Thanks to all.
Background? SE United States, near New Orleans but I grew up moving about every 3rd year so I've lived all over the country from
the Rocky Mountain states to the West Coast and the mid-west
Interests are performing arts but I'm making my survival funds in IT work at present.
The music playing and singing is done primarily on an occasional basis and when I'm allowed out of the cage. ^._.^
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furryroad was a rather naive 19 year old biology major in the University. There were several ongoing lab projects that she was working on after hours in order to meet course deadlines. While waiting for one project to gel she wandered through the storerooms of the Biology lab and came across a crate marked "Lot #207 - Beta Mutate". Intrigued she pried off the lid and peered inside. (What she didn't know was that in the mid 70's a government grant was financing research on developing the "Perfect battlefield warrior") While digging through the crate she broke a glass jar of liquid and inhaled the fumes before she could back out of the area.
That evening she had a blackout, only to awaken later with torn clothing, dirt under nails and dream like memories of running through the forest.
Many episodes followed of these types of incidents. A hunger developed in her, while concious she had a desire for uncooked raw meat and in her remembrance of the "dreams" there were episodes, vague memories of chasing prey through the woods. As time passes she begins to remember things more clearly and the "animal urges" begin to affect her reactions to events in her consious state.
The turning point of her life was one night when she comes fully awake out of one of her dreams to intense pain and realizes she's been shot in the abdomen and is bent over a hunter that she has just rendered unconcious and has her teeth at his throat. Horrified she bolts away only to realize as she runs that she is running on all fours and has a tail, acute hearing, and intensely magnified sense of smell. Suprising to her is the magnified ability of her body to heal. When she returns to human form there is merely a tender scar from the bullet wound which fades as withing several hours. Fearful of what she might do she leaves the university to roam from temporary job to temporary job because she fears what she might do to those she loves. She comes to call this point of her life as the furryroad (hence my characters name).
As time passes, she begins to be more concious of shat goes on during her transformation periods and even begins to be able to exert control over when she makes these transformations and when she transforms back to human form BUT the animal side begins to influence how she reacts. Right and wrong takes on a different meaning as it becomes linked to her own survival.
Then enigma of furryroad is the amoral animal side and the concious human side wrestling for control