The Furious Galvora ((Remake complete!))

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Full Name: Sophitia A. Michaels
Nickname(s): Sophie
Codename: Galvora
Alias(es): The Furious Galvora
Age: 16
Classification: Human (Sanies Lupus inheritor. In other words, a werewolf.)
Affiliation: Heroic (NG/TN- she does what she can for other people because that's who she is, but isn't shy about doing what she thinks is right regardless of what society thinks. The Beast inside her is untamed and sometimes crosses the line, and her heart holds a hatred that could lead her astray, but by no means is she evil.)



Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Violet as a wolf, Blue/grey as a human. As she uses her powers, her eyes turn to violet and glow.
Height: Five feet and short change
Weight: 140-ish (she's pretty athletic - more than average muscle)
Other Traits: Sophie appears to be of Korean descent, with pale bronze skin and almond shaped eyes that almost glow in their vibrance. The girl is highly athletic with serious definition clearly visible, but by no means bulky. She has a bit of body fat that fills her shape out a little, but it does nothing to deter her would-be willowy frame from looking graceful, lithe like a big predatory cat. Her hair tends to do what it wants, sproinging here and there just because, allowed to grow into a mane that cascades over her shoulders to past mid-back. She does not sleep well - bags are visible under Sophie's eyes, and while she's not 'sleepy' per se, she isn't perfectly healthy looking either - the beast can do that to you. When she's partial-shifting, her body hardens with muscle, her ears extend into canine ears and gain fur, her hands gain claws, her teeth sharpen, and a lupine tail sprouts from her backside as steam rises from her form. Her left eye remains human... but her right becomes a sea of violet, as in her hybrid shape.



Powers:

Werewolf Physiology: Sophie's natural abilities as a lycanthrope are substantial, limited only by her youth and inexperience. She has the right personality type to inherit and make good use of these powers: It takes someone tough and mentally strong to endure and thrive, and she has it in spades.

--Sophie is a werewolf, and has several forms - a human shape, a monstrous hybrid shape like in the stories, and a partial form in which she takes on more of her beast while remaining basically human. She spends much of her time in human shape - she has the best control here, and feels most comfortable, but she could transform into a hybrid if she had to at any point to take advantage of her far superior power while transformed. Wolf shape is still a theory for her - she lacks the experience and control to manage it at present. Human form lacks claws and fangs, but the jaws on hybrid form make the jaws of life look like a sock puppet, and hybrid form's talons can rend concrete like wet mud. There's a reason werewolves hold a place in the human imagination! Her partial form isn't something she can hold for long, but expands her physical abilities - makes her stronger, faster, and boosts her senses and instincts.

--She's hella-strong, physically. In human shape she can exert over a ton of force. In hybrid, she could do ten times that. When partial-shifting, she can exert five tons.

--Sophie heals with supernatural speed. Ordinarily in any shape, she regenerates at Expert level.

Basic Regeneration:

 

In the light of the full moon she is imbued with the divine energy of the god Wodan, lord of the hunt, and this advances her healing factor considerably (by one step, to Advanced level)

Advanced regeneration:

--She is naturally more durable than normal. Her bones don't break at all easily, tissues become tougher than leather, and her skin is no exception. She couldn't deflect bullets for example, but they don't do as much damage as they would otherwise. This effect is even more distinct in Hybrid and Partial shapes when her hide is thicker. Think of it like damage-reduction rather than immunity.

--Sophie cannot be poisoned or become diseased. Gas might work on her since it occludes air but it wouldn't work on the merit of its contents alone. You'd need to use huge doses of tranquilizer even to phase her, and that's in human form. In hybrid or partial shape you might as well throw rocks at her head.

--Sophie doesn't tire out easily. She can run for miles, stay up for days on a couple hours of rest a night, and fight for hours at a time without needing to catch her breath.

--Sophie's senses are naturally keen and sharp as knives. What's more, she has synesthesia - even the faintest scents and sounds appear to her as clouds of colored light as her sight, hearing, and olfaction work in harmony. It's very, very hard to fool her senses - even as a human they are uncanny. Scent is one of the few senses that can see backward in time  - long after a man sat in a chair, there would be the remnant cloud of his scent to her, plainly obvious for her to see and smell from across the room. In perfect darkness she could hear and perceive the skittering of a rat, and from that noise gain a perspective of the size and shape of the room and its contents. As a werewolf, her senses are even sharper by a factor of 10 - comparable if not superior to a bloodhound. In Partial, they're sharpened by a factor of 5.

--Strength has more use than lifting. This girl can -move-. In human form she can sprint at 30mph and run comfortably at 18-20 for long periods. As a hybrid she can reach 50-60 mph and move comfortably at 30. What's more, she can leap impressively, able to bound 15 feet from a standing start in human form (twice that as a hybrid). From a running start she can make some really impressive jumps! Hi ho silvah! Partial shape isn't suited to duration running, but she can sprint at 45 mph or so and jump 20-25 feet in the air.

--Beware of girlbeast! Being a werewolf means more than getting hairy and mean occasionally - it also means having a wolf in your brain. She has a suite of instincts that come as naturally to her as breathing, all geared towards being a deadly hunter - one of the meanest creatures on two legs. She can react to danger before her actual senses could perceive it - it's nearly impossible to catch her off-guard (think Conan the barbarian rather than spiderman.) She can tell when prey is injured or afraid, feel what her teammates are doing around her, know when she faces a foe stronger and more experienced than her, and sense things humans miss - the coming natural disaster, the malevolence of a particular person, that kind of thing. Her instincts are good - she would do well to trust them. In her partial transformation, the wolf is closer to the surface - and has more sway on her perceptions, for better or for worse. This of course intensifies her instincts and reactions.


Skills:

--Sophie took some tae kwon do and karate when she was little, she has some natural talent in combat, and her physical power mixes all this together to give her an edge. She's no expert, but she can put up a hell of a scrap! A good stance, spirit, and solid instincts go a long way to fill the gap.


Weaknesses:
--Silver is her traditional bane. Wounds inflicted by silver regenerate much more slowly and cut right through her hardened body. Even its touch is anathema to her nature and sears her flesh. Prolonged contact with it (like a silver bullet stuck in her body) can severely weaken her and cause terrible agony. Worse, she would not be able to heal at all, or even stop bleeding until the silver is out. Even a shard could kill her.

--Inherited silver (passed from one generation to the next) gains a metaphysical quality. The metal with this quality is so much worse because while it is in contact with her body, she is human - no more, no less. A wound inflicted by means of a weapon made from this would heal only at human rates - even long after contact ended.

--If you could simulate true full moonlight, you could force her to transform.

--Transformation hurts, man. It's a slow, hideous, agonizing process that takes her thirty seconds to manage at minimum - and that's on a good day. Exhaustion, malnutrition, and repeated transformations prolong it and further add to her agony. It's bad enough normally that she will hesitate before doing it even when the situation calls for it when she's at her peak, let alone when she isn't.

--Partial transformation is hard on her. She's pushing her body farther than her humanity can manage by imbuing herself with her own beast. While changing and holding the form isn't painful as such, she is sore and exhausted for hours afterward, burning up all her impressive endurance more quickly to achieve greater results. For every minute she remains changed in a partial shape, she is weakened for a minute afterward, to a limit of ten minutes - when she simply collapses.

--Partial transformation brings the beast closer to the surface, and it affects her. She's less rational, more emotional and instinctive. Her self control such as it is pretty much goes out the window, and if she's not very, very careful she could become savage and feral while holding this shape.

--To use partial form, her human side and her beast side must be in harmony.

--While she's very hard to stop, she is not unstoppable. If her brain was destroyed, she's be dead - do not pass go, do not collect 200 bucks. If she didn't have food or drink for a few weeks she could starve to death. Overwhelming injuries could still send her into shock or kill her outright. She's not immortal.

--Know what the downside to sharp senses is? Having sharp senses. A really loud noise could mess with her, a really intense scent could disrupt her sense of smell, and so on. A flashbang, a scent bomb (or even just a really pungent, pervasive stink, or even a strong chemical smell) would jam her senses to varying degrees - in terms of her synesthesia, it would induce 'static', and even something intense but unrelated could blind her. As a human it's bad enough. As a werewolf, it's 10x worse.

--Hybrid form is powerful, but hard to steer. Think of her, transformed, as a little girl holding a big dog's leash. If she plants her feet it'll probably drag her along. If she loses her grip she's probably lost it for a while - and off the beastie goes to tromp about happily!

--Moonlight affects her. On any night it is intoxicating, literally. A full moon forces her to transform into a hybrid though, and its effect on her psyche is narcotic. The human takes a back seat and the beast takes the wheel in this circumstance. The Beast isn't evil, but it's not complicated - it is a savage, primal creature driven by very physical needs. Faced with a threat, it fights. Faced with hunger, it eats. If it thinks something deserves to die, it kills. When cornered, she could get vicious and defensive. Good and evil simply don't figure - and that's dangerous for people.

--What's worse, her anxieties can translate into rage when her brakes are off. That's where stories of men attacking their wives or attacking a town when transformed come in - the beast doesn't understand stuff like that and might just go for the throat.

--Sophie is a hound of the Wild Hunt, and her powers & her nature as a werewolf are a 'boon' to her mother's bloodline back to ages untold. The old god Wodan, head of the wild hunt, has grown distant from our world of late, but he had a hand in awakening Sophie's powers again. Wodan can call her away at any time to hunt, compel her, body and soul, to do so. He also seeks further influence in our world - and his power over her is, since she chose to accept his gift anew, is very nearly absolute.

--Sophie is not a human, not anymore. She *must* change at least once a month, to survive and be healthy. It's a bit like a human being's need to be around other humans - if they can't, they sort of shut down, go unhinged. It's that kind of need. There are a slew of urges and impulses that need to be reigned in for her to be safe around people.

--Sophie is impatient, simple of heart and intention. She can be devious in a fight, she can be logical and practical when the situation requires it, but she's bad at plots, deceptions, and lies. Striaghtforward - that's the way. Sophie gets frustrated in the face of anything else.

--Sophie's instincts have a darker side -Her impulses are many times stronger than a human's are. Emotions, likewise, are more intense - especially primal ones - her anger for example is much hotter - it's all she can do to keep from savaging the object of her anger. Her needs stand out much more sharply - if she's hungry, for example, she can barely think of anything else. Her instinctive, knee-jerk reactions very nearly bypass her brain entirely - jump her from behind, for example, at your own risk! And that's not even talking about what you get when you have something that's a wolf and a human - a dog. If someone she respected told her to SIT her knees would probably buckle on the spot!

Equipment:
She doesn't have jack and %#!@, and jack left town. I suspect a couple changes of clothing and a bag of beef jerky don't count.



Personality:

When you boil it all down, Sophie chose her fate. That changes things. She's embraced her nature, and day by day she's learning to cope. Her human side isn't the most clever or subtle, but she's kind in her way, loyal to her friends, slow to take offense and generally pretty mild-mannered.

She has revenge burning in her soul, though - and it drives her to gladly accept the pains and lonliness of her chosen life, drives her to push forward through the dark, to sneer at evil, baring her teeth and rolling up her sleeves as she advances upon it. She's fearless, and doesn't care what 'public opinion' says about her. She's not fighting the mob for publicity. She's not bathing in moonlight for anyone's love. Soph didn't become a monster to do anything but put the world right if she can.

At her best, she is fiercely loyal to her friends, lionhearted, and prone to grin when things get hard. At her worst, she is merciless, cold as stone, and a monster out of every human nightmare about how bad wolves could be.

Sophie isn't a patient or delicate person - if she's not charging headlong, she feels like she's not doing things right. Hands-on, that's the way! She's lax on ideas like 'proper', or 'time management', but spot-on in regards to things like 'loyalty' and 'right/wrong'. Subtlety is not her cup of tea, but you could trust her with your life or a dime, if you are her friend.

Sophie's humanity is flipped on its side. She sees things differently from humanity proper, experiences the world more like an animal - everything is about sensations and emotions. She doesn't LIKE to bother with complicated moral dilemmas, and quickly grows frustrated when dealing with them. Occam's Razor is her tool of choice.

There is an unreasonable, unbending fury in her heart and soul when it comes to organized crime. It was mob activity that sank her entire chance at a normal life, that killed her mother, that corrupted everything she cared about as a child. Faced with mobsters, she is as black and white as is possible - she has no tolerance for the mob, and will hunt them like animals. There is a lot of hurt there - a lot of rage and pain she doesn't know how to deal with, mostly directed at her father (whom she blames).

Strengths:

--This girl is a tough cookie inside - she can put up with a boatload of hurt and still hiss her defiance. Changing form alot, regenerating, it can do that to you.

--Sophie is loyal like a dog is loyal - faithful, affectionate, and stalwart. She protects what she deems as hers viciously, and will go to extraordinary lengths to protect those she cares about.

--She is Lionhearted - that is, brave and bold as brass.

Interests/Habits:

--Visual arts: Sophie is an artsy kind of girl. She's good at visually expressing herself and though her art is amateur-level, she can make some neat stuff!



Family Members: Victoria Anna Michaels (Mother, deceased), Seung Jin (Father), Molly Seung (Stepmother), Jason Seung (half-brother, eldest), Victoria Seung (Half-sister, middle), Joshua Seung (Half-brother, youngest) ((Sophie doesn't know about her stepmother or half-siblings - nor do they know about her).
Place of Origin: Metropolis, though she was brought to California during her coma for the help of a brilliant pediatric doctor who specialized in the brain.
History:
Sophie was the result of an affair between a wealthy businessman in Metropolis, and his mistress. Sophie was initially kept for political reasons - so her mother, Victoria, could gain political leverage over Seung Jin. Well... it didn't work out like that. Seung Jin would never hurt Victoria - he loved her, even if he knew that this was her intention. The man who owned him though - that is to say the crimelord of Metropolis City, Alexis Voshkov - had... plans other than to let "some glorified cheap hooker" get in the way of his good business. When he found out about it, it didn't take him a week to order the hit on Victoria Michaels.

The assassination was a success - but Sophie, 12 at the time, had taken a bullet to the brain... and lived. Jin was consumed by grief... but Voshkov played it as a favor to his happy family, and though it destroyed him... he could say nothing about the girl to his wife, whom he'd cheated on to have her. But he had connections... and whisked the girl away, to a private hospital, far away from the troubles of Metropolis. And the girl has been comatose since.

But what about Sophie's perspective? What was all this to her? Well...

Victoria was mom. Plots and ploys be damned... childbirth does things to a person, and Victoria could not let the daughter be a thing, a tool to make money. She raised the girl on her own, and made good of it - Young Sophie was a bubbly, active youth with everything she could have hoped for. She never knew about any of this plot - and still doesn't, to this day. At least... not all of it.

In her coma, she was approached by Wodan, the god of the hunt and an ancient power, and he... showed her things... showed the girl the man who was her father, showed him with a cold expression standing over her mother's casket, showed her the path of his corruption, and showed her the crimelord... and then gave the girl a choice.

"Stay in the dark, child" he said "Stay in the dark, stay, little one... and you may never wake up. Or make this change. Make the men who hurt you, who killed your mother, make them pay. Be mine... Hunt them... and make them pay."

She took his offer, grasped the heart of the beast in the primal god's hand... and was changed.

Sophie recovered rapidly after that - in minutes, she was awake, tore her way through the door of her room, savaged a nurse with a food tray, ran screaming down the hall in her birthday suit, and jumped out a four story window - regardless of the safety glass that was in her way.

Not really a problem...but your picture definitely isn't Korean and I'm not a huge fan of practical white washing.

Explain her healing process in tangible terms. For future reference, no descriptor you find on another site will work here. People should not have to do research to understand what you mean.

For her to turn into a wolf you will need to get it approved.

Her reflexes still sound spiderman. Conan the Barbarian definitely can't sense things before they happen so that doesn't make sense. Slight Precog would be allowed, but you'd need another weakness.

Speaking of other weaknesses, with as high as her sense go('seeing back in time') She should have a weakness to extreme sensory experiences. Flashbangs, close range skunking, ect.

To be clear. Saying 'more than' won't allow her to lift more than one ton unless it was by just a few pounds. Her hybrid form would be limited to 10. Only solid limits matter.

Edited!

Added a Partial form, added weaknesses to counterbalance it, and gave her regeneration some gentle tweaks (In particular, clarification of some of the wording in her basic and moonlight regeneration). She is becoming more comfortable with her Beast, and is slowly coming to rely upon it, to become its partner - not just a stubborn human bit that checks its power. Her conflict with the Amici family, meeting her physical limits for the first time, facing her bane for the first time, and reaffirming her vow to the god Wodan... it's been an eventful last couple days for poor Sophie - and she has earned her Wolf's respect.

The regen rate she'll get isn't exactly acceptable since she still has all her normal powers and is just getting a, if situational, rather extreme power up. For anyone that hasn't prepped, her hybrid form is completely unstoppable without lethal force at the moment.

I didn't change her regeneration rate, muse - in partial TF her regen is still the non-moonlight rate.