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Femslash February 2024 - Gray

Fandom: Gravedale High Ship: Cleo/OC Summary: Maddie tries to make Cleo feel better by showing her good things that also happen to be gray. Word count: 1,610 Author's Note: I'm doing this year's Femslash February over on my Hanna-Barbera blog using @femslashfeb's prompt list and decided that I want to do some Canon/OC pieces for it as well.

The sky was dark and cloudy, threatening to rain. Nice weather like that meant that Gravedale High opened up for outdoor lunch.

But today Cleo was too absorbed in the latest issue of her magazine to care. All the mummy models in it had bright white bandages, the kind that would catch everyone's attention and then give them eye damage. They probably even smelled like fresh bleach.

Cleo's bandages weren't that bright anymore. She sighed and closed the magazine, pushing it aside. "I wonder if I'm starting to gray," she said aloud to herself.

She didn't expect a pair of hands to clamp onto her shoulders in response.

"Let's see," Maddie said, studying the color of her hands against Cleo's bandages.

Cleo somehow managed not to let out a shriek at the sudden physical contact. She hadn't realized that someone else had sat down at the table she had chosen, or that Maddie was even in school that day.

"You're not gray," Maddie determined, pulling away her sickly, fleshy hand. She then pulled away her other, skeletal hand. "But not bone-white either." She waited for Cleo's response.

"Um... thanks," Cleo responded, rubbing one of her shoulders awkwardly. She hadn't wanted her concerns to become an actual conversation topic.

But it seemed that Maddie did. Sort of.

"But even if your bandages were gray, I think it'd be okay. Lots of things good things are gray."

Cleo shook her head. "Mummies aren't-"

"Like me," Maddie continued. "And my best shoes are gray." She lifted one of her legs to show off the shoes she was wearing. "See?"

"Those are silver, I don't think that counts."

"Of course they don't," Maddie immediately agreed, slamming her leg back down. "But..." She looked around for another idea, finally settling on upward. "Look at the sky! It's gray."

Cleo did indeed look up at the sky. It was a nice shade of gray, and its clouds were able to hide the sun enough to prevent further fading of her bandages. But she didn't agree out loud.

Maddie was still thinking of gray things when an idea popped into her head. She grinned and grabbed one of Cleo's hands. "Hey, do you wanna go down Cemetery Hill with me? I can show you great gray things!"

"Huh?" Cleo blinked. "Right now?"

"Yeah, right now."

"We can't." Cleo pulled her hand away. "We have to go back to class soon."

"How about after class then?" Maddie's grin was still there. "I can wait for you if you want me to."

Cleo's initial thought was that she didn't particularly want to go. Her second thought was that she liked being invited somewhere. She let that thought simmer for second as she studied Maddie's expression; it seemed genuine, and her request seemed to lack any ulterior motives.

With some hesitancy still, Cleo gave Maddie an affirmative "Sure thing" and got up to the sound of a ringing bell signaling that lunch was over.

Maddie ignored the bell and waved to Cleo as she left. "Great! I'll see you this afternoon!"

The next few hours passed by with little fanfare. Without the magazine directly in front of her the worries Cleo had at lunch slipped her mind, so she was in a better mood as she left the school to look for Maddie.

Maddie was the one to find her. She was waiting behind one of the stone pillars at the front gate and grabbed Cleo's arm as she walked by, pulling her next to her.

Cleo did let out a shriek this time. But that was not an unusual sound at Gravedale High, so at least she didn't have to worry about embarrassing herself.

"Maddie!" She hissed. "What are you doing here?"

"Hiding so nobody else thought I was waiting for them," Maddie answered. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, I guess," Cleo replied, composing herself. "Just down the hill, right?"

"Uh-huh, right at the bottom," and with that Maddie was off.

Cleo struggled to catch up to her at first. The unpaved path proved to be annoying, with the risk of kicking up dust on herself or her foot getting caught in one of the cracks weighing on her mind.

But it was the rocks she should have been worried about. She stepped on one and her balance was gone, her arms flailing as she stumbled forward trying to catch herself. She couldn't, but she did catch Maddie, unintentionally using her to stop her momentum.

This pushed Maddie forward and she too had to stumble to stop. She then laughed about it. "Don't fall, Cleo." She placed Cleo's hands on her shoulders and held onto them, ready to usher her down the hill. "I'll help you."

Cleo decided to accept her offer, and the two of them continued on. It was quiet for a few minutes until Maddie decided to continue the conversation from earlier in the day.

"You shouldn't get mad about the rocks here Cleo, I wanted to show you them." She nudged one of the gray rocks on the ground with her foot for emphasis. "They're Cemetery Hill's natural defense mechanism, they're protective." She looked up to the sky again. "Just like this gray sky, protecting us from the sun."

Cleo joined her in looking up again. Truthfully, she had lost interest in the topic hours ago, but she found herself liking Maddie's excitement about it. "The sky seems a lot darker now," she said, trying to add to the conversation. "I wonder if it's finally going to-"

The sky opened into a downpour.

"Another great thing about gray skies!" Maddie cheered. "Water to keep things living."

Cleo wasn't as pleased with the turn of events. She let go of Maddie's shoulders and covered her head with her arms. She then darted forward to try and find covering.

"You don't like rain Cleo?" Maddie called after her.

"It'll make my hair frizzy!" Cleo cried back in response.

Maddie stopped in thought. She started to slip off her jacket to give to Cleo, but then pulled it back on. She slipped it off again, pulled it back on again. This happened a couple more times before Maddie made an executive decision.

Cleo had managed to find an awning to hide under. She sighed in relief as she was no longer getting drenched, and had relaxed a little by the time Maddie caught up to her.

"Here Cleo-" Maddie said, holding out her jacket, "-just give it back to me when you're done."

"Oh, no thanks Maddie, I'm good now." Cleo didn't want to inconvenience her and gave her a small smile in appreciation of the gesture. She had never seen Maddie without her jacket on before. "You should put it back on though, you're getting soaked."

Maddie dutifully put the jacket back on. She then took in her surroundings and realized where Cleo had ducked under. She had found one of the mausoleums that rested at the bottom of Cemetery Hill, exactly where Maddie was trying to take her.

"This mausoleum is great, isn't it?" Maddie said, shifting her attention back to the topic of gray objects. "A good place to bury the dead - and free housing for zombies once they resurrect!"

Cleo had to disagree with the first point. Mummies got buried in tombs with fanfare and luxury, and with enough precious, molten gold to burn someone's skin off. That was a good place to bury the dead. But once again, she found herself wanting to keep talking with Maddie, and didn't want to risk ruining it by voicing an alternate opinion.

She instead held out a hand to help Maddie up onto the mausoleum porch, since she clearly wasn't going to get out of the rain herself. "Come on, you're still getting soaked!"

Maddie took her hand and let herself be pulled under the awning, but she was confused about it. "I'm not afraid of rain, Cleo. Besides, I haven't even shown you everything yet."

"You can tell me about it from here, Maddie. I want to wait for the rain to stop."

Maddie frowned but did so. She settled in next to Cleo and pointed across the graveyard. "Do you see those tombstones over there?"

Cleo squinted in the direction Maddie was pointing, as even with her glasses she couldn't see things in the distance well. The tombstones looked like big gray rocks with some scribbles on them to her. "Yeah."

"See, those things are amazing," Maddie started. "Humans put them here when they bury their dead, so they know which one is theirs. But also, it says all the best stuff the humans did while they were alive, right? So when the zombies rise, they already know who they are and don't have to freak out about it. So it's good for humans and zombies!"

She continued rambling a bit, and Cleo found herself listening to every word. She didn't know Maddie had an interest in this stuff. It made her feel good that Maddie would choose her out of everyone to open up to. The idea of the reverse being also true, that Maddie would listen to Cleo talk about her interests, crept into her head. And the fear of rejection that usually followed that thought wasn't as strong as it normally was.

She just wanted to do it somewhere it wasn't pouring rain.

"You know what else is gray?" Cleo found herself asking, still not being willing to outright making her request.

"What?" Maddie responded, her attention now fully on Cleo.

"The trays at Papa Igor's. Once the rain stops ... do you want to go grab a slice?"

#fan character #maddie scientist #gravedale high #canon x oc #femslashfeb2024

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writingutensilthief · 4 months

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OC Aesthetic Builders - Strawna, Maddie, Rita, and Moonbeam

Original template found here, all images found on Unsplash and Pexels.

#fan character #strawna crowford #maddie scientist #rita lagoon #moonbeam barksdale #oc aesthetic

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writingutensilthief · 5 months

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Was looking through old doodles of mine and came across one of a design for Maddie as a baby, so I decided to draw it out. Little baby Maddie.

#fan character #maddie scientist

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writingutensilthief · 5 months

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There's a monster in her pocket.

A quick piece with Maddie and Mr. Grape.

#fan character #maddie scientist

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writingutensilthief · 6 months

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(Original template found here)

A fun little thing I've been working on this past week. Decided to try and find which TV Tropes can be used to best summarize my Gravedale High/Drak Pack fan characters, as a thought exercise of sorts.

Under the cut is the explanation for the 6 tropes you see listed on the image proper, plus a few extra ones, for each character.

Moonbeam

Big Sister Instinct - Moonbeam is very protective of her younger brothers, in particularly her youngest brother Howler. If there's a situation where her anger shifts from passive to direct, it's likely because she felt that her brothers were being threatened. This instinct also shows in Moonbeam's desire to still baby her youngest brother, despite him living away from home with a new pack and having a successful superhero career. To a lesser extent she feels this way to the older two of her brothers as well, often checking in on them and wanting to stay together as a pack.

Enthusiastic Newbie Teacher - Moonbeam is the new assistant gym coach at Gravedale High. This excites her, partially because this is first ever profession, but mostly because she wants to encourage students to enjoy being physically active, an experience most of them have not gotten under Coach Cadaver. Moonbeam also fully expects that her experience with her younger brothers will make it easy for her to work with the students, so she gets flustered at first when they (especially the kids in Mr. Schneider's class) didn't instantly listen to her without issue.

Flowers of Femininity - Moonbeam always has flowers in her hair. Even in her werewolf form when she's more rough-and-tumble she keeps at least one flower in her hair, showing that she still maintains some level of softness and femininity. The dress she wears in her human form also has flowers on the belt, further pushing this connection.

Girly Bruiser - Moonbeam may not have fighting as her preferred method of conflict resolution, but she can snarl, claw, and bite just as well as any werewolf. In her werewolf form she prefers to wear a knee-length skirt to for ease of running and fighting if needed, but if she needs to let her calf-length dress tear during a transformation to protect someone than so be it.

Promotion to Parent - Moonbeam first got this experience when her father passed away, leaving her to help her grieving her mother raised her younger brothers, especially her youngest, then-infant brother. However, she got the full "promotion" soon after she turned 18 when her mother left her and her brothers behind to start a new family in Transylvania. This meant that she had to put her life on hold to become her brothers' legal guardian, up to and including to make tough decisions like letting her youngest brother leave home to live in a better environment for him. Moonbeam still resents her mother for her leaving, though now that things have settled into a new normal for her and her brothers, a small part of her can acknowledge that her mother does genuinely seem happier now.

Wonderful Werewolf - Moonbeam is a nurturing person who prefers to keep the order instead of jumping into conflict. She has a firm belief that stronger monsters should use their abilities to protect others, so even when she does have to fight, it is in a protective manner. Due to her own experience of living as a human, Moonbeam is also much more pro-human than most monsters (though she does still understand why most monsters are hesitant around them).

Bonus tropes:

Cool Big Sis - Moonbeam's youth and sisterly instincts leads her to be respected by the students of Gravedale High a lot more than Coach Cadaver is. In particular by the non-athletic students like Reggie and Cleo as she actually tries to reach out and help them during gym class.

Pointy Ears - Moonbeam's ears are pointed in her human form.

Werewolf Theme Naming - Moonbeam's name references the moon.

Working-Class Werewolves - Moonbeam is the lowest paid teacher at Gravedale High and has less familial wealth than most of the students there. She also currently lives in her brother's apartment, downsizing from the already small house she grew up. (Not that she would complain, of course, she's very grateful that her brother lets her and their other brother live with him.)

Rita

Aloof Dark-Haired Girl - Rita is quiet and tends to keep to herself, and is easily the maturest out of her small friend group. In her human form, she has long, black hair that she sensibly keeps tied back with a classy ribbon. These factors combined leads others to praise her sophistication and intelligence, viewing her as fitting into the high-class lifestyle her family leads. Rita is also taller than a lot of her peers at 5'11".

Captain Fishman - Rita is descendent of the original Creature from the Black Lagoon, so her monster abilities are what one would expect from an amphibious humanoid - enhanced strength, breathing underwater, super swimming. While not treated as a joke character, she does have notably less abilities than other monster heroes like the Drak Pack and her powers are much more limited in scope (she can't even access her monster form without water for instance). This makes Rita secretly wonder if she really is useless in fighting situations and that people do really view her as a joke.

Iconic Item - Rita's seashell bracelet. This was a gift Franky gave to her when they were children and she hasn't stopped wearing it since. She always has it on her, human or monster form. This trope can also somewhat apply to her red lipstick, something else she purposefully wears in both her human form and monster form.

Old Money - Rita's family is very wealthy. Her relatives from generations back were early adopters of the monster story and later movie crazes, which not only gave them entertainment money but also greatly increased their networking opportunities by allowing them to mingle with the likes of the Draculas and other rich families. Because of this wealth, Rita grew up attending parties with other wealthy kids like Drak Jr. and her family can easily afford to send her to a private schools like Gravedale High.

Please Keep Your Hat On - Rita is always covering her head in her monster form. This is for two reasons: One, it psychologically helps her transition from having very long hair in her mammalian human form to having no hair at all in her amphibious monster form. Two, and more importantly to her, Rita has no top fin in her monster form, which she believes other monsters would mock her for. This has never happened to her before (and in fact her parents like to brag that she lacks a top fin just like the original Creature did, and that physical feature is what separates them from the other, more distant relatives in their family), but it is something that truly worries her. Thus, this trope is more internal for Rita then anything literally being hidden by her hat. (This is arguably an overlap with Vanity is Feminine then.)

True Blue Femininity - Rita's favorite color is light blue and she wears it in all of her outfits, both for her human clothes and her monster ones. In a more symbolic/meta sense, the light blue in her outfit represents water, so it's an important color for her in that way too.

Bonus tropes:

Ear Fins - In her monster form Rita has external gills/fins where her ears are in her human form.

Fish People - Rita's monster form is an amphibious humanoid a la her ancestor the Creature from the Black Lagoon. (Since she is specifically a girl descendent of the creature, this overlaps a little with Water is Womanly.)

Lonely Rich Kid - To an extent. She does have a couple close friends and an overall positive relationship with her parents, but her relationship with them is somewhat strained due to their constant working and she has difficultly making friends due to her closed-off nature. This does weigh on her, at least a small amount.

Shout-Out - Both Rita's first and last names are a direct reference to Creature from the Black Lagoon. Her red lipstick is a nod to the Creature's red lips, and likewise the white part of her superhero uniform is a nod to the famous swimsuit from the film.

Strawna

Girl Next Door - Strawna is considered a lovely but average girl: She's cute but doesn't have many admirers. She's shy but friendly to the people she does talk with. She's not One Of The Boys but she can still get along with her all-guy classmates. She overall the kind of girl who won't put herself out there, but would get a good response from her peers if she did.

Overalls and Gingham - Strawna grew up on a farm, so her wardrobe consists of outfits that can be worked in - practical coverings like overalls with nice-but-not-fancy shirts with gingham patterns for a little flair. This wardrobe was taken with her when she started attending Gravedale High, with the only "not farm work appropriate" clothing she has being her sandals, bought especially for school.

Raised by Grandparents - Strawna has been raised by her grandfather on his small farm ever since she was little. He is the only family member of hers that she knows of, leading to them being incredibly close and her having a strong respect for her elders. Coming from this home environment did give her a good amount of culture shock and homesickness when she started attending Gravedale High (especially during the "meet the parents" events like the school talent show), but it does help her get along with her teacher Mr. Tutnor, another elder figure in her life.

Scary Stitches - Strawna's main monstrous physical trait is the stitches on her body. The stitches around her neck, wrists, and ankles are the most visible ones, keeping the sacks around her head, hands, and feet in place. She also has visible stitches on the corners of her mouth.

Scholarship Student - Strawna is attending Gravedale High on scholarship as part of the school's attempt to reach a wider swath of the monster community. She, in turn, is significantly less wealthy than her classmates. This is something that intimidates her and makes her even shyer than she usually is.

The Unblinking - Strawna has no eyelids and is incapable of blinking, so she's always wide-eyed and staring at everyone. Because of this her eyes look painted onto her face. However, she is able to move her pupils around so her eyes aren't completely frozen.

Bonus tropes:

Cute Monster Girl - While all four of these characters are Cute Monster Girls, Strawna fits the description best because, in an out-of-universe sense, she was literally designed to resemble a cute human girl.

Childish Bangs + Girlish Pigtails - These two play together to help make Strawna look extra cute, playing into her being a Cute Monster Girl. These two also combine together to make a youthful-looking hair style, ymbolically playing into Strawna's status as the (mostly) naive new kid at Gravedale High.

Zombie Gait - Strawna, out of concern of accidentally ripping her stitches and letting her straw/stuffing out, walks very slowly and deliberately, in a zombie/Frankenstein's Monster-like manner.

Maddie

The Corruptible - Maddie, due to playing both the lackey to her mother's evil plans and the sidekick to Rita's heroic plans to stop her, is always teetering on the edge of becoming fully evil. Her belief in the inherent nature of good and evil also makes it more likely for her to stay under her mother's control, as she does believe her mother when she says that some people are simply destined to be involved in evil. Maddie's gullible nature and tendency to be a follower further plays into this, making it more likely for her mother to corrupt her, but also increasing Rita (and others') chances of pulling her away from her mother's influence.

Friendly Zombie - Maddie is easy-going and much more open to idea of humans and monsters co-existing than other monsters are. (She gets along well enough with her mom's human boyfriend, after all.) She also does not have a desire to attack or eat humans, and in fact tends not to eat much meat in general. (Though, this is less due to trying to avoid any unsavory parts of her zombie nature and more because her mother mainly feeds her vegetable-centered dishes at home.)

Fluffy Tamer - Maddie fascination with living creatures leads her to having a lot of pets. These pets include "scary" animals like a snake and a tarantula, one of her mother's carnivorous plants, and a Purple People Eater. Maddie also makes sure to give each of these pets a cute name to show her affection for them. (The Purple People Eater's name is Mr. Grape, for instance.)

Labcoat of Science and Medicine - Maddie almost always has a white lab coat on. Her mother insists on her wearing it whenever she's in public or helping her in her lab, to better present herself as underling to a proper villainous scientist. Maddie does take off the jacket when she's alone, however.

Long Hair is Feminine - Maddie's long hair is the main physical trait of hers that makes her look feminine. Due to being a zombie she lacks most of the other physical characteristics that would make people read her as feminine, so her hair is notable in that regard.

Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter - Maddie is the only child of villainous scientist Eve L. Scientist. Her mother keeps her under her control as much as possible, often taking her out of school whenever she needs an assistant for one of her evil schemes. Despite this, however, Maddie genuinely loves her mother and is more often than not happy to help her take care of her plants and perform other lackey duties. This trope is mildly subverted by Maddie having more monstrous features (and thus being "less beautiful") than her mother, who is considered an attractive Plant Person.

Bonus tropes:

The Dead Have Eyes - Maddie can see out of her empty eye socket just as well as she can her human eye.

Messy Hair- Maddie's hair is thin and stringy, with strands usually sticking out/falling in front of her face.

Undeathly Pallor - Maddie's skin is pale with a strong gray tint to it due to being a zombie.

Voodoo Zombie - To an extent. While she wasn't resurrected with magic and not under full mind control, Maddie was still raised from the dead to act as her mom's lackey and is still under her control in a sense.

#fan character #moonbeam barksdale #rita lagoon #strawna crowford #maddie scientist

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writingutensilthief · 7 months

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I was updating Moonbeam's profile today (as I've recently changed her parentage and thus her backstory), and it occurred to me the profile I had for her posted here still had her old design attached to it, so I've decided to combine the two in a new post. So under the cut is her updated profile:

Name: Moonbeam Barksdale

Age: 27

Species: Werewolf

Gender/Pronouns: Female, She/Her

Height: 6′2″

Residence: Gravedale, USA

Occupation: Assistant Gym Coach

Physical Description:

Human - White skin tone with light brown eyes. Light brown hair wore down and reaching the upper back, slightly wavy. Ears slightly elongated and pointed at the top. Tall with an oval face shape.

Werewolf - Light brown fur everywhere except for ears, face/snout, neck, hands, and feet; face/snout, neck, hands, feet, and inner ears have a white skin tone, while outer ears are covered in black fur. Wolf ears on top of head and a black wolf nose. Long light brown wolf tail. Clawed fingers and toes, claws the same color as hands and feet. Upper fur/hair styled to be shoulder-length, slightly wavy and pointed upwards at the bottom. Fully light brown eyes with black pupils. Tall with a snouted face.

Clothing Description:

Human - A yellow calf-length dress with elbow-length sleeves. Dress has a light blue collar with a light blue stripe on the bottom of each sleeve, with matching light blue buttons going down from the top of the dress to the middle of it. A light blue headband decorated with fake blue flowers, and a matching light blue belt decorated with fake blue flowers worn around the waist. Yellow slip-on shoes with a fake light blue flower decorated on top.

Werewolf (Drak Pack) - A yellow knee-length dress with elbow-length sleeves, with the dress torn at the bottom. Dress has a light blue collar with a light blue stripe on the bottom of each sleeve, with matching light blue buttons going down from the top of the dress to the middle of it. A light blue belt decorated with fake blue flowers worn around the waist. Fake light blue flowers strewn about her hair.

Werewolf (Gravedale High) - A light green sweater with elbow-length sleeves. Sweater has a dark red collar with a dark red stripe on the bottom of each sleeve, and the letters ‘GH’ in large dark red print on the chest. A dark red, loose knee-length skirt. A singular fake light blue flower worn next to her right ear.

Basic Personality Traits

Positive traits:

- Nurturing

- Responsible

Negative traits:

- Passive Agressive

- Judgemental

Other notable traits:

- Firm belief in the inherent nature of strength and weakness; has a “strong must protect the weak” philosophy

- Deep love for her family and believes it to be the most important kind of relationship

- Difficulty dealing with change

Family members and relationship with them:

Moonflower Barksdale-Werewolf (Mother)

Moonbeam’s mother. When Moonbeam was younger she was quite close with her mother, as she helped her with taking care of her younger brothers and found comfort in her after her father’s passing. However, this relationship was shattered when she was 18 and her mother left her and her brothers behind to move to Transylvania without explanation for why. She eventually did get the explanation she needed - that her mother felt she couldn’t cope with her husband’s death in her current situation and needed a fresh start - but by then it was too late to quell her anger. She was incredibly bitter about her mother’s decision, especially when she discovered that her mother remarried and had another child soon after she moved to Transylvania. Now that she’s older, there’s a small part of Moonbeam that understands that her mother is in a better situation now, but that generally gets overridden by the part that is still upset.

Lon Talbot (Biological father)

Moonbeam’s biological father. Moonbeam doesn’t have too many prominent memories of her father from when she was a kid, as he often traveled for work, and but she does have a few from when he was home. When she was 11, however, he suddenly passed away, leaving the family in shambles. At the time she was incredibly distressed by this, but over the years she’s come to terms with his death and instead chooses to focus on the few positive memories he left behind.

Wilfred “Papa” Werewolf (Stepfather)

Moonbeam’s stepfather. Moonbeam has never met him in person, but has had some contact with him through letters he sends (and in fact she learned about his and her mother’s marriage that way). At first she was very bitter at him due to the circumstances surrounding his and her mother’s marriage, but as she’s gotten older she’s warmed up to him, even if she stills views him specifically as her stepfather instead of her father. (This is mainly because he has actually maintained a relationship with her, even going as far as sending her and her brothers birthday cards and other father-like gifts.)

Tearence Barksdale (Brother)

Moonbeam’s younger brother and the oldest of her three brothers. She tends to butt heads with him the most, given how his more relaxed nature clashes with her responsible one. However, she does hold a sense of respect for him, mainly due to how quickly he has able to pull his life together after their mother left; even if she doesn’t agree with his acting career at times, she does respect how he was able to get a job and apartment (and how he was willing to let her and Nicoclaws move in with him) and generally keep his life and attitude afloat.

Nicoclaws “Claws” Barksdale (Brother)

Moonbeam’s younger brother and the middle of her three brothers. She views him as her most level-headed brother and will go to him for advice before anyone else. Because of this level of respect, she tends to “lecture” him very rarely, even if she doesn’t fully understand his choices (she questions why he’s still in his “purposefully sad” phase, for example). She also somewhat sees herself in him, especially in his tendency to take things very seriously (and current difficulty in finding employment).

Howell “Howler” Barksdale (Brother)

Moonbeam’s younger brother and the youngest of her three brothers. She openly refers to him as her “favorite brother” and views him as her the pup of the family who still needs her protection. She is trying to let him live his own life without her constant suggestions/input, especially since he lives away from her and with his own pack now, but it’s hard for her to see him as anything but her baby brother. She often refers to him as “Howlie”, her nickname for him, whenever she talking about him to others.

Winnie Werewolf (Half sister)

Moonbeam’s youngest sibling and only sister. She has never met Winnie in person (or even had any direct contact with her), and when she first learned about her she didn’t want to. Now that she’s older she thinks differently and wouldn’t mind meeting her half sister, though she’s still not 100% she could feel about her the same as she does her brothers.

Other important notes:

- Moonbeam has the typical werewolf abilities - enhanced agility and endurance, increased sense of hearing and smell, claws and fangs that can be used to fight. She does also have the physical capability to have the breath and howling powers her youngest brother is known for (she has the needed enhanced lung capacity, for example), but she doesn’t actually have the ability to do them.

- Moonbeam can transform between her human and werewolf forms independently and at will.

- Moonbeam’s current position at Gravedale High (and her first job ever) is as the assistant gym coach to Coach Cadaver. She was hired mainly to make sure the other students at the school get a proper physical education (as Cadaver is only concerned with his own class/the football team). Of course, she did have other important qualifications as well, such as her natural werewolf athleticism and willingness to accept less pay than Cadaver gets.

- At work, Moonbeam is probably closest with Coach Cadaver as the two of them will have philosophical debates with one another on topics such as the treatment of strength/weakness and the nature of being a monster. (Both do view the other as inherently wrong during these debates, but they still like having someone to have these discussions with.) She is also trying to develop a friendly relationship with Mr. Schneider given her own experiences as a human, but has less opportunities to do so since they don’t directly work together like she and Cadaver do.

#fan character #moonbeam barksdale

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