~Fantasy Side~
Name: Storm
Appearance: Storm is a fit, muscular woman with long black hair, brown eyes and a lean face. She dresses in tight trousers and sleeveless tunics. She has the ears, whiskers and tail of a cat, even in her human form, and there are retractable claws under her finger tips.
Personality: She is generally quiet and a bit shy, but in cat form she takes on a more dynamic, outgoing persona.
Physicality: She has the quickness, nimbleness and leaping and climbing abilities of a cat, but she is not a fighter and generally will run away from a fight, unless she is cornered. When she is cornered she will attack with her natural claws.
Bio: Storm lives in a tree house in the enchanted forest. She has been there for as long as anyone remembers, and never seems to age. Her tree house is filled to the rafters with books and scrolls.
Misc: She can turn into a black cat and back, at will.
~Real Side~
Name: Gail Winters
Age: 28
Appearance: She is a tall, thin woman with long brown hair, brown eyes and a lean face. She wears round spectacles and dresses in loose trousers and sleeveless tunics.
Personality: Gail is generally shy around strangers, and sticks to herself, but with her friends and family she is loving and warm. She is compassionate and feels things very deeply. If there is to much going on at once, she can have meltdowns, but they are more rare than they were when she was growing up.
Physicality: Gail is in good physical condition from running. She has asthma which she controls through exercise and medication.
Bio: Gail Winters was born in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and grew up there as well. Her mother and father were both school teachers and instilled a love of learning in her from a young age. She was very shy, even as a child, and spent most of her time in the library, or reading her books at home. She was never sure how to relate to other children and it was only later in life that she was diagnosed with Asberger's Syndrome. During her childhood she had a tough time surviving public school and was teased a lot. Eventually her parents withdrew her, and started to home school her. Her teacher was her mother, who stopped full time teaching to spend her time teaching her daughter and her daughter's brother Seth.
When she was in her teen years, Gail discovered that she was bisexual. Since then, she has never had a full time relationship with a man or a woman. She has been on a few dates, but is still a virgin and is to scared to put herself out there, or open up to a relationship. It is part of her lifetime struggle with Asbergers.
When Gail was sixteen, she got her GED and started to attend Rosemont College in Rosemont Pennsylvania. She lived in an apartment with her brother, who was two years older and they both attended university together. She came out to her brother during this time, only to discover that he himself was gay. He has since then told her parents who did not receive the news well. Seth and there father have not spoken in almost ten years. Because of this, Gail has been to scared to tell her parents of her own sexuality.
In college she studied English literature and creative writing. She went on to Pennsylvania University, for graduate school, receiving a masters in library science. During this time, she adopted her cat, got her first apartment on her own and generally learned to live an independent adult life. Since graduate school she has moved back to Lancaster County and lives in Intercourse Pennsylvania. She is the reference librarian at a public library and owns a small Victorian house.
Misc: She has a black cat named Jinx.
Her brother Seth, is age 30 and is an artist. He will be my other character. He has the ability, in the fantasy world, to paint and draw things which then can come to life in the real world. I am still working on him.