each hand. Ash wields her mother's naval dirk as though it's an extension of her arm. Ash can also wield many swords with ease. She's built for endurance, speed, and accuracy. What really sets her apart from many other fighters is her ruthlessness in combat. Her calm demeanor is quickly replaced by cold calculation and vicious determination when she's in a scrap. She'll use any means necessary to win, including dirty tricks and deception.
• Unarmed Combat (Journeyman): Ash can fight well enough with just her body and knows many different techniques, but she still has a lot to learn before her fists are as lethal as her axes.

• It can be difficult to take down someone as fast as Ash, but repeated heavy, powerful blows will wear her down physically and mentally if they connect. Showing her that she's overestimated herself and underestimated her enemy takes a toll on her confidence.
• She's used to fighting in Optime and isn't well-practiced in her Lupus and Secui forms. She may also be thrown off by fighting a Lupus/Secui opponent, since she's never really lived around anyone who used those forms.
• Using weapons with a longer range than her axes would give an opponent an advantage.
• A character that can keep her from getting into close range would be safe, but they may also need to avoid her thrown weapons.

Stealth/Exploration

• Education and Learning: Ashyra honed these skills at the same time as her combat abilities. In fact, it was her propensity for sneaking that first caught the captain's attention. Later on in her training, Ash worked as the captain's personal spy and assassin, gathering information about rival crews, or dispatching their captains. Her time on the road as a thief/assassin-for-hire improved her abilities. She's also just a creep who enjoys spying on people for fun.

• Theft (Expert): Pirates make their living by pillaging and plundering. Ash has experience with that lifestyle. She depended on stealing to keep herself and Jazz alive while on the run, so she's gotten pretty good at it.
• Stealth (Journeyman): Capable of blending with shadows and moving in silence, Ash has always had a natural talent for going unnoticed, when she wishes to. She wants to learn a more tricks, such as disguising her scent and throwing her voice.

• Ash can be tempted by valuable-looking things, which could end up being her downfall.
• She's better at hiding when it's dark. Her pelt stands out when it's light out. She's also of an average body size, which can make sneaking harder in cramped spaces.

Survival

• Education and Learning: These are skills Ash picked up from old crew members, fellow travelers, or villagers.

• Cooking (Apprentice): Ash was often called upon to serve her captain's meals, so she spent time in the hideaway's kitchen. Food she makes wouldn't be considered a delicacy, but it's better than the drab hunks of campfire-cooked meat most travelers make. She knows of a few herbs and spices, as well as various cooking techniques, but she wouldn't be able to follow complicated techniques or recipes.
• Boating/Sailing (Journeyman/Apprentice): Ash was raised around boats, so she's got strong sea legs and can swim about as well as any Luperci. She can navigate and paddle small vessels quite well. Most of her time as a pirate was spent above the rank of a sailor, though, so she could use a refresher lesson or two on how to sail.
• Hunting/Fishing (Apprentice): Hunting assassination targets is one thing, but taking down prey animals is a totally different beast (pun intended). Ashyra can take down larger animals fairly easily, but throwing an axe at a rabbit kind of ruins the meal. The little critters are more common than the big animals, so it can take her some time to track and kill something. Going into Secui or Lupus form would be a last resort, but she's not used to hunting in those forms. She's used fishing rods successfully before, and can craft a makeshift fishing pole if needed, but she's never caught any sizeable fish.
• Healing (Dabbler): Ash learned a little about bandaging herself up during her time as a pirate. Kindly travelers also told her about common, basic healing herbs. Her skills are limited to the most basic minor ailments and injuries.