Blue Gyhardt

[Blue Gyhardt]

Blue Gyhardt
FACE CLAIM: Karla Crome
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AGE: Twenty-one years
GENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Bisexual
POSITION: College Student

POWER: Domestic Cat Shape-shifting.
Blue can physically transform into a domestic short-hair cat. She typically takes on the form of a gray tabby cat.

LIMITATIONS:
Blue can access her power at any time, but leaving it induces joint pain, muscle aches, and weakness. How intense the pain is depends on how long she remained as a cat. While a cat, she has all the abilities of an average feline, including agility, night vision, and enhanced hearing and scent, while keeping most of her human conscience.

SIDE-EFFECTS:
Joint pain, muscle aches, and weakness. Blue also has a propensity towards vivid dreams, though not necessarily disturbing.


HEIGHT: 5’8’’
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown.
EYE COLOR: Dark brown.

MISC: --


PERSONALITY:

To those she’s close to, Blue can come off as motherly: a result of her innate nurturing personality, and her experience with her sister. Generally calm, Blue is hard to shock or rile up. She is usually the first someone might turn to for advice, and the first at problem-solving. Her loved ones are important to her, and while she generally disapproves of rule-breaking, they are less important than friends and family. To strangers, Blue might appear to be level-headed, if a bit aloof.

Living as an independent - or striving to - has given Blue a confidence streak. She’s convinced that her way is the right one. Blue will often forgo advice and follow her own intuition, which may or may not be to her benefit. Her sister Nea has often pointed out how particular she keeps her apartment and how irritable she gets when things are out of place.

Blue is protective of her space and privacy, just like a cat. She can be snippy towards those who pry too hard, make themselves comfortable without invitation, or takes her for granted. Blue can be quite unfriendly towards people she dislikes, or even if she happens to be in a mood that day.

SECRET(S): --


FATHER: Rosie Nemin
MOTHER: Charles Gyhardt
SIBLINGS: Nea Gyhardt (little sister)
WORTHY MENTIONS: --

CHILDHOOD:
Blue was named after her father’s favorite color. It was a matter of contention for some time, it being unconventional, but soon the name Blue fit her just as well as a name like Elizabeth or Kathy.

Since as far as Blue can remember, her parents were going through separation. Her mother was starting to drift away, focus her attention on other things, like her post-graduate program and her career; her father, who had chosen the life of a stay-at-home-dad, began to feel abandoned. Blue had always seen her father’s side more than her mother’s. Mostly, though, she was kept out of the spats, and she lived an otherwise comfortable life in their middle class home.

It wasn’t until after her baby sister was born - three years later - that the divorce was final. Blue went with her mother, while her sister Nea was left in the care of her father. Though this was the result of personal and legal agreement, Blue always felt stung that her parents chose one or the other.


ADOLESCENCE:
Blue was discovered and sent away from her home at the age of twelve, two short days after manifesting. She would have thought it a rude awakening to be stripped of her hometown, but to her the experience was more exciting than anything. Barton, Maryland, was a drab place, and she would leave behind her mother, whom she had a contentious relationship. Being only twelve, Blue considered her responsible for her parents’ divorce.

It was more the fact that she could turn into a domestic cat that perturbed her. Blue always protested that “she hadn’t even liked cats,” that “they weren’t any use for anything”; that they were little, unfriendly pests. One training session later she had fallen in love with the idea. Sure, she couldn’t shoot laser beams from her eyes, but she could leap up trees and hear underground, and the rush she felt hunting squirrels and mice (not that she had anything against them) was more moving than any experience she’d had as a human.

Blue found her place at the Academy. She was never top of the social ladder, but she had her crowd. Grades came easy. During eleventh grade, she joined an advanced chemistry class.


ADULTHOOD:
Blue hardly kept in contact with her family over the years, except on major holidays. When she was twenty, her sister Nea came to live in Blue’s apartment following a spat with their dad. She agreed to let her stay indefinitely. Her sister, Blue found, was more adventurous and unruly than she was, and she spent many a night driving across the town to pick her up in the dead of night. Still, Nea quickly became her entire world, and her only family she felt bonded to.

At present, Blue works at a local cafe while working on her undergraduate program studying as a hopeful pharmacist. While she strives to be independent, she still receives financial support from her mother. Things are generally quiet at her apartment despite Nea’s trists - and her nightly runs as an alleycat.


SAMPLE:
The Villa Blanque was a tall, handsome house that stood at the center of New Orleans’ social circles. Its grandiose pillars and spiraling staircases, its half-moon lawn, and checkered marbled floors, spoke of the robust architecture of the southern aristocracy. It was of a different nature from the artistry found in Paris and beyond, but then, so were most things; Louisiana was a place of great beauty, as well as a noisome cesspool of insects and, as local legend would have it, wandering swamp spirits.

The Madame herself had husbands who had dropped like flies, until settling upon the southern man who owned the property, though it was much hers as his, or even more. She was a domineering woman known for her glib and guile. Despite her dark hair thinning at her temples, and her wrinkles at the corner of her eyes, beauty clung on to life in her still…though it lived on more readily in her daughters. The three of them were gathered there. Their faces were shadowed by the wide hats on their heads. One by one they smiled, perfectly pleasant smiles, as they were announced.

“My daughters, Marie Louise Pauline, Louise Marie Laure, Jeanne Pierre Paulin Blanque.”

They were dainty things all, with their dark wispy hair and their eyes the color of glaciers, like their mother’s.


USERNAME: Day

AGE GROUP: early twenties

EXPERIENCE: long time

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