So, I read through the tabs and would like to give this a try.

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[center][b]Name:[/b] 

Asteria, also goes by “Ria”

[b]Gender:[/b] 

Female 

[b]Species:[/b] 

Dire rat[/center]

[b]Appearance: [/b] 

She is marginally smaller than the average dire rat and perhaps a tad faster for it. Her most notable characteristics are her soot grey coat of fur, her sharp and dangerous looking incisors, and her crystalline blue eyes. The shine of her coat almost makes her pretty. For a rat.

[b]Goals: [/b]Explore this new world, amass Power, and climb up the proverbial sociobiological ladder.

[b]Past Life:[/b] 

Born as Simone Raiford into an upper middle-class family with parents who had designs at more and an older brother Robert, who wouldn’t fulfil their expectations, Simone was groomed as a socialite. Although she did grow up to be an ambitious and gregarious woman, she always hated the pushiness and hypocrisy of her parents, who very much wanted to be considered [i]nouveau riche[/i] even if it meant riding on the coat-tails of Simone and their own long-since eclipsed accomplishments. 

Successful in school, she enrolled into a fairly prestigious law school and years of hard work got her into a position with enviable profits. Long since moved far away from her parents, the only thing she repaid their “generosity” with was a deposit the equivalent of the money they had spent raising her a [i]polite[/i] but firm letter not to attempt any further associations with her. Remembering her brother fondly, Simone tracked him down and found him in a rather sorry state as an impoverished artist and a bit of a druggie. Although he was understandably sceptical, she got him to accept her help and friendship, and – him being pretty much the [i]only[/i] person she held genuine feelings of affection for – Simone remained in contact with him and kept him off the hard drugs at the very least.

Otherwise, she spent her life living in a luxurious flat, enjoying her job (how could screwing over opponents [i]entirely lawfully[/i] and convincing everyone else you're right while at it not be amusing?) and her life. She had a lover with similar interests, a circle of people she went out with to various events and several hobbies to waste free time with. As fit and healthy of an individual as she was, she died quite early; in the beginning of her forties, due to indulging a vice of hers. She loved driving, dangerous roads or not, and speeding and racing were a thrill. She crashed and killed herself driving a beautiful beast of a motorcycle. Though she finds it a shame, she doesn’t particularly regret it.

[b]Abilities:[/b]

Beast Senses I – a bundle skill applying to all physical senses.

[b]Transformations:[/b]

Dire rat

[b]Inventory:[/b]

Nothing yet.
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