Marva May Allgood
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Name: Marva May Allgood
Birth Date: 23rd May, 1988
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: George Allgood, her senior by 13 years
Species: Therianthrope (Panthera leo, lion)
Height: 5'3"
Haircolor: Ash blonde
Eye color: Hazel
Weight: 147 lbs
Memorable marks: Out of many tiny scars, the one that stands out is on her left leg, about halfway up the back of her thigh. It's in the rough shape of a horseshoe.
Physical Description : Short, muscular, and broad-shouldered, Marva has what can kindly be described as a wrestler's build. Her eyes are wide- and deep-set, making her look like she suspects something horrid of whomever she's talking to. However, she has a pleasing smile (however rarely she cares to show it), and she's not unattractive, per se, even with a nose like a hatchet and sharp, sharp bones in her face.
Her blonde hair cropped short to her head, she often sports chunky, square-framed glasses and colorful bandanas. The rest of her wardrobe is more than a little bland, as she prizes function over form. She carries all her tension in her shoulders, and in heated arguments you can watch her anger dance across them in the flex and turn of her trapezius and deltoids. She has a tendency to stare, unblinking, for just a little too long. Her speech, usually slow and measured, will become wildly erratic and flow freely from her lips when she gets too angry to control herself. Her hands and feet are about two sizes too big for her body, but she is surprisingly graceful for this, and has a tendency to land on her feet.
In her lions form, she has patchy coloring, ranging from creamy beige to a deeper honey. Her ears are ragged and look chewed on. Her paws are about a half-size too big for the rest of her body, and tends to forget that the main bulk of her body lies behind her, leading to some deeply uncoordinated movement.
Personality: Though she is awkward around people, this girl can usually take care of her own self when she's out and about. She watches people more than she talks with them, and can very easily spend the entire evening just analyzing the situation and never jumping into it. Above all else, Marva values loyalty in her friends. She views betrayal as an unforgivable act, and will not hesitate to tell others as much. Because she spent her childhood with her brother as her only friend, she has some difficulty opening up to other people, and feels very uncomfortable in crowds. However, ever since landing a job in London, she's been working on getting over her fears of other people, recognizing that it will only hold her back. This has had mixed results.
Though she is comfortable in her own skin, one thing does weigh heavily on her mind: her sexuality. Her brother was understandably very protective of her before they settled down, and she rarely got close to anyone before they were up and moving again. Now that life's pace is slower for her, she finds herself immensely unsettled when she thinks about the sort of person she wants to bed. She may not talk about it every much, but she in very uncertain in her sexuality and is unsure how to proceed from there. On this subject, she feels that her brother would be much help
She is a fighter at heart, and hates to give up at anything. When she argues, she goes at it full force and it's very, very difficult for her to pull back and consider the situation when it gets out hand-- a sharp contrast to her measured, thoughtful way of dealing with people when she is calm. Her preferred method for working out her anger is to go to the gym and work out until she is simply too tired to hold onto her rage. Unlike her brother, who loves to transform into his lion's body, she feels uneasy being a lioness and tries not to transform even when her body is telling her to do so. She has some mastery over the lion when she is in that form, as most therians do, but fears losing control most of all.
Background: Her earliest memory was watching the world go by from her perch inside a train, beside her brother's warm bulk. Their parents were long gone by that point, and they were as good as dead to her strong-willed, fiercely stubborn older brother George. Marva never got to know them. Her brother, who was seventeen to her four, was never too clear on why mommy and daddy weren't around, and by the time Marva was old enough to ask, it hardly mattered anyway due to how busy they found themselves looking for food and the next train out of town. They traveled cross-country all over America, riding the trains when they could and walking when they got kicked off.
They were a pride of two, and elder brother took care to feed his little sister with whatever he in his lions form could catch. Along their journey, he also did his best in teaching is little sister to read (a huge success), do proper math (a near success), and not say the first thing that popped into her head (an utter failure, at least until she got into her teens). In her brother, Marva saw the limitations of their kind, and what the ability to change meant for the two of them. When her brothers hair started to turn prematurely grey, she was the one who suggested they settle down. By this time, she was a young woman of seventeen, and her first form-shift was barely behind her. It took some fighting (and more tears than either party would admit to later), but when all was said and done, her brother had agreed to slow life down and live in one place.
At this time, they had hopped a ship bound for the UK (for once paying for the trip), and George fell in love with the land at first sight. Their first months there were spent in the countryside, two lions roaming in relative freedom in the green springtime. These were some of the happiest days in Marva's life, and certainly the only time when she was truly at peace in her feline form. Eventually, however, everyone must heed the call of humanity, and with it the need for money. Three years later, they're no longer strangers in a strange land, and currently working opposing shifts at crappy jobs to cover the rent of the two-room flat they share in London. Marva is also enrolled in online courses to try and make up for her complete lack of schooling when she was younger. Though she's relatively content in her new life, she is ultimately still unfulfilled.
