A: _______________________________________________↣ Alycia Carmody (Can you hear the distance calling?) ↣ Aaliyah Learorn (The Living Forests) ↣ Aren Rasji (Perils of Xepreath) B: _______________________________________________C: _______________________________________________D: _______________________________________________E: _______________________________________________↣ Evangeline Townsend (Pursuit of Power) ↣ Éliane Faavae (Avalia) ↣ Elliot Myers (Staked) F: _______________________________________________G: _______________________________________________H: _______________________________________________I: _______________________________________________J: _______________________________________________K: _______________________________________________L: _______________________________________________M: _______________________________________________↣ Micah Pond (unfinished WIP) ↣ Myriam Lovelies (Growing Up in New York) ↣ Melanie Cavill (Oblivion) | N: _______________________________________________O: _______________________________________________P: _______________________________________________Q: _______________________________________________R: _______________________________________________↣ Ramona Chalkely, a.k.a. Jessamea Chakeyeon (Welcome to the Condor) ↣ Rowan Karnstein (Seasons of Youth) S: _______________________________________________T: _______________________________________________↣ Teraven Kinsky (R-Evolution) U: _______________________________________________V: _______________________________________________W: _______________________________________________X: _______________________________________________Y: _______________________________________________Z: _______________________________________________↣ Zhalia Ramshorn (The Witches of Shipden Peak) |
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"She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess half hell."
Name
. Princess Evangeline Townsend .
. Eve .
Age
. 26 years .
Gender
. Female .
Sexuality
. Homosexual .
Race
. Levonian .
Kingdom
. Earthica .
Occupation
. Princess of Earthica .
Princess Evangeline Townsend stands at 5'8'' with her slim body being somewhat toned from hard physical training and weights about hundred and twenty-eight pounds. With her fiery red hair and her pale skin she perfectly fits the description of the average appearance of an Earthica citizen. Her inherited red mane is at shoulder-length and she only ever wears it open, letting it hang carelessly around her face. Having resized it from waist-long to chin-short a couple years ago when it was hindering her on one of her climbings, returning home with a completely uneven haircut. Now a messy hairstyle is the usual consequence of her daily routine, which involves a trip to the woods or hard training on her self-made Parcours on the castle grounds. Really well fitting to her ginger head are her forest green eyes with a few hazel sprinkles in them. She barely wears any make-up, avoiding it wherever she can, though it does rarely happen, from time to time, that she asks her maids to put a little bit of mascara on her eyelashes.
Evangeline's wardrobe consists mostly of dark green, earth brown or khaki pants, most of them being shorts, leaving her long legs revealed. Her upper half will almost always be seen in t-shirts, tank-tops or belly-free shirts of earthy colors or a dark red tone. That wearing short pants in the forest is clearly a disadvantage doesn't bother her much. She enjoys the feeling of rough surfaces against her naked skin and the breeze dancing over it. Her feet, if not bare, are found to be stuck in boots of a dark brown shade, constantly covered in mud and dirt.
Evangeline does not wear any jewelry or 'fancy' attire, she does not like dressing for her title.
Scars
None
Tattoos
None
To understand Evangeline, one must make an attempt to understand the two facets about her personality. Being stuck between the little child, that is still hopeful and waiting for her father to tell her she is just perfect, and the adult woman she has become, that knows she does not need his approval.
Her inner child, small, broken-hearted and craving for affection, works hard to excel in the things she puts her mind to, tries to impress her father and make him proud, to not give him an excuse to tell her she is unsatisfactory. She really wants to be who he wishes she was, causing her to act rather boy-ish and rough. The little girl within her is still waiting to get a loving, positive reaction from him once in a while.
The adult woman, strong, fierce and independent, is a very goofy person, who loves to joke around and doesn't like being serious. She has a confident ego and likes to think she is funny and even witty, when really she mostly isn't. She has strong opinions on women that restrain themselves to being 'ladylike', preferring tomboy-ish, determined, ambitious women. She likes to mock about women and men alike who consider the appearance of a woman of much importance. ("Do you prefer me like that? Flipping my red hair back?") Evangeline knows how to move her body and has a gift for dancing; for her own amusement she self-specialized in seductive dance, not liking the conservative, 'dull' ballroom dancing. Her craving for freedom, wilderness and the wind on her face often has her running or climbing around in the forests, searching the woods for calm spots to be alone in for a while, or diving into a lake, swimming for hours upon hours. Eve is very bad at making decisions, good ones especially, and knows she isn't fit for becoming a Queen yet - maybe ever. Actually, she would much rather stay a princess with all it's benefits and not ever become Queen with all the responsibilities.
Eve has moments in wich she feels proud of herself, worthy of love and affection and does not expect it from her father anymore. Rather, she has found the love within herself. In these moments she sees that he is not worth her energy. She just wants to move on from him and live an independent life without his bitterness towards her.
Evangeline is constantly stuck between the things she needs to be truly happy and the want of acceptance and affection from her father. She often reacts like a rebellious teenager rather than the 26-year-old that she is. Her logical thinking knows that she does not need to be changing herself for his approval, but it is hard to let go of that inner child's hope and desires.
Likes
. short pants .
. running .
. climbing .
. swimming .
. parcours .
. the woods .
Dislikes
. having to make decisions .
. having her hair done .
. wearing make-up .
. shoes she can't run in .
. responsibility .
. dresses .
. politics .
Skills
. archery .
. knife throwing .
. mobility .
. persuasive dancing .
Weaknesses
. beautiful ladies .
. fashion .
. loose mouth .
. King Klaus .
Weapons
. three slim throwing knives .
Evangeline's childhood could be described as easy on the first look. She had a lot of freedom, was not often restricted in the things she wanted to do and only occasionally did her mother enforce princess standards, such as appropriate attire to certain events, on her.
Although her mother, a solid rock in her life, loved her dearly and kept her close when possible, Eve had always been fishing for the attention, the acceptance of the King. Growing up, he was rather absence from her life, keeping a certain distance to his daughter. Desiring a son rather than a daughter, the King used the little time that he spent with the princess to toughen her up and teach her various fighting skills. Evangeline picked up quickly on the preferences he had about her. Naively a young Evangeline tried to impress him by excelling in different forms of fighting, her favorite having been knife throwing, and adapting a certain behavior, acting more like a boy than a girl during her childhood and resenting anything too feminine.
As she became a teenager her thirst for acknowledgement shifted into a heavily resent for her father. Having spent her childhood days trying to get some sort of positive reaction out of him left her feeling bitter and angry, with even hatred boiling beneath her skin. The young princess began a rebel streak against her father. She would misbehave, curse, sneak out.
On one of her rebel streaks, as she sneaked out of the castle and went to the woods with raging anger, she ran into Laurel Mith. A young woman, who she would soon befriend. Figuring her father would not be too pleased with her choice of friends, she once again was more than wrong. The King in fact liked the new friend she had made and preferred her over his own daughter; Laurel being a warrior was something he respected.
Despite the frustration and anger she first let out on her friend, Laurel and Eve were able to form a strong, trusting bond and Laurel quickly became the only person in Eve's life that she felt she could always rely on. As years passed Evangeline grew more interested in Laurel and what was once a close friendship had become her first crush. Too scared to tell her, Eve kept her feelings closeted and is up to this date still waiting for them to pass by.
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N A M E
Micah Jasmine Pond
A G E
17
G E N D E R
Female
C L I Q U E
Theater
S E X U A L I T Y
Unclear
Feeling pulled towards girls, but also experiencing attraction towards boys, she sometimes thinks she might be bisexual. But then there's times she actually finds the idea of dating a boy to be disgusting, making her believe she might be gay. She doesn't really care what it turns out to be: bisexual, homosexual, pansexual, demisexual, it's all a possibility to her. The only thing she is almost certain of is that she is not straight.
R E L A T I O N S H I P
Single. Has never dated before.
A P P E A R A N C E
Wearing a lot of expensive clothes, brands. Her fathers are richhhh.
L I K E S
• Creative Writing
• Acting (Theater)
• Pizza, of all vegetarian sorts
• Veggie Hot Dogs
• Acting (Theater)
• Pizza, of all vegetarian sorts
• Veggie Hot Dogs
D I S L I K E S
• Animal cruelty
• Homophobic / Sexist / Racist people
• Bullying of any sorts
• Homophobic / Sexist / Racist people
• Bullying of any sorts
P E R S O N A L I T Y
Good confidence, self-esteem and self-love. She has been taught to always consider someone's feelings and make sure to be appreciative of the differences humans have, "one type of color could never form the rainbow flag" was one of her father's favorite sayings he came up with. Micah tries hard to keep an open mind about anyone she meets, but she has great trouble with that. Having been bullied by certain types of people all her life made it hard for her to not categorize the rest of them into stereotypes. She likes it a little more quiet, has never partied before and also doesn't know if she would enjoy such a scene.
H I S T O R Y
Adopted. Gay fathers. Picture of her as a child. She had everything a kid could wish for, inlcuding two really loving fathers, that payed attention to her needs and feelings, but also tried to give her as much freedom as she desired. They always let her try herself out, encouraging her to test her limits and find her passions. They were easily awed by anything she accomplished and so Micah never had the feeling of being inferior in any way, making it easy for her to grow steady self-esteem and healthy self-love.
O T H E R
Her grandmother, [father]'s mother, was born deaf. Due to her father having such a close relationship with her (and also him wanting his daughter to be able to go to someone, if she ever had trouble at home), he insisted on Micah learning sign language to be able to easily communicate with her grandmother. Micah has a really tight relationship with her grandma, who loves her dearly and spoils her way too much.
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Alycia Jasmine Carmody
| Nicknames |
"Hey, Leashy!" :: "My Leashy-Loo." :: "Lycia!"
| Age |
22
| Gender |
Female
| Likes |
[+] being silly
[+] swimming
[+] flowers
[+] space
[+] traveling
[+] discovering new things
| Dislikes |
[-] too serious people
[-] being bossed around
[-] being left out
[-] boredom
[-] repeating herself
[-] arrogance
| Personality |
Alycia is a complete dork. She likes to fool around and have fun in the silliest ways. From riding shopping carts through the store to dancing on the beach to making crazy faces on pictures. She really likes to help people wherever she can and therefor is a really nice person. Alycia believes that if you treat people right, they will return the favor. The Australian woman is more likely to follow than lead, but she will speak up for her thoughts and desires and will not bent to fit into a category or into a liking.
Despite her being very silly and sometimes childish-like, she is a fairly smart and grown-up person. If Alycia considers you her friend, you have a rock, a shoulder to cry on, a foot to kick your ass, a supporting hand, a judge-free, taking secrets into the grave kind of person in her.
| Place Of Origin |
Sydney, Australia
Although the city is big, she never had the feeling of it being a big-city-vibe there. She loves the people, she feels home there. She moved to LA 4 years ago though.
| History |
Given that Alycia had always wanted to see different places and learn different things, it wasn't a surprise when she announced she wanted to participate in this project. Her parents had always supported her in her decisions and never held her back. The decision for this project was easily made, Alycia often jumped into the blue and then tried to somehow handle the situation, and when she read the travel part of the project online, she had already sent an application for it. No doubt this would be a useful experience and incredible adventure!
| Extra |
:: She learnt how to play the drums ::
:: She's good in interacting with children ::
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Myriam Riley Lovelies
"I may have burnt the house down,
but I made damn sure you were in it when I lit the match."
-Juliette Barnes
Name;
Myriam Riley Lovelies
Nickname;
Myri; Riley; Riles
- just what people have decided to call her and she didn't complain
Miram-Riley
- by her mother, which she dislikes
Date of Birth;
06/04/1994
Age;
22 years
Gender;
Female
Sexuality;
Homosexual
Relationship Status;
Single
Sexually Active;
Whenever she feels like it; but honestly not too much at the moment
Occupation;
Currently working at Starbucks
Room Number;
Room 504
In Depth Appearance;
Myriam stands at 5'4'' and weights 121 lbs. She isn't very strong and doesn't look it either. Her arms and legs are thin and some had told her she looked like she'd break if they'd grab her too roughly. Despite that, she is very tough and can take a lot; though it also easily shows on her skin since she bruises very quickly. She has natural blonde hair and likes to keep it long. Usually you will see her with either open hair or having it in a ponytail. Her eyes are blue-green, which she insist on because she wants to have green eyes, but most people just say her eyes are blue and she is imagining the green. Myriam's prefers her make-up rather simple, but sometimes will add a bright red to her lips when in the mood for it. Her clothes usually always seem kind of the same - a "cool" t-shirt, hot pants and either barefoot or in sneakers. On chillier days she will put on long jeans and when it gets really cold a cuddly hoodie is her preference. She doesn't like dressing in fancy dresses or skirts, but keeps a couple hidden in her closet in case she needs them or "accidentally" has one of these days where she needs a clothing-change.
The girl has one single scar on her body, positioned at her lower back on the left side is a small 1,7-inches scar, a horizontal line slightly protruding in a white tone from her skin. She has both her ears pierced once and her belly button. Myriam also has a single tattoo, hidden on her right inner thigh.
Habits | Oddities | Quirks;
Myriam loves her long nights out as much as she likes her long sleeps, which often causes her to sleep all day and be up all night.
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She loves kittens and although she doesn't wanna be getting one herself, because that would ruin her badass image, she is totally weak for them.
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She turns on the TV or video games the minute she wakes up and will only turn it off when she leaves the house or wants silence to sleep.
Hobbies;
Gaming
Horseback Riding
Travelling
(if only she had more money)
Secrets;
She is a complete Harry Potter nerd and J.K Rowling is the only author she has ever read volunteeringly.
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She loves music by Meghan Trainor and Demi Lovato.
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Disney! And DreamWorks, but mostly Disney. Keeping her secret for the love of Disney is hard if it ever comes up in conversation, because she just has trouble not saying what she has on her mind, and when someone says something bad about Disney, she will most likely get angry at any other thing they do to cover up the real reason why she is so upset. And don't get her started on Frozen's queen Elsa.
She owns a whole collection of children's movies, hidden and locked away in her room. The only cupboard that is locked in her whole apartment. And she freaks out when someone wants to get behind the secret of it.
Likes;
Turning her music on full volume
Video Games
Concerts
Junk Food and Snacks
Cuteness
Glasses
Football Season
Heights
Travelling
Playing Games
(Monopoly, Truth/Dare, Beerpong, Karaoke, Cards, anything with interaction)
Dislikes;
Being Woken Up
The Color Pink
Rejection
Being Alone
Her Last Name
Drugs
Cleaning Up
Religions
Fears;
Lighting - because she always hears how people got struck by it
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Paranoia of someone she knows or herself getting cancer
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Being the one getting dumped in a relationship
Personality;
Positive Trait
Myriam is an adventurous young woman, that loves to travel to new places and enjoys heights. She wants to go skydiving, jump off cliffs into the water, fly a plane herself - all that kind. She loves adrenaline, but she also thinks that safety comes first. As much as she likes any new adventure, if she considers it definitely not safe, she will not do it.
She is very social and likes to interact with a lot of folks. Meeting new people is a treat to her and she enjoys seeing all those different personalities come together to form a group of friends. She easily talks and shares things with others, not being shy about speaking her mind and not afraid to talk in front of bigger groups. That also leads to her often saying silly things.
Negative Trait
Myriam is still a teenager deep inside and doesn't like to act like a grown up. She enjoys having a lot of free time and therefore isn't interested in seeking a full-time job, even though it would pay her better. She spends most of her free time either gaming or interacting with someone else. Being alone is not her thing. School, work, responsibilities - all of those kinds are mood killers for her and she would avoid them as much as possible. She is rather impatient and lazy. Myriam is forgetful; she never turns off the lights and usually leaves her key at home 3 out of 5 times. That resulted into an annoyed roomate several times in her life.
Place of Origin;
Germany, Hamburg
History;
Myriam Lovelies' family is originally from the UK, her grandparents from her mother's side though travelled often to Germany with their daughter, Myriam's mother Abigail, and therefore Myriam's mother learnt how to speak German from her visits and her parents. Later her mother had decided to move to Germany and live there. She met a sweet guy and after a while got pregnant with her first child, a daughter she named Helena. The father didn't stay with them, but Abigail soon enough found a new lover and although that guy didn't stay with her either, she got her secend daughter from him, Myriam. 3 years apart in age, Myriam and her odler sister Helena had always had a heavy love/hate relationship, in which the hate mostly outweighed.
At the age of 8, Helena being 11, their mother decided to move to the USA, Springfield, Illinois. Having a heavy German accent and knowing only so much of the English language from their mother's parents, the two girls had some trouble fitting in at first. But they learnt quickly and lost their accents rather soon than late.
Myriam lived with her mother until she was 18, then she decided it was about time to get out of there and she flew straight over to New York City. Not really knowing what she wanted to do there, she only knew that she had always dreamt of living in the big city. Myriam has yet to figure out what she actually wants to do.
Misc.;
Her favorite place to travel to would be Australia, she loves their accents and the weather over there. But really, anywhere is fine, travelling is just super nice!
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Given that she lived in Germany and was born there, she speaks the language fluently.
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She never learnt how to drive.
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Myriam is able to ride any horse, as stubborn as they come.
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Jessamae Chakeyeon
General Information:
Actual Name: Jessamae Ramona Nelseigh Chakeyoen
{Jessa-may Ramona Nell-say Sha-key-yen}
Pretend Name: Ramona Jessa Chalkley
Nicknames: Jessa; Jess; Nels {by very few}
She goes by Ramona and Jessa both as a calling name.
Most people only know her as Ramona though.
Closer people (not necessarily friends) know she rather goes by Jessa.
Age: 24 years
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Homosexual
DOB: February 24, 2093
Nationality: Born and raised on Vasciamaera {Race is called Vasciamaerian}
Position on The Condor: Explorer; helping out with engineering problems if required; listed as possible military soldier if ever required
Years on The Condor: 5 years
Appearance: Jessamae is 5'7'' (1,70m) in height and has an average body figure. Her hair length goes a little bit further over her shoulders and is of brown-ish color with a ginger touch, lighting influences the appearance of her hair color. Her eyes are of hazelnut brown color. She has a slightly tanned skin and her arms show some few muscles from hard work. Jessa also has a somewhat toned stomach. Her skin is strangely clean, showing no signs of skin blemishes - this though comes from her biology, her genes, her race.
Personalized Information:
Personality:
Jessamae is a woman who stands up for what she believes in and will fight for it if she has to. She doesn't shy away from adventure, fights or dangers. Though she doesn't necessarily seek out fights either. She likes to avoid physical fights if possible and has a rather strict moral to not be the one to start them. She believes in defense rather than taking punches as much as she believes in not hitting a man when they're down and giving her enemies a quick dead if absolutely necessary.
She is a curious person, likes to obverse people and they're behavior, reactions and conversations. She is someone who likes to stay secretive about herself, but likes to know about other people's stories and what drives them. Jessamae has always been more of a silent person, but she tires to interact and initiate conversations more these days. Allies are important, after all.
Jessa was brought up to believe and trust in karma, but has already back then had trouble letting 'karma' handle every wrong that was done. She wasn't someone to sit and watch while something wrong was going on, wrong in her opinion anyways.
Her patience is one of her weaknesses. While her race is known for being patient and wise, there are always those who are the 'black sheep' and just couldn't learn to have some patience. If anything, Jessa was one of the most impatient children she had known herself.
History:
Vasciamaera is a planet of middle size, not the smallest but far far away from being the largest. The planet only knows of the seasons summer and spring, they have four months of summer and eight months of spring. Therefore Vasciamaerians don't know of autumn or winter personally, though most know it exists on other planets. Rain is different on the planet as well, it works the same way, it does the same tricks, but the water doesn't feel yucky on the skin, it doesn't stick to it. It rather feels like soft smooth silk moving over your skin and therefore is highly loved by most people. It doesn't rain often on the planet. The landscapes are similar to the ones on Earth.
The race has three known (or rumored) abilities: their skin heals faster, they pick up languages abnormally quick, they can foresee a possible future and the outcome of events.
Vasciamaera and the race that inhabitants it, are only a whisper these days. Most people have heard crazy stories here and there, but no one believes they really exist anymore, at least not this far away from the planet. As a race able to foresee the ending and beginning of wars, a lot of powerful people, all kind of races, have come across the planet and asked or forced help out of the most skillful Vasciamaerians. A long time they were 'The End', the end of any war, because whoever had that race on their side won the war. But the more wars they helped with, or were forced to help with, the more enemies they made, the more jealous some people got. And in the end a war began, a war against all Vasciamaerians, no single one should be left to live. Many died, on both sides, but the race survived somehow, decided to leave the galaxy to it's problems and mind their own business once and for all, they went into silence. That was 500 years ago and ever since the whispers about the Vasciamaerians have become more quiet, yet resilient. The galaxy won't fully forget about the race that is able to foresee. They won't forget, but most people don't believe them to be anything more but a myth, a made-up story.
No map in the whole universe shows their location, you either know or you don't. The missing of any documentation of the whereabouts of this planet are a big reason for the people to not believe in the stories of the Vasciamaerians. How all locations documented got destroyed is a mystery that will never be solved...
The race has three known (or rumored) abilities: their skin heals faster, they pick up languages abnormally quick, they can foresee a possible future and the outcome of events.
Vasciamaera and the race that inhabitants it, are only a whisper these days. Most people have heard crazy stories here and there, but no one believes they really exist anymore, at least not this far away from the planet. As a race able to foresee the ending and beginning of wars, a lot of powerful people, all kind of races, have come across the planet and asked or forced help out of the most skillful Vasciamaerians. A long time they were 'The End', the end of any war, because whoever had that race on their side won the war. But the more wars they helped with, or were forced to help with, the more enemies they made, the more jealous some people got. And in the end a war began, a war against all Vasciamaerians, no single one should be left to live. Many died, on both sides, but the race survived somehow, decided to leave the galaxy to it's problems and mind their own business once and for all, they went into silence. That was 500 years ago and ever since the whispers about the Vasciamaerians have become more quiet, yet resilient. The galaxy won't fully forget about the race that is able to foresee. They won't forget, but most people don't believe them to be anything more but a myth, a made-up story.
No map in the whole universe shows their location, you either know or you don't. The missing of any documentation of the whereabouts of this planet are a big reason for the people to not believe in the stories of the Vasciamaerians. How all locations documented got destroyed is a mystery that will never be solved...
Jessamae Ramona Nelseigh Chakeyeon was born on the planet Vasciameara. Children of that planet start school at the age of two, they learn languages and start their education about foreseeing. With the age of six it was clear that Jessamae had a talent for mechanic and engineering as well as aiming any firing weapon. She lacked the skills that were so highly acknowledged in their culture though, she was impatient, impulsive, strong headed, disobeyed too much, got into trouble too often, ditched too many school classes and, the worst, had no ability to control or extend her foreseeing powers whatsoever. That being said, Jessamae wasn't 'less gifted', in fact she had a completely average foreseeing ability. She just couldn't work with it... at all. On her planet that meant as much as being 'bad in school' and having a 'not so good job in the future'.
Knowing that she was never gonna get where they wanted her to be, she decided to use the skills she had to start up a life. So she joined the army at the age of twelve and became a soldier. The training was hard and harsh and dirty, but she didn't give up. She sucked in all foreseeing classes in military and didn't ever make it near any commanding position. So they tossed her off to be a simple soldier and a mechanic. Something that Jessa was incredibly good at.
Military was strict and with the age of fifteen Jessamae had enough of it. She was thinking about quitting. There were no fights to be fought, it was all simply preparation for the possibility that they would get attacked again. And then she met her. Caylea Lethendriel changed her world twice. When she entered it. And when she left it so drastically...
And here we are, the reason why Jessamae Chakeyeon left her home planet to go far far away at the age of nineteen and accidentally found her new home to be on-board the Condor. The woman changed her name to Ramona Jessa Chalkley, it just sounded more... human..., and began her new life.
What happened with Caylea...? That is Jessa's story to tell.
Skill Set:
Combat and Fights:
Skilled with any kind of firing weapon
Combat skills {with a large stick, with her bare body}
Knowledge:
Skilled mechanic and engineer
Some medical knowledge
Fluent in many languages across the galaxy {trying to hide it}
Quick learner
Other:
Instinct towards upcoming troubles, events and possible outcomes {trying to hide it}
Specials:
As a Vasciamaerian Jessamae has the ability of feeling someone's intentions and foreseeing a possible future, mostly related to big events (like wars or their outcome) and moments in the very near future. Foreseeing an event is a painful, uncontrollable thing that mostly shows through little to major headaches, sometimes ending in the person fading out. Foreseeing is just a possible future, it can be very clear and very strong, or very foggy and uncertain. Even very clear outcomes can change, but it is so very unlikely that no one in the galaxy dares to still believe in it. Foreseen moments are 95% covered with pain, fear, anger or any other negative, hard feeling. Happy moments are very rarely foreseen. Foreseeing is a gift and a skill both - you get born with a certain amount of ability, but can extend it and control it with hard training and discipline. (Jessa never had enough discipline to control any vision ever.)
This is a very obvious trait of her kind and the need to try and put this off as 'instinct' or 'intuition' to others is only reasonable.
Jessamae's skin heals quicker than those of humans. It is not a rapid, visible pace (you can't watch it disappear), but with some attention towards the wound healing process someone could spot that it might be healing a little too quickly for a 'human'. For example: A normal bruise might be gone within a day or two and indicate that something is off, if someone payed attention. (She is not in any way more resilient to deadly harms or the like.)
Her race is known for learning languages abnormally quick. It is rumored that this is the last piece that shows of the telepathic skills the Vasciamaerians once had. If they ever really had telepathic skills is a very good kept secret, most Vasciamaerians don't know the answer to that either. (Jessamae doesn't know.)
For the very reason of it being so known as a trait of her race, she tries to not show it too often.
She can't handle coldness at all, since her skin is not made for it. (On her planet there is no winter.)
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"There is no thing that is better or worse, worth more or less, than the other. We are all the same."
Name
Aaliyah Maeremah Laerorn
(A-lee-ah Mer-ih-ma Leh-rorn)
(Meaning each: Ascender | Free | Tree Song)
(Meaning all: The free Ascender of the Tree Song)
Many people on earth have considered her name too hard to pronounce and had called her Liyah (Lee-ah).
Her surname often gets mispronounced as La-horn.
Age
617 years (of which she spent 400 years on earth)
Appears in her early to mid+ twenties, her ID puts her at 24.
Gender
Female
"There's demons haunting me inside that you can't see."
Description
Aaliyah is 161cm tall and weights 62kg. Her boobs measure of a 32B in bra size. She has natural brown hair, that goes down in waves a tad further than the middle of her back. She has freckles over her nose and cheeks, that will show forcefully when she gets the warm sun onto her skin a couple of days. Her eyes are of a brown tone. Aaliyah has a cleft chin, which people like to call 'butt chin' or 'booty chin', that she didn't like for a long time but has come to terms with. She likes to walk around natural, not so much make-up and comfortable clothes, but doesn't mind glamming up every now and then. She has several tattoos on her body. She also has a huge smile, which people have made fun of, but she will not stop smiling because of that.
Species
Dilloth
(Meaning: Silent Flower)
Sexuality
Lesbian
Personality
Aaliyah is a calm person, who can sit and listen to you for hours. She doesn't erupt very often or easily. She tries to solve everything with words and kindness. Her heart gets heavy whenever she witnesses pain, hurting, prejudices, hate or unfairness. The woman doesn't understand cruelness or being divided by simple things like religion, skin color or sexuality. Before coming down to earth she hadn't known a word for 'sexuality', they just called it love, hadn't known that religion and skin color was a reason to hate for some people. She loves nature, animals and children and is protective of them. Liyah almost got a heart attack the first time she visited a zoo and had to leave after five minutes. Caged animals, no matter why, are hurting her heart and she doesn't understand why it would be necessary.
In her free time being outdoors in the nature where no cars drive, no houses can be seen, no loud city noises can be heard, is her favorite thing to do. Right next to writing songs and singing. She likes to have fun dancing and exploring the world, climbing, jumping, swimming. She loves to ride her bike and prefers it over cars or buses or trains. It feels more natural to her and she likes the wind in her hair.
She loves learning new things and is always very enthusiastic about it. Testing out new sweet treats is one of her favorite things. She loves movies, though she is always shitting her pants during any kind of horror movie (even if it's really not scary!).
Aaliyah is easily hurt, because she still hasn't quiet understood that sometimes people don't mean what they say. So she takes a lot of things to heart even if she shouldn't. But she has been working on that for a long while now and it's slowly getting better.
Liya benefits from several abilities that are common for her species.
(See 'Abilities of her race' in the CS)
The Dilloth can't tell untruthful things. Therefore Liya can't lie.
Likes
- Trying out new sweet treats
- Nature (all of it)
- Singing
- Writing
- Swimming
- Climbing (preferably on trees, but anything will do)
- Kind people
Dislikes
- Violence
- Earth politics
- Caging animals
- Being a queen. She feels like she is the worst queen there has been.
Backstory
Liyah was born on a planet called Astraea and she was the princess of the Dilloth - the race that inhabited the planet. She grew up in the forest along the other ten or so children. She spent 200 years on that planet, played in the crowns on the trees and lived within wonderful wooden places in their forest. On her 200th birthday, Aaliyah got crowned as queen. And suddenly she was in charge of Astrea, a very small planet, nothing compared to earth. But it was home. Until an evil outcome forced the whole species to flee. Not all of them made it.
While the common people slept, the royalty as well as some advicers and healers kept awake on the ship they had fled the burning planet with, heading towards the next best planet to live on. The species that seemed most like them, most to accept their ways and to welcome them was the human race on Earth. It took only 17 years for the Dilloth to arrive on Earth, year 1600.
But the force had followed them and when they had landed and exited the ship something happened. The Dilloth have the ability to turn into trees and they use to do that whenever danger tags along, to hide in plain sight. When they did it this time, they froze in their state. All of the Dilloth at once had been trapped into their tree form - except for one. The young queen met eyes-to-eyes once again with the force that had killed her planet and over half of her people back home. And what they wanted, she couldn't give them. So they left all of her people frozen in their tree form on a planet of people that considered trees a source, something they could kill to use the wood. The queen - all alone with no parents to guide her, no one to talk to, no advicers, no healer by her side - was lost. Of course she tried to find a way, she tried to find the cure - that she knew existed somewhere in the possession of the great evil that had done this -, but after having been everywhere and having found not one clue, she didn't know how to proceed further. All her ideas failed. All her people were trapped for eternity.
And the princess soon too learned, that not only had the great evil trapped the Dilloth in their tree form, but had stopped all Dilloth from growing. The trees didn't grow, after fifty, hundred, two hundred years they still stood at the same size - and so did she. Aaliyah hadn't aged ever since that day, she was doomed to forever be in the position of the queen that got half of her people killed on the first day since coronation and got the other half stuck forever 17 years later in a world that would only gladly kill them one by one.
These days, Aaliyah still feels terrible about it, still hopes for an answer, a solution, but has barely any hope. She had given up. She had started to live like a human as best as she could.
(There's a full, fleshed out story to why and how all this happened, but I didn't wanna write even more in the CS to bore you all.)
The Dilloth have something within their blood, their DNA they call Eredh (translated that means 'Seed'). The Eredh is something that is a part of them like smelling or hearing. They get born with it and some have a stronger Eredh than others. And the Eredh gives them some abilities.
Eredh is a natural thing that once existed in all of nature's creatures; plants and animals alike. Animals and plants do not have a strong Eredh, they can not 'use' it in the way the Dilloth can. But every Eredh can feel when there's something around with Eredh, how strong their Eredh is. And so it comes that all the animals can feel when a Dilloth is near them and they happen to not be afraid of them, to not be aggressive towards them. They respect them. Though they do not listen to them or do things they want. They simply feel that those people mean no harm due to the Eredh within their veins. On the other side of the coin the Dilloth feel pain whenever Eredh around them is destroyed, therefor they would cause themselves physical harm by harming an animal or by killing a tree. It's a two way street. On a sadder note, not all animals still have Eredh though. Animals in the wilderness are more likely to still have their Eredh than animals that are living among humans or in captivity.
The Eredh that runs through their body gives the Dilloth the ability to interact and behave in the environment differently than any other species. They can walk within nature - and only nature! - without making a single sound. They can climb like it's their destiny, are fast on their feet and have quicker reactions than most other species. The Dilloth learn to use daggers and bow and arrows, but they don't hunt with them. They use them in a different way. They have a natural good aim and many train this ability to perfection. So did Aaliyah. (Due to these abilities the Dilloth could be trained to be amazing warriors, if only they would consider to harm anything. But it never even occurred to them that their abilities could be used for military reasons.)
Eredh is also within water. Underwater the Dilloth can see and breathe. This is because the Eredh in the sea will naturally give them the things they need to survive down in the deep. Like plants underwater. The Eredh in the water needs to have time to adjust to her body though, so the 'survival abilities' for underwater will only kick in after around 30 seconds of being completely underneath it. If she gets out of the water before the thirty seconds, it will not work. If water gets pushed over her head, she will not be able to connect to it's Eredh. However if her head gets forced down into water, after thirty seconds she will be able to breathe within it. She can't connect to the Eredh when she is unconscious. She has to be awake for it.
The Eredh forces the Dilloth to always speak the truth, they can be silent if they wish or tell half the truth. But no untruthful word will ever leave their lips. They're unable of doing so. They learn to use their words wisely. By not lying but using words that will set a different kind of thought into the head of someone, they still can prevent themselves from having to spill a truth they don't wanna share. A woken mind will notice their way of words though and not be fooled.
Eredh is able to heal. This process is something the Dilloth have to train hard for, for a long time before it will work at all. Some very few are even able to resurrect someone. Healing someone is a tiring process that considers a lot of attention and strength as well as life. By healing someone, the Eredh will go over in their body and quicken up the healing process. But it comes with a price. Not only will one feel weak, dizzy and maybe even faint, but they will be giving away a part of their lifespan. Every healing process, as little as it might be, costs them a little bit of their own life. The bigger the wound, the bigger the price. So resurrecting someone can cost the Dilloth hundreds of years of life and even cause them to die immediately. The Dilloth respect death and do not make use of their power to resurrect (not that many can anyway). They also prefer to let wounds heal naturally, using natural salves and bandages.
Eredh is a natural thing that once existed in all of nature's creatures; plants and animals alike. Animals and plants do not have a strong Eredh, they can not 'use' it in the way the Dilloth can. But every Eredh can feel when there's something around with Eredh, how strong their Eredh is. And so it comes that all the animals can feel when a Dilloth is near them and they happen to not be afraid of them, to not be aggressive towards them. They respect them. Though they do not listen to them or do things they want. They simply feel that those people mean no harm due to the Eredh within their veins. On the other side of the coin the Dilloth feel pain whenever Eredh around them is destroyed, therefor they would cause themselves physical harm by harming an animal or by killing a tree. It's a two way street. On a sadder note, not all animals still have Eredh though. Animals in the wilderness are more likely to still have their Eredh than animals that are living among humans or in captivity.
The Eredh that runs through their body gives the Dilloth the ability to interact and behave in the environment differently than any other species. They can walk within nature - and only nature! - without making a single sound. They can climb like it's their destiny, are fast on their feet and have quicker reactions than most other species. The Dilloth learn to use daggers and bow and arrows, but they don't hunt with them. They use them in a different way. They have a natural good aim and many train this ability to perfection. So did Aaliyah. (Due to these abilities the Dilloth could be trained to be amazing warriors, if only they would consider to harm anything. But it never even occurred to them that their abilities could be used for military reasons.)
Eredh is also within water. Underwater the Dilloth can see and breathe. This is because the Eredh in the sea will naturally give them the things they need to survive down in the deep. Like plants underwater. The Eredh in the water needs to have time to adjust to her body though, so the 'survival abilities' for underwater will only kick in after around 30 seconds of being completely underneath it. If she gets out of the water before the thirty seconds, it will not work. If water gets pushed over her head, she will not be able to connect to it's Eredh. However if her head gets forced down into water, after thirty seconds she will be able to breathe within it. She can't connect to the Eredh when she is unconscious. She has to be awake for it.
The Eredh forces the Dilloth to always speak the truth, they can be silent if they wish or tell half the truth. But no untruthful word will ever leave their lips. They're unable of doing so. They learn to use their words wisely. By not lying but using words that will set a different kind of thought into the head of someone, they still can prevent themselves from having to spill a truth they don't wanna share. A woken mind will notice their way of words though and not be fooled.
Eredh is able to heal. This process is something the Dilloth have to train hard for, for a long time before it will work at all. Some very few are even able to resurrect someone. Healing someone is a tiring process that considers a lot of attention and strength as well as life. By healing someone, the Eredh will go over in their body and quicken up the healing process. But it comes with a price. Not only will one feel weak, dizzy and maybe even faint, but they will be giving away a part of their lifespan. Every healing process, as little as it might be, costs them a little bit of their own life. The bigger the wound, the bigger the price. So resurrecting someone can cost the Dilloth hundreds of years of life and even cause them to die immediately. The Dilloth respect death and do not make use of their power to resurrect (not that many can anyway). They also prefer to let wounds heal naturally, using natural salves and bandages.
Sexuality is a word the Dilloth do not know and Aaliyah only learned it when she started to live her life on earth. The Dilloth do not consider themselves straight, gay, bisexual or whatever weird words Liyah had heard. They call it love. Simple as that. So she didn't understand why the human race needed different words for the same thing and even felt hate towards some love. It confused her and angered her.
Having a child is a completely different thing for the Dilloth. A child will only ever be born when two people have physical contact during the deepest emotional connection. Physical contact can be anything, from touching a cheek to holding hands to having sex. The deepest emotional connection is more than love, it's two souls physically connecting. It's a special bond, a moment full of vulnerability and weakness and pure emotions for each other. During the deepest emotional connection a child will only be received when the Eredh within one person feels so very pulled towards the Eredh of the other person that a spark of it will leave the body to go over into the one of the partner. That kind of connection is rare. Any couple can get children, the sexual organ is not needed to reproduce. The men of the Dilloth also can receive and carry out children, though they always have to use a risky C-section for the birth of their child. So it can always be that a same sex couple will have a child or that a man will be pregnant with the child of his wife.
Due to the very deep connection to be existent when receiving, children are always born into a loving family. Children are something very precious, because the connection and the ability of the Eredh to split a part of it and jump over into the partner's Eredh is a rare and very beautiful thing. Children are always happily welcomed and are always a blessing. And they're always single children. In the whole history of the Dilloth there were only a very few siblings. For the Eredh to split once and do the incredible task of producing another Eredh, a little child, another little light is a miracle, a wonderful thing. But for it to happen twice is completely out of the norm. There has been siblings, but they're so extremely rare that one would never even consider that they could have two children.
Having a child is a completely different thing for the Dilloth. A child will only ever be born when two people have physical contact during the deepest emotional connection. Physical contact can be anything, from touching a cheek to holding hands to having sex. The deepest emotional connection is more than love, it's two souls physically connecting. It's a special bond, a moment full of vulnerability and weakness and pure emotions for each other. During the deepest emotional connection a child will only be received when the Eredh within one person feels so very pulled towards the Eredh of the other person that a spark of it will leave the body to go over into the one of the partner. That kind of connection is rare. Any couple can get children, the sexual organ is not needed to reproduce. The men of the Dilloth also can receive and carry out children, though they always have to use a risky C-section for the birth of their child. So it can always be that a same sex couple will have a child or that a man will be pregnant with the child of his wife.
Due to the very deep connection to be existent when receiving, children are always born into a loving family. Children are something very precious, because the connection and the ability of the Eredh to split a part of it and jump over into the partner's Eredh is a rare and very beautiful thing. Children are always happily welcomed and are always a blessing. And they're always single children. In the whole history of the Dilloth there were only a very few siblings. For the Eredh to split once and do the incredible task of producing another Eredh, a little child, another little light is a miracle, a wonderful thing. But for it to happen twice is completely out of the norm. There has been siblings, but they're so extremely rare that one would never even consider that they could have two children.
Occupation
None.
She barely keeps above water with her 'amateur performances' at different small locations.
Her performance - two songs she wrote for her folk
Country of Origin
Astraea
(not existent anymore)
Feelings About Meeting Soul Mate
She hasn't given it much thought or attention.
It just never seemed like a reality to her.
Scared to be a disappointment to her.
Soul Mate
Kosara Nikolov
Misc
Most songs she writes that sound like heartbreak songs are actually meant for her people and herself,
which she felt she has disappointed in the biggest way.
She will drink any tea you offer her. But she actually has a guilty pleasure for cappuccino and coffee.
She can not drive.
OP
Name
Rowan Evangeline Karnstein
Title
None
Gender
Female
Sexuality
"Ladies are a much more interesting topic."
Age
21 years
Nationality
Wazatocia
Character Appearance
Rowan Karnstein is 5'2'' tall. Her body could be described as 'in good condition' as she is physically fit and slim, she has beautiful sharp legs and a slightly defined stomach. Her eyes are of a deep 'deer' brown and she has brunette hair to match them. That typical 'sweet girl' image is written all over her, but don't be fooled by it. She can be feisty. Rowan has no problem with dressing like a lady or dressing like a tomboy, she enjoys both styles, depending on her mood and the situation.
Background
Rowan was born to a young mother, just sweet 19 years old, and a father of 23 years who loved her mother dearly. The Karnstein couple worked as servants for the royal family of Wazatocia for several years when they discovered they were expecting a child. The royal family was supportive and offered the very hardworking couple a decent health care within their palace. Five years after Rowan's birth her mother got sick and died two years later. The death of her mother left her father heartbroken and the only thing still keeping him upright was the seven-year-old girl that depended on him. A couple of weeks after the passing of her beloved, joyful, always hardworking, positive mother her father began to call her Mircalla randomly. He explained to her how her mother had wanted to name her Mircalla, but he had been against it. Without talking about it any further Mircalla had turned into a nickname of Rowan's that only her father ever used.
Rowan grew up with a father who was forever heartbroken, but loved his daughter endlessly and would have killed for her if necessary. He always accepted his daughter for who she was, allowed her to spread her wings as much as she could within this world. Rowan went to a school that costed her father almost everything he earned within the palace, but he was determined to give his daughter an education.
She had helped out in the kitchen of the palace since the age of six, cutting potatoes and carrots carefully. By the age of nine she was working in the palace after school and homework, helping out the servants she had grown up with and following into her father's foot steps to become a hardworking member of their family. At the age of fifteen Rowan gained the attention of the princess of Wazatocia by her natural skill for painting as she was painting in a secret corner of the garden where she thought no one ever came to. Her and the princess became fast friends within a couple of weeks. To most people's surprise, and a lot of people's jealousy and anger, the parents of the princess didn't mind their friendship and fell in love with the young servant.
They offered Rowan an education within the palace after eight months of closeness with their daughter. Overjoyed with the news her father pushed her to accept the offer. Within the next years the ever hardworking young girl grew into a young woman that profited from the friendship as much as the princess seemed to profit from it as well. She learned how to ride a horse, play the piano, dance at balls, was granted to take fencing lessons (which she was more than anything grateful for, since those really fulfilled her heart), got pushed to take painting lessons to grow out her natural talent, she was allowed to attend smaller balls, got to wear the princess's dresses and learn how to walk and talk like a lady. Her father saw a bright future in front of her and was bursting with pride of how his baby girl was able to spread out her wings and throw her colors out to the world.
Needless to say the two young ladies grew attracted to each other in their youthful naivety. Their slow burn love built up until, at the age of nineteen, both of the girls were waltzing in the ballroom to practice their steps again before the big ball the next day. (Big for Rowan at least.) Their passion got the best of them and they ended up... "waltzing like it's 1698", as Rowan would call it from then on. This was also the night that Rowan told the princess about her secret nickname 'Mircalla', that held a deeper meaning to her than her actual name ever could. She told her how it felt like a secret identity that only her father knew about. And the princess understood the deepness of meaning it had for her friend.
Their relationship or love affair or whatever people might want to call it was short lived sadly. Only three months later a servant accidentally caught the two waltzing in the ballroom - for memory sakes - and kissing. The royal parents were anything but amused. The princess and the privileged servant girl were thrown off and couldn't understand the anger that came from the usually so accepting couple. They were furious. Their daughter shouldn't have lost her purity before marriage (apparently they've found out about that too, Rowan never knew how), shouldn't have gotten romantically involved with a servant. The two young women weren't allowed to say goodbye, but the princess was able to get a glance at Rowan while she was being taken out of the palace, just two seconds, and she looked at her love and softly said just one word: Mircalla. Rowan was, without a chance for her father to stop them, taken away from the castle, banned from Wazatocia.
And so a very heartbroken, confused, scared nineteen-year-old Rowan found herself back at in a usual servant role. No privilege, no fencing, no more painting, no princess to chase her through the castle, no father by her side to love her, hold her, dry her tears and always have her back. She felt alone. Rowan found herself serving in the kitchen, cutting up potatoes yet again, for the 'Courting Season'. She didn't know what happend to her princess, but she knew that she had never seen her participate in the Courting Season so far.
Three years have passed since then.
Personality
Rowan is a very strong headed woman. She likes to say what she is thinking, even though a couple of hard slaps have told her to learn when to shut her mouth. She still runs her mouth too often though. She is a silly person that likes to have fun during work, which many people don't like to see. She likes to goof around and talk back to people. Rowan enjoys to throw people off, see their guard drop, crash in their walls. Despite being hardworking, she can't stand when she has to clean up after people who give her more work than necessary. She also lacks the quality of staying quiet in her corner when others are talking rubbish.
Rowan loves nature and the fresh breeze, she loves balls and dancing, especially waltzing. She has often been caught waltzing by herself when she was actually supposed to scrub the floor of the ballroom. She can't stand when people treat her like she is worth less than them because of the position she holds within the food chain.
She doesn't throw out respect easily and rather fakes it than it being real, but if one receives her respect they should be very honored and proud of themselves, because it is a rare thing. But if they lose that respect, it is most likely gone forever. She doesn't let people fool her twice.
Without a doubt Rowan is still broken. She has issues she hasn't worked on. She is missing her father more than anything and tries to not think of him too much. She might even still be holding onto some hope that he will find her some day. Maybe that's the reason she is staying in one place... So he can search for her?
Other
Skills:
drawing, ballroom dancing, horseback riding, fencing, cooking, cleaning, singing (though she hasn't done that for other's entertainment so far), playing piano
Weaknesses:
potty mouth, maybe a bit too sassy and feisty, lack of professionalism and submission, doesn't like boundaries or rules
OP
Éliane Gawain Faavae | 512 | Female | Light Elf
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Appearance
Height:
5'10''
Weight:
152 lbs
Hair Color:
white
Eye Color:
brown
Skin Tone:
sandy with light freckles
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Psychology
Likes:
⋆ poetry
* reading
⋆ exploring
⋆ nature
* all animals, with no exception
* real life romance stories
* swimming
* travel
* anything she can romanticize
* anything adventurous
* trying out new sweets
* tea
* reading
⋆ exploring
⋆ nature
* all animals, with no exception
* real life romance stories
* swimming
* travel
* anything she can romanticize
* anything adventurous
* trying out new sweets
* tea
Dislikes:
⋆ standing still / waiting
⋆ boredom
* greed and capitalistic ideals
* politics
* caged animals
* ungrateful people
⋆ boredom
* greed and capitalistic ideals
* politics
* caged animals
* ungrateful people
Fears:
⋆ war
* natural catastrophes
⋆ never finding a family
* never finding true love
* achieving nothing in life
* being seen as incompetend
* regret
* natural catastrophes
⋆ never finding a family
* never finding true love
* achieving nothing in life
* being seen as incompetend
* regret
Sexuality:
Queer
Personality:
Éliane is most described as talkative, active, curious, and having a wild imagination. She has a knack for romance and enjoys letting her mind spin tales so reality feels less dull to her. Albeit having a temper if treated unkindly for too long or treated too harshly, she usually tends to be a very forgiving, loving person. Sadly, she has not been so fortunate in receiving love and affection herself. Her one true longing for passionate and mind-blinding romance has yet to occur - like a lonely princess in a storybook, she seeks adventure, experiences, and that one specific feeling. Some may call her naive - and they would be correct in it - but her romantic notion has kept her warm on many cold nights. Figuretartivly and literally.
Éliane is seldom shy and tends to strike a conversation. However, if criticized or met with harsh words, she may retreat into herself and her imagination, to keep out of harm's way. As kind as she tries to be towards others, her heart is easily scarred. Éliane firmly believes that people are inherently good and she attempts to offer help and advice where she can. She doesn't need many materialistic things to be happy and would gladly give her last penny to someone she thought would need it more gravely than she. This, however, is not to say Éliane may never say a bad word or never wander off her moral path. If her insecurities are targeted, she may easily turn to some vile words, and she is not shy of protecting others with all she has if she can help it. In fury, Éliane has the capability of becoming a beast. This happens rather rarely, though. In many ways, Éliane romanticizes the notion of saving someone despite the danger towards her own life. In reality, she has quite a strong sense of survival and if met with deathly danger it takes more than a kind stranger for her to jump into the blade.
Always on her feet and always ready for an adventure, Éliane has trouble standing still. She couldn't be described as the most hyper person - as an elf, she values the quiet of nature, has learned to move without noise, and how to blend into trees - but it is undeniable that (if she doesn't actively try to stay still and quiet) she has a lively nature. Whether you want to call it bravery or naivety, she takes on challenges if faced with them. Oftentimes she does so even though she is scared, which might make her even braver or just stupid. In most situations, Éliane fails to feel a sense of doubt or anxiety. This though can easily change with the right amount of criticism or the wrong look upside-down, as deep within she fears she might never be 'good enough' or skilled enough for any particular work, occupation, or other things of the sort. Éliane is usually very reactive, but her daydreaming might interfere with this.
Always reading, writing, and spinning tales - Éliane can be said to be quite smart. Always ready to take on another project, learn another skill, she is very adaptive. But she rarely finishes something. Due to her being intelligent, it is even more frustrating to some people how naive and careless the lady can be. Where her fantasy is rich and her adaptation a great advantage, Éliane doesn't quite understand politics or finances. So she might be good for a last-minute, crazy adjustment of the plan which might prove helpful in a crisis - but she is unlikely to pre-plan a long-term financial plan, political scheme, or relationship dynamics. Éliane would describe herself as charismatic and interesting. Other people have described her as impulsive, tormenting and unbearable. She likes stories, jokes, and laughs, so if there is someone trying to amuse people, she usually enjoys it. However, the line is drawn when people or groups of people become the butt of the joke.
Éliane is seldom shy and tends to strike a conversation. However, if criticized or met with harsh words, she may retreat into herself and her imagination, to keep out of harm's way. As kind as she tries to be towards others, her heart is easily scarred. Éliane firmly believes that people are inherently good and she attempts to offer help and advice where she can. She doesn't need many materialistic things to be happy and would gladly give her last penny to someone she thought would need it more gravely than she. This, however, is not to say Éliane may never say a bad word or never wander off her moral path. If her insecurities are targeted, she may easily turn to some vile words, and she is not shy of protecting others with all she has if she can help it. In fury, Éliane has the capability of becoming a beast. This happens rather rarely, though. In many ways, Éliane romanticizes the notion of saving someone despite the danger towards her own life. In reality, she has quite a strong sense of survival and if met with deathly danger it takes more than a kind stranger for her to jump into the blade.
Always on her feet and always ready for an adventure, Éliane has trouble standing still. She couldn't be described as the most hyper person - as an elf, she values the quiet of nature, has learned to move without noise, and how to blend into trees - but it is undeniable that (if she doesn't actively try to stay still and quiet) she has a lively nature. Whether you want to call it bravery or naivety, she takes on challenges if faced with them. Oftentimes she does so even though she is scared, which might make her even braver or just stupid. In most situations, Éliane fails to feel a sense of doubt or anxiety. This though can easily change with the right amount of criticism or the wrong look upside-down, as deep within she fears she might never be 'good enough' or skilled enough for any particular work, occupation, or other things of the sort. Éliane is usually very reactive, but her daydreaming might interfere with this.
Always reading, writing, and spinning tales - Éliane can be said to be quite smart. Always ready to take on another project, learn another skill, she is very adaptive. But she rarely finishes something. Due to her being intelligent, it is even more frustrating to some people how naive and careless the lady can be. Where her fantasy is rich and her adaptation a great advantage, Éliane doesn't quite understand politics or finances. So she might be good for a last-minute, crazy adjustment of the plan which might prove helpful in a crisis - but she is unlikely to pre-plan a long-term financial plan, political scheme, or relationship dynamics. Éliane would describe herself as charismatic and interesting. Other people have described her as impulsive, tormenting and unbearable. She likes stories, jokes, and laughs, so if there is someone trying to amuse people, she usually enjoys it. However, the line is drawn when people or groups of people become the butt of the joke.
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Background
Occupation
Whatever comes her way. She sells poems, sings in bars, or grabs the work that comes her way.
Living Immediate Family Members:
None
Dead Immediate Family Members:
Unknown
Current Companions:
None
Current and Past Lover(s):
None worth mentioning, only short relationships out of romanticizing naivety and your usual adventurous flirtation.
History
Having been an orphan for as long as she can remember, Éliane grew up without belonging to a family. Instead, the high-energy child was taken care of by the elven people of her village. She had a room and a bed, but never that one family other children did. As she was such an adventurous and romantic young girl, she managed to get into trouble on the regular. Venturing too far out, bringing in wounded animals, never sitting still, spinning tales, always blabbering at everyone who appeared to have ears - and even that one Elf who didn't have any anymore - she was very well known in town. Everyone who crossed that town during her being there, would know her.
Being curious and seeking to try everything at least once, no matter what it may be, Èliane managed to plead everyone into showing her something new, teaching her something new. This led to her acquiring a bunch of skills that can be best described as "half-baked" since she never stayed in one spot long enough to learn the entire ropes of it. The only occasions where this was untrue were two things: her magic and her sword training.
Having begged for months on end, when someone talented and experienced in the form of sword fighting finally agreed to let her have a go at it, she was determined to see it through. And so she did; and in consequence learned to hold and guide a sword, her second weapon next to her bow and arrows - the preferred weapons of the elves.
Once the young girl had come to age and was finally free to decide her fate on her own, she was fast to leave the grounds she grew up on. With romance and adventure in her heart, she made her way out into the world -- and got knocked back hard.
As much as Éliane dreamt of traveling the world, it came harder than she had imagined. However, her stubborn heart adapted, learned, and overcame the challenges life threw at her. And so she began her search for something she knew she had been longing for all her life: true love and the belonging to somewhere, or to someone.
So far she traveled to most places, never stayed longer than a few days, and still... she has yet to find that resting calm and safe sensation of belonging she seems to have been missing all her life.
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Combat and Magic:
Strength: 6
Speed on Land: 8
Speed in Air: 0
Magical Ability: 8 (scratching at 9)
Dexterity: 9
Weapon Proficiency: 7
Stealth: 8
Species:
Elf
Subspecies:
Light Elf
Current Training Status:
Through hard training and a knack for magic, Éliane is quite advanced in her abilities and has mastered the common magical traits of light elves. However, since she is still young for an elf, she has yet to bend light for invisibility or to summon coherent, long-lasting illusions. In those departments, she is barely a beginner, if one might say so kindly.
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T E R A V E N
 _______________________________________________ Teraven Sanity Persephone Kinsky _______________________________________________ November 29th | 29 | White/Caucasian _______________________________________________ Single | ♂/♀ - non-binary | Pansexual _______________________________________________ Master’s Degree | Musical & Theater Actor _______________________________________________ Physical Profile ___________________________________ //Basics: • Height | 5’6" • Weight | 172lbs • Build | Slim, lean • Hair Color | Blue • Eye Color | Left: pink / Right: light blue Miscellaneous Items ___________________________________ //Every Day Carry: • Fractured Gemstone Piece | A pink piece of seemingly the same kind of gemstone Ter's left arm turned into after the bomb exploded. | A p p e a r a n c e D e t a i l s Teraven used to have a lot of burn scars running over their left arm, resulting from an incident involving fire. Due to the bomb's impact, the arm is now encased in - or made of? - a strange pink-ish gemstone. Ter usually sports a chill pose, unable to know where to hold their arms, they tend to move around a lot and not stand entirely still. Their vibrant smile invites people to come and talk to them and they have a very trustworthy aura about them. |
Teraven is an emotional, anti-capitalistic person who believes art is the true epitome of human life and experience. They usually try to have a positive outlook on things and to believe the world is always changing for the better, step by step. Their energetic, open, and harmony-seeking energy often pulls people in and makes it easy to communicate with Ter even on the first encounter.
It surely also helps that Ter is a true sweet-talker with an inherited charme that they were able to perfect due to their performing arts endeavors all their life. Teraven tends to be a bit oversharing at times. They struggle with interaction with people who are usually quiet and brooding.
Their high emotions cause them to easily feel hurt, betrayed or left out. They try hard to fit into a group with their true personality but find that outside of the theater that has always been hard for them. Being accepted and welcomed is one of their core needs. Hence, they attempt to provide a welcoming, helpful and sincere atmosphere about them for everyone around them.
It surely also helps that Ter is a true sweet-talker with an inherited charme that they were able to perfect due to their performing arts endeavors all their life. Teraven tends to be a bit oversharing at times. They struggle with interaction with people who are usually quiet and brooding.
Their high emotions cause them to easily feel hurt, betrayed or left out. They try hard to fit into a group with their true personality but find that outside of the theater that has always been hard for them. Being accepted and welcomed is one of their core needs. Hence, they attempt to provide a welcoming, helpful and sincere atmosphere about them for everyone around them.
C h a r a c t e r S y n o p s i s
Ter grew up in the outskirts of the city. Coming from a family of five siblings, Ter left home early with 15 years after begging to be allowed to join the theater club at a school in the middle of the city. Ten years later, their family was scattered about the world. Some of their siblings moved far away, some stayed close. Ter hasn't had much contact with them since then and hasn't heard a word since the bomb dropped.
During their last legs of their Bachelor's and throughout their Master's studies they had gotten involved with amateur theater again to inspire people as well as having accepted the offer to become a theater counselor for aspiring actors as a side project next to their studies.
Although they love their theater career, the performing arts have suffered throughout the last decades and income is consistently low for creative people. When the low money - and all the side jobs - couldn't pay for the tuition of the college anymore, Ter made their biggest unethical decision. Due to their parents having owned a jewelry store and them learning early how to use the tools to form gemstones and diamonds into new shapes - and due to a lucky coincidence - Ter ended up getting their hands on stolen gemstones. So they began to deal with stolen, uniquely handmade gemstone and diamonds in various shapes - from animals over objects to letters.
After the bomb changed Ter's appearance, they have not returned to a stage or to their theater clubs.
During their last legs of their Bachelor's and throughout their Master's studies they had gotten involved with amateur theater again to inspire people as well as having accepted the offer to become a theater counselor for aspiring actors as a side project next to their studies.
Although they love their theater career, the performing arts have suffered throughout the last decades and income is consistently low for creative people. When the low money - and all the side jobs - couldn't pay for the tuition of the college anymore, Ter made their biggest unethical decision. Due to their parents having owned a jewelry store and them learning early how to use the tools to form gemstones and diamonds into new shapes - and due to a lucky coincidence - Ter ended up getting their hands on stolen gemstones. So they began to deal with stolen, uniquely handmade gemstone and diamonds in various shapes - from animals over objects to letters.
After the bomb changed Ter's appearance, they have not returned to a stage or to their theater clubs.
A b i l i t i e s & S k i l l s
//Abilities:
//Skills:
Resilient Gemstone Armour | Gem Arm
Due to Ter dealing and working with stolen gemstones and diamonds on the regular, they were working on a particularly hard commissioned piece involving pink fluorite and morganite when the bomb hit. As they awoke they had gem pieces buried in their left eye and left arm. Somehow this resulted in the change of the eye color (which is now pink instead of blue) and a left arm that is - as far as they know - entirely made of some kind of gemstone they don't recognize.
The gemstone arm is resilient to most impact.
Limitation(s) |
Weakness(es) |
Due to Ter dealing and working with stolen gemstones and diamonds on the regular, they were working on a particularly hard commissioned piece involving pink fluorite and morganite when the bomb hit. As they awoke they had gem pieces buried in their left eye and left arm. Somehow this resulted in the change of the eye color (which is now pink instead of blue) and a left arm that is - as far as they know - entirely made of some kind of gemstone they don't recognize.
The gemstone arm is resilient to most impact.
Limitation(s) |
- Can't be taken off
- Feeling in this arm is limited
- Can't be further extended
Weakness(es) |
- Stealth: Makes them easy to be recognized
- Stealth/Hiding: Reflects light and therefore makes hiding harder
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Audible Indunation | Audio Overwhelmtion
Due to their very talkative personality, their constant need to chatter and as someone who has worked with spoken words all their lives and who has taken tons of roles upon themselves throughout their life, Ter now has the ability to overwhelm someone's mind with voices. However, they are currently unaware of this ability and wouldn't know how to control or activate it.
Limitation(s) |
Weakness(es) |
Due to their very talkative personality, their constant need to chatter and as someone who has worked with spoken words all their lives and who has taken tons of roles upon themselves throughout their life, Ter now has the ability to overwhelm someone's mind with voices. However, they are currently unaware of this ability and wouldn't know how to control or activate it.
Limitation(s) |
- Needs to be in close proximity to the other person
- Unable to hold for an extended period of time
Weakness(es) |
- Requires concentration
- Can 'ricochet' when (a) someone uses a field with ricocheting ability or (b) it becomes too restraining on Teraven
- Useless against people with mind shields
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Monocular Realization | Persona Illusion
Brought on due to Ter's strong connection to the theater, different roles, and their love for this form of art, they have the ability to make people see the character Ter wants them to see. This does not result in an actual change of Ter's bodily features, but instead, it works as a "filter" atop the real version.
Limitation(s) |
Weakness(es) |
Brought on due to Ter's strong connection to the theater, different roles, and their love for this form of art, they have the ability to make people see the character Ter wants them to see. This does not result in an actual change of Ter's bodily features, but instead, it works as a "filter" atop the real version.
Limitation(s) |
- Can only be held for a short period of time currently
- Limited to Ter's imagination and performance skills
- Unlikely to be upheld during pain due to requiring some concentration
Weakness(es) |
- Needs consistency: If not consistent in color/shape/details/etc, the deceived can easily see through the filter
- Weather Conditions: The illusion must be adapted during weather changes, this includes for example when Ter gets wet, they need to remember to change the illusion to someone who is also wet. (This can be done subconsciously.)
//Skills:
Sweet-talker | Ability to persuade people with their words
Adaptation | Ability to slip into roles spontaneously
Adaptation | Ability to slip into roles spontaneously
O T H E R
Any other information pertaining to the character that is not covered in the sections above.
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"They turned you into a weapon and told you to find peace."
Determined. Rebellious. Independent. Skeptical.
- Name: Zhalia Ramshorn
- Gender Female
- Age: 27
- Sexual Orientation: Lesbian
- College Degree: None - never attended college
- Languages: German, English
- Notable Skills: Horseback riding, ballroom dancing, can handle a sword and a dagger
Years of Magical Education: 11
Schools of Magic: Necromancy, Illusion and Divination
Necromancy (9)
- Life Force Alteration
Probably the most common form of Necromancy in Zhalia's former coven is the alteration of life force in various forms. Through excessive study, the witches of this coven learn to alter life energy by using necrotic means. Altering the life force of a living creature can affect their health, their strength and even their ability to perform magic. Very advanced casters are able to create poisonous effects by altering life energy.
Actually ending someone's life by pulling the life force out of their body would require either a very long time or a very high amount of energy. The life force is always trying to balance itself out and will continuously attempt to restore itself. (Therefore, this can not "shorten" someone's lifespan.)
- Afterlife Linking
Zhalia can connect the living world to the world of death, linking the land of the dead and the spirits & souls inhabiting it to the realm of life and existence, allowing both worlds to interact with each other in some ways. This is usually referred to as "lifting the veil" and is a very temporary situation. Often only the caster themself may interact with the spirits on the other side. On other occasions (and with the right skill) one may be able to connect the two worlds more permanently, such as bringing spirits/ghosts into the world of the living or pushing a living soul to the other side and into death. (This is exceptionally hard and should not be attempted by a single person, it can cause various disasters.)
As a result of a fudged attempt at this casting, the rules of both worlds might combine/mix together in unpredictable ways, and potentially even lead to cursed resurrections for those that do end up dying. This can also cause any changes to anything from either world to affect both of them instead of only one.
Zhalia is an exceptional caster when it comes to Necromancy but her connection to the world of the dead has been tainted. She is reluctant to try to engage with The Veil again.
- Revivify
If a creature or person has just died, Zhalia might be able to lift the veil enough to pull their soul back into their body and return them to the living. This does not heal them. Any wounds inflicted would still be present. This act requires high concentration and the success depends on the circumstances of the death, Zhalia's own condition, and the willingness of the deceased to return. The caster might be met with a lot of struggle as the veil has a naturally strong "draw" always pulling souls towards and through it.
Despite the coven's belief system that there is no meddling with the dead's soul, they all learn this magic. Though they rarely use it. It is more of a failsafe.
Illusion (6)
- Audible Indunation
When in close enough proximity to a person, Zhalia has the ability to overwhelm someone's mind with voices. For this to work, she needs to be able to see the person she is targeting. Advanced casters might be able to use this illusion on people without directly observing them. This illusion might extend to putting specific words or phrases into a person's mind. Mostly, however, Audible Indunation manifests as a chattering of overlapping, unfocused voices that overwhelm the mind and confuse, irritate or even knock out a person.
This ability can 'ricochet' when (a) someone uses a field with ricocheting ability or (b) it becomes too restraining on Zhalia or (c) someone has the ability to mind shield. It requires concentration to uphold the illusion. Skilled casters (such as Zhalia) can pull up this illusion and leave it up for 30-ish seconds without concentration. Advanced casters might perform a longer unconcentrated illusion.
- Monocular Realization
This describes the ability to perform an illusion on oneself. The illusion gets attached to the caster and reimagines their appearance according to the caster's wishes. Any visual feature may be "changed" in this manner - including facial features, height, skin color, clothes, number of limbs, or (in cases of advanced casters) even the species. However, this does not result in an actual change of bodily features, but instead, works as a "filter" atop the real version. As this is only an illusion, any and all false visual features (e.g. claws, a hook for a hand, clothing items) would not truly exist and therefore never be accassible or "usable" beyond a simple lie.
This illusion requires imagination, some performance skills, and a bit of concentration. If the caster loses consciousness or concentration, the illusion will fade. Holding up the illusion will feel draining after some time and only highly advanced casters could uphold it for multiple hours. Additionally, the caster has to remember the details of their disguise. Inconsistency in the illusion would result in the deceived possibly seeing through the facade. While this is hard to master at first, skilled casters can uphold an illusion easily for a decent amount of time.
- Shadowplay
One of Zhalia's favorite forms of illusions is the more subtle shadowplay. Without having to see her target, Zhalia can create shadows on any surface and have them enact any form of movement she desires. A specialty of hers are shadows that imitate the target's death - causing unease, fear and possibly panic to rise within the deceived.
Divination (4)
- Tracking
The power to track people and objects over any distance, environment or condition is something every witch of the coven learns if they decide to dabble in divination. In its essence, tracking is used to find and follow tracks that are weeks, months or even years old, and to reconstruct what has happened from the smallest clues. Zhalia's skills in divination are solid but unrefined. She may be able to follow someone who was recently in the area but she would be unable to track someone weeks or months after they had left. Highly advanced trackers may be able to even track people who use teleportation or portals but this is mostly rumored and not actually proven.
- Hematomancy
Divination is mostly used in correspondence with Necromancy in Zhalia's coven. Therefore, a lot of divination comes from blood, bones, flesh and ashes. Blood and bones are said to work best. Even though the coven also uses cards (such as Tarot) quite frequently. By using blood (or bones), the caster can enhance their ability to see fractions of the future, past or present. For Zhalia those are only ever snippets, mostly incoherent. Her Divination skills are not refined enough for her to really use them effectively.
- Divine Sense & Aura Detection
Used in correspondence with Necromancy, Zhalia has the ability to register and detect any undead creature and identify their type (e.g. vampire, skeleton, etc).
Additionally, Zhalia is able to detect and identify the school of magic of other witches and warlocks around her. She may only detect the school of magic if it has a strong enough aura around the person (at least 5/10 skill level), otherwise, the magical aura is too weak to discern and Zhalia might not be able to pin which school of magic a person is practicing most.
- Determined
For better or worse, Zhalia is a very determined person. If she sets her mind to something, she will go through with it. This makes her an exceptionally good student and is the main reason her necromancy skills are so advanced. This also makes her a tad bit stubborn, which has led to various difficulties and some rather unfortunate outcomes in her life.
- Rebellious
Pair her determination with her rebellious nature and you have a recipe for potential disaster. Even though Zhalia is more of a quiet soul, she will not back down on her morals or her beliefs and is known to rebel against coven heads and teachers at times. She tends to question authority and rules but isn't one to naively speak out of turn either.
- Independent
Maybe a side effect of enjoying seclusion and determinedly studying Necromancy, Zhalia has become quite independent over the years. Capable of setting out on her own path, Zhalia picks and chooses who she depends on rather carefully. Still, sharing the burdens of life with a group of friends would be a great relief.
- Skeptical
Zhalia tends to be rather skeptical towards people and therefore has her guard up even when she seems not to. She is not easily convinced or persuaded from her own point of view unless sufficient evidence can be provided. Even though she approaches most people openly and tries her best to keep her cynical thoughts down to a minimum, she can't help but have reservations and doubts about people's intentions.
Born in a small village in Germany, Zhalia was an unexpected child that was lovingly welcomed by her parents. Though she didn't lead an unhappy life, two devastating events would shape and re-shape Zhalia's path drastically. The first occurred when she was seven years old. Through unfortunate sickness, her parent's passed away, leaving a scared and confused child behind.
Having had their eye on the girl due to a number of strange occurrences around her, a coven took her in after her parents' passing. Known amongst western societies as a coven of "tradition" (put mildly), this circle of witches is shrouded in rumors. Living far off modern society, the coven clings to more medieval ways of life and magic. Mainly, they don't engage much with technology and use some forms of magic seen as outdated. Known as Silencia Mortem (or "silent death") by outsiders, this coven is said to be a cult. Their members don't have any or only very regulated contact with modern society and are rumored to discreetly hunt non-magical people in an attempt to "clean" the world off of those "unpure" of magic. They refuse to adapt to modern ways of magic and are known to teach an unusual (and for some people concerning) amount of Necromancy to their members. Other untraditional ways include the advanced study of herbology (mostly non-magical), the use of "outdated" divination techniques (cards such as tarot, using bones and ashes, etc.), still using runes and grimoires, and practicing rituals (and ritual castings) that rely on full moons, chants or even sacrifices. Sometimes, these coven witches are rumored to be half-dead themselves, one foot on each side of the veil because they open the barrier between the worlds too many times. Apart from all the rumors, not much is known about those witches.
The second tragic event would see Zhalia's time with the coven come to an end when she was twenty-four years old. Upon visiting a masked ball resembling the 1800s, Zhalia met Charlotte. Despite being a married woman, Charlotte engaged in a loving relationship with the witch, who stole away at night to sneak into the city despite coven rules. As fate would have it, Charlotte's husband got aware of the affair. Enraged he struck down his wife and fled the scene.
In her desperation, Zhalia asked the coven for help in bringing Charlotte back. Although the coven showed her great empathy, her request was denied. Having dealt with death in various forms her entire life, Zhalia refused to accept this outcome and set out to bring Charlotte back herself.
In the dead of night, raising fog with her blood-dripping fingers and murder on her mind, Zhalia went to attempt the impossible. Through sheer willpower and magical might, she pulled Charlotte's soul towards the veil - but her attempt to coerce the soul of her lover back into the world of the living failed drastically. With only a fracture of the soul pulled through, Charlotte's ghostly form was trapped in-between worlds, only able to relive the day of her death repeatedly while waiting and longing for something that could never come.
Unable to comprehend the outcome of the situation and fearing the coven's final trial for breaking their laws, Zhalia fled and left the country entirely. She spent almost three years traveling through various parts of England and the US, unable to settle for long. Recently, she ended up in North Bennington, Shipden Peak, where she hopes to find some direction, a purpose - any purpose - and hopefully some distraction.
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P R O F I L E
Elliot, more often than not called Eli, is a quiet person. Though she does not mind groups of people or conversations, she finds it much more rewarding to let other people do the talking and sit back in the shadows to watch the play unfold. Having always been someone who enjoys observation, Eli tends to notice things others don't. And others sometimes tend to not notice Eli.
From an early age on, Eli showed a fascination for most things she encountered and would be drawn to all kinds of non-fiction books. Starting with various children's books on animals and their behaviour, Eli would read up on many themes, topics, items, things, and ideas throughout her life.
Having a deep love for research, Eli has a desire to know more about a problem before attempting to solve it. This often leads to her delaying certain tasks until she has read up on them "enough" to tackle them - which, unfortunately, oftentimes just leads from one research rabbit hole to another and leaves the task undone for multiple weeks.
Though libraries are her best friend, Eli is not someone who spends all her time indoors. At a young age, Eli found herself fascinated with jumping fences and climbing walls. This would result in another dedicated hobby: parkour. Though she would never do any "workout" sport of any kind freely, Elliot can't help but love the feeling of parkouring through town. While she engaged in that hobby more freely as a child and teen, she is a bit more aware of how it looks for a 36-year-old woman to jump around benches, fences, and walls in the middle of the city. Though she does still do it, she prefers to do it when the least amount of people are watching her.
If confronted with a fight, Eli is more likely to dodge and hide and wait for an opportunity to disarm her opponent than to engage in a combat situation outright. Though she will not back down at the first sight of danger, she is not one looking to be in a physical fight either. If needed, she will back up her allies and step up for those she cares about.
D A Y S - G O N E
Elliot grew up in Brooklyn, New York, with two loving parents and an older brother whom she adored. Six years younger, little Elliot was fascinated by her older brother for as long as she could remember. Always tugging on his pant legs and following him around, Eli was determined to grow up just like him. Of course, that is not entirely what happened. While Eli mirrored many of his habits and interests throughout their childhood when she was younger, not all of them stuck.
Eli was an exceptional student. Always with a nose in a book - non-fiction, mind you -, Eli could have been a teacher's favorite: studying hard, writing long essays, and always quiet in class. Had it not been for her unquenchable curiosity, Eli's life would have looked very different. Instead of growing up as an outstanding student, Eli grew up as an outstanding student with a school file full of entries. Almost all of them: breaking and entering. Eli had from the earliest age felt a curiosity to know what is behind closed doors. On many occasions, she would sneak into her brother's room and her parents' closets, break into locked classrooms, and be fetched out of the gardens of various neighbours. As she grew older, Eli learned to use her skill of observation to not get caught so often.
Being the second child of a poor household meant that Elliot grew accustomed to hand-me-downs and second-hand items. Although her parents tried their best, most money that they could scrape together would go into a fund to treat her brother's sleeping disorders. Not that they ever had enough in that fund. On her twelfth birthday, Eli and a few friends went to the mall with some birthday money her parents had scraped up. As they browsed the shelves of a clothing store, her two best friends nudged Eli to pocket a pair of sunglasses she liked but couldn't afford. Elliot refused and turned to leave - she was no one to fall into peer pressure - when she saw an old lady leave her wallet behind on one of the shelves. It was a split-second decision and she would later not be able to answer why she did it. Maybe out of curiosity? Just to see if she could?
Without thinking, she put the money into the fund for her brother's treatment, went to her room and did what she does best: She researched. Having had no personal computer, Eli had always used libraries, a safe haven for the young girl. But no matter how much she researched, the adrenaline kick would continue to urge her to do it again. Every day she saw people having all those excessive luxuries while her family was just trying to get by. So the jar got fuller and fuller until her parents asked too many questions and it finally stopped. Instead, Eli would spend years collecting money, selling "trinkets" she stole, and avoiding the attention of authorities. Her entire thing blew up when she was 15 and her parents confronted her about the heaps of money and items they had found in her hidden spot after a long time of suspicion. The confrontation escalated, much to Eli's own fault, and her life took a swift turn. Her brother had moved out a while ago and while her parents tried their best, Eli wasn't exactly "easy" to parent. Though she stopped stealing, she did not stop getting mixed with the "wrong crowd". Still very much breaking and entering, she would spend a lot of nights in abandoned places, on graveyards, in churches, and other places. Unfortunately, that were just the places people would go for alcohol and drug abuse. Elliot gladly involved herself with some members of those crowds, staying away from the creepy and very addictive types, she engaged in some alcohol and mild drug use such as weed.
As her teenage years passed on, Eli seemed to find her footing. She went to college and graduated top of her class. With four languages (English, German, Greek, Latin) under her belt and a degree in journalism, Elliot seemed to finally be on the right path. After college, she spent about eight years working as a journalist for various media outlets, freelancing some time, and writing blog entries about her varied research topics. It was through the press work that she met Helena.
Truth be told, Elliot had never fully stopped keeping her fingers still. Although much stealthier now, she would still find her way into closed quarters, mostly unoccupied, and let a thing or two slip into her pockets whenever she felt the need.
While she was working on a 'case' ("It's not a story if we're trying to unearth something, that's a case.") involving seemingly unconnected deaths, Elliot made use of one of her sleepless weeks in which she would disappear for a week or two and barely sleep, staying alive by energy drinks, coffee and ordering Indian masala, she found a vague connection. A woman named Helena. However, despite doing her best Eli could not find an address linked to the woman, and any place Eli found she had been, she seemed to not return to again. Needless to say, Elliot developed a true obsession with finding this woman, opening that "door" that seemed to be just out of reach.
It was during an evening after a few too many sleepless nights that Eli got careless and was caught slipping a man's wallet into her pockets as she passed him by. As she turned the next corner, a black-haired woman confronted her. And so Eli met Helena Blythe. Apparently just as much a curious soul, Helena quickly managed to wrap Eli around her fingers with her mysterious bad-girl demeanor. Flirtingly offering to report Elliot to the police, Helena bargained she could use her help in return for keeping quiet.
It took some time and convincing and some heavy questioning on both parties' ends but eventually Elliot was convinced Helena had nothing to do with those deaths she was 'investigating' and Helena was convinced Eli would provide what she was looking for. Elliot, enticed by the woman, fell quickly - and hard. And Helena opened the door to a new kind of lifestyle, one Eli had not thought she would return to. Thus began Eli's time as a true criminal.
She quickly picked up her old skills and found a sort of teacher and companion in the strange woman. Now targeting much bigger fish, Eli and Helena made thievery their main source of income. Living in a "Bonnie and Clyde" fantasy, Elliot felt untouchable with Helena by her side. It was Helena who introduced Eli to the idea of the supernatural. Through extensive research and breadcrumbs by Helena, Elliot finally found that the world was much darker than she had thought. What followed were years of extensive research on those creatures. Eli got sucked into a web of arcane symbols, mages, monsters, faeries, ghosts, and necromancy.
And after five years of living with Helena, the dream collapsed. Helena woke Elliot up, clearly panicked, and urged her to get out of the flat through a secret exit Elliot had not known about. As Eli fought to get Helena to answer, the woman begged her to leave, pressed a necklace into Eli's hand and promised she would explain everything. Hiding in the secret exit, Eli witnessed three vampires raging and destroying their home as they attacked Helena with questions Eli could not fully comprehend. Only when physically attacked did Helena fight back - and bared her teeth. Eli left her home that night with two truths: Helena had been a vampire all along, and she was responsible for the deaths that were occurring, the same ones that took her brother's patients as well as those she had researched five years ago.
In fear and disarray, Eli went back to the house a week later after having heard nothing from Helena. But every evidence of her existence was gone, right down to the toothbrush. Afraid of what she might find, Eli researched more sporadically. She had moments where she would do nothing but dig for 3 months to then fall into a hole where she wanted to burn everything and never think of Helena Blythe again.
But the truth was that she could not settle for being left in the dark. And the truth was that she had loved Helena, that she still loved Helena. And Eli knows that she is still out there. And Helena needs her help.
It's been a year since Helena was taken and Eli has not gotten a single step closer to finding her or those who took her. It is time to invest in some help. And so Eli ended up in Baltimore, joining a Cell to hopefully figure out more about why monsters do what they do, why they exist, how they live, and why some seem so... human.
M E M O R I E S
Silas Myers: Eli's older brother who she loves dearly but hasn't had close contact with in five-or-so years.
Helena Blythe: Elliot's former lover and partner-in-crime (literally) who turned out to be a vampire responsible for multiple deaths in Brooklyn. She was kidnapped by three vampires and has not been heard from since.
C R E E D
𝙸𝚗𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎: 𝙶𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢.
D R I V E
𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚢: 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚍𝚘 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚍𝚘, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚢?
E D G E S & P E R K S
𝙻𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢
𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜-𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚊 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕-𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚛𝚢𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚗 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚟𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚜. 𝙶𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚜, 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚝𝚑𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢.
- 𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝙷𝚒𝚍𝚎
𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚄𝚗𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕
𝙱𝚢 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚋𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚏𝚘𝚌𝚞𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖. 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝙷𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚕𝚢, 𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚊 𝚜𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚙𝚑𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝙳𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚎-𝚅 𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜, 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚙𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙷𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚘.
OP
█ MELANIE CAVILL
 ▼ PERSONAL DETAILS ► Age - Twenty-Five ► Birthday - 25 August 1998 ► Gender - Cis-Female ► Sexuality - Unsure (female leaning) ► Nickname - Mel, Engineer (parents) ► Occupation - Research & Development Engineer ► Qualifications - Ritman High graduate summa cum laude MIT graduate summa cum laude Master in Mechanical Engineering ► Residence - Manchester, New Hempshire ▼ PHYSICALITY ► Scars - Small scar on her left thumb from roughhousing with a dog (it was an accident, he didn't mean to hurt her); a scar on the inner side of her left foot from when she dropped a powertool ► Tattoos - 09.05.2005 on her left wrist, her sister's death date ► Piercings - Ears, though she doesn't ususally wear any ► Style - Melanie prefers comfortable clothes. Tank-tops, hoodies, and her jeans jacket are her go-to items. She will usually wear jeans and sneakers. In terms of colors, Melanie is rather bland: black, gray, white, blue, anything that is more muted. For her, clothes are for keeping your body safe and warm, she does not need to be fashionable. Though she can dress up whe she goes out, she won't dress up often.    |  LIFE AT RITMAN Melanie Cavill was an exceptional student, focusing mainly on science and mathmatics. Though she was far from the worst off student in the food chain of Ritman High, Melanie had her fair share of bullies. As some students would get bored with their usual targets, they'd turn to her instead. This resulted in a seasonal bullying cycle that would last for 3-or-so months before she would mainly be left alone again. Then rinse, and repeat. Melanie spent most of her time at Ritman in content solitude in one of two places. When she wasn't doing her homework early in a corner of the school's library or reading up on something, she could mostly be found playing Dungeons & Dragons with the school's D&D club. And while that surely made her more of a target, Melanie was never the bullies' main subject. Perhaps that had to do with the fact that she would be a favorite pick for anyone's team in PE class and on occasion could be found playing ball with some of the boys. Far from the nerdy stereotype, Melanie was exceptionally fast, enduring and really good at a lot of sports they'd put students through. Thus Melanie fell on a weird enough place on the "nerd -- jock" scale that she was mostly left alone. However, it also meant that she didn't really belong to either group. Since solitude was her go-to anyway, Melanie didn't try to change or fit in. She was content with her place in High School. PSYCHE Melanie has always been a person enjoying her solitude. She was fine with the few friends she had, enjoyed the activities she invested time in and found that her ideal work-life balance usually consisted of more work than "life". Especially if that work was self-proclaimed. Melanie always loved to tinker. She would spend many hours taking apart all sort of household items as a child, driving her parents mad. Growing up on a small farm, Melanie was used to taking care of their equipment and animals, finding the work with horses especially rewarding. ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔Melanie is a kind soul, someone who will take your secret to the grave, who can sit for hours and let you talk without interjecting and who will come to your house at three a.m. without any questions asked. But she is also someone who is extremely determined in the pursuit of her career, often making it hard to keep in touch with friends and family. She thoroughly enjoys her work and hobbies to the point where she sometimes isn't sure how much she really needs other people. Though whenever she disappears into one of her solitude-holes for some months, she always notices that she is indeed still human with human needs, one of those being human connection. Having been fine with being by herself most her life, Melanie has grown accostumed to not needing to deal with other people's opinions. At times, it can be challenging to get Melanie to cooperate or consider another point of view if she has already made her decision or is fixated on one path. Melanie also tends to rather shake her head and leave a situation than deal with misunderstandings as she has a rather low tolerance for social interactions. Being as smart as she is, Melanie is definitely not a teacher. She will often refuse to explain what she is doing or how she is doing it unless she considers you in her league about the subject at hand. This is not out of a feeling of arrogance but rather out of intolerance for needing to explain herself or to guide someone's mind through her thoughts. She does not like being slowed down and thus is not the person you wanna ask for help if you need it explained rather than just done. The darkest hour Melanie has ever faced started on the 5th of September 2005, when her 10-year-old sister died. Mel was eight at the time. Though her sister had been diagnosed with cancer two years before, it still came as a shock when she finally went. The girl had appeared to have been doing better but a sudden attack on her immune system left her to a fatal end. Her parents, naturally devasted, tried their best to still be there for their other daughter. Melanie was taken care of as best as possible. Though she received therapy alone and together with her parents, some rough years followed in which the family struggled extremely, especially financially, seeing as the loss of their daughter hindered their capabilities to provide a stable income, but the community helped them out on the farm, helped with Melanie and assisted them financially until they caught their footing again. The sister in question, Alaina Cavill, was the sweetest girl you ever did meet. Though she was undoubtedly a cheeky person, she had her charm turned up to a million. There was never a person who met her and did not instantly like her, at least that was true for the adults. Alaina did get along with other children pretty well, too, but she seemed to always prefer the attention of grown-ups, with the exception of Melanie. Though they fought like any other siblings, the two had a strong bond. With Alaina having been born deaf, communicating with other children outside of the deaf community was a hassle. Though she had hearing aids, they usually gave Alaina mad headaches and migraines, so she would rarely use them. As they grew older, Melanie was quick to step up as an interpreter for her sister whenever needed; that being especially when they were outside playing with hearing children. And though Alaina died at the age of 10, Melanie and her parents still use ASL to communicate at times, keeping Alaina's influence on them alive. (ISTJ-A)  |
POWER Electrokinesis, the ability to create, shape and manipulate electricity, a form of energy resulting from the movement of charged particles (such as electrons or protons), allowing control over electric fields, all charge carriers (Ions, Electrons, Protons, and Positrons), electronics, and electromagnetic forces. Melanie is capable of discharging electricity from her hands. This has the potential to shock, paralyze, burn, or even stop hearts in severe cases. Every bit of electricity Melanie releases comes at the expense of her own energy and will weaken her. The more power the exerts, the likelier she gets to cause damage to herself. This may come in the form of burn marks on her hands or severe high-frequency sounds in her head causing nausea, migraines and potentially blackout. Being capable of feeling the flow of electricity if she concentrates on it and is in close enough proximity, Melanie can also control, direct and influence existing electrical charges in the world. She could affect the functionality of phones, traffic lights, security cameras, and other electronic devices. She may be able to increase or decrease an amount of electricity and/or electrical powers, amplifying or reducing current, amperes, and voltage. ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ | - ▼ STRENGTHS ► Her power can be easily directed with the use of conductors. ► Mel can anticipate the flow of electricity and energy, she has a feeling for how to connect wires, how to place certain parts to create the outcome she desires. This helps her with her tinkering. She could potentially create items considered a bit "sci-fi" if she had the time to work on them. ► She could potentially use an electrical charge to restart a heart. But she hasn't tried and hopes she never has to. ▼ WEAKNESSES ► Though the used gif implies it, Mel actually can not summon lightning bolts from the sky or create thunderstorms at will. ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔► She can not absorb electricity to store it in her body. She can produce it and control it to some extent but she can't take electricity from the outside world into her body. ► Though the electricity she produces herself isn't usually harming her, she is not immune to it. If rerouted back to her somehow, Melanie would suffer the same effects as anyone else. |
MELANIE CAVILL
"The universe is indifferent. It doesn't care about our stupid little plans or our fragile little hearts."
M E L A N I E . C A V I L L
"The Tinkerer"
Melanie's relationship to herself is mostly positive. She has no crippling insecurities and rarely feels the need to overcompensate for something, although her focus on always keeping busy and achieving the next thing might be interpreted as such. She has always had a deep love for tinkering and building things and has to this day kept that hobby as her main free time activity. Alongside tinkering, she finds D&D and gaming relaxing, both things that keep her mind thinking and running instead of shutting it down. Slowing down her thoughts seems to be something she is incapable of. Melanie has a healthy sense of self and pride. She doesn't feel the need to compete often as she doesn't strive for external validation. She finds a lot of safety in the fact that she had always known who she is and what she likes. This leads to her being rather slow to accept confusing feelings. The idea of indulging in romantic or deep connection is frequently being pushed back into a corner of her mind. If such thoughts occur, she tends to overindulge in her tinkering to an extent of losing sleep. If something scares her, it is loss of control. And what quicker way to lose control of oneself than to engage in romantic behavior?
⚜ Acquaintances || ☯ Neutral || ☮ Friends || ♫ Best Friends || ♥ Crush || ⚤ Boyfriend/Girlfriend || ☠ Disliked
☮ M E I R . A M O S . M A G G I D ☮ [@Salsa Verde]
Meir was a friend to Melanie. Their shared interst in academics meant they understood each other's passions on a different level than others could. Though he was closer to Sara, Meir and Mel got along just fine and would hang out occasionally. This continued when they both got accepted into MIT. They started to lose contact gradually when they stopped sharing classes with each other and eventually it fizzled out after graduating from MIT. Mel knows he is a teacher at MIT and Meir knows Mel is an engineer. But since she moved to Manchester after graduation, they both didn't manage to uphold communication.
⚜ ☯ W I L L I A M . B I S H O P ☯ ⚜ @Gisk
Melanie didn't really know William Bishop. She knew what everyone knew about him: He was a musician and he performed in front of the school sometimes. That was it. He did attend one session of Dungeons and Dragons during High School. And he was a pretty decent player, Mel would have been okay with him coming back but he never did. Does that make him an acquaintance? Mel didn't really think about him after graduating from Ritman High. She doesn't even know he made it in the music industry.
☮ S A R A . Z H O U ☮ @banjoanjo
Sara and Meir being as close as they were meant that Mel automatically got to know Sara through her friendship with Meir. They formed somewhat of a friend group, the three of them, hanging out on occassion, though Sara and Meir always had a closer bond to each other than to Mel. They shared an academic passion and thrive that lead to them naturally becoming friends. Melanie admired the way Sara went at a problem and got it done! Just pure efficiency. From Melanie's perspective, Sara seemed to have a foot in every extra-curricular known to mankind at one point. She may have asked Melanie to join the science decathlon once or twice - God knows she has the wits for it - but Mel wasn't one to join any school clubs, the D&D club being that rare exception. After High School, contact fizzled out as neither of them was very good at keeping in contact when there was no regular activity they shared.
⚜ ☯ J A C K . D A N I E L . W I L K E R S O N ☯ ⚜ [@nodogs]
Melanie had multiple run-ins with Jack during their High School days. Mostly this was when Mel came out of her solitude cave and joined some of the sporty types in a game of soccer or basketball or whatever else they were playing that season. She never joined any team, but she would play ball with them occasionally and it just so happened that sometimes Jack could be found hanging around, too. During those rare moments they circled the same people, Jack and Mel would not share many words. Some teachers would nudge Melanie to help Jack with school work, probably in an attempt to get Jack to care more, but the one time Melanie gave in and actually offered to meet up for something like tutoring, Jack declined. And Mel never asked again. Though she never shook the feeling that there was much more lying under that brooding surface than what Jack showed. After High School, Mel only saw Jack once more. During one of Melanie's family visits to Delton, she drove past Ms. Sullivan’s house and saw Jack cleaning windows.
⚜ O L E A N D E R . O K O N E D O ⚜@Aeolian
Melanie always thought Oleandar was a rather cute individual and she could see a lot of potential in him. He seemed like someone really good to cuddle with, watch movies with and do all those friendship and romantic things Mel never experienced during High School. In that way, she kind of envied him a little. But naturally, she didn't let herself think about that. And Oleander always seemed a little too insecure to really embrace the things that made him wonderful to be around. Due to Melanie not really being able to manage those emotions and just being prone to solitude, they never became the friends they probably could have been if she just put some more effort into it. Oleander turned out to be the person that hugged Melanie most, outside of her closest friends and family. And she enjoyed that. In an attempt to do something to initiate a friendship, she asked Oleander to join the D&D club once but it was declined. It probably would have been better to ask him to the movies but Melanie wasn't that emotionally smart back then.
☯ M A R C O . V A L E N S I ☯ @udonoodles
Melanie didn't know Marco but she knew his music. On occassion, she would get keys to unoccupied classrooms so she could work on her subjects in peace. One of those rooms was right next to the music room. Melanie always enjoyed hearing Marco play, it was a welcome background sound for when she studied. But at some point, Marco started to show up to the music room less often until he finally stopped coming altogether. Mel never talked to Marco and the only reason she could put a face to the music was that Marco had performed in front of school regularly. She vaguely knows that he had some health stuff going on but that is the extent of it.
☯ D A N T E . I B A R R A ☯ @Laertes
I got nothing. Melanie doesn't really know him?
?? ♥ ☮ ⚜ N A T A L I E . M I L L E R ⚜ ☮ ♥ ?? [@Prisk]
There is always that one person during High School, isn't there? For Melanie that was Natalie Miller. It started out as a convience agreement. Melanie disliked group projects, she needed all the work to be up to her standards and couldn't handle dealing with other students when it came to her academic success. Natalie disliked doing schoolwork and didn't care as much for her academic standing. They soon formed a lose convinience-based "friendship" where they would partner up for group projects so Melanie could do the work and just give Natalie the required information to seem plausible in front of the teachers. Whenever teachers thought Natalie used, paid, or even blackmailed Mel, they both backed up the same story. It was really beneficial to both sides. Though there was this little thing where Natalie's "friends" (why did she hang out with them!?) would occasionally get bored of their usual targets and find Melanie an interesting torture subject. It never lasted long though and the more benefits Natalie got out of their acquaintance ("friendship"?), the more those plastics left Melanie alone. They went on to get along quite well, at least whenever those other "friends" weren't around. During the years, some sort of physical attraction developed. It all found its climax when the two of them had a fling right before the end of High School. After High School, Melanie would google Natalie's name and browse her Instagram once or twice a year out of curiosity where Natalie was at but other than that, Melanie didn't think about her too often.
☯ S A M U E L . S A B I S T O N ☯ @Rockette
Melanie can't say she ever knew Samuel. He sat at the back of class, never bothered her directly and they didn't really run in the same circles. She knew he was a pained individual with troubling emotions by the way he presented himself and seemed to not care. Those who didn't care in loud silence always had something going on. So she stayed away from him. Emotions really weren't her thing, be it those openly displayed or those deeply buried and burned.
☠ T R Y S T A N . K I E L . Z A R A G O Z A . S A L A Z A R ☠ @The Man Emperor
There was something about this person that Melanie disliked, though she couldn't quite place it. At first, she just thought it was another smart kid who would be at the end of the plastic's mercy and then go on to make something of himself after school. But Melanie noticed that something was different about this boy. Not only did he seem to assemble a group around himself - which was fine; people stuck together in high school for protection, she knew this much - but he seemed to have a keen understanding of the intricate web of social relations that Mel had only ever seen displayed by those who abused that knowledge to bully others. Though she never talked to Trystan, she heard things said about him. Pairing those things with her gut feeling, Melanie stayed away from him. She would still be wary of him upon meeting him again.
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