A bit late for a character sheet, but better late than never~
Aella
Basics: Daughter of the Once-ler
Sex- Female Sexuality- Asexual
Height- 5’4 Age- 24 years old at the time of the movie
Appearance: Short for her genes. Slender body. Fair skin. Short, fluffy, black hair. Short bangs with one long strand hanging over one side. Blue eyes. Cyan-tinted pupils. Hyena ears. Sharpened canine teeth. Black gradients and spots on tips of ears, around eyes, and running down back. Hyena hackles on back of neck. Surgical stoma and large scarring on front of throat. Her voice is androgynous and robotic due to her medical device.
Wears a brown, long sleeve shirt with a yellow truffula tree on the front. Black, fingerless gloves. Brown, spotted pants. Black boots. Wears a thneed over one shoulder and wrapped around waist.
Her alternate form is a hybrid between a spotted hyena and a horse, sporting the ears, teeth, hackles, and spots of a hyena and the muzzle, body, legs, and tail of a horse.
Summery:
During the Once-ler’s rise to fame, one of the many women vying for his attention fell pregnant, and after realizing that she was just another body to him, she left the only-months-old baby with him as his burden to bare. Wanting to prove himself and do better than his own parents, he accepts the child.
The two become very close. Aella becomes the ear the Once-ler can vent to and the only family member who loves him unconditionally. Due to her early abandonment, she follows him closer than his own shadow and wants to be part of everything he does, helping him cook pancakes and watching him knit thneeds. Aella is very shy and distrusting of others, especially women, but she gets along well with the animals of the truffula valley and befriends her fellow baby, Pipsqueak, the bar-ba-loot cub.
As time goes on and as the factories demand more of his attention however, the Once-ler begins to neglect his toddler who is about 3 years old by the time of the final truffula tree’s axing. And after he blows up at her after an attempt to get his attention, she runs off and finds herself in a pit of pipes where one of them spews a heaping glob of sloppity slop on her.
Her throat and lungs become coated in the chemicals, and the pollutants begin to mutate her. Her pupils gloss over in a partially blinding sheen, and dark patches form around her eyes and down her back. She just barely makes it to her father before she collapses from exhaustion and exposure.
Due to the damage, she undergoes a laryngectomy and flush of her lungs, leaving her with a throat stoma and heavy scarring on her neck. She acquires an artificial voice box that makes her somewhat difficult to understand due to its robotic feedback. She gains the ability to transform between her normal human form and a hyena-horse hybrid at will, though it is also triggered by intense emotional changes. She can also spew black smoke from her mouth due to the residual build up of smog in her system.
After her close call with death and the downfall of the thneed factories, her and the Once-ler’s relationship rekindles despite the damage. She stays with him into adulthood. Her hobbies consist of knitting, hunting, and playing keyboard.
She first meets Ted in her hybrid form, acting as a watchdog just outside the lurkim. Intimidated by the stranger, she attacks him, but after learning of his struggles in a town taxing him for the air he breathes, she comes to sympathize with and strives to help him in creating a better world for all of them.
