Post by Deleted on May 22, 2022 11:51:42 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
MATTHEW BROOKES
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BASICS
NAME: Matthew Brookes
ALIAS: Dark-Step
AGE: 25
BIRTHDATE: 8th July
PRONOUNS: He/Him
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Married
OCCUPATION: Pack Leader
NEIGHBORHOOD: Technically none? He lives in the forest
MEMBER GROUP: Blackstorm
POWERS: ShapeshifterMatthew is capable of shifting into any animal he has seen in person for himself, whether in the wild or in captivity. His hair and eyes always remain the same colour when shifted, and his patterns cross across forms too, making him somewhat easy to identify. His clothes become part of his fur/skin when he shifts into a non-human form, though only if he wills it to.
Matthew can willingly access the instincts of the animal he shifts into, but is able to control those instincts with ease. When shifted, he can still speak to people, though the animal's vocalizations may show through alongside his voice.
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT: 5’9”
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Blue
FACE CLAIM: N/A
OVERALL APPEARANCE: Although rarely seen in human form, when he is human Matthew is very pale, a stark contrast to the darkness of his hair. His hair is short, to avoid it getting in his way when he does use his human form, and neatly cut. Due to his clothes blending with his fur when he shifts, they are clean and tidy; a simple white t-shirt and black jeans, and a pair of sneakers, though he doesn't really need them due to the hardness of his feet from living in the woods. He has blue eyes. All in all, Matthew's human form is a surprisingly clean and tidy one for a man who literally lives with wolves.
His wolf form is almost entirely black, with hints of brown on his neck and face, and the beginnings of grey fur on his muzzle, as black wolves often grey early. His eyes remain a pale blue, unusual among pure wolves, and the only sign of his shapeshifting origins in this form.
INSIDE
LIKES: The dark
Storms
Being with his family
Hunting
DISLIKES: Trespassers
Threatening others
Fighting
STRENGTHS:
Very fast, regardless of his species
Keen memory for the terrain around him
Excellent knowledge of survival in the wild
WEAKNESSES:
Surprisingly submissive to those 'higher in rank' than him
Doesn't always speak his mind
Overthinks
OVERALL PERSONALITY:
Calm and sensible, Matthew has never been one for rash behavior. He thinks before he acts, and is generally polite in behaviour and actions, so long as nobody threatens his family. Well-meaning and caring towards others, he enjoys helping wildlife wherever he can, though he's not the most caring towards regular humans, as like a true wolf he has an instinctive fear of them and the harm they could cause him and his family. Still, he will willingly help regular humans so long as they aren't dangerous, and has on occasion led lost children out of the woods to safety, though usually in a friendlier-looking form than a wolf! He's submissive by nature and enjoys having someone to give him orders, as he dislikes not having any structure in his life.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN Los Eurosia
FAMILY: Elizabeth [Wife] [Short-Tail]
Harper [Daughter] [Flop-Ear] [4 years old]
Cole [Son] [White-Tip] [4 years old]
Arian [Son] [Grey-Foot] [1 year old]
Claire [Daughter] [Dark-Fur] [1 year old]
Blaise [Sister]
Willow [Sister]
Lillian [Sister]
Katherine [Sister]
William [Brother]
PETS:
Technically none? But his shapeshifting ‘pack’ often takes in orphaned wolf cubs and yearling wolves.
HISTORY:
Born in the woodlands of Los Eurosia to two shapeshifting parents, Matthew was raised with a paw in two worlds; the world of a wild animal, and the world of a regular, human boy. His father, Maxim, wanted him to know how to blend in among humans and live as one of them, just in case anything ever happened to change their wild lifestyle and Matthew found himself forced into the city. His mother, Amelia, was determined to raise her children (or 'cubs' as she called her offspring) to fight against humans, to protect their territory and know what the wild life was like; the idea of any of her cubs moving into a house and getting a job disgusted her, and her and Maxim often argued late into the day over his teachings.
Like a true wolf pack, Maxim and Amelia worked together to provide for their family, and when Matthew's younger siblings, Blaise, Katherine and Lillian, were born, he and his littermate Willow were expected to begin babysitting duties while their parents hunted, despite only being 6 years old at the time. Still, since his siblings were always in their wolf forms too, it wasn't so hard for him. He simply had to watch from the den entrance and howl for his parents if the younger children seemed to need anything. By the time Amelia had her third litter, consisting of only William, Matthew and Willow were eight and a pro at handling young wolf cubs, though having to keep an eye on a litter of two year old toddlers was tough for the both of them, and Amelia had to spend more and more time closer to the den to make sure nobody got into any mischief.
At the age of ten, Matthew began his hunting lessons with his parents, alongside Willow. Now it was the second litter's turn to babysit while the older pups hunted, and Matthew found himself excelling in the hunt. Although it took long sessions of practice, he developed the skills needed to first bring down small prey alone, and then progress onto larger prey as a pack. Soon he and his pack were managing to fend off even bears from their kills, thanks to their numbers - especially as Lillian, Blaise and Katherine grew old enough to join the hunt. However shortly after their lessons began, Amelia cast out her own younger daughters, deeming them a threat to her position as leader, despite them only being ten years old at the time; only Willow was allowed to remain of the girls. Matthew was upset to see his younger sisters leave, but obeyed his mother's wishes.
When Matthew turned eighteen, he chose to remain with his pack alongside his sister, content to remain by his mother's side. Until he met Elizabeth. She was another shifter, wild-living like his family, and the pair met through unusual means; Matthew had been hunting the same deer as her, and upon making the kill the two had gotten into a fight over whose prey it was. Elizabeth eventually managed to point out the kill was outside of Matthew's territory - in fact, it was in her own territory, though she had no pack to rule it with. In love with Elizabeth's strength and intelligence, Matthew quickly began to court her, and a few months later, just shy of his nineteenth birthday, chose to leave his family to start a new one with Elizabeth. When the couple were twenty one, their first children were born; Harper and Cole. Matthew doted on the pair, and on his mate, but feared the consequences of humans finding their little family. So when he encountered a group calling themselves Blackstorm, claiming to want to allow Gifted to live openly without fear, he was quick to sign up to protect his family. Shortly after his twenty fourth birthday, Elizabeth had two more children; Claire and Arian. His family is still growing, and Matthew remains very proud of them - though still fearful that humans may cause him trouble.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Lucky
AGE: 26
TIMEZONE: BST/GMT