enodiamod

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BASICS

name
wren chau

alias
n/a

division
operations (primary)
medical (secondary)

occupation
mew'n'brew cat café barista
medical secretary
foilent green shampooist

age & dob
30, 08 16, ♌︎♓︎♎︎

pronouns
she/her

family
linh chau - mother
jason chau - twin brother

CONCEPT

dog person forced to re-examine life after becoming giant chew toy.

POWERS

bone armor; exactly what it says on the tin: wren generates armor made of bone on her body.

🐾 as a more newly developed power, wren doesn't have the most understanding over it but as far as she can tell, it happens mostly when she feels endangered in some way
🐾 this, unfortunately, means things like being jump scared lead to her just forming a suit of armor around parts or all of her body
🐾 it also means that when her immune system is weakened with things like a cold or being injured, she's more prone to random bits of armor happening to her

PERSONALITY

🐾 positive: adaptable, cheerful, loyal
🐾 neutral: reactive, optimistic, whimsical
🐾 negative: indecisive, moody, hard working

🐾 kinda morbid sense of humor as a coping mechanism (it came with her former career, not the bone thing. that's just thematically on point for her.)
🐾 seemingly a workaholic but mostly she's just throwing herself at jobs that encapsulate parts of her old career and trying to figure out which one sticks the most.

APPEARANCE

🐾 5'8"
🐾 lots of scrapes on her arms and some on her legs, mostly from cats. occasionally from other animals. one was from a really unruly goose chasing after her until she fell over and scraped her arm against fencing pretty badly.
🐾 very expressive, absolutely incapable of playing poker without losing all of her money
🐾 often covered up in jackets and turtlenecks, as a precautionary measure even in summer. she finds she's less likely to defensively armor up when she avoids things brushing up against her bare skin.
🐾 makes and wears accessories out of bones. she's got bones to spare anyway, so might as well use them, right?

HISTORY

wren was born to linh chau, exactly one week before the day of linh (the first of any of the chau's) college graduation ceremony. the certificate now hangs in between framed hand prints of wren and her identical twin brother jason.

despite the unplanned arrival of not one but two babies during her last year of school and not knowing a way to contact the one night stand who'd fathered them, linh managed to adapt as well as she could given the circumstances. she rerouted her life plans and skipped applying to vaca, instead taking a job in her parents' grocery store, super asia market, where jason and wren would spend most of their childhood playing with toys in the stock rooms and behind the counter.

it was hardly a picturesque childhood, but it did lead to wren learning the importance of adaptability—perhaps to a detrimental extent, as she also grew up prone to indecisiveness and going along with the flow more than necessary. she basically cruised through her childhood and teenage years without a plan in the world for adulthood.

once she graduated high school, she was unsure of what to do so she enrolled in a community college, because surely she'd figure it out with time. it was only when wren moved away at twenty and found herself having to take different jobs to keep herself afloat while she attended suny oswego's school of business that she found herself passionate about anything at all. it was dogwalking, of all things.

she couldn't just drop out of university to walk dogs, however. she had a chip on her shoulder of sorts, about being able to graduate university and walk in a ceremony like her mother never had the opportunity to do, so instead of dropping out to try her luck at becoming a full time dog-walker, she transferred to suny delhi after a semester, this time enrolled in a veterinary science program.

for the first time in her life, wren seemingly had things figured out. she took to veterinary science and eventually found a job in baltimore as a surgery technician. everything was coming up millhouse for wren.

that is, until wren was on a house call at a farm out of the city—it was just standard horse dentistry, not a big deal. there was a rift when she was on the way there and three days later when she went back to work, wren grew a set of ribcage-esque formations around her forearm when a cat swiped at her while she was prepping him for surgery.

she was alarmed, but adaptable as ever, wren just reported her newfound ability to iris and tried to go on as though nothing had changed. it worked for all of one day before she started noticing that dogs had been acting off around her. it didn't take her long to put two-and-two together to realize that they were acting hungry, which in turn made it next to impossible for her to avoid involuntarily spawning bones all over any place a dog patient could reach, which only made the problem worse.

two weeks after wren came across the rift, she turned in a letter of resignation-effective immediately, and was once again as adrift in the world as she had been a fresh high school graduate. so she did the most logical thing she could think of and applied to work at enodia station, in hopes that perhaps they'd be able to help her manage her powers in a way she might ever be able to return to her former career or she'd find a new path.

NOTES

🐾 while much of her veterinary knowledge transferred over to medical secretary life, she phrases things in weird and offputting ways somewhat often since she's still not used to dealing with human patients as opposed to animals. sorry if she's mentioned tranqing someone in front of you when she meant to say sedate. hopefully someday, people will stop allowing her to make phone calls about patients.
🐾 shampooing is a very part time job. she is only there a few times a month, generally.
🐾 has a white sphynx named merry and a norwegian forest cat named pippin. she likes to take pippin on walks out on the grounds.
🐾 has been at enodia since early 2022 and spent the three months of downtime pre-game at home with her family, helping in her grandparents' grocery store and babysitting her nephews.
🐾 has a 2018 toyota corolla
🐾 pinterest

OOC

kitty . est . patti harrison . screened dropbox

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Comments

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PERMISSIONS . ooc

CONTACT: screened dropbox, game contact page for elsewhere!

WRITING: i prefer gdocs over threading, third person present but i don't mind using past tense! threading is okay if it's the only thing that works for you.

BACKTAGGING: go for it!

THREADHOPPING: go for it!

PRIVATE FILTERS: go for it! but please move them if they get horny or go on for several days, just to save my inbox.

SENSITIVE TOPICS: outside of the basics of not wanting to interact with bigotry and standard things that come with trigger warnings, generally i don't want to interact with pregnancy, police/military or addiction storylines at all. traumatic things in backstory are generally okay along with discussing them ic but i'd appreciate a heads up if something is going to go into specifics so i can decide if i'm able to engage with it or not!

SMUT: hard no.

PERMISSIONS . ic

PHYSICAL CONTACT: wren is pretty affectionate but only with those she is close to and those she knows don't mind it. she's always down to be someone's shoulder to cry on, even random strangers.

CONFLICT: she's not likely to start shit and it's probably a dice roll if she rises to the occasion of getting into it with someone, but she can be stubborn so it's definitely not off the table for her!

VIOLENCE: she will not engage and will likely just armor up reflexively and retreat asap if ever in a situation involving violence. talk to me ooc about this if you want someone to inflict violence on her!

BADMOUTHING: go for it! and link me so i can popcorn.gif

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