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I'm very proud to present to you my very first real OC!! )) I never really thought of making one until now, but some time ago asked me about my OCs, and I got the feeling that I might be lacking something. It took a while to create her because I didn't want to rush anything, I think OCs kind of should come naturally, just "being born" so to say, and that's how it happened the day before yesterday evening - hence her birthday now being the 29th of April.
I sat around and this idea came to me, so I scribbled her and really liked here immediately. I originally wanted to name her "Pilvi", finnish for "cloud", as you can still see at the top of the page, but she kept telling me that she wanted to be called "Pirin". I suppose it has something to do with self identification issues, but we'll find out soon enough.

Anyways, in addition to the few facts I already wrote down on her character sheet, here's what I know about her so far:

She's a shapeshifter, able to adopt a certain animal's traits by will if she needs them. She does, however, not fully change into that animal, but merely get some characteristics like ears and tail, or her arms change into wings when she's trying to change into a bird (which looks rather ridiculous and she's embarrassed about it, so she refuses to do that again). All other shapeshifters around her can transform fully, so she's kind of handicapped and got bullied a lot by the other kids at school, to the point where she stopped transforming at all and grew really lonely.

Her kind of shapeshifters use a special form of energy to change their appearance. This energy is located anywhere in their bodies, different for everyone, and can be locked by its owner through a specific kind of material they make themselves and that can be woven into any kind of fabric, depending on what the owner needs. They use this for their own safety and convenience, and so they can't shift by accident.
For example, Pirin's energy is in her long hair. Whenever she braids it and wraps her special hairbands around it, she's not able to transform. If she wants to shift, she needs to remove the hairbands and let her hair flow freely, freeing her energy.
Her little sister has her shifting energy in her feet, so she owns several pairs of boots and shoes made from that fabric to lock it. Whenever she wishes to transform, she has to get barefooted.

Every shapeshifter has very colourful hair, which is why they stick out whenever they try to mingle with humans, but nowadays where everyone can just dye their hair crazy colours, every now and again a shapeshifter who isn't happy amongst their own kin decides to live amongst humans instead - being able to hide their strange ability through their specific lock item. Pirin hears about these emigrants and decides to run away too as soon as she's old enough to take care of herself. She leaves her devastated parents and a younger sister.

Description
I'm very proud to present to you my very first real OC!! )) I never really thought of making one until now, but some time ago asked me about my OCs, and I got the feeling that I might be lacking something. It took a while to create her because I didn't want to rush anything, I think OCs kind of should come naturally, just "being born" so to say, and that's how it happened the day before yesterday evening - hence her birthday now being the 29th of April.
I sat around and this idea came to me, so I scribbled her and really liked here immediately. I originally wanted to name her "Pilvi", finnish for "cloud", as you can still see at the top of the page, but she kept telling me that she wanted to be called "Pirin". I suppose it has something to do with self identification issues, but we'll find out soon enough.

Anyways, in addition to the few facts I already wrote down on her character sheet, here's what I know about her so far:

She's a shapeshifter, able to adopt a certain animal's traits by will if she needs them. She does, however, not fully change into that animal, but merely get some characteristics like ears and tail, or her arms change into wings when she's trying to change into a bird (which looks rather ridiculous and she's embarrassed about it, so she refuses to do that again). All other shapeshifters around her can transform fully, so she's kind of handicapped and got bullied a lot by the other kids at school, to the point where she stopped transforming at all and grew really lonely.

Her kind of shapeshifters use a special form of energy to change their appearance. This energy is located anywhere in their bodies, different for everyone, and can be locked by its owner through a specific kind of material they make themselves and that can be woven into any kind of fabric, depending on what the owner needs. They use this for their own safety and convenience, and so they can't shift by accident.
For example, Pirin's energy is in her long hair. Whenever she braids it and wraps her special hairbands around it, she's not able to transform. If she wants to shift, she needs to remove the hairbands and let her hair flow freely, freeing her energy.
Her little sister has her shifting energy in her feet, so she owns several pairs of boots and shoes made from that fabric to lock it. Whenever she wishes to transform, she has to get barefooted.

Every shapeshifter has very colourful hair, which is why they stick out whenever they try to mingle with humans, but nowadays where everyone can just dye their hair crazy colours, every now and again a shapeshifter who isn't happy amongst their own kin decides to live amongst humans instead - being able to hide their strange ability through their specific lock item. Pirin hears about these emigrants and decides to run away too as soon as she's old enough to take care of herself. She leaves her devastated parents and a younger sister.