Tara Gerow

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Full Name: Tara Georgia Gerow
Nickname: T, G.G
How old they look: 21
How old they actually are: 19
Birthday: august 14th, 2081
Gender: Female
Marital status: dating (Milo Ventimiglia)



Job:waitress
Position: full time
House: apartment
Main mode of Transportation: public transit or her own two feet.






// A Little More Intimate, Now Don't Be Shy //

Appearance:

Tara stands at a whopping five feet and four inches in height. She weighs 145 lbs, with a medium build. She is not a very athletic woman, so whatever muscles she does have she gained by accident. She has a rather fast metabolism, faster than a humans, so she eats almost anything in almost any quality.

Tara's hair is always kept short for convenience, sitting, layered, just below her earlobes. She dyes the bangs red, though her hair is coal black, so she makes it a habit of re-dying her bangs every few months to keep them vivid. She has a bit of shade to her skin tone, slightly darker than what people might consider to be a 'white' colour but light enough to be straddling the line between white and tanned. Tara's eyes are a vibrant black and are relatively an average shape, leaning a bit towards being close set, but very, very minimally.

On a normal day Tara wears a pair of dark coloured (black, gray or brown normally) yoga-style pants and some sort of teeshirt, perhaps a sweater or jacket according to the weather. She has a small, silver bracelet she wears all the time with two charms; a bison, which was her fathers form, and a raven, which is her form. This was given to her by her father.

Tara's shifter form is that of a huge, black raven with one white tail feather. A slight genetic deformity.


Personality:

Tara can be considered abrasive at first. Her outward appearance has been said to be rude, brash--brutish, even-- with absolutely no sense of class or of being in possession of any kind of detectable, natural tact.

She likes people to think that she is this rough character, someone that you shouldn't befriend or love. She wants people to think she's this thing and that thing, changing her mind and persona so often that if you were to ask two different people about her their answers would be so different that you would think you had asked about two separate personalities.

So who is Tara Gerow?

Well. If someone were to--hypothetically speaking of course-- actually get through to her and manage to find the person behind the beast, they would find something very contradictory to the woman they first met.

It is true: in her off hours, Tara is an actual human being with actual human emotions.

She is a very nervous person and over compensates for that nervousness with her raw attitude and vile language. She is insecure, yearns for approval and praise but never received it before, so has given up. She finds love but hardly ever pursues it for her overall feeling of self-inadequacy. She is useless in a tense situation and will talk and act big up until the point of actual confrontation, and in that moment she will bail or beg for mercy. Tara wouldn't let anyone suffer if she could help them but would not go above and beyond to help them if they were beyond help, but she would go out of her way to provide a proper burial, or attend one if there was one.

History:

Tara's mother died when she four years old. She was attacked by humans, and though Tara was never sure what happened, she remembered the day her mother killed herself.

Her father was a kind man who was completely devastated by his wifes untimely death. They had all lived in secrecy until her mother was attacked, which was when they started moving around. Father and daughter became very close, but almost nothing could have stopped her father from chasing down the people who attacked his wife. He confronted one of the people, who called the cops saying a paranormal was attacking them and was armed. He had gone for his wallet when the police shot him, claiming they thought he was going for his gun.

Tara was hiding in the bushes when it happened, and at nine years old she was called to the morgue to identify the body of her father. That same night she was 'adopted' or bought by a sick old widow who had never managed to reproduce before her husband died, and for six years or so Tara had what could be called a real family. When her adopted mother died, however, Tara lost herself.

She turned to drugs, alcohol, partying and loose relationships, a hard life that gave her her shy, nervously abrasive attitude she has today. She had a string of bad relationships but that hasn't effected anything with her current boyfriend, yet. After her last boyfriend tried to kill her in her own bed, Tara decided enough was enough and left her party life for a more serious one. She was determined to get an education so she got a "job", or hired herself as a slave, to a bar owner to help pay for the schooling.

When slavery was abolished Tara found herself lost and oddly without purpose, except that she wanted a real, good paying job or even a career. But she's not getting her hopes up too much.


Species name: shapeshifter
Species appearance: human form looks like a regular human, and their animal form(s) will look like earth based animals.

Powers and abilities:

Can shift into any Earth based animal

Can sense natural disasters faster than humans

More advanced shifters have more than one form, usually only two (aside from their human form).

Weaknesses:

They cannot see through glamors

Shifters can become ill if spent too much time in one form

They are vulnerable to all human diseases and wounds.

Origin:

Earth

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