Name: Charlie Remsworth
Age: 34
DOB: 3rd January
Species: Werewolf (See Other)
Gender: Female
Orientation: Asexual
Home city: Eastway Bluff
Physical description: Usually wearing a melancholic gaze, Charlie's sloping posture and flat proportions give her a rather worn, weary look about her. Her large nose, a smattering of freckles and full lips are the most prominent features about her face, which is otherwise featureless and plain. Her choice of outfit usually consists of full length sleeves and trousers, bulky coats, scarves...As much as possible. Even during the summer seasons. When naked (which is more often than you'd imagine) the reason becomes clear. Scars litter her body; scratches, bullet wounds, burns and cuts etched into her skin. The only other markings on her body are two crescent moon tattoos, one on each wrist - a touch of ironic humour, also serving as a marker for any innocent bystanders who aren't aware of who - or what - they are talking to.
Remsworth is the lycanthrope counterpart to Charlie. Remsworth is covered in thick, matted silvery fur and, whilst she shares some humanoid resemblances such as hands and human vocal cords, her skull structure is more wolf-like. She is a quadruped, but can walk on her hind legs if need be - running on all fours is more efficient. Her posture is more confident, bulky and muscular. She has a dark muzzle and a black tongue, with black claws on her hands and feet. She has no tail, and usually wears the shredded remains of Charlie's outfit (though she prefers to be naked.)
Personality traits - Charlie
PROTECTIVE || LOYAL || LEVEL-HEADED || OBSERVANT || PESSIMIST || STUBBORN || SARCASTIC || LOW SELF-ESTEEM
Charlie's personality has been warped and distorted by her curse. She is admirably protective of people who care about her and trust her, deriving directly from the fact that she will inevitably end up attempting to maim or kill her friends later on in life. She is fairly open and polite, showing brief flashes of warmth when she is able to. Her uncanny ability to remain calm in pressing situations gives way to a keen eye for the little details and warning signs in order to avoid transformations. Her humour is cynical, she does not have a positive outlook on life and has a tendency of making wry, sarcastic remarks when she is displeased. Her opinion on herself is overly self-critical, as she is unable to look past her own flaws and see her good points. She is undeniably terrified of her feral side and does everything in her power to avoid it. She is almost utterly desensitised to the sight of death, though it has a habit of putting her in a depressed mood when she sees it. Usually, practicality overrides her sentimentalism.
Personality traits - Remsworth
SADISTIC || MANIPULATIVE || AGGRESSIVE || CUNNING || REMORSELESS
As far as slavering, wolf-like monsters go, Remsworth is certainly a chaotic neutral. Her only goal is to make Charlie's life an utter misery, and hope that her low self-esteem gives way to a violent self-hatred which would allow Remsworth to take control of Charlie's body. Because of this, Remsworth does not attack wildly and kill as much as possible; she prefers leaving grievous wounds on those that she perceives Charlie to care about. Since she cannot make out Charlie's life and memories, Remsworth has to be sharp-witted and piece together the facts about Charlie in order to cause the maximum amount of emotional pain. She shows absolutely no guilt for any of her actions and enjoys the thrill of hurting people, both emotionally and physically.
History/bio: The Remsworth family is known far and wide as a cursed family of werewolves, though their origins are shrouded in mystery. These days, the surname Remsworth is not passed down officially; it is a marker of the Remsworth werewolf. Most of Charlie's 'relatives' are scattered around Evertrue as werewolves are naturally disinclined to create legitimate children, and partake in more forceful means of procreating. A Remsworth lives a life of solitude and fear, with very few friends and usually no immediate family members.
Charlie's father was a Remsworth, and her mother happened to be a poor woman who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nevertheless, her religious beliefs prevented her from abandoning the child. She gave birth and raised Charlie on her own, in an abandoned cottage deep in the woods. She assisted Charlie's constant battle against her transformations, but it was all in vain; Charlie's mother became very ill one winter; too weak to fight back against Remsworth (who arrived after a particularly nasty row between the two of them about why Charlie was not allowed to go to school), the werewolf ripped her throat out.
Charlie became distraught with grief and changed back into Remsworth, who was given liberty at last to get away from the home and run as far as she could. But even a werewolf gets tired; after various killings of animals and several days of staying awake, Remsworth collapsed from exhaustion and reverted back into Charlie, alone in the wilderness and stark naked.
Skills/abilities:
Self-sufficiency: Charlie has learnt how to look after herself. This ranges from cooking to carpentry to making her own clothes. Whilst she is adept at these skills she is not masterful in any of them.
First Aid: Charlie has seen a lot of dead bodies in her life, unfortunately. With so much...first-hand experience, Charlie has a strong grasp on the human anatomy. She also has a knack for causing the injuries she eventually stitches up. This skill was an acquired process throughout the duration of her lifetime, a rugged and painful (but surprisingly effective) version of medical attention using whatever bits and pieces she can find at the time. Given the right supplies and a helping hand, Charlie can perform even better, but the largest advantage of this skill is Charlie's ability to take an old handkerchief, a bottle of rubbing alcohol and some cotton thread and be able to mend people with it.
Potion Brewing: In a desperate attempt to discover some sort of medicinal cure for her curse, Charlie has spent many years practicing the art of mixing wild and natural materials into various potions and poultices and pastes. She is able to create simple remedies for a whole spread of illnesses, as a form of substitute to the far superior magical healing. As time passed, Charlie took up the skill as something more of a hobby and enjoys creating all sorts of potions - provided she can acquire the ingredients.
Preferred weapon: Biting (see Other)
Notable features: Various scars litter her torso due to previous attacks on her person. She also has a tattoo of a crescent moon on each wrist.
Other: A note about the Remsworth Werewolf: Where the typical werewolf only fears a transformation during the full moon, the werewolf curse passed down the Remsworth family works in a different way. Transformations are more likely during the full moon, certainly, but the trigger for a transformation is that of a passionate desire to inflict harm. Therefore transformations can happen during outbursts of anger, grief or vengeance. The preferred method of reverting a transformation would be to assist the afflicted host in calming themselves; either by exhausting them physically, administering a sedative or simply talking sense into their lycan counterpart.
Initially, eye-witness accounts claimed that the Remsworth werewolf, when transformed, has its own personality and habits; undoubtedly a werewolf is sentient and capable of speech. Further examinations have falsified this claim - the werewolf form represents the host's anger and violence. Their instinct orders them to cause as much harm - physical and emotional - to the host, so that when they awake, the subsequent bouts of guilt and horror can give way to another transformation. The process is meant to be repeated until the host becomes too weak to fight back and 'dies'; at which point the lycan counterpart assumes total control of the body, changing back and forth at will. The Remsworth werewolf is one of the few variants which shows human-like intelligence, and is physically marked out by a lack of tail.
Despite a Remsworth werewolf being a manifestation of the host's anger and violence, both parties have no recollection of any actions done by the other 'half' of themselves. When a Remsworth werewolf transforms, the host will remember the start of the transformation and reawaken after the lycan counterpart has been subdued. Records have shown that the lycan counterpart can be reasoned with, so long as they do not lose patience and still have the capacity to cause grief to their host. Remsworth werewolves have been used in the past to raid small villages and fight in battles.
The curse is passed through genetics; the myth of a werewolf bite bringing about the curse is false in the case of a Remsworth werewolf. Nevertheless, their bite is venomous. Symptoms of a werewolf bite involve high fever and hallucinations, along with numbness of the affected area and weakness. The bite is not lethal, the objective being to weaken their prey before killing it. To counteract this measure, the werewolf's saliva contains the antivenom. Curiously enough, the bite and saliva is the only shared aspect of the curse that both counterparts have available access to.