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[center][h1][color=darkviolet]Elize Vanzant[/color][/h1]
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[i]"Even in the darkest of times sometimes one must only remember to turn the light on.[/i] -[b]Dumbledor[/b][/center][hr][hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Personal Information[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=darkviolet][u]Name:[/u][/color]
Elize Vanzant

[color=darkviolet][u]Nickname:[/u][/color]
Shewolf

[color=darkviolet][u]Birth Date:[/u][/color] October, 14, 1992

[color=darkviolet][u]Age:[/u][/color]
23

[color=darkviolet][u]Gender:[/u][/color]
Female

[color=darkviolet][u]Sexuality:[/u][/color]
Heterosexual
[hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]In The Mirror[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=darkviolet][u]In Depth Appearance:[/u][/color]
Elize is tall and willowy young woman, standing roughly five foot ten inches while barefoot. She appears the picture of frailty with long limbs and sharp features. Despite this she is much more athletic and strong than she appears, her muscles are toned and cut, they flex rather than bounce. Her hair reaches to about the stop of her breasts and is thick, a lovely shade of dark auburn red. Elize's face is a memorable one, perhaps it is her cool tropical blue eyes set above a set of sharp cheekbones. Her skin is a cool pale with soft blued undertones and is dotted with freckles in various places from across the bridge of her nose to her shoulders and back.

[color=darkviolet][u]Clothing Style:[/u][/color] Elize is fairly simple as far as clothing is concerned. She generally wears little more than a tank top and a pair of jeans or shorts. She is usually barefoot so that she can feet her connection to the Earth.
[hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Delving Deeper[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=darkviolet][u]Likes:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Being in nature
[*] Animals
[*] Coffee
[*] Hammocks
[*] Cooking[/list]

[color=darkviolet][u]Dislikes:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Liars
[*] Harmonicas
[*] Men who act like pigs
[*] People who don't like animals
[*] People who sing a lot
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[color=darkviolet][u]Fears:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Not finding someone to love her
[*] Something happening to her animals
[*] Losing her mother[/list]

[color=darkviolet][u]Habits:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Popping her knuckles
[*] chewing with her mouth open
[*] drifting off, day dreaming[/list]

[color=darkviolet][u]Personality:[/u][/color]
[center][u]♦ Kind ♦ Untrusting ♦ Quiet ♦ Stubborn[/u][/center]
Elize is quiet, but not for the usual reason. Elize is not shy, she merely prefers the presence of animals to that of people. Animals can be read without doubt, humans not so much. She is often quite easy to talk to and does occasionally like to engage in social interactions with other humans but not very often. There is little that unsettles her, she tends to be very calm and collected. With little show of emotion towards other humans, Elize is often considered to be cold.

[color=darkviolet][u]Background:[/u][/color]
Elize has somewhat of a rough past, she was gifted as a young child by her mother with the ability to communicate animals after Elize made the wish that she would always have friends and thus she does. However, with most things there is price to pay. Elize was gifted with animals and training them but was always lacking in typical human social skills. When she was a young girl her father got into the wrong crowd of people and ended up overdosing on drugs. As a result Elize was transferred into the foster care system and was bounced around from place to place. This was the reasoning behind her very first wish to her mother. She had reliable friends who would never turn their backs on her so long as she did returned the favor. 

Around her 10th birthday Elize landed in a home that was not the friendliest, every step she took was too loud, every breath too wheezy. This led to her second wish to her mother, the Goddess granted Elize the ability to exist in utter silence. She eventually started to use this to her advantage and began to escape for late night walks to see the animals in the woods but the family eventually found out and sent Elize away, frightened of how she had gone so quickly from an awkward loud child to an utterly silent one. 

Elize's next home was much kinder to her, school was not though as she moved from awkward tween to young adult. She was pushed about in school and though much stronger than she appeared her willowy appearance lead to her being picked on and betrayed. She learned quickly that the only things she could trust were the animals she encountered. She stayed with this family until she was an adult and veered out on her own with the guidance of her mother. Elize eventually found a cabin in the woods to rent when she was 19. When she turned 20 though her mother insisted that she attend school with the other people like herself.

[color=darkviolet][u]Extra:[/u][/color]
Elize is quite self conscious.
[hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Godly Information[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=darkviolet][u]Godly Parent:[/u][/color]
Artemis

[color=darkviolet][u]Relationship With Godly Parent:[/u][/color]
Artemis is definitely more fond of Elize than she is of her other child, though not exceptionally calm. She has been there when it was possible for her to be and gave Elize gifts when she needed them most. Her first gift she receive when she was a young child, others followed at various times during her life.

[color=darkviolet][u]Godly Abilities:[/u][/color]
Animal Tongues - Animals communicate with noises and body language, everyone is aware of that. They also have another form of communications that involves something slightly more complex. Unlike humans animals have no metal shield that keeps their emotions hidden from those around them. They communicate in pulses of emotions that radiate from their body, wild animals are more erratic and harder to read than domestic animals. Elize has the ability to read these pulses and communicate in the same manner. She can also faultlessly read body language and vocalizations. Her ability to communicate through emotions has been somewhat learn, she has a natural knack for it but she cannot read animals she's never encountered before right away based on emotion alone.

Subtle Silence - Elize could quite possibly be one of the stealthiest people you might ever have the displeasure of meeting. This is a result of the second gift her mother granted her. She has the ability to be nearly completely silent, unless she simply deliberately makes noise when she is moving she is utterly silent; her breathing is slow and precise, her steps measured and even. This gift is useful for a variety of things from scaring other students to fitting in well in the forest among the animals.

Predatory Presence - This was the latest gift her mother has bestowed upon her. Have you ever been out somewhere and felt extremely uncomfortable in the presence of someone? Felt the need to flee thought there was no reason to do so. Elize has the ability to give this feeling to people intentionally or unintentionally. It is also the reason behind her fluid motions and predatory nature. She has a tendency not to follow but to stalk, to prey on weakness, it is rather unintentional most of the time. She is also an adept tracker as a result of this.

My favorite goddess is actually the Egyptian goddess Isis.
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[hider=Laurel Demirci- Hephaestus][center][h1][color=aliceblue]Laurel Demirci[/color][/h1]
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[i]"Among all the sights of the docks, the noble truck-horses are not the least striking to a stranger.  They are large and powerful brutes, with such sleek and glossy coats, that they look as if brushed and put on by a valet every morning.  They march with a slow and stately step, lifting their ponderous hoofs like royal Siam elephants.  Thou shalt not lay stripes upon these Roman citizens; for their docility is such, they are guided without rein or lash; they go or come, halt or march on, at a whisper.  So grave, dignified, gentlemanly, and courteous did these fine truck-horses look - so full of calm intelligence and sagacity, that often I endeavored to get into conversation with them, as they stood in contemplative attitudes while their loads were preparing.  But all I could get from them was the mere recognition of a friendly neigh; though I would stake much upon it that, could I have spoken in their language, I would have derived from them a good deal of valuable information touching the docks, where they passed the whole of their dignified lives."[/i] -[b]Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849[/b][/center][hr][hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Personal Information[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=aliceblue][u]Name:[/u][/color]
Laurel Emmie Demirci

[color=aliceblue][u]Nickname:[/u][/color]
Blacksmith or Smithy

[color=aliceblue][u]Birth Date:[/u][/color]
April 1st 1994
[color=aliceblue][u]Age:[/u][/color]
21

[color=aliceblue][u]Gender:[/u][/color]
Female
[color=aliceblue][u]Sexuality:[/u][/color]
Heterosexual
[hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]In The Mirror[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=aliceblue][u]In Depth Appearance:[/u][/color]
Laurel is a pretty girl, her face is softly angular and surrounded by deep pitch black hair. Her long locks are quite thick and fall just shy of the top of her butt. She is neither tall nor short really standing around the five foot six mark but she is rather striking nonetheless with warm olive toned skin and soft green eyes. She's very athletic looking with well defined muscles just about everywhere and appears to be in top physical condition. 

Laurel has a tattoo of a [url=http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f11/krosscowgirl/Characters/s-l1000_zpsinqvycse.jpg]sword[/url] The blade lies directly on top of her spine and the hilt goes up onto the back of her neck while the sheath lays at about a 45 degree angle beneath the blade of the sword.

[color=aliceblue][u]Clothing Style:[/u][/color]
Laurel is generally found to be wearing athletic pants or shorts with a v-neck shirt or a racerback tank top and tennis shoes.
[hr][center][color=gold][h1][u]Delving Deeper[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=aliceblue][u]Likes:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Working out
[*] Eating Healthy
[*] Sarcasm
[*] People who like her
[*] Making weapons[/list]

[color=aliceblue][u]Dislikes:[/u][/color]
[list][*] People who think she's manly
[*] Debbie downers
[*] Snotty people
[*] Lazy people
[*] People who aren't nice to animals[/list]

[color=aliceblue][u]Fears:[/u][/color]
[list][*] Radioactivity
[*] Having to actually be required to use her weapons
[*] Meeting her true love and not knowing it[/list]

[color=aliceblue][u]Habits:[/u][/color]
[list][*] doodling swords and other weapons
[*] talking things out to herself
[*] pacing[/list]

[color=aliceblue][u]Personality:[/u][/color]
[center][u]♦ Easy Going ♦ Friendly ♦ Curious ♦ Eloquent[/u][/center]
Laurel is simply one of those people who you usually can't help but like, she is eloquent and extremely intelligent. She seems to just always know the right thing to say, most of the time anyways. She can be rather goofy and easy going, never taking anything too serious. Truly anything other than working out and school isn't something Laurel takes seriously though she does take her smithing practice somewhat seriously. 

[color=aliceblue][u]Background:[/u][/color]
Laurel was born to a young mother, only 17 when she had Laurel. This never stopped the two of them though and they are very close. She and her mother later started a small company that grew exponentially in the first several years and made them quite wealthy. They have kept their money well and invest, as a result there is little that Laurel could want for. She gained her first powers when she was 11 and they only grew and became more complex from there. Laurel has never met her father but her mother insists that it is truly better that way so Laurel goes along with her. 

[color=aliceblue][u]Extra:[/u][/color][hr]
Laurel also has a knack for growing plants and is quite the little gardener, her apartment looks like a tropical jungle.
[center][color=gold][h1][u]Godly Information[/u][/h1][/color][/center]
[color=aliceblue][u]Godly Parent:[/u][/color]
Hephaestus
[color=aliceblue][u]Relationship With Godly Parent:[/u][/color]
Laurel doesn't know her father, she has never met him. He saw her once when she was born but he has never reached out to her other than granting her gifts.

[color=aliceblue][u]Godly Abilities:[/u][/color]
Thor's Hammer - Laurel can summon nearly any weapon she has ever come across, if she can clearly picture it mentally she can summon it into being within her grasp. This gift does not work on new age weapons such as guns, it must be something that can be readily created by a blacksmith, i.e. swords, daggers, dirks, etc. 

Metallurgy - It is an art which Laurel gained by her fathers blood, she has a knack for building weapons and it comes much more easily to her than to any ordinary or even highly skilled blacksmiths. If she has a fire and metal she can forge and shape about anything into a high quality weapon. She is also beginning to learn that she can shape metal without a fire now and is working hard at learning how to improve on this skill. (She also makes fantastic metal jewelry.)
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