[Nell Shepherd]

WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,

NELL DOE SHEPHERD

"so this is your maverick? this is vienna?"

BASICS

NAME: Nell Doe Shepherd

AGE: 24

BIRTHDATE: 10/10/1998

PRONOUNS: She/her

SEXUALITY: Bisexual

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single

OCCUPATION: Wildlife Rehabilitator

NEIGHBORHOOD: East End

MEMBER GROUP: Gifted

POWERS: Healing & Regeneration

Nell is able to heal herself and others from a considerable amount of damage. However, timeframe and extent of damage matters and it's all a roll of the dice whether she can properly heal someone or something all the way. This is evidenced by the chronic pain she deals with after trying to repair her own extensive injuries, and the fact that her body doesn't work the way it's supposed to.

Regeneration is even more risky and very much a crapshoot. Organs are tricky, even with magic, and so she's dedicated her time to improving and learning more about anatomy and science through extensive schooling. This education - while helpful - does not make up for her limited capacity.

This is why her powers work best on animals, small ones specifically. Nell has yet to try her luck with humans except in emergency situations.

THE LOOKS

HEIGHT: 5' 2"

HAIR COLOR: Brown

EYE COLOR: Brown

FACE CLAIM: Courtney Eaton

OVERALL APPEARANCE: Nell is usually spotted in loose jeans, a t-shirt, and probably blood or paint on her arms. It's an occupational hazard. Her brown hair is usually messy and floofy, and she gets freckles in the summer when she spends a lot of time out in the sun. She has a few tattoos, and pierced ears, and she wears a golden chain with a St. Christopher medallion around her neck. Overall, her aura is warm and her presence makes it easy not to worry about things.

INSIDE

LIKES:

• swimming
• fruits
• card games

DISLIKES:

• litter
• mishandling of wildlife
• rain

STRENGTHS:

• adaptive
• social
• humorous

WEAKNESSES:

• dysfunctional
• chronic pain
• reckless

OVERALL PERSONALITY: Nell is social, friendly, and she's got a brain that just does not know how to quit. Really. It just does not shut up. Humor is a coping mechanism that she's fine tuned to help her through even the most stressful of social situations, but when she's alone, things get a little more difficult to deal with. So she hates being alone.

BACKGROUND

HOMETOWN The Bronx, NY

FAMILY: Mia Ibarra, mother
Leon Ibarra, father

PETS: Pretzel, tarantula

HISTORY: CW animal death, descriptions of gore, violence, mental illness

I. GORE

Nell wants to say that her past, it's not important. It's not the kind of thing you talk about in conversation, the kind of thing brought up casually. If it was up to her, she'd rather forget it all together.

What she will say is this: when she first figured out that she was different, it was when she found nearly-roadkill. A rat that had been run over by a car.

Except, when she bent down to look at it and poke it with a stick (she was seven, okay, and she was a weird kid) what was left of its little heart started beating. And it seemed to stitch itself back together, fur weaving back over entrails, muscle and sinew all stitched back together. It scurried away, quick as can be, and she was left crouched by the side of the street.

-- INTERMISSION

It's not something that a lot of time should be spent on, because it's kind of messed up, but when you figure out that you can repair living things like a mechanic repairs cars, nearly back from the point of death, well - it makes you try some crazy things.

Imagination can take care of the rest.

II. THE REST

Here's a little preview of Nell's life. Foster homes, therapists, medication. She doesn't think it's worth getting into, honestly. She thinks that it's the kind of experience most people have. It's shocking, when she graduates high school, and she figures out that some people have completely functional lives. They have both their parents, they don't take pills for anything except headaches, and they don't feel like they're floating outside their bodies.

Nell can't even imagine what it's like, but for all her life, she's tried to be many different people.

She's tried to be a musician. She's tried to be a writer. She's tried to be a lover, and she's tried to be a fighter. In the end, she doesn't feel like anything fits quite right. It's like shopping for clothes but none of them are the right sizes.

3. LOS EUROSIA

Being that she tried to be many different things, a girlfriend was one of the things she felt like she kind of excelled at. Until she didn't, and she's in this new city - alone - and wildlife rehabilitation just does not pay the big money.

(And listen - she won't say it, but there's another reason she ended up in Los Eurosia, and it has to deal with this very old journal she has and doesn't tell anyone about.)

As it stands now, while she has a degree in veterinary medicine, she is furthering her education and attending classes as well as trying to ignore the fact that her secrets are about to catch up to her.

THE PLAYER

NAME: Stark

AGE: 27

TIMEZONE: gmt-5