*Stepping free of the umbra onto a non descript street in your average non descript city, she stops and peers around a hand to her eye*

Right, so it should be..if I remember correctly..a block thataway.

*she grins at you, hands tucking into her pockets and begins to walk*

The door opens, a bustling city street in a place that sort of looks like Boston, USA. Moxie tumbles out and grins at Abi, glancing around.

"First? a bathroom...or ooh wait I have some cash on me lets find a thrift store then a bar?"

(The stats..)

(It's a bit choppy and a little weird in places but this was written for a more structured game and had to follow a formula..however? still works.)



Moxie, is not your atypical girl. Besides the being a bird thing and the
flying around saving the world from the wyrm thing. But we're getting ahead
of ourselves here (don't you like that? makes it feel a little more personal)



Moxie was not born with her name, it was a earned thing, much like her deed
name. She was born (and if you call her this? she'll kill you) Kalliope Moxellie
Pikalapous. It's a long and wordy name, almost longer than she was when she
was born but when your parents are Pure Italian and Pure Greek? you don't
get much choice in what they are going to name you. She was born, twenty seven
years ago, in a small hospital on Staton Island, Her mother swung at a doctor
in labor and her father, was just thrilled that it was alive and he didn't
have to go find the perfect pizza in the middle of the night anymore. She
was the last child in a long line of children from a huge family. Privacy
was something that Moxie never really knew, which probably makes a lot of
her 'outlandish' behaviour a little more understandable. She had six brothers
and sisters, all of whom were older than her and a few of whom she still owes
some smack downs to.



Her entire family of course were birds. Well her dad was one and her oldest
brother was one, her mom and the rest of her siblings were Kinfolk, and Moxie
herself almost didn't get the egg, but her grandmother, A Bird herself took
one look at her squalling red face and insisted. Made the egg for her, herself.
Some of her brothers didn't care for the fact that they didn't get the gift
and a girl did but over time jealousy faded away, it's stupid to be upset
about something that you have no control over. It also helped with Baba Donovelli
takes you out back and smacks you around with her cane. Moxie went to a private
school, run by kinfolks in the city, and got her regular education as well
as a pretty indepth and intense spiritual guidance, acording to Raven, Helios
and Selene. Rituals became something she was pretty proficiant at understanding before
she even hit ten. Not that she could -inact- any of them but she understood
their purpose and their nature better than most of the other kids in her school.




She spent most of her life fighting with her siblings growing up in a tight
knit family and getting into as much trouble as possible. It was her father
who first started to call her Moxie, after she took on a neighbour hood bully
all by herself and nearly got herself killed. He said it took a lot of moxie
to go after someone that much bigger than her, her mother told him to stop
encouraging her. But pretty soon the nickname stuck, and seemed much more
apt than Kalliope the muse of memory. Before too long Moxie was the toast
of the underdogs, leading a gang of nerdy and sick children to near mafia
status.



When she turned thirteen however she was sent to Europe, to be near her grandmother
when the egg hatched, and so that the changes that came over her wouldn't
be questioned too much. Greece first to visit her Nana Pikalapous, and then
to Italy to be with her Baba Donovelli when she came across to spend the summer
with her other grand children. Europe was a amazing change for Moxie, and
she flourished under greek smiles and italian eyes. Going from a skiny small
akward girl into a bundle of energy and zest and flirtation. Finally Nana
Pikalapous had to take her aside and tell her not to flirt with the boys of
the caern because they might eat her alive.But even then Moxie was already being passed over by girls who had more endowments and less tendancies to talk the hindlegs off of a horse.



Two years after her exodus from America, Her egg finally hatched and the corax
was born. Not that it changed life much for her or made anything really different,
except for now she could fly and fly she did seeking the sky out with the
love and passion that a earthbound bird possesses. Though she did run into
a few buildings, fall out of a lot of trees and broke her leg once getting
caught in some wires.


Her deed name came about when she was thrust upon a group of pups going on
their rite of passage. Baba Donovelli thought it would do her some good to
learn how to work with the garou, and to be a scout. Unfortunatly for Moxie
their passage was not a easy one. A nest of fomori had taken over a patch
of woods outside of the bawn and they were sent to go in and take stock, get
information and get out without dying. It seemed simple til they blundered
through a trap and were descended upon. The pack of five became a pack of
three with a slightly bedraggled birdgirl who found out it really wasn't that
much fun to go to Crinos form. She looked dumb as hell next to those big hulking
killing machines she was sent out with. When they finally managed to drag
themselves home no one was laughing. There was nothing to smile about, two
young and relativly innocent pups had been slaughtered the rest of the crew
was in dire straights and moral was non existant. But there Moxie laid looking
around and waiting and finally when everyone was bandaged up and she was asked
what happened by Baba Donovelli she retold the story accurately, the shame
of the day pressing on the pack she finally finished then reguarded the elder
bird and said quite seriously "But you shoulda seen the looks on their face..I
swear to god one of them shit his pants..". Breaking the ice and bringing
laughter to the group she was bestowed the name 'Storm Rider Sun Bringer' for her good
humored nature.


After that She began to work the skies with the rest of her family, earning
a small name for herself as a daredevil and joining the Murders daughters
without even really thinking about it. She's not sure she wants to be the
morrigan but hell getting into all that trouble is a lot of fun. Besides it
makes the boys freak out when they realize they've been putting the moves
on one of those 'feminazi's'. Besides if she got to be the Morrigan for the
final battles? that would totally kick butt.


Forming her own Murder was a easy thing, she just picked people that made
her feel good. However it's like most things with the birds, something that
is taken by the moment the roster rotating as birds come and go and do their
own thing. It's hard to keep a flock for very long. At the end of her twenty
third year of life however she finally made second rank after eight years
of flying. Her family is proud as hell of her and she's making her way up
through the world, one bad guy at a time.





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"Good things come in small packages."

Sure that's true when you're talking about a blue box from Tiffany's but generally small things are either expensive and neat or really not worth much at all. Moxie doesn't really fit either of those descriptions, but she is small so maybe there's something expensive or at least neat about her.

Moxie Pike, is no name for anyone, it's one of those stage names, the kind people give themselves when they really hate the name that they were given in the first place. She's no exception to that rule either. Her real name is, and if you call her this she will do everything in her power to knock your head off your shoulders (not that she'll succeed, remember the small bit) Kalliope Moxellie Pikalapous. Wouldn't you want to change your name too? Gotta love being Greek/Italian. It makes for -lovely- names that no one can pronounce.

Ontop of being blessed (or cursed) with a name that makes kindergarten teachers shudder to their toes, Moxie is a were-raven. Corax actually, it's a whole breed of them, one of many breeds of many animals on a version of earth that is really dark and depressing. World of Darkness indeed. Almost makes you want to grab your black eyeliner and slap it on.


Corax were made to be the spies of the Fera (aka shape shifters) they are light, they are fast, and they can fly. They can't really fight, sure they have some tricks and most of them nasty, but for the most part they are birds and like birds are very fragile. Their purpose is to fly in, get the skinny and fly out without getting caught. Then they hand the info over to one of the furry walking tanks and watch from a tree as the shit goes down.

Of course like most of the other species and oddites from her world there are a few..quirks to the Corax that Moxie has. Like, she can't shut up for one. It's a biological thing, she can not keep her mouth shut. And generally if someone asks her a question about something? she has to spill her guts. Or at least talk enough to distract them from what it was they wanted to know in the first place.

There's a story about that that is handed down among her people. See the Bastet, er were-cats were the first spies of the Fera, except they were kind of bad at it. Sure they got the info and were damned good at getting in and out of the situations to bring the info back, but like most cats once they got the dirt..they didn't want to let it go. So there go the walking tanks into battle not knowing jack shit about what they're going into and there are the Werecats, laughing their asses off at the whole damn thing. Gaia (the supreme mama of the were-beasts) got pretty pissed off about this and took away their job. Raven stepped up and said, hey can you think of a more perfect being to do this than us? And Gaia being throughly fed up with the whole situation said 'Fine you get it, go and spy' Raven being smart (sometimes smarter than he needed to be) argued for some considerations first. You know like not being allergic to silver like the rest of the were (Corax are allergic to gold instead) and the ability to pick which of their children will be shifters instead of random chance, and Gaia getting all impaitent was like 'Yes sure whatever you want now go and get some info fucker'. And just as Raven was about to step out and rub the cat's noses in what he'd done, Gaia remembered what the problem with the spy thing was in the first place and said..'But for all that I have given you, the price is that you will never be able to hold your tongue.'

So the Birds have been swquaking ever since. After a few thousand years they aren't even holding a grudge anymore.

See? look at this thing, fucking birds can't keep their god damn mouths shut. Anyways, Moxie is a Corax, and a pretty good one. She's also a Murders Daughter, and afraid she's lost the sun which is why she's here but those things are gonna take a long time to explain and who the fuck has that kind of time?

Any questions? IM someone.

Moxie Pike is a Orignal character and thusly is her owners creation. No stealy. However the pics are not of her, so don't try to sue her. She's not making money off of this.