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NELL DOE SHEPHERD

24 / WILDLIFE REHABBER / GIFTED / SINGLE / APPLICATION

- - ABOUT

Nell Shepherd is a NYC transplant who works in Los Eurosia as a wildlife rehabber. She's who shows up when you find an abandoned animal in your yard, and she's also the one who will have to tell you that you shouldn't have moved baby bunnies because their mother will be back. Really, she spends a lot of time educating people about raccoons and foxes and other urban "pests." The rest of her time is spent using her powers to heal injured wildlife. Which is actually really rewarding, even though she isn't sure if this is what she wants to be doing forever.

She's well aware of the presence of people like her in Los Eurosia, but keeps things lowkey when it comes to her own abilities. She's been investigating her family and trying to find them, as they settled in Eurosia centuries ago, believing them to be involved in Blackstorm. She wants to know more about herself, and her past, and feels like this might be the key.

- - PLATONIC

Nell will have plenty of friends. She's not been in Los Eurosia for long, but she is quick to build connections and get to know people. She's friendly, if not the best at talking about herself. But she loves to go out when she can, and she's mostly reliable (she's a post-grad student so it's tough.) There is also the fact that anyone involved with her will be drawn into her soon-to-be-realized mess, which is fun.

- - ANTAGONISTIC

There are probably people who don't like her, but she's usually quick to move on if she just doesn't like you. There are probably rivalries, and people who she doesn't care for that she has fun banter with. I love plots that are like people that don't like each other having to hang out due to having the same circle (and maybe becoming friends??) or academic rivals.

- - ROMANTIC

Nell is complicated and so relationships have always been hard for her. But listen - I love a slow burn plot. In the mean time, she likes to go on dates but she doesn't really sleep around much unless she actually likes someone. I have a lot of ideas for this section, so if interested just let me know.


- - PLOT HOOKS

• People who know about her ancient gifted family
• Friends who can be bad influences and take her out when she has a deadline
• Someone is injured in front of her and she has to reveal herself
• University friends
• Her ex that she moved out to Los Eurosia with!
• Love interests

[Redgrim]

Nell Shepherd & Esha Mullur

Considering that these two are the same age, post-grad students, and likely attending the same university, I think it would be pretty likely that they’d be in similar friend circles. I think these two could be kind of hot and cold friends, really depends on how agreeable Nell would be towards Esha’s mannerisms. Esha can be a good or bad influence depending on the day because on one hand, she’s been a model student all her life, on the other, she likes to going out every once in a while, and will drag whoever she can along. I suppose that could also make her a viable candidate as an academic rival, but I’m not sure if that’d work considering that they’re likely in different programs.

An interesting aspect to their relationship would also be the fact that they’re both gifted, but neither would really know since they both do all that they can to hide it. It would be kind of cool if they were in a situation where they both either have to, or accidentally reveal their gifts to one another. I could see Esha being jealous of Nell’s abilities and kind of questioning why she hides them, considering that Nell’s powers are so useful, whereas she just sees hers as embarrassing. But then, like, in future situations they could try to cover for one another whenever they need to or accidentally use their powers.

Let me know what you think and what kinds of spins you would put on it!

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Nell and Deacon

two weaknesses in Deacon's 'bad boy' armor is animals and acts of kindness. Nell could be a good influence on him and he could keep her from deadline by taking her out on town. Deacon's family is an ancient family of gifted and he knows more than he lets on. He is the kind of guy to know a lot about how this kind of world works but simply chooses to stay out of it, perhaps we can find a way to tie her search? As for how they're going to meet, I would love it if it was your third plot hook. Deacon still has that sense of 'invincibility' so it wouldn't be a surprise if he got badly injured. Perhaps a road accident, or barely surviving a confrontation with hunters, or even driving his bike while drunk and crashing it. No matter what he would feel indebted to someone that saved his life and would try to repay the favor even if she didn't want it, he hates feeling in debt with someone. This could potentially carry over into him volunteering in the Wildlife rehab center?

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