Scarlet Raynard
Physical Description
Average height for a human woman, she immediately stands out as decidedly not one. Besides the cute large fox ears on top of her head, with their matching red fur to her long red hair, which she keeps loose behind her, trimming her bangs and letting them come down just above her eyes. To finish her look she has a single giant puffy red fox tail, with a white tip, which she keeps immaculately brushed. She is a slender woman with a large chest, at least that’s how she appears most of the time. As a Kitsune, she does have natural shape shifting magic and can appear as someone else. She only uses that ability to do her investigations, since her normal look is too well known.
She does love her normal form, and knows how attractive she is to people, so makes sure her make up is flawless. As she is a Kitsune, her nails are naturally pointed, and she likes to keep them that way, painting them a bright red. She keeps with the same theme and paints her lips a similar colour, and even uses a dark pink eye shadow with liner to continue the colour theme.
Physical Quirks
She is very much a tactile person, liking to get close to people she is talking to likes to lean into them to listen or whisper when she’s talking to them one on one. She also will occasionally twitch her ears, especially when she smells something she likes. She often will touch her amulet when she’s thinking.
Clothing Style
Her look can best be described as business casual, with a red crop top, with short sleeves and that covers most of her midriff, leaving only a hint, and a mid length dark red skirt. She also wears dark ref high heeled pumps and always wears bright red lace stockings, something she absolutely adores and doesn’t like taking off. She has a pair of bracelets made of three interlocking rings, one of which is a glowing red ring. She also has strange circular amulet on a necklace chain. It has a large gem in the center, and four leaves surrounding it.
Mental Characteristics
Personal History
Growing up beside the rivers of France, she didn’t really see much of big cities, her home town not even having more than one tenth the population of one of a borough where she lives now. She spent her time with a fairly carefree life, and lots of room to explore, which she did a lot. In fact most of her time was spent exploring places, getting into areas she was told not to go, just to see what was there. Her curiosity was insatiable, and it served her well. She was quite good at finding things people wanted hidden that were bad and ended up helping the local police solve a burglary spree. They joked that she’d make a great detective, but she insisted she preferred to tell people about it, not arrest them.
And that was when she realized a reporter would be the job for her. At this time, her parents, who worked for a large American firm, were transferred to the head office in New York. Her parents helped her get her citizenship, as in this giant city, she was stunned and thrilled; so much to investigate! She went to a local college to learn journalism, and immediately set out as an investigative reporter, finding a story and selling it and her talent to a local news station. They were impressed with her attitude and hired her on the spot. She worked her way up the ranks, getting more and more airtime as she broke bigger stories. One day, she just up and quit, in the middle of what she said was her biggest story, and went to work on her own. She has never told anyone why, and when people ask why, she just grins wide and talks about her new venture instead.
Education
She was always top of her journalism classes, and she particularly excelled in the ethics classes, being very keen to never be a part of the story, and to always remain unbiased. She was also good at being able to explain complex stories in a way that was both interesting and informative, without missing important details.
Employment
She was picked up at a local affiliate of a large national broadcaster, getting her first start in the local beat for about 9 years. By then, she had earned enough respect that she was beginning to be featured on the national broadcaster as much as the local one. She spent 7 years working the national level, picking up bigger and bigger stories before she left suddenly, and began to start on her own news channel, which she registered as KTSN News. It is still in the process of being built, started initially by crowd funding, but recently gained the money of a large tech mogul, one who had been burned by the media a lot recently.
Morality & Philosophy
For her, telling the truth of a story is paramount. While she is fine with lying and deception to get information for the story, she feels that that is necessary, especially with corrupt people. She does insist on following journalistic ethics fully, and hates how many media people these days are more interested in being a part of the story and editorializing rather than reporting.
Personality
Motivation
She is always looking for the deeper story, the truth behind the mask that everyone has. She wants to root out corruption and shine the light of the public on it. She has a saying she likes to use for this, but it is in French, so most people don’t know what it means.
Likes & Dislikes
She loves to dance, and will drag people into a dance almost anywhere if she hears a song she likes to dance to. She also likes eat hamburgers, having fallen in love with the food as soon as she had it. She is always willing to try a new one, and has a particular love of mushroom swiss ones. She absolutely hates not being able to get information on a case, and will spend hours coming up with plans to get what she wants to know.
Virtues
She is very tenacious and dedicated to finding out what she wants to know, and is relentless in her pursuit of the truth. She is also exceedingly honest and ethical when it comes to her presenting of the news. She will give people only the information, not her opinion, and all of the information, not just the portions she agrees with. She trusts people to do what is right, and doesn’t want to try and force them to agree with her.
Vices
While she is very honest with her news, when it comes to investigating, she will lie, manipulate or make veiled threats to get further into a story. She will never carry out those threats if they will actively hurt people, but she still makes them. She also is extremely nosy, and tends to think everything is her business, and hiding it from her only makes her more tenacious to know.
Quirks
She is such a fan of red that she tends to always shape shift into redheads, or with a lot of red clothing. Luckily in a city the size of New York, it’s impossible to use that to figure out someone is her in disguise, unless they never wear red. She also moves more like a model than a reporter, which gives her broadcasts a lot more flair and appeal.
Values
For her, those who are honest, ethical and true to their principles are the ones she values most. People who actively go out of their way to fight for those ideals are even more important to her. She finds people who wish to clean up the media to be the best kind of people to know.
Sexual Style
She is most definitely in touch with her animal side, being very feisty in the sheets. She has a very voracious libido and will use her seductive nature and brazenly flirt with those she is interested in. If they accept she will enjoy it, but she finds those who are shy or not confident to be more attractive. She loves nothing more than to build up the confidence of some shy person and then enjoy what she’s built up. She has a particular love of being taken from behind or riding on top of them. She may flirt with married people or those in relationships, but once she finds out they are, she will usually just leave saying “If only your partner was interested to.” If they express that their partner is, she may just go at it with both. That’s about the only time she sleeps with women.
Social
Contacts & Relations
She is still close to her parents, even though they are now retired and have moved back to France. She is enjoying her time in the US way too much, and can’t drag herself away from the big city for long. She does visit them on holidays. While she had many colleagues that respected her and she was friendly with when she was working at the network, she began to realize that most of it was superficial, and everyone always had an angle they were trying to play. Everyone was playing a part, and she hated all of it. Since leaving, she’s been finding kindred souls and friends on various social media platforms, and has begun working with many of them on her new enterprise.
Social Aptitude
A very extroverted and friendly woman, she is always happy to talk to people, asking all about them, wanting to learn what they think and particularly what they know. She is very charming, to the point of being rather disarming, and is very skilled at keeping the conversation about you rather than answering questions. She is also very excitable when she learns something new, especially if it may lead to a juicy story, or a juicy burger.
Religious Views
She isn’t religious at all, but doesn’t particularly care about religion much unless it is a motivation for a story, or she is exposing hypocrisy or corruption involved with it. To her, it’s just another organization, and likely has just as much rot as any other.
Mannerisms
She is a very seductive woman, moving like a model, charming with her speech, and very tactile when she’s talking to people. Be it using this side of her to get someone to talk, or just being her usual self while talking to people, she is almost always in a seductive mode. If she finds that isn’t working, she may get a lot more serious, and a lot more underhanded. She is a fan of pranks, especially ones involving mistaken identities or people that look alike, and will sometimes play them on those she likes.
Hobbies & Pets
She loves to read stories online, especially creepypasta. She knows they aren’t real, but she still can’t help but love them. She also spends a lot of time playing video games, something she finds great fun. And when she’s home, she can’t help but tend to her little herb garden. She has a brown ferret named Couleuvre, which means grass-snake.
Speech Style
She tends to speak in a very seductive and flattering way most of the time, and friendly. She tends to slip a word or two of french in from time to time, and will use her french accent when she’s not doing a broadcast. Her voice is very similar to the character of Angelique Bouchard in the Dark Shadows movie, except with an accent. The character’s vocal intonations and emotional range is very similar.
Political Affiliation & Activism
She has learned to steer far away from being even mildly expressive about your politics, as not only does it begin to affect your objectivity, it destroys your credibility when getting interviews. How can someone you are interviewing remain objective if they think you are either for or against their politics? She also avoids activism for the same reason. She wants to report the news, not be it.