Full Name: Missy Tsavo-Wells (Missy Tsavo)
Nicknames/Aliases: Mimi; "Oh, you're not Jeanette-Marie;"
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Species: Werecat
SCION Team/Rank: Thunder Moon (Leader, if approved.)
Description:
Missy is a woman of medium height (5’5”,) and athletic build. She has light skin and light brown eyes, with dusty silver-white hair trimmed into a feathered bob. She keeps her dress neat and functional, usually favoring pants with boots over skirts and heels.
In her shifted form, Missy is a white longhaired housecat.
Personality:
Persistent and intuitive, Missy knows how to get things done as a member of the team. She served as a senior member and second-in-command to the previous leader of Thunder Moon for several years, and not without reason. Her tenacious spirit and adaptable nature made her an especially effective agent.
In light of her sudden and recent promotion, however, she often finds herself feeling overshadowed by expectations and unsure of how to react to interpersonal conflicts within the organization. She has very little temper, but a long memory in regard to grudges. Her trust is slow-earned, but her loyalty is unquestionable. She is uncomfortable in intensely emotional situations, preferring to pass off sources of discomfort as soon as possible.
Skills: Talented hand-to-hand combatant; enhanced agility, reflexes, and senses due to her species; excellent night vision; stealthy; skilled strategist; trained marksman; also a cat.
Weaknesses: Unsure in the leadership position; vulnerable to both physical and magical attacks; allergic to onions and garlic; easily offended when confused with her actual cat.
Brief History: When Missy was three years old, she was adopted from an orphanage in Tsavo, Kenya by an altruistic couple living in the United States. The orphanage director claimed that she had been orphaned when her home was attacked by a roving pack of Tsavo Maneless lions, with no remains of her mother ever being found.
The attack was nowhere in Missy’s memory, however, and she was brought back to a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, where she would grow up to be a happy child, and what her teachers described as “a very bright girl.” It wasn’t until her early teens that her condition began to manifest in bouts of unexplained illness and erratic behaviors.
And then, one evening, the screaming started.
And then the yowling.
Like any good parents, Missy’s came running. Instead of their daughter, however, they found a white, rather frantic cat trying to claw it’s way out from under her covers. The transformation lasted only a few minutes, after which the cat was replaced by a panicked Missy. But it shook the family to the core.
Her mother and father called the orphanage from which Missy was adopted, and flew home with her to discover the true nature of her orphaning. As it turned out, her parents were killed in an encounter with white lions. More surprisingly, her mother was one of the lions, descended from a long line of werecats native to the area. Her father was a human, which accounted for Missy’s small stature as a shifted animal.
The director there contacted SCION, who mentored Missy and helped her family to cope with the new information. When she graduated high school, she moved to live at the SCION headquarters, eventually ascending to become a senior member of Thunder Moon. During these fifteen years, she also pursued a relationship that ended in a failed engagement, took a two-month gap to go backpacking in Europe, and adopted a white cat named Jeanette-Marie to keep her company.
Five months ago, on a mission gone wrong, the former Thunder Moon Leader went missing-in-action. At this time, Missy was suddenly thrust into a leadership role. Some in the organization thought she was the natural choice, while others questioned her readiness to fulfill the role. Regardless, the werecat has been doing her best to fill the shoes left to her since.
Full Name: Jeantte-Marie Tsavo
Nicknames/Aliases: “Oh, you’re not Tsavo.”
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Species: Cat
SCION Team/Rank: Honorary Cat of Thunder Moon
Description:
A large, puffy white cat.
Personality:
Jeanette-Marie is an actual cat. She enjoys sunbathing, chasing Dr. Whitmore’s geckos, Dr. Kovalenko’s lab mice, and begging agents for table scraps. She also, as her owner will note, is not Missy. Missy does not lick her bum recreationally, whereas Jeanette-Marie has no such reservations.
Skills: Climbing; eating an entire dish of cat food in one sitting; meowing; sitting on any lap; marking every black surface within a three meter radius with white fur.
Weaknesses: Water; Dr. Kovalenko yelling at her; the squirt bottle.
Brief History: Jeanette-Marie was born in kitten season, and taken to a shelter. Missy found her. Now Jeantte-Marie roves the mansion, stirring up trouble and generally confusing people by looking strikingly similar to her master.