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laceandcarnage) wrote2015-07-21 12:38 pm
laceandcarnage) wrote2015-07-21 12:38 pm
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Istas was born high in the Canadian tundra, in the middle of a litter of five. But as Waheela, and in order to survive, she and her brothers had to eat her eldest sibling, and the smallest of them also did not live.
As she grew older, Istas desired to leave the brutal world of the Waheela, where hunger is constant and family members are considered a source of food. Helped by her aunt Miali, who lived among humans, Istas reshaped herself into someone who might be able to live in civilization, and escape to journey across the continent to New York.
There, she got a job waiting tables at the extremely unclassy club, "Dave's Fish and Strips", where the owner was a boogeyman and many other cryptids worked. Later Istas tagged along to her coworker Verity's battle against a snake cult which had been kidnapping and ritually killing cryptids to try and control a dragon. In the process, their employer Dave betrayed them and they were nearly sacrificed themselves before they fought back, saving themselves and the dragon. Istas also struck up a bond with her coworker Ryan, who came to help them during the battle.
Some time after that, when Dave's bar was now Kitty's "The Freakshow" (still unclassy, but without the stripping), Istas again joined in on Verity's battles when the Covernant (a religious order dedicated to wiping out cryptids) came into town. For a time she and Ryan had hidden from the Covenant with Verity and others, but when Verity was captured by the Covenant Istas helped to rescue her.
Later, when Ryan proposed to her, she decided that she needed to resolve her long abandoned family issues. Waheela custom dictated families were ruled by a mated pair - and when female died, the next eldest would replace them. With Istas's mother dead, by this custom her father was now her husband. So that she would be free to marry Ryan, she returned to Canada and killed her father.
As she grew older, Istas desired to leave the brutal world of the Waheela, where hunger is constant and family members are considered a source of food. Helped by her aunt Miali, who lived among humans, Istas reshaped herself into someone who might be able to live in civilization, and escape to journey across the continent to New York.
There, she got a job waiting tables at the extremely unclassy club, "Dave's Fish and Strips", where the owner was a boogeyman and many other cryptids worked. Later Istas tagged along to her coworker Verity's battle against a snake cult which had been kidnapping and ritually killing cryptids to try and control a dragon. In the process, their employer Dave betrayed them and they were nearly sacrificed themselves before they fought back, saving themselves and the dragon. Istas also struck up a bond with her coworker Ryan, who came to help them during the battle.
Some time after that, when Dave's bar was now Kitty's "The Freakshow" (still unclassy, but without the stripping), Istas again joined in on Verity's battles when the Covernant (a religious order dedicated to wiping out cryptids) came into town. For a time she and Ryan had hidden from the Covenant with Verity and others, but when Verity was captured by the Covenant Istas helped to rescue her.
Later, when Ryan proposed to her, she decided that she needed to resolve her long abandoned family issues. Waheela custom dictated families were ruled by a mated pair - and when female died, the next eldest would replace them. With Istas's mother dead, by this custom her father was now her husband. So that she would be free to marry Ryan, she returned to Canada and killed her father.