Victoria Caborn

[V.K Caborn]

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The Basics

Name: Victoria Kadie Caborn.
Nicknames:
Vicky - A play on her first name.
K.K - A play on her first middle name and her 'cat' form.
V.K - What she prefers to be called. A play on her first and first middle name.
Call her kitty or kitten and she will scratch your face. KitKat is acceptable.
Age:
16
Orientation: Bisexual. (She is also genderfluid, choosing V.K to be her preferred name since it sounded like a unisex nickname.)
Desired Rank/Job: Student.
Powers:
Animal Communication:
Limited to felines. Side-effects could include temporary loss of human communication skills and occasional animal habits.

Shapeshifting: Ability to shift into small wildcats (current forms are a serval, a carcal and a small snow leopard; however the later is a bit temperamental). Shifting is extremely painful and difficult to sustain when untrained. Side effects include pain while shifting, fatigue and specific side effects based on the types of shifting one does (Victoria tends to stare at moving objects, sleeps more often, eats more but tends to avoid most vegetables and fruit).

Play By: Chloe Mortez

The Details

Hair Color:
Her natural hair colour is a dark black-brown and is showing through her original dyed blonde hair.
Eye Color:
A dark storm-grey. (They turn to a natural-hazel colour in beast form)
Any Piercings?
No.
Any Tattoos?
No.
Any Scars?
Small but noticeable criss-cross scars across her hands.
General Appearance: V.K has short hair she has recently cut into a pixie-cut style; it is slowly fading to a dark black-brown. Her eyes are a little on the large side and are a dark grey, bright silver when she is a cat. V.K can be commonly seen wearing a black hoodie, with a large hood which covers the top-half of her face, with a white zip, brown khaki shorts and black leggings. An odd look but she pulls it off. She also wears army boots. Underneath her hoodie, she usually wears a flannel shirt or a white polo.
Personality: V.K is a bit odd. As well as being gender-fluid, she tends to be a bit unpredictable. If you are a stranger, you rarely have any clue whether she will act hostile and hiss at you or if she'll greet you with her usual grin. It is commonly the later, depending on the situation. Despite her cat's solitary nature, when in beast form V.K will happily crawl onto her friends nap for a snooze. She fails to understand the concept of personal space; enjoying hugs and wrestling with almost-strangers and close friends. She finds it hard to pay attention in certain classes, depending on how boring they are. V.K also loves puns, the more cat-like the better. When in an argument or being confronted, V.K tends to give back-handed compliments (EX: "You are so beautiful you make me want to puke.") or she'll revert to an aggressive snarling. Her favourite past-time is to simply sleep in a patch of sun, though she might go for a wander every so often.

Your Vices

Likes: 
-Getting petted. Don't judge, it feels like a massage.
-Warmth.
-Sleep.
-Rough-housing.
Dislikes:
-Sharp things with points.
-Unnecessary aggression.
-Water. Anything larger than a swimming pool is a no go.
-Clothes that don't feel right. If you force her to wear something that she hates the feel of, it affects her badly. From whimpering to hissing to vomiting. (This is an actual thing; I sadly suffer from it.)
Strengths:
-Climbing.
-Wrestling.
-Physical Education. Her favourite lesson.
-Amusing herself. Whilst this might not be a strength of sorts, it does come in useful.
Weaknesses: 
-Logical thinking. V.K tends to let her actions speak for her.
-Ignoring aggressive people.
-Physics; science lessons are not her favourite.
-Getting down from places she's climbed.
Fears:
-Loud noises. (such as car horns, barking, screaming, etc...)
-Large dogs. She can chase the small ones.
-Being mistaken for an actual cat. Pounds are not fun.
-Surprises.
Secret: When V.K first shifted, it wasn't exactly predicted. It had started with small things, hissing, eating more, sleeping often. During this first shift, V.K panicked and bit off two of her brother's fingers. She's felt really guilty about it ever since.
Also, let's just say that the scratches on the sofa weren't from the family cat.

Family Ties

Father:
Ryan Caborn.
Mother:
Cathy Caborn. (Maiden name was Emmett.)
Siblings:
Peter Caborn; twelve years. Sarah Caborn; doctor for metas.
Any Other Important People:A cat called Balthazar, a dog named Cerberus and a snake called Biscuit.

History

Victoria, who preferred to be known as V.K, was an ordinary child who lived in England. Her family were neither poor or rich but they owned a large house with untamed forests within their grounds. Some people paid them to let them hunt the game that lived in the forests but only to a certain distance. V.K and her brother Peter would spend several hours a day exploring these forests. They built a pretty decent tree-house in the gnarled branches of a huge oak tree next to a brook. This was also where V.K had her first transformation.

Her earlier years were peaceful, she was the second-born child, her older sister living abroad in the US, until she was six when her parents announced the arrival of her younger brother called Peter. As expected, V.K was a bit sceptical of having some other kid around since she was used to being the only child in the house. Thankfully, when Peter was born she dropped her childish worries and continuously wanted to help with him; badgering her mother and father for tasks. Her older sister, called Sarah, worked in the US for the medical care of certain metas that would be difficult to treat in hospitals and so she rarely had time to come home to spend time with the family. Sarah would try to write to them often, sending one or two letters to them each week. V.K loved to hear about the different powers meta-humans could have, despite her ignorance of her own abilities.

School was boring to say the least. She exceeded rapidly in P.E, though this was presumed to be because of her active nature rather than any link to her power, but struggled in science; particularly chemistry and physics. Her love for rough-housing got her into quite the few fights and a lot of trouble, thankfully when Peter grew older he caught onto this wrestling streak. Instead of fighting with the other kids at her school, V.K began to tumble around with her brother more and more until he was the only one she actually spent time with. They argued over stupid things, all siblings do, but they always silently forgave each other in the end; usually after a fight that has to be stopped by their parents. However with her brother being her only child-to-child interaction, V.K began to lack in personal space since she was always so close to her brother; they did live in the same house after all. Other children saw her as strange since V.K spent most of her time in the thick forests rather than on the internet; at her current age she is still incredibly bad with computers, though she can play games on certain stations quite well.

Her first shift happened when she was fourteen, a few hours previous she had been having small episodes of odd behaviour. Hissing, nipping at certain moving items, staring at small objects for hours on end. Though her brother just thought it was his sister being weird again, V.K was a little on edge from the involuntary behaviour. However, when she and Peter were at the treehouse she was hit by a random burst of extreme pain which scorched up her abdomen and down her spine. Her brother stared in horror as his sister shifted in a serval before him. After a few moments of staring at her as V.K lay in an apparent unconscious heap, he reached forward with a quite mumble to check if she was okay. V.K herself was having a nervous breakdown as this was happening and when she felt fingers brush her fur she panicked. Whirling around, she sunk her fangs deep into whatever was touching her and crunched down hard with her eyes shut tight. Letting go of the fingers, she began to transform back. Another wave of pain passed over her and when she could open her eyes again; V.K saw Peter staring at her with large fearful eyes, clutching his bleeding hands with his two fingers lying severed on the floor.

They tried to keep this secret from their parents, both scared of what would happen to V.K. They blamed the bite wound on a badger but their parents wouldn't believe them. They figured out that V.K was a meta-human pretty quickly, merely within roughly two days. Both of them accepted her powers brilliantly, just as they had accepted her gender fluidity. V.K was both relieved and scared; it meant that she wasn't the only one but it also meant she would have to be sent abroad to attend a school for people like her. Her parents decided to send her to Hammel, since Victoria's language skills were limited and Sarah lived only an hour and a half away; so her sister could pop in to check on V.K every so often.

Since her power had manifested so suddenly, V.K was required to pack quickly since she had to be sent to Hammel within a few days at most. Peter helped her as much as he could when he got back, though V.K still couldn't look him in the eye despite him constantly saying 'I forgive you, I forgive you damnit.' Sarah took a quick flight over to England to keep an eye on her sister during the journey, to make sure no further changes were made. Before they left, Peter gave V.K a crudely made necklace out of some thick black string which was tied around a piece of wood. It was a fresh piece of wood in the shape of an oval, bark cut away on the flat faces of the wood to reveal the rings within; a small engraving of a badly-drawn paw and two straight lines down the middle of it could be seen on one of the faces. Peter told her that the wood was from the oak tree, the paw represented the serval she had transformed into and the two lines represented the fingers that she bit off. He put it around her neck, having to re-tie it again and again so that she could actually wear it, and told her not to forget him. With tears in her eyes, V.K and Peter hugged each other awkwardly before she left in the car.

At the school, V.K slept in the dorms but found it hard to concentrate during lessons. She would email her younger brother everyday, who had lost his fingers since it was too late to re-attach them, and this seemed to satisfy the amount of socialisation she wanted each day. In her free time, Victoria would practise on the school grounds her shifting abilities. It was the only thing she could truly concentrate on and she was getting quite used to it; her easiest form being the serval. She discovered two other forms; a small snow leopard and a caracal however she usually sticks with the serval because it is easier to handle. This leads to the current events which will happen during rp. 

Roleplay Example

Victoria, or V.K as she preferred to be known, was breathing lightly in a cross-legged sitting position on a long stretch of grass beneath a large tree; it's gnarled limbs reached for the sun hungrily. The girl had always found it easier to transform near trees, maybe it was something to do with her first transformation but she wasn't too sure. The sun beat down on her pleasantly, heating her through her black hoodie. V.K could hear the other children chattering back on the main grounds, but although she didn't mind social groups, she wanted to be alone.

Taking a deep breath, V.K furrowed her brow, closed her grey eyes and concentrated. Suddenly, a strike of pain stabbed her in the stomach; sending her into a hunch, her eyes still shut tightly with her breathing becoming laboured. Hissing in pain, V.K felt her limbs crack and reshape, the muscles felt like they melted and twisted themselves into impossible shapes as they reformed. The pain scraped down her spine like claws on a chalkboard as the spinal disks increased and burst out of her skin, rapidly growing fur and skin to cover the growing new sinew and flesh. Gritting her teeth, V.K felt them sharpen and crack around her jaw as the bones lengthened and reshaped like scorching pieces of molten metal. In the midst of the pain of her bones and muscles, V.K scarcely noticed the fur sprouting across her skin, her clothes becoming bigger around her, her ears growing larger and more pointed as they moved to the top of her head.

After a few moments, the feeling subsided. V.K opened an eye and saw only darkness. She began to panick before she realised she was just inside her hoodie. The girl must've shrunk inside of it during the transformation. Wriggling her way out, V.K stumbled slightly as she got used to the four paws. She gripped her hoodie with her claws and dragged out her phone using her paw-pad with difficulty, her tail flicking about in annoyance. In the black screen, she could see herself. A long-limbed, large serval stared back at her. It had a narrow face with ridiculously large ears, large almond-shaped nazel eyes were the only unusual thing about her cat form, a muscular body and a long whip-like tail that gently brushed the green grass that pushed against her paws. The markings along her sides were ebony spots with a few paint-brush stripes around her shoulders, ankles and tail. Grunting, she leaned down and nipped at the edge of her phone with newly formed sharp fangs. With a bit of luck, she bit down on the on button and her phone screen lit up. "12:34..." She thought. "I took four minutes." V.K would sigh, sounding more like a hiss from her cat self and sat down, beginning to concentrate on shifting back. "Time to try again."

What About You?

Name: Mad Hatter, Balthazar, Nyx or anything is fine.
Age: Teenage years.
Experience: This is my first time on this site however I have been apart of multiple roleplay sites before and I am still active on most of them.
How Did You Find Us? I believe it was an ad on the site echoesfromthepast.proboards.com/
Ready To Play? Well… are you? (No special word needed - this is just for fun.)

Yas. =D

[Admin!]

Good Start

Welcome to Hammel, Hatter! We love to have new members, and Tori looks like, when all is said and done, she will be a great addition to Hammel. However, she needs several edits before she can fit into the site lore.

The first edit has to do with her name (and I am using she/her for pronouns since you use them in the application. Please correct me if I should use different pronouns). Her name is Victoria, you have nicknames based on Victoria, and in the writing sample say that she prefers to go by Tori. Where does the name Kieran come from? If that is her preferred name, please put it somewhere in the rest of the application and explain that it is a chosen name that she prefers. Otherwise, please remove it from the header and the name section. Even if it is her preferred name, it should not be written as name/other name.

For her powers, first, please remove the section that you copied in shapeshifting about choosing one category including objects as that is general information for powers and unnecessary for her powers. Next, fatigue should also be a side effect. Lastly, while it is possible to combine shapeshifting into an animal type with communication with that animal type, that only includes communication, not control. So her secondary power should be "Feline Communication" with the description of communicating with felines, and without the references to control, or about it growing to other animal types with training (that applies only to characters whose only power is animal communication and control).

Next, for her eye color, wild cats in temperate zones have hazel eyes, and her animal forms would have normal eye color for those animals. So please change her eye color as a cat from silver to hazel or some other eye color that is naturally found in those animals in natural conditions.

The last edits have to do with her history. She is only 16 but you provide precious little information about her childhood prior to turning 14. You provide more information about her manifestation than you do about the entire first 14 years of her life, so please expand on her early years a bit.

For her manifestation, a manifestation incident like that would cause recruiters to arrive within a couple of days, not a few weeks. Her brother would have had to go to the hospital, and as soon as the hospital staff found out about what happened, they would have alerted Kocher to the situation. Please edit the recruitment period accordingly.

Lastly, because she is from England, she would have been sent to Kocher immediately; Hammel has no jurisdiction in Europe. English is one of the official languages in Switzerland, and she would receive instruction in English at Kocher; that would not be a reason to have her sent to Hammel. She would need a different reason to attend Hammel, and it would occur after she was sent to Kocher at first, due to the dire and unpredictable nature of her power.

Two possibilities are if she had some other family in the U.S. who could stop in on her, then she could transfer. Additionally, Hammel and Kocher do exchange programs sometimes, and so if she was signed up at an exchange program when she was 15, after getting her first year of instruction at Kocher, then she could have done a semester at Hammel, and if she liked it and did well, could have asked for transfer at that point.

When you've edited just bump this topic so staff can take another look!

[V.K Caborn]

I have edited it, taking into account the things you said. Please tell me if there is anything else I should change.

[Admin!]

Almost!

Thank you for the edits, Mad Hatter! V.K. is looking much better. She only needs one more edit.

Manifestation happens all at once with characters, and so she wouldn't start having the cat-like behaviors months before her first shift/manifestation. It should have all happened on the same day.

When you've edited just bump this topic so staff can take another look!

[V.K Caborn]

Edited, is there anything else?

[Admin!]

Accepted!

Thank you for cooperating with our application process. Don't forget to do your claims here and to have fun!