[hider=Winnie the Brat] [center][img] https://u.cubeupload.com/Skittlez707/FA05CD3F46FB4EFF85A2.jpeg[/img] [h1][color=aba000][i]Winona Lima[/i][/color][/h1] [h3][color=00a99d]“I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious.”[/color][/h3][/center] [b][u]Nicknames[/u][/b] goes exclusively by “Winnie” [u][b]Alias[/b][/u] “W-I-N-N-I-E, Winnie” [u][b]Age[/b][/u] 26 [u][b]Birthday[/b][/u] Sept 24th [u][b]Gender[/b][/u] Female [u][b]Species[/b][/u] Human [u][b]Ethnicity[/b][/u] Mixed [u][b]Nationality[/b][/u] American - [u][b]Personality[/b][/u] experiences a lot of emotions, which can be a distraction. Well educated but somewhat emotionally immature for her age. Lacks real-world experience. Used to getting what she needs or wants easily so can sometimes lack drive or take it personally if something doesn’t work out the way she wanted. Though, she occasionally can surprise you with understanding and a level-headed approach when absolutely necessary which she learned from working with others in the past. [u][b]Height[/b][/u] 5’4” [u][b]Weight[/b][/u] 135 [u][b]Notable Features[/b][/u] extra ear piercings, freckles [u][b]Hair[/b][/u] very curly, bleached blonde with dark roots [u][b]Eyes[/b][/u] dark brown [u][b]Voice[/b][/u] enunciates and speaks clearly, with a Massachusetts based accent [u][b]Languages[/b][/u] English [u][b]Biography[/b][/u] Zion met Winona’s mother Christina on summer break in Orlando. He’d assumed she was another student in town for the vacation or maybe a local, and the two spent a summer getting into trouble together. He hadn’t realized just how much until she showed back up at his dorm months later, obviously pregnant. Christina had been kicked out at a young age and was transient, living a party lifestyle when she’d met him. She wasn’t the rebel girl who wanted him to have a good summer, she had long been lost and simply pulled him along for the ride. “Winona” was the name picked Christina for the child. Zion’s affluent family had tried to offer as much assistance as possible to remedy the situation but Christina had plans of her own. Quickly after giving birth, she left Zion’s family home in the night with a bag of her things and noticeably without the child she had arrived with. Zion’s parents took care of a young Winona until Zion finished his law degree, following in his father’s footsteps. Once he began to establish a successful career, he purchased a nice home for himself and his daughter in an upscale town in Massachusetts. Occasionally, Christina would mail her daughter a postcard around her birthday and talk about her life “on the road” and say that “maybe one day she would understand too”. Winona was graduating high school when they had to take an unplanned trip to California. Local police had found Christina overdosed in her car and Zion was listed as her emergency contact with only his name and address in her wallet. She had been living in her car for a few years with excessive amounts of journal entries detailing her struggles with addiction. Christina improved and was released from the hospital but refused any help Zion tried to offer. It was at this point that Winona cut ties with her mother, asking her to never contact her again. Winona went to school but lacked motivation to finish, dropping out after her first year. She lived a straight edge lifestyle but loved the supernatural. She soon joined a group of ghost-hunters who filmed their adventures and were paid to investigate hauntings in people’s homes and properties. They began to slowly expand into cryptids when they got a call close to the border in Texas that livestock on a few ranches was found dead with suspicious bite marks and often drained and dehydrated. Suspicions of chupacabra. The gang rarely had cases that ended up being supernatural and they tended to be milder hauntings. Winnie hadn’t expected much from the trip but agreed to go anyways. She was feeling tension from her father pressuring her to go back to school and needed to get away. Unfortunately, this was Winnie’s accidental stumble into the world of Shades. Almost none of Winnie’s original crew made it back from Texas. The others retired from the business completely but Winnie knew she had finally found what she wanted to do. Winnie then set to studying as many cases of hauntings, cryptids, magic, and more. Winnie is through and through, a supernatural investigator. She finds the group as she’s in search of a new team. - [u][b]Powers[/b][/u] Knowledge, but nothing inhuman [u][b]Fighting Style[/b][/u] None [u][b]Combat Abilities[/b][/u] Since losing her friends due to her complete helplessness, Winnie has delegated time almost daily at the shooting range. Unfortunately, she has absolutely no fighting capabilities otherwise. In conflict, her goal is killing her target before they can get close enough to hurt her. [u][b]Daily Skills[/b][/u] Winnie had most things done for her growing up and doesn’t have a lot of skills, though she learns quickly. [u][b]Equipment[/b][/u] spirit boxes, EMF recorder, dowsing rods, a collection of literature on magical and supernatural creatures, research notes. Additionally, Winnie wears a leather harness which closes around her hips and thigh. It holds multiple magazines and holsters her weapon when not in use without getting in the way. [u][b]Weapons[/b][/u] Glock 43 and several magazines [u][b]Likes[/b][/u] being right, getting her way, learning, doing what she loves for a living [u][b]Dislikes[/b][/u] monotony, not getting her way [u][b]Fears[/b][/u] tight spaces and extreme darkness [u][b]Aspirations[/b][/u] continue doing what she loves, avenge her friends, earn her dad’s approval, not end up like her mom [u][b]Theme Songs[/b][/u] https://youtu.be/LYK4fnriSSw [/hider]