Kirsten Harries
Kirsten Harries
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Kirsten comes off as small, petite and slender. It should be noted never to equate this to weakness.
Body Features
There's not much to Kirsten in the way of body type. Her size is rather short for born wendigo, she has no muscle to speak of and barely any body fat at all. Her bust including is on the small side, and her gender can be brought into question when in a tight form fitting sports bra.
In her feral form, Kirsten is a tall nine foot wendigo covered in light tan fur with white rib markings on her torso, complete with pitch black elk stockings up to her elbows and knees. However this form can be changed if she pressures herself. Her lack of care has thus not changed a thing. Her feet are slender with hooked talons much like a falcon. Her tail is noticeably very long.
Facial Features
Kirsten has a rather small rounded nose, an oval shaped face and alert eyes under a faint brow. She's known to lack any expressions on her face. This means it's hard to read her, as she gives non-visible cues to her own emotions. It's a shame, her eyes are very doe like but with all lack of expression they come off as soulless.
In her feral form, Kirsten' face is a bare white skull with a set of pale white tail antlers, each sporting six tines. There is a notable greenish hue in the sockets around her gold irises.
Identifying Characteristics
Kirsten's soulless eyes are very piercing and have a faint glow.
Kirsten's ears have a sharper outer edge near the top like all wendigo.
Physical quirks
Kirsten likes to stare. A lot.
Kirsten is unnaturally small for a wendigo. Even her feral form with its bleached skull face suggests she should be a half dozen feet taller is still short at only nine feet.
Special abilities
Icy Pressure - Kirsten rapidly chills the air around her with the skightest of focus. Sometimes she sets this off when she gets agitated. The chill is as sudden as 40 degrees lower than the current temperature. It's enough to send some into shock, frozen in place as they adjust. It's handy when working around dead bodies.
Lash - Kirsten's long whip like tail is powerful, and she tskes full advantage of its longer reach. She can hit objects down or away from her, smack others, and whip hard enough to leave quite a sting.
Glacial Spear - Kirsten can form a spear of ice to be launched at a foe, or used for stabbing. An effective weapon to keep things at bay from hurting her internals.
High Speed - Not a bulky or overly strong muscled wendigo, Kirsten is a very fast creature. Maybe the fastest of other wendigo. At a casual jog Kirsten can sit at 40mph, but at a sustained jog for long distance, she can eek it out to 50mph. A dead sprint however sees Kirsten blazing forwards at 80mph, but usually she decides to crash into things to stop herself quicker. At a lunge, Kirsten can suddenly dart herself forwards at 186 mph. During a 25ft lunge however, Kirsten is unable to change direction, and must interact with objects or the ground to do so. This can snap her limbs off, but it's her main mode of attack. Kirsten will often times speed up and ram into her opponent at high speeds in order to deal damage. Even if it breaks herself in the process, it's hardly the worst because..
Fast Regenerative Healing - barring her heart, brain, and internal organs, Kirsten is able to quickly heal bone breaks and missing limbs in seconds rather than minutes. This is a learned trait from attacking so harshly, and has come at the toll of being able to heal her internal organs. They take the same amout of time as humans, leaving her unable to fight til they do.
Super Strength - no where near as strong as her other wendigo, Kirsten still is stronger than most humans. She is able to dead lift 500lbs. She can toss anything under 275lbs with relative accuracy and ease.
Sub Zero - just as Lee has done in the past, Kirsten is able to set off a very concentrated burst of subzero temperature. Where Lee is uncontained, and untrained with no idea how to control it, Kirsten can focus it in a direct swathe in front of her no more than 15 feet away. Starting in front of her out to her farthest reach the blast of cold air freezes everything in its small path. Ice coats objects and people, slowing or stopping them til they can break the ice. Flash burns from how cold said ice is may happen as well. Highly survivable on its own at 5% lethality.
Apparel & Accessories
On the clock Kirsten is usually dressed in dark colors, predominantly black due to her work as a mortician. In plain clothes she switches from casual to goth, usually Victorian or punk. All of which make her pale skin look white as paper.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
"I was born in a dark cave where there was no light. The only light I could see were from my parent's eyes. There was nothingness."
Kirsten was born to feral parents living outside of civilization. Through this change of events, Kirsten was born feral, and changed unlike most wendigo children. For the first few years of her life Kirsten lived within the dark caves of her home, watching her parents leave and return as needed for hunting.
It was a quiet, dark and lonely existence. Kirsten did not see sunlight until she had turned five and was independent enough to be lead to the entrance.
To have lived in darkness knowing only rock, mineral springs, and darkness, the world was bright, deafening and full of new information. Animals alive as they once were, instead of dead corpses dragged to the den. And humans. Living tall fleshy humans. To Kirsten they were just another animal. Loud. Brazen. Stupid. But like the rest of the new sights, Kirsten was curious, and the questions began as they do with all young children. The word for them sounded so alien, they may as well have been from a different planet.
"Human."
What is it to be human? What made us different? What was it like to live as human?
Kirsten's parents at first withheld information but began to slowly reveal the secrets of where the wendigo race came from, what humans were, and everything in-between. But still the question remained. What is it to be human?
Kirsten wanted to know. She taught herself at the small age of six how to change into their form. And it thrust her world into chaos.
To people she was a feral child to be rescued. A silly notion. Their idea of rescue was to whisk her away, dress her in clothes, and put her in a home and make her attend school.
Kirsten did not care. She went with it. Was this what it meant to be human?
However, it was less damaging for Kirsten than most wendigo considering bullies, as keeping to yourself makes you less of a target. This was compounded by the fact she happened to be a girl. Her calm and passive demeanor kept her cool headed when handling the stress of authority figures unlike most wendigo. Along with her emotionless countenance, Kirsten armed herself with difficult questions that turned just about anyone dealing with her into an uncomfortable target of twenty questions. Her surreal tone adding into the feeling that Kirsten was doing more than just looking for an answer, but judging on many fronts. It reduced the amount of bullying by pushing people away via shame and showing themselves as utterly moronic at times. Her wit grew as she aged. She learned so many things going to the schools. But still no one wanted to adopt her. Again she didn't care. It didn't matter to her that her parents were oddly missing during the years. What did was still she could not answer if the life she was experiencing was truly what it meant to be human.
At the age of seventeen and having graduated, surpassing her classmates and those older than her to be top scorer in her school and valedictorian- a rather blunt and unenthusiastic one surely- Kirsten made an attempt to locate her parents at last.
She never found them. As if they had simply existed in order to give birth to her. Kirsten abandoned her attempts. She gave up her feral life, opting to continue on the odd path she had thrust herself towards in hopes of answering her question.
As an adult, Kirsten's apathy made her a perfect undertaker. Sure this lead to her consuming human flesh, but it never including her being the killer. She simply hollowed out the bodies as the first step of the embalming process, and ate the organs. Because people are always dying, Kirsten never had to worry about not having food or a job to lose. This continues to this day.
Gender Identity
Genderfluid
Sexuality
Aromantic Asexual
Education
Kirsten has high school and college degrees under her belt.
Employment
Mortician at Compagnolia Funeral Home.
Accomplishments & Achievements
Kirsten is possibly one of the very few known wendigo that has completed courses in college. She has a PhD, and a Master's.
Intellectual Characteristics
Being a passive wallflower has its advantages. Through the years Kirsten has learned it is far better to watch and listen first. Her small stature and quiet demeanor means often more than not people don't realize she is there. She gets her hands on a good deal of useless information about people's lives on the daily. Because of this, Kirsten has learned to pick up on tells, and can sense motives in other people. She is a good lie detector. Her impeccable perception skills married with her blinding speed makes her a very good scout.
Morality & Philosophy
Kirsten sits in a morally grey area, firmly mind you as a true neutral. There are very rare instances where she will step in and intervein.
Personality Characteristics
Savvies & Ineptitudes
Kirsten's lack of care and belief that nothing matters has her come off as very apathetic. She's undoubtedly cold, and offers no comfort.
Likes & Dislikes
Kirsten likes coffee.
Solitude.
Virtues & Personality perks
Kirsten's lack of personal wants and a swell of apathy makes her a very obedient second in command. Impossible to corrupt and tempt, blind and deaf to the pleas of others, if Kirsten is given a job, she will see it to its completion. Whether it is for good or bad remains to be seen.
Vices & Personality flaws
Kisten's apathy makes it hard for her to gain any friends, thus if something were to happen, she is at the mercy of fate.
Personality Quirks
Kirsten has the ability to stare for extended periods of time without blinking. Sometimes as long as two minutes if she tries.
Hygiene
Very clean and neat given her roll as a mortician.
Social
Family Ties
None.
Religious Views
Athiest
Social Aptitude
Kirsten is not offensive or unfriendly, nor is she warm and welcoming.
Speech
Kirsten's voice seems devoid of life, a light high monotone.
The impassive and uncaring.
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Honorary & Occupational Titles
Leader of Clan Gnaw
Praetorian #1
Age
29
Children
Current Residence
North Street, Philadelphia PA
Gender
Female
Eyes
Gold with Teal hue
Hair
Brown
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Pale
Height
5ft 4
Weight
130
Quotes & Catchphrases
"I see."
"That doesn't comfort me at all."
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