Mika Strauss

[Mika Strauss]

Mika Strauss

....the mask

Your Name:Spice
Where did you find us?: Google
How long have you been roleplaying?:On and off for 4-5yr
Password: [admin edit!]

...basic character information

Birth Name: Mika Lyn Strauss
Nickname: Mik (M-ick)
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Grade: Senior
Birth date: Aug 13th
Program: Bachelor of Science
Major: Forensic Science
Major Explanation:Mika's mother was brutally murdered when Mika was only 14, and ever since she swore she would track down the shifter who killed her and kill them to avenge her mother. As a forensic scientist Mika would be able learn to look and figure things out, and be able to track down criminals from what they leave behind just like how a leopard stalks its prey and hunts.
Animal Identity:Leopard

...personality

Likes:(at least 10)

• Obsessed with the color hot pink (though sometimes she has to deal with light pink)
  
• Loves the outdoors
  
• Enjoys hunting on her family property (go figure)
  
• french fries are her favorite food ever
  
• No tree she wont try and climb
  
• Archery (with a real bow and arrow)
  
• Anything shiny
  
• Random adventures
  
• Music (mostly alternative, punk, and old pop fills the space on her ipod)
  
• Reading (as long as its not school related)
  
• Being silly
  
• Family memories
  

Dislikes: (at least 10)

• Seafood of any kind especially sushi
  
• Dogs (the little they are the more annoying they are)
  
• Gardening (she has a brown thumb)
  
• Tanning beds (there's sunshine outside that does it better)
  
• Healthy food (vegetables are the devil)
  
• Smelly candles (the smell fogs her senses)
  
• Politics
  
• Tennis
  
• Doing dishes (hates using them in the first place)
  
• Rainy days (they force her to stay indoors which is torture)
  
• Ticks and fleas (always trying to make a home in her fur and drink her blood)
  

Fears: (At least 3)

• Spiders (creepy crawls that need to be extinct)
  
• Getting to close to someone
  
• Claustrophobic
  
• Being stuck in a human body forever
  

Strengths: (At least 3)

• Determination (very strong willed)
  
• Hearts in the right place
  
• Quick learner
  
• Mentally stable
  
• Good at problem solving
  
• Quick thinker
  
• Doesnt care what people think
  
• Enjoys pain (no pain no gain)
  
• Senses and reflexes (Cat like to the tee)
  

Weaknesses: (At least 3)

• Loner
  
• Doesn't trust easily
  
• Suspicious of people's motives (everyone is out for themselves in her mind)
  
• Bitter honesty
  
• Not the fastest runner (not the slowest either though, she wishes she was faster)
  

Overall:
Mika is very much a loner. She is anti-social, quiet, and very mysterious. She easily could blend in with the walls at a party, but she would never go to a party in the first place. She prefers to be on her own and do her own thing without having to check with someone else before doing it. Her family is important to her deep down but she doesn’t show it very often anymore. Her mother’s death had a big impact on, and she hasn’t been quite the same since. Mika has a very strong drive to win. She determined and fierce in competition, and has no problem dipping into her animal instincts if it will give her an edge.
Mika grew up hunting on her family’s 200 acre property in TN when she was little. She is very skilled with an actual bow and arrow, as well as an array of gun from hand to a long rifle. She has spent many weekends at different hunting resorts with her dad. The outdoors has always been Mika’s favorite place to be. She enjoys your average sports like hiking, mountain biking, swimming, and camping, along with a few more difficult ones like rock climbing, cliff diving, and white water rafting. Mika has a very thrill seeking addiction; there is not a place to high, or a place to deep that she won’t try to explore. Sooner or later curiosity will kill this cat, just not sure on that exact date.
When Mika’s mother first died, she was under a lot of tension. She’s learned to loosen up a little bit since but she can be very uptight sometimes, and some consider her a bitch. Her mind and mouth seem to run on the same frequency and if she is thinking it you are hearing it, she can be a bit brutally honest as she holds nothing back. If she doesn’t like you she will tell you, so don’t worry your little head off about it. Mika’s parents raised her to be cautious about the world around her and especially the people in it. With this she has a extremely difficult time trusting someone, and she is always trying to figure out peoples motives for doing something. Mika believes that everyone is only out for themselves, and will stab you in the back in a heartbeat if it gets them somewhat closer to their goal.

...appearance

Celebrity Play By:Jenna Dewan
Appearance: [400 words minimum]
Mika is a naturally beautiful young women, even though she will never admit it. She stands about 5 feet 3 inches, and weighs just about 120lbs on a bad day. She may not be very tall but she makes up for it in other places. She has an athletic build, minus the fact that she was gifted with 36C’s which shed love to give away. Her stomach has a nicely defined 6 pack, and her legs and arms are well defined as well from all her physical exercise. She has a high metabolism so she is frequently eating without suffering later on. She has long wavy brown hair that falls down to about mid-back on her. Her green eyes sometimes shift to a mixture of hazel and green depending on her mood.
Some would call her sense of style alternative. She has her left ear pierced from all the way up, and her right ear only has 4 holes in it. The first one or two is usually a gaged half hoop with pink balls, and the rest are diamonds or stainless steel studs as she is allergic to any kind of fake jewelry. She isn’t much into wearing jewelry besides on her ears but she always wears a gold hook bracelet that use to be her moms. Make-up is a waste of time to Mika so you will rarely find her “made up” as some call it. At this time Mika only has two tattoos but she has many more planned already. Upon her right wrist she has two small leopard paw prints that look like they are walking into her palm. Her second tattoo is a full back piece of a black rose that extends over her shoulders with two spiraling lines that intersect and stop just above her butt. She got the idea from one of her favorite book series “Kushiels Dart”.
In her feline forum Mika stands about 28 inches at the tip of her shoulders and tips the scale at about 140- 150 lbs. Her body is complete muscle, and her tale is a little longer then most leopards. The end of her tale is completely white like she dipped it into a paint can of white paint. Her spots are no different from any other leopard, but one thing that points her out in the crowd is her ears have no spots on them at all, not even a tad of black fur on the tuffs. Her eyes are golden just like her fur color, just with a tad more sparkle to them.
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...history

Parents:Marc Strauss, Ellie Strauss (deceased)
Siblings:Only child
[400 words minimum]
Mika was born in a small hunting cabin in the dense woods of TN, on a section of her family’s 200 acres. She was raised with a firm hand from her father and the loving touch of her mother. Before Mika turned 11 her parents sat her down and explained that they weren’t normal humans, and that she wasn’t either. In fact they weren’t even humans at all really but something called shifters. Her parents explained that this was a big secret and real humans feared them, and sometimes even hunted for sport like how they hunted deer, elk, and moose. Mika dreamed from 3 years hoping she got the shifter gene like her parents. She wondered what magnificent creature she would become. She imagined herself a fox like her mom, and a Gorilla like her dad but neither ever seemed to fit her.
Shortly after her 14th birthday she was at a hunting camp in the woods of Canada with her parents. It seemed no different than any other time they came up to the Etasko Lodge, the elite hunting lodge for shifters that was so well hidden from the human eyes that they could actually hunt as the true animal they were. Of course since Mika hadn’t shifted over yet she stuck to her bow and arrow and stalked the animals that had the orange tags on their ears. This way no one accidently shot another shifter. Accidents happen though and on night her parents went out hunting and Mika decided to stay behind. She regrets her choice every day. That night her mother was killed by a shifter, who had stalked her parents through the woods until they were able to separate them.
Her father carried her mother’s body back to the lodge. At the very sight Mika lost it. Her vision went hazy, her body started to feel really strange and then she felt snapping of her bones while things started to shift in her body. The next thing she knew she was closer to the ground and her vision had changed. She could see perfectly in the dark, and a sickly sweet smell filled the atmosphere around her. She had shifted finally. The emotional upset from her mother’s death triggered her inner animal finally. Her heart felt like someone had ripped it out of her chest and left her chest wide open. Her mother was gone, no more would she ever tuck her into bed, and whisper her sweet lullaby. Once she finally shifted back to a human her dad filled her in that this was no accident. On that day she swore that one day she would find the shifter and rip his or her throat out.

...connecting human to animal

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Mika is a very fierce young women, she won’t back down from a fight unless serious over powered and has a strong heart. She has a good head on her shoulders and curious about everything in the world. Her favorite sport is hunting, but any outside sport will do. All of these factors are very similar for a big cat, but her sense of adventure is what makes her a leopard at heart and in body.

...literacy

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The sun had begun to set, turning the sky into what seemed a western inspired viewed, with deep reds, oranges, purples, and a tad bit of yellow here and there. The breeze was swept across the land with a gentle touch tonight. The world seemed at peace from where Mika was sitting. If only things could stay this way. Ever since her mother’s death so much has changed. Her father and her never went off the property unless absolutely necessary. The fact that someone hunted her mother shook her father up worse than anything else ever could have. He was paranoid now and that drove Mika crazy. He was so protective and all Mika wanted to do was get away. The cabin reminded her to much of her mother, everything about it was her and that made forgetting impossible. Like she did every night Mika sat in her favorite tree watching the sunset thinking of all the adventures in the world she was missing out on.
Tonight went better then she expected though with her dad. She finally told him she wanted to leave and she thought she had the perfect place to go. Somewhere secluded and private, an academy on island just for young shifters. Of course her dad freaked and refused at first but then as she begged and pleaded him he finally caved in. In only a few days she would be on a flight leaving her home and headed off to start her new life. She couldn’t wait, her stomach did flips she was so excited. She was going to major in Forensic sciences, ever since her mother did she wanted to become a forensic investigator. She could make a difference and being a shifter she could tell if one was involved, which would be a big advantage for her.
The sun had finally disappeared from the sky, and the beautiful portrait of colors was swapped out for a black canvas with shinning specks lighting up the world. Closing her eyes and inhaling deeply she thought of all the things she would miss, the expanse of woods, the smell of things so wild and untouched. The sound of the creek as the water splashed off of the rocks, or when the fishes jumped out of the water trying to beat the current. This place was so untouched by the world, she would miss it. This move wasn’t permanent though, she would return someday. This place is where she will raise her kids with the same firm hand of her dad, and gentle touch of her mother. She was ready though to see what the world held. Slipping down from the branches grasps with uncanny agility her feet hit the solid ground with a thud. No sooner had her feet hit the floor, and she was off in a full run. She was running to her new life and leaving the painful memories behind.
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