VALENTINA FELINE BLACKWOOD

VALENTINA FELINE BLACKWOOD Aug 7, 2011 20:11:12 GMT -5

Post by VALENTINA BLACKWOOD on Aug 7, 2011 20:11:12 GMT -5

pointing out flaws, witty banter, chilly seasons | weaklings, children, rejection
solitude, rare meat, fussing over her image | know-it-all's, other shifters, 'stupid' people
proving herself | losing control of her animal form
lie detection, controlling herself | making herself known

shame? ha, what shame? never heard of it. valentina knows she can work herself to her advantage, and she does so with style, be it her dark soulful eyes, wicked sultry smile, or delicate frame. ms. blackwood enjoys evincing deep emotions with the ease of a glance, & her dark timber wolf form is exactly the same.

valentina has always wondered what exactly she was supposed to turn out to be, canine, feline, or human. quite territorial, valentina dislikes sharing her space with anything other than human or faerie, as her obvious canine traits are quite powerful still. yet somehow, valentina also holds many feline as well, inherited by her shifter parents, one black panther and the other golden leopard. from childhood to young adulthood, valentina insisted things be done her way, refusing to be treated as the fragile child so many insisted she was. when, in fact, she was quite opposite. instead, she was manipulative, deceitful, feisty, shadowing her deeply tired, vulnerable, insecure emotions with harsh, proud ones instead. now, making her admit her pride is easy. but when it comes to catching a glimpse of vulnerability, you got another thing coming.

valentina doesn't know her biological parents & siblings. though she knows perfectly well what they were. her father, dmitri draganov, was a harsh, distant man. her mother, nina draganov, was quite the same. both were feline shifters. her biological brother on the other hand, was somewhat lighter, refusing to take on his parent's cold shifter supremest point of view (i totally imagine her brother as ben barnes xD). thankfully, though quite strict as well, valentina's adoptive parents couldn't be more different. a simple middle-class human, theodore blackwood viewed the world with an open mind. faerie's were tricky, though not all bad, shifters were dangerous, though most trustworthy still, and the queen herself just needed time to clear her mind. his wife, mary anne blackwood, had always been his perfect match. thus, their four children, charlotte (eighteen), caroline (seventeen), annabelle (sixteen), & valentina,.

december second, on the peak of a small mountain an hours way from alytheon, valentina feline draganov was born. a small sleeping child, valentina was swiftly taken away from her mother before she could make a sound. after all, her animal form was unknown, and their faerie nursemaid was being paid by the hour. their newborn son, no older than a year, had already been identified. he was a jaguar like his mother, and they were proud. valentina, on the other hand, was not. she was a wild card, a dishonor, a shame. she was a wolf. valentina's father looked to their nursemaid for an answer, as she had been the one to assure them of their daughter's pure feline lineage. the faerie didn't live long. ashamed by what they had created and in no need for another child, let alone a canine, nina set off, traveling into the night, desperate to find a safe human home. that night, she found the blackwoods, telling them all of her and her daughter's history, and swearing them to secrecy. valentina then grew up still proudly wearing the name her biological parents gave her. valentina, meaning strength, and feline, meaning cat-like, both in latin. from then on, valentina had no knowledge of her lineage until the day she shifted. she and her sister caroline both fancied the same young man. and at fourteen, both had no clue how to get him. to valentina's unpleasant surprise, he liked her sister back, and to the young man's misfortune, he had already led the second sister on. in a short fit of rage, valentina lunged, shifting into her wolf form and breaking the young man's neck, killing him instantly. frightened by what she had done, valentina ran to the woods, quickly recovered by her parents and guided back home. to their dismay, explaining the situation to their daughter was a much harder task. at seventeen, valentina had already been rejected by bother her younger sister caroline and the rest of the community. so two weeks after her seventeenth birthday, she collected the money she had saved and ventured from home. unsure of what to do with herself, valentina bought her own small cottage and continued strengthening her powers in secrecy, earning her income by working in the city capital and performing snooping tasks on the side.

hello, my name is stella and i'm a chicka. i've been roleplaying for two years , so i guess that makes me a beginner/intermediate rper. my other characters are well, i don't have any yet. I found the site through caution 2.0.