Name: Linta Höhyener
Nickname: Lyn
Appearance: Linta stands at a lofty (for a woman) 5’9, weighing 120 lbs. Long and slender, she projects grace and discipline in all she does. She generally wears earthy tones, often with form-fitting bottoms and looser tops. Wears her hair in a french braid more often than not.
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Asexual until proven otherwise
Power: Shifter,
Linta has mastered her owl form, and has strived to use her abilities to the fullest. She can move near-silently in human form, and entirely silent in owl form (barn owls have specially designed feathers that are so quiet that even the owl’s own
incredible ears can’t hear them). In both forms she has excellent hearing and sight, though in human form her senses are somewhat duller (though better than an average human) and she is also very light and sound sensitive.
Grade in School: Recent graduate, now works in the school as a tutor. She teaches avian shifters to fly (they don’t know immediately, of course) and most types of shifters how to take advantage of their abilities.
Extra Curricular Activities/Hobbies: -Tutor (paid/housed by the school)
-Founded and runs the school’s Aerobatics club (a group of avian shifters who compete with each other for their finesse in flight)
-Helps coach the school’s dance team (although she cannot participate)
Body Modifications?: Linta walks with a carefully hidden limp, favouring her right leg, a result of an old injury. The pain leaves her in her owl form, part of the reason she loves it so much.
Linta also has a simple, script tattoo reading “The higher we soar, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly.” in Finnish.
Personality: Linta is a reserved person, capable of powerful emotion, but not very quickly. She has a coldness to her that is more fascinating than it is deterring, like watching a wild animal from afar, longing to approach. She grows attached to people over time, often her students, and loves to see how they learn and grow, and strives to help them succeed. That’s not to say she’ll coddle them - she’ll kick butt if she thinks it’ll work.
Brief History: Linta grew up in a strict military household. Her parents were immigrants from Finland, but Linta herself is Canadian. Growing up, her parents put her and her younger brother, Jay, in various competitive activities: for Linta it was ballet, riding, music, martial arts and the local air cadets. She was destined to attend a military school when she turned fifteen (not to mention that she had an excellent future in competitive dance ahead of her), but merely six months before, during an intensive dance practice, she landed improperly and suffered a severe broken ankle. It took abnormally long to heal, due to multiple complications, and while her leg was rendered useable, it was clear that she would never dance again, and her joint would not withstand the stress of military training.
Linta’s parents, their hopes dashed, did the next best thing they could think of: sent her to Riverdale in hopes that a rigorous year-round curriculum would whip her into the shape of a doctor or a lawyer. The rest is pretty much history: she discovered her newfound power there, and learned to love her newfound freedom of flight, and the relief of her chronic joint pain. It was in her second year that she founded the Aerobatics club, for her and other avian shifters to truly test their limits and hone their flight skills. It was a success, and is one of the favoured school activities for avians. After graduation, instead of reuniting with her now-estranged family to attend some stiff university where she would have to hide her ‘true’ form, she elected to remain with Riverdale and help other students reach their full potential.
Anything else we need to know?: Linta misses dancing, along with many other activities that her leg has rendered impossible. A curious dance team member may stay after practice hours to sneak a peek of her trying to perform old moves, engraved in muscle memory, only to see her collapse in pain and frustration soon after.
