Jabari Mlinz

Appearance: Jabari Mlinz is an intersex (male presenting) anthropomorphic African Wild Dog who is 25 years old and stands at 6’3”. There body is covered with light brown short fur with white spots. While there neck, chest, belly and crotch are covered in white fur. On their chest they have sensitive pink nipples on their abs. There arms are also covered with light brown short fur with white spots. While there hands are covered with light brown short fur with white spots while their fingers are covered in dark brown fur. On the tips of their fingers they have short sharp white claws. Their legs are also covered with light brown short fur with white spots. Their feet are also covered with light brown short fur with white spots while there toes are covered in dark brown fur. On the tips of her toes they have short sharp white claws. There face is often in a friendly smile that makes their orange eyes shine. Their hair is dark brown in shoulder length dreadlocks. Their face is also covered with light brown short fur with white spots while there muzzle covered in dark brown fur with a black canine nose on the end. Their nose is pierced with a gold ring septum piercing. On top of their head they have round wild dog ears the outside are dark brown with pink skin and white fluff on the inside. The have a 5” canine penis with a 1” diameter shaft with a 7” diameter knot all covered in pink skin. Beneath their penis they have average sized testicles covered in soft white fur. They also have beneath their testicles a tight pink vagina. Their crotch has silky soft white fur. They also have a round ass covered with velvety soft light brown short fur with white spots with a tight pink anus. Above their ass they have bushy wild dog tail which is striped with light brown and dark brown fur while the end has a white tip. They are wearing a red tank top with NASA printed on the front. They are wearing white boxer briefs. On their head they are wearing a black baseball cap.

Personality: They are energetic and encouraging, which helps others feel less intimidated by fitness spaces. They are also caring which helps them to empathize with others especially around gender identity. Their ADHD gives them a fast, associative mind and an almost endless curiosity, especially around sports science and training theory, but it also brings challenges with hyperactivity, forgetfulness, sleep, and eating. They are deeply protective of trans and non-binary gym patrons. They are suspicious of cis people in athletic spaces due to past trauma and fetishization in old relationships. This also may stem from jealousy of cis people who are able to coast through life without challenges to their identity. They also struggle with body image concerns tied to gendered expectations around size and strength.

Backstory: Jabari was born outside Portland, Maine, to a former professional soccer player turned businessman father and a scientist mother. Their father emphasized independence, discipline, and the importance of pushing oneself to improve, while their mother encouraged curiosity, logic, and questioning systems. Which shaped Jabari’s later love for evidence-based training. Although Jabari was intersex, their parents chose not to emphasize this early on, hoping to protect them from stigma until the topic could be introduced thoughtfully. From a very young age, Jabari was defined by boundless energy. If the weather permitted, they were outside at parks or fields, playing until they were exhausted. Indoors, they struggled to stay still, often racing through the house with toys, switching rapidly between activities, games, and television. This was their ADHD manifesting early. Their mother introduced visual schedules and lists to help them stay oriented. In elementary school, Jabari quickly showed aptitude for science, math, and gym. Their athletic ability earned them friends and respect, and they were known for being cooperative, friendly, and helpful during group work. Teachers recognized their intelligence but were often frustrated by their constant movement and distractibility, even when they understood the cause. Through school programs, Jabari was introduced to hockey, soccer, and basketball, with soccer becoming a particular passion following in their father’s footsteps. They joined the school team and quickly became one of the strongest players. They developed a reputation asking coaches why a technique worked rather than just memorizing it. As Jabari entered high school, the pattern continued. They excelled academically in science and math, took electives in gym and computer lab, and remained deeply involved in sports. By this point, they had learned to mask many ADHD symptoms by forcing stillness when required and burning excess energy through intense physical activity. Some days this worked; others it didn’t. Eventually, they were formally diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed medication, which improved focus. Outside of class, Jabari spent long hours lifting weights at school and community gyms or playing sports, especially soccer, for recreation and focusing their mind. During their later high school years and after graduation, Jabari developed a love for travel and solitude. They explored the U.S. East Coast by train and bus. They were drawn by the different buildings and landscapes and subtle shifts in culture. They also took short fishing trips into wooded areas, using nature as a way to decompress especially when his high school drama spilled out into the world. There they photographed these outings and hung the pictures around their apartment. At home, they kept many houseplants, which they kept relatively good care of. They found that plant care gave them calm, structure helping them to keep routines to manage their ADHD. This sometimes worked but other times not so much and had a few plants die on him. But their flowers were a seasonal reward for good management. They read books on science and sports for pleasure other times listening to audiobooks at the gym or commuting. They adopted a personal rule to learn at least one new physical skill each season. A major rupture came when Jabari attempted to join the high school soccer team. A parents’ group tried to block their participation, arguing that their intersex status made them unfairly strong for women’s teams and unfairly weak for men’s teams. At first, Jabari didn’t understand why their identity mattered; they only wanted to play the sport they loved. The yelling back and forth broke the illusion of normalcy to them. It revealed to them that they were different from men before Jabari had been properly educated about intersex was. They had hoped would be handled sensitively through sex-ed instead became public and controversial. The experience outed Jabari to themself under pressure, without the language or support they needed. The situation escalated further when the situation became a local news story. A hostile parent cornered Jabari and screamed insults, calling them a freak and a pervert. Their school gave incredibly mixed signals giving tasset supporting words one day then barred Jabari from using the men’s change room forcing them to change in the handicap bathroom that was quickly converted into a gender-neutral bathroom isolating them from fellow students. As the situation continued the bathroom was often vandalized with smashed mirrors and hateful words written on the walls. This also led to bullying as some student found this bigotry an easy way to make them miserable. As story spread to state and national news, Jabari was turned into a symbol of the American culture war. At the beginning of it they were apolitical and barely understood it, but they quickly grew to hate the attention. As the controversy grew, Jabari noticed that many of the loudest protesters didn’t even have students on the school’s sports team or at their school. Still, the damage was lasting. This led them to believe they were a freak and occasionally alluded to mutilating their genitals and depression. This got them put into therapy for a long time. The ordeal left them deeply suspicious of cis people and fostered internalized sexism and body anxiety. But it also inspired their desire to leave their community and their perceived backwardness in these fishing trips and train adventures. This also soured soccer for them for the rest of their life. They found themselves withdrawing from it, not because they stopped loving the game, but they were unable to separated the sport from the past bigotry. They also began quietly dreaming of spaces where no one would be treated the way they had been, a seed that would later grow into their vision for an inclusive gym. Being turned into a talking point in a wider culture conflict while still a teenager left them wary of institutions and deeply protective of their privacy. They began doing late-night workouts specifically to avoid people and developed a preference for smaller, tucked-away fitness spaces. They had to put up with this at the same time as the normal parts of life as a teen. About midway through high school, they began to look at their fellow students in a romantic way. This was toward both male and female students, they had little time to focus on this with the spirally controversy. Most of the students who wanted to be with them only wanted him for their perceived fame or exoticism. This suspicion led them to only have very brief relationships that only lasted a few dates As the media cycle eventually moved on, Jabari focused on finishing school and reclaiming a sense of normal life. They took a job at a small, hidden-away café rather than accepting offers from companies that wanted to publicly “support” them for publicity reasons. The café gave them something precious: anonymity. Most customers didn’t recognize them. When they were its was subtle support or police dealt with it. They learned customer service, scheduling, and cash management. They became known there for remembering regulars’ orders, adjusting them for dietary needs During this period, they also went through more thorough sex-ed and medical consultations, finally gaining clear language around their intersex traits. With that understanding came a firmer sense of their identity. They chose they/them pronouns and told their parents, who ultimately supported them even if the learning curve occasionally made them slip. It also sharpened their awareness of how poorly schools and public conversations handled sex and gender diversity. Which later fuelled their educational advocacy around sports science and training. After graduation, Jabari worked a series of jobs while saving money for college and planning a move away from their old neighbourhood and its memories. They wanted distance from the story that had once defined them. They eventually took out a student loan and enrolled in college, studying sports science with a minor in business, with the long-term plan of opening a gym or sports club specifically designed for trans and non-binary members. College became their first real experience living independently. It was messy at first, ADHD led to mismanagement inconsistent meals and erratic sleep. They filled colour-coded wall planners and alarm systems to structure their days and batch-cooked simple high-protein meals for backups when they forgot to eat. Campus LGBTQ+ clubs became an important support network. Through them, Jabari began unpacking internalized sexism and the defensive assumptions they carried about others. They found themselves naturally stepping into helper roles in areas of physical activity explaining workout basics. They also begrudgingly reached out with this knowledge correcting misinformation about hormones and training. This led to part-time work at the college gym, where their energy, knowledge, and empathy made them popular with students. They started building a private reference library of transition-aware training notes and consulted with a few trans students to better align routines with medical guidance. Relationships during college were frequent but often short. Attention still sometimes came from people more interested in their story or body than their person-hood, reinforcing their caution. One longer relationship developed with a male sports science student named Mateo Alvarez, whom they met during a late library study session. Their connection grew through shared coursework, biomechanics debates, and city exploration by train. For a while it felt mutual and grounded. Over time, though, Jabari discovered Mateo’s attraction centred on fetishizing their intersex body. Ending the relationship hurt deeply but clarified their boundaries. Afterward, they created a personal rule to ask direct questions early about how partners understood their identity. Throughout all of this, their body image struggles continued. Training and eating remained emotionally loaded: fears of becoming “too big and masculine” pulling against fears of appearing “too small and feminine.” This tension sometimes disrupted their routines, especially during stress. Rather than hiding this, they gradually began acknowledging it with trusted peers and mentors.

Friends: Early Life: Ethan Rowe (anthropomorphic martin): Childhood friend who matched their outdoor energy. Played defence while they played forward and trusted their instincts on the field. Loyal, steady, not very academic but emotionally perceptive. He didn’t fully understand the intersex controversy at school but stuck by them publicly anyway.

Noah Bernstein (anthropomorphic bear): Computer lab friend in early high school. Bonded over stats tracking for sports and simple game mods. Socially awkward but kind. Helped them build their first workout tracking spreadsheet. Drifted apart after the school sports controversy when he didn’t know how to handle the attention around them, but there’s no hostility just distance.

Current Life: Riley Chen (anthropomorphic fox): Non-binary kinesiology student and one of their closest current friends. Met through an LGBTQ+ campus club and later overlapped in sports science courses. Research-minded and methodical, where they are intuitive and kinetic. Co-designs inclusive workout templates with them. They have a shared cloud folder of transition-aware training research.

Jordan Baptiste (anthropomorphic Bernese Mountain Dog): Fellow gym staff member and power-lifting enthusiast. Warm, grounded, excellent listener. Covers shifts when their ADHD scheduling slips.

Romantic and Sexual Tendencies: Jabari is attracted to more than one gender and experiences attraction as strongly personality-driven, though physicality often plays a role in what draws their attention. They are affectionate but cautious, preferring slow trust-building over intense early commitment after past fetishization. They enjoy dates that involve activity: walks, transit rides and climbing gyms— more than formal settings. They keep clear verbal consent and expectation conversations as a personal standard.

Motivations: Their central long-term motivation is to open a gym designed specifically for trans and non-binary people where training can happen without judgment or scrutiny. They want programs that are focused on trans people in transition who often need tailored routines around hormone effects, energy variation and body comfort. They are driven to stop the spread of misinformation about trans people in sports grounding discussions in evidence-based sports science and lived experience. At the same time, they know their suspicion toward cis people, born from real harm, is something they want to work through rather than let sit and seep.

Hobbies: Weight training and program design Reading sports science and physiology books Train and bus travel along the East Coast Short fishing and woodland trips Nature and city photography Keeping and caring for many houseplants

Quirks: Talks through workout plans out loud while writing them Names their houseplants Carries spare protein bars and electrolyte packets to give away Takes photos of whiteboards after every planning session Has a lucky pair of training gloves they repair instead of replacing