"...This is Eve. Leave a message if you want. Or just fucking text me, I get those fast."

STARES AT SNEKGAME VS CAPTCHA why are we all LIKE this

What it says on the tin.

This is a rough awful writeup since I don't want to straight-up link the google doc everything is in BUT for the curious! Eve is from a fantasy-ish sort of world where humans don't exist; instead, the world is populated by assorted fantastic beasts. All of them have some magic to them: an affinity for/control over a particular element, and the ability to shift back and forth between their animal shape and a human one (usually just referred to as their "other" or bipedal shape, since humans aren't a thing.)

All people from Eve's world have a type of magic sense— where she's from this is specifically geared toward sensing the element another person belongs to as well as what species they are. This also is a good indicator of whether the thing they're looking at is just a person of a species they haven't met before, or an unintelligent beast. (In other settings, this extends to anyone with any kind of innate magic— though if it isn't specifically an element she wouldn't be able to tell what it is automatically. She can still recognize people by it, although it will take longer to be able to tell people with the same type of unfamiliar fundamental magic apart.) Magic acquired from items is completely off of the radar.

While the names and ecological niches of assorted animals are the same, the way they look is not; for example, Eve is familiar with the idea of butterflies, but the ones she knows are basically tiny dragons. Something like a "hare" would still be a small prolific thing that lives in forests and grasslands that runs fast and is tasty to eat, but might be a reptile or a flightless bird of some sort. STILL TRUE but I'm running with universal translator autocorrecting for it, meaning it won't come up in RP much, probably.

That said, the various species of people are still frequently animal-themed and animal named. Snakelike peoples tend to be called serpents, there are Fenris wolves, Nemean lions, etc. The difference is that those names are used to describe kinds of people rather than animals, basically.

OOC Info
Player Name: Opal
Age: 27
Contact: LEIF YOU KNOW ME (if Tor is doing apps I'm sorry) (opalinesque @ plurk, slack, gmail )

IC Info
Name: Eve
Canon: OC
Personality: A very good girl! ...when she isn't being an angry, bitter, shitty child.

Eve was born as a hybrid creature into a world populated by assorted magical beasts, which essentially meant pinging everybody in the same bestial instinct that in the real world triggers abandoning sick or runty offspring. Among thinking beings, however, getting hammered with "oh god no why does that exist" feelings results in much more pleasant behaviors— such as ostracizing and treating the cause as either a hideous nuisance that should be mercy-killed for everyone's sake or a poor, pitiful thing that should be happy with every scrap of anything resembling kindness it should get. As if that weren't enough, Eve was also later kidnapped for medical experimentation, since it turned out hybrid blood was universally accepted no matter what species it went into, so long as they were of the same elemental affinity as the donor.

While she had been lucky enough to have a relatively happy and healthy childhood, her entire experience in medical experimentation hell as well as her subsequent fending for herself has left a hell of a mark. As a result, she's become closed off and wary, unwilling to let anyone closer without putting in the hard work of convincing her that she's both wanted for who she is as a person and safe in their presence.

...which... well. Good luck with that. While she's willing to give more leeway to people who are willing to treat her with basic courtesy (or, barring that, as a person rather than something disgusting), she's still used to manipulating situations as best as she can— and her primary way of doing that is acting. When human-shaped, she most often presents herself as downtrodden and shy— inoffensive, something to be pitied rather than feared. If that's seen through, she'll present something closer to the truth of her bitterness and anger but twisted to fit the situation, often either angling to inspire either charity or fear.

It's only in her beast shape (an eight-legged mix between a viper and a wolf) that she's most herself: prideful, vicious, and stubborn, with a taste for picking fights rather than backing down. At the same time, though, that's when she most open to relaxing and showing hints of the goodhearted (if dumb and sheltered) kid she used to be— she refuses to wear any masks in that shape, for her own sanity. What better shape to allow herself emotional vulnerability than the one with the most physical defenses?

Sample Objectives: Initiating conversations! Because she's shy and paranoid and so that gives her an actual incentive to build cr, which makes life easier for me and also makes her uncomfortable, which is hilarious.
Aaand on the opposite end of the scale: sexual activity while she's in her beast/animal form. Because xeno.
Sample: Have an entire post.
Sample game mechanic: Abusing Using objectives to nudge Eve into the sort of situations I want to play her in (like actually socializing.) ...I am also hoping to get her as someone's Fate-style master and then servant herself to them using the game's master/servant system for masterception, but that's less guaranteed.