Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-32799508-20170807211047/@comment-32799508-20170807220702

Thanks for the feedback! I'll keep sitting on that one. I'd like to come up with something unique that the animal can do to the visitors of the target beyond simply stopping them.

And because I'm a writer at heart, let's write up a short little Town of Salem role Wikia blurb about the character:

Ever since the animal trainer had been small, she had an affinity for animals.

Large or small, every one of them held a special place in her heart. They shared her affection and she was closer to her animal friends than any other person.

She had a pet dog named Roxy, who she would take with her every place she went, despite the uneasy feelings the large canine gave others. The dog was her protector and best friend rolled into one, until the night came that changed everything.

The dog waited patiently outside the little girl's door that night, like it had every night before, and it sat there, awaiting her awakening.

Then a shadowed figure crept down the hall, silent as a corpse, and disappeared into the girl's parents' bedroom unnoticed. The figure emerged from the room promptly afterwards, and attempted to make their way into the girl's room.

Roxy leapt to her paws, fur on end and lips drawn back in a fearsome snarl. The intruder balked at the sight of the overgrown mutt and left the house in a silent hurry.

The very next day, the girl awoke to the sound of the town breaking down her parents' doors.

It wasn't until later she learned that the figure of the night before had been the investigator, collecting information for the town. He had happened upon an incriminating pistol, alongside messages from the other members of the organized crime.

The investigator had tried to look into the girl's ties to her parents' organization, however the dog had stopped him in his tracks.

Thinking nothing of it at the time, the investigator had assumed the girl was innocent, as young as she was. Though she had no connections to her parents' profession, the girl was filled with loathing for the smooth talking, mystery-shrouded investigator as she watched her parents' corpses hang from the gallows.

From that day forth, she used all of her parents' leverage to join the mafia and put an end to the investigator's meddling, once and for all, her faithful hound Roxy always by her side.