Pepper Rika Adel (Cougar/Mountain Lion Faunus)
Nickname: ‘Pep’, ‘Khani’, ‘Pepperoni’ by Jet and Mars and other close friends.
Parents: Coco Adel (‘Mother’, Adoptive Mother), Velvet Adel (‘Mum’, Adoptive Mother), Sienna Khan (Late Aunt), Umber Khan (Biological Father)
Orientation: Bisexual (Passive in her pursuits of love. She keeps falling for gay men or straight women and is respectfully done for the time being.)
School/Year/Team: Shade Academy/3rd year/ Leader to team PEPR
Semblance: Quake, a Semblance that gives her the ability to create tremors. This semblance can be used as little as making an enemy trip or as large as to break the ground beneath her in two. She finds that her powers are connected directly to her emotional and spiritual unrest and tries to keep herself balanced and calm at all times to prevent accidents. Depending on the severity, her Aura could last a while through using this Semblance.
Weapon: Dual Hatchets that double as pistols and combine into a giant axe. Both Port and Sun were sought after to help Pepper finalize her weapons. The names are ‘Clay’ and ‘Bone’.
Emblem: A Gods Eye, a nod to her spiritual powers
Personality: Intuitive, Calm, Spiritual, Open-minded, Neutral, Unwavering, Outdoorsy, Independent, Dreamer, Realist, Artistic, Charming, Passionate
Voice: Grey Griffin (Jackie Lynn Thomas from Star VS the Forces of Evil) (Aussie Accent mixed with Surfer accent)
Pepper has a large tattoo on her back that covers up discrimination scars from her younger teen years. It is an Eagle with its wings spread, making a statement that despite best attempts, she is a free spirit who won’t be silenced.
She had no idea she was related to the late Sienna Khan until she turned 15 and her biological Father contacted her (against Coco and Velvet’s wishes). They chat online for a few months and Pepper begins to wonder what her life would be like had her Father and Mother not given her up. She runs away to his house in an act of teenaged rebellion against her Mother’s. In the end, Umber brought her back to her parent’s place and explained the situation. He has since been accepted into the family and is now a geographically distant but emotionally present part of Pepper’s life.
Umber gave up Pepper after old White Fang members tried to hunt them down and slaughter the family, blaming them for the fall of Adam Taurus even years after his failures. Umber’s wife was killed in one of the attacks, leaving him a single dad of a vulnerable baby. Having no other option, he put her up for adoption reluctantly and hoped for her to have a happy life.
Given her family’s involvement with the White Fang, she has now since become a member of the renewed organization. Peace and Friendship is what she preaches and all the protests she leads are non-violent. This is how she receives many of her scars.
Pepper is a relatively close friend of Mars and Jet. She initially meets Jet Black a week into her first year at Shade. Finding him to be a balanced and level individual, she slowly begins making friends with him. His presence, she often says, is ‘soothing and unwavering’. Through Jet, she meets Mars. Though she can never seem to match his energy level, he always brings a cheery smile to her face. The trio end up getting into a decent amount of trouble.
Pepper is a Medium, in that she can see and clean Aura’s, see spirits, and talk to the dead. She’s also an empath, able to pick up on the emotions of others around her.
She is a huge fan of Jet and Mars’s band, buying all of their CD’s and coming around to recording sessions. One time, Mars convinced Jet to allow Pepper to play a cowbell in one of their songs. He says that he regrets it to this day.
Pepper has select hobbies and fun activities she does with her mother’s. Painting and sketching with Mum Velvet and shopping or hitting up some relaxing cafe’s with Mother Coco.
Coco and Velvet initially wanted a little boy, but when Velvet heard of an orphaned Cougar Faunus girl, she couldn’t say no... and neither could Coco.
Pepper has night vision, improved hearing, sharpened fangs and amazing climbing abilities that most Faunus possess. She practically scales vertical walls with ease. Her legs are also extremely muscular as is her tail. Whacked with one of them and you’ll be crashing straight into a wall.
Pepper has excellent martial arts skills and is an expert in hand-to-hand combat. Both Coco and Velvet trained her hard to improve her self before they handed her any weapons.
Fox Alistair is her adoptive uncle and she loves spending time with him and Aunt Honey. The pair are really relaxed and the house is peaceful. Her older “cousin”, Aspen, is as close to a brother as she will ever get.
If Pepper is upset, everyone knows. The tremors and thumping of her tail is a clear indicator that everything is not alright.
She has an Australian accent like her Mum Velvet. Much like her Mother Coco, Pepper has a ‘Take no bullshit’ attitude. Her strength, agility and muscular (though tiny) physique helps her win all of her fights as she becomes undefeated in the ring. Through this, Pepper becomes one of the more popular fighters at Shade, admired and loved by many. Pepper, unfortunately for her fans, is quite oblivious to this.
She used to have a crush on Elio Belladonna before she realized he was gay. She also used to have a crush on Esme Belladonna before she realized she was straight (and also too young OOPS). Her bitter feelings over the Belladonna siblings might be holding her back from putting herself out there again.
She’s 5′4″, smallest of the group and smaller than Esmeray.
