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Name Eponine "Nina" Clay
Age 23
Gender Female
Species Ostensibly Human
EthnicityEdani
Height 5'9"
Orientation Heterosexual
Occupation Horse Trainer
Residence Second Chances Horse Ranch (just outside the city of Tynova)
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Physical Description
Nina has chestnut brown hair with hints of red when exposed to sunlight--which happens frequently, considering she spends a majority of her time working outdoors under the Edani sun. Her skin bears a near constant nut-brown tan, and despite her youth there are both sun and laughter eyes around her bright blue eyes.
Personality
Nina is, and always has been, the Weird Horse Girl(TM). Though she grew up in one of the "smaller" megacities (at least as far as she is aware), she's never really been comfortable in urban spaces, and much prefers the wild vastness of Edanith's rurality and frontier, dangerous as they may be. Around people of a two-legged persuasion she can be a bit awkward and sort of rough around the edges, but it's usually clear that she means well, even if she occasionally puts her foot in her mouth.
Magic/Abilities
Beastspeaking: this gift applies mainly to equine creatures, but Nina also has a passing understanding with some cats and even dogs, on occasion.
Though she does actually come by this gift naturally, it was amplified by Mother.
Nina is also incredibly fast, with insane amounts of stamina (again, thanks to Mother), though she's never really needed to tap into this particular strength so she's not entirely aware of it.
She is actually descended from an equine skinwalker, though she doesn't know it; Mother just sort of reawakened the dormant genes to allow her to have such increased speed and stamina. Though Nina will never be a shapeshifter herself, she's not exactly all human either.
Relationships
Her parents, Isolde and Deanna; her employers at Second Chances; any return customers/visitors she happens to strike up a conversation with; and of course the horses on the ranch.
History
To the best of Nina's knowledge, she grew up in one of Edanith's "smaller" megacities, adopted by an older but very kind couple: Isolde and Deanna Marsh. Despite the beauty and culture of the place, and how much she loved her mothers, however, she always felt just a little stifled--so when the chance came to enter an internship program at a working and therapeutic horse ranch just outside Tynova, she leaped at the opportunity.
And she just sort of...never left. The couple who ran the program were impressed with how easily she took to the work, and when her three month internship was up, they offered her a job, which she happily accepted. She still goes home to visit her parents on occasion, but she'd quite happy in her current position.
Nina never actually learned the name of the "mysterious benefactor" who allowed her to take the internship--the letter just arrived on their doorstep one day soon after she'd found the application for Second Chances.
This benefactor was, of course, not only Nina's saving grace in this instance, but in fact the reason for her existence at all. Mother created the young woman in her lab and left her in the foster system on Edanith when she was four, and has kept an eye on her since.
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