Laillou

tLaillou Highwall is a member of a secret military group in the West, currently tasked with hunting down the survivors of Palinoia.

"Imagine being a normal functioning person but there is a medium intelligence dog controlling your every move." -Nutmeg

Appearance
As a human, Laillou stands on the shorter side, with lighter skin weathered by scars, sun, and calluses. Her hair is brown with a reddish tinge, and she wears it to the side, bound in several places with leather ties.

But more of the time, she doesn't look like that at all.

As a wolf, Laillou cuts a much taller and broader figure. Her fur is light brown, darkening on her hands and feet to match her coarse mane, with a cream-colored throat and chest. Her primary canines jut over her jaw a short way, and her ears are long and pointed, not like a dog's at all. The piebald pattern on her muzzle and tailtip are a result of her generational curse - werewolves of second or first generation sport markings and colors closer to actual wolves, while third and down become more and more dog-like with each generation. Laillou's nails are naturally long and pointed, her palms are rough and hairless, and her feet padded.

In both forms, she wears black pants and a blue sleeveless shirt under a red leather collared vest. Her clothes are baggy enough to fit even when she transforms unexpectedly, but she usually opts to go barefoot, as she's ruined many many pairs of good shoes (by chewing, not by sudden size change).

Her eyes are green, but a scar mars the right so it appears paler than the left.

Background
Laillou serves as captain of "Exile" in her home city of Amberglen, a position she has held for almost three years. Exile (Extraction, Interrogation, Elimination) is a small, secret branch of the city's guard, that serves to seek out and deal with threats before they come to light. When she joined Exile, Laillou was fully human, and became afflicted with lycanthropy several years into her service. Because civilians are unaware of Exile or its members' existence, she was able to keep her position and advance through the ranks.

The son of Amberglen's baron had recently traveled to Ulmery to take part in Lord Aislin's phylactery tournament, and never returned. Due to the mission's importance, Laillou took it on herself and left her home city for the first time, to find answers for her lord about what truly became of his son - and the survivors whose faces are plastered across all four kingdoms seems like a good place to start.

Werewolf Form
Due to immense mental and physical effort during her first weeks as a werewolf, Laillou can exist in full control of herself in her cursed form with almost no effort. Her human form is extremely difficult to hold for more than a few hours, and there are usually tells she can't fully suppress (claw-like nails, elongated ears, fangs). Should she lose her grip entirely, she would enter the full monstrous throes of the lycanthropy curse and be driven to rampant bloodshed. Though her control is excellent, the danger is always there.

Extra
★ Laillou has heard every dog joke in the book by now. You're still free to make them, but you'll get a very tired laugh.

★ Her scarred eye is not totally blind, but all she can see is blurry shapes. Sometimes she wears an eye patch to see better with her good eye, without the distraction of her bad one.

★ Her inventory includes a single edged combat knife, her identity papers and badge, as well as a traveling pack.