Post by elena cortez on Feb 24, 2012 19:41:44 GMT -5
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"Trust me, my bark and my bite are both awful"
REMEMBERING THE PAST
>>full name: Elena Jessica Cortez
>>nicknames: Cortez, Ellie (dislikes this nickname)
>>date of birth: December 6th 1993
>>date of change: July 18th 2006
>>hometown: La Push
>>species: Shape-shifter
>>abilities: Quick healing and enhanced strength
TRANSITIONING
>>height: 5’11”
>>weight: 130 lb
>>hair: black
>>eyes: dark brown
>>general appearance: Tall and athletic, Elena has a sleek and agile body that she loves to keep in shape. She exercises every day, trying to stay as strong and fit as she can. Like a barstool, she’s all legs; they’re long and lithe, and it was the bane of her high school’s track coach that she never joined the team. She has thick black hair that flow down past her shoulders in soft waves. Her eyes are large, heavily lashed, and dark brown. She has a smooth, coppery-tan complexion.
As a wolf, Elena is also tall, the size of a large pony. She’s fast and she’s strong, enough so to catch and kill a vampire. Her eyes are the same dark brown as in human form, but her fur is completely opposite from her hair. It’s a light, sandy coloured similar to that of a golden retriever.
>>face claim: Naya Rivera
THE CHANGE
>>likes:
- Running
- Hiking
- Swimming/Cliffdiving
- Boxing
- Her mother
- Her pack
- Playing pool
- Bad movies
- Her half-brother
- Night
>>dislikes:
- Feeling helpless
- The city
- Being inside
- The ‘Pack Mind’
- Sexism
- Annoying people
- Standing still
- Busy nights at the bar
- Children
- Vampires
>>strengths:
- Brave
- Physically strong
- Hard-working
>>weaknesses:
- Her family
- Her pack
- Short tempered
>>habits/quirks:
- Has insomnia when she’s stressed
- Demands pancakes when she’s upset
>>fears:
- That she won’t be strong enough to protect her family, pack mates, and tribe
- That her family will find out she’s a werewolf
>>secrets: She sometimes wishes she wasn’t a shape-shifter; that she didn’t know about them or vampires and could have gone away to school to become a forest ranger, like she always wanted.
>>personality:
Elena is a solitary person by nature, a facet of her personality which is constantly at odds with the closeness that comes with the pack’s connection. This was more of a problem when she first phased, but since then she has become more comfortable with her pack mates, and is now only mildly uncomfortable at the worst of times.
An exercise junky, those who are close to Elena can always tell when she hasn’t worked out. She becomes crabby. Well… crabbier. Elena doesn’t exactly have the sunniest personality anyways. She’s temperamental and sarcastic, traits which she tries to keep controlled as her phasing is related to her temper.
Despite the opinions of some of her pack mates, Elena does not trust the Cullens. Sure, she knows they don’t want to harm any humans, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t lose control, nor does it cancel out that they’ve harmed humans in the past. However, Elena is not sure how she feels about Renesme Cullen, as she is half human and was imprinted on, but she’s still cautious.
BEFORE THE BITE
>>mother: Aida Grace Call, 34, nurse
>>father: Lucas Emilio Cortez, 35, lawyer
>>siblings: Phillip Benito Cortez, half-brother, 9, student
>>other: N/A
>>history:
To understand Elena’s family, you have to start at the very beginning, when her parents first met. Aida Call was eighteen and living off the La Push reservation for the first time in her life. She was attending university to become a nurse. She met Lucas Cortez her first day. He was living in the dorm room across from hers, and in his second year of pre-law. They became friends almost instantly, spending all their time together in between classes and studying. It was no surprise to those who knew them when they started dating. It was, however, a surprise that four months later, Aida discovered she was pregnant. Aida’s parents, naturally, freaked out. So were Lucas’s, but both were determined that their children had to do the ‘right thing’ and get married. They did, and it was a big mistake. Within a year they’d split up, and Aida moved back to La Push with her year old daughter, taking night classes at college to get her nursing degree instead. Lucas finished law school, remarried, had a son, Phillip, and has kept in contact to this day with Elena.
Elena grew up as a solitary child, preferring to be off on her own rather than with others, and completely in love with the forest. She was fascinated by the animals that lived there, and awed by the cliffs and lakes. She learned all about it, and from the age of ten onward she knew those woods like the back of her hand, ever path and trail and clearing.
Loner-esk persona aside, when she looks back at her life before she phased, Elena feels it was pretty normal. She was going to leave the reservation to go to school, like her mother had. She was going to be a ranger for some huge national park, perhaps in Vancouver.
But then she did phase, and her plans of leaving went out the window.
She’d been feeling feverish all week and, with an already hot temper, it took very little set Elena off that warm summer night. After the world most explosive argument over nothing with her mother, Elena ran off into the woods behind their house, shaking with anger. But unlike other nights where Elena’s flared short fuse blew, the run didn’t make her feel any calmer. Instead the shaking got worse, her skin boiling, until in a sudden spasm, she was running on four legs rather than two. She was… terrified. Especially of the voices that had suddenly sounded in her head. But the panic began to subside as the voices explained what was going on and who they were, and face with the undeniable proof of the situation, Elena had no choice but to accept that this was what she was. What she is. What she will always be.
OUT OF CHARACTER
>>alias: Bad Wolf
>>age: Nineteen
>>experience: Six years, on and off
>>other characters: Kitty Pym
>>how to contact you: PM
>>how you found us: Site surfing
>>did you read the rules? Yessurroleplay sample:See Kitty’s Bio
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