Appearance
Age: 33
Gender: male
Height: 6’2″
Build: lean, muscular, sinewy and very defined but not bulky like a bodybuilder
Hair: dark brown, short
Eyes: dark brown
Skin: dark
Face: Jim cultivates thuggish appearance, because he likes when people underestimate him. He not an handsome man, but he is masculine and confident.
Voice: Jim has a melodious voice. He clearly can sing, but nobody has ever heard him do it.
Beast Form: Panthera onca veraecrucis; American jaguar.
Affiliation
Pack, Alpha of Clan Cat
Pack, Chief of Security
Mercenary Guild, member
Specialty
Suspecting plots, hiding things in odd places, obsessing to the point of paranoia, berating Dali for driving too fast, berating Kate for doing stupid things, berating Curran for not following security protocol.
Jim is the Pack’s Chief of Security. His attention to detail is meticulous. He notices everything and forgets nothing. He is fiercely independent and a powerful opponent. He is Curran’s best friend. He accepts Curran authority as Beast Lord; however, Jim enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other Pack alphas, because Curran is aware that Jim is smarter than him and he generally leaves him to do his job as Jim sees fit. Jim has many aliases and including Jim Black, as he’s known in the Mercenary Guild
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Fun Facts
Jim typically speaks with a non-regional accent. But he can do a Southern accent, a newscaster or a Scott if he wants. Originally posted at http://www.ilona-andrews.com/forum
Information below may contain spoilers. It’s segregated by books. Click the book name to read details of appearance, history, and abilities profiled in different books.
Magic Bites:
Appearance:
- Wears a black coat that very much wants to be a cape (p35)
- Smooth melodius voice (p36)
- “bull-dog ugly mug” (p36)
Affiliation:
- Alpha male of Clan Cat in Pack (p95)
- werejaguar: Homo Panthera onca (p53)
- Mercenary Guild: long second behind Pack (p36)
- Jim and Kate will take gigs together (p37)
Magic Burns:
Appearance:
- 6′ 2”
- Skin the color of coffee grounds
- All muscle
- all from p178
Affiliation:
- Pack’s Chief of Intelligence/Security (p178)
Magic Strikes:
Full name: James Damael Shrapshire (p94)
Abilities:
- Warrior form
- Usually akward and could not speak.
- While in jungle in Unicorn Lane his warrior form permanently changes.
- Becomes sleek, elegant
- Coat gains a vivid golden tint
- Rosettes like black velvet.
- Gains the ability to speak while in the warrior form.
- all from p161-162
History:
- Took over security for the Pack 8 months before the Red Stalker Case. (p272)
- Jim’s father was human and a doctor, who graduated and was friends with Doolittle.
- When a lynx girl went loup, Jim’s father couldn’t kill her. He hid her and took tissue samplesto try to find a cure. She broke out and killed two people, including a pregnant woman. Received 25 to life sentence. His second day in prison a man named David Stiles stabbed him in the liver. He died.
- all from p141-142
- In 2019, Jim found David Stiles, pinned him to the floor with a crowbar through his stomach, and dismembered him. Took him over three hours to die. Jim was never charged with the crime. (p117)
- When a lynx girl went loup, Jim’s father couldn’t kill her. He hid her and took tissue samplesto try to find a cure. She broke out and killed two people, including a pregnant woman. Received 25 to life sentence. His second day in prison a man named David Stiles stabbed him in the liver. He died.
Miscellaneous:
- Jim only shows his teeth to people he intends to kill, a jaguar trait. (p117)
This is Tony Vincent, who is an extraordinary singer and actor. If there ever was a movie, he would be perfect.
Appearance
Age: Looks to be in late twenties
Gender: Male
Height: 5’9″, but seems taller because of slender build and spiky hair
Build: Lithe, muscular, and wiry. Barabas’s build and the way he holds himself puts one in mind of an acrobat or a fencer.
Skin: Pale. If Barabas was any paler, he would be glowing.
Hair: Red and spiked, looks like his head is on fire.
Eyes: green in a human form, bright red with a horizontal narrow pupil in the beast form
Beast Form: A seventy pound weremongoose with reddish fur. In his beast form, Barabas is about the size of a medium to large dog, a German Shepherd or a Boxer. Barabas’s red eyes with a horizontal pupil make him look demonic.
Favorite Mode of Fighting
Barabas is quick to anger, although he controls it well. When in human form, he prefers knives. He is incredibly fast and might be the fastest knife-fighter currently in the Pack.
Affiliation
Barabas’s mother is a bouda, but his father is a weremongoose from Clan Nimble. As is customary in the inter-clan unions with the Pack, his parents has an option of belonging to either clan and they chose to be a part of Clan Bouda. Faced with the same choice on his eighteenth birthday, Barabas chose to remain with Clan Bouda. However, personal differences between him and other clan members severely strained his relationship with boudas.
The problems continued until Aunt B masterfully resolved them by assigning Barabas as an adviser to Kate. Barabas is loyal only to Kate. While still nominally a member of Clan Bouda, Barabas enjoys the same status as the Beast Lord Guard: his position supersedes his Clan affiliation and he is viewed as the part of Beast Lord’s guard first and member of Clan Bouda second.
Specialty
Barabas holds a law degree and is a member of Georgia Bar. He is expert in Pack history, politics, and social squabbles and he knows all the latest gossip.
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Appearance
Age: nobody knows
Gender: male
Height: 32 inches at the shoulder
Build: shaggy
Fur: black
Eyes: brown in a normal state; glowing with blue when in a Black Dog state
Affiliation
Kate. Love Kate. Kate gives food.
Specialty
Vomiting and urinating at the same time. Devouring inedible household objects, such as rugs and bathroom fixtures. Turning into enormous Black Dog when scared. Biting undesirables.
Life Aspirations
Ripping the wings off the celestial wolf.
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Appearance
Age: 14
Gender: female
Height: 5’4″
Build: slender
Hair: blonde, sometimes with streaks of color, depending on Julie’s mood
Eyes: dark brown
Skin: pale or paler, depending on how Goth she is feeling at the moment
Julie hasn’t been innocent in a long time and it shows. She is caustic, sarcastic, quick to fight and is full of teenage scorn.
Affiliation
Pack, Ward of Beast Lord and Kate
Specialty
Escaping school, picking fights, driving Kate out of her mind.
Julie is a sensate, a living m-scanner. she can see the colors of magic, which makes her talent incredibly valuable to adults but unimpressive to her peers. After her father died, Julie’s mother split her time between backbreaking work and her bottle and Julie practically lived on the street for about two years, before Kate found her. Now that her mother is dead as well, Julie wants to stay with Kate and resists all attempts to be placed into a safe environment and be given an excellent education.
Julie has a crush on Derek.
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Appearance
Age: 51
Gender: male.
Height: 5’10″
Build: Once very fit, Ted now runs to hard fat: he won’t be running any races for fun, but if you slammed a door in his face, he’d punch through it. He looks like a middle-aged heavy weight boxer, who developed love of twinkies and Western clothes.
Hair: Salt and pepper, short, hides his bald spot under his hat. Sometimes grows a short beard, sometimes prefers to be clean-shaven.
Eyes: Brown.
Skin: Pale. Despite cowboy clothes, Ted hasn’t seen a ranch for years and years.
Favorite mode of fighting
Ted prefers a large heavy mace but is also fond of modified guns, especially revolvers.
Affiliation
Atlanta Chapter of the Order of Merciful Aid, Knight-Protector. As Knight-Protector, Ted oversees the activity of the Atlanta Order office.
Specialty
Seems to always know more than people expect he does. Demands exceptional results in unreasonable time and when his subordinates deliver, he takes it as a given. Dislikes any deviation from the human norm. Ted is very stubborn and has been known to dig his heels when it suits him.
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Appearance
Age: 62
Gender: male.
Height: 6′
Build: Broad shouldered, heavily muscled, looks like you could hit him with a truck and the truck would fold about him like a crushed coke can.
Hair: Very dark and curly, typically worn semi-long. Dense beard which Mahon keeps neatly trimmed.
Eyes: Brown.
Skin: Ruddy. Mahon looks like he spends a lot of time outdoors.
Distinguishing marks: a long scar reaching from over his left eye to the temple. Only visible if you look very closely.
Beast form: a huge Kodiak bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi. Mahon has never been weighed in the beast form but rumors are, he tops 1,500 lbs.
Favorite mode of fighting
Mahon prefers to charge, using his weight as a weapon. Like Curran, he can crack a shapeshifter’s skull with a single blow of his paw.
Affiliation
Pack. Mahon is the Pack’s Executioner.
Specialty
Kingmaker. Mahon is a strong believer that the Pack requires a powerful leader to survive. He groomed Curran to take that position, supported him in his rise to power, and now he assists him unconditionally, even though they don’t always see eye to eye.
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Appearance
Age: 26
Gender: female
Height: 5’7″
Build: lean, muscular
Hair: dark brown, long
Eyes: dark brown, almond shaped, slightly elongated
Skin: 16 on von Luschan’s scale
Distinguishing marks: Tattoo on left shoulder, Raven holding a bloody sword with words Dar Vorona (Raven’s Gift.)
Affiliation
Order of Merciful Aid, agent
Mercenary Guild, member
Speciality
Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.
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Appearance
Age: 31
Gender: male.
Height: 5’11
Build: Muscular, defined, gives off a sense of coiled strength about to explode.
Hair: Blond, typically cut short except during the flare when it grows into a mane within a few days.
Eyes: Grey, luminescent with gold when excited or angry. Curran’s gaze is extremely difficult to hold.
Skin: naturally pale, but he tends to bake himself in the sun every chance he gets.
Distinguishing marks: broken nose that didn’t quite heal right, very unusual for shapeshifter.
Beast form: an enormous grey lion, striped with darker grey, like smoke blown against grey velvet.
Favorite mode of fighting
Grows teeth the size of dinner forks and bites people’s heads off. Roars after.
Affiliation
Pack. Curran is the Beast Lord. Tremble.
Specialty
While Curran’s physical power is overwhelming, he rarely has to use to it. He’s observant and shrewd and tends to use diplomacy and intimidation, breaking into violence only as last resort. He moves extremely quietly and enjoys sneaking up on Kate.
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