Name: Grace Carrighan
Alias/Nicknames: Gracie
Sex: female
Species: Lyncanthrope, Lioness
Ethnicity: American
Age: 30
Position: Aker
Occupation: Unemployed
Residence: Sahara

Parents: Parents Lily and David Carrighan.
Siblings: Twin sister Celine.
Children: None
Significant Other: Husband Kevin Palmer, Deceased

Appearance: Grace looks like a strong wind would blow her over. She's blonde, curvy and gorgeous and looks like a complete piece of fluff. Her skin is pale and has a lovely fresh look to it. Her features are very feminine, she has high cheekbones, a slender nose, and sculpted lips with a wide smile and pearly white teeth. Grace's eyes are the bluest of blues. Her hair is soft as silk, and the colour of corn, falling below her shoulders, usually worn straight or curled. She has long legs, and small delicate artistic shaped hands, spoilt only by the fact she has very short (or chewed) nails. Grace is almost so pretty its sickening.
Marks/Scars/Tattoos: Grace has her ears pierced twice. She also has her belly button pierced and a tiny ring in her clitoris as well. She has a number of tattoos all over her body including a Chinese red dragon on her stomach, a butterfly on her right butt cheek, a United States flag on her right shoulder, a pentagram surrounded by flames on her left shoulder and in the middle of her back a large elaborate design of a pair of multi coloured angels wings. She also has a vicious scar down her right arm and a bullet wound in her right arm. She also has the words "Semper Fidelis" around her right wrist
Carried Possessions: 9mm pistol, two switch blades, one in her purse and one for in her boot. Grace usually always has a purse with her that contains a small note pad and pen, her wallet and credit cards, a sudoku game book, and her cell phone.

Personality: Grace has an attitude problem. Its obvious from your first meeting with her. She's highly opinionated, and quite vulgar to boost. Having been given a hard time during her army training for being a girl, and a pretty one at that, she's determined to prove she's just as tough as any boy. She likes fighting, race cars, planes, and boats. She hates girlie girls and chick flicks. But Grace does have a weakness for shopping. And shoes. (And even though she would never admit it to anyone she watches Reality TV show singing competitions like American Idol) She loves to buy shoes, even if its just to display them. She has a strong stomach for dealing with violence, and doesn't bat an eyelid and things that would make most people shiver. Grace hates showing weakness and when she finds something she can't deal with, she shrugs it off a flippant comment.
Hobbies: Cars, guns, shoes, steel cage fighting, tattoos, drinking, partying, hunting.
Talents: Grace is a tough girl, and was tough long before she became a lycanthrope. She's also extremely intelligent. When she was classed as a child genius with a 200+ IQ. She could have done anything she wanted with her life. She could do all forms of math, excelled at science, particularly chemistry and psychics. She learned karate from a young age and has a black belt, she also knows Tae Kwando and Kung Fu. Grace trained as a Marine and served for many years, where she picked up many talents. She knows guns like the back of her hand, as well has how to study an enemy, learn from them, and how to defeat them. She learned loyalty to her country, respect and honesty. (At least honesty to her fellow Marines). She learned hand to hand combat training and the phonetic alphabet. As a lycan Grace has tremendous physical strength and speed. She is also an alpha and can partially shift her body, as well as hold of shifting until the absolute last minute.
Weaknesses: Grace doesn't know how to deal with deep emotion like insecurity or closeness or love. She was burned badly in the love department and finds it very hard to commit to a relationship. She'd rather sleep around and develop a bad reputation in that department than put her faith and trust in one person. Grace is also extremely proud. She hates to admit defeat, and will do whatever she has to to win, no matter how low she has to sink. She also has a very high pain threshold. Grace refuses to say no or stop if she thinks it will look bad. Grace speaks without really thinking too.

History: Grace was born to an upper middle class family in Chicago. She was two minutes younger than her twin sister Celine. Both girls were blue eyed and blonde haired and cute as buttons. Grace learned to speak and read faster than her sister. Before she went to school Grace had learned how to read books for teenagers, while Celine could just about manage first grade level reading. Grace's parents had her IQ tested and were delighted when they discovered Grace's standards were off the charts. She was a child genius. When they were kids, Celine was happy for her when Grace went to a special school for child geniuses. She was a whiz at maths, science, pretty much anything she could put her mind to. She could have been a brain surgeon if she wanted to. Grace however, realised she would much rather play with GI Joe than Barbie.

Grace wanted to be a solider, not a doctor or brilliant scientist. As soon as she was old enough, Grace enlisted in the Marines. Her parents were livid. Grace had gained herself an M.D. from Harvard Med and also a PhD in computer science from M.I.T. As they had gotten older, Celine, nowhere near as smart as her sister, had grown jealous and distant. Neither Celine or Grace's parents were happy with her decision to join the Marines. But Grace didn't care. She went anyway. When she went to her local recruiting office she was laughed at. But that didn't deter her in any way. She was determined to prove she could do it. She wasn't going to do a GI Jane and shave her head or anything to look more masculine. Grace wanted to prove feminine girls could be Marines. Boot camp was hell, the men there tried to take advantage and sexually assault her on more than one occasion, despite the sexual assault, Grace just grit her teeth and got on with it. And she survived. She graduated boot camp and went on to train as a Sniper. She spent the next ten years of her life in the army.

Despite the fact that her parents never approved her career choice Grace went home when she got the chance. She just felt like - she had to. During a break she spent in New York when she was twenty eight, Grace fell head over heals in love with Kevin Palmer, the owner of a huge publishing company. Their whirlwind romance was like a fairytale, and within three days they had gone to Vegas and eloped. They spent a two week honey moon in Barbados, but tragedy struck when they arrived back in New York at JFK Airport. Kevin was shot as he and Grace were just getting into their limo. He died in hospital. Grace was heart broken. Before she left for the Marines she had a visit from Kevin's lawyers who told her he had in the short space of time they had been together - left her everything. Grace would never have to work again. But Grace couldn't cope with that. Rather than deal with her loss, Grace did what she did best. Went back to the Marines. With her Marine unit, she felt at home, having proved herself as tough as the boys. It seemed that this year was determined to be disaster for Grace. She was serving in Iraq at the time, and was attacked by a lion whilst on a scouting mission to find a suitable place to take out a target. She woke up in hospital, to discover she had quite possibly contracted lycanthropy.

Grace dismissed the thought, until the next full moon - when she shifted. She was spotted by one of the members of her squad, a hard ass jerk whom she had never gotten on with, who blabbed, and Grace was sent to Washington, where she was dishonourably discharged from service. She was penalised for sleeping with her Senior Officer, but really it was just an excuse to get her out cause she was a Marine. At a complete loss Grace didn't know what to do. She hung around Washington for a while as she gained control of her beast, discovered her new abilities. It gave her a boot, and made her determined to be the best lycan she could be, like she had been the best Marine she could be. And it worked. She became an Alpha, but for some reason, no Pride would take her. Grace moved from city to city, taking temp jobs for the next few years, but got nothing. She got the impression that Prides were afraid of her. Eventually she returned home to Chicago. She was drinking in a bar one night before gathering up the courage to go home and face her parents when two guys tried to hit on her. She said no, but they kept trying. Eventually taking the hint when she punched one of them and broke their nose, starting a bar room brawl. In which Grace fought, but made her way out unscathed. On the way back to her hotel room, she was accosted by another man, who introduced himself as Corbin Walker. And he had an offer for her. A Pride, and a position. Grace was suspicious, but figured, what the hell, particularly when he offered her the Aker position. So Grace found a home in the Chicago Pride.

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