Gender:Female
Species: Lioness Hybrid, Panthera leo and Homo sapiens
Weapon: Besides her retractable, vicious claws and a lion's bone shattering canines, her superior strength and speed make her a skilled swordsman despite her relatively small stature. She is particularly skilled in the usage of twin swords.
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 129lbs
Appearance: Lush, dark lashes framed vibrant gold eyes flecked with ruby and citrine. Her wild, oddly coloured gaze was predatory, betraying her feline nature. Her limbs stood coiled and ready to pounce, her weight distributed between the balls of her feet and her slim fingertips. She remained unmoving, waiting and assessing her oblivious prey. She was beautiful, her large doe-eyes, dainty nose and full, red lips making her almost elfin-like in appearance. Her soft chocolate hair cascaded around her shoulders, brushing the ground and her full hips.
Abruptly, her elegant fingers clenched and warped, thick, vicious claws extending from her fingers. She leapt, her soft lips pulling back to reveal razor sharp teeth, tougher than steel. Her prey spun around, horrified at the beautiful, feral-eyed monster lunging for his throat.
Despite being a lion hybrid, Cadence has very little resemblance to a lion, save her incandescent and illuminated fiery eyes and soft, likely overgrown, often untamed hair. Although she does not look it, Cadence is incredibly muscular and has never lost an arm wrestle to anyone, not even professional wrestlers. Her immeasurable strength and aggressive nature stands in contrast to her angelic appearance. Although slim, she is curvaceous.
As afore mentioned, unlike other hybrids, one is unlikely to immediately notice what animal she's been morphed with, or that she even is a hybrid. Like ordinary lions, Cadence's claws are retractable and unlike them, as are her teeth, although she does have particularly sharp canines even when she is at rest. Besides that, she bears no other physical resemblance to her animal half.
Parts of her personality are "stereotypical lion," such as her immense capacity for bravery. She seems to lack fear in her repertoire of emotions and that makes her rather reckless.
Besides acting, well, blatantly stupid at times, she is incredibly intelligent when it comes to survival. She can be cold and calculated when she wants to be and often acts like a lion stalking prey in all social encounters. Like a lion waiting for its kill, she has a surprising amount of patience for someone so overly fun-loving. She assesses everyone she meets, picking out all their flaws and evaluating the best approach.
She can be rather manipulative, being not only outspoken and outgoing but impossibly charismatic and charming. She's seductive and flirtatious, every other sentence she says being something rather provocative. She knows no personal boundaries and is quick to touch others in perhaps overly familiar and outrageous ways. Cadence speaks to everyone as if they'd been friends for decades prior, even if they just met.
She's a natural born leader, being both decisive and persuasive enough that people want to follow her. Cadence can be rather demanding and bossy at times, as being half lion, she expects to be obeyed. She has impossibly high expectations of everyone and so she is often disappointed but it never stops her from expecting just as much if not more the next time around.
She's not only stealthy, fast and strong, she's also very good looking and she knows it. She walks around with an air of confidence - perhaps too much - and authority. What saves her from being hated by everyone is her surprisingly superb sense of humour. She can brighten the darkest of days. If only she didn't insist on meddling in everyone's business.
Likes:
â Food - Rest assured, Cadence can always be bribed with food. She will eat just about anything that isn't a plant - although meat is predictably her favourite - and there seems to be absolutely no end to her stomach as, if it were up to her, she would eat as often as she breathed.
â Sleep - Lions, being the laziest big cat, and sleeping 20 hours a day, Cadence is unsurprisingly a big fan of sleeping and doing nothing. Indeed, in her 13 years of training, what she loathed most was being forced to sleep only 8 hours a day, if she was lucky.
â People and Hybrids - Cadence is a big fan of people in general. She enjoys socialising and loves just about everyone, she doesn't even hate the people who tried to kill her.
â Things that fly - Birds, paper planes, butterflies, if it flies, it's awesome.
â Teamwork - Being an extrovert, there is nothing she loves more than working together.
â Fighting - Aggressive in nature, Cadence loves breaking bones and making big boys cry.
â Music - Be it Chopin or One Direction, she'll listen to anything.
â Singing - Although roaring is great fun, there's nothing like singing to express yourself.
â Running - Perhaps leaping would be a better word.
â Attention - Being in the centre of the spotlight is all that she could ever ask for.
â Freedom - She likes to do what she wants, when she wants, where she wants.
â Flirting - A lioness has to mate some time.
Dislikes:
â Seafood - The first and last time she ate fish, she choked on a bone that almost killed her. Besides, she finds that it smells and tastes funny.
â Captivity - She's spent most of her life trapped a
nd having been genetically combined with a wild lion, she despises it.
â Rules - She does what she wants, when she wants, with whom she wants, where she wants and nothing anyone can do can stop her.
â Hyenas - "You know what I hate about hyenas? Everything."
â Water - It is all she can do to bathe every day.
â Dogs - Not only does she loathe them, she also finds them... Mildly frightening, which only makes her hate them more.
Flaws:
⣠Can't swim - "I can float face down though!"
⣠Smells like a rose garden - "I'm a lioness! I'm meant to smell like... Wheat."
⣠Too much pride - She refuses to let others help her and she never admits to anything that she believes make her appear weak.
⣠Poor stamina - Although her endurance is superior to that of a human's, it's not as good as other felines or animals.
⣠Needs the company of others - Her animal half not being a solitary in nature and her human half being extroverted, Cadence does not like being alone. She works much better in groups or "prides" in a lion's world.
Talents:
†Deafening roar - Her notorious roar, capable of paralysing those who are unfortunate enough to hear it, can travel over a distance of 5 miles
†Superb night vision - 7 times better than a human's
†Binocular vision - Can judge nearly the exact distance between objects or predator and prey
†4 canines - She has two pairs of massive, retractable canines that can severe spinal cords and even rip through buildings
†Teeth for destruction - She has carnassials like a scissors for cutting flesh and crushing bone and incisors to gnaw at soft ends of bones and scrape off fibres and tendons.
†Crushing jaw - She is able to exert at least 900lbs of force per square inch, which is stronger that the biting force of two wolves combined.
†Superior hearing - She can hear prey a mile away, 5 times better than a human
†Retractable claws - Her claws extend to 7cm
†Heightened smell - Her sense of smell is so sharp that she can not only tell if prey is nearby, but also ascertain how long ago it was in the area
†Jumping - Cadence can leap up to 12 feet into the air, vertically, and 36 feet horizontally.
†Relatively fast - Although not as fast as tiger or cheetah hybrids, Cadence can run at a speed of 50mph.
†Immensely strong - She can carry up to three times her own weight and she can really pack a punch.
†Good climber - She can climb trees and such, although given the choice, she'd rather be on solid ground.
†Stealthy - Cadence is incredibly good at sneaking around unnoticed and surprising people to death.
†Skilled swordsman - She's been trained in the usage of swords and favours twin swords.
†Trained in martial arts - She's been trained in various forms of martial arts, including but not limited to muay thai, taekwondo and karate.
†Beautiful voice - In contrast to her deafening roars, Cadence has a feminine, almost adorable, breathless sounding voice. She's a gifted singer.
Fears: Mice; not belonging or never being part of a pride
Bio: Cadence's training mostly focused on attacking due to her animal's inborn aggression and having been practically built to kill with a human's intelligence and a lion's strengths. Her training, like the others, was brutal. She spent 16-20 hours a day being honed into a killing machine and was forced to carry out assassination missions, or rather mass murder. She would sometimes be forced to kill 30 people at a time. Her flaw is her very human conscience and she is haunted by the lives she's taken, so much so that she sometimes hates herself and believes killing the hybrids or at least her would be the right thing to do. She has, indeed, attempted suicide by leaping off of a tall building but due to her hybrid nature, survived.
Cadence has also been used as a spy due to her superior stealth. She much prefers spying to assassination.
[left]Sample Post: "Faster!" the human snarled, bringing his whip down over the hybrid's bare flesh. A deep crimson oozed from the gash as the half human, half animal girl pulled back her full lips in a snarl. Cadence considered ripping his arm off but decided against it, the repercussions weren't worth the fleeting satisfaction. Instead she pushed with her legs and leapt into the air, covering a distance that would've taken the best human athletes 30 seconds but took her only 2. Was this what she was reduced to? The lioness allowing herself to be tamed by a puny little thing? She could kill him in a heartbeat but that was wrong and they didn't know any better.
"Over there, get it," a voice boomed just as lights swept over the cold walls of the building. She'd heard the pounding of boots from a mile away, before they'd even realised they'd been infiltrated. It was her stupid assignment, a pathetic little politician she simply had to save and the stupid whip he stumbled across. He was loud, clumsy and annoying. Didn't he realise the deafening snap of a whip would alert the dead?
"Attack!" the politician yelled, bringing the whip down again but rather than hitting flesh, it was caught between the hybrid's large teeth. Cadence tugged at the rope and sent the politician stumbling into a wall.
"Shut up," she snarled through her extended teeth. "And stay down."
The man's eyes widened, as if surprised this beast understood what was happening, much less talk. Cadence rolled her incandescent eyes of liquid gold. Groups of men invaded the hallway from both sides, guns drawn. Their eyes widened at the sight of the scantily clad teenage girl. What was something so beautiful do-
Before their thoughts could be finished and their guns trained, Cadence lunged. Her jaws clamped around upper arms, legs, shoulders and waists, anything but the neck, where an instant death was highly likely. She swung them into one another, twisting their guns with the weight of her landings and slicing them open with her curved claws of death. Blood stained her ivory skin as the humans screamed. What was this thing? When she was done - it barely took time - she spun around to face her assignment. With her fingers resting on the ground, she stalked towards him, cocking her head to the side and grinning, flashing him her blood stained teeth.
"W-what are you?" the politician asked, scrambling back in fear. Cadence beamed wider.
"The Queen of the Jungle."
Cadence's ears twitched as the sound of the pitter patter of footsteps came closer. More trouble? She spun around and snatching her assignment, ducked around the corner. She held a finger to her lips and tapped her ear when the man opened his mouth to almost speak. She inhaled, trying to sniff out who or what was headed towards them. She smelled no gun powder.
This is making no sense, she thought, pressing her ear to the wall in an attempt to pick out the vibrations. How many were there? Suddenly, the footsteps stilled. Her brows furrowed in confusion, wh- She felt the pinch of a needle and then, a low breath in her ear.
"Hello, sister."
She sank into oblivion.
