Jacali Latrans

"Yeah, you keep rolling your eyes at me. Hopefully they get stuck looking into the back of your head so you can check to see if there’s a brain up there…"

- Calli Latrans

Calli Latrans is 2015-introduced and all-around character. The daughter of a coyote trickster: cheeky, cunning, sassy and spunky. Always observing while making trouble for those around her while throwing caution to the wind. She craves excitement and adventure in her life the way those gluttons Gus and Helga Crumb crave sweets. Calli is a Roybel for personal pride and also a strong sense of freedom. It also has a lot to do with her three uncles, who Calli is a afraid of to some degree, that push Calli into being the best coyote trickster she can be while she is still deciding what is that she wants for herself.

Portrayers
Bekka Prewitt (Kitty Cheshire) is the only voice that is fitting to Calli. There would be some modification in the voice acting. The pitch would be slightly deeper with a more smarmy, condescending tone. Calli's voice sounds like a very young girl with street dialect which throws people off.

Laura Bailey (Ashlynn Ella) would have voiced Calli's mother. If you think this is odd refer to the voice acting she did for Skyrim The Elder Scrolls. Her voice work for Serana is exactly how Calli's mother would sound. Same personality too.

Personality
A girl of dueling personality and moral ambiguity. Calli doesn’t try to hide who she is however her intentions are enigmatic. Her viewpoint is in shades of grey though she does not have her virtues set about and can shift from being beneficial to those around her or toxic, entirely dependent on how the situation benefits her. There is natural kindness to Calli but her predisposed mean streak dominates over such a trait and for most she comes off as a bully with a calloused attitude who is dangerous to be around.

Calli embraces being a social miscreant and enjoys the finer points of misconduct opting to indulge herself in debaucheries outside school perimeters as a favorite pastime. Calli is pretty childish yet carries herself as an adult regarding the nature of her upbringing that enforced her to grow up fast.

She is on high on arrogance with a developed superiority complex stemming from her powerful ancestry also being coddled a lot as the only female left in her pack after her mother died. She is confident in her abilities as a trickster and views the masses of Ever After as nothing more than toys for her to play with. She preys upon many with ease usually choosing to do so psychologically with a tongue as sharp as her wit. Her favorite flavor of dupes are bullies or those trying to seem "bigger and badder" than her. The given birth right of her powers in juxtapose with her inborn talents as a fighter, Calli has made it known that of all the fairytale tricksters she is the last anyone would ever want to run into. Enemies she has made are not even allowed that title, rather demeaned as petty nuisances for they are easily put in their place without Calli really having to do much of anything to beat them. She can be a cruel force, not one to be trifled with but conceals it under an aspect of vigilance.

A skilled manipulator Calli has talked herself out of expulsion. Twice. By feeding off of the headmasters pride filled disposition of "following one's destiny" she has fooled the headmaster into thinking she just takes to her role as the next coyote trickster seriously despite being a walking pandemonium as well as a lawless danger to many. So much so, that the faculty as well authorities decided not to wait for Calli to push her luck a third time. Baba Yaga was bestowed the duty of constructing a cursed collar for Calli to wear that keeps the girl's potent coyote magic under restriction. Despite the collar's obstructed enchantments Calli still has usage of her inner energies to a limited extent.

Calli has even been kicked out of classes several times for her manipulative nature used to influence other students into misbehaving as well. Fierce and fearless she is one who does not like being told what to do and Calli has earned a bad reputation with a lot of the teachers of Ever After High for being so disrespectful.

Calli is feral, experiencing emotions in their extremities and reacting to them based on her beastly instinct. This manifests into destructive behavior: destroying property and hurting others badly without much remorse. It especially doesn't help that Calli's fuse is short. Because of this she has turned into bit of a wanderer who seeks distractions from such dangerous emotional states in adventuring and has lead her to live bit of a vagabond lifestyle. A seasoned adventurer Calli is cunningly adaptive, deducting analysis with supreme accuracy with abilities that allow her to walk out of even the most treacherous scenarios unscathed. This has lead to complacency as Calli likes to get into considerable amount of trouble when not causing it. Her favorite dancing partner is the devil and she is his lapdog.

While decently sociable she doesn't care a whole lot about interactions deeming most too boring to even try to talk to given her low regard for those not in her pack of friends. She'd much rather observe the populace than deal with them.

The friends Calli has somehow made know her as someone who is cheeky, playful, flirtatious, foolish even and vivacious. Those who are especially close know the capacity Calli has to be compassionate even. Though a solitary hunter Calli is independent, relying only on herself to a point where she is having trouble learning to trust in the friends she has.

Would be considered a Royal following her destiny because of personal pride. Calli is also considered a Rebel for wanting to do something more with her destiny, not wanting to blindly follow a pre-written fate and be a part of the Headmaster's pathetic flock of sheep. Thus she is a Roybel. It fits well with her contradicting personality.

She does find the whole Royal/Rebel war to be quite funny and often enjoys the conflict...well enjoys conflict as a whole. Calli will purposefully start said conflicts yet never directly participates in them. She'd much rather watch the fireworks fly while she snickers in the shadows. She views a lot of things as jokes and her sense of humor tends to be twisted.

The things Calli likes to do
When Calli allows herself to settle down she reads. A lot. About anything and everything to feed her unending curiosity about the world around her. Her favorite kind of books are the ones that teach her something. She self-educates herself on a variety of topics but is passionate about ones that interest her the most. Calli is of high intelligence, surprisingly cultured as well yet denies these qualities about her. School bores her for the reason she feels she is too smart for her grade having already learned a lot about the subjects she is studying. She never studies still managing to maintain good grades with the vast amount of knowledge she has.

Calli loves to play games all sorts of games (vidoegames, card games, board games, mind games...) really but her love for them is stilted due to her being a sore loser. She will become violently vindictive upon a loss.

She is an avid guitar player (acoustic) and loves to sing. Enjoys it even more when her coyote brethren join in and howl with her music. Calli has a trademark guitar which is with her almost constantly, adorned with eagle feathers. Calli also plays the flute in Musice-ic class. Her Thronecoming gift was a hand crafted wooden flute from her mother. She plays this instrument frequently as well. She likes music quite a lot and her tastes are fairy broad on genres.

Adventuring and wandering is top on the list of things she loves. Calli hates staying in one place for too long and may even get depressed by it. Likewise if she has confined herself to one place it is because she is depressed...or just taking a nap most cases. She is rarely ever in school grounds and spends a vast majority of her life finding new and exciting places, creatures and many other things. It is important for Calli to lead an active lifestyle for boredom will result in her breaking stuff, chewing on furniture and deliberately starting fights amongst other students, pitting them against each other or destroying them herself just for the sake of some "fun".

Calli makes a personal investment causing chaos around the world of Ever After for the sake of making her role well known. Her mischief making is not limited to just the high school. She is constantly on the move, leaving in her wake populations confused and angry by her devious antics. The misfortune she induces has pegged her with the name "The Devil's Dog".

The faculty and the headmaster himself are aware of Calli's heinous reputation and penchant for chaos. However the girl always manages to slip on under the radar of expulsion for she always finds some way to cover her tracks be it a deliberate pinning of blame on other pranksters and getting them expelled (Arktophonos Pellen mainly) or a brilliantly planned catalytic event that makes the incident seem like a genuine accident through absurd means. Which many know who the cause of this "accident" is they just can't find the evidence to present it...

Sports
Calli is of course extremely athletic and much stronger than she looks. She is captain of the Lacrosse team at Ever After High.

She also participates on the volleyball team and is a force to be reckoned with as the team’s libero (defensive position who keeps the ball in play).

Appearance
A small tight bodied little thing who appears younger than she actually is (often mistaken for being twelve). Calli stands at the meager height of 5'2, slim and very sinuous. Her hands are adorned with sharp claws. She has medium length light brown hair with streaks of white on her bangs and some streaks predominant on the right side of her head. She is tan with slanted chartreuse eyes that shine like stars entering the atmosphere. Calli's clothing choices reflect on her demeanor as a "punk". Ripped jeans with scuffy boots and plain sneakers. When the occasion arises Calli has no qualms with gussying herself up.

Her usual outfit is a fur lined blue short vest over a long yellow shirt with orange paw prints on the front, faded gray skinny jeans with rips in them and brown mid-top belted boots. In recent updates her signature look has a black denim half-jacket over an orange shirt instead with more combat styled boots.

Calli views wearing collars as something that is "shameful" so she wears a burgundy bandana to hide Baba Yaga's collar she's cursed to wear. The collar itself is crafted of thick troll hide leather with three enchanted chains encircling it. One copper, one silver, one gold. The collar will come off when Calli graduates from Ever After High.

To sum up Calli's outward appearance: She looks like a cute exotic girl. Adorably diminutive but such features are deceptive to her capabilities. Her eyes are the only windows to what her soul consists of.

Fairy Tale - Native American Legends
"Coyote stories are usually humorous in nature, and many of them contain what today is considered 'adult humor.' Other Plains Coyote legends are cautionary tales about the consequences of bad behavior and the dangers of interacting with irresponsible people. Although Coyote usually either narrowly avoids death or returns to life after being killed, the mortals around him are not always so lucky"

- http://www.native-languages.org

How the Story Goes
"Coyote is a major mythological figure for most Native American tribes, especially those west of the Mississippi. Like real coyotes, mythological coyotes are usually notable for their crafty intelligence, stealth, and voracious appetite. However, American Indian coyote characters vary widely from tribe to tribe. In some Native American coyote myths, Coyote is a revered culture hero who creates, teaches, and helps humans; in others, he is a sort of antihero who demonstrates the dangers of negative behaviors like greed, recklessness, and arrogance; in still others, he is a comic trickster character, whose lack of wisdom gets him into trouble while his cleverness gets him back out. In some Native coyote stories, he is even some sort of combination of all three at once.

Among the Pueblo tribes, the coyote was believed to have hunting medicine. Zuni hunters kept stone effigies of coyotes as one of their six hunting fetishes, associating coyotes with the west and the color blue. Coyotes are also used as clan animals in some Native American cultures. Tribes with Coyote Clans include the Cahuilla tribe, the Mohave, the Hopi (whose Coyote Clan is called Isngyam or Ishwungwa), the Zuni (whose Coyote Clan name is Suski-kwe) and other Pueblo tribes of New Mexico. Some tribes, such as the Pomo, also had a Coyote Dance among their tribal dance traditions."

- http://www.native-languages.org/legends-coyote.htm

How does Calli come Into It?
Calli's mother is affiliated with the Southwest Native Americans but Calli's story is not restricted to those folklores. Her family history traces back to various tribal legends and folklores as well as powerful spirit entities. Calli has a fairy large role to fill. None the less she welcomes her destiny with a prideful heart.

Class Schedule
Throneroom: Professor Badwolf (insert loud growling here)

1st Period: Beast Care and Training with Prof. Papa Bear

2nd Period: Environmental Magic with Prof. Mama Bear

3rd Period: Muse-ic with Prof. Pied Piper

4th Period: Advanced Villainy with Madame Yaga (I'm just assuming she teaches that class)

5th Period: Science and Sorcery with Prof. Rumplestiltskin

6th Period: Skulking and Sneaking with Prof. Jack B. Nimble

Extra Period: Counseling with Mother Goose.

Quirks

 * Howls when she laughs too hard
 * Does/says shocking things just to enjoy the reactions.
 * Hardly ever has a genuine smile, is always just smirking with an undertone of menace
 * Calli's coyote ears seem to be always twitching, picking up on even the slightest noise. Like if someone farts in class she'll know exactly who it is.
 * Becomes anxious and cranky if she sits still for too long.
 * Is a class clown.
 * Always seems to forget to clean the blood off after a hunt.... many think she is secretly a serial killer (Blondie Lockes).
 * Always answers questions in class being as smart as she is but says it in someone else's voice so no one knows it's her.
 * When Calli feels unexpectedly bad about something she will shift into her coyote form and curl up somewhere that's isolated, be it under her bed, under a rock somewhere in the forest, other coyote dens... anywhere that is dark and cramped. In some rarer moments she will curl up in a close friend's lap and cuddle.

Quotes
"It's not that I have an attitude problem, it's that you PISS ME OFF!"

- Calli, huffing and puffing at Mr. Badwolf.

"What, what? You'll...what? Beat me bloody just like you did with Axel, right headmaster? I'd imagine that would put you in quite the awkward position if anybody knew about that..."

- Calli holds dominion over Headmaster Grimm even as he threatens her with expulsion... "You're a jerk, kid!"

- One of Calli's many victims.

"Oh you thought I was a wolf huh? Yeah I can understand why you'd think that seeing as how you have your head shoved so far up your ass you can't make the distinction from the view of your anal cavity."

- Calli...being nice to people. "I love meat, booze, smoking, bars, pretty girls .... Boys too but only sometimes."

- Calli introduces herself like an idiot.

"That's right, gnash your teeth. That's all you can do against someone like me. Pathetic."

- Calli antagonizing someone

"Quit yer yappin'!!"

- Calli says this to her coyotes often. "The charm of a Trickster, the gift of cunning and with the ability to deceive ones perception. So don't be fooled by my appearance, for my spirit was created from coyote and born a coyote"

- Native American quote about the coyote.

Author's Notes

 * Calli's legacy is affiliated with Sioux and Arikara tribe legends.
 * The coyote has had a huge role in constellation stories such as placing the stars and creating the Milky Way.
 * Originally Calli was meant to be Navajo because those legends portray the coyote in a greater and more powerful light.
 * The cursed collar that Calli is forced to wear, consisting of the three enchanted chain links, is an homage to Baba Yaga's fairytales. Specifically one where three brothers inherit three realms being the copper realm, the silver realm and the gold realm.
 * Calli intentionally looks a lot like Cerise Hood as a nod to the fact that coyotes and wolves have similar appearance to each other. They are not are not related in any way.
 * TV Tropes does an astounding job depicting what the coyote stands for in Native American Culture: Those Wily Coyotes-TV Tropes.
 * Coyote magic is known to manipulate elements such as earth, fire and thunder. Calli's ancestry is formed from those who used earth (mostly clay), smoke, fire and thunder as allies. Calli herself favors thunder and her magic revolves around manipulating thunder. She can manipulate fire as well and can turn her essence into smoke for dodging and sneaking. Her abilities for wielding earth is either undiscovered or non-existent.
 * Calli's personality has been loosely based off the common portrayal of the coyote spirit in Native American folklore. A dextrous character who is neither exceedingly good nor entirely bad either. Coyote can either be a source of good luck, other times a bad omen. Calli's stagnant moral development has a lot to do with how she was raised by her uncles and grandfather, who, while nurturing towards Calli also encourage her disastrous tendencies.
 * Calli's magic aura is blue, as is the color commonly associated with the coyote.

Relevant Links
[http://everafterhighfandom.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Redwolf-regan/What_Does_Calli_Latrans_think_of... What does Calli think of the fairytales she goes to school with? Find out.]

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