Name: Riko Callahan.
Age: Probably around a century.
Gender: Female.
Personality: Riko’s personality is very cat-like. She is usually full of energy but tends to be lazy. She is proud and sometimes condescending towards others, though it’s rarely intentional. She can be playful one moment and serious the next. She can be irritable and tends to twitch her tails whenever she is annoyed. Two of her biggest weaknesses are open boxes and dangling objects.
She harbors mixed emotions towards humans. There have some that she loved and protected, and there have been others that she brutally murdered, though certainly not without cause. She also had her heart broken, finding that human lives are so short and fragile compared to hers. She still likes to receive attention from others, human or not, but she has learned to be much less trusting and to keep up an emotional barrier to protect herself.
Appearance: (can use anime picture)
a) Hair/eyes: She has brown eyes and straight, orange hair that extends about halfway down her back, and she still wears the ribbons and bells that Daniel had given her long ago.
b) Body Type: Her humanoid body is lean and fit with ample breasts. Her animal form is that of a tiger in perfect health.
c) Clothing: She doesn’t like to be weighed down with unnecessary gear. She usually sports a black bra, panties, and thigh-highs.
d) Extras: She has two tails with short fur and tiger stripes, as her tail split into two when she transformed into a demon. She has cat ears with tiger stripes. She has faint tiger stripes on her skin. Her fingers and toes have razor-sharp retractable claws.
This picture represents her body, clothing, and hair style:
original drawn by kuronekogata - Danbooru
This picture represents her colors and markings:
https://deskgram.net/p/1848444831946732205_7752718015
Weapon: Bow and whatever arrows she can acquire. Claws.
(In her animal form, she cannot use her bow. She uses her claws and teeth.)
Powers: She has superb fine motor skills and can easily set and disarm traps. She can use her claws to pick locks. She can use magic to make locks stronger or to release locks.
She is skilled with a bow and can also use magic to improve her aim and distance when firing arrows.
She can transform into a tiger, and her animal form has supernatural speed, strength, and endurance. When her magic was strong, her animal form was larger than life and very powerful. With weaker magic, her animal form is that of a kitten (essentially, the tiger cub from the second picture above).
Being feline, she has night vision and a strong sense of smell.
Monster Girl Race: Bakeneko (A cat who transformed into a humanoid demon).
Small Bio: Riko was an orphaned tiger cub who was taken in by a small company of traveling merchants, and in time she began to see them as her family. She grew up spending her days resting in whichever buggy she chose, and she guarded and protected the convoy every night. While most of them always seemed wary of her, there was one named Daniel Callahan who was always kind to her and never showed any signs of fear, and most days, she chose to ride in his buggy.
Her life changed forever one day when Daniel left his buggy unattended for only a few minutes and forgot to lock the chest containing his valuables, which included some magic artifacts. Riko couldn’t resist trying to sleep in the open chest (because cats love boxes), and as she rooted around in it, trying to find a comfortable position, she accidentally activated a scroll containing a spell that transformed her into a demon.
As a demon, she took on a humanoid form and gained magic powers which she would gradually learn how to use. The first thing she noticed after her transformation was that the men in the convoy looked at her differently, and she didn’t understand why. Then Daniel suddenly insisted that she start wearing clothes. She also found that she could speak to the humans in the common tongue and they could understand her. With some training from Daniel, she eventually learned how to use magic to temporarily change back into her familiar animal form. She also learned other useful skills like using her claws to pick locks and to set and disarm traps, and she even learned how to use magic to enhance those abilities.
Eventually, Daniel settled down and took Riko as his mate, and they built an isolated cabin a few miles outside of the remote village of Bleakburn, which was a refuge for ‘misfits’ including (but not limited to) hybrids of humans, elves, dwarves, orcs and other races. Safe from the bigotry of humans, they lived there in peace for the decades that followed and grew old together – only
she did not grow old.
Her appearance remained unchanged while
he steadily aged. During the final years of his life, she rarely left the cabin except to hunt or gather food and spent nearly all of her time caring for him until he finally passed away, after which she buried him at the foot of his favorite tree. She spent several days, or perhaps several weeks, alone in the cabin mourning his death, until loneliness finally overtook her, and she returned to the village hoping to find some of her old friends.
But the village was gone, and in its place was a pile of rubble, and she could immediately tell that the village had been attacked and razed. She followed the trail of the attackers and found a company of crusaders celebrating their victory. The following night, those crusaders were wiped out by an angry tiger demon, and the only survivors were a few adolescent female elf-hybrids who were obviously prisoners taken from Bleakburn. The dungeon lord, while lurking in the shadows, saw how quickly and efficiently she dispatched the unsuspecting crusaders, and he recruited her, giving her life a new purpose, at least for a time, until he robbed her of her powers and abandoned her, leaving her alone once again.
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