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Katie Callahan

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Name: Katherine Hayley Callahan

Age: 18

D.O.B.: September 15

Blood Type: B-, demonic-blooded

Race: Born fox (kit fox)

Powers: Those typical to a born were - enhanced senses (particular smell and hearing), turning into a fox, etc.

Physical Description: Katie couldn't be sweeter-looking if she tried (but she does anyway), with fresh, wholesome good looks and a sunny smile that seems to always be present. She's petite, 5'3" and slender with a roses and cream complexion and an innocent babyface that makes her look much more innocent than she is. From her mother, she gets her waist-length golden brown hair that she wears in soft ringlets and waves and big, blueish-gray eyes framed with thick, dark lashes. She's always dressed fashionably, but never looks like she's trying - and she has a shoe collection to die for. She dresses very femininely, usually wearing skirts and heels, though she's not adverse to a pair of jeans now and again. As a kit fox, she's on the small side - about 25 inches from nose to tail and about four pounds, covered in thick, soft fur that's a sort of reddish-cream color with bits of gray mixed in, black on the tip of her tail, which is long and plume-shaped. She's not much larger than a good-sized housecat, with large ears and slender legs.

Personality: Katie is just a sweet, bubbly ray of sunshine. There's not a person on campus that she doesn't have a warm greeting and a big smile for, and there's nothing she won't do for her friends, of which she has many. She's the kind of person that the whole school knows and no one feels uncomfortable just coming up to her for a chat or to hang out - she welcomes all comers, regardless of cliques or other social divisions. If the school had a cheerleading squad, she'd be the head - if she wasn't just artsy enough to have other ways to fill her time. The perky, friendly, girl-next-door type, she loves organizing get-togethers for her classmates, be they parties, movie nights, or anything else she thinks people will enjoy.

Unfortunately for most, it's also all just a total bunch of crap. The real Katie has a massive superiority complex and a penchant for manipulation, viewing few people as true equals. Sure she's nice - to your face. Behind your back, however, she'll play you like a guitar and make you dance to her tune. She absolutely adores being the center of attention, but likes to create drama in order to sit back and admire her handiwork. She'll make someone popular by association one semester, then orchestrate their embarrassing downfall the next - all without sullying her own pristine reputation. She learned long ago that one will catch more flies with honey than they will with vinegar, and that's the philosophy by which she dreams up all her little schemes.

Sexuality: Flexible.

History: Katherine Callahan was born and raised in Charleston, SC, the only daughter of business mogul Brian Callahan and socialite Rose Callahan, a South Carolina debutante from old money, who inherited everything when her father passed away. Brian and Rose were both shifters, with little Katie taking after her mother in form. Sadly, Rose died shortly after Katie was born; she'd always been of rather delicate constitution and a late diagnosis of breast cancer proved too strong for her. Rose's death hardened Brian to the outside world, though he doted on his infant daughter. Brian had always been a savvy businessman, but with nothing else to do except focus on business, Brian became even more ruthless. Katie grew up watching her father charm, sweet talk, and otherwise maneuver incredibly unfair deals out of other businessmen and entrepreneurs alike - even extending his influence to women that came after Rose. He could charm a woman out of her dress in ten minutes or less and leave them without a word the next day, and for some reason they were never angry at his treatment. Under him, she too began to pick up the skills required to manipulate others in order to get exactly what she wanted - she had her own father firmly wrapped around her little finger by the time she was five, and she only improved from there. Katie got everything she wanted - including that pony for her sixth birthday, the Mercedes for her sixteenth, and anything else she wanted in between.

She attended only the best private schools in the area, never straying far from her daddy, who was teaching her more than how to snag the perfect prom date - he was a canine shifter, a German shepherd, and he was the one who taught Katie the joys of hunting in the moonlight, racing through the vast fields of their antebellum plantation home until they couldn't run one step further. Katie translated her love of the hunt into her relationships with others - if someone could offer her something she wanted, she'd chase them down until it was hers. But like her father had shown her in his business and romantic dealings, it was much better for everyone involved if she did it sweetly, making her target think it was their idea, rather than expose herself as manipulative, the sort of person who delighted in seeing just how far she could twist others into doing what she wanted. With most people, it was easy. Make them feel like they were a great friend, drop a few hints here and there, maneuver them around until offered what she wanted, then graciously accept their offer and come out of the whole deal smelling like roses. It was similarly easy to make or break friendships - just pretend reluctance to spread gossip under the guise of 'helping' and let her fellow students tear themselves apart. It was almost as satisfying as chasing down a fat rabbit for dinner.

Katie only went two years at her prestigious private school before her father was killed, shot one night while hunting by a farmer who mistook him for a wolf. With no remaining family, it appeared as though Katie would have to enter the foster system - a solution that was completely unacceptable to her. Instead, she successfully petitioned the courts for emancipation and was given full control over her inheritance. Though she still owns a large stake in her father's company and makes plenty off his investments, Katie knew it would look better if she did something with herself other than become one of the idle rich. She was, however, bored with Charleston and the same girls she'd gone to school with for years, and decided a new playground was in order. She moved herself to Ann Arbor completely on a whim, buying a small (to her) but upscale home in a good neighborhood, bordered by lots of forested land for running, and enrolled in public school for the novelty. She took a lot of photography classes in her spare time, deciding she'd study the art when she went to college. She got right to work her first year, establishing herself not only as a good student but as an all-around sweet girl, quickly climbing the popularity ranks and surrounding herself with lots of friends. She dated, but never too seriously and never too often, always choosing her dates with care in order to maintain her reputation as school sweetheart, and took a job as a photographer's assistant for a very hip local photographer. She plans on attending college in the fall to study photography.

Since the Light of May: Katie is intrigued and fascinated by the existence of other supernatural species; she'd never really thought about it before, but it makes sense that if she exists, others do, too. She came out to her friends, surprised at the number of classmates who were supernaturals as well - her were status really only enhanced her popularity with most, especially once people saw her as a kit fox and realized how completely adorable she was.

Special Skills/Abilities: Photography - she shoots digital by preference, though she's worked with film before. She has a fair talent for it and loves to spend her time taking photos of well, everything. When she does portraits of classmates or teachers, she has a gift for finding and bringing out their hidden qualities... but on the other side of the coin, if she's of a mind to, she can make someone look really bad - and she's not above using photos like that to get what she wants. She's also got a fair hand with pottery and ceramics - she has a potter's wheel and small kiln in a shed in her backyard. She finds it soothing to create things, and sometimes makes pieces for friends as gifts or sells them on weekends at the flea market.

Personal Weaknesses: Sweet little Katie suffers from undiagnosed narcissistic personality disorder as categorized by her sense of self-importance, lack of empathy, belief that she is special and unique, and her need for excessive admiration as well as having a large sense of entitlement. She's interpersonally exploitative and often secretly believes that others are envious of her. She's able to disguise it from others with her sweet and innocent act, but it prevents her from forming true relationships with others other than what they can do for her. This likely developed from her upbringing; a combination of both learning manipulative behaviors from her father as well as the overindulgence and excessive praise he heaped upon her for the tiniest things.

Born and raised a shifter, Katie's a little more closely in tune with her animal than other shifters - she's been known to go chasing off after a rodent or rabbit if one of them caught her attention. She tends to be nocturnal like the fox; she's usually found up late at night and always has trouble waking up early for classes - she's sluggish in the mornings and has to work extra hard to keep up her grades in her first two classes of the day. Any sorts of small, wiggling movements - tapping fingers, wiggling feet - will always catch her attention and trigger her 'hunting mode' instinctively. Katie will focus in on that movement as similar to the movements of the rodents and rabbits she eats as a fox and has been known to suddenly and randomly pounce on the offending body part before she can catch herself. She'll even go so far as to catch and eat the occasional cricket (if she finds them) on her way to class or just wandering around town - they're great for a quick pick-me-up snack. It's totally normal to her, but it's probably a little odd to anyone else.

Katie has a WAY overinflated sense of self-importance and is secretly terribly arrogant with a huge superiority complex. She's convinced that very few people are as good as she is, as privileged, as talented, as good-looking, and views about 99% of the people she meets as beneath her... which leaves her only reason for interacting with them to be finding out - and then obtaining - whatever it is they can offer her, or to just plain make trouble to amuse herself. She views most people as pawns, so when she spends an afternoon breaking up Sally Ann and her boyfriend Jimmy, she doesn't give a damn how they're feeling - she's incapable of feeling empathy for them. She can fake it, of course, but she doesn't feel it. The only people she sees as even remotely near being an equal are people who are just like her - rich, from powerful families (the right kinds of families), who know how to play the game to get what they want the way she does.

Finally, Katie just can't overcome her curiosity. If a cabinet's locked, she has to know what's in it. If someone lets on that they have a secret, they've automatically become her new target until she learns what it is. She just can't pass up hidden information or the chance to explore something new.

Personal Strengths: Katie could charm the pants off just about anyone when she sets her mind to it, often with no more than a bat of her long lashes and a sweet smile. She's learned the value of 'please' and 'thank you' when it comes to getting what she wants. More than that, however, she's learned to ferret out people's little vanities and play them up with innocent-seeming comments, toying with their sensitive spots and weaknesses with subtle skill until she has them positively eating out of her hand. It's a skill she can use to get away with just about anything.

Katie's also very unassuming. She just has one of those faces - and personalities - that make it hard for people to believe she's done anything wrong, even when she has. It makes it easy for her to make people like her, make them feel sympathetic to her, and make them want to believe the best about her.

Katie also has perfect balance and amazing body-awareness. She did gymnastics when she was younger - not anything serious, but enough to learn a couple fun tricks and flips. She pretty much always lands on her feet, and she can hold a handstand like nobody's business.

Family: None living - Brian Callahan, deceased 2007, Rose Callahan deceased 1993

Living Conditions: A three-bedroom home off N. Appleblossom Road, midway between Kemp and Willow Circle.

Career/Job: College student, photographer's assistant

PB: Miley Cyrus

Memories:

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