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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shalimar" data-source="post: 1480862" data-attributes="member: 9600">Appearance:  Rachel has a trim athletic figure, not that you'd ever really think of her that way in what she wears, mostly hand me downs from the orphanage, actually, mostly boy's hand me downs, jeans, baseball caps, although she can be described as cute, she really is the girl next door.  She has reddish-brown hair that stays the same color even as a wolf, allowing her to pass for a dog, if she wants to.  Her eyes are a neutral gray, but they are generally warmed by her smile, though in either of her other forms, they can be scary if she wants them to be.   History:  Rachell, wasn't born into a loing family, her mother only knew her father as 'John', and she couldn't afford a kid, she dumped the baby off at an orphanage without so much as note on or a blanket, and she couldn't have cared less if Rachel froze before she was found.  Luckily she was, and since she was found on the steps of the orphanage, it wasn't so much of a stretch that she lived there for the first 18 years of her life, always surrounded by the same people, day in and day out.  Growing up, she was a C student, she just couldn't bring herself to care too much about schoolwork when she could be outside, playing sports. When she was 14 her powers first manifested in her sleep, in her dream she had been a wolf pup, hunting her first rabbit, and running about in circles.  When she awoke, she really was a wolf, and she was all tangled up in her covers.  Yelping like a puppy, she woke the orphanage who just thought she was a stray dog that she herself was hiding in the orphanage, something not too out of place for her.  As they searched, eventually she calmed down enough to revert, and she did so in private, keeping her secret.  She got in trouble for sneaking in the dog, but her secret was safe. From that day on, it was even harder for her to study, she wanted nothing more to go out and explore the world with her sharper senses, she played with children, chasing balls, catching frisbies, it was all just a lark and so exhilarating, but sh instinctively kept her elite status to herself.  Although she could be a half-wolf if she wanted, she stayed away from that form as much as she was able, thinking herself ugly in it, knowing that she would never fit in with it. During a Fieldt rip in her senior year to Jellystone national park, it started to snow and the temperture droped rapidly, stuck as she and the rest of the students were, she over heard that a little boy was lost out in the snow and if it got any colder, he could die.  She finally revealed her secret by shifting to her wolf-form and tracking the child down by his scent, gaining a bit of notoriety, not to mention a good deal of jokes about her being a total dog.</blockquote>

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