[ ivana baquero, female, she/her ] whatever you think you know about ZARA MCKENNA, the 25 year old, BISEXUAL, LOCAL, it is likely time for you to start reconsidering. the rumored HUMAN (HUNTER) is often described as STRATEGIC + PROTECTIVE, but don’t let them fool you; they can also be JUDGEMENTAL + QUICK-TEMPERED, which often has them regarded as the LIONHEARTED. they are a DEPUTY at CPSD, but it’s also said they are a MEMBER within the MCKENNA FAMILY. whatever you hear, you can’t deny there’s more to them that meets the eye, and it’s time we start uncovering the truth.
Basics
Name: Zara McKenna
Nickname(s):Â MackieÂ
Age: 25Â
Title: The Lionhearted (Brave, Courageous and Determined)
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Deputy at CPSD
Family: Sarah McKenna (mother, deceased), Shane McKenna (father, missing), Jane McKenna (paternal aunt)
Appearance
Height: 5′2″Â
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing features: Some minor scars from hunts
Tattoos/Piercings: Pierced ears, an infinity symbol on her left index finger
Personality
Negative Personality Traits: Quick tempered, Quick to judge, Evasive, Serious
Positive Personality Traits: Strategic, Protective, Loyal, Pragmatic, Flirty
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Background
Zara grew up in the McKenna hunting family. She had a regular childhood until she was 8 when her parents sat her down and explained what they did, but told her it wouldn’t change anything for her. It might mean they have to occasionally move around, but she didn’t have to get involved unless she wanted to. The only rule they gave her was to not tell anyone about the things she heard and saw, it being why they waited until she was old enough to know to keep it a secret.
From that day, she started keeping a little notebook of all the creatures she’d hear about, adding to it over the years so if she did want to get involved, she’d be prepared. She also took self defence classes, and asked her parents how to use weaponry.Â
Her parents stuck to her word, just getting to be a normal kid and teenager, though talk of werewolves, vampires and other creatures over the dining room table was a regular thing. They never kept anything from her, and answered any questions she had.
When she was 15, her mother came home from a hunt, distraught. Her and Zara’s dad had got separated, having been ambushed unexpectedly, and he hadn’t returned to the car like he planned. The family (Zara included) went out night after night, looking for the body, expanding the search area bit by bit, but he was never found.
Going out searching for her father, Zara saw first hand the camaraderie the McKennas had for eachother, always having eachothers back, and she liked it, asking her mom if she could be more involved. Fresh from the loss of her husband, Sarah asked her to take a year to think about it. That she could come on patrols to observe, and learn what she could to protect herself, and after that year, she’d allow it.
Zara did just that, observing but never getting involved, learning how to use various weapons and other tools. She saw the family never attacked without justification and reasoning, getting victims and civilians, regardless of species, out the way as much as possible. Everything she learnt was written down in her little book.
Going out for her 17th birthday with friends, she told her mom to call her if she needed her, but she reassured her she didn’t. And when she didn’t hear anything that night, she assumed everything was fine. Until she came home to find her father’s sister sitting in their house, looking solemn. Her mother had been killed in a werewolf attack, the pack having gathered intel on their families, and friends, and had threatened Zara’s life. Because of this, she was taking over guardianship of the blonde, and she’d have 10 minutes to grab whatever was most important to her, and they had to leave.
Moving to Creation Peaks, she kept her head down, focusing on graduating high school, and then getting a job with the CPSD, reasoning she could better protect and save civilians from inside the Sheriff’s Dept.
Following Halloween, Zara has lost people she was close to, and is suspicious of everyone now, even those she has trusted in the past.Â
Random Headcanons 
Zara doesn’t believe in telling humans about the existence of the supernatural. She believes that if they knew, the more reckless that thought it was “cool” would investigate, and get themselves hurt, and they’d get in the way of people who knew what they were doing.Â
Zara tends to judge people based on their species before she gets to know them. She’s open to them changing her mind, and she wouldn’t discriminate outwardly.
In the back of her notebook, she has a list of town residents, and what species they are, should anything happen to her. Over the years she’s invested in a locked box to put it in, the combination the day of her parents birthdays
Her nuanced way of hunting is using hacking skills to look for communication between packs, covens and nests. Others may laugh at her because of it, but her reasoning is if the hunters have adapted the way they hunt, there’s nothing to say predators haven’t as well.
She has a black cat named Luna, who wandered into her aunt’s house on a full moon one night, and never left. They checked to make sure she didn’t have any identification, and once they were sure she was no-one elses, Zara kept her.
Zara lets loose every now and again, and on the whole is friendly to people, but she can switch in a moment to a more serious, sternness should the situation require it. She can lie to protect others, and often will dance around a question without ever answering it.









