Post by Ashley on Jun 21, 2010 10:29:20 GMT -5
Name: Ashley Stevens
Gender: HAS NO GENDER (genetic anomaly) I use the female pronoun
Age: 35
View: Outcast
Species: Killer Whale (Orca)
Description: In her orca form Ashley is 21 feet long and weighs a little less than five tons. Her back is black with a blue undertone. Her saddle patch is white instead of the customary silver or gray and it is shaped like a heart when viewed from above. Her dorsal fin is heavily nicked and scarred as is her fluke. Her left pelvic fin is an inch thinner than her right pelvic fin. Her underside is white like most killer whales, but it doesn’t cover as much of her underside as it should. Her eye patches are unsymmetrical, the left being almost triangular in shape and ht right being rather like a foot or paw print of some sort. She is missing two consecutive teeth in her upper jaw as the result of attacking a hunter who tried to spear ‘her’ calf Whistler. There is a seemingly permanent mark against the underside of her right flipper where Whistler snuggles most of the time. As an orca she also has mismatched eyes, one is blue, the other hazel.
As a human Ashley has short brown hair and no physical indicators to her gender. Her entire body is basically shaped with neither the hourglass figure of a woman or the more muscular physic of a man. Her eyes are brown in human form, and almond shaped. The lack of gonads and gender related hormones keeps her from growing extra hair or anything else. She rarely uses her human form because she’s far more at home in the sea as a dolphin. She has neither a womb, nor testicles. There is nothing but muscle to hold the place of most gender indicators in her body. She’s not bothered by her lack of gender, even though people often call her weird because of it.
Personality: Ashley isn’t really sure how to act around other people, and she’s even less sure how to explain her ‘gender’. She finds solace in the ocean and especially in the killer whales she affiliates with. She enjoys their gentle acceptance and their fierce protection. Ashley has a talent for noticing other shape shifters and is almost impossible to fool with a near paranormal talent for detecting lies. She is a supporter of Greenpeace when human and often chooses to become human to join animal rights protests and marches. She prefers her whale form to her human form and consequently rarely uses her human form. She feels guilt over her mother’s death and as such adopts orphaned or injured killer whales in an attempt to make things right. When her pod makes their summer migration south she often visits her father, hoping to make him understand her.
History: Thanks to a genetic anomaly Ashley was born with no gender. Her parents didn’t know what to make of their strange child, so they kept her away from society. They left her hidden in their southern California house. Ashley wasn’t allowed to go outside, wasn’t allowed to sit near windows, she wasn’t even allowed to play on a computer. They didn’t want the world to know she existed. They didn’t want to be strange. Ashley’s mother hung herself when Ashley was 8 years old, leaving a note explaining that it was her daughters fault she was no longer with the world.
Ashley’s father blamed her for his wife’s death and became an abusive alcoholic. He frequently beat his young child until social services learned about her. They removed her from her father’s house. No family would take her in. She was too weird for all of them. Ashley spent the next nine and a half years being shuffled form worker to worker. By the end of that she knew she was useless. She knew there was no point in being alive. When she was thirteen she became suicidal and tried several times to kill herself.
Finally she was moved north, to Alaska by the social workers who thought the extreme change in scenery would help her abused mind to heal.
They were correct, in a sense. It wasn’t the different scenery that healed her however. It was the whales. Every day she would sit at the edge of the cliffs, or on a beach, and watch whales and dolphins hunt and play and live their lives in the ocean. She was late in coming to her shape shifting, 23 in fact. It was triggered by seeing an orca calf orphaned when its albino mother was bullied to death by a bull that wanted to mate with her. Ashley, who had graduated from the University of Alaska with a degree in Marine Biology at the time jumped in the water to save the calf, and became a whale herself. She helped the calf survive, and secured herself a place in one of the local pods as well. As time passed she raised more calves, forming a pod of her own in sorts.
She bought a fishing trawler and renovated it to be a ‘house’. She never really lives there, leaving it anchored in the sea instead. She and her pod live in the waters around and under it, always happy to show off for people. Ashley and her pod of rescued calves are close as can be, and even if Ashley shifts to her human form the whales still know her and are friendly toward her. Once when Opal, the first calf she rescued, became ill as an adult she shifted into a human to get medicine from her boat. However, a swell knocked her overboard where a shark tried to eat her. Opal and the other whales chased the shark away and helped Ashley get back on the boat, proving their loyalty and love.
Now Ashley has another calf, her sixth, and she is raising Whistler as part of her ‘misfit’ pod. The pod consists of Opal, Dollie, Patter, Whitewash (an albino), Quicksilver, Lollipop (a crippled orca that joined the pod last winter), Ashely herself, and Whistler, the youngest calf in the group. Dollie, Patter, and Lollipop are all expecting their own calves and Opal often helps Ashley to lead and protect the lot of them. To whale watchers who come to see the pod Ashley is known as Ophelia. For Ashley they are the only family she has ever, or will ever, have.
Weapons and Equipment: Has a renovated fishing boat as a house, and keeps medical supplies, but that’s it. She lives as an Orca most of the time.
Gender: HAS NO GENDER (genetic anomaly) I use the female pronoun
Age: 35
View: Outcast
Species: Killer Whale (Orca)
Description: In her orca form Ashley is 21 feet long and weighs a little less than five tons. Her back is black with a blue undertone. Her saddle patch is white instead of the customary silver or gray and it is shaped like a heart when viewed from above. Her dorsal fin is heavily nicked and scarred as is her fluke. Her left pelvic fin is an inch thinner than her right pelvic fin. Her underside is white like most killer whales, but it doesn’t cover as much of her underside as it should. Her eye patches are unsymmetrical, the left being almost triangular in shape and ht right being rather like a foot or paw print of some sort. She is missing two consecutive teeth in her upper jaw as the result of attacking a hunter who tried to spear ‘her’ calf Whistler. There is a seemingly permanent mark against the underside of her right flipper where Whistler snuggles most of the time. As an orca she also has mismatched eyes, one is blue, the other hazel.
As a human Ashley has short brown hair and no physical indicators to her gender. Her entire body is basically shaped with neither the hourglass figure of a woman or the more muscular physic of a man. Her eyes are brown in human form, and almond shaped. The lack of gonads and gender related hormones keeps her from growing extra hair or anything else. She rarely uses her human form because she’s far more at home in the sea as a dolphin. She has neither a womb, nor testicles. There is nothing but muscle to hold the place of most gender indicators in her body. She’s not bothered by her lack of gender, even though people often call her weird because of it.
Personality: Ashley isn’t really sure how to act around other people, and she’s even less sure how to explain her ‘gender’. She finds solace in the ocean and especially in the killer whales she affiliates with. She enjoys their gentle acceptance and their fierce protection. Ashley has a talent for noticing other shape shifters and is almost impossible to fool with a near paranormal talent for detecting lies. She is a supporter of Greenpeace when human and often chooses to become human to join animal rights protests and marches. She prefers her whale form to her human form and consequently rarely uses her human form. She feels guilt over her mother’s death and as such adopts orphaned or injured killer whales in an attempt to make things right. When her pod makes their summer migration south she often visits her father, hoping to make him understand her.
History: Thanks to a genetic anomaly Ashley was born with no gender. Her parents didn’t know what to make of their strange child, so they kept her away from society. They left her hidden in their southern California house. Ashley wasn’t allowed to go outside, wasn’t allowed to sit near windows, she wasn’t even allowed to play on a computer. They didn’t want the world to know she existed. They didn’t want to be strange. Ashley’s mother hung herself when Ashley was 8 years old, leaving a note explaining that it was her daughters fault she was no longer with the world.
Ashley’s father blamed her for his wife’s death and became an abusive alcoholic. He frequently beat his young child until social services learned about her. They removed her from her father’s house. No family would take her in. She was too weird for all of them. Ashley spent the next nine and a half years being shuffled form worker to worker. By the end of that she knew she was useless. She knew there was no point in being alive. When she was thirteen she became suicidal and tried several times to kill herself.
Finally she was moved north, to Alaska by the social workers who thought the extreme change in scenery would help her abused mind to heal.
They were correct, in a sense. It wasn’t the different scenery that healed her however. It was the whales. Every day she would sit at the edge of the cliffs, or on a beach, and watch whales and dolphins hunt and play and live their lives in the ocean. She was late in coming to her shape shifting, 23 in fact. It was triggered by seeing an orca calf orphaned when its albino mother was bullied to death by a bull that wanted to mate with her. Ashley, who had graduated from the University of Alaska with a degree in Marine Biology at the time jumped in the water to save the calf, and became a whale herself. She helped the calf survive, and secured herself a place in one of the local pods as well. As time passed she raised more calves, forming a pod of her own in sorts.
She bought a fishing trawler and renovated it to be a ‘house’. She never really lives there, leaving it anchored in the sea instead. She and her pod live in the waters around and under it, always happy to show off for people. Ashley and her pod of rescued calves are close as can be, and even if Ashley shifts to her human form the whales still know her and are friendly toward her. Once when Opal, the first calf she rescued, became ill as an adult she shifted into a human to get medicine from her boat. However, a swell knocked her overboard where a shark tried to eat her. Opal and the other whales chased the shark away and helped Ashley get back on the boat, proving their loyalty and love.
Now Ashley has another calf, her sixth, and she is raising Whistler as part of her ‘misfit’ pod. The pod consists of Opal, Dollie, Patter, Whitewash (an albino), Quicksilver, Lollipop (a crippled orca that joined the pod last winter), Ashely herself, and Whistler, the youngest calf in the group. Dollie, Patter, and Lollipop are all expecting their own calves and Opal often helps Ashley to lead and protect the lot of them. To whale watchers who come to see the pod Ashley is known as Ophelia. For Ashley they are the only family she has ever, or will ever, have.
Weapons and Equipment: Has a renovated fishing boat as a house, and keeps medical supplies, but that’s it. She lives as an Orca most of the time.