OOC Information:Name: Liz/EC
Age: 38 years young
Time Zone: PST
Preferred Contact Method: Discord: madwomanwithabox#1521
IC Information:Reserve Link: BING!Character Name: Anne Forsythe
Series: OC
Character History: The People, or the Folk, are a race descended from but quite separate from werewolves, one that has assimilated peacefully to live among humans unseen. Having been driven out of the old country centuries ago, the discipline of shapeshifting has been lost to them for generations. They are merely ferals now, blending in with the rest of humanity while clinging to and passing down the old ways through the thinning bloodlines. They share many of Man's weaknesses along with their own strengths: they are fast, agile, strong, gifted with keen eyesight, hearing and sense of smell, and tend to congregate into large clans, consisting of many large packs, or families.
Among The Folk, the elders' word is law in all things, save for marriage: it is the tradition of The People that the female chooses her own mate, a mate that she deems her equal in all things. They are predominantly, but not exclusively carnivorous, preferring to hunt and kill their own prey. They tend to see other races as either fellow hunters (vampires, lycans and certain humans), or weak minded sheep.
In general, the Folk live directly alongside humans, living in cities and making retreats to the wild to satisfy their need for the hunt. While there are exceptions who cannot assimilate and live in the wild, they are overall good at passing for normal. There are also stories among the families of long dead clans that had the ability to tap into magicks that are as lost to the People as the shift--magicks that linger in certain members of the People with lineage from these Lost Clans.
Anne Forsythe, a member of one of the smaller clans was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a relatively well off family. Her early life wasn't all that unusual: she was a good student, well liked and popular at school despite her "shortcomings." Blonde, willowy, and well endowed by puberty, she was a black sheep in her family and among her people, who idealized dark coloring, smaller forms, and lean, athletic bodies as its standard of beauty.
She loved her mother and father, and was very close with her older brother, Bartholomew "Bubba" Forsythe...but there are gaps in the memory of her early years.
To this day, she doesn't remember the reason she came out to California with her family. She knows they were all out camping, hunting, like any other family trip...and she knows that someone killed them all.
She was only sixteen when the men came--men she no longer really remembers.
In a chaotic mess of violence, blood, and fear, Anne's human mind abandoned her, her feral nature taking over to protect her. With the animal in control, she slipped away into the Angeles National Forest to nurse her wounds and hunt for food. She has no memory of how her parents and brothers died, only what her savior later told her: that he found her in the woods, half starved and skittish as a wounded animal.
She remembers only a sea of red, and the kind, grizzled old man that found her and gently coaxed her home.
The man, Horatio Walker, was the patriarch of a large clan of the Folk based primarily in the Southern California area. After nursing Anne back to health, talking with her, then seeking out other members of her clan and finding none who could take her, Horatio gave Anne to his son Carlton, where she became the second eldest of their children. With older brother Harvey and little sisters Christine and Cadence, Anne found a new home.
Still every bit a black sheep, but loudly and faithfully supported by her new adopted family, Anne grew up well adjusted and went on to attend UCLA to study journalism. Despite the love, encouragement, and stability her family brought, she still struggled with feelings of inadequacy, even among the humans that saw her as superior: alongside the small, dark huntresses that she saw in her sisters and compared to the wild spirit of her brother, she never truly felt like she deserved the attention she got from others.
In addition, Anne struggled with feeling like she didn't belong because of the things she knew. Blessed with a keen gut instinct bordering on clairvoyance, Anne's family soon learned that she wasn't merely good at arguing a point: Anne was rarely wrong if she attested to an occurrence, even those that hadn't happened yet, and also had dreams that often times came true. Her grandfather especially tried to counsel her, and believed that she did have a genuine psychic gift, often calling her his little Cassandra.
Her self image would begin to shift a little her sophomore year of college: after competing and winning an amateur competition at a strip club she visited with friends on a whim (and with a fake ID), Anne discovered she genuinely enjoyed it, and started working as a stripper the second she turned twenty one. She quickly graduated to the higher class clubs, and after accepting an internship at Playboy magazine as part of her studies, she was asked to pose for the publication. Anne accepted when the offer was made, and after several layouts, was voted Miss June in 2009. Her internship resulted in a job offer after she graduated, and she now works as a staff editor for the magazine. While she still poses occasionally if asked, her primary focus is on achieving her current goal of directing some layouts of her own--a dream she is actively pursuing with an upcoming classic rock themed issue, which she is lead director on for the centerfold and posing in at the time of her entry into the game.
Personality: Anne has suffered a lot in her life, but rather than leave her hard and jaded, or making her cruel, it's only served to soften her. Paired with her animal nature, the end result is a woman who is deeply compassionate, empathetic, and almost compulsively nurturing. She mothers nearly everyone she meets, sees the best in people almost to a fault, and keeps her mind wide open to the views and opinions of others.
Because of the culture clash she's struggled with all her life, she also suffers a great deal from a form of impostor syndrome: she accepts praise graciously, but can't take it to heart, supports those around her rather than advancing her own goals and dreams if she's not pressed to look out for herself, and rails against the clairvoyance she possesses not because she's a cynic, but because she doesn't believe she's special. So what if she's never wrong? It's not a power, so she doesn't use it as one: she just takes what she "knows" and shares it as freely as she shares herself with the world.
Despite seeing herself as plain or sometimes ugly, Anne is very liberal when it comes to sex and love: she's proudly bisexual, flouting the attitude of her culture that, while not demonizing same sex relationships, tends to greatly favor male/female matches. She stripped in her youth and poses nude as part of her career because it makes her feel sexy and confident, and she's not ashamed of that fact. She's also not one for exclusivity: while not overtly polyamorous, she's fine with having a relationship and playing the field at the same time so long as there's communication and kindness between two people. It will be different when she meets her mate, but that day is a long ways away...
Abilities: Anne is feral. This means she has highly enhanced senses, she's stronger than the average human (maybe twice as strong as a very strong man), and has superhuman speed and agility. She also relies heavily on animal instinct, and is not above exhibiting certain animal behaviors socially, such as scent marking (highly tactile, lots of hugs and social cheek-kissing) and territorial behavior (seemingly messy behavior, leaving her things everywhere as a means of marking her territory). Anne is also a seer: unaware she belongs to one of the Lost Clans, she does possess magic that, at present, manifests only as a level of clairvoyance she violently resists. She is prone to having prophetic dreams and endless tiny moments of perceiving the future...as she puts it, she's simply never wrong about anything--from the weather to the date of one's death, though at present her most powerful prediction was a five car pileup on the freeway--and warning her mother to take surface streets that day.
Six Items: Anne's laptop (unless allowed, will not function save to let her access information on the hard drive like pictures and documents that are precious to her), a necklace her birth mother gave her, a framed photo of her adopted family, the June 2009 issue of PLAYBOY, her make up bag (containing a few precious cosmetics), and a faded, frayed red flannel blanket.
Character Samples:Sample 1: Anne meets a few people in Beachville.Sample 2: Hi, all!
[The cheerful, singsong greeting comes from a blonde that appears over the network. By most conventional standards, she's very beautiful: long blonde hair, fair but healthy skin, and well endowed. She does not, however, carry herself as such: that fall of hair is up in a messy bun held in place by a pen she found somewhere, she's covering up the skimpy black bikini top that shows off her assets with a button up flannel shirt, leaving just the halter string at her neck visible around the unbuttoned collar, and her posture is just a little bit lacking.]My name's Anne--I just got here, like most of you, and I'm still settling in? But...okay, this is going to sound weird so forgive me.
If anyone runs into a boy named Eugene? Can you tell him to avoid wearing blue until
after the party? Trust me, it's
important, and the thought just will
not leave me alone.
In other news? If anyone needs a hand settling in, give me a holler. I'm just
deadly with a credit card, I love me a Home Goods store, and if there's any local game to be had--this
is a beachside town, so it's not likely--I can help you keep your freezer stocked.
[With a bright smile, Anne blows a kiss into the camera.]Mwah! Thanks in advance, sweeties--catch you soon!
