[hider=Elena] Name: Elena Octavia Rhodes Image or Description: [hider=Elena][img] http://i.imgur.com/mvq1vCm.png[/img][/hider] Age: 16 Gender: Female Orientation: Bisexual Mage or Familiar: Familiar Ability: Enhanced Healing Partner: (Leave this blank until your partner is announced) Personality: Elena is a confident, determined young woman when it comes to achieving her goals and aspirations, admiring hard work when it comes down to it and desiring to become the best she can be. She is generally an extrovert for the most part, not afraid to talk to others or doing what she wants to do. Despite the sense of confidence she seems to have, however, she is someone who feels like she has to work hard to prove herself to others and to prove her own self-worth. She actually risks over-exerting herself at times when it comes down to this behavior, especially if her at times stubborn determination is involved. After being rejected by her birth family, she feels a sense of distance from them as well as a notable grudge against them in the process. However, she possesses a soft spot for her deceased mother. When stressed badly enough she tends to fall back on one of her three hobbies: tea making, cooking, or swimming. The latter hobby she feels to be her most effective form of relaxation when she is really feeling the pressure. She enjoys spicy foods very much so, and additionally generally looks favorably on others who are hard workers. By this same vote, however, absurdly lazy people and those utterly reliant on "natural talent" without putting in the hard work easily get into her "people I dislike" book. Beyond this, however, she is not adverse to relaxing by "chilling out" or doing something like taking a hot bath to help soothe the nerves on occasion as well. She also has a fondness for swimsuits, both wearing them, using them for swimming, and shopping for them. Biography: Elena was born to the infamous Rhodes family, a clan of wealthy and long-loved mages who have specialized at the art for generations. Elena was born the daughter to the second wife of the head of the Main Family, which made her status as a familiar all the more important in regards to her prominence in the family's organization. Yet her happy life would not exactly last, as while her mother treated her well she died when Elena was eight years old. At this time, her father could not bear to look at her due to how much she resembled her mother, and her half-siblings rejected her as even being related to them after misinterpreting that their father "hated" Elena. This quickly resulted in Elena being sent to live with a somewhat rich uncle on her mother's side at the young age of four. In this place she felt the gravity of the more "normal" life, as compared to the luxurious and admittedly lazy life her father and her half-siblings lived in their grand estate and mansion. Yet by living a simpler life and doing odd jobs like cleaning to learn life skills, she learned some things her siblings did not, such as the concept of hard work and the like. After meeting her "former" family on a few occasions around town, as they used their wealth and riches to flaunt their power in the case of her half-siblings, she swore from a young age to become the best she could be as a Familiar in order to not become like the "lazy jerks" that her half-siblings had become. Indeed, her goal would be to become a powerful familiar and to leave home in order to possibly one day become a teacher at a school for other familiars. This vow to work hard, however, turned into habit for her, and at times her uncle would worry about her health when she would push herself while practicing a given skill she wanted to learn. Eventually she was sent to St. Fortuna's Academy by her uncle, who had earned the money to send her there with the minor bit of wealth he had. After all, it was as much as he could do for the daughter of his beloved sister, though it was of note that he could afford to keep her in school without bankrupting himself. Now with her family name on her back, her goals in mind, and a determination to find her place in the world...Elena has been sent to St. Fortuna's Academy. Likes: Dark Chocolate, Spicy Foods, Hard Workers, hot baths, hot weather, summer months, swimming, cooking, and tea making are some of the things she likes. Dislikes: Lazy people, "haughty" individuals or those who are "full of themselves", overly sweet foods, seagulls (after one bad trip to the coast with her mother, where she was pooped on quite a lot), extreme cold, and the winter months. Points: 10 Proficiency: 3 Intelligence: 3 Athletics: 4 Misc.: -If she had been born a boy, she would have been named "William". -Sherbet Ice Cream is her least favorite kind of Ice Cream, while strawberry is her absolute favorite flavor of ice cream to eat. -She stands at the height of 5'5". Quiz Answers: [hider=Quiz Answers] 1. What is your character's greatest regret? -That she was never accepted by her birth family...perhaps if she looked a bit different, her father would have kept her around instead of chasing her away.... 2. Your character is home alone after watching a horror movie and they hear a strange sound. What do they do? -Grab a poker from the fireplace, and then investigate the matter just in case there is something terrible lurking about....unless it is just her uncle getting a midnight snack. 3. Two of your characters’ friends are fighting over something trivial, and they want them to stop. How do they go about this? -She would likely step into the middle of things, trying to break it up before the fighting gets any worse than it is. After all, she does not want her friends to do something that stupid over a trivial matter. 4. While your character is on their way to class, they realize they forgot something crucial. They’re already on the verge of running late. What do they do? -Run like hell to get the crucial thing, hoping they can use that as an excuse (or finding another excuse) to try to avoid trouble for being late to class... 5. If your character had the opportunity to turn into any animal, what would that animal be? -A wolf, because she finds them to be incredibly cool and "badass" looking in her own words. 6. If your character’s house were on fire, and they only had time to save one thing from their room, what would it be? -A gold necklace her birth mother gave her for her 13th birthday, a reminder of the last vestige of care anyone among her parents and direct blood siblings has for her. 7. What season does your character like best and why? -The summer! Because she enjoys swimsuits and hot weather, while more or less she also has a chance to cute guys and girls in swimsuits as well. she also feels it is easier and more fun to escape the heat than to escape the cold. 8. Vacation! You character gets to spend a week anywhere! Where is it and what do they do? -She would go to a beach on the southwest area of Prydain, during the summer i might add, and then would take an entire week swimming, relaxing, and enjoying the beach and the activities she can. It would be a great and well-derseved break from the rigors of life and her own hard work, in her opinion! [/hider] Password: Pizza.....specifically~ Stuffed Crust Pepperoni Pizza with Sausage, Mushrooms, and Spinach as additional toppings. [/hider]