(OOC) New Bedford by Night II

[Erulasto]

Kara St.Claire

Character Sheet: https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1542740

Character Picture: https://ibb.co/dQaRGx

Spoiler: Connection with Solo

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Solomon, like most Iraka, has stalked each member of his pack at one point or another. They find it difficult to switch off the hunting instincts, particularly those who revere Hikaon-Ur. This is not done with any intent of malice or harm, quite the opposite. Solomon wants to detect any weakness in his pack, so he might protect them from themselves. He has occasional guilty thoughts about killing all of them, and everything else. He tells himself this is part of the gift and curse of Mother Moon for the Iraka. He tells himself he can use this knowledge to prevent anyone else who had divined the most effective way to stalk his friends.
Of these protective stalking it was Kara who left the greatest impression, in that she was the cause for greatest concern. She is a dreamer, rooted in practicalities and far too human. All admirable traits, but ones making her easy prey. So occasionally, when Kara is away from the city streets, she has a shadowy protector. From this vantage he has come to admire Kara greatly, for she is beautiful in all the ways that he is not.
Kara lives firmly in the now - her interest in history extending only to the world of Music. Her head is usually in the clouds, or her nose buried in her phone (or a notebook with furiously scribbled lyrics and musical notes). She gushes over the latest technological toys, and how many twitter followers she has (her handle is @KaraStClaire). She's always trying to snap candid pics of her 'family' to show the internet and show off the band she is fiercely proud of.
Sometimes the dreams that are common to Cahalith are quite traumatic, and she's developed a tendency to sleep in little cat naps wherever and whenever she has the time. Suffice it to say, the obligatory 'just-waking-up' selfies are some of her most common.
Since she's always got a tune in her head distracting her, she's not always the most perceptive of the Pack. As such, it's not likely she's really aware when Solomon stalks her - even if she may be aware that he does. She certainly doesn't mind if she does know - she's got a remarkably lax concept of personal boundaries when it comes to her Pack mates (She's not above creeping into the bathroom and snapping surprise photos with a gleeful cackle), or just flopping down and sprawling across them if they're lounging around.
In the case of Solomon specifically, she feels a strange kinship to him as far as the spark of music goes. She's nowhere sneaky enough to not have the Irraka not notice, but sometimes she likes to just sit and listen to him practice his instrument.....and sometimes, if she thinks he's having a rough day, she likes to sing to him. If asked, she just flashes a lopsided grin and says "Music soothes the Savage Beast."

Spoiler: Connection with Blaze

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Blaze’s connection to the pack actually came through Kara. Despite his stoner reputation, Blaze is up to date on all the latest technological advancements and actually knows his way around some computer code. A friend of a friend introduced them and Blaze helped Kara optimize some of her social networking and media. Wasn’t long before he found out she sang, and the band was in need of a drummer. The rest, as they say, is history.
Kara is a social butterfly. She's at home among many different cliques and Social circles. She was even an occasional visitor to the stoners that hung around the school track and field bleachers after classes. It's through there that she met her tech guru.
Kara is a whiz at social media, photo editing, and knows how to work all the new toys. But her expertise stops at reinstalling an OS or basic behind the scenes maintenance.
When Blaze offered to "pimp her processor" she paid him back some of the dankest of bud.
Now, she sometimes gets him to be her camera man when she needs a 'hands free selfie, or to set up her tech.
She still knows where to get the dankest of bud. Being pack mates with a social butterfly has it's perks.
Also....Blaze is the only one she lets get away with calling her a social media whore.

Spoiler: Connection to Iago

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There is a saying that someone very wise once said. It claims that it takes a dork to free a dork. Or something.
Kara met Iago when she volunteered to be a case study in one of his early psych classes (or if psych wasn't the direction he was going we can fine tune this somehow) after another one of Iago's classmates suggested her (for a project about narcissism and hedonism). The suggestion was supposed to be meant as an insult, but Kara owned it and the project was so insightful it got Iago the top mark in the class.
As they got to know each other across the interviews for the project, she dug her way past his stiff exterior and discovered his melodramatic dorkiness. Kara capitalizes on this knowledge by constantly goading him to cut loose, be loose and maybe "find yourself a hookup at our next show, it's great for stress relief."
She likes snapping random photos of Iago. The one of him with a waffle hanging out of his mouth got over 40k likes!
Iago likes Kara. He certainly has feelings for her. However, he's unsure of what exact type of feelings. Emotions tend to get in the way of the task at hand, so he always tried to kept his in check. Iago does remember the day they met and the metaphorical storm her personality brought over his admittedly dull life. He also has the occasional suspicion that she was a key component on the event that The People refer to as his "First change". Then again, maybe it was the stress, maybe it was the pressure, maybe it was the result of the occasional experiments he performed on his own psyche. Iago would've liked to delve further on research, but alas, there's things to be done first.
Iago and Kara's relations are based in mock-fighting, trolling and teasing. Where Juno actually punched Kara, Iago would have pressed his palm over her face, then firmly pushed her off the bathroom up to optimal distance for slam-door-near-face effect, all while maintaining a perfect deadpan expression. While Bear acts more as an enabler of her antics, Iago prefers to play the spoilsport, but they probably have some hobbies or media in common they occasionally geek about. And probably some kind of verbal or non-verbal code to signal each other to "Not. Now. ".

Spoiler: Connection with Juno

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Juno initially hated Kara. She's not sure if this was/still is reciprocal... but she did give Kara a black eye the first time a #bathroom selfie was taken at Juno's expense so to say there was a little tension between the two was an understatement. Because most of her brothers were a-holes (the jury's still out on Bear who is a technical bro) she doesn't quite understand that Kara's teasing is affectionate and she is blind/tone deaf to Kara's love of social media and technology. Also, while she may not be the biggest slob among the group, she frequently takes any opportunity to chide Kara for anything she considers slovenly. On the other hand, she can't stay mad at Kara unless she "creeps on her in the bathroom again" for too very long and doesn't give her any crap for her esoteric song writing habits as long as Kara doesn't leave a mess lying around.
She knows that Juno had a hard upbringing with rigid demands set on her by her family. She knows that her own lackadaisical approach to life can be a hard pill to swallow for some people - and that some people aren't keen on her distinct lack of personal boundaries. Despite this self-awareness, Kara isn't the type to change who she is to conform to the image someone else has of her. She didn't hold it against Juno when she punched her in the face for too long, and she genuinely likes Juno - even if there are some seriously tense moments between the two of them. Kara has cut back on the bathroom selfies, and other things that Juno considers invasive - but that doesn't mean all is paradise. She balances out these good deeds by leaving her underwear around in conspicuous places - including on Juno's door handle, and the most unusual places she's left them were on the ceiling fan in the kitchen and in the small basket for keys just inside the door.
It's done tongue in cheek - she enjoys irritating Juno, but she's never outwardly spiteful or mean.
And she's the first to offer to help wash dishes after a meal....if Juno is the one who cooked.
And like all the members of her Pack, she'll stick up for them against outside threats without a second thought. She also enjoys recounting the tales of Juno's exploits putting down grabby handed individuals in the bar. She is a storyteller...after all.

Spoiler: Connection to Bear

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Bear has mixed feelings about Kara. He has a lot of fun with her, but worries that she doesn't take the pack's duties seriously enough. He's occasionally tried to nudge her towards indulging in the wolf a little more, listening to the call, but doesn't push hard.
On the stage, he likes to help Kara set up for big scenes, holding her high in the air while she's finishing off a big vocal segment for instance.
Bear's a little protective of everyone in the pack, but Kara has him concerned in particular. If in a scene that might get a little rough, and he's not already occupied with Ciara, he'll often find some excuse to stand near her. He's been known to glare over her shoulder at people he has a bad feeling about approaching.
Whether many of the Pack are cognizant of it, part of the relaxed front Kara seems to have regarding the more....furry side of her nature is actually the result of a rather deep-rooted fear she has about it. Her first change - something she is uncharacteristically loathe to discuss - along with the inclusion of the disturbing, traumatic dreams of prophesy and insight that Luna gifts to her scare her. She does acknowledge her responsibilities as a Cahalith and a Uratha, despite her misgivings, but if Bear detects that she's not always behaving like she's taking it as seriously as she should? It's likely she had a bad dream that rattled her.
But Kara 'Sunshine' St.Claire always puts on a smile.
Bear and Ciara? Yeah....she 'ships' that hard.
She loves the big, protective Rahu and enjoys how easy it is for him to toss her around or pick her up, and his tendency to glower at the people he thinks are getting to close to her. She's poked at him sometimes to try throwing her at the Pack's enemies sometimes, but so far she hasn't convinced him to give it a shot. She also appreciates his grandstanding with guitar solos, and while he sets her up for big vocal finishes, she often tries to return the favor by letting him shred like the monster he is.
She tries to keep a wonderful relationship with Ciara, and often tries to have girl talks with her. Kara rather vocally has proclaimed that even if she's not the maid of honor, she wants to at LEAST throw Ciara her bachelorette party.

Spoiler: 'Kara On' Answers

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Kara on Tour

Kara on the Road
What’s worse than a social media darling with no concept of personal boundaries? A Uratha social media darling with no concept of personal boundaries on a tour bus. When Kara isn’t listening to an iPod, head bobbing away while she scribbles furiously in a notebook, she’s sprawled across whatever surface (or Pack Mate) she can find and napping. When she’s in a particularly playful or troublesome mood, she has been known to moon passing cars, or in a couple instances when she had had a few too many drinks on the road she actually flashed a few passing cars if the drivers caught her fancy. It’s a given that everyone in the Pack has seen her in various states of undress more than once.

Kara before the Gig
The singing starts before they’re even on stage, most of the time. Kara is warming up her vocal chords for a good hour before, and usually runs the gamut from simple chord progressions, to lullabies, to her own versions of Top 40 hit songs. It is downright uncanny how Kara seems to have the lyrics to so many songs memorized. If she’s feeling particularly like a Diva, she demands a karaoke machine in their green room for before the gig, and sometimes for during the afterparty.

Kara during the Gig
Kara is incredibly focused on the show they’re putting on. She rarely drinks a lot or partakes in any illicit substances before she has to go on. She likes being in her right mind when she performs. She gets her own high from the music, and the longer the band plays the more she seems to lose herself in the music and the moment – often eyes closes, hands gripping the mic tightly, body swaying to the music. This may be the most focused the rest of the Pack has ever seen her.

Kara after the Gig
Kara loves the after party. She doesn’t get trashy and white-girl wasted all the time, but she does cut loose quite a bit. It’s like an adrenaline dump after the high of the show. She enjoys meeting fans, and one of her favorite things to do is to get a karaoke machine up and running and invite some of the VIP fans to sing duets with her. She’s also an incredibly dutiful hostess, regardless of her own methods of cutting lose, and she works the crowd and the Pack to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves. Sometimes she tries to play matchmaker and set some of the band-mates up with interested groupies. But she actively tries to steer interested parties away from Bear. She’s got Ciara’s back. #SisterfromanotherMister!

Kara having a Jam
Kara loves jamming. The spontenaity appeals to the wildness in her heart. If someone is playing on their own, or just strumming along, she’ll jump in and join them – unless they want to be alone and shoe her away, but that doesn’t always work.

Kara writing Music
Kara doesn’t go anywhere without her notebook, which is filled to the brim with scribbled lyrics and an assortment of half-finished notes and chords. She loves to write music, and does so with a single-mindedness that borders on strange madness. She’s always down to help her family with their own writing if they want it.

Kara on being Forsaken

Kara on the Hunt
The Hunt is exhilarating, and Kara feels like a part of her soul is finally free to do what it was always meant to do, despite her ties to the human world. She is, ultimately, afraid of truly letting go of the human world and letting herself experience the wonders of the Wild that pulses in her veins and beats in her heart.

Kara on Luna
Kara can’t help but love Luna – even as a secret part of her hates Luna. Luna and her Umia are both a great source of strength and inspiration for Kara, but also her greatest madness for it is these Moon-Spirits that torment her in her sleep with prophetic dreams both terrible and wondrous.

Kara on the Oaths
The Oaths are what keeps the world she is now part of sane – and given what she sees when she closes her eyes and falls into a fitful sleep, she clings to whatever sanity she can. Objectively, she understands why each of the Oaths exist.

Kara on the Pack
Her own parents are long gone and she was an only child. Without having a normal childhood foundation to build upon, Kara was destined to be a substantially different young woman. But now? She had something better than family. She had a Pack.

Kara on the Pure
When the madness of Luna is high in her veins, her passions are burning in her lungs and she wants to scream and to tear her clothes of and run through the woods with a howl on her lips, a secret shameful part of her rears its head at a moment of weakness and she remembers that the Pure have shunned the Spirits and she wonders…maybe, just maybe….they could help keep the horrible nightmares that are Luna’s gift to her at bay. But that would mean leaving her Pack…..and she wouldn’t do that. Would she?

Spoiler: Kara St.Claire Stat Box

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Harmony: 8
Willpower: 3/4
Essence: 9/10
Health: 7/7
Beats/EXP: 2/1
Tilts/Conditions: Steadfast

Spoiler: Aspirations

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Short Term 1: Better her relationship with the Reveler for the betterment of the Pack, the Reveler itself, and the band's career?
Short Term 2A: To find a way to deal with her traumatic dream-prophesies.
2B: To find out why Luna and her Lunes have taken such an interest in her.
Long Term: To have the band become platinum-album Rock Legends.