Abigail Moore

Abigail Moore... age twenty-five... current status: 'it's complicated'.

Life's not fair. It's a tired, old cliché that's hard to say without sounding like you're pontificating or invalidating someone's misfortune. Abigail doesn't know much about what's fair and what's not, falling squarely into the category of life 'just is'. She was never a perfect person but she wasn't a horrible one either. None of it mattered when she met the monster. The monster that bit her and turned her into a version of what it was.

Abigail became a werewolf under the next full moon and has been one ever since. She has no idea what to do about it, beyond survive. She left home to get away from the rumors and whispers that had begun to surround her, finding that life on her own was a lot more complicated than she ever could have expected. Every full moon, the beast calls, and Abigail has to isolate herself somewhere she won't hurt anyone else. She's been successful, thus far, but it's only a matter of time. Over the last couple years, she's learned more about her affliction through trial and error. None of it was taught, beyond her own experiences.

She's more scared than she likes to admit. Scared of herself, scared she'll hurt someone else, and more recently, scared about how a part of her is coming to enjoy the Change when it happens. She could probably use some help but has no idea where to get it. A lot of the people she meets tend to be temporary acquaintances who she keeps at arms length, fearing she'll hurt them if she ever gets too close. Fearing that if that happened, she might like it.

It's not as easy as just becoming a hermit. Humans and wolves are both social creatures; staying away from everyone just isn't an option. Abigail instinctively craves connection, which is why, despite her rational judgement, she often finds herself around others anyway. Just not around the full moon... never during the full moon...

Abigail can be hurt or killed as part of an RP, though her condition allows her to recover much faster than a normal human, and nearly instantaneously when transformed. She can experience violence, intimacy, or anything else in the course of a story. Just as we don't always have a say in what happens to us in life, Abigail is a "no consent" character. While I appreciate a heads up or a discussion ahead of major occurrences, nearly anything goes with her.

I'll RP sexual content with 18+ writers. I write them realistically and consider them an important part, but not the sole defining aspect, of a character. If you'd prefer to fade-to-black, that's also fine, but please let me know ahead of time lest I accidently make you uncomfortable. If the RP is based more along a hook-up, it will be a short term encounter which Abigail has before she moves on, lest she hurt the person on accident. True love in a romantic sense, the kind to make her stay and risk another's life, will come slower and with much more difficulty.

If you want to end an RP, let me know. It happens sometimes that characters don't sync, a writer loses interest, or we write ourselves into a corner. If more than a week passes without a reply, absent prior notification, I'll archive the RP. To resume, just post, but I won't hound you for them. I'm sometimes slow myself and I understand casual post-rates and infrequent availability. I don't expect daily posts and can't guarantee them myself. On this note, I like quality over quantity. There's nothing wrong with one-off scenes or short-term RP's. We can always make them longer if we like but having the comfort of a safe 'end goal' helps us reach story completion. In short, a Reader's Digest tale is perfectly acceptable, and not every RP needs to be of a length to make the ghost of Charles Dickens proud.

I welcome RP with other supernatural characters. Other werewolves, vampires, witches, and "classic" horror movie monsters. I'm less interested in angelic/demonic characters unless they're not the typical Judeo-Christian variety. I'll hear out a proposal from one but I'll be highly selective.

I'm also happy to RP in a different historical period. Wild West, Victorian, Regency, Neolithic, I'll go in for anything.

The below is a selection of possible story ideas, but is no means definitive or final. Hit me up with whatever's burning in your boiler.

Seeking a Cure
In a story where the journey is more important than the destination, at it's base level, Abigail is seeking a cure for what happened to her. She's tried the common ones that she found on weird websites. Belladonna, wolfsbane, herbal teas, and other "cures" from so-called experts. None of them worked. Abigail wants to be normal again. She wants to be human. So long as the Beast is inside of her, she never can be. Abigail isn't stupid but she is desperate and could run afoul of either someone well-meaning or someone who takes complete advantage of her.

Sins of the Father
With a potential tie-in to seeking a cure (above), Abigail is also angry. The werewolf that bit her ruined her life. Her family, her friends, everything she knew and had, it was all lost in a moment to the monster's attack. Plain and simple, she wants to kill the one who made her. She doesn't care that he or she might have, at one point, been a victim the same way she sees herself. Abigail's life was usurped from her and she wants to kill the one who bit her... especially if she hears rumor that killing the progenitor werewolf can remove the curse. Werewolves are dangerous though, a fact Abigail is well aware of, and doesn't dare do it alone. Maybe she runs into a hunter who spares her life in an attempt to use one monster against another. Maybe a fellow werewolf, also seeking their creator. Perhaps it's one and the same. Abigail could fall into all kinds of company, good or bad, in the pursuit of vengeance.

A Place to Belong
Humans and wolves are both social animals and werewolves don't lose that need. It's a cycle of tragedy before the werewolf almost always, inevitably, ends up hurting people they get close to, either emotionally or worse. Maybe Abigail starts to fall in love with a human, torn between desiring that much-needed comfort of a partner and fear that she'll ruin it. Maybe that partner gets the idea that they'd both be safe if they were a werewolf too. Would Abigail inflict her Curse on another? Could she control herself long enough to do so without killing them? Could a normal relationship survive the revelation that one of the parties is a homicidal monster several nights a month? Perhaps Abigail comes across a commune or pack of other werewolves. They're all monsters but they're monsters together... which is better than being monsters alone. What does a werewolf commune look like? How does it function?

Getting to Know Myself
Abigail has fought against her curse mentally and emotionally, for years now, and has reached a startling conclusion. She's beginning to like being a werewolf. It's scary, yes, but there's a thrill in the fear. There's a freedom in giving in to one's base urges and just letting the Wolf run free. Perhaps Abigail is learning how to control her lycanthropy more and finds a teacher willing to take her on. What kinds of things does a werewolf need to do in order to have a modicum of control? Maybe she's experimenting more herself, with sometimes dangerous results. Abigail could be shifting into a deliberate villain than a tragic victim and unable to see it through the lens of her own self-image. So what if someone has to die, every so often, so she can feel good about herself? Giving in to the Wolf is so much easier and peaceful than resisting it.

Furry Superhero
Abigail is cursed, no bones about it, but it's not all bad. There's some benefits to being a werewolf, even when not transformed, and Abigail's begun to use them in small ways. In tandem with the above, is it "bad" to learn how to be more of a Wolf if it can help others? It starts small... Abigail finds some little way to turn her Curse into an advantage. Maybe she uses her heightened sense of smell to locate a missing child or her capacity to hold her breath longer to save someone from drowning. Maybe she intervenes to stop an attack, her fingers becoming claws for a moment, which makes it easy for the police to find the offender due to the wounds on their face (It was a stray cat, Officers, weirdest thing I ever saw...). However it happens, or begins to happen, Abigail tries to turn her Curse into a positive for herself and others. Maybe she can control it that way... but what if she can't? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Let Me Go
Abigail and your character are confined somewhere which isn't very good for her. Maybe she got picked up for some crime and has to wait over the weekend to see a judge... maybe she got trapped in a mall when the blizzard of the century hit... maybe she was kidnapped and her abductor has no idea the kind of trouble they bought for themselves. Your character could be a police officer or jailor, dealing with the woman's increasingly frantic demands and pleadings to be let out. They could be a fellow shopper, a fellow traveler, or someone stuck alongside her. They could be someone who knows what she is and is deliberately trying to invoke the Change in her. Whatever the circumstances, the full moon is only a couple days away, and when it comes, Abigail will Change...

Coming of Age
Puberty is a fucked up time for any teenager. One's body becomes a cauldron of hormones that go to town on the flesh. Sweat, zits, body odor, muscles, bones, fat, thin, hips, shoulders, voices, and all that sex stuff. The hormones cause a teen's sex drive to go apeshit. Abigail in this version is still in high school and never left town. Maybe she knows what she is, maybe not. But her and all her classmates, ages 14-18, are going through some form of puberty. How does she deal with the fallout of Changing? Did she "wolf out" a little bit on a lover and bite them, drawing blood? Was it just awkward or was it a "somebody is calling the cops" problem? She's suddenly much more physical but still can't talk to boys. Or she attracts love from the boys but hate from the girls. Adolescence is just amped by one's werewolf condition.

Zero Company
The tracker they sent in to find the animal attacking everyone found Abigail but they weren't really there for that. She was given a choice; use what she is to serve her country or else be exposed. Lo and behold, Abigail's now a member of Uncle Sam's military. She's assigned to Fort Harmon, a base ostensibly built to support the Harrison Arsenal. For a small post with a minor mission, it sure is well-equipped and staffed though... and Zero Company is the feature of the base nobody discusses. It's not that they're classified or Top Secret, there's just something not quite right about them. They follow proper customs and they have an impressive success record. But they're just... strange. Supernatural beings just end up at Fort Harmon where they're greeted by General Strand, the base CO. They receive the Zero Company shoulder flash and cap insignia - two sinister question marks joined in the center by an exclamation point and surmounted by an eye. Zero Company is comprised of different supernatural beings from vampires, to werewolves, to mages, and others. Welcome to the Army, Abigail.