Essentials

Nina is boasts a curveless, boyish sort of build with slight volume of muscle and little height. With the exception of a dark tail, eartips, and accents ("bags") beneath her eyes, her fur is an untarnished white not quite advantageous for one with experience in stealth. She inherited her coyote mother's oceanic blue eyes, something of a throwback to her childhood spent at sea and among the masts of a ship, and she quite clearly cuts her own hair: Her black locks fall in a straight cut at her shoulders and eyes, trimmed uneven and improperly. Nina strings a few beads of bright colors throughout her hair, most prominently two beads in her bangs like her brothers to denote her as part of an extended family of sailors: one Fuel Yellow (#EDB51A), one Pumpkin Skin (#AB5C09), and a string of the same two beads along with Elm (#22888F) to the right side of her face. She boasts a pierced navel, tongue, and a few tattoos (TBD).

• Humanization: High. Heavily clad in dark human clothing for stealth.

Palette

Coloration

• Fur: Gallery
• Markings:
  • Thunder lower spine, tail, eartips
  • Thunder "bags" beneath eyes
• Optime Hair: Thunder
  • Beads:
• Eyes: San Marino
• Nose and Paw Pads: Thunder

art by Lin

Lupus

Secui

Optime (Preferred)

Traits

• Outlook: Enterprising
• Sociability: Extroverted, chatty, no personal space
• Expression: Foolhardy
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
  • "Believes there is no order to anything, including their own actions."
  • "Likes to indulge in everything."
  • "Tends to believe in luck and chance, rather than fate or destiny."
  • "Doesn't care what happens to others, yet will not necessarily go out of their way to harm others."

Motivations

• Fun, new experiences, self-sufficiency, adventure, greed, notoriety

Fears

• Captivity, imprisonment, slavery, crippling of hands/feet

Biases

If Nina has any biases, they're impossible to discern: She laughs them off as much as anything else.

Spirituality

Raised with Roman Catholic roots; did not stick to them. Extremely intrigued by ghost stories and the supernatural and liable to go chasing after them. Nontraditional spirituality like voodoo and wicca are enthralling, though she commits to nothing.

Sexuality

• Kinsey 4: Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual

Fun always comes first, and sex is fun. Nina is more or less open to anything, multiple partners, etc. and is always excited to try something new. She is flirtatious and highly sexual, though averse to the tethering of pregnancy.

Substances

Like most everything else in her life, Nina is adventurous and afraid of nothing. She has tried a variety of substances, though ducked free of addicting stuffs outside tobacco, and one way or another enjoyed all of it. When she drinks, she drinks, and when she trips, she trips.

3.1  Family

• Mother: Sofia di Pasqua
• Father: Judas Poer de Aika XIII
• Littermates: Abel Thirteen, Cain Aika

• Extended: Octavius and Severus are her uncles. Related to the families of Aika, de le Poer (and thus also much of Lykoi), D'Angelo... So, everybody. Everybody. Okay? Everybody. Shush.

Sociopolitical

• Education and Learning: Nina is a chatty, social individual with deftness in conversation. Although a little loopy in behavior, she is more following of conversation than she lets on. She is often distracted in dialogue, however, when she spies something she wants.

• Gethsemane is no master thief, but her thievery skills are not to be underestimated. Equal parts a kleptomaniac and a Gentleman Thief, she typically targets well-off individuals or those who have personally wronged her but is apt to swipe items from anyone depending on impulse. Stealing is performed sometimes as a subtle sleight of hand, sometimes a grab-and-go, or sometimes even a purposeful swindling.

• Stealth and infiltration is difficult thanks to her white pelt, but with enough black garb and a knowledge of scent-masking, Nina is fairly skilled. Her impulsiveness, however, often gets her into trouble.

Combat

• Education and Learning: Gethsemane has no formal combat training and does not know how to wield any weapons for full-frontal combat.

• One does not simply master the art of improvisation in combat, but Nina performs well considerably. Thrown dirt, whipped branches, shattered bottles, tree-scaling, calculated escapes where her opponent cannot follow—Nina is a dirty fighter, if one wants to call that "fighting." She sees no shame in running away as improvisation has failed her before.
• Gethsemane keeps a dagger on her person at all times, mostly for everyday utility. She can't very well attack with it, but she can pretend she knows how.

• Nimble, flexible and small, Gethsemane is extremely dexterous and can dodge well. Her acrobatic background as a mast-tender on a merchant ship contributes to her dexterity. She falls on the petite side, however, and when she is hit, her dodging abilities are expectedly crippled.

Miscellaneous

• Education and Learning: Most of Gethsemane's abilities are self-taught and thus lacking in full proficiency.

• Gethsemane tended the masts to the merchant ship she grew up on, and doubled with her small and nimble frame is a flexible acrobat with high spacial awareness (and, ironically, little personal space). She is not afraid of high places, and naturally sees paths while traveling at high speeds akin to that of free-runners though she possesses not the physical strength to free-run effectively.

• Gethsemane knows a lot of mundane, easily learned talents one might toddle with when stuck at sea for weeks on end. She can read and write and knows basic sewing and jewelry making.
• Given her upbringing on a ship, Gethsemane is well learned with fishing and sailing.

Offering:

Sharp Things/Weapons

• 3+ small tarnished knives and daggers
• 1 small carving knife, good condition

Clothing & Accessories

• jewelry odds and ends -- some broken, some in perfect condition
• 1 golden chain necklace
• 1 poor condition golden ring with Emerald
• 1 poor condition golden ring, empty jewel holder
• 2 okay condition silver rings, no features

Crafting

• dyes (red, violet, green) in small jars that may be too aged to be fully effective
• beads and chains of various sizes and colors
• small jar imported writing ink, good condition
• paper, some crumpled or torn
• several feathers, varying size, color and condition

Containers

• 2-3 different sized glass mason jars
• 2 leather pouches to be added to a belt, good condition
• 1 worn out leather belt

Miscellaneous

• recorder flute, cracked but salvageable
• odd assortment of rusted, dirty, or broken silverware
• odd assortment (collection?) of dirty human coins, various national origins
• small books of varying condition and genre
• various animal bones, teeth

Accepting:

• Looks for nothing in particular, but for even exchanges.