Name: Kyra Legan
Age: 20
Year: 2
Gender: Female
Species: Witch - Healing
Physical Description:
In Depth Physical Description: Kyra is quite fragile because she didn't exercise much in her life. Her hair is a light amber brown, sometimes looking golden in the right light, while her eyes are cornflower in color. Her height is average; she stands at 5 ft 7. She's rather slim, due to high metabolism. Her clothes of choice are often blue/white sweaters and a pair of jeans, and if not then she's probably wearing a graphic t-shirt instead of the sweater. She has a frilly white dress in case it's needed for very formal occasions. Her choice of shoes varies; dress shoes for most of school and formal events; tennis shoes for outside activities; sneakers for casual fun time with friends is how it goes.
Personality: Kyra is a very happy girl. Nothing seems to bring her down much at all, so lots of people know her as the always happy deaf girl. She likes talking to others, be it with SEE, DMA, or pen and paper. However, she's very direct which leads to awkward moments that the girl can't quite figure out yet. It made some people just avoid her, which never really bothered her too much. In her eyes, it just gave her more time to do her hobbies.
She doesn't understand insults or bullying, because all of the people doing it were speaking English and not signing it out, so that never bothered her. Although for a lot of her life she was alone, she got through it with drawing and making art in the dirt and whatnot until she found friends.
Kyra is a very smart girl. She learns lots of things quickly, and masters them with the proper help. She also loves to help out others. If she sees someone in pain, she'll try her best to heal them with her powers if they let her. She's a very loyal and law-abiding friend, always using her potions and powers for good and making sure other people do as well. If one of them got hurt by a person, she would stand between them and the assaulter and act as a shield for as long as she can.
Hobbies: Reading - All right. I'll explain this one, and the type of sign language Kyra does since it ties in here. She learned two sign languages. The first of the two is SEE (Signed Exact English) which uses the grammar and syntax of English with an emphasis on fingerspelling (she'd sign a sentence like this [the - are indicating where she changes her sign] "I-am-ve-ry-hap-py." The second of the two was the Deafblind Manual Alphabet, a sign language used on the other person's hand that can be used to communicate with deafblind people or sometimes blind people.
Her helper in the Coven used a special way of reading books to the young Kyra. She would first let her look at the page and the words, and then she would start signing them out to her. The television would also always have closed captions on (before she moved, it was in Russian), and so she knew there were things such as letters, sentences, and words. It isn't clear how exactly she learned how to read, but it was one day where she was watching a show in English and was asked if she knew what the closed captions said. She then proceeded to say yes and sign them out to the person. She somehow figured out that, in english, the printed version of the word was the same or similar to the fingerspelled versions. For reading, she doesn't read phonetically, because she looks at the beginning and ending of the word and predicts what it'll be, sometimes resulting in misunderstandings. She ended up reading lots more on her own, making it a hobby.
Drawing and playing with her dog are her other favorite things as well.
Familiar: A deaf dog named Mina. Kyra controls the dog via signing and gestures. She brings her along almost everywhere she goes to play with her. She found Mina on the street one day and brought her into her Coven. The other witches there found out that her dog was deaf and informed her, pushing her to get rid of it, but that made Kyra like the dog even more. She's had the dog since she was ~12.
Extra: You could say she knows three languages: The Deafblind Manual Alphabet, SEE, and to an extent written English.
Her handwriting isn't the best, but it's readable.
She can only hear if it's said loudly right into her ear, and even then it's faint.
