Post by Adalina on Dec 26, 2007 17:39:03 GMT
Name: Adalina Maria Delgado
Nicknames: Ada and Lina are the most common, but she’ll also answer to her surname.
Race: Werewolf- bitten
Occupation: Pack member
Gender: Female
Skin Color: Dusky, light bronze
Age: 247, but she looks to be in her late twenties or early thirties.
Clothing: When choosing her clothing, comfort is first and foremost in Adalina’s mind. She prefers jeans to anything else, though she has a few skirts just in case there’s a need for them. When it comes to tops, just about anything is comfortable for her- tank tops, sweaters, T-shirts, blouses, it doesn’t matter. She has them all and they range in colors from white to black to yellow to red and every other color one might be able to think of. She even has jeans in a variety of colors because she finds that having just black or blue to choose from is boring. She has a variety of boots, sneakers and sandals, though she only has a black pair of boots and a black and a white pair of sneakers, though she has sandals in a wide variety of colors. She also has a knee-length black leather jacket with numerous pockets for when it’s needed.
Height: 5’7
Weight: 127 lbs.
Tattoos: None
Piercings: None, though she used to have her ears pierced.
Jewellery: Adalina doesn’t wear- or even have- a lot of jewelry, but she has a seashell pendant with white gold detailing that she finds pleasantly quirky.
Body Modifications: She has a slit in her left earlobe, which has refused to heal over the centuries, from having her earring ripped out when she was still human, and the scar from her turning on her side.
Wolf Form
Build: Muscular and a bit bulky, with the ability to travel in both bipedal and quadruped fashion, Adalina’s wolf form is built more for powerful attacks than speed.
Height: Bipedal- 6’5; Quadruped- 4’6
Weight: 217 lbs.
Hair: Black with some gray markings around her face and ears, fully covering and thick.
Eyes: Amber
Defining Marks: Gray markings around her face and human-like ‘hands’
Pack
Pack: Rayne’s pack
Position: Pack member
Territory: Rayne’s half of LA.
Hair
Length: A few inches past her shoulders.
Style: What style Adalina has on any particular day depends on her mood in the morning. Most of the time, she leaves it in its natural curls, but sometimes she’ll get the whim to straighten it. She wears it down just about as much as she wears it pulled back.
Color: Black
Facial Hair
Length: N/A
Style: N/A
Eyes
Color: Brown
Oddities: Like the others of her species, Adalina’s eyes will flash/flood their lupine color during periods of intensely heightened emotions or when she’s attempting to tease or intimidate someone.
Personality: For the vast majority of the time, Adalina is a very easy going individual. She’s almost always more than willing to joke with a fellow pack mate, laughs easily and overall simply enjoys life. Life is, after all, too long to go through in a bad mood or being too stoic, especially for a werewolf. She can take being the target of a practical joke well and, while she doesn’t pull pranks herself, she always has a few ideas as to how to make someone pay for playing one on her. Which idea she uses always depends upon how big of a prank has been pulled on her, though it’s never anything especially horrible- she would never do something like that to any of them.
Adalina loves to have fun and can always find a way to do so, whether it be sitting out in the courtyard with a novel (or comic book), watching a movie or getting a piggyback ride around the hotel from Samson. When a pack mate is bored, she’s always willing to try and think up a way to entertain them if she can. If not, it won’t be because of the lack of trying.
Like many- if not all- Adalina has darkness in her past, which she tries not to let get to her. She wants to be happy and will do everything in her power to be, shoving dark thoughts and upsetting feelings to aside and bottling them up. When they begin to get too much for her to deal with, Adalina seems to get extremely self-conscious and prefers to disappear into her room until she can let it all out and get back to her usual self. She hates to let anyone see her at anything less than her best.
Extremely loyal to the pack, Adalina is always willing to protect a pack mate if she can. It doesn’t matter that she isn’t a fighter. If she’s there and she thinks that there’s something she can do to help, she won’t hesitate to give it a try. There is, after all, nothing in ‘the rules’ that says that she isn’t allowed to protect one of her pack mates just because she isn’t a fighter.
Though she loves to have fun and joke around, Adalina can be quite serious when the time comes to be so. She’s perfectly capable of sitting down and patiently listening to anyone who feels as if they want to talk to her or need a shoulder to cry on. That is, after all, what friends do when another needs such a thing and she is always more than willing to do it.
Weaknesses: As with all werewolves, Adalina is severely allergic to silver and can be burned or even killed by it depending upon the severity of the exposure to the metal. Adalina can have a very severe temper when it comes to someone threatening a pack mate and she will not hesitate to attack, whether she thinks she can win in a fight against them or not, which could very easily lead to her being seriously hurt or even killed if she finds that she can’t win. Unless they’re of the good variety, Adalina tends to bury her feelings and let them fester, which, while never having made her temper explode, leads her to feeling extremely self-conscious. She has an overwhelming desire to be seen as a strong individual- as someone who doesn’t get her feathers ruffled by anything and who nothing upsets- which can often lead her into pushing herself too hard.
Abilities: As a werewolf, Adalina has all of the typical abilities- heightened senses, agility, speed, healing capabilities and stamina and, also, because of her age, she is capable of controlling her wolf and transformation on the nights of the full moon. Having been taking lessons since she was very young, Adalina is quite good at singing and dancing, which she used to her advantage in order to get money to live on before joining the pack. She is fluent in Spanish and English as well as various forms of ‘geek speak’, capable of talking about computers to comic books to sci-fi shows and movies. While not an expert in the kitchen, she is quite a good cook and can make a mean salsa. Adalina is also quite capable at defending herself, whether it be at hand to hand or using a blade or gun.
Weapons: A pocket knife and a Colt .45.
Prized Possessions: Adalina doesn’t put much stock in material objects, though she is quite fond of her shell necklace.
Home(s): At the Four Seasons with Rayne’s pack.
History: Adalina was an unwanted child, born to a young married couple in Mexico who weren’t ready to be parents and take on the responsibilities that such a position would include. They tried being parents for less than a week before they decided that they disliked the role and gave Adalina to her father’s brother and his wife to raise. Esteban and Alison Delgado had lost a daughter of her own shortly after birth approximately two years before and both were more than happy to take Adalina, though Esteban was deeply disappointed in his little brother and sister-in-law for being unwilling to take on their responsibilities.
Alison was the only daughter of a banker from Maryland whose parents had disowned her in anger for marrying Esteban, who had grown up poor in Mexico and relocated to Maryland, opening a very successful furniture making business and learning English. Living with her aunt and uncle, Adalina grew up healthy and happy, learning Spanish as well as English. She seemed to run before she walked, giving her aunt and uncle a hard time in keeping up with her. The lovely, cozy little Maryland house they shared was filled with laughter more often than not and, while Adalina grew up knowing the names of her mother and father, her aunt and uncle were her parents, always seeing to it that she had everything she could possibly need.
When she was ten, a new family moved in next door with a son her age named Orion, who quickly proved to be a bully who intensely enjoyed frightening his two younger brothers with tales of ghosts and werewolves. On the first day he met Adalina, he seemed to become determined to frighten her as well, telling her that he had heard that werewolves lived nearby and saying that if they ever saw her, they would eat her because it was a well known fact that werewolves loved to eat children, especially girls. Adalina, having always been a quick thinker and imaginative, told him that that might be how the werewolves were where he came from, but the werewolves there had a fondness for feasting on young boys and that she had befriended them because they thought that girls were smarter and therefore it was wrong to eat them before saying that she was sure that when they heard about how he was trying to scare her, they would pay him a visit and make him pay for it. As she discovered then, Orion was not nearly as brave as he seemed, because he turned around and ran to his parents, crying about werewolves coming to eat him. When Adalina explained to her aunt and uncle what had happened, they both laughed, though they did tell her that it wasn’t nice to scare others, even if they did try to scare her first. Adalina, a bit stubbornly, told them that so long as no one tried to scare her, then she wouldn’t try to scare them, but she saw no problem with turning the tables on someone if they started it first. The glance Esteban and Alison shared said it all- they agreed, though they didn’t say so out loud.
As they got older, Orion continued with trying to find something to frighten Adalina with, but kept being met with disappointment while she simply got exasperated with his childish pranks. Finally, one day when they were sixteen and he put a spider on her, she calmly picked it up, held it up in front of his face and swore that if he didn’t leave her alone, she would fill his bed with spiders one night, and they would be of a biting variety. Orion, having learned that when Adalina said something, she usually meant it (though he had never learned the truth about her werewolf story), promised that he would stop trying to scare her. Apparently believing that Adalina knew where to get enough spiders, Orion kept his word.
When Adalina was twenty, she spotted an attempted kidnapping on her way to the market. She recognized the boy as the young son of a local butcher and, without thinking about what might happen to her, went straight over to the man attempting to drag the boy away and threw her shoe- the only object within quick reach that might be turned into a weapon- at the man’s head, hitting him and distracting him from his task. The boy got out of his grip and ran to hide behind Adalina, who stood her ground when the man approached, taking off her other shoe and perfectly prepared to beat him away if that was what it came down to. While she had always tried to be a proper lady- at least, for the most part- she had taught herself how to defend against an attack that she could not get away from, feeling that it was a necessary precaution; there was no telling what could happen and she had felt that it would be a very bad thing if she didn’t at least have an idea as to how to defend herself, even if only enough to surprise an attacker long enough to get away.
The man didn’t care that she was a woman and promptly tried to fight her away from the boy, ripping her left earring out during the struggle. Ignoring the pain and blood in favor of protecting the boy and keeping them both alive, Adalina fought back as hard as she could, beating the man over the head with her shoe and pummeling him with her fist. After only a few moments, several men came upon the scene and, assuming that the man had initiated the attack, pulled him away from her. The man tried to claim that he had been doing nothing wrong and that Adalina had just attacked him for no reason, but with Adalina and the boy telling a different story, the men dragged him away. A few of them had known Adalina her whole life and knew that, while she did have a bit of a temper at times, she would never have attacked the man first if he had not been doing something that had provoked it.
Things went back to being calm until Adalina was twenty-eight and was walking back from town on a night during the full moon. She had never had any trouble doing so before, so she most certainly did not think that there was any reason for her to be wary in doing so. As always, she made sure to be aware of her surroundings because it was dark and it was possible that something could happen, but she didn’t worry herself with thinking that something was actually going to.
She was halfway home when the attack came from the side. One moment she was walking and the next, something was crashing into her and there was a searing pain in the side that the snarling creature had crashed into. Twisting on the ground, trying to free herself from beneath the creature’s bulk, she realized what she was dealing with- a werewolf. Having been certain that werewolves existed only in stories, it took Adalina a moment to realize that the werewolf, while still baring its teeth at her, was not attempting to kill her, but simply watching and seemingly waiting. Adalina never discovered why the werewolf left her alive, but something caused the massive creature to bound off, leaving her to stagger home, shaken, dazed and in pain. It was only after she had gotten home and was changing for bed that she realized exactly what had happened- the pain she was feeling in her side was not only from the werewolf crashing into her. She had been bitten.
Panicked at the possibilities of what could happen, Adalina did the only thing she thought she could do- she packed some of her things, left a note for her aunt and uncle and slipped away, knowing that of all the things she could do, she couldn’t put them in danger and, while she felt terrible about not getting to say goodbye properly or explaining everything, she knew that what she did was for the best. She started traveling west, working on occasions at whatever job she could get in order to make the money she needed to survive.
Then came the first full moon after the bite.
She was in a little town, staying in an inn, when she felt the pull of the moon for the first time, calling to her and making the beast that now lived within her go into a frenzy at the moon’s power. She changed and went on a rampage as the wolf, killing several people. When morning came, she found herself lying in the floor of her room at the inn, blood on her and the half eaten body of a young child not far away. Sickened and terrified by what she had so obviously done but couldn’t remember, Adalina fled, vowing that she would never let anything like that happen again.
Having taken singing and dancing lessons when she was younger, Adalina eventually began using those skills to her advantage, performing when and where she could in order to make some money. It was, she knew, better than some things she had done before in order to make money. She spent a number of more years wandering across the United States, hiding during the full moon and trying to seem like nothing more than a normal woman.
It was not long after her travels took her to California that she came across the pack run by Rayne. Something drew her to them and, after several years of ignoring it and the desire to move on, she finally requested membership; it was only after being accepted in and starting to get involved with the pack that Adalina felt that she had finally found another home.
Now, settled in comfortably, Adalina is glad that she stayed. She has a family again wouldn’t trade them for anything, even if she does occasionally have to pay someone back for a prank.