User blog comment:Cottonmouth255/Project Metamorphosis/@comment-5448890-20131207022153

Name: Katrina

Gender:Female

Age: 17

Species of monster: Brachhydios

Appearance: Katrina is a tall girl, 6' 2" when standing up straight-6' approx. when she's slouching, which is often. Her hair is long and a dark black, where other colors do not prevail-her bangs are a profound, shiny green sheen, and from the end of her hair to roughly 1/3 down (from her bangs, so to speak), it is a lustrous blue sheen, and the rest is black. Her skin is for the most part very clear, and it has a blue tinge, though it is pale and in the shadow wholly unnoticeable; and in the right light, it can really stand out. She has three perfectly-spaced and perfectly rationally-sized claw-like fingers, with a chicken-like 'back claw' for a thumb. Her eyes are slits, dark slits which no light comes from. In her hair there is a large bump, stemming from her Brach Horn; when angry, this becomes much larger (to a obvious point, and is about six inches), and becomes green and glowing. When happy, it shrinks and glows a beautiful shade of blue. Her hands are covered in a hard, shell-like 'skin', which is blue with green highlights, improved when angry and smoothed when happy. Other than that, she's a thin and light frame; and her feet, though she NEVER allows them to be seen by anyone other than her mother, are made of the same hard shell as her Brachydios form.

Personality: She is a very cruel creature, admittedly, and does not care easily. It takes a lot to make her love, or even care, for anyone beside herself, and she tends to go on rages at those who she does not like. Her friends, however, are a matter of deep concern and great import to her-when she can stand to get them. To become her friend one has to prove that they are worth her time-she values her time, especially since she's being hunted by the same serial killer (in her mind) that hunted and killed her father, brother, and-yes-daughter, long ago. (In true years, she's 24, roughly. In human Age Reckoning, she is but 17. Weird, huh?) She's terrified of anyone in armor and when she is terrified, she becomes angry quickly, and when she gets angry, she'll get extremely claustrophobic and easily frustrated-as well as becoming a vicious fighter. Not one you would do well to corner. If she's angry at someone, her language becomes extremely filled with made up words, cuss words, and words that don't even amount to any sense-but a skilled friend of hers can piece them together. People misunderstand and bully her, too; for this she avoids the presence of others.

Clothes: She wears a big hoodie, black and blue, two sizes too big for her, and baggy sweatpants or tight jeans, both blue or black with white/green highlights-if she wakes up in a bad mood, the jeans, because they display here inflamed leg scales (and the back spikes, three on each leg) better. She usually keeps the hood down and her hair up, but if she's sad, crying, or fuming with hatred and anger, the hood will be up to conceal her emotions. Because she's tried to kill herself three times, her sleeves are always kept drawn over her wrist. Her shoes are plain-Jane Kelbi moccasins, though fortified in places with Rhenoplos leather. She wears a ring around her left index finger-the ring that gave her the ability to transform, the day she found it dropped by a hunter and picked it up. Even if it were lost or destroyed, her Curse would be there still-she would still be able to transform. On her right wrist, she wears a bracelet her best friend, Jade, made for her, out of jade and sapphire. When she's happy or Jade is thinking of her, it glows a beautiful Brachydian sheen; when she's angry, it grows dull and black, and is said to keep her from transforming into a Brachydios unwillingly in her rages.

Backstory: She grew up in the Tundra, where she learned to hunt and took her first hunt alone. When her father was killed hunting to support them, however, the Brachydios family moved-it was on this move when Katrina found her ring, lying by the trail they were using to traverse the tundra. At the time, it did not transform her; nor until she had time to pay attention to it. When she finally did, and she was transformed, she inadvertently attracted attention to herself; when her brother rushed to her defense and she got back in, she re-transformed and watched him die for her. Then, she transformed back and attempted to commit suicide with a shard of glass from her brother's dead body's shell; she left a suicide note with her mother. Luckily, she did not succeed, and her mom brought her back. Two months later, she ran away with most of her stuff and left her mother another suicide letter-attempting suicide again on the Great Plains. She was unconscious when her mother found her and tended her. Finally, her mother allowed her to go, but would take no more notes. It was at this time when Katrina took the name and her clothes that have become her trademark, and after getting into the Flooded Forest and learning how to live like what the Brach had always called 'The outsiders' (humans), she began to talk and act like a human. She never had her same taste for raw meat, unless she was angry, and she learned how to cook it using what Brach power was given to her human form. Then, she moved to the outskirts of Tanzia Harbor, on an offshore island with many rocks and areas where she could release her anger and sadness by breaking things and crying respectively without anyone being in her business. So she was and is, to this day.

Trivia:
 * Part of this is based off of my own best friend, Ayla. Part of it, me. Part of it...another old friend.
 * Her name and gender were wholly random when I started writing this.
 * She does not remember which hunter killed her family, but in a scary twist of fate, it was the same one both times.
 * Her clothes are actually based off of someone I go to school with that I don't like, ironically.