Sharon Smith-Catseye

[Sharon Smith]

I was wondering if I could change Catseye's affiliation as it says she's a member of the Brotherhood but would probably do better in the Hellfire club. If this is a problem I can change it I just wanted to know! Thanks!

Full Name: Sharon Smith
Nicknames: Miss Smith
Codename: Catseye
Age: 21
Affiliation: Hellfire Club
Status: English Tutor at Frost Academy/Student Mentor

Member Title: Catseye stay! Happy place!

Physical Description:
Catseye, despite being raised on the streets, is very pretty. She is medium height, about five six, and skinny with long arms and legs. She is very awkward in her human form and walks clumsily when she’s like this. Catseye has shoulder length fluffy hair that is a pretty shade of violet. Her eyes, however, remain feline even in her human form and are yellow. Her skin is quite pale and always in her human form she has a tail. She doesn’t understand human clothing standard and prefers to wear what she deems appropriate and pretty, sometimes wearing rather provocative outfits or things that don’t go together very well. Around her neck is always a cat collar with a bell.
As a cat, Catseye can go one of two ways. Her first form is that of a large skinny house cat with hands. Her hair remains fluffy around her neck when she is in her cat form. The second form is that of a lioness/panther like cat. She is violet in both of these forms.

Avatar: Sophia Myles

Personality:
Catseye is very intelligent, possessing a photographic memory and the ability to grasp concepts very quickly. She can also sense when she’s being lied to which makes her a hard teacher to tell a fib to. She was raised on the street so she speaks in broken English and has a tough time learning cultural and social concepts. She’s often quite blunt with people and she is very honest. She doesn’t lie because she doesn’t know how to and she can be quite naive.
Because she was raised by cats, Catseye sees her human form as ugly and is very insecure about her appearance and especially around men. She struggles with identity issues, still truly believing that she is a cat with the mutant ability to turn into a human. She can be quite judgmental when her instincts call for it. But she is a very playful person and enjoys running and joking around. She’s a free spirit in every sense of the word and she loves to show off.


Power Description: Most mutations develop at puberty but Catseye’s developed at birth. She has the ability to take the form of a panther like cat and a housecat. Her housecat form has human hands. She has heightened senses as well as a healing factor. She retains most of her feline appearances when she is a human, like a tail and slited pupils. She’s very agile and very strong as well.

Family: Unknown

History:
Catseye’s life started out rough. Being a mutant at birth caused her parents to discard her. She was raised by stray cats who took the young mutant in as a part of their family. Catseye grew feral and stole to survive on the streets, realizing that despite her catlike appearance, she was different from her adoptive family. But she made the best of it.
When Catseye was fifteen, she was found by then Hellfire member, Emma Frost. Emma was appalled at the cruelty that the young girl had suffered and convinced the Hellfire club to allow the girl to follow them around as a student, naming the girl Sharon Smith and codenaming her Catseye. This was before the Academy was open. While with the Hellfire Club, Catseye learned to read and learned quickly under the tutelage of Miss Frost. She followed around the Hellfire Club members and learned human costumes, though she preferred to run around in her cat form.
Catseye left Miss Frost’s side when she turned eighteen. She was too embarrassed to attend college so she wandered around trying to find where she belonged. She wanted to help other mutants like her, ones that their parents had abandoned them. Catseye found the Xavier institute for Higher Learning but found it abandoned after the students had been evacuated. She then made her way to the city and found work as a waitress in a diner. She made a good earning but while her evenings were spent with people her days were spent with cats at the ASPCA.
Catseye was angered by the news of the cure. She hated the idea that her cat part may be taken away from her, as she had learned from Miss Frost that she was not a cat-human but a human-cat. She left her job and her feline friends at the ASPCA and tried to join Magneto’s brotherhood of mutants. She wanted to help his cause, not only to help others, but because she thought this is what Miss Frost would want. She was seen as naive and clumsy by most of the brotherhood members and when they went to Los Angeles, she was left behind.
Saddened by this abandonment, Catseye crawled back to Emma Frost and the Hellfire club. She wept and told Miss Frost that she just wanted to help but Magneto rejected her for being weak. Miss Frost took her back as a staff member of the school, teaching children what Frost had taught her; to respect herself and her powers.

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[Marie D'Ancanto]

I don't have a problem with a change in her affiliation. None whatsoever.

One thing I want cleaned up is how large her housecat form is. In the physical description you mention her being as large as a wolf in that form, but then she also has her large panther form. I'm not sure of the wolf-size was a typo or not but my personal preference is that her housecat form be just that, the size of your average housecat.

I'd also like you to say what precisely Sharon is teaching at the school. She's a teacher, but you don't say what of, and in her case it's actually quite important what she teaches because of her coming so late to formal education. It's fine if all she does is mentor students, not a formal teaching job but someone there for them to talk to, still in many ways a student herself.

In case you didn't notice yet (I know you gave me a whole other post when I asked for Wither edits), you can actually just hit the 'edit' button on the post and fix it up that way.

And give me a sample post for Sharon as a response so I know you're done.

[Sharon Smith]

My name is Miss Smith.

Catseye stared at the paper before her as she sat at the vanity in her room. She was dressed to kill; her favorite blouse hung low on her shoulders and was a vibrant violent purple. The blouse matched her purple earrings and her purple necklace. Her pants were black jeans. She brushed her hair and looked up at the mirror.

"Name is Mizz Smith." The words rolled off her tongue like a foreign language. She'd been assigned to be a counselor as well as an English tutor-the subject which she'd excelled in during Miss Frost's lessons. But speaking it was quite different than reading and writing it. She looked at her cat eyes in the mirror and wrinkled her nose in an angry expression. "Name is not Mizz Smith! Name is Catseye." She threw the brush angrily on the vanity and growled.

If only she could counsel the kids in a form she knew best. She didn't understand why she couldn't council them from her cat form. A form which wasn't so ugly and foreign, she mused as her tail flicked back and forth. She was a cat, not one of them, she growled to herself. "Catseye not as pretty pretty as other teachers. Catseye may be smarter but not so pretty pretty at all." She sighed, looking into the mirror again. She breathed and looked into her cat eyes again. But then again, what did it matter, she thought. "Catseye is smarter. Much smarter. Catseye show them who is smart. Who is better." She sat poised on the chair and nodded to herself in the mirror.

"My name is Miss Smith," she purred.

[Cessily Kincaid]

Accepted.