Bracken Walters

Picture credits: Eva Green

Nicknames: None, she hates being called 'Brack'.
Species: Lycanthrope - Wolf
Age: Looks to be in her mid 20's, her actual age is 30.
Occupation: Fashion Designer
Strengths: Alpha - She can partially shift her hands into claws and can return to animal form quickly after shapeshifting. Ambitious, determined, intelligent, independent and creative.
Weaknesses: Silver, not many close friends, works a lot.
Animal Form: Dainty looking wolf with a rich chestnut coat.

Appearance: Bracken's striking features have often resulted in her being compared to the models she works with, and many have commented on the way she carries herself with elegance and dignity. Her chocolate hair is always styled with each style depending on what she wears and the occasion. Likewise her clothes are always perfect, fitting for the situation and Bracken looks immaculate. Her wardobe is a mixture of her own designs, and those of fellow designers. Clothes off the rack are only bought if it is something that really appeals to her, or something she modifies to make it how she wants it to be. Bracken makes the most of her outfits, using them to highlight her height of 5ft 9 and slender form, while also hiding figure that isn't very volumptous. She uses make-up as a weapon as well, this time to emphasis her high cheek bones and beautiful aqua eyes.

Personality: Above all, Bracken is ambitious and everything else fits around her ambitions. She has tailored her personality to fit with the fashion industry, and she has grown a reptuation for being a creative but strong presence. She is the sort of person that can rub a lot of people up the wrong way, with many claiming she is a prima donna. In truth Bracken is quite the opposite, and just does not like to show her true feelings when at work. When she wants something she goes for it, and doesn't let go until she has gotten what she wants.

Her friends and pack members see a different side of Bracken, although she is still a very private person. She is recognised as someone not to trifle with despite her small size in animal form, and many know how ambitious she can be. Most of Bracken's time is spent working and so she has not gotten to know most of the pack that well, and she has little time for socialising. Despite this, Bracken is loyal to the pack though, and work is set aside when the pack needs her or something perks her interest. While it seems that work is all that interests her, there can sometimes be other things that catch her eye.

History: Born the only child of a make-up artist and set designer, Bracken's life was filled with beauty, art and creativity froma young age. She spent many vacations during her school years on the sets that her parents were working on, and in turn met a variety of people. From a young age Bracken had a creative spirit just like her parents, and was encouraged by her parents to work hard at school so she could achieve her dreams. Although she appreciated the design of a set and the make-up of the actors, it was the amazing colours and fabrics of the costumes that she love. As she went through her teens her passion for fashion developed, and at school it defined her as one of the 'cool kids' instead of the nerds. Art was not the only subject she excelled in, Bracken also achieved high grades in other subjects that would have had her named a nerd. Instead she walked both roads, and enjoyed the experiences she gained from school.

College proved harder for her, especially being further away from her parents, but Bracken's determination carried her through it and she won an apprenticeship with a large department store in Los Angeles. It was at this time in her life that Bracken learnt just how tough the fashion industry could be. She went into the apprenticeship intent on being nice and being appreciated for her talent, and instead she learnt how to be ruthless. Early into her apprenticeship some of her designs were stolen by one of the struggling designers and passed off as their own. The designs were released as a new range for the store, and the designer gained from Bracken's hard work. After that Bracken's nice attitude was dropped, and for a while she considered revenge or reporting the designer. In the end Bracken realised that either choice would ruin her reputation as a designer, and instead became more paranoid about keeping her designs hidden and about who to trust. It meant her apprenticeship became quite a lonely time for her, but a few months later the other designer was caught and Bracken's new designs were released as a range. At the end of her apprenticeship Bracken was offered the thief's job.

Over the years Bracken moved up in the fashion world, gaining reputation for her designs and eventually landing herself the task of designing a dress for one of the up-and-coming actresses. At the age of 25 it was a huge achievement and responsibility. Determined to do a good job, as she always did, Bracken worked all hours on the designs. On the way home from dropping a new set of designs off at the star's apartment, Bracken was attacked. At the time she thought it was just a simple mugging, and didn't realise that she had been scratched. It turned out that the local werewolf pack had a rogue shapeshifter on their hands and he was attacking and sometimes raping humans. Something had scared him off when he had attacked Bracken, leaving her with just a scratch. That was what the Pack representatives explained to her when they visited her the next day.

It took Bracken a while to come to terms with her lycanthropy, until she realised that as a fashion designer it opened more doors for her rather than closed them. Her designs were sort after by vampires and lycanthropes rather than just humans, and it was those contacts that landed her a job in New York City. She had been a lycanthrope for a couple of years before gaining approval to join the pack in New York. Once settlted there she made a point of moving through the ranks, only stopping a few ranks away from any particularly powerful rank in the Pack. It wasn't that Bracken wasn't ambitious, it was just that the time had come for her to start her own business and strike out on her own as a designer. Any position in the pack came with responsibility, not just power and so Bracken settled where she was.

The latest change in the city has meant that Bracken has lost a few of her customers, and she is eager to see what new ones can be made with the new Master of the City and the new vampires. All in all, she's looking on the bright side and more interested in what she can gain from the change, not what has been lost.

Played In: Velvet Moon