Post by Chozo on Dec 17, 2007 5:12:45 GMT -5
Full name: Jasmine Fox
Any nicknames: Jazz, Foxy
Age: 31
Species: Alopex lagopus hybrid
Any nicknames: Jazz, Foxy
Age: 31
Species: Alopex lagopus hybrid
Species traits: Acute hearing, fast reflexes, sharp teeth, sensitive paws that can detect disturbances through walls or through the floor, and a long fluffy tail that can help or hinder her.
Her muzzle is short, enabling her to speak but her teeth are very long, making her voice sound swallowed back and lilted, as if biting on the words. She involuntarily lets out cooing noises if she's content that sound oddly enough like an owl, and when fighting, high-pitched barking that sound almost like a baby crying.
Appearance: Jazz stands at 5’5. Her body is short and curvy, but one of a White Fox; her legs are bent backward and end in large paws, whereas her hands are elongated paws, complete with very sensitive pads. She’s covered in a complete layer of fur, not as thick as a fox but enough to completely cover her skin.
Her face is one of an Arctic fox, with wide black eyes, a slightly shorter muzzle and sharp canine teeth.
In the winter, her coat is a dazzling pure white, but in the summer her coat changes to beautiful auburn, cream and brown shades.
Due to her awkward stance, she wears a buttoned, long sleeved short coat with a sharp collar and rather large cuffs, tied tight around her figure. The coat is a shocking royal blue and the same material used for a karate Gi, only half as thick.
Only needs to wear black shorts under the coat, for ‘decency’ issues which wouldn’t matter if she was walking on all fours all the time. Though she does have breasts, a trait she pretty much hates as it’s a –human- one and it forces her to wear clothing at all times. When she’s finished on the airship she’ll use her newfound money to get them removed as they just – get in the way. Wears a tight fitting breast-band underneath her coat for serious combat.
Prefers walking on all fours, as this takes less effort and conserves energy. Has a long fluffy tail that she enjoys poking/whacking/teasing people with.
Personality: When doing her job she’s reserved, serious, and takes instructions without question.
Is very strong willed – she’s endured a lot of prejudice due to her appearance, which is about as extreme as a hybrid can get. In turn she has a tendency to look down on humans and treat them as inferior if they appear even slightly dim-witted.
Around her friends she adapts to the person – can be as boisterous and manly as the best of them, then just as easily slip into the ‘men are nutters’ role around other women. Jasmine tends to be loud and hyped up, but then again she can just as easily by a bit of the lips-sealed sophisticated ‘flirt’ type – generally, her personality depends on the person and situation, but she’s definitely more ‘frisky’ and mischievous at night.
Will go the end of the earth to save her team.
Personal background and family: Born in central London to a very rich couple 'The Tenors'. The husband was one of the top barristers in London, and the wife was merely eccentric, yet born into a rich family. She was a loving person but a great fan of ‘fads’, and proceeded to create five test-tube children, Jasmine one of them.
Unfortunately by the time they were all five, the couple were both assassinated in their London apartment. Hybrids were by and large hated by their close snobbish friends, so they were put in a hybrid orphanage that was quickly taken over by a corrupt group of humans.
The orphanage moved to an area in Oxford that was more low-key, and into a new building that was in short, a prison. Stuff happened. Stuff that only people closest to Jasmine would have the slightest inkling about.
She managed to escape, through an ingenious plan her and her friend (a sea-hungry otter hybrid) concocted. The following nights were rough but they were animals – they attacked and committed petty crimes to live on the street (they’d planned it so it was in summer, so sleeping on the streets wasn’t that bad.)
They managed to get as far as the Oxford harbour before they were caught and detained. Once they’d served their time for exactly a year they were released in the summer again – and stowed away to Cornwall.
They both took to living on the beach in caves, which was fine with them, in all weathers, and acquired simple jobs with the fishmongers. To them, it was paradise.
Though Cornwall was a sleepy seaside village, discontent was growing. Hybrids were seldomly seen around that area, and due to difficult circumstances the otter hybrid mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night.
Nobody offered to look for him, it was obvious after a few weeks when his body was deposited in Jasmine’s cave a week later that he was well and truly dead.
Distraught, Jasmine returned to London.
She returned to her old harbour in Oxford, where she led a life of scrounging for a few years and living a feral existence, but one she actually enjoyed. Hardened by her friends death, she met more people like her that offered money, a home, a job and a sense of pride that Hybrids could do whatever humans could, but better. It was almost a different world, one where she found solace in.
A tough girl, she learned to hone her abilities and use her assets to enhance her combat techniques, as well as survival skills, first aid, negotiating, etc. She became something of a protector, mentor, and generally one of the hybrids who protect the small community from the onslaught of ‘mundane humans’ that did from time to time assault them for various petty reasons.
One night she was simply strolling around Oxford harbour, when the met the captain and saved him from a gun wound to the shoulder, dragging him undercover and treating the injury accordingly. Deciding her work was done in Oxford, she took up his immediate offer to stay on the ship.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Her tail is great for sweeping people off their feet/balancing, but obviously is another target for gunfire. She’s learnt to use it almost another limb.
Excels at combat.
Has moderate aim.
Tends to let her animal instinct take over when fighting and sometimes in the heat of anger forgets who is on her team and who isn’t.
Role in the crew: Medic, secondary gunslinger.
Other information: Loves raw fish and has a soft spot for green vegetables and berries. Always has her mind on food.
Has a very short life span, expects to die at fifty, latest sixty.
