Name: Yolanda Marianna Lopes

Nicknames: Yoyo, Yo, Yola

Age: 28

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

Species: Werewolf

Looks:

(Faceclaim: Zhenya Katava - @zhenyakatava on Insta)
She's 5'11

Personality: Yolanda is fairly brilliant when it comes to math and arithmetic. Writing an essay, not at all. Math? She can do it instantly in her head, regardless of the numbers. Regardless of what is needed. And she loves math. She loves numbers and she loves data and she loves being able to quantify things. She loves counting, she loves organizing, she loves collecting. Yolanda is a nerd, through and through. Not even with math, but with her interests. A major sci-fi, fantasy, and mythic lover, she loves anything with wild adventure, risk, and beautiful world building. She consumes a lot of 'human' media - shows, movies, books - but that is about it. She doesn't consume non-fantastical media, so she really doesn't know much about the human world besides what she is told. She loves books, but struggles to read due to her dylexia. But she will get through even the biggest books, it will just take some time. She knows a lot based off being told - words spoken verbally, she can recall very well. Reading it, she struggles, so she also listens to audiobooks a lot. She'll listen to them when she works out, when she's working as Treasurer, or in her house when she's cleaning. She loves it. She's a sweetheart, but when it comes to work she's very serious and professional. She takes her job incredibly seriously, for it is a great honor to be Treasurer of this wealthy pack. And she got the job. She is very proud of herself for it. Outside of work, she is a kind soul. She loves learning about other people, and learning about their interests. She does get annoyed with people quickly, but she keeps it in check when she can. She speaks fast, with a brain that processes quickly, and she gets frustrated when people can't keep up with what she's saying. She knows it isn't their fault, necessarily, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating. Impatient at times, she does her best all around. She is a good soul, excited, and ready for life. High energy often, she tends to crash when she's by herself. She loves people, but they can be a lot.

Likes: math, arithmetic, people, fantasy (even though her existence is 'fantasy'), sci-fi, mythology, action, talking with others about these interests

Dislikes: writing, when people can't keep up with her, the unskillful rule of Bastion (though she quite likes him as a person and is one of few who never used his nickname 'Baby' as an insult), public presentations (she has to give bi-monthly reports and she hates them)

Powers: shifts into a wolf (looks above); heightened speed, senses, strength, reflexes, and durability while in human form

Backstory: Like many around her age, she was impacted by the Argyle Massacre, though she wasn't in the thick of it like some, until after the bloodshed. Yolanda is traumatized in different ways. In the three month period the usurper of a mate 'ruled' as their 'queen'/alpha, Yolanda was directly associated with her. Freshly 18 at the time of the massacre, the usurper (a woman by the name of Anette) took an interest in Yolanda, for varying reasons. At first it was her mind that was so appealing, then it was her passion for storytelling, then it was her company, and late evenings, and then it was her body and her touch. In a very short span of time, Yolanda became quite close to Anette, despite the fact she loathed the woman. When the current Beta (Jefferson Pemberton) finally got his plans into motion to get Bastion his rightful spot, Yolanda was their inside woman. Though Jefferson wanted to kill Anette for all she'd done, he let Yolanda do it, so she could avenge herself. Yolanda had drugged Anette that evening, and killed Anette the exact same way Anette killed Bastion's brother - tore open her throat with her teeth, and watched her die as she stayed straddled on her lap. She watched Anette's life fade from her eyes. She stared at Anette for a long time as a sort of blank feeling took over, before getting up, putting on her robe, and stepping into the hall to let the guards know it was done, and Jefferson could put Bastion on the throne. She'd had blood on her mouth, chin, and chest. Then she sat in her shower, water washing over her, until late the next morning, zoned out. Since then, Yolanda's been a bit different. She still remembers how it felt to rip out Anette's throat - it's common knowledge that's what Yolanda did. It was somehow awful and somehow wonderful. Though she's regained much of who she was before all this, there is forever an altering in her that will never go away. So she retreated to her numbers and her comfort media, and there she stayed. Ten years on, she's been the Treasurer since the one Anette installed was exiled, shortly after Anette's death.

Other: she's dyslexic
Autistic, but with no diagnosis
She rambles to her friends about her shows and movies and books, because many of them like them, too
She wishes dragons were real
She is incredible at her job
Yolanda is fluent in Spanish; she is named after her aunt, who was killed in the massacre
Yolanda was home the night of the massacre, safely sleeping, only to wake up the next day and learn what happened
Though a Treasurer is held is incredibly high esteem (barely lesser than the Prime Minister/Beta, over Strategist) she doesn't actually hold any innate power, she's just a regular werewolf rank
She wants a mate who'll listen to her, and share their interests with her (even if they are different to her own interests), and who will want to raise wonderful children with her (she really wants to be a mom)
She's very free with her body, in terms of showing it off, though you're just as likely to find her in clothes so baggy nothing about her body could be told
She lives in the Treasurer House by herself, but her parents live in the Treasurer Extension House.