Deidre Fia-Caileen Slapine

[Tigerkytti]

Quote:
Deidre Slapine
Cursed Were-Lion
~I Dunnae Ken How Thangs Got To Be Such A Burach.~
~These Burnin' Scars A'e Always Remindin' Me O' It...~
~...O' That Boggin' Nigh' Tha' Everythin' Changed.~
~T'is Bonnie Tha' Lyell An' I Still 'ave Each Other...~

Theme: Survive by Rise Against

Name: Deidre Fia-Caileen Slapine

Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Dei

Gender: Female

Age: 26

Birthdate: February 12, 1985

Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland

Race: Were-Lion

Nationality: Scottish

Languages Spoken: Irish and Scottish Gaelic, French, German, Japanese, English, Russian, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Latin and Feline (Cat Tongue)

Current Residence: Tokyo, Japan

Eye Color: Sea blue

Hair Color: Purple with blue highlights

Height: 5'4"

Weight: 107 lbs.

Distinguishing Markings(Tattoos, Piercings, etc): Her purple-blue hair and bright sea blue eyes are fairly unique and thus quite noticeable. She has 3 piercings per ear, and a tattoo of two hearts, each with a single wing and Bianca written in one and Roland in the other, her parents names. The tattoo is located at the base of her spine, a 'tramp stamp' but it anyone calls it that or insults it she will flip out on them. Like her brother she also has a pentagram shaped burn scar, although along with that she has a thin burn scar over the front of her throat.

Morality: Chaotic- Most of the time she's a gentle person who wouldn't think of harming anyone at all, but has a terrible temper when it comes to certain things. Say anything bad about her brother, deceased parents or cousins she'll flip out and try to attack the person viciously and will only stop when that person is not moving or she's pulled off and calmed down.

Disability: Has the temper and passion that runs through her family, although she doesn't get set off too easily unless someone manages to hit one of ther triggers. Otherwise she keeps her temper under a tight leash since if she loses her temper she loses control altogether, which is a very bad thing. That's because of another disability. In her older teen years she had been researching for a specific spell, and although she was fairly talented to begin with, the spell was one that was much more advanced then she had thought and it backfired on her. The result of the backfired spell would basically be that she was cursed to shift into a larger lion form with horns upon the full moon, whenever she may shift voluntarily or whenever she loses her temper. Besides being larger and horned, this cursed lion form robs her of control and she turns vicious, attacking all that may be near to her until she is either tired out, full from having fed, defeated by somone/something, the object of her anger is out of sight, or silver is used on her. Tranquilizers will also work. And like her brother, her accent is quite thick and she can be difficult to understand. Although she's willing to repeat herself, she doesn't take being teased or made fun of about it well.

Allergies: Wheat- altho it's a mild allergy, if she eats too many wheat products she will become sick to her stomach. Technically if she consumed enough it could kill her if her stomach wasn't pumped quickly enough, but it would be incredibly difficult to get her to eat enough for that to happen.

Blood Type: B+

Sexuality: Straight

Love Interest: None yet

Family: Lyell- brother, Hachi & Sean- cousins, Aunt, deceased parents

Class(es)/Occupation(s): Cat groomer, Scholar- She uses her natural ability to speak to cats to help with grooming cats, and she enjoys working with them. As for the rest of the time, she's spends most of her time doing research into magic or related subjects in order to find a way to reverse the backfired curse. It has made her knowledgeable, but she still has not had any success.

Abilities: As a were-lion from a special breed, she is able to shift to her lion form at will, except for on the full moon when she's forced into her lion form. But because of her backfired spell, she has to be locked up anytime she shifts so she doesn't harm anybody she cares about. She's also trained in various martial arts, taught by her parents and her brother, so although she's not as skilled as he is at fighting she can certainly hold her own. Also she's able to pick locks quite well, except perhaps highly specialized locks. She can play the bagpipes and the flute well, but she can play the harp and piano beautifully, perhaps due to her slender and nimble fingers. Deidre's specialty however lies in magic, something that she picked up from one of her parents but since it turned out that she had an uncanny natural talent for magic she quickly began to master more advanced techniques and spells.

Weapons: Fists, feet, claws, teeth, magic, and a special silver dagger she carries. The dagger is kept in a special sheath, spelled to drop from her body if she begins to shift to her lion form so that if needed it can be used on her.

Other Important Items/Equipment: A choker that she wears around her neck to cover the thin burn scar, she never takes it off except when sleeping or bathing and that her brother gave her after she gained the scar. A pure gold bracelet given to her by her parents for one of her birthdays.

Biography:

On February 12th, 1985, Bianca and Roland Slapine welcomed their first child into the world in the early morning hours. The baby girl was easily seen to be healthy and well as she greeted the day with her wailing cries. Although when placed into her mother's arms she began to quiet down, her parent's beaming proudly at the birth of their daughter. After a rather heated discussion, she would be named, Deidre Fia-Caileen Slapine, gaining her father's last name.

For the first year of her life, she would be an only child, happily spoiled by her parents. That would change however when a few short months after her birth, her mother would be pregnant again, with her younger brother. Instead of being jealous like many children might have, Deidre would be happpy to get a sibling... especially when it turned out that her baby brother was born 2 days after her birthday. From the start the two of them got along great, and were very close, and she'd always consider him her best friend. Perhaps because of that, she would be very protective of him.

When they became of age, and their parents began to teach them to fight in the various forms side by side. And although she would be initially jealous about the fact her younger brother was naturally talented with fighting she would eventually get over it and encouraged him. Despite not having Lyell's natural inclination, Deidre was far from bad at fighting, able to hold her own against most.

Like she was protective of her brother, she would become protective of her cousins when she met them. However she'd leave most of the physical fighting to Lyell, while she dealt with anything behind the scenes if necessary. Not to say that she wouldn't jump in if she felt the need to and gave a good ass kicking to the one that deserved it. And that would turn out to be Sean quite often as he bullied his brother Hachi...

Growing up, Deidre would take an interest in magic and the mystical side of things, especially when she discovered that she had a natural talent for it. And she'd delve right into everything she could find on it, researching and reading, experimenting and practicing. Because she played it safe usually, she also had very few backfires or accidents. However, her good track record would become ruined when she was 18... She had found out about a spell that she'd been excited about and not taking the proper precautions for once she would try it out with disastrous affects. The spell had been too advanced for her at the time and because of one little mistake it would backfire on her, leaving Deidre essentially cursed. Before the backfired spell she was like the rest of her family, able to shift to her lion form at any time. However, because of the spell her lion form was changed, becoming almost demonic in appearance as it was at least twice the normal size and possessed two sets of horns. And once she was cursed, she'd become unable to shift at will, unless she wanted to have to struggle and often lose the battle against her lion's beastial nature. Of course she was still forced to shift on the night of the full moon, and along with that, from then off, if she were to lose her temper, Deidre would be forced into shifting and would possess no control over herself. Because of the changes to her lion form, she has to be locked up even better then before to make sure she harmed no one, and the rest of the time, the only ways to get her to shift back is to make her tired, put her to sleep (including with tranquilizers), feeding her until wieghed down and full, defeated in battle, have her temper calmed or if she has silver used on her. Deidre has been very ashamed of the result of the spell backfiring especially since she almost got to Lyell, and would have tried to kill him, if he hadn't been able to knock her out. So, since then most of the magic she looks into now is about how to fix the backfire, without luck so far.

Besides fighting and magic, Deidre was also a musician, like Lyell. Although while he was into the flute, harmonica and piano, she would find herself more drawn to the harp, piano, bagpipes and flute. While she was competent with the flute and bagpipes, she was talented when it came to the piano and the harp.

When her brother Lyell would leave to be with a male kitsune, she'd initally be happy for him despite missing having him around more often. However, it wouldn't take long before she saw the true nature of the man that her brother was in love with... and although she tried to get him to see the truth he was blinded by his love for him. During this time she actually would become quite depressed and retreated into herself, really only spending time with cats. It would be during this time that she would come to find her interest in grooming cats, a job that while not high paying or exciting was one that she found peace in. And that was something she badly needed, almost always having to battle the more vicious side of her.

It would actually be because of the backfire, Deidre had stopped dating since, so she wouldn't have anything like that to distract her or give her comfort of any kind.

When Lyell would finally find out the true nature of the kitsune and came to live with her, she'd welcome him openly and since then the two of them have always shared an apartment.

Shortly after she turned 26, disaster would strike their family hard. Having gone to their parent's to have a family night and watch movies until late, the two of them would end up spending the night. Unfortunately that would be the last time that they would have fun as a family, because that night while everyone slept, people broke into the house. Deidre would be woken up as they stormed their rooms, but before she was able to do anything she had a silver pentagram pressed into her skin to try and keep her docile. But of course she wouldn't give up easily as she tried to pull away, but whoever it was had a silver chain, thin but still effective that they would use to wrap around her neck, sort of like a choke chain collar. Rendered helpless, and with silver burning into her throat, she would pass out as breathing became more difficult... She would only survive because of their parents paying the ultimate price to protect her and Lyell... So, when she came to, it would be to find out that they'd been killed...

Normally Deidre had always been a forgiving type, but of course those that had killed her parents would find no mercy from her and along with Lyell they tracked down the killers. And although the two of them wouldn't get the opportunity to deal the killing blow to those they pursued, the killers would still die when their car was hit as they fled the siblings wrath. And when Lyell called it fate, she would agree. Karma had paid them back.

With nothing really left for them in Glasgow, they would decide then to move to Japan to be closer to the only other family that they had left, their aunt and younger cousins. Although it hasn't been easy so far, they are determined to find them.