Name: Beau Geste Bellatroix

Nicknames: Skinwalker, Black Bella, Sanguine Witch

Age: Unknown

Height & Weight: 6'3", 1600lbs (Human form, but true weight)

Gender: Female

Race: "Skinwalker"

Additional Details: Her left eye is green, her right is purple, the purple eye has two rings around the pupil. This detail does not change between forms. Under her left eye is a star shaped birthmark.

Abilities:

Shapeshifting, able to reshape her bones and flesh at a whim, shrinking and growing, maxing out at 16ft, unless going for something particularly serpentine. Much is left to her interpretation, and she is known to take her own liberties in what a creature looks like "on her." She is known to mostly maintain some traits, like a striped tail, black/white/gray color schemes, a mane of lone black hair, retractable sharp barbs, and a habit of having more sharp teeth than necessary. Animals she turns into tend to be larger and "enhanced" compared to typical counterparts in this manner.

Assimilation, she is what she eats, or rather, what she eats have become her, accumulating into her body mass and adaptive shapeshifting abilities. This ability has long gone into dormancy however, as her wilder tendencies have decayed in favor of reasoning.

Miasma, naturally, over time she'd also have adapted a venom cocktail of her own from the creatures she's consumed, magical in nature, like a curse, it doesn't always have to be lethal, but it leaves an impression on those that survive. Like assimilation, this is rarely used and has withered some in its disuse.

Appearance:

In most forms she sports long stringy black hair, black lips, freckle-like spots, a pale face, black sclera, and a black nose, and a wide grin. Her common human form lacks much of her more bestial traits, a fairly tall woman at around 6'3", with a darker skin tone, save for a pale face, akin to the paint of a Lousiana witch doctor. Her second more used form is a humanoid creature with a long neck with the stringy black hair running down her back like a horse's mane, her mouth widened, ears pointed and three sets of fangs as an overbite, a very tall body at 8'5" with hair covering her arm like a sleeve and bony hairless clawed hands protruding from the "sleeves", and sports a long hairless tail striped in white-and-black with barbed fins. Her third common form is a transition of this form into a full beast, with large powerful jaws.

History/Bio:

She is a creature of legends, depicted differently over the years as a shaman, a witch, or a vengeful creature of nature, it is uncertain where the myth begins and truth begins, but she is living proof to there being some truth to the old stories. Referred to as a Skinwalker, for the uncanny ability to change into either a human or animal at will, she was depicted as a terrifying being who hunted both man and beast, all the while maintaining the guile akin to a human. She was feared by natives, like a boogeyman that stalked the night, and even today these legends hold.

In fact, upon her resurfacing in the Louisiana marshes, she made quite a stir, even with this more emboldened society. It was enough of a stir to alert hunters of her existence, and to trigger a hunt for her. When they finally cornered her, after her several attempts to elude their pursuit by shifting forms, what they encountered instead of a struggle was a being who was very intelligent and negotiable. Not ready to kill, as she put it, "unacceptable prey," nor was she ready to be killed herself, she surrendered to the hunters. She had a somewhat odd karmic system to her on what "acceptable prey" would be, and a definition of "monster" that seems to describe beings who are far removed from morality.

Her nature itself was found to be somewhat shifting, though generally calm and docile, with a confusingly intimidating sense of humor and hard to understand intentions bordering flirtation and an invitation to dinner, or well, to be dinner. Hopefully that is just poor wording on her part. She lacks some modern human concepts, like personal space, often standing closer than what would normally be considered acceptable. Because of her history, and lack of any denial to the allegations, her eventual inclusion as a hunter has been met with shaky acceptance. She remains under watch, as her abilities could easily prove dangerous if her gentler nature were to fade.

So far she has shown to have a strong aversion to fire, and a kind of maternal fondness for fledgling beings, including human children.