Margery "Bunny" Bonneville

[Margery "Bunny" Bonneville]

Margery “Bunny” Rose Bonneville
FACE CLAIM: Juniel (Junhee Choi)
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AGE: 15 (January 29th)
GENDER: Identifies as female, despite her ability
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
POSITION: Student

POWER: Gender Shifting
Bunny has the ability to shift between two forms - the female body that she was born with, and a male version of it.  There is no in-between state that she can stay as, so she has to be completely one or the other.  Her personality is the same between forms.  She has little control over it so far, as she's only had the ability for a short time, so her shifting is often caused by triggers such as fright, anxiety, or stress.


LIMITATIONS:
She is not able to shift to any other male or female form - she only has the two. At the current time, she can only stay in her male form for a half-hour at the most, and often not that long if something spooks her back into her other appearance.  She is not able to change the gender of anyone else, it is only limited to herself.


SIDE-EFFECTS:
The biggest side-effect of her ability is joint and muscle pain, for obvious reasons from the physical shifting.  Immediately after changing, she is often somewhat dizzy, and can have mild headaches.  Sometimes she gets stuck in her male form and can't shift back as well.


HEIGHT: 5’0”
HAIR COLOR: Chestnut brown
EYE COLOR: Brown

MISC: Bunny is very petite in every sense of the word.  Short in stature, thin and frail in build, she won't be putting much of a fight up with anyone soon.  Her skin varies from being fair and smooth to irritated and rashy, especially after extended exposure to the sun (see secret).  She typically wears at least minimal makeup, although she enjoys experimenting and playing around with her appearance when she feels up to it.  Bunny is very much a girly-girl, and wears floral and frilly dresses about 95% of the time, along with big-rimmed hats or carrying a parasol if she's going to be in the sun for an extended time.  

In her male form, she is still quite small, though a little bit taller and more muscled.  Her hair grows shorter, her voice lowers slightly, and her features get more masculine overall.


PERSONALITY: As one can probably guess, Bunny is typically a sweet, shy, and giggly individual with a habit of hiding her face behind her hands/hair/sleeves when she gets nervous or embarrassed (a regular occurrence).  She enjoys all things cute - dresses, makeup, food, you name it.  She even started a Youtube channel after she started becoming ill and having days where she had difficulty leaving her room due to complications (see below), and enjoys making makeup tutorials and similar sorts of videos in her spare time.  

Despite her shyness, Bunny is quite boy-crazy, though this typically just involves her oogling and spying on from a distance when she spots someone particularly cute. She has a bad habit of developing new crushes practically every day, however, as she almost never actually has the nerve to talk to them unless they approach her first (which would lead to much blushing and giggling).  She's a hopeless romantic at heart and desperately wishes to find someone that she can connect with and feel comfortable around.  She's painfully naive about anything more intimate than kissing, however; that sort of talk confuses her more than anything else.

One thing that can be troublesome with Bunny, however, is that she can easily get jealous and develop grudges against people.  Nothing terribly harsh, but over petty things, like girls who can so easily flirt with a zillion boys and get all their attention.  She also gets frustrated when she is unable to do something, especially physical tasks such as carrying anything remotely heavy or running for any sort of distance, and it can lead to her sulking and being moody for a period of time.  

She's studious, although not always able to concentrate as well as she would like to.  On days where she's pretty much bed-ridden, she enjoys reading romance novels or watching Disney movies.  

Bunny behaves in mostly the same way in her male form, although she puts on different clothes and washes off her makeup in such instances when she can.  She doesn't like her ability all that much, but she doesn't hate it either - she's mostly just neutral on in, except when it embarrasses her on occasions when she accidentally shifts under stress.  


SECRET(S): This isn’t so much a secret, but something that has recently become a huge part of Bunny’s life is that she was recently diagnosed with lupus. She’s had the symptoms for some time, but it took a while for the confirmation of her disease. She’s currently undergoing different treatments and trying medications to help deal with the symptoms, but it’s something she doesn’t like to tell people about, which can be difficult given the physiological effects.  Rashes, joint pain, and general fatigue occur on a fairly regular basis, though more serious symptoms can appear when the lupus flares.


FATHER: Lawrence Bonneville
MOTHER: Jin-kyong Bonneville
SIBLINGS: None
WORTHY MENTIONS: Her rabbit, Peaches

CHILDHOOD:  Bunny was born in Seattle, Washington, to a somewhat older couple very well-off in life.  She grew up on Mercer Island, and though she never had any siblings since her parents were worried about their age and possible complications after she was born, she had a fair number of children around her neighborhood to play with.  

She was always somewhat sickly as a child, never able to quite keep up with others her age, and often getting colds and other mild illnesses throughout her younger years.  Her parents weren't sure what the problem was, and doctors couldn't tell them either.  Despite this, however, Bunny still thinks she had a great childhood, blessed with lots of toys and clothes and good food on the table.  She remembers those memories more than the not-so-fun ones. She was never really bullied a lot, apart from the occasional remark about her small size.   Her parents were very protective of her, and always kept a close eye on her.

ADOLESCENCE:  She didn't grow much after her pre-teen years, which was alright with her, because that's when she started noticing boys, and admired couples with big height differences between the girl and the boy.  She grew shier, however, than she was in her childhood years, realizing that she was a little different than most kids her age.  Bunny didn't understand why she felt ways that other kids didn't, but she dealt with it and kept up the best that she could.  

She found around this time that she had a knack for makeup, and really enjoyed having girls' nights with her friends doing makeovers and manicures and pedicures and gossiping - typical girly stuff.  She discovered that she enjoyed baking as well, though it took some time before she got to be decent at it.  Bunny was frustrated sometimes that she didn't pick up at sports and other physical activities like most of her friends did, so she poured her energy into these less demanding hobbies.

It was only recently, about seven months ago, that the doctors determined why Bunny had aches and pains and rashes and other worrying issues popping up from time to time.  She was diagnosed with lupus, and thus began her dizzying time of figuring out how best to manage her illness and what medications responded the best.  It wasn't a fun period of her life, and she still struggles with it pretty regularly.  Her parents became all the more protective of her and taking care of her health.  It's manageable for the most part, though Bunny definitely has some days that are worse than others, and it can be frightening and frustrating to deal with.

Bunny's manifestation wasn't all that spectacular.  It happened only a couple months after her diagnosis, right around her fifteenth birthday.  She was at school and oogling over a particularly gorgeous boy when said boy caught her eye and smiled at her.  It shocked the shy girl so much that she nearly dropped her books; instead, she felt a flush of heat rush through her body and her joints and muscles began to ache like they sometimes did when she had a flare-up.  However, when the boy's expression turned to one of confusion, and then disbelief and amazement, Bunny realized something must have happened.  She wondered if she had somehow dribbled on herself or suddenly broke out into a rash, but when she rushed to the nearest mirror, she shrieked at her appearance.  Her long hair had disappeared into a short cut, her features were a little stronger, and she'd seemed to have grown an inch.  Since neither of her parents had abilities, Bunny had never expected such a thing to happen to her.

The change didn't last very long, and soon enough Bunny found herself wondering if the whole thing had been a weird dream.  However, within a few days, the recruiters came and explained to her and her parents what had happened, and what she was.  When they realized she would have to move in order to learn how to control her abilities, her parents made the difficult decision to move out of their home and go with her, to take care of her and make sure she was alright.  She's currently living with them in their new home while she attends Bellefonte Academy, and is still getting used to the strange world she's been thrust into.  



SAMPLE:
Cold weather meant that Rue's trips to the local tea shop increased tenfold. Sure, he could make his own tea in the comfort of his own home with his two cats, Sinbad and Andromeda, but even though the quiet introvert preferred being alone over not most of the time, even he liked to get out and have some human interaction as he ordered his steaming green tea. The tall man smiled and thanked the person behind the counter as she handed the drink over, and went to go sit at the small bar table they had set up off to the side of the room.

His aura, the mostly green kermode bear, sauntered after him, and Rue spent some time watching it before looking around to watch the auras of the other people in the room. A blue eagle perched on one person's shoulder (it was still weird to Rue that the person had no idea); a pink-speckled leopard prowled around the legs of another. And then, barely visible on a man's shoulder, a red spider crawled around. Rue shivered slightly and turned back to his tea, realizing he hadn't noticed someone else sit down at the bar. Feeling conversational, he smiled at them and gave a small nod. "It's a nice day for tea, isn't it?" he asked, motioning outside to the dreary, blustery weather. "I'm glad I don't have to be out in that weather for any reason."

USERNAME: Apollo

AGE GROUP: 21

EXPERIENCE: Uuuh like 8 years or something

WHERE DID YOU FIND US? Word of mouth

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