I threw myself to the wolves, only to learn the tenderness in their howl, and the loyalty in their blood.
– Isra Al-Thibeh
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
This is not for you.
– Mark Danielewski
Background
- STUNNINGLY FASCINATING BG INFO PARAGRAPH 1
- Growing Up: What? Were you raised by wolves?
- Mikkel's GoF Pack aka family
General:
Born in Munich, Germany where her mother was a citizen (her father is a US citizen, hence her dual citizenship), Liesl grew up spending 4-6 months at a time at elite boarding schools, quickly moving through the grades, completing multiple years at a time and eventually graduating high school with AP college credit at age 16. On her month-long breaks from boarding school, her friends knew was that she spent the time with her family (father and relatives; she told those who asked that her mother had passed away soon after she was born) somewhere in rural New York. (However, Garou rumor has it that her mother, Greta Bauch, GetKin, did not die soon after Liesl was born, but was spirited off to another Sept on another continent to continue to perpetuate the Get lines and blood.)
From there Liesl attended Columbia University via full scholarship (NY) where she completed degrees in political science along with an MBA graduating magna cum laude at age 20. She interned at an established law firm and volunteered on the NYC mayoral campaign, followed by NY gubernatorial campaign. This was successful enough that she landed a high-level job by age 22 at a prestigious lobbying corporation in NYC and began in earnest to learn the ins and outs of being a 'Fixer' for the junior senator's re-election campaign. It didn't take her long to break through the glass ceiling, quickly learning how to leverage favors and work in ways both above board and far below what would be considered ethical to attain a reputation of ruthless success. The more she networked, the more favors were earned and leveraged. Her future, not only in NY, looked bright: she was quickly becoming a commodity groomed for the national political stage.
Garou:
(Pure Blood 3) Liesl has a renowned hereditary family tree three generations back on both her paternal and maternal sides, though the renown on the maternal side is legendary. She spent her month-long breaks from boarding school living in the wild with her father's (fostern, philodox; Mikel Holds-the-Line "Tone Deaf" Kruger) Get of Fenris, all-male pack in the New York Sept (Sept of the Forbidden Apple). Her philodox father has always been very systematic, hard-headed, and heavy-fisted while deeply connected with his daughter in spirit if not in demonstrative word or compliment. If Liesl had been born garou, she would have been born under the capricious moon of the ragabash. This doesn't mean she's a jokester or silly, by any means. Manipulative? Her father takes pride in her ability to use people to their greatest worth, to measure what her goals are and take the most efficient and beneficial road to reach her intended outcomes, with one foot in the present and one planted in the future, cultivating long-term networks and allies, and burning perceived enemies in ways that will never be traced back to her.
Affectionately named Moon Fire as a child by the pack, Liesl learned how to navigate Garou politics as best a kinswoman can, she learned to live in the wilds with her father's pack, was fiercely protected by them, but also challenged both physically and psychologically. Somehow along the way, perhaps because of her blood, perhaps because of the time living with the raucous and ruthless Get pack, she developed a deep affection for them and the ability to not only tolerate but find herself (now and then) dangerously drawn to the rage inherent in Garou. (Merit: Gall 2)
She learned how to navigate garou politics as well, the place of kinfolk (granted, she was a somewhat-revered daughter of a fierce and honored warrior-judge within the tribe, welcomed by his pack as if she had a lupine form), and a general understanding of what opinions Get had of other tribes, of the different auspices, and of the thin line to be walked when dealing with creatures borne of rage. Affectionately, she was even called Moon Fire when she was younger by the all-male pack. It's not so much that she was spoiled as how she charmed the ruthless warriors by giving herself over entirely to the audacious and uncompromising demands of her father's pack, of the tribe, and how fully she embraced the scouring identity they placed on her slight shoulders. She never complained that she couldn't change forms, instead working that much harder to keep up, to make the battle hardened pack more proud, to be better, to be a part of what they were.
Her philodox father was always very systematic, hard-headed, heavy-fisted while deeply connected with his daughter in spirit if not in word or compliment. If Liesl had been born garou, she would have been born under the capricious moon of the ragabash. This doesn't mean she's a jokester or silly, by any means. Manipulative? Her father takes pride in her ability to use people to their greatest worth, to measure what her goals are and take the most efficient and beneficial road to reach her intended outcomes, with one foot in the present and one planted in the future, cultivating long-term networks and allies, and burning perceived enemies in ways that will never be traced back to her.
- LIFECHANGING BG INFO PARAGRAPH 2
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