Okami

**General Info:**

* **Species:** Mutant (Wolf/Bat)
* **Gender:** Female
* **Personality:** Hostile, untrusting, over protective
* **Powers/Abilities:** Very acute hearing, fighting experience, and short flight capabilities
* **Weaknesses:** Dim vision due to mutation
* **Important Design Notes:** Scars on right side of face, across her muzzle and chest, and on right shoulder, bat wings and large, bat-like ears

**Relations:**

* Eight (Adopted son)
* Safia (Eight’s mate)
* Opal (Eight’s friend)
* Grold (Eight’s friend)

**Short Backstory:**

Okami was raised by humans in a laboratory. She was used in an illegal, unsanctioned experiment and mutated into a half wolf, half bat creature. She was one of the first successful attempts of this type of gene splicing… however, the laboratory she was created in was a small, hardly funded, unethical place. She was kept in terrible conditions and often experimented on in hopes of creating more creatures like her.  After a year or two the lab came under higher scrutiny and one of the scientists decided to get rid of the evidence of the unsanctioned experiments that they had been performing… which, of course, meant getting rid of Okami. This scientist sold Okami to a friend of hers, a man who ran an illegal dog fighting ring. The man gave Okami her name, and forced her to fight in the matches. Okami quickly became the most feared fighter in the circle, and would constantly be pushed harder and harder. Soon she would be fighting at odds of four to one, or fighting creatures twice her size. Still, she never lost, thanks to her mutation and her sheer survival instinct. After three years of this cruel life, the fight ring was discovered and dismantled by the local police force. Through the initial confusion of the dismantling, Okami managed to escape. She was finally free, and swore to never be captured by humans again. Her time in the ring left many physical and mental scars on her, and she was constantly distrusting and solitary. However, that changed when one day she was discovered by a small Burmese kitten. The cat had been raised by a laboratory and experimented on similarly to the way Okami had… however, unlike her, his laboratory had been a safe place. He enjoyed his time there and had only left because he followed one of the scientists home. Okami did her best to ignore him but the kitten followed her at a distance no matter where she went. Slowly, the two developed a bond, and Okami ended up somewhat adopting the small kitten… or maybe he adopted her. Either way, Okami is as protective of Eight as if he was her own son, and will do anything to keep him safe. When his laboratory burned down she rescued him from the flames, and they have been surviving together on the streets ever since.

Nowadays Okami still lives in the city, not far from where Eight and Safia live on the outskirts. She is getting older, slower, but to her surprise it does not scare her. She feels satisfied with her life, and death has never been a foreign concept to her… that does not mean she does not have any life left in her though, and she does not plan to stop fighting.

**Fun Facts:**

* Okami is one of Madison's oldest characters, first appearing on her channel back in 2017!
* She hates the name “Okami”, as it was given to her by the people in the fight ring. Because of this Eight always calls her “Kami” as a shortened version that she only associates with him.
* The scar on her shoulder is actually a burn from one of the times that Eight’s abilities got out of control.

**Main Theme Song:** “Fighter” by The Score

**Appearances:** Fallen Renegades Book 1, Fallen Fire