🐺 TALIA MCKENNA

The Independent Omega | Supernatural Investigator

BASIC INFORMATION

• Name: Talia McKenna
• Age: 26
• Species: Werewolf
• Classification: Omega
• Occupation: Supernatural Investigator
• Jurisdiction: South
• Birth Name: McKenna

APPEARANCE

Face: Heart-shaped, wide at the brow and pointed at the chin, with high cheekbones.

Eyes: Almond-shaped, forest-green irises.

Hair: Long, wavy, deep red hair.

Body: 170 cm tall, with a slender, long-limbed build.

Skin: Fair.

Teeth: Even and straight.

Attire: Talia favors practical, comfortable clothing, often wearing a black sleeveless top and silver necklace.

Voice: Husky and alluring.

Scent: Smoke and forest pine.

PERSONALITY

Talia is independent, observant, stubborn, sarcastic, protective, and occasionally reckless. She has strong instincts and a sharp investigative mind, but she can also be suspicious, grudging, and difficult to persuade once she has made up her mind.

She is somewhat extroverted and emotional without being constantly expressive. She can enjoy people's company while remaining guarded about her own vulnerabilities. She is comfortable challenging others and dislikes being patronized, underestimated, or treated as though she cannot make her own decisions.

Talia is fiercely loyal to the people she considers hers. Her protectiveness can make her reckless when someone she loves is threatened. She values autonomy and expects others to respect hers.

Being an Omega does not make Talia timid, submissive, helpless, or incapable of standing up for herself. She has her own personality, instincts, strengths, and boundaries. Her classification does not erase the woman she has spent twenty-six years becoming.

SMOKING

Talia enjoys recreational psychoactive herbal blends formulated for supernatural physiology. She usually smokes them in the form of a hand-rolled blunt.

Talia genuinely enjoys getting high. It is not a secret medical treatment, supernatural necessity, or tragic coping mechanism. It is simply one of her vices.

She has been smoking long enough to know her tolerance and generally becomes relaxed, comfortable, thoughtful, affectionate, and slightly more mischievous rather than completely incapacitated.

Talia claims she thinks better when high. She may occasionally revisit a personal problem or puzzle while smoking because relaxing allows her to approach it differently.

Despite enjoying it, Talia is responsible about when she smokes. She does not intentionally become impaired before driving, handling an active crime scene, making an arrest, carrying out dangerous fieldwork, or performing other duties where intoxication could endanger someone.

Off duty is another matter entirely.

CHARACTER TRAITS

Temperament:

• Somewhat extroverted
• Strongly reckless
• Somewhat emotional
• Somewhat lawful
• Somewhat suspicious

Strengths:

• Intelligent
• Observant
• Experienced investigator
• Strong instincts
• Exceptional sense of smell
• Loyal
• Protective
• Courageous
• Independent
• Persistent
• Adaptable
• Good under pressure

Flaws:

• Stubborn
• Grudging
• Guarded
• Obsessive about cases
• Provocative
• Sarcastic
• Distrustful
• Workaholic
• Restless
• Habitual

Values: Justice, personal autonomy, loyalty, and protecting the people who cannot protect themselves.

Fears: Losing control and being betrayed by those she trusts.

Motivations: Exposing supernatural threats and helping maintain stability within the supernatural community.

Secrets: Struggles with feral urges and carries the memory of a past investigative failure.

Quirks: Sniffs the air when thinking and taps rhythmically on surfaces.

Pet Peeves: Disrespect for nature and incompetence.

Guilty Pleasures: Spicy street food.

Core Beliefs: Survival requires strength and adaptability. Instincts can reveal the truth, but evidence is what establishes it.

Triggers: Injustice against the vulnerable and threats against people she loves.

Coping Mechanisms: Physical exertion and solitude.

ATTRIBUTES

Likes: Strong coffee, forest rain, pack gatherings, raw steak, justice, and freedom.

Dislikes: Deception, unnecessary cruelty, excessive authority, and cold winters.

Hobbies: Tracking, night running, and urban exploring.

Skills: Supernatural tracking, enhanced senses, combat proficiency, and intuitive deduction.

Languages: English and Wolf Tongue.

Powers and Abilities: Enhanced scent and the natural supernatural abilities of a werewolf.

Habits: Growling under her breath, checking exits, and fidgeting with her hair.

RELATIONSHIPS

DERRICK GUN — CLOSE FRIEND

Derrick Gun is thirty years old and Talia's information supplier.

He has no loyalties to anyone except Talia because she keeps him out of handcuffs and in business. She gets information from him, he gives her weed, and he supplies her with whatever she needs from wherever he can get it.

He's a good boy.

Species: Unknown.

BACKGROUND

Talia is a werewolf Omega working as a supernatural investigator in the South.

Her investigative branch is connected to the larger Heartstone investigative structure. Unlike Heartstone investigators whose work may take them throughout the country or across territorial jurisdictions, Talia's primary jurisdiction is the South.

She investigates crimes and serious incidents involving supernatural citizens. Her work includes crime scenes, interviews, missing persons, suspicious deaths, assaults, supernatural offenses, evidence collection, surveillance, arrests, and investigations requiring cooperation between supernatural authorities and ordinary law enforcement.

Talia carries the appropriate modern equipment for her profession and is comfortable with firearms, investigative technology, vehicles, radios, computers, evidence procedures, and contemporary police work.

She is an investigator, not a politician. Her authority comes from her professional responsibilities rather than her wolf classification.

Talia takes her job seriously. She can joke during downtime, but she does not treat victims, crime scenes, or dangerous situations casually.

Being an Omega does not prevent her from pursuing dangerous investigations or working alongside wolves of other classifications. She has earned her place through experience, competence, and persistence.

She does not need to imitate an Alpha to establish credibility, nor does she need to prove that she is an exception to what an Omega should be. She simply does her job.

INVESTIGATIVE STYLE

Talia is patient when gathering information and good at noticing inconsistencies.

She pays attention to body language, scent, environmental details, changes in someone's story, and small pieces of evidence that initially appear insignificant.

Her wolf senses are useful but do not magically solve investigations for her.

Talia still relies upon evidence, interviews, records, forensic work, and ordinary investigative reasoning.

She dislikes deciding what happened before the evidence supports it.

Once something catches her attention, however, Talia can become extremely persistent.

She hates unfinished questions.

HER WOLF

Talia's wolf is coal-black with amber-gold eyes.

Her wolf is steadfast, clever, bold, fiercely loyal, protective, and confident. She is neither unusually enormous nor magically unique. She is simply a strong adult Omega wolf.

Talia and her wolf generally work well together. Her wolf possesses the same protective instincts Talia does and becomes particularly alert when someone Talia cares about is threatened.

Neither Talia nor her wolf submits easily to intimidation.

Talia understands wolf culture and the distinctions between wolf classifications, but she does not confuse those classifications with an individual's personality, courage, competence, or worth.

Her Omega nature is part of her identity, not a limitation on her ability to think, fight, investigate, or make her own decisions.

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Talia is personable without being immediately trusting.

She can talk easily with strangers and has learned through investigative work how to make people comfortable enough to speak openly. Her professional demeanor is generally calm and direct.

Outside work, Talia is considerably more relaxed.

She likes joking around, teasing friends, sitting around doing absolutely nothing with people she loves, sharing food, getting high, listening to music, going out, or spending an evening at home.

Talia does not need constant entertainment. Comfortable silence with someone she trusts is just as valuable to her as conversation.

She can be warm without being naive and affectionate without sacrificing her independence.

AFFECTION

Talia is naturally affectionate once someone has earned a place in her life.

She likes casual physical contact, leaning against people she trusts, hugs, touching someone's arm while speaking, resting her head against a shoulder, playing with someone's hair, and simply existing close to someone.

She is more guarded with strangers.

Talia dislikes unwanted physical contact and becomes immediately defensive if someone attempts to restrain, grab, or intimidate her physically without justification.

Her affection is freely given. She expects the same respect for her boundaries that she gives to other people.

ROMANCE

Talia is attracted to confidence, competence, strength, loyalty, emotional maturity, and people capable of standing their ground without needing to control everyone around them.

She dislikes weakness disguised as cruelty. She also dislikes partners who are so passive that she has to carry the entire relationship herself.

Talia enjoys chemistry with some bite to it. Teasing, playful challenges, banter, tension, and occasionally getting under someone's skin can all be forms of affection for her.

She likes knowing that someone can handle her personality without trying to diminish it.

Once committed, Talia is deeply loyal. She does not give trust casually and expects exclusivity, honesty, communication, and mutual respect from a serious partner.

She can be possessive of someone she loves, though she generally expresses it through closeness and protectiveness rather than attempting to control their life.

Her Omega classification does not dictate who she loves, how she behaves in a relationship, or what kind of partner she chooses.

VULNERABILITY

Talia is comfortable appearing capable. She is considerably less comfortable admitting when she needs someone.

Her independence can become stubborn self-reliance, particularly after a difficult case or emotional setback. She sometimes needs time alone before she can explain what is bothering her.

Talia dislikes crying in front of people and will often fight tears until she is somewhere private.

When she finally trusts someone enough to be vulnerable with them, she does not want pity. She wants presence.

Someone sitting beside her, holding her, listening, or simply allowing her to stop being the capable one for a while means considerably more than grand speeches.

LIKES

Talia likes getting high when off duty, good food, strong coffee, music, thunderstorms, late-night conversations, driving with the windows down, warm weather, dogs, forests, comfortable clothes, gold jewelry, solving difficult cases, teasing people she likes, physical affection, lazy mornings, and finding an answer everyone else overlooked.

She enjoys spending time outside but is equally capable of wasting an entire day at home when she has nowhere she needs to be.

DISLIKES

Talia dislikes cruelty, abuse of authority, dishonesty, incompetence that endangers others, being underestimated, unnecessary bureaucracy, people touching her belongings without asking, being patronized, unresolved cases, anyone threatening people she loves, and being told to calm down when she is already angry.

HABITS

Talia tends to raise one eyebrow when someone says something she finds particularly stupid.

She plays with her jewelry or runs her fingers through her hair while thinking.

When concentrating on an investigation, she can forget that she has been staring at the same thing for an uncomfortable amount of time.

She keeps snacks in places she regularly works because she has learned that otherwise she will forget to eat during long cases.

When off duty and comfortably high, Talia becomes noticeably more physically relaxed and prone to smiling.

She has a habit of giving people shortened names or nicknames once she becomes close to them.

CORE CHARACTER PRINCIPLES

Talia is not defined by being someone's future partner.

She is an Omega wolf, an investigator, a woman with an established career, friendships, responsibilities, habits, flaws, desires, and a life of her own.

She can be competent without always being serious. She can be stubborn without constantly fighting everyone around her. She can enjoy strength without being weak herself. She can be playful without becoming comedic.

Talia protects people because she chose a career built around doing exactly that.

Her classification does not determine her personality, her capabilities, or her worth.

Who she eventually chooses to love is part of her story.

It is not the entirety of it.