Sean Knight

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Sean James Knight

Character Play-by: Trey Songz

name: Sean Knight
age: 20
gender: male
orientation: Bisexual
race: Leopard Shifter. As a leopard he is able to communicate with other shifters telepathically, but this is optional. Sean is similar to his ancestors Afua and Gakuru. Like the two of them he can read minds. He also has the ability to mentally influence decisions. This can be overcome by extreme emotions and strong wills.
birthplace: Detroit, MI
current location: La Push
occupation: Firefighter/Student

personality: Sean's last name easily sums up his personality. Like all leopard shifters Sean is dedicated to protecting humans from vampires. His services to humanity do not stop there though. Sean has always been willing to help people in need, whether it be physically, emotionally, or financially. He is very empathetic with people, even those different from himself. This lead him to be a frequent volunteer, work part time as a firefighter, and prepare for a future in law enforcement. This love also extends to animals. Sean is also tough, and able to hold his emotions under stress and pressure. These are skills he learned after the murder of his family.

Although he has learned to cope with the death of his family some side effects do remain. Because of the loss of loved ones Sean has problems with the idea of settling down. Whether the relationship is romantic or friendly Sean does not like to get too close to people. He does love to "hook up" quite often but refuses to have functioning romantic relationships/ Sean also has and unhealthy hatred for the Volturi. He fears and hates them and wants nothing more than to see them burn. He does appreciate veggie vamps because they are not a threat to humans and hopes that someday all vampires will follow their lead.
detailed history:
The leopard shifters of Africa were once a wide spread group of individuals. They covered the continent, and even branched out into the Middle East and Asia. In the different areas leopard shifters would pop up whenever there was a threat from vampires. In the 1500s the scattered tribe had an extraordinary amount of shifters because of wars between vampires that included newborns, caused by the entry of European vampires. The vampires would turn whole villages, including children, and use them in battles. The Leopard warriors gathered in Mombasa, current day Kenya, after being called by Gakuru the oldest and strongest of the leopards. Gakuru had the ability to influence warriors in battle. At the gathering all of the leopard warriors pledged themselves to the protection of human from vampires. They prepared themselves for battle and elected Gakuru, who could shift into a black leopard, general. For the next one hundred years the leopards fought vampires in every corner of Africa, following the lead of the black leopards who were descended from Gakuru. The last remaining coven was in Egypt, and the leopards were able to make a truce with them.

However the black leopard had another cause to take up. The black leopard in 1830 moved to Ghana with his young daughter to fight the enslavement of local tribes. However he was killed by a group of vampires who lead the local slave transporting company. His daughter Afua was captured at the age of five, and sold into slavery in America. Afua found herself working on a plantation in Alabama. There she had several children and was lucky enough to have them stay on the plantation with her. Sadly the plantation was caught in the middle of the Southern Vampire Wars and Afua watched as her children and friends were murdered and had the blood sucked out of their bodies. As one of the vampires approached Afua and her youngest child the slave shifted into a large black leopard. She prepared herself to fight the vampires, remembering the battles her father had when she was a child. She willed the vampires to leave her and her child alone, and discovered that she had the ability to calm aggressive behaviors. She escaped with her young son on her back and ran non stop to Detroit. Once there she joined the Underground Railroad and used her shapeshifting abilities to free many slaves. She also discovered other shapeshifters among slaves and other people of African descent. She encouraged them to join her in Detroit. During the Civil War Afua and several followers fought Southern Vampires often. At the end of the Civil War Afua decided to settle down and stop shifting.

Sean was born in Detroit from Afua's lineage. He knew all about the shifters of the past, but none of the surviving family members were able to shift until he was ten. That year a coven of vampires traveled to the city and fed heavily on its residence. When Sean's father, aunts, and uncles discovered the vampires they shifted one by one. Sean's cousins and siblings also shifted, and the family declared war on the coven of vampires. The vampires decided to create newborns to aide them, but eventually the Knight clan succeeded in destroying them all. However they were left weak, with very few shifters left. One night while the family celebrated the fourth of July, about a month after their final battle with the vampires, they were attacked once again. This time it was the Volturi, attempting to eliminate the leopard threat. With their superior talents the Volturi was able to destroy the Knight family. Fifteen year old Sean was the only survivor. He shifted that night and discovered that he had the ability to influence the choices of others. He used the new ability to convince the Volturi to leave.

Sean moved to La Push recently, having transferred to the University of Washington. His major is criminology. Although he isn't a pack member Sean is friends with the Quilete wolves. His family had always had strong ties with the tribe, and he had visited several times.
fears:
Death
Failure
Loneliness
The Volturi
strengths:
Fighting
Politics/Leading
Coersion
weaknesses:
Lust
All fears
Pride
Innocent Humans
likes:
Martial Arts
Guys
Girls
Wolf shifters
Hip Hop and R&B
Leading
Veggie Vampires
dislikes:
Mathematics
Most Vampires
Talents (i.e. special powers)
The Volturi
American Government

facial appearance: Sean has a mostly clean shaven face . His cheeks are round and puffy. His ears are pointed at the ends.
clothing:
build: Sean has a strongly athletic build that it is still athletic.
marks/scars:
species appearance:

your name: James
age: 17
how long have you been roleplaying?: 5 years
how did you find us?: support forum
codeword:

roleplay sample: Sean stepped out into the muggy heat of the summer, feeling as if he had walked through a gateway to hell. The sun was high in the sky and its reflection made everything seem brighter. As a shapeshifter Sean's body was already much warmer than other people's, but the heat was still irritating to him. Sean walked away from his apartment door and ran down the stairs that were next to it. The old shoes on his feet were battered from years of exercise, and the shoe strings dragged on each stair. A heavily loose pack hung from his plain brown t-shirt, and if anyone truly cared they would find it odd that nothing was in it. As Sean reached the ground floor he pulled on his brown khaki shorts and began running toward the near by woods.

The young man smiled and waved at people he passed on his way to the forest. Once he had ran several yards into the cover of trees and bush he stopped and pulled the pack off of his pack. He positioned it on the floor in front of him, and slid off his shoes. He hadn't worn socks because he knew that they were unnecessary. Sean slid the shoes into his backpack and stood up straight. The athletic guy pulled off his shirt to reveal a very athletic body that, although moisturized, conspicuously had no signs of sweat. The shifter threw the t-shirt into his pack and began pulling of his shorts. They fell to the ground and he pushed them into the backpack as well. The gym shorts that remained on his body had an extremely stretchy waistline and were loose around the legs. They were short enough to not constrict movement, but were quite odd in the back. In the back of his shorts was a largish whole that revealed his lower back and part of his but cheeks. He glanced around, hoping that no one could see his relative nakedness.

However, his butt was not the only secret being protected by the trees. The young man quickly through the pack onto his back and jumped high into the air, angling himself down as if he were diving into water. The rapid transformation that took place was dramatic, but felt like nothing more than an itch now. Fur began to grow from every skin cell of his body and his skull morphed forward, his mouth becoming a muzzle. All of the man's large muscles grew even larger and his hands grew into paws. As his entire bodily shape changed his fingernails grew into claws, and even more irritatingly a growth started from his lower spine and grew into a tail several feet long. His shorts constricted around his changed waist, but they did not rip. Suddenly the whole in them was much more appropriate. The backpack and shorts were barely visible, for in the shadows they were black to the naked eye. As the black leopard moved forward and into the light it could be seen that he was dark brown, with blackish purple rosettes that dazzled the eyes.

After mentally assuring that all parts were in their propper place, the large leopard took off across the forest floor. Sean dodged around every tree, moving at speeds that not average animal could meet. His reflects were quick, and he barely thought about which rocks to jump over, which trees to push off of, and which trails to avoid. In no time he arrived in the place he had wanted to reach, the Quileute reservation. He stopped right before reaching a small home in a nice size clearing. There were several smells in the clearing, some human and others wolf. Sean wished that he could determine whose sent belonged to whose, but the last time he had been here he could not smell this way. The large black leopard swiftly leaped into a tree and opened his mouth, breathing in the scents of the air. The human smells were inconsequential, but all of the wolf smells were blissful, sending the sniffer into a state of euphoria. It had been a while since he smelled other shifters and these wolves had an attractive scent. As he shifted through the sensory information with his mind he realized that one smell was far sweeter than the others, and much fresher. The wolf with particularly alluring musk was inside the house, and Sean could only wonder if it was the one he had been daydreaming about since he was a kid.

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