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Oct. 12th, 2013 02:09 amOOC Information:
Name: Eric
Are you over 15? Yes
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IC Information:
Name: Delphine Angua Von Überwald/Angela Roth
Canon and medium: Discworld Novels
Age: 29
Preincarnation Species: Werewolf
Preincarnation Appearance: A blond, busty supermodel in chainmail and leather. ACTUAL chainmail and leather, not some skimpy bikini nonsense. This fanart has always been my favorite depiction of her.
Any differences: Angela wears normal clothes, of course, cuts her hair shorter, and is less likely to sprout fangs and claws when she's angry.
Preincarnated History: Series wiki and character article.
Angua was the descendent of a long and infamous family of werewolves (lycanthropy being an inherited trait on Discworld, not one that is spread by biting, though there seems to be some myths that it can be spread that way.). Angua disliked the savage violence that the rest of her family took for granted, and so in an act of rebellion she became a vegetarian, moved to the distant city of Ankh-Morpork, and joined the City Watch.
While she was initially viewed with some suspicion by her mostly male colleagues, Angua eventually earned the respect of the Watch through a combination of hard work, determination, intelligence, and most importantly her incredible sense of smell and ability to crack a man's skull in her jaws. She is now one of Commander Vimes most trusted...er...men, a feared face in the criminal underworld, in a happy, if strange, relationship with one of her fellow officers, and has achieved the rank of Captain.
Reincarnated History: Angela's family is old money. They moved to America from Germany shortly before World War Two, as her great grandparents had lived through World War One, and when they started noticing the rumblings of war coming around again, they had the wherewithal to take all their family and get the fuck out of there. They figured Chicago sounded about far enough to be safe. Their challenges to find acceptance in America as German Immigrants during the height of the war would no doubt make for an interesting story, but it is not what we are here for.
Skip ahead to the modern day. Angela Roth has two brothers (one older, one younger), and a younger sister. Her parents wanted their children to become the movers and shakers in society, and sent them to a prestigious private school that was famous for sending their students on to become politicians. Of the four Roth Children, only her older brother, Walther, actually took to politics. He dove straight in to a political science and business major in college, and continued on that path right up to the present day, where he is running for mayor in one of the suburbs of Chicago.
Angela hated politics. The compromises, the lies, and general aura of what she thought of as a kind of low grade evil that surrounded the entire field grated on her soul. Seeking a more black and white kind of life, Angela turned her back on that life and instead of going to college she enrolled in the police academy. She ended up getting a position in the LCPD, where she has lived quite happily away from her family's cutthroat politics for six years now.
She currently has the rank of Detective with the vice squad, is a big football fan, likes detective stories (because they're so much more satisfying than work.), and is starting to feel like she's been single for far too long.
First Echo: A relatively simple thing. She was out on the night of a full moon. She'd seen many full moons in her life, but this one had just the right combination of weather, scents, and scenery that it triggered an echo. She recalled some of the time she spent living with a pack of wolves during The Fifth Elephant. So mainly fleeting glimpses of running through snowy woods with a pack of wolves as a wolf herself.
Preincarnation Personality: Werewolves are humans who have a bit of wolf in them. In a similar vein, dogs are wolves who have a bit of human in them. There is a certain amount of similarity between the two. Most werewolves let the wolf do as it pleases, and are the terror of the night, but those that try to hold the wolf back, like Angua, find themselves naturally taking an obedient role. There's a part of them that is happiest when someone says "Good girl!" (Metaphorically, of course. If you literally said "Good Girl!" to Angua she'd likely do something pointlessly hideous to you.). She likes being praised for doing a good job, but at the same time she knows this little personality quirk about werewolves, and so she's rather embarrassed by it.
Angua hates wild werewolves. It is the special kind of hate that is saved for that which you hate about yourself. Angua knows that if she's not careful she could end up just like them, and so she distances herself from them as much as possible.
Being able to physically take on just about any human instills a certain confidence and lack of fear of physical danger in oneself. In times of crisis, Angua is not one to freeze up. She's more likely to leap into action, possibly without thinking things through all the way. That's the wolf in her. She keeps it MOSTLY under control.
Knowing that she only keeps it MOSTLY under control, Angua lives her life accordingly. She can't stand the smell of blood because it makes her want to tear people's throats out, so she avoids it whenever she can and doesn't eat meat. Sometimes during the full moon she gives in and hunts down some chickens, but she very conscientiously pays the owners afterwards by slipping some money under their door. When pressed on why she doesn't, her answer is "Because animals don't pay."
She hates being around vampires. Discworld vampires have incredible poise and grace, and that combined with the smell makes werewolves feel like dumb shaggy animals. Even more, though, people just want to LIKE vampires. They think they're COOL. Whereas werewolves are just viewed as dangerous beasts that you need to keep an eye on. While around a vampire, Angua has to override the wolf inside her second by second to not go for its throat. It leaves her short tempered and irritable.
In conversation, she has a very dry sense of humor and is relentlessly practical. She gets irritated by references to her gender. She isn't very good at dealing with emotions in general, feeling that getting too closely involved with anyone is doomed to heartbreak (Which makes her relationship with Carrot rather complicated.). As such she tends to keep her feelings to herself, telling herself that a non-werewolf wouldn't understand.
Any differences: The biggest difference between Angela and Angua is that Angela did not grow up learning how to be a werewolf. Angua lives in constant fear of losing control and killing someone, and so there is an underlying skittishness and standoffish attitude to everything she does. Angela, on the other hand, cannot accidentally rip out someone's throat, and so she is more confident in dealing with social situations of all kinds. She has no hang ups about flirting, making friends, or starting relationships.
While she still Share's Angua's distaste for her family, it is FAR less focused. Angua feared and hated everything her family represented, and was prepared to kill her own brother. Angela doesn't particularly get along with her family, but she doesn't HATE them. Her parents think she is wasting her potential as a police officer, but accept her choice with no more than a bit of subtle criticism. She dislikes her brother, but would never even consider actually killing him.
Angela lacks Angua's obsession with being civilized. Angua conscientiously paid for everything she took and didn't eat meat while human, because doing otherwise made her feel like a wild animal. Angela, on the other hand, doesn't react to the smell of blood with a desire to maul people, and so she enjoys a good steak as much as the next guy. She still is very scrupulous about the law, but in this case she acts this way because she is a cop, rather than becoming a cop because she acts this way. The motivations are entirely different.
Finally, Angela would be rather uncomfortable living in the wilderness. She grew up surrounded by the luxuries of the city, and wouldn't have the first clue what to do if she got lost in the woods. Her idea of "roughing it" is going to a public campsite with a van packed full of supplies and staying the night with some friends, beers, and marshmallows.
Abilities:
Strengths
- As a werewolf, Angua can switch freely between a fully human shaped form and a fully wolf shaped form. Direct exposure to the light of a full moon forces her to immediately take the wolf form.
- Angua's sense of smell is superhuman. She can track people by scent, can smell what mood you are in, what you had for breakfast, even what color clothes you are wearing. It gets even stronger in wolf form.
- It is difficult (but not impossible) to kill a werewolf without silver weapons. In canon, Angua recovers from five gunshot wounds to the chest in a matter of hours.
- While in wolf form, Angua is still in control of her own actions and can think like a human, although doing so is harder, and it continues to get harder the longer she stays a wolf.
- In human form, Angua is stronger and faster than the average human.
- Angua can speak to and understand the language of dogs and wolves.
- Most animals are instinctively afraid of werewolves.
Weaknesses
- Silver weapons can kill her quite easily. Even the touch of silver is painful. It will weaken and confuse her.
- Rapidly switching between forms a lot can confuse the body, leading to behavior like the wolf trying to talk or walk on two legs, or the human trying to run on all four or pounce on people.
- When she transforms, her clothes don't come with her. She has to carry something with her, or be naked when she turns human again.
- Trasnforming isn't PAINFUL, but it is described as extremely disturbing and unsettling to watch.
- Wolves have a natural dislike of werewolves, and will frequently attack them on sight.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Angela plastered on a blank look as the captain droned on about the new accounting system and tried her best not to stare at his jungular veins. She should have been home an hour ago, but this stupid meeting was going on longer than was safe, and now the sun had gone down and the moon was out. My god the moon. She could FEEL her hair trying to grow, to say nothing of her nails trying to turn into claws. She was pretty confident that she could hold out from the meeting, but getting home would be...interesting.
She didn't know the officer sitting behind her very well. Rodriguez, maybe? She had been ignoring him, but when he leaned forwards to whisper "How long is this idiot going to keep droning?" She snapped her head around and actually growled at him. The entire room stopped to stare at her. She cleared her throat nervously. "Er...sorry. Just a frog in my throat."
Angela sunk down in her seat, red with embarrassment as the captain tried to pick up the thread of his lecture again. Oh yes, interesting indeed. And all the covered parking spaces had been taken that morning, so she wouldn't be able to get to her car without exposure. Damn damn damn!
Roleplay Sample - Network: Those of you who helped me out at the park yesterday...thank you. Those of you who laughed can go fuck yourselves with a cactus. Believe me I won't be forgetting any of you in the future if you need a hand.
Or, you know...A paw.
[cough.]
Anyways if it's all the same to you I think I'll just stay indoors until the full moon is past. I'm sure all you brave heroes can get on without me for a few days.
Any Questions? What is Locke City's football team? Are they any good? What are the team's colors? Also is there anything special I need to know now that I have a character with the police, or would they have just noticed that some of their colleagues had been getting Weird Orders?
Name: Eric
Are you over 15? Yes
Contact:
IC Information:
Name: Delphine Angua Von Überwald/Angela Roth
Canon and medium: Discworld Novels
Age: 29
Preincarnation Species: Werewolf
Preincarnation Appearance: A blond, busty supermodel in chainmail and leather. ACTUAL chainmail and leather, not some skimpy bikini nonsense. This fanart has always been my favorite depiction of her.
Any differences: Angela wears normal clothes, of course, cuts her hair shorter, and is less likely to sprout fangs and claws when she's angry.
Preincarnated History: Series wiki and character article.
Angua was the descendent of a long and infamous family of werewolves (lycanthropy being an inherited trait on Discworld, not one that is spread by biting, though there seems to be some myths that it can be spread that way.). Angua disliked the savage violence that the rest of her family took for granted, and so in an act of rebellion she became a vegetarian, moved to the distant city of Ankh-Morpork, and joined the City Watch.
While she was initially viewed with some suspicion by her mostly male colleagues, Angua eventually earned the respect of the Watch through a combination of hard work, determination, intelligence, and most importantly her incredible sense of smell and ability to crack a man's skull in her jaws. She is now one of Commander Vimes most trusted...er...men, a feared face in the criminal underworld, in a happy, if strange, relationship with one of her fellow officers, and has achieved the rank of Captain.
Reincarnated History: Angela's family is old money. They moved to America from Germany shortly before World War Two, as her great grandparents had lived through World War One, and when they started noticing the rumblings of war coming around again, they had the wherewithal to take all their family and get the fuck out of there. They figured Chicago sounded about far enough to be safe. Their challenges to find acceptance in America as German Immigrants during the height of the war would no doubt make for an interesting story, but it is not what we are here for.
Skip ahead to the modern day. Angela Roth has two brothers (one older, one younger), and a younger sister. Her parents wanted their children to become the movers and shakers in society, and sent them to a prestigious private school that was famous for sending their students on to become politicians. Of the four Roth Children, only her older brother, Walther, actually took to politics. He dove straight in to a political science and business major in college, and continued on that path right up to the present day, where he is running for mayor in one of the suburbs of Chicago.
Angela hated politics. The compromises, the lies, and general aura of what she thought of as a kind of low grade evil that surrounded the entire field grated on her soul. Seeking a more black and white kind of life, Angela turned her back on that life and instead of going to college she enrolled in the police academy. She ended up getting a position in the LCPD, where she has lived quite happily away from her family's cutthroat politics for six years now.
She currently has the rank of Detective with the vice squad, is a big football fan, likes detective stories (because they're so much more satisfying than work.), and is starting to feel like she's been single for far too long.
First Echo: A relatively simple thing. She was out on the night of a full moon. She'd seen many full moons in her life, but this one had just the right combination of weather, scents, and scenery that it triggered an echo. She recalled some of the time she spent living with a pack of wolves during The Fifth Elephant. So mainly fleeting glimpses of running through snowy woods with a pack of wolves as a wolf herself.
Preincarnation Personality: Werewolves are humans who have a bit of wolf in them. In a similar vein, dogs are wolves who have a bit of human in them. There is a certain amount of similarity between the two. Most werewolves let the wolf do as it pleases, and are the terror of the night, but those that try to hold the wolf back, like Angua, find themselves naturally taking an obedient role. There's a part of them that is happiest when someone says "Good girl!" (Metaphorically, of course. If you literally said "Good Girl!" to Angua she'd likely do something pointlessly hideous to you.). She likes being praised for doing a good job, but at the same time she knows this little personality quirk about werewolves, and so she's rather embarrassed by it.
Angua hates wild werewolves. It is the special kind of hate that is saved for that which you hate about yourself. Angua knows that if she's not careful she could end up just like them, and so she distances herself from them as much as possible.
Being able to physically take on just about any human instills a certain confidence and lack of fear of physical danger in oneself. In times of crisis, Angua is not one to freeze up. She's more likely to leap into action, possibly without thinking things through all the way. That's the wolf in her. She keeps it MOSTLY under control.
Knowing that she only keeps it MOSTLY under control, Angua lives her life accordingly. She can't stand the smell of blood because it makes her want to tear people's throats out, so she avoids it whenever she can and doesn't eat meat. Sometimes during the full moon she gives in and hunts down some chickens, but she very conscientiously pays the owners afterwards by slipping some money under their door. When pressed on why she doesn't, her answer is "Because animals don't pay."
She hates being around vampires. Discworld vampires have incredible poise and grace, and that combined with the smell makes werewolves feel like dumb shaggy animals. Even more, though, people just want to LIKE vampires. They think they're COOL. Whereas werewolves are just viewed as dangerous beasts that you need to keep an eye on. While around a vampire, Angua has to override the wolf inside her second by second to not go for its throat. It leaves her short tempered and irritable.
In conversation, she has a very dry sense of humor and is relentlessly practical. She gets irritated by references to her gender. She isn't very good at dealing with emotions in general, feeling that getting too closely involved with anyone is doomed to heartbreak (Which makes her relationship with Carrot rather complicated.). As such she tends to keep her feelings to herself, telling herself that a non-werewolf wouldn't understand.
Any differences: The biggest difference between Angela and Angua is that Angela did not grow up learning how to be a werewolf. Angua lives in constant fear of losing control and killing someone, and so there is an underlying skittishness and standoffish attitude to everything she does. Angela, on the other hand, cannot accidentally rip out someone's throat, and so she is more confident in dealing with social situations of all kinds. She has no hang ups about flirting, making friends, or starting relationships.
While she still Share's Angua's distaste for her family, it is FAR less focused. Angua feared and hated everything her family represented, and was prepared to kill her own brother. Angela doesn't particularly get along with her family, but she doesn't HATE them. Her parents think she is wasting her potential as a police officer, but accept her choice with no more than a bit of subtle criticism. She dislikes her brother, but would never even consider actually killing him.
Angela lacks Angua's obsession with being civilized. Angua conscientiously paid for everything she took and didn't eat meat while human, because doing otherwise made her feel like a wild animal. Angela, on the other hand, doesn't react to the smell of blood with a desire to maul people, and so she enjoys a good steak as much as the next guy. She still is very scrupulous about the law, but in this case she acts this way because she is a cop, rather than becoming a cop because she acts this way. The motivations are entirely different.
Finally, Angela would be rather uncomfortable living in the wilderness. She grew up surrounded by the luxuries of the city, and wouldn't have the first clue what to do if she got lost in the woods. Her idea of "roughing it" is going to a public campsite with a van packed full of supplies and staying the night with some friends, beers, and marshmallows.
Abilities:
Strengths
- As a werewolf, Angua can switch freely between a fully human shaped form and a fully wolf shaped form. Direct exposure to the light of a full moon forces her to immediately take the wolf form.
- Angua's sense of smell is superhuman. She can track people by scent, can smell what mood you are in, what you had for breakfast, even what color clothes you are wearing. It gets even stronger in wolf form.
- It is difficult (but not impossible) to kill a werewolf without silver weapons. In canon, Angua recovers from five gunshot wounds to the chest in a matter of hours.
- While in wolf form, Angua is still in control of her own actions and can think like a human, although doing so is harder, and it continues to get harder the longer she stays a wolf.
- In human form, Angua is stronger and faster than the average human.
- Angua can speak to and understand the language of dogs and wolves.
- Most animals are instinctively afraid of werewolves.
Weaknesses
- Silver weapons can kill her quite easily. Even the touch of silver is painful. It will weaken and confuse her.
- Rapidly switching between forms a lot can confuse the body, leading to behavior like the wolf trying to talk or walk on two legs, or the human trying to run on all four or pounce on people.
- When she transforms, her clothes don't come with her. She has to carry something with her, or be naked when she turns human again.
- Trasnforming isn't PAINFUL, but it is described as extremely disturbing and unsettling to watch.
- Wolves have a natural dislike of werewolves, and will frequently attack them on sight.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Angela plastered on a blank look as the captain droned on about the new accounting system and tried her best not to stare at his jungular veins. She should have been home an hour ago, but this stupid meeting was going on longer than was safe, and now the sun had gone down and the moon was out. My god the moon. She could FEEL her hair trying to grow, to say nothing of her nails trying to turn into claws. She was pretty confident that she could hold out from the meeting, but getting home would be...interesting.
She didn't know the officer sitting behind her very well. Rodriguez, maybe? She had been ignoring him, but when he leaned forwards to whisper "How long is this idiot going to keep droning?" She snapped her head around and actually growled at him. The entire room stopped to stare at her. She cleared her throat nervously. "Er...sorry. Just a frog in my throat."
Angela sunk down in her seat, red with embarrassment as the captain tried to pick up the thread of his lecture again. Oh yes, interesting indeed. And all the covered parking spaces had been taken that morning, so she wouldn't be able to get to her car without exposure. Damn damn damn!
Roleplay Sample - Network: Those of you who helped me out at the park yesterday...thank you. Those of you who laughed can go fuck yourselves with a cactus. Believe me I won't be forgetting any of you in the future if you need a hand.
Or, you know...A paw.
[cough.]
Anyways if it's all the same to you I think I'll just stay indoors until the full moon is past. I'm sure all you brave heroes can get on without me for a few days.
Any Questions? What is Locke City's football team? Are they any good? What are the team's colors? Also is there anything special I need to know now that I have a character with the police, or would they have just noticed that some of their colleagues had been getting Weird Orders?
