Post by johnnyrayflo on Sept 21, 2008 14:06:38 GMT -5
Laures;;
is now entering it's all in yer mind
is now entering it's all in yer mind
About You;;
behind the RPer
behind the RPer
Name: …
Age: 19
Years of Rping: About 4
Contact: PM me
ID Tag;;
Alias: Not exactly an alias, more a title, since I´m the second in comand of the were-lion king.
Name: Laures
Gender: Gee, tough one… *points to picture* Do I look like a girl?
Orientation: Bisexual
Real Age: 28
Physical Age: I´d say I look about as old [young] as I am. Maybe a few years younger.
Species: Were-Lion
Sire: Not exactly sure myself. One moment I´m in a fight with some obnoxious jackass, the next there´s a fucking lion standing in his place. He didn´t get caught, so I don´t know who he was.
Religious Affiliation: Atheist
Wealth: I´m not ridiculously rich, but I´m wealthy enough to enjoy spending it without having to worry much.
Job: I own a night club.
Dear Diary;;
Specialties:
1. Determination
2. Manipulating things to my benefit
3. Were-animal strength and agility
Summary:
I´m a very determined person and without that, I probably wouldn´t have made it as far as I have. First it took determination to accept what I was, then to move away from my parents and try to live on my own. All this took quite some effort and though I didn´t have it that tough, there were times when I was lonely just wanted to go back home, but was too determined to make it on my own to do that. I might not have the experience some of the older were-animals have, but I have much determination and willingness to learn. Also it helps that when I see an opportunity present itself, I manipulate things so that I get as much benefit as possible form that situation. Why be content with just what you are given, if you can twist things around a bit and get more? The first two of my strengths are more of mental nature, but the last one is physical. I might not look like a mountain of muscles but I´m not to be underestimated. I´m surprisingly strong and combined with agility, it´s quite a dangerous combination. Though I might add here, that I only use my strength when it´s necessary and not to intimidate everyone around me just for the hell of it. I will demonstrate my strength if I feel that my authority or the authority of the king is being challenged. I don´t unnecessarily show off, but I use force if need be since those with a lower position in the pard need to remember where they stand otherwise they can get too cocky.
Weakness:
1. Sometimes too easy going
2. Inability to form a lasting relationship
3. Lack of planning in advance
Summary:
The last statement of my specialities might already give you a glimpse of my weakness. I tend to be too easy going and lenient sometimes and wait a bit too long before I set someone straight. Most of the time I don´t have to step in since the king is here to make the decisions, but if I have to take over for some reason, I do my best to take things seriously enough. I am trying to learn and find the right balance of lenience and harshness to keep those of a lesser position in the pard from questioning my authority without using too much intimidation, but it´s tricky and I´ll probably need some more time to figure it out. The second thing I listed as a weakness some might not see as such, but if you have one brief fling after another, it doesn´t exactly fill out your life. Besides, some have problems understanding that I don´t want a serious relationship and I´m not exactly fond of all the whining when they get it trough their skull that I really don´t want to see them again. Besides it´s abit inconvenient since the other lions know that if anything happens to the king, I´m next in line and there are quite a few who´d like to be the king´s mate [and also some who´d be content with being the second in comand´s mate even if I never take over for the king]. As for the last weakness… it´s just that I tend to not anticipate problems much, but instead deal with them when they arise, though it´s sometimes obvious for quite some time prior that there will be a problem. It´s partially linked to my easy going ways, but I just don´t enjoy planning in advance as much as I enjoy just seeing what life gives me and then doing something with it. Though that´s the way I lead my life, I try to make an exception with the pack business, even though I don´t always succeed.
Human Appearance;;
Hair: Thick dark brown hair, that´s naturally smooth. I usually have it cut rather short and it´s often quite messy when I don´t have to look professional.
Eyes: Dark brown eyes which almost always show what I´m feeling at the moment. I don´t really mind, though it certainly is a bit of a nuisance sometimes.
Height: I´m 6´, which is quite a nice height, so I´m not complaining. Enough to demand some respect, but not as much to be towering over everyone else.
Marks: None I can think of, really.
Race: White
Skin Tone: A nice, slightl tan. Just enough not to look pale; though it gets darker in the summer, of course.
Body Type: I´m not exactly buff or anything; I´d hate to be a bodybuilder anyway. How the hell should I get through the door with such shoulders? I much prefer only having enough muscles to still look nice and not be too thin and scrawny looking. I don´t go to the gym for no reason, you know? Besides, not being a mountain of muscles leaves me much more agile.
Clothing Style: Well when it´s about business, I´ll come dressed formally, of course [and look damn good anyway, might I add]. But othrweise, in my free time, I just like to wear simpler things, like jeans and a T-shirt or something like that. Though I should add, that I like my clothes rather form fitting. If you have a nice body, why not show it off a bit, eh? If I feel like it, I´ll put on something more daring, leather pants for instance, but that´s just when I feel like showing off a bit more or it´s some special occasion.
Footwear: Anything that goes with my clothes. Though I rarely war sport shoes for anything but work out. I prefer a little more refined style even when casual.
Summary:
Basically I might not be a breath taking beauty, but that´s just fine with me. Being handsome and sexy is quite enough for me. Besides, I know how to flaunt what I have, instead of loosing hair over what I don´t have. Anyway, who´d take me serious as a second in command if I was some girlish looking pretty-boy?
One trademark of mine is a bracelet made from white seashells, which I usually wear. Otherwise, like said, I can give the impression of a serious professional, if necessary but otherwise I look like a rather casual, laid back person. I do have quite some label clothing, it´s because it strikes my fancy when I see it, not because it has a fancy label like Armani. I have tons of much cheaper clothes that I like just as well, some even better.
Lion Appearance;;
Eye Color: A very light yellowish-brown with a hint of orange; light amber is probably the closest to a colour that´d describe it.
Fur Color: Most of the fur is a dark golden [somewhat light brown] tone which you see on real lions in nature. The mane is a brown a few shades darker, though it doesn´t even come close to the dark brown of my hair in human form. Same goes for the longer fur at the tip of my tail.
Fur Length: Have you ever seen a lion or at least a picture of a lion? Well, then you know all you need to know. But in case, someone hasn´t seen one yet: The fur covering my body when I´m in my lion form is mostly short. It´s longer only on my neck and a part of the chest, forming a mane; also the tip of my tail has longer fur.
Fur Texture: The fur is very thick and smooth. It provides quite some protection from teeth and claws, though that´s limited. Though most of the fur is rather rough, the mane is [surprisingly] soft in comparison.
Size: I´ve never been measured in my lion form, but I guess something over 4´ at the shoulder, not more than 4´5˝.
Marks: No special marks or scars. Just the slight colour difference from a normal lion.
Personality;;
Likes:
1. Doing what I like
2. Flirting
3. Meeting new people
Dislikes:
1. Prejudices
2. Not getting my way
3. Too serious people
Flaws:
1. Overconfident at times
2. Somewhat egocentric
3. Stubbornness
Summary:
Since I had to move around a lot as a child because of my parents and had no say in it, I now very much like doing what I want and like to do. Maybe I should have said ´The ability to choose for myself´? All the same, it´s just the freedom to make my decisions and not be dependant on the decisions of others, that I appreciate very much. Though I still have to follow the orders of the king, my position in the pard is high enough to allow me quite a lot of freedom. The other things I like are less serious than this. I´m always up for a little flirt and having a club gives me plenty of chance for it, since I´m often there to make sure things are as they should be. I´m not exactly for a serious relationship but flirting I enjoy… not that I mind a bit more, either. -winks- As for meeting new people, I hated it at first, since I was forced to make new acquaintances every time we moved, but now I like it and it´s always good to know many people. The more contacts you have, the more people you can turn to when you need something.
Prejudices are something I hate immensely, since I have been subject to them also. First when I was the ´new guy´ and taken for being arrogant just because I didn´t get along with everyone at once. And secondly because even my father could never fully accept that being a were-lion didn´t change who I was. I find it sad and frustrating, that most people tend to fear and hate were-animals, even if a family member becomes one. We´re often discriminated and treated like freaks or things even by the people who should support us and be there for us, just because we´re different. Well, most of us didn´t ask to be what we are and hating us for it doesn´t exactly help, you know? The second one´s slightly embarrassing and linked to my flaws, but anyway. I´ m sure many hate not getting their way, but I´m one of the few to admit it. So I like things to work out how I planned them and for me to get what I want; is there something wrong with that? It´s not as bad to be labelled as obsessive, but still, I rather see things work how I want them to. As for serious people… I just don´t like people who have no humour. Of course one has to be serious sometimes, but at the same one has to know how to let go and have some fun. I´d never be able to find ways to improve my club if didn´t occasionally join the crowd and just have fun with them and see what works well and what doesn´t. Besides it´s much easier meeting new people and building friendships if you can laugh about things together, maybe even laugh at your own expense a bit. Sarcastic remarks are always welcome with me.
For my flaws… well I tend to get overconfident sometimes. This rarely happens with big, serious issues, but with smaller things, it can get out of hand sometimes. I might even get wrapped up in a stupid little contest of god knows what, just to prove that I can do it best. Sadly, that´s not always the case, but a wounded ego hasn´t killed anyone so far, so unless I let my overconfidence leak into serious business, I should be fine. Now to the next one. Though I´m the second in command of the were-lions and care for the well being of the pard very much… at times I still tend to get egocentric. I´m confident and slightly vain, so at times my ego makes me think that I´m the most important person around. It just takes someone [preferably in a higher position] to remind me that there are others and it´s all good soon. Though I might sometimes give the impression that I don´t care about others, I really do. It´s just my ego going through with me. As for the last one, well… not much to say really. I´m just a very stubborn person and this is linked to getting my way with things. I just don´t like to give in, even if sometimes it would be better to do so. It sometimes gets me into trouble, but it´s just the way I am.
Background Check;;
Family Members: I only have a mother at present, since my father passed away some years ago. No siblings, since I´m an only child.
Birth Place: Ireland.
Childhood: I remember moving around a lot. First from Ireland to the USA and then moving through the USA from one city to the other.
Transformation: Sometime when I was 20, I got into a fight with some guy. You can imagine that I was ´slightly surprised´ when there was suddenly an enormous lion in his place; especially since I knew nothing of were-anything at that time. Next thing I really remember is pain and waking up at the hospital where I was told that the wounds I had gotten were healing remarkably fast. Some time when no one was around one of the doctors [who I later found to be a were-animal himself] came to explain everything to me and tell me that there was a chance I´d be turning into a lion myself the next full moon. And gee… guess what happened.
Prey: Usually I´ll go hunting with other lions, or just other weres, when the beast grows restless. And always on the night of the full moon, of course. The hunting takes place in the forests, far enough from the city as not to draw too much attention and the prey are animals. I´ve never eaten a human, nor do I have a desire to do so.
Moon Tidings: I can shift form at any time I want to, though the shift on the full moon is unavoidable. The change takes quite some energy and though I can shift back to human soon and without fainting, it´s quite exhausting that way. A nifty ´trick´ is of course the shifting of specific body parts, which doesn´t take quite as much effort once you know how to do it, but was harder to learn.
Other Transformation: I´ve never actually tried changing another. But from the experience of others [and my own when I got infected] I know that a bite or scratch to the blood would be the way to do it. Though the human wouldn´t necessarily shift the next moon, since lion based lycanthropy is not as contagious as the wolf based one, for instance.
History:
I was born in Ireland, somewhere near Dublin and spent the first few years of my childhood there. When I was about 3 or 4 years old, we moved for the first time, to the USA because dad had gotten a job there. It wasn´t exactly easy since all the people I knew, all my playmates, stayed in Ireland. For small children finding new friends usually isn´t hard, so after the first few weeks of shyness I made new friends and it was all quite nice. I got used to the American style of living slowly, though the Irish accent stuck.
I had just started school when dad switched employers and we had to move again, this time only to another state, but still quite far away. I wasn´t really happy about it, since I had made quite some friendships by now and didn´t want to leave. But since it couldn´t be helped, we moved and I had to start making friends all over again. Since children tend to get more and more judgemental, like adults, as they grow older, it was harder to find new friends at the new school where I knew no one. The accent didn´t exactly help either, though the girls thought it was cute. It took a few months to get friends again, but eventually I did start to fit in with the others and was having a good time too. For the next few years, things were fine again; going to school, going to friends houses after school or having them over at our house sometimes, just the usual things.
However, dad was transferred to another unit of the Firm he was working for and again it was time to move. This time I wasn´t so accepting of it and put up quite a fight about it. I had friends here, people who liked me and I didn´t want to move somewhere where I wouldn´t know anyone again. It just wasn´t fair! In the end, we moved again, of course. I did understand that dad needed the job and that it wasn´t his fault that he got transferred, but still, I was angry as hell and refused to talk with my parents for quite some time. At the new school and in the new neighbourhood, it all started again. Being the new one, not knowing anyone while most others had known each other for years was getting damn frustrating. I still had the accent but slowly it was getting in the way of things. Being in the years when making fun of others makes you feel unbelievably cool, my classmates left out no opportunity to mock me. So eventually I adapted to speaking with an American accent, since it made things at least a bit easier, though I find that the Irish accent has a much nicer ring to it. Ah well. Eventually I did get kind if settled in, though not before gaining a reputation as a trouble maker, since I found it hart to control my temperament when I got teased and mocked. For some time I was getting into fights regularly, but eventually it all got more or less fine again. I can´t say that I had it extremely though, but it wasn´t pleasant at first. Some people still seemed to have something against me, but I guess that´s just normal.
Though my parents had sworn that we wouldn´t be moving anymore, a good three years later, we were packing again. I didn´t even really bother to protest much this time, since I knew it wouldn´t do much good. I did make it a point to show how unhappy I was about it, though. At the new school, I didn´t even bother to try and make friends anymore. I saw no point in doing so, since we´d surely be moving again in a few years tops. Though I´m not what you´d call a fragile person, it loosing friendships over and over again was quite a painful experience so I wanted to avoid it happening again. Some people still tried to be friends, though most just though that I was an arrogant bastard. The people who wanted to be friends, I tended push away as coldly as possible so they´d just leave me alone. I had a few acquaintances but that was about it for my social interactions. I did go out, but generally kept more to myself so people started assuming that I thought I was better than others and all sorts of other stupid rumours got started. I was getting into fights again and all that shit. I´m not proud of it, but it´s a part of my life I learned quite a few things about how life is and a thing or two about people too.
It was in this phase of my life that I got into a fight with the wrong person and ended up with being a were-lion. I think that you can imagine that this didn´t exactly make things easier but I can´t say that I ever really hated being what I was. My parents had quite a hard time trying to accept what I had become. Mum was dealing quite well, but dad just couldn´t accept it, so we were arguing constantly. When he got transferred again, I agreed that it was indeed time to move, but not where they were going. I decided to move away too and make a living for myself somewhere and it was exactly what I did.
In the city I moved to I decided to start a new life for myself, this time happy that no one knew me. I did have some initial troubles with the local were-lions, since as one of them, you had to have the approval of the alpha of the city if you wanted to move in. It was eventually all settled and I found myself a nice apartment. I had put some money away while living at home and though my dad disapproved of what I was and just about everything about my life, mum must have gotten him to send me money. I doubt he did it of his own accord, but anyway, I had enough money for a start, but getting a job was inevitable. Through one of the other lions, I got a job as a bartended in one of the clubs, since the owner was a friend of his. The amount of money I made wasn´t exactly staggering, but it was a start.
It took some time for me to notice it, but eventually I did figure out that I had the potential for a high position in the were-lion pard and fought my way upwards. I had the strength and was in enough fights to have some experience, so it worked out quite fine. I might not look like it, but I really have quite an impressive amount of strength; not sure why exactly but I would never even consider complaining. Things were really looking up for me from then on. I eventually got promoted to manager of the club, which earned me quite some money.
Tough I might have the potential to become the king some day, I´m content with being the second in command. I won´t be challenging the king since I actually prefer being the second, because even though I have quite some influence I have less responsibility than the king most of the time. I´m probably too easy going and egocentric to be the king anyway, so I´d be more than happy to just keep my current position, though I wouldn´t settle for anything lower without a fight.
Also I´ve got enough cash together to get my own club now, which I enjoy managing. I´ve been doing so for the last few years, only taking a short break to visit my parents a few times and go to dad´s funeral [he died two years ago of a heart attack]. Mum moved closer after that and occasionally comes to visit, but not often. I miss her sometimes and I regret not having been able to sort everything out with dad, but the past is better left to rest, since it can´t be changed anyway.
I´ve learned to get along with others by now and I´m not a loner anymore, instead I tend to socialize quite a lot. I enjoy meeting new people now and don´t at all mind a little flirting here and there. I´ve had no serious relationship so far, but that´s actually how I like it, so I doubt I´ll get involved in something soon, unless someone really special comes along and changes my mind.
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