Finley

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Basic Information

Name: Finley
Gender: Female
Orientation: Asexual
Birthdate: August, Year 306
Breed(s): Flat-coated retriever x Doberman pinscher x Labrador retriever x English Cocker spaniel
Variant: Esper (nnT^Et)
Mutation: Twisted paw (Congenital)
Played by: Quirky Tea

Appearance

Height: 26.5 in (67 cm)
Build: Lean, leggy, feminine
Description:

Finley is black all over without a single white marking on her. Not a white toe, not a stray white hair on her chest. She’s fit and lean. She looks typical of a retriever, though her leanness and leggy build stems from the touch of Doberman in her blood and her longer coat is inherited from the spaniel in her.

Rather tall for a retriever mix, she stands at 26.5 inches at the withers. She has dark, rich brown eyes, which are often full of mirth. She has a cheery voice and smiles and laughs easily. On her crown, she has two crystalline horns. They are a soft pink color, like pink quartz, and have a gentle, pale pink glow. Her dark brown eyes flash gold when she's excited or intense.

Finley was born with a twisted leg, though it has been broken and set so that she can put weight upon it. Most of the time, she does move with only a slight hitch in her gait and can easily hide her limp despite her deformed foot. She's a capable battler if underestimated, but otherwise is at a disadvantage. She is reluctant to walk much during rainy or bad weather because it brings out the aches in her foot more. Finley can run, but it's a painful and clumsy endeavor.

Personality

Skills: "Silver-tongued", manipulating others, lying, polite manners and intelligent
Abilities: Perception, hypnosis
Description:

Finley is cheerful, polite, intelligent, and courteous. She’s full of natural curiosity, and easy to talk to. She enjoys learning much about others by being open and easy to trust. She is a great listener and conversationalist, picking interesting topics, reacting well to whatever the other dog says, and showing interested body language. Most dogs’ first impression of her is that she’s a polite lady, though the more intuitive dogs can pick up that there is something amiss.

And what is it? That she is unable to genuinely care about another dog. She sees dogs as far as their worth to her. She toys with the lives of other dogs and loves to pull the strings. Finley finds great joy in learning as much as she can about others to manipulate them later, to see their reactions.

She truly is that cheerful. She has little in life to make her worry. She lives with no regard to consequences other than finding answers to the strange questions that her curiosity generates. She performs experiments to satiate her natural curiosity, though her curiosity leads her to commit acts that range from morbid to Machiavellian to macabre. She has a dark sense of humor and truly finds joy in her work, especially if everything simply confirms her hypotheses.

Finley has a natural charisma about her and uses it well. She knows how to lie.  She knows the particular art of lying. She understands when to gesture, what words to emphasize, and how to capture her audience’s attention. She’s cultivated her charm and takes pride in it. And, in addition, she can hypnotize dogs receptive to her wiles. However, she rarely induces actions, preferring the sport of manipulating them with her silver-tongue.

When things don’t go her way, she can be petulant, like a child. She doesn’t go on kill streaks, truly it is her curiosity and experiments where she causes the most damage, but instead sulks. She hates being wrong. She hates when she guesses wrong, but is not afraid to be forward and can be outspoken about what she believes is exactly what’s going to happen. And, the moment passes rather quickly as she formulates a way to salvage the experiment.

She enjoys it especially when she has a subject to lecture to about her great discoveries. She merely wants a friend to lend an ear. And she thinks of her friends mostly as dogs to talk at. In fact she thinks of many of the unwitting subjects to her experiments as friends and regards them highly until they cease to be useful.

If she doesn't hide her deformed paw for a long time, oftentimes, she becomes slightly more caring and less callous, though her curiosity and manipulative tendencies remain.

History

Lineage:Father: Dagger | Lethal White Basal (Watch dog) | Flat-coated retriever x Doberman pinscher | deceased
Mother: Rebecca | Esper (Mutation - carrier) | Labrador retriever x English Cocker spaniel | deceased
Sibling(s): Virginia | Esper (Mutated) | deceased
Background:

Finley was born on a hot day in August. She was born first; her sister, last. Virginia looked normal and Finley had her twisted paw. The leg was once folded up, bent the wrong way, and just a nuisance, but at least it didn't hurt. A few trips to the Physicians of Ash River changed that. They broke her paw, set the bone, and cursed her with the constant pain and her paw still looked deformed. However, at least it was straight enough to be of some use. As she grew, her sister got attention because of her white paws and tan markings. Finley was just a black dog. Her sister was quite injury prone and always took a long time to heal due to how long it took her wounds to clot. Though the dogs didn't understand it--Finley's mutation was outward and obvious and Virginia's was internal.

The first ability that Finley developed was to change how others perceived her. She didn't want them to see the crooked paw. She made it so that she appeared normal to most dogs. Constantly engaging her abilities to this purpose twisted her personality. It erased her remorse and ability to love as other dogs do. And, it made her an efficient member of the pack. She became a premier researcher for their pack and honed her hypnosis abilities in order to be able to better control the test subjects and gain access to different areas of Canaria.

She enjoyed this time. Her sister gained a mate, grew pregnant with a litter of three, and died in whelping, leaving a few puppies. Fully into the role of a researcher, she used her niece and nephews as test subjects. They were torn into, put back together, and when her parents objected, Finley saw no reason to keep them alive and offered them up to the Alpha at the time--Carver--as creatures to kill.

She was sweet to them, apologetic, and forced the idea of forgiveness in their heads with a touch of her hypnosis. She soon molded them into willing beasts to slaughter, helped by the fact that, as her parents, they trusted her. Carver was impressed with her ruthlessness, her ability to detach emotion from her tasks, and her skill with manipulation. He promoted her to be his spy.

She operated as a spy for a year, journeying throughout Canaria to trick the odd dog into coming back to the Southlands to meet her Alpha and fed Carver's bloodlust with glee. She was interested in his insanity and wanted to see how far he could blow up. Eventually, she grew bored of this, missing the ability to just test her hypotheses and experiment on dogs, and switched back to researching, only to find that his bloodlust had diminished the pack's ability to gain knowledge.

Finley looked around and felt that Carver needed to be gone. She shrugged and decided to become Alpha simply so she could see Ash River as she believed it ought to be: A playground for her curiosity to be satisfied.

Accepted