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allgotrabiesUser Name/Nick: vilify
E-mail: hatofrabbits@gmail.com
Other Characters: Lark Tennant, Cameron Phillips
Character Name: Annie
Series: Sharp Teeth
Age: Early 20's
From When?: From the end of the book, when Annie is alone after the battle.
Warden: Thanks to her time on the Barge, Annie has learned boundaries. She has learned how to love without it eroding her moral compass, and she has learned that being brave doesn't always mean losing an arm. Because of that, she's ready to dive in with the inmates on the Barge. She genuinely wants people to find peace, and she is willing to champion or cheerlead for those who are alone.
She may seem naive but one thing she does understand is suffering. She still struggles with keeping a line between "yours and mine" but she will be compassionate and very patient with whoever she ends up paired with.
Abilities/Powers: Annie is a lycanthrope, meaning she's a werewolf who never loses her sense of self or time. She is able to turn other people into lycanthropes as well, by sharing blood, but given her history she likely will never offer this to anyone.
She has the requisite heightened senses (smell, hearing, intuition, physical strength, endurance). However, she is mortal and vulnerable aside from that.
Personality: Nobody suspects the beach girl.
Annie describes herself as a surfer, because she and her pack were devoted to the lifestyle. She was devoted to her 'brothers', to fun, and to finding the next good wave. Where other lycanthropes might try to take or hold a territory, Annie and her surfer clan wandered as far south as Ecuador in the pursuit of the most peaceful beach, where they could play and sing and surf and barbecue endlessly.
She gets up from the stoop,
and stretches her bones before heading in
thinking how amazing it is
that she still can find a way
to smile.
At her core, Annie is resilient. She has survived people massacring her family, she has survived being in two dog fighting rings, she has survived fighting her way out and then coming back in to rescue her two remaining packmates. She does all of that, and as long as she has her pack, she keeps her head up and she smiles.
She finds ways to process her grief on her own. Because she does this--keeping her problems quietly to herself--it results in her coming across as "friendly but distant" to everyone who meets her, and everyone she lives with.
She needs other people--other wolves--to center herself. Without the pack, however, she isn't sure what to do. She folds in on herself and holds onto old habits to keep her going.
In the night, between fights, her pack lay there looking out
at the glowing eyes of their enemies. She thought,
We're going to die if we stay here much longer.
She thought, It is time for a sudden move.
It's time for a radical plan.
It is time for me to do something
for them.
Annie is the least violent of all the dogs in the book. She stays out of the war with Lark and Baron's packs, preferring to stay home and wait, but if she ever had to, she is more than capable of protecting herself and what is hers.
While she and the boys fled the massacre, they kept her in the center, taking bullets for her. She is a fearful person, especially after what they've been through; just being alone makes her jumpy until she reminds herself that she is a lycanthrope, and she is what people should fear.
However, when things are very rough, she steps up. The boys may feel better protecting her, but there is nothing that Annie won't do in order to save them. She'll trick and seduce her way to the head of a dangerous dog fighting ring; then she'll murder him. She'll kill her way to freedom and then at the very first opportunity, she'll come back to save the day. Or to save what's left of her family, anyway.
Annie goes inside
As Palo fires up the chainsaw
As brave as she can be, though, Annie tends to defer to other people, especially if she loves them. Her packmate, Palo, chooses to take prolonged and cruel vengeance on the man who sold them into dog fighting. Annie disagrees and dislikes what he is doing, but does little more than chide him for making crude jokes, and wonder when he's going to stop. Later, she stays out of a battle in order to take care of the man when Palo is done with him.
Even though she's overcome the fears that let her aid Palo in the torture, she will struggle sometimes with it on the Barge because it is a new muscle she's learning to flex. Boundaries!
Barge Reactions: Annie is a Barge veteran and graduate, so she knows how the Barge works. She'll still be most cautious around anyone with a reputation for violence, doubly so if they have superpowers. She's fearful because of trauma, which she will compensate for by being friendly and outgoing.
She is still going to have a difficult time with regular ports, but she is going to welcome most of the breaches and floods as a welcome relief from her "real life". Overall, she's laid back enough to adapt and even enjoy the changes the Barge goes through.
Deal: Annie is here to save her pack. She isn't certain she can undo the things that were done to them, but she's positive that if she can get them to be alive again she can mend them. She came as an inmate specifically so she could become a warden and save their lives. She plans to learn how to help with PTSD and deep grief by helping people on the Barge.
History: Annie was born and raised in Southern California, surfing and enjoying the beach lifestyle. At some point she became a lycanthrope, and at that point she turned from making friends to actively recruiting lonely men into her pack. Of course, these men also shared her goals for free love and good waves, and this gradually led them across borders as they followed the summer sun over warm water.
In the jungles of Costa Rica, they found a little beach which they claimed as their own and named Cuidad del Perros. They were there a year before the poachers found them, stumbling on two of the boys mid-change. The poachers raced back to a village and the news spread about demons in the forest. When the poachers were done shooting, stabbing, and burning the wolves alive, Annie was left with nine boys.
With no money and no clothes, they opted to travel as dogs all the way from the Osa Peninsula to Mexico. By the time they arrived, they were bloody and exhausted. Before they'd had time to recover, they were scooped up and thrown into cages, given bad meat and then made to watch as the more injured packmates were literally torn apart by dogs.
When they were down to seven, Annie came up with a plan. She changed back to human and let the guard find her: a young, naked blonde girl sitting in the middle of a cage, surrounded by dogs who were used for nothing but violence. She was taken to the leader, who she then seduced, murdered, and robbed. In his wallet, she and Palo later found a series of numbers, codes and bank accounts.
Only she and Palo survived to make it back to Southern California, where they were tranquilized by dog catchers...and then sold again into a different dog fighting group. When they escaped this one, they took the man--Ruiz--with them for Palo to exact vengeance on.
Later, when Palo has taken the new pack to war opposite Lark Tennant, Baron, and the brother of the leader of the dog ring, Annie stays behind and this is probably what saves her. No on comes back home to her, and she is left with caring for Ruiz, and feeding the homeless on the beaches, the hope and inspiration drained out of her by mourning.
Sample Journal Entry: New as of 2020
Sample RP: With the above link
Special Notes: She will be coming in with Barge memories if possible.
E-mail: hatofrabbits@gmail.com
Other Characters: Lark Tennant, Cameron Phillips
Character Name: Annie
Series: Sharp Teeth
Age: Early 20's
From When?: From the end of the book, when Annie is alone after the battle.
Warden: Thanks to her time on the Barge, Annie has learned boundaries. She has learned how to love without it eroding her moral compass, and she has learned that being brave doesn't always mean losing an arm. Because of that, she's ready to dive in with the inmates on the Barge. She genuinely wants people to find peace, and she is willing to champion or cheerlead for those who are alone.
She may seem naive but one thing she does understand is suffering. She still struggles with keeping a line between "yours and mine" but she will be compassionate and very patient with whoever she ends up paired with.
Abilities/Powers: Annie is a lycanthrope, meaning she's a werewolf who never loses her sense of self or time. She is able to turn other people into lycanthropes as well, by sharing blood, but given her history she likely will never offer this to anyone.
She has the requisite heightened senses (smell, hearing, intuition, physical strength, endurance). However, she is mortal and vulnerable aside from that.
Personality: Nobody suspects the beach girl.
Annie describes herself as a surfer, because she and her pack were devoted to the lifestyle. She was devoted to her 'brothers', to fun, and to finding the next good wave. Where other lycanthropes might try to take or hold a territory, Annie and her surfer clan wandered as far south as Ecuador in the pursuit of the most peaceful beach, where they could play and sing and surf and barbecue endlessly.
She gets up from the stoop,
and stretches her bones before heading in
thinking how amazing it is
that she still can find a way
to smile.
At her core, Annie is resilient. She has survived people massacring her family, she has survived being in two dog fighting rings, she has survived fighting her way out and then coming back in to rescue her two remaining packmates. She does all of that, and as long as she has her pack, she keeps her head up and she smiles.
She finds ways to process her grief on her own. Because she does this--keeping her problems quietly to herself--it results in her coming across as "friendly but distant" to everyone who meets her, and everyone she lives with.
She needs other people--other wolves--to center herself. Without the pack, however, she isn't sure what to do. She folds in on herself and holds onto old habits to keep her going.
In the night, between fights, her pack lay there looking out
at the glowing eyes of their enemies. She thought,
We're going to die if we stay here much longer.
She thought, It is time for a sudden move.
It's time for a radical plan.
It is time for me to do something
for them.
Annie is the least violent of all the dogs in the book. She stays out of the war with Lark and Baron's packs, preferring to stay home and wait, but if she ever had to, she is more than capable of protecting herself and what is hers.
While she and the boys fled the massacre, they kept her in the center, taking bullets for her. She is a fearful person, especially after what they've been through; just being alone makes her jumpy until she reminds herself that she is a lycanthrope, and she is what people should fear.
However, when things are very rough, she steps up. The boys may feel better protecting her, but there is nothing that Annie won't do in order to save them. She'll trick and seduce her way to the head of a dangerous dog fighting ring; then she'll murder him. She'll kill her way to freedom and then at the very first opportunity, she'll come back to save the day. Or to save what's left of her family, anyway.
Annie goes inside
As Palo fires up the chainsaw
As brave as she can be, though, Annie tends to defer to other people, especially if she loves them. Her packmate, Palo, chooses to take prolonged and cruel vengeance on the man who sold them into dog fighting. Annie disagrees and dislikes what he is doing, but does little more than chide him for making crude jokes, and wonder when he's going to stop. Later, she stays out of a battle in order to take care of the man when Palo is done with him.
Even though she's overcome the fears that let her aid Palo in the torture, she will struggle sometimes with it on the Barge because it is a new muscle she's learning to flex. Boundaries!
Barge Reactions: Annie is a Barge veteran and graduate, so she knows how the Barge works. She'll still be most cautious around anyone with a reputation for violence, doubly so if they have superpowers. She's fearful because of trauma, which she will compensate for by being friendly and outgoing.
She is still going to have a difficult time with regular ports, but she is going to welcome most of the breaches and floods as a welcome relief from her "real life". Overall, she's laid back enough to adapt and even enjoy the changes the Barge goes through.
Deal: Annie is here to save her pack. She isn't certain she can undo the things that were done to them, but she's positive that if she can get them to be alive again she can mend them. She came as an inmate specifically so she could become a warden and save their lives. She plans to learn how to help with PTSD and deep grief by helping people on the Barge.
History: Annie was born and raised in Southern California, surfing and enjoying the beach lifestyle. At some point she became a lycanthrope, and at that point she turned from making friends to actively recruiting lonely men into her pack. Of course, these men also shared her goals for free love and good waves, and this gradually led them across borders as they followed the summer sun over warm water.
In the jungles of Costa Rica, they found a little beach which they claimed as their own and named Cuidad del Perros. They were there a year before the poachers found them, stumbling on two of the boys mid-change. The poachers raced back to a village and the news spread about demons in the forest. When the poachers were done shooting, stabbing, and burning the wolves alive, Annie was left with nine boys.
With no money and no clothes, they opted to travel as dogs all the way from the Osa Peninsula to Mexico. By the time they arrived, they were bloody and exhausted. Before they'd had time to recover, they were scooped up and thrown into cages, given bad meat and then made to watch as the more injured packmates were literally torn apart by dogs.
When they were down to seven, Annie came up with a plan. She changed back to human and let the guard find her: a young, naked blonde girl sitting in the middle of a cage, surrounded by dogs who were used for nothing but violence. She was taken to the leader, who she then seduced, murdered, and robbed. In his wallet, she and Palo later found a series of numbers, codes and bank accounts.
Only she and Palo survived to make it back to Southern California, where they were tranquilized by dog catchers...and then sold again into a different dog fighting group. When they escaped this one, they took the man--Ruiz--with them for Palo to exact vengeance on.
Later, when Palo has taken the new pack to war opposite Lark Tennant, Baron, and the brother of the leader of the dog ring, Annie stays behind and this is probably what saves her. No on comes back home to her, and she is left with caring for Ruiz, and feeding the homeless on the beaches, the hope and inspiration drained out of her by mourning.
Sample Journal Entry: New as of 2020
Sample RP: With the above link
Special Notes: She will be coming in with Barge memories if possible.
Warden Samples
Date: 2019-06-18 03:12 am (UTC)Oh, boy. [You probably haven't seen anyone look this nervous in years. She certainly hasn't felt like this since her first day of kindergarten in another life.] So, hi, I'm Annie. Just Annie. I'm not new, but I'm a new warden. This is my third time back to the Barge, first time on this side. So far it looks... [a slow look around] the same.
[She tries that with a straight face. It lasts a few seconds.] The hell it does! What happened to the Barge while I was gone? Huh? Fill me in, guys, come dish and I'll bring the drinks.
[Third Person]
One thing that hasn't changed about her life: Annie is happy to be back, and the moment she no longer has an audience her smile vanishes.
She spends the first day walking the halls, taking in every smell and every sound, touching the walls and making sure that doors open for her warden item. She is all set to regret making her item one of the beads braided into her hair but, hey, at least this way she won't lose it and it's not likely a pickpocket can take it off her.
She wants to be more excited than she is. Mostly she's just scared--always scared here on the Barge, but now it's for someone else. Some faceless, nameless unknown that she'll meet when the Admiral decides they will, someone who will probably resent her, someone whose limited freedom will depend on her whims. And not that Annie ever was any good at taking advice, but she's noticed that most of the wardens she knew are long gone. Smart move, and she plans to do the same just as soon as she's got her deal, but why didn't any of them ever talk about the guilt? And the doubt? The ugly feelings that go with binding yourself to another person to 'help them help you' get what you want?
She sighs and pushes her way into the Enclosure, but she doesn't program it to the beach she had always created for herself before. Tonight, she just accepts whatever someone else left behind.
She's going to do this.