Background/Profile
Character: Horikita Maki
Journal: demureshift
Band/Solo/Ethnicity: Actress/Japanese
Race: Werewolf
Occupation: Librarian/Archivist at the New York Public Library.
Character History:
Maki grew up in a little town in Maine with her parents. She is an only child, and her parents have always loved and supported her.
When Maki was 7 years old she was out in the tree house in the woods behind their old house when she was attacked by a local werewolf. She almost didn't survive. Her father found her and she was rushed to the hospital. Her parents stayed by her side through her recovery, and the doctors, understanding the affliction she was cursed with, helped Maki's parents begin trying to raise their werewolf daughter.
As supportive and dedicated as her parents were, once a month for ten years, Maki would terrify them. Her father designed a wolf-proof room in their basement. Heavy duty locks in a room lined floor, walls, and ceiling with cushions. A grown werewolf would have broken free, but it held Maki, until as she grew older it became clear that it wouldn't forever.
After having words with her doctors, her parents decided to do what was best for their daughter, as difficult as it was for them to accept. They let her go. At the age of 17, Maki graduated early from high school (always a very intelligent young lady, she was allowed to skip a grade), and her parents sent her off to live in New York. After years of communication with experts on the subject, her parents had discovered that there was a small team of doctors living in New York City that while working to discover ways of easing the transformation for werewolves, had created a sanctuary, a place for wolves to change monthly where they would be safely restrained. Both Maki and her parents (perhaps unwisely) trust these authorities completely.
With that in her court, Maki began her college life. For four years Maki has been working on getting her degree in Library Science at New York University, and is currently chasing her Masters, specializing in rare books and special collections, and doing her internship at the New York Public Library. Juggling college life and her 'condition' is not something Maki takes lightly. She is overly serious for a twenty-one year old, and doesn't take advantage of a lot of 'fun' opportunities.
Spending her first four years in New York living on the NYU campus, Maki has only just recently moved off-campus, to a fifth floor studio apartment on E 5th St. It's tiny and cramped but at least she has relative privacy, something as a werewolf she felt lacking in the on-campus housing. Maki is no-nonsense, she had to learn to be. While she has come to terms with the horrors of who she is, she is still deeply insecure about it, and tries to avoid being found out. It's much easier for her to keep her head down and try to stay out of trouble. Maki is quiet and timid, but she has developed a sarcastic wit over the years to combat her own insecurities, and that works pretty well for her. Not that she doesn't have her pleasures, Maki's guilty pleasures include: ice cream, wine, hip-hop music, and the TLC channel. She has few acquaintances, and even fewer friends, and deep down she feels completely alone in such a large city.
RP Sample: Maki pulled the curtains closed in her tiny apartment and dropped her towel. The large mirror over the pull-out couch reflected her milk-pale back, criss-crossed with the long claw marks she had had since she was seven years old. Digging through her small dresser for clothes, Maki glanced over her shoulder and caught sight of the scarring. After all this time, the sight still made her grimace. She dressed slowly, and her body ached with every slight move.
Recovery was never an easy thing. The previous two nights she was locked up in one of the restraint rooms at the Lycanthropy Institute of Werewolf Studies. It was good to be home, to shower, to feel somehow human again. It would be another day or two before the pain really dissipated. Her senses were still driving her crazy. She could hear every little sound in the surrounding apartments, and the scent of every meal being made within two blocks. She would need to eat soon, felt weak from the lack of a solid meal, but the smells made her nauseous, only adding to the difficulty it took to put on her clothes.
After half an hour, she was properly dressed, and after a look at the pitiful state of her refrigerator, Maki resigned herself to going out to the market for ingredients. If she hurried, she could be back in time for the Kate Plus 8 marathon scheduled to start at 2. It didn't make up for everything she'd had to go through in the past 48 hours, but it was a start.
Journal: demureshift
Band/Solo/Ethnicity: Actress/Japanese
Race: Werewolf
Occupation: Librarian/Archivist at the New York Public Library.
Character History:
Maki grew up in a little town in Maine with her parents. She is an only child, and her parents have always loved and supported her.
When Maki was 7 years old she was out in the tree house in the woods behind their old house when she was attacked by a local werewolf. She almost didn't survive. Her father found her and she was rushed to the hospital. Her parents stayed by her side through her recovery, and the doctors, understanding the affliction she was cursed with, helped Maki's parents begin trying to raise their werewolf daughter.
As supportive and dedicated as her parents were, once a month for ten years, Maki would terrify them. Her father designed a wolf-proof room in their basement. Heavy duty locks in a room lined floor, walls, and ceiling with cushions. A grown werewolf would have broken free, but it held Maki, until as she grew older it became clear that it wouldn't forever.
After having words with her doctors, her parents decided to do what was best for their daughter, as difficult as it was for them to accept. They let her go. At the age of 17, Maki graduated early from high school (always a very intelligent young lady, she was allowed to skip a grade), and her parents sent her off to live in New York. After years of communication with experts on the subject, her parents had discovered that there was a small team of doctors living in New York City that while working to discover ways of easing the transformation for werewolves, had created a sanctuary, a place for wolves to change monthly where they would be safely restrained. Both Maki and her parents (perhaps unwisely) trust these authorities completely.
With that in her court, Maki began her college life. For four years Maki has been working on getting her degree in Library Science at New York University, and is currently chasing her Masters, specializing in rare books and special collections, and doing her internship at the New York Public Library. Juggling college life and her 'condition' is not something Maki takes lightly. She is overly serious for a twenty-one year old, and doesn't take advantage of a lot of 'fun' opportunities.
Spending her first four years in New York living on the NYU campus, Maki has only just recently moved off-campus, to a fifth floor studio apartment on E 5th St. It's tiny and cramped but at least she has relative privacy, something as a werewolf she felt lacking in the on-campus housing. Maki is no-nonsense, she had to learn to be. While she has come to terms with the horrors of who she is, she is still deeply insecure about it, and tries to avoid being found out. It's much easier for her to keep her head down and try to stay out of trouble. Maki is quiet and timid, but she has developed a sarcastic wit over the years to combat her own insecurities, and that works pretty well for her. Not that she doesn't have her pleasures, Maki's guilty pleasures include: ice cream, wine, hip-hop music, and the TLC channel. She has few acquaintances, and even fewer friends, and deep down she feels completely alone in such a large city.
RP Sample: Maki pulled the curtains closed in her tiny apartment and dropped her towel. The large mirror over the pull-out couch reflected her milk-pale back, criss-crossed with the long claw marks she had had since she was seven years old. Digging through her small dresser for clothes, Maki glanced over her shoulder and caught sight of the scarring. After all this time, the sight still made her grimace. She dressed slowly, and her body ached with every slight move.
Recovery was never an easy thing. The previous two nights she was locked up in one of the restraint rooms at the Lycanthropy Institute of Werewolf Studies. It was good to be home, to shower, to feel somehow human again. It would be another day or two before the pain really dissipated. Her senses were still driving her crazy. She could hear every little sound in the surrounding apartments, and the scent of every meal being made within two blocks. She would need to eat soon, felt weak from the lack of a solid meal, but the smells made her nauseous, only adding to the difficulty it took to put on her clothes.
After half an hour, she was properly dressed, and after a look at the pitiful state of her refrigerator, Maki resigned herself to going out to the market for ingredients. If she hurried, she could be back in time for the Kate Plus 8 marathon scheduled to start at 2. It didn't make up for everything she'd had to go through in the past 48 hours, but it was a start.