Didi Hunter

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## Appearance

Didi Hunter is a rough-and-tumble derby girl with an intense presence and fierce demeanor. Her friends from high school would barely recognize her, now, and that’s how she likes it. Becoming a werewolf the summer before college was the best thing that ever happened to her.

She has toned muscles that are usually obscured by cozy, torn jeans and sweatshirts. She has a heather grey NASA sweatshirt she particularly likes. When she wants to show off, though -- like for derby matches -- she's got some good punk looks with short shorts, torn fishnets, and cropped tees and such.

## Personality

She’s powerful, now, and confident. She doesn’t let people take advantage of her or push her around -- not without a fight, anyway. Didi doesn’t need to be the one at the top of the hierarchy, but that person had better be able to convince her they deserve to be there.

She also has a protective streak and territorial instincts, especially during the week of the full moon. At least a few nights a week, she patrols the campus as an enormous wolf -- whom Tamzen named "Fluffy." Her prey are vampires, frat boys, and any other creatures looking to harm the students of MHU.

Of course, for all her jock ways, she's a bit of a nerd, too. She takes her classes seriously and likes to tinker with shit. She unironically loves NASA and the Mars rovers. She'd probably have a pretty good GPA if she didn't become a spacy, distractible shimbo every full moon.

## Powers

* strength, speed, endurance, fast healing
* keen smell and hearing
* wolf form and humanoid wolf form
* good cook
* excellent cuddles in any form

## Background

### Growing Up

Don't ask, it was boring. Mountains and stuff. Girl Scouts. Definitely don't find my old high school classmates and ask them.

Tamzen Shaw knows that she went by Dany in high school and was a doormat for the top mean girl at the school, Vicki, putting up with a lot of abuse.

### Since Enrolling at Monsterhearts University

* Kicking ass with the Hellhounds (derby team)
* Roomed with Burgundy and Iva first year, then just Burgs, then nobody... but we're all on good terms

## Relationships

### Family

**Parents**

Dad is a weird guy who bounces from obsession to obsession. Mom's been single since the divorce eight years ago and does office work.

**Siblings**

My little sister Phaedra is a junior in high school. Boisterous and enthusiastic, a bit of an artist, avid fanfic author. And I have a baby half-brother who's nine, my Dad's son.

### Friends

**Burgundy Adisa**

Burgs was my roommate since our first year until they got spooked and joined the Hellfires. I love our outdoor trips. They're pretty busy and I see them even less now that they've moved out, but they pretty much always do the righteous thing and that's what I love most about them. They told me about the water spirits and now I say a little hello when I'm by the water and thank the hot springs and stuff.

**Iva**

So glamorous and elegant! Iva was our third roommate for our first year and it wasn't exactly a perfect match but I think we got pretty close over the year. She even knows that I'm a werewolf and she's been really caring and trustworthy about it. She's the first person other than The Pack who found out. I never thought anyone would be okay with my being a monster, now -- let alone comfortable living in the same space. I'd do pretty much anything for her. One time at the hot springs she kissed me and then she came out to me as a super-hot Gorgon and she's been really caring since then and I've been trying to be there for her, too, with her SGA president campaign and the scary memories of monster hunters and stuff. Luci is my favorite one of her head snakes, the irrepressible one. Oh also once she dyed me rainbow-colored with her shampoo chemistry but most of the time it's just nice and odorless and leaves my fur all clean and fluffy. Don't get me going, I could happily babble about how great she is for ages. We've started dating, too!

**Arsling Broganson**

Before March: My friend Ashlynn is a really good artist! She says she doesn't like wolves but she draws them really well, and I'm pretty sure she's a Hellhounds fan at this point. I like how she smells... is that weird to say?

March 2021: This was the month that Ash and I went up to the hot springs and hooked up... then Burg told me Ash is a serial monster slayer and scared the hell out of me. Pack Mother wanted me to turn her and so did Iva and Burg and Selene and... I fucked up my first hunt and she got hurt but not turned. It took another week to get it right... A week of her suffering, me lying to her, her telling me she *loved* me. Now she's a freshly-awakened wolf and I'm doing my best to ease the change for her.

**Gene Rose**

Sigh. Gene. We had a good thing going last year. We were both newly-awakened werewolves, feral and wild and hungry for all the possibilities before us. Then she started drifting away... from me, from the pack, from her own wolf nature. I still don't even understand why, not really, even though she wanted me to stay with her and leave the pack together. Don't tell her I still have one of her shirts.

**Tamzen Shaw**

At first Tamzen was just another student heading home late at night, someone I wanted to protect. I was in wolf form, and I kept seeing her in the middle of the night, over and over. You have no idea what kinds of creatures I've fought in the shadows to keep them away while Tamzen walked home. The biggest surprise, though, was when she named me "Fluffy" and started talking about me on the campus radio! It's really nice to be appreciated. I didn't really know her in human life, though. She lives in Carter Hall but I rarely saw her around. How could she resist free food and *my* delicious barbeque??

Well, then, one day we woke up together in a frat house and I was naked and she totally had a thing for me and I mean she's cute and I care about her. But she confessed it to me when I was Fluffy. So I wrote her a note coming out to her as a werewolf and... after that I'm so confused about what happened. She has magic knowledge, she knows about the shit I went through in high school somehow? But she seemed surprised I was a werewolf? Is she actually two people or something??

**Lys**
Go Hellhounds! Lys is the kind of friend where you can just like sit in company or eat burgers or whatever, but not like intense conversations usually? I dunno, but they're a great skater!

**Zahra**
I look up to Zahra so much! She's a senior and the Hellhounds team captain -- *and* she's the werewolf who turned me. Sure I was scared at first, but she helped me through it, took me on my first hunt, introduced me to the pack and just... changed my life. She might be a little overprotective and definitely is when it comes to pack members sleeping with Selene...

**Selene Hellian**
Yes, *that* Selene! She's a literal pop star... and a succubus... and a really good friend. We both kind of have a temper so we butt heads sometimes but I think we kind of understand each other. We've both been able to count on each other when we're in a really low place, and I admire how she protects monsters at Hellfire. Zahra says to stay away, but I think she's overreacting.

**Berry Bounty**
Super-cute and flirty werebunny, part of Selene's inner circle... She had to learn to be a werebunny without any guidance from a pack or... burrow? But Selene was there for her. I know embarrassingly little about her for how many times we've made out at Hellhounds parties, but we've made plans and I think that'll change soon.

**Lily Pond**
The newest wolf in town! She joined us for the hunt but was having trouble speaking... her wolf wasn't really integrated with the rest of herself? But we welcomed her, named her Pad, and then I talked with her as Lily and she's really nice, really glad to be part of a werewolf community, and really hot, too... we went on a date after hours at the roller rink and I made her giant wolf skates but she's gotten her form-changing under control. And let me tell you, she is a ferocious wolf in \*any\* form.

### Suspicions

**Byron**

Hu's up to something, I'm sure of it! Well, I'm not really sure, but hu happened to be at a string of parties where people disappeared, so I've been watching hum. On the other hand, hu was really nice and fun at the impromptu party after we stole the frat's beer... from what I remember of that night, anyway.

**Lavish Valentine**

Gene seems to be *obsessed* with them! They're like a cult leader or something. Grrrr.

**Rhys Vasquez**

Selene says he's a baby vampire figuring out his way. Evidently vampires aren't all irredeemably evil killers? Anyway, Selene wanted me to know not to kill him in case I run into him on patrol. I can still yeet him as needed, though, if he gives in to the blood hunger and is going to hurt someone. Hopefully not! I think we're on good terms, since we killed people together...

## Group Affiliations

**Hellhounds Derby Team**

Didi's a heavy hitter on the Hellhounds, along with Lys and team captain Zahra. They're the MHU home team.

**The Pack**

The pack of werewolves claiming MHU and the nearby mountains as their territory.

## Journal Entries

**Partially-Chewed Journal** - Last update April 15, 2021

Didi's handwriting ranges from meticulous to barely-legible even to her.

## Additional Scenes

* The Two Sides Of The Moon (Oct. 15, 2019)
* Scene with Didi and Burgundy (March 1, 2020)
* How Zenni Met Fluffy (Q1 2021)
* Snake Charming (March 6, 2021)
* Healthy Appetites (March 8-9, 2021)
* For their Safety (March 9, 2021)
* Worried Wolf and the Comforting Coils (March 9, 2021)
* So About Yeeting Lezly (March 10, 2021)
* First Light Of The Moon (March 11, 2021)
* The Three Body Problem (March 12, 2021)
* After The Fire (March 12, 2021)
* Crutches and Crushes (March 15, 2021)
* Hell-Fire-Hound (March 15, 2021)
* Inner and Outer Demons (March 18, 2021)
* Poolside Reunion (March 19, 2021)
* That Doggie In The Window (March 19, 2021)
* Predators’ Parlay (March 20, 2021)
* Blow Your House Down (March 21, 2021)
* Cozy In Her Den (March 21, 2021)
* Feeling Small (March 22-23, 2021)
* Load Bearing (March 23, 2021)
* Beauty and the Beast (Fall 2020 through March 24, 2021)
* Fly Me to the Moon (March 26, 2021)
* The Brightest Night (March 28, 2021)
* The Innest Date (March 30)
* The Blackest Day (March 31)
* Steamy in the City (April 2)
* The Pink Wolf (April 3)
* No Good Damage (April 7)
* Run with the Bun (April 9)
* Gay Panic at the Disco (April 10)