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BIRTHNAME: Harbour Quies Palmero
AGE: 37
APPARENT AGE: early to mid 20s
SPECIES: Werewolf
HOMETOWN: Rockland, Maine
RESIDENCE: London, England
OCCUPATION: Owner of Spanglish
STATUS: Widowed

PERSONALITY
ISFJ. Harbour, in some ways, is a walking contradiction. She is analytical, but sensitive. Reserved, but out going. She can be conservative, but is flexible and adaptive, enjoying change. Harbour strives for perfection… but only at the last minute, because it’s the pressure that makes her churn out her best work. She will go above and beyond for the things she believes in, and for her people, and she will never strive to be recognised for it. For those that she considers family, she will defend them to the death.

TROPES

A faction of the Palmero Pack moved to New York City after the Second World War with a wave of nearly 40,000 other Puerto Ricans. They were looking for a fresh start, a place of opportunity, for their small growing family. They were pushed out of New York by racist assholes only 5 years later, took their two youngsters (a third, who would be named Harbour, was on the way), and moved to Maine. They liked lobster, and everyone talked about the lobster there.

Landing in Rockland, the patriarch of the family, the alpha, set up a Puerto Rican diner, serving his secret family recipes to the locals, and building quite an empire for himself. By the time the family welcomed their fourth child, the diner was one of the best kept secrets of the town. The Palmero children would never want for anything, though they were always expected to work a little for it. As a young child, Harbour performed on the small stage at her family's diner, entertaining the customers. Then she became wait staff as well as entertainer. Finally, when she was tall enough to reach all the placed in the kitchen, she took on a sous chef role, while still managing to grace the stage for a song or two.

WRITE SOMETHING HERE ABOUT THE PACK LIFE GROWING UP

On paper, Colin Westcott was perfection. The son of two doctors, raised to help everyone in need (to a fault), trained at the Culinary Institute of America to become a chef, and worked in a homeless shelter when he wasn't running a Michelin starred kitchen at a swanky restaurant. In reality, he was everything that Harbour wanted - kind, funny, caring, passionate, supportive of her in every way. And unfortunately human. Pretty early on in the relationship, Harbour revealed her deep dark furry secret. They'd been talking about their future, about kids, and about growing old together and she couldn't keep hiding it from him. It took time for him to accept this part of her, something she fully understood, but he came around in the end. Because he loved her, didn't want to live a life without her in it. They married not too long after that.

Over the first year, they discussed Harbour changing him into a werewolf. They'd agreed to wait ten years - he wanted a decade more as a fragile human, maybe get some grey hair around his temples to give him a more distinguished look, watch his family settle and be happy before taking off somewhere to live out an elongated life. Eight years in, Colin was diagnosed with Leukaemia. Harbour was ready to turn him, but Colin wanted to beat the cancer first. What if it made him a weaker werewolf? He didn't consider the fact that he might not survive. Harbour sat by Colin's side over the next three years, watching him die in a disgustingly mortal way. She hated him for it. And loved him for it. He passed a month shy of their eleventh anniversary.

Alone, Harbour needed a change in a big way. Puerto Rico was the best place for her to disappear. It was exactly what she needed - the pack members there welcomed her with open arms, helped her mourn and mend her broken heart. Her family had worried about her, but the faction she stayed with kept them informed. SOMETHING SOMETHING ABOUT LIFE THERE

SISTER NEEDS HER IN LONDON, GOES AND MEETS MOM ALONG THE WAY.

ABILITIES
STRENGTH ★★★☆☆ || SENSES ★★★★★ || SPEED ★★★★★ || HEALING ★★★☆☆ || AGILITY ★★★★★

WEAKNESSES
> SILVER > FIRE > DECAPITATION > ALPHA POWERS

THE PALMERO PACK
The Palmero Pack originated in Puerto Rico, dating back further than any history books. While the bloodline remained pure for most of it's history, in the early 19th century, their numbers, as well as those of neighbouring packs, had been decimated during a territorial war. Ramon Power y Palmero brought the opposing sides together to make peace before they destroyed each other. It was a hard won battle of wits, but in the end, the packs decided that merging would be best for their species. From then on, multiple families fell under the one pack. In addition, they started taking in lone wolves that were seeking a home. The more wolves swearing fealty to each other, the stronger they all were.

Today, as the Palmero and adjoining families grew, so did the pack. There are now factions all over the world - in South America, North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. They don't all go by the same name, but they are all connected to the same bloodlines, and therefore are loyal to each other.

PACK MEMBERS

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