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OOC Information;
Name; Emily
Personal Journal; iluvroadrunner6
Contact; AIM – iluvroadrunner6
Other Characters; Stefan Salvatore (TVD)

IC Information;
Character Name; Cora Hale
Canon; Teen Wolf
Canon Point; 312: Lunar Eclipse
Age; 17

House; Thor
Power; Speed

Personality;

Cora is Derek Hale’s baby sister.

It comes down to much more than a bad attitude and violent tendencies, though those are, as a rule, a general part of the Hale package. They also are a family who has lost a lot, and as a result, play their cards a little closer to their chest than most (read: everyone) would probably like. The only difference being, while after the fire Derek had Laura and Peter was catatonic, Cora, for the most part, was alone at the age of eleven, after watching a large portion of her family including her mother and alpha die a horrific, awful death. A lot of what she did for herself, she had to do on her own, and the things that she did were rather impressive for an eleven year-old girl who had just lost her family, but at the end of the day, Cora Hale is a survivor. That isn’t, however, what defines her.

What defines her more than anything else, is control – or occasionally, the lack thereof.

Being a born werewolf, control has been central to Cora’s life for as long as she can remember. It’s something they’re likely taught from an early age – anchor yourself, control your wolf, control that power so that you don’t hurt someone else. You’re a predator – you don’t have to be a killer. Being a born werewolf is a life that breeds discipline and emotional as well as physical control. From what we know of them, the Hale werewolves were not an aggressive or particularly violent pack by nature. They stayed out of the way of hunters so long as the hunters stayed out of the way of them, and Cora’s mother, Talia, was one of the most well respected alphas in the area. Its stands to reason that Cora’s life prior to the fire, aside from the occasional spats with the Argents – were relatively peaceful. Her childhood was happy, her mother took care of them, and she had no reason to think that it would change until the moment that it did.

When Kate Argent burned down the Hale family home and killed most of her pack, Cora was forced to adapt to the situation and find a way to survive. She somehow made it to South America and lived there for six years, presumably on her own as the show has yet to explain how she did it (and probably never will) so she’s clearly resourceful and knows how to make the best of a bad situation, even at the age of eleven. A lot of it was likely relying on the skills that her mother taught her. Talia taught her children how to survive, including how to hide safely from hunters, and these are lessons that Cora took seriously when working her way through her life leading up to her return to Beacon Hills.

It’s through this need to take care of herself and keep herself safe that she came to value her own personal control over any situation. Since being a werewolf is largely about trying to control the beast inside you, and Cora has been handling this struggle most of her life to the point where it’s almost second nature. When that control is ripped away from her by the alpha pack when they were reduced her tolerance to the moon, she overcompensates to regain it physically to varying degrees – from doing strength training exercises before she’s completely healed to attacking one of the alphas who held her hostage on sight, despite the fact that he was an alpha and twice her size.

Impulse control is clearly not one of the forms of control that she believes in.

All that control can lead to someone being guarded by nature keeping a lot of their emotions inward and for the most part that’s true. Cora’s only really seen being openly affectionate towards two people – Boyd, her packmate, and Derek, her brother. Both people have had to earn that affection from her – Boyd through their shared time in the vault together and Derek after he saved her life from mistletoe poisoning. She’s willing to give her trust and love to those who seem worthy of it. This doesn’t mean, however, that she’s not emotional. Cora is pretty much all emotion, working on a hair trigger and reacting before she often takes the time to think. After Boyd – pretty much her best friend in Beacon Hills – is killed by the alpha pack and the rest of Beacon Hills doesn’t do anything, she takes matters into her own hands, attacking the twins and nearly getting herself killed, then followed by chewing out the others present about how they don’t do anything but sit on their hands and find the bodies. Cora can’t handle sitting on her hands when there’s something that needs to be done, and she lets her emotions rule her choices and doesn’t often think before she speaks. It’s going to get her killed one day, but what can you do?

It’s fairly safe to say that the most important person in her life is Derek. He’s the last surviving member of her immediate family. She got stuck in a vault for three months to get to him and he gave up his alpha to heal her from mistletoe poisoning. They have had a rocky road to get back to the point where they feel like siblings again, but even when things weren’t good between them, Cora was willing to follow Derek’s lead, regardless of how she felt about him at the time. If she didn’t like the idea, it wouldn’t stop her from dealing back a fair amount of sass, but she still went along with it anyway - whether it’s because he’s her brother or because he was her alpha isn’t entirely clear, but it’s probably a little bit of both. At the end of the day, Derek is still her big brother. She loves him, even when she thinks he’s being stupid and she trusts him implicitly, again, even when she thinks he’s being stupid.

The other major relationship in her life is Peter, and Peter is infinitely more complicated. While Peter is her uncle, and there is a certain level of trust there that he will look out for her well-being that trust only extends so far. He’s not the same man she knew before the fire, he killed her sister, and while he did take care of her when she had mistletoe poisoning, she knows now that everything Peter does has an angle attached to it. She keeps him at a distance because she needs to, but she’s also willing to take him seriously on some level. She knows that Peter knows a lot about the world they live in and that there are things to learn from him. It’s just a matter of sorting through his games to get to the bottom of it, and that’s the thing she doesn’t always have the patience for.

Arriving in Asgard is going to be rough for Cora at first. She’s been a werewolf all her life, and while she’ll be coming in from a lunar eclipse where she is effectively human, she’s never been one on a long term basis. Having Derek and Peter there will make things a little easier, but it will still take time for her to adjust, especially with the varying timelines within the pack. She probably won’t care about the war at all, but she will get involved if she needs to.

And she’ll really like her power. She’ll just be annoyed that it’ll come at the expense of everything else she has.

Samples;
Network Sample;

[The post is text because putting you face all over the network is not a thing you do when you’re Cora Hale and used to spending most of your life hiding. Or your voice. It’s bad enough she’s putting her name on this thing. But she doesn’t want to be completely anonymous so that people don’t question that she is who she says she is if they haven’t met her yet.

This first part is filtered to those who lived in Beacon Hills. Granted, this could get her people she doesn’t want, but she wants to know who’s here. And she doesn’t exactly do subterfuge anyway – she’s pretty sure if someone she really didn’t want to see (the Argents aside from Allison, a member of the alpha pack) they would have popped out when she was browsing the directory. But hey, another benefit of text – at least they won’t know where to find her and she’ll have time to go to ground.]

Who’s here and who knows who I am?

[She hates that that’s a question she even has to ask but given that she’s not part of the original dream team, it’s still something she needs to know. And she’s not really one to beat around the bush either.

Separately, on a filter that’s more public, she poses the question that’s a bit more practical.]

Is there a gym here somewhere? Or somewhere with a lot of space to run?

[And priorities are covered, at least for right now. Now she just has to wait for someone to answer.]

Log Sample;

I know I don’t technically need one since I’m already in the game, but I figured including it couldn’t hurt, especially since network samples for her are like pulling teeth: – from the TDM.