So far Bear has only just clawed her way out of her basket, but soon she will be terrorising everyone 8D Here is a rough plan of stuff for the early part of her life:
Rough Plot ideas: I like the idea of having her 'learn' to be a skinwalker. She isn't going to be a perfect manipulator, not from the get-go, not even close. There will be mishap, and lots of failure. Her family isn't exactly going to teach her, so it's up to herself to learn. I want to follow this journey, from bumbling cub who just wants to maul blindly up to a devious and cunning manipulating grizzly.
Stalker: Bear follows other skinwalkers from the shadows, learning their various strategies to manipulate other soquili. Original ideas are not her forte, she instead skulks around and steals other people's ideas.
Getting Caught: I think it'd be cool if one skinwalker caught her stalking them. Queue world war three. A massive fight scene between the two of them would be super interesting to RP out. She'd probably get totally owned, but it would be a valuable lesson to her.
Testing Her Footing: Bear stops living in the shadows and tries to establish her own techniques, mostly modified from those she's been watching. I can imagine a few failed attempts, maybe some very close near misses. It would be interesting to see her struggle to manipulate others against the instinct to just rip her prey apart. She has to learn that it's not all about instant gratification, sometimes you have to work a bit to get the bigger reward.
Teach Me To Fight: Bear gets over her nature just long enough to fool a Soquili into training her properly. Maybe she convinces them she isn't really a skinwalker, or wears a disguise (idea stolen from her father, of course) so they won't be able to tell. They teach her her to fight, and once she believes she is ready she turns around and brutally mauls them. I like this idea, it forces her to battle with herself and learn a lot of discipline. But she's still doing it for perfectly selfish, evil reasons. It's survival. They teach her to survive, and she takes them out at the end.
Mating: Bear doesn't really get the whole mother-father thing. I doubt she'd understand how biology works. Her first mating would be a mash of crazy hormones, culminating in.... accidental cubs. She'd piece it together, realise what happened, and probably go after and try to murder the father. After all - how dare he do this to her? Would be interesting to see her interactions with her foals. This weird, almost macabre curiosity driving her to stick around to see the baskets pop. She'd force them to stay at a distance, growling them away if they
ever strayed even vaguely nearby. Eventually she would grow bored and shoo them away for good, possibly with some blood-shed involved. It's not maternal instinct or anything, she won't feel a
bond with the children, it's just a curiosity for her. And after all, after expending so much energy into carrying those things inside her, she'd want to make sure they were actually
alive. Purely for the sake of continuing her bloodline.
Development: Bear will grow into a strong, powerful huntress, stalking her prey and manipulating them. Setting her own traps, constantly figuring out new schemes to get those pathetic Soquili to "trust" her. It'll always be fun to RP her scheming and plotting.
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