Basic Statistics

Name: Koura (pronounced koo-RAH)

Age: 22

Height: 5'11"

Eye Colour: Light Green.

Hair Colour: Light Blond.

Hair Style: Straight, shoulder blade length.

Skin Colour: Tanned Caucasian.

Feral Representation: Snow Leopard.

Fur Colour: Of Snow Leopard origin, Koura is mainly white, and her spots, instead of being motley grey, are a gold ‘blond’ colour. Her chest, stomach, the insides of her legs and underside of her tail are white, as are her paws and tip of her tail. Her spots lessen in their density towards the lower quarter of her body, giving her markings more density on her sides etc. There is also a centre strip up her spine which is also mostly white. She has golden ‘borders’ around her eyes and her ears are also lined with gold.

Fur Style: Medium, tufted at the ears, throat, and end of tail.

Tattoos/Distinguishing Features: She has a ‘Moko’ on her chin, a tattoo with special religious and personal meaning. It starts right under her lips and goes ‘til her jaw line. She also has a symmetrical marking on each hind leg, a sort of backwards ‘S’, with an additional thin wave to the bottom half of the ‘S’.

Build: Powerful but slinky, Koura has a slim form, strong arms/shoulders and hind legs.

Speed: She is extremely fast (0-60km/h in under 3 seconds) according to her certain specific breed, and can use incredible stealth wherever she pleases as she stalks/runs.

Strength: There's no denying Koura is faster than she is strong, but Koura has strength enough to take down large game at a whim -even if she might not be as powerful as some of her counterparts.

Jewellery: Koura wears a motley accordance of Maori-designed and influenced jewellery. Her armbands are a snug sort of elastic material decorated with black and red waves; the danglies on the armbands are made from flax. They look like a sort of bone-coloured, long, hollow wooden bead, which can move around freely. There are three white feathers set in equal spaces down her mane, tied in small braids in her hair. She wears a sort of pendant at the top of her tail which is a round convex Greenstone, with a strip of Paua encompassing the stone.
Random bangles and bracelets are always the key, and Koura indulges herself every now and then with several different headbands, and in the centre of all, hanging between her eyes, is a teardrop shaped Greenstone.
She has a huge collection of necklaces, and wears whatever she feels like at the time. They are usually some sort of carving, like a Hei-Matau, a Koru, or a Manaia.
She doesn’t always wear all of her jewellery, it all depends on her mood at the time whether she wears all, some, or none of it. Koura has her navel and tongue pierced, and also three earrings in each lobe.

Outfit/Weapons: Koura isn't really fussed with what she wears, as long as it looks alright and doesn't get in the way. In colder weather she might wear turtlenecked jumpers and jeans, and in summer would wear anything that allows her to move freely -skirts, shorts, jeans, singlets, tshirts and men's shirts. She could wear anything and get away with it.
Koura's only weapon is a Taiaha, around as tall as she, her specific Taiaha has a head like a Lion, the mane represented by the fur around the top. The tongue of the lion, the tip of the head of the Taiaha, is made entirely of Greenstone.

Information: Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Koura was brought into this world by her mother Kiana and her father Rawiri, who were soon to perish in a local Feral Tribe War. Left to be raised by her Grandparents -Paratu and Hika, who were Alphas once again of the largest Feral Tribe by default, Koura had a relatively carefree life. On her fifteenth birthday, she was bestowed upon with a great gift -her tattoos. Religious, maritable, and heirachy status was instilled in these tattoos, her Mokos on her chin, and also her thighs. Her chin and legs now graced as one of her status, she had only her lips left to go.

Sneaking out one night, Koura went into town to party until the wee hours of the morning, when she returned to a blazing house. Paratu and Hika were said to be sleeping when the fire 'mysteriously' sprang about. The death of her grandparents -the only people she had ever known to teach her the ways of her kind, and how to be a great leader in their stead, were now gone. Before the courts could take hold of her, or her grandparents assets, she fled. Leaving the country altogether, leaving behind her now leaderless tribe, she headed to Europe. Travelling on an increasingly shortening budget, Koura was soon out of cash, and now, living on the mean streets of London. Learning to use her extroadinary stealth for uses other than that her grandparents had tutored her, she learned to steal to survive, and soon, found her way on a cargo ship heading across to America.

She travelled, once again by stealing, though every now and then she would find a job -mostly mob-owned- that would pay under the table, no questions asked. It was in Michegan that she met an underfed and perfectly fiery young Feral named CrimsonGrimm, and the pair instantly hit it off. After a brief affair with Grimm and her surrogate sister Sheol, there was word that they were being tracked. Ferals in groups outside seclusion was generally a bad idea, and here were the fruits. Koura had to leave, for her own, and her newfound friends safety. Travelling south, Koura hit New Mexico -and essentially, the worst time of her life. Caught completely off-guard and unawares, Koura was taken to a remote facility, housing all types of Ferals for 'testing'. Torture was the word they should have used. Pumped full of all sorts of drugs, battered, bruised and alone, it was hell for any Feral, and through the bars of the cold cages, it was a completely obvious scene. It was months before it happened. Koura would remember waking sometime in the night, drowsily looking around, and though her hearing was only partial, would see red lights flashing, and men in coats running through the halls of her own 'dorm'. A Feral had escaped, and was running rampant through the facility, killing any human he encountered. Unfortunately for said-Feral, most of the cages he opened were housing dead occupants -until he found Koura's. The Feral carried her to safety, out into the wilds, and there, Koura was able to gage his name -Kael. She fell for the Scottish Feral almost instantly as they cling together during the hard nights, their bodies expelling the drugs that were soaked through their systems. Now free, but weak and tired, the pair moved slowly out of the States altogether, and they found their refuge in a small hotel in Mexico, where together, they grew stronger, their new relationship forming harder than titanium.

Two years since she had left CrimsonGrimm, Koura decided to track down her Feral friend, and found her well, happy and healthy, and Alpha Female herself, no less. Upon further revelation, it seemed Grimm had a thing for this Cravencro, the Alpha of a new clan, the Matihao Whenua, down in Colorado. Relationship forming once again, she and Kael were asked to join the clan, and the rest is history.

Character Copyrights: Koura © Katherine "Kat" Bongard 2005

Reference images:
Sketch of Koura's Moko
Sketches of Koura and her Leg Tattoos