Maude & Pooka
P-NPC created by
Diana
Maude Etheridge
Age: 19
Height: 5'11
Weight: 125
Appearance: Maude manages to pull off the "tall skinny dancer" look despite
her habits. She has practically no butt, small firm boobs, and her long
legs and arms are definitely nice with her dancer's muscles. Her head is
full of rich deep brunette hair in tight curls just past her shoulders.
With her big bright emerald-hued eyes she makes awkward eye contact easy and
fun. Maude's lips are full and pouty. Her skin is naturally tanned, and
her legs bear the scars of her tough dancing methods. She never dresses in
anything appropriate for any occasion, usually underdressing and sometimes
overdressing. Her clothes are usually browns, greens, and reds, and
absolutely any type of garment as long as she can dance in it. She will
walk around in cold weather wearing cropped-off shirts or scandalously short
skirts. In the summer, she'll even don a pair of leather pants and
outrageous hats.
Personality: If you just saw her, you'd probably forget about her quickly.
However, when she opens her mouth anything and everything comes out. She's
blunt, often crude, loves to tease anybody or anything. Maude tests people
by how well they can hold up to her in conversation. If you get too easily
angered or you back out like a sissy, she won't waste time on you.
Everything about her is spontaneous, she tends to be incredibly
irresponsible. She'll do anything for a good time. It often becomes
dangerous because she has a short attention span combined with a creative
thirst for risk.
One thing Maude gets dead serious about is music and war. She likes songs
better than most people (and she'd tell you that to your face). While she
tends to be rebellious under certain people, when she's fighting for a high
cause Maude is dead loyal. She's openly bisexual and is willing to
experiment with almost anybody she takes a liking too, but she isn't known
for her long-term commitments.
Skills/Abilities: And the girl can sing! She has a clear, loud singing
voice that is incredibly on-key with almost any tune. She adores belting it
out anywhere she is, in company or not, and her songs match her moods. That
s actually the best way to figure out how to approach this woman, just
listen to the mood of her song. Her voice and the words of her songs
affects those that hear them, makes them think and all that uncomfortable
stuff. She also is a dancer, and she can and has danced any kind of dance
you can imagine. When her feet start moving they know what to do. Watching
her entrances others. When she dances and sings it's been known to move
anybody observing to tears.
For some reason, she can teach children with incredible ease in the subjects
she knows enough about. She makes the subject fascinating for them. As she
would say, "Kids ain't stupid. They know what's going on, and they won't
give you crap like adults do." Thus she befriends young ones easily, and
treats them as equals to herself.
Maude also has a green thumb, and she delights in growing various herbs. One particular herb she has found to be particularly delicious to dry, roll in paper and smoke. It has a pleasant odor and helps her relax. It's not addictive and does not affect her dancing performance. The herb used is the pupperito, so Maude calls her smokes puppies.
Weaknesses/Allergies: She has attention-deficit disorder, and it's improved
much since her childhood, but Maude still struggles with reading and long
periods doing the same task. Furthermore, nobody has really diagnosed it,
so she just thinks she's stupid and sticks to her music, which she
understands. She is also prone to bouts of depression, which has led to her
cutting herself once in a great while. Maude's not suicidal exactly. She
likes to see the blood to feel real.
History/Background: Maude's mother, Hazel, taught the children of nobles the art of dance. She quit after marrying Gonzo Etheridge, who was a knifemaker. Hazel began to have children and didn't stop until she was surrounded by nine of them. As Hazel taught herself to make garments to sell, and worked alongside her husband to make enough to feed the nine children, the raising of the children was rather random. Maude, who was number five, got lost in the
numbers and wound up raising herself. They lived in town and thus Maude
learned the ways of the street. She befriended odd sorts as her role models
and started habits like smoking, stealing, and lying rather early in life.
Mostly she felt lonely, even though she was always surrounded by people.
Her mother had taught her to dance, and Maude made that her passion,
searching out dancing information and employing her skills. When she was
fifteen she began dancing at an inn to attract customers.
Age sixteen rocked her world as her boyfriend of a month or so talked her
into sleeping with him. Then he explained to her that it was better if she
slept with his friend, too. Thus began's Maude's turbulent world of
sexuality. She began experimenting, messed around with men and women, and
then discovered that women could get paid to have sex. So Maude became a
prostitute when she wanted some easy cash. At eighteen she started dancing
in a men's tavern.
In the daytime, the other little street urchins that hung around would beg
her for dancing lessons. So the Maude Squad was formed, and Maude began to
see through the eager eyes of her pupils that there was hope. She had this
talent for a reason. At that point she started looking for a way out.
Family Summary:
Father: Gonzo Etheridge, the knifesmith
Mother: Hazel the seamstress
Brothers: Joel, Knapp, George, Percy
Sisters: Iris, Stella, Luna, Beatrice
Birth order: Iris, Joel and Knapp, George, Maude, Stella and Luna, Percy,
Beatrice
DRAGON: Pooka
Gender: Male
Color: Barbie pink with baby blue eyes.
Size: If you can get past his pinkness, you will notice he is very large
for a male.
Personality: Polar opposite of Maude in almost everything. Pooka is sweet,
giving, patient, and cheerful. Even if you're human, you feel this is a guy
you can talk to, with his big pretty blue eyes and little happy 'wuffing'
noises. He just seems to listen better than anybody. Pooka will make it so
the rest of the warren can stand to have Maude among them.
Physically, he's a bit pudgy, and slower than most. But this dragon is
very comforting, and called in to soothe everything from angsty pregnant
queens to fussy newborn humans. It's impossible to irritate him. Maude
loves him to pieces and brags about him to anyone who will listen.
(Sometimes that's only Pooka.)
He is very good at following orders in combat, even correcting his own
rider. By nature he favors negotiation over confrontation, except with
wraiths. Those he just likes to barbeque.
He is always very playful and entertaining to be around, and a perfect gentleman to boot. Pooka enjoys cow dinners at sunset and long walks under the stars. If you are looking for the dragon of your dreams, find him at Whiteriver Warren via dragoncom!
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