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Description

Name: Mandy
Age: Somewhere between 60-80 years
Place of Origin: N/A
Language Spoken: American English is her only documented language.
Species: ???
Personality:
Weight:
-(Humanoid Body) Approximately 155 lbs (due to higher muscle mass)
-(True form) Probably in the 400/600 pound range.
Distinguishing Features: Her scars, fangs, and claws make it easiest for her to be identified. And as she has only recently become adept at replicating the human face (Definitely not perfect, though) her eye is noticeably larger than normal size for a human.* She also has had to switch often between walking as a human and beast, so she has an odd, stagger-like gait.
Fears: She fears fire as most creatures do. Is also afraid of dogs, and usually turns extremely hostile at the sight of guns. More recently, she is rather uncomfortable around adult humans.
Powers/Abilities: Has no supernatural powers aside from being able to switch between forms at will. However, this requires her to be properly nourished in order to keep her fueled enough to transform efficiently. Her strength as a beast has transferred over partially to her human form, so she is stronger than she’d appear.
Weapons: Usually uses nothing other than her claws and teeth. She’s started learning how to use a hunting or small pocket knife, however.
How she kills/wounds in combat: When she was younger she would hunt humans and animals by jumping onto them and sinking her fangs into their necks, snapping them or ripping out their throats. As she grew more sympathetic and attached to humans, their deaths were indirectly caused by any wounds she would accidentally inflict on them. As her meals now consist of wildlife and the humans who were unable to survive under her “care”, there have only been a handful of humans over the last few decades she has killed in cold blood.
Interests: She never really had much time for interests for a good chunk of her life, having been busy with learning how to survive without detection. With her new affinity for collecting and hoarding human objects, and the introduction of human hobbies, such as writing and drawing, her interests currently consist of learning how to do these things.
Weaknesses: Her missing eye and unbalanced gait serve as pretty significant weaknesses in combat. Her steady loss of fur over the years has also made her susceptible to the cold, forcing her to revert to her human form more and more often.
Strengths/Pros: She keeps some of the strength that her true form offers her when she’s “human”, and is a relatively fast learner.
Flaws: Her very narrow worldview causes her to jump to conclusions often and make rash decisions based on what she believes. For example, she believes all hunters are horrible people, yet she rarely considers that they are only trying to protect their families from her. All she’ll see is a rifle pointed at her head.
She also has hoarder tendencies, which has put her in danger of discovery more than enough times because she refuses to leave her collections behind.
History: --
Relationships:
Friends:
Teddy Mason/The Lonely Searcher
Long story short, Mandy lured the ghost into the woods easily. After managing to get his notebook away from him, sensing from his body language that it was important, she basically held him hostage by hiding it in different places. Because she never knew just what the journal could do to him, she never thought to threaten him with harming the book, and luckily for him was reasonably careful with it.
Soon enough she began to demand that he teach her how to read and write, among other things, and Teddy had to oblige, nervous that she would hurt the book if he didn’t. But eventually, the journal began slipping their minds as they got to know each other, and Mandy soon grew feelings for him.
She’s grown on Teddy as well, but that may also just be a case of Stockholm Syndrome on his part.

Place/Type of Residence: While biologically she is supposed to be a nomadic creature, she mostly stays in a forest in northeastern Pennsylvania. This is mostly due to her growing collection keeping her bound to the place- Otherwise she would most likely have moved along across the country.
Notes:
*With Mandy and other members of her species, there is always something wrong or off about their human form (too-large eyes, off facial proportions, limbs a tad too long). This results in humans feeling uncomfortable upon seeing them, therefore making it even harder for them to lure in prey.

Description

Name: Mandy
Age: Somewhere between 60-80 years
Place of Origin: N/A
Language Spoken: American English is her only documented language.
Species: ???
Personality:
Weight:
-(Humanoid Body) Approximately 155 lbs (due to higher muscle mass)
-(True form) Probably in the 400/600 pound range.
Distinguishing Features: Her scars, fangs, and claws make it easiest for her to be identified. And as she has only recently become adept at replicating the human face (Definitely not perfect, though) her eye is noticeably larger than normal size for a human.* She also has had to switch often between walking as a human and beast, so she has an odd, stagger-like gait.
Fears: She fears fire as most creatures do. Is also afraid of dogs, and usually turns extremely hostile at the sight of guns. More recently, she is rather uncomfortable around adult humans.
Powers/Abilities: Has no supernatural powers aside from being able to switch between forms at will. However, this requires her to be properly nourished in order to keep her fueled enough to transform efficiently. Her strength as a beast has transferred over partially to her human form, so she is stronger than she’d appear.
Weapons: Usually uses nothing other than her claws and teeth. She’s started learning how to use a hunting or small pocket knife, however.
How she kills/wounds in combat: When she was younger she would hunt humans and animals by jumping onto them and sinking her fangs into their necks, snapping them or ripping out their throats. As she grew more sympathetic and attached to humans, their deaths were indirectly caused by any wounds she would accidentally inflict on them. As her meals now consist of wildlife and the humans who were unable to survive under her “care”, there have only been a handful of humans over the last few decades she has killed in cold blood.
Interests: She never really had much time for interests for a good chunk of her life, having been busy with learning how to survive without detection. With her new affinity for collecting and hoarding human objects, and the introduction of human hobbies, such as writing and drawing, her interests currently consist of learning how to do these things.
Weaknesses: Her missing eye and unbalanced gait serve as pretty significant weaknesses in combat. Her steady loss of fur over the years has also made her susceptible to the cold, forcing her to revert to her human form more and more often.
Strengths/Pros: She keeps some of the strength that her true form offers her when she’s “human”, and is a relatively fast learner.
Flaws: Her very narrow worldview causes her to jump to conclusions often and make rash decisions based on what she believes. For example, she believes all hunters are horrible people, yet she rarely considers that they are only trying to protect their families from her. All she’ll see is a rifle pointed at her head.
She also has hoarder tendencies, which has put her in danger of discovery more than enough times because she refuses to leave her collections behind.
History: --
Relationships:
Friends:
Teddy Mason/The Lonely Searcher
Long story short, Mandy lured the ghost into the woods easily. After managing to get his notebook away from him, sensing from his body language that it was important, she basically held him hostage by hiding it in different places. Because she never knew just what the journal could do to him, she never thought to threaten him with harming the book, and luckily for him was reasonably careful with it.
Soon enough she began to demand that he teach her how to read and write, among other things, and Teddy had to oblige, nervous that she would hurt the book if he didn’t. But eventually, the journal began slipping their minds as they got to know each other, and Mandy soon grew feelings for him.
She’s grown on Teddy as well, but that may also just be a case of Stockholm Syndrome on his part.

Place/Type of Residence: While biologically she is supposed to be a nomadic creature, she mostly stays in a forest in northeastern Pennsylvania. This is mostly due to her growing collection keeping her bound to the place- Otherwise she would most likely have moved along across the country.
Notes:
*With Mandy and other members of her species, there is always something wrong or off about their human form (too-large eyes, off facial proportions, limbs a tad too long). This results in humans feeling uncomfortable upon seeing them, therefore making it even harder for them to lure in prey.