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"For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.”
– J O H N   U P D I K E
Take Me to Church - Hozier | I Am Not a Robot - Marina and the Diamonds        

N A M E:
Winslow Winifred Washington.

N I C K N A M E:
Winnie - a common nickname that Winslow particularly hates but is often on the receiving end of. She hates names that have the 'e' sound at the end, but its overly convenient for others to call her such a nickname considering her first name and middle name fit the bill.

Win - a pet name used sometimes by close friends and relatives, it simplifies conversation and allows it to go by quicker. Winslow doesn't particularly hate it, as long as it is used sparingly and for time purposes rather than a permanent name.

But please - just call her Winslow.

B I R T H  D A T E:
20 April 1998.

A G E:
Eighteen.

G E N D E R:
Female.

S E X U A L I T Y:
Homosexual (In the Closet).

I N - D E P T H  A P P E A R A N C E:
Winslow has the face of a sweet yankee girl – often led to believe so because of her pale ass skin and “sophisticated” facial features. Many people sometimes expect Southern Americans to look like downright heathens – weird teeth, dirty blonde hair, and big wide smiles. What people don’t expect is the pale, smooth skin of Winslow with slight, faint freckles on her cheek and an apathetic face void of strong emotions. Her hair is red (not auburn, not orange, but the natural color of the gingerfolk) and falls in waves to the tip of her stomach. Winslow doesn’t mess with it much – she prefers to just brush it in the morning and not touch it for the rest of the day. Unfortunately,t his means that at the end of the day, her hair ends up being extremely tangled and so she refuses to allow anyone to play with it after noon. She is around 5’6” in height and is rather on the skinny side with an average figure. However, she’s been working on building up the muscle (though it hasn’t been going well, she’s naturally born with a stick figure) and fat in her body. Winslow is quite satisfied with her legs, though, as they are long and she likes to show them off in jean shorts sometimes. Her voice is rather light and lilting, with a slight Southern accent that she likes to hide (though it slips out at the most inopportune times). Winslow smells like strawberries and ink.

C L O T H I N G  S T Y L E:
Winslow has three defaults: casual, party, and nice. 

When it comes to overall, Winslow hates wearing makeup as she often forgets that she put it on and rubs her eye – however, from time to time, she’ll wear a bit of foundation and eye makeup. Though, she is rather liberal with her use of chapstick. Because Winslow is proud of her legs, she tends to show them off in jean shorts time to time. However, for the most part, her style is rather simple – jeans, tanktops or t-shirts, a jacket or something over top. At teenage outings, though, Winslow likes to wear a wide range of clothes – but she enjoys showing her legs on such days. Typically, when wanting to dress to impress, Winslow is all about the color black and form fitting dresses and skinny jeans with a nice leather jacket. Whenever the situation calls for nice appropriate clothes, Winslow typically wears “preppy” clothes – nice skirts, sweaters, jewel-necklined dresses, and casual golden jewelry.
        
Q U I R K S ,  O D D I T I E S  &  H A B I T S:
Tends to apply and reapply chapstick as a nervous tick.
Yes, she is....a vaper. When reading, Winslow typically vapes due to it making her feel like Bilbo Baggins in the beginning of The Hobbit.
When extremely annoyed, Winslow tends to make an exaggerated disgusted, sardonic face.
Cosplays and LARPs (shhhh, no one can know!).
Her Southern accent becomes really prominent when she's upset.

L I K E S:
Cryptography.
Books (Favorites: The Lord of the Rings series and the Prose and Poetic Edda).
Martial Arts (Practices Muay Thai).
Watching boxing matches.
Violin music (though she doesn't play).
French Fries w/ sweet and sour sauce.
Milo's Sweet Tea.

D I S L I K E S:
Dogs (Small ones especially).
Television (It's really boring to her).
Coffee.
Soda.
Morons (though she pretends to be one).
Pretentious pricks (if you say whilst she will shove a stapler down your goddamn throat).
Religious people (including athiests that like to stuff their thoughts down your throat).

F E A R S:
Small dogs.
Abandonment.
Suffocation / Claustrophobia.

P E R S O N A L I T Y:
♦ Scholarly ♦ Temperamental ♦ Demiurgic ♦ Morose ♦

Winslow has two personalities, as confusing as it is: a faux personality she shows to others and a genuine personality reserved only for herself and perhaps a close friend or two.

It’s easy for others to describe her – Winslow is incapable of creating a three-dimensional second personality, after all, so there are cracks. When others see her, they see the typical jock. Her mind seems empty to others; Winslow projects an uncaring stupidity so others don’t question her or bother her with unneeded arguments or discussions. She comes off as a complete meathead with interests in nothing but boxing, wrestling, and martial arts. In order to embrace such a persona, Winslow often incorporates a seventh grade humor “that’s what she said” and crude, yet misinformed, sex jokes. Winslow tends to act arrogantly and impulsively to subscribe herself to the jock stereotype. 

The only real trait in the faux personality is her hot-headed, temperamental nature. Winslow doesn’t take well to other people wronging her and her temper has a tendency to get incredibly hot in an incredible amount of time. She is incapable of letting it simmer, but instead lashes out the moment she is angered. Winslow reacts in most situations aggressively – when sad or upset, Winslow would rather respond with heated anger and sharp words than depraved tears and desolation. 

Other than her love of martial arts and temperament, the rest of such a projected personality is utterly fake – almost hilariously so. If people knew, many would ask why she pretends as such. Is it to keep her heart guarded? Is it out of a pure need to manipulate others? No, it’s much more simple than that. Winslow is a complete and unsalvageable nerd.

While she acts like a total moron, Winslow is rather educated. Intelligent or smart is the wrong word to use in regards to her because she is not naturally so – her level of education is the fruit of labor. Winslow is a scholarly woman who likes to spend her time learning and thoroughly picking a part every bit of information she can find. If Winslow wishes to have an opinion on a certain subject, she researches that subject till her fingers are cramping and cut! In addition, she is a rather thorough person, overall. Winslow diligently and carefully sorts through all the facts, assesses all the evidence, and measures all the risks before doing anything. As a nice compliment to such a knowledge-seeking personality, Winslow often has to have a dedicated and diligent mind. Matter of fact, Winslow is one of the hardest working people her friends have ever known – she will work herself to death if she could (and many of her friends back home predicted that she will become a workaholic in the future). She will spend hours making sure she reaches her goals and often has to be dragged away from whatever she is currently working on. However, she has plenty of time to do work considering she is intensely introverted and will become emotionally distressed if around a group of people for more than a few hours at a time.

Of course she is not without her bad traits. Other than being temperamental, Winslow is rather apathetic towards other’s plights when it does not directly involve her. She tends to live life with a lack of vigor, only going through the motions. She is rather bored with the modern world and spends her head tucked between the pages of a fantasy book entailing magical adventures. As it is, though she holds many opinions, she has no care of arguing for them or changing others’ minds to see it from her side. Furthermore, Winslow lives an inhibited life – tightly controlled with careful calculations and a life of no risks. Winslow is a control freak that has to have everything in between her fingers because surprises make her extremely nervous and being taken aback is unsettling for her. She enjoys knowing that everything is orderly and predictable – which, perhaps, is why her life is so boring, because she knows everything that is going to happen. Unfortunately for those who do know her, they will often have to deal with her rather morose personality. Winslow is a moody teenager who will have moments of melancholy and somedays cannot seem to get out of bed. She is rather pessimistic and has a hard time seeing the good in anything!

But, what she’s really ashamed of, is her level of geekiness. Winslow embraces the life of a fangirl – she must know everything about the things she enjoys and, opposite of her personality, becomes rather passionate and excited about her literary wanderings and movie choices. She overanalyzes books and uses such forms of entertainments as an escape from her daily life. Cosplay is a natural step in life for her and she could talk hours, days, years about hobbits and house elves.

B A C K G R O U N D:
Life started out simple enough for Winslow. She was born in a small town near Mobile, Alabama to parents that have never left the state, let alone the country. They grew up small town, and lived small town. Winslow’s parents were high school sweethearts that made the mistake of marrying too soon and grew up hating each other. Around nineteen years old, supposedly Winslow’s mother gave birth to her which ruined her dreams of going to college and obtaining a career (or maybe it was her lack of motivation and a ready excuse that allowed Winslow’s mother to settle). Winslow’s mother settled as a waitress while Winslow’s father made money through his mechanic career. As the marriage went on, Winslow’s mother and father realized they hated each other and divorced like most high school sweethearts. 

Of course, that’s just the story that Winslow believed. In truth, the mother who raised her was not, in fact, her mother. As is, Winslow’s father had an affair during their marriage with a distraught and equally married goddess. Athena had been lamenting over her failing marriage with her husband while Winslow’s father had been ranting about his wife’s laziness. Alcohol led to activities and activities led to the duo reserving a nearby motel room. When Winslow’s father came clean about the affair, the marriage fell even further apart, but they stayed together. They stayed together even when Winslow was dropped off on their doorstep with a note, only a vague idea of who her mother really is – they certainly didn’t think it was the goddess Athena. They stayed together for a long time, until Winslow was eight, but raising another woman’s child must have taken its toll as well as the hate they started to bear for each other.

After the divorce, Winslow’s father picked up other recreational activities to fill the time that, before, had been used to argue with his wife. Such activities being alcohol, sex, and drugs. Though Winslow knew her father loved her, her father slowly was engulfed by addiction and soon loss functionality in regular day life. He was fired from his job after coming blackout drunk and he could no longer support his daughter. They lived day to day on the small amount of money that Winslow’s grandfather sent in. When Winslow was twelve, she got a job at a restaurant where she was paid under the table (tax free, thankfully) because she was too young. However, when Winslow’s father attempted to pick up Winslow from school while intoxicated, the school’s administration called child services. In court, Winslow’s father was seen as unfit as Winslow’s guardian and his daughter was put into the foster system.

For a couple of months, Winslow bounced around in the foster system – house to house. However, when Winslow’s father did not clean up his act, months turned to years and Winslow became a teenager. Of course, the two kept in touch as much as they could and had supervised visits; but it wasn’t enough for the lonely Winslow. She grew up roughly, always feeling unwanted by her mother, father, and all the foster families that took her in and turned her back over. Eventually, Winslow came to the Smith family. They were a generic, suburban family that was taking in a foster child for the first time. However, Winslow grew on them and they on her, so they stayed together for quite a while (they would have adopted her, but Winslow didn’t want that because of her hope of her mother coming back for her). They bought her a computer, gave her the nicest clothes they could, and even sent her to nice schools. Maybe it's because they are so good to her that Winslow hasn't come out of the closet yet; she's afraid that the extremely conservative family will send her back like everyone else has.

When Winslow was sixteen, she was approached by a woman while in public with her friends. Though Winslow was reluctant at first, she indulged the woman in sitting down and talking about her family – granted, the woman said she was a friend of her father’s who wanted to check in on her. They exchanged phone numbers with the promise of having a dinner soon in order to talk about Winslow’s father. It would be only a week later that Winslow would get a text message. While the woman, whose named was Athena (while Winslow thought it was an odd name, she didn’t really question it considering she’s known people with odder names), wished to meet at her home, Winslow was wary because of Stranger Danger. Instead, Winslow planned a meeting at a restaurant that was almost guaranteed to be crowded on a Friday evening. At said restaurant, Athena revealed Winslow’s true parentage – though it took some convincing, Winslow eventually came to the realization that her whole life was a lie. 

Winslow and Athena began to visit each other in secret in order to get to know each other. Winslow even told Athena of her true nerdy nature. They grew close over a couple of months and eventually Athena offered to adopt Winslow and take her to live with her. Winslow was conflicted over the offer – because on one hand, Athena was her true mother and she’d finally found someone who wanted her, but on the other hand Winslow felt as if it was a betrayal to her foster family. She thought over it for two weeks before coming to the conclusion that she couldn’t do that to the current family housing her, because they were her family when she had no family, and Winslow declined Athena’s offer. However, Athena still wanted her to hone her skills, and managed to convince Winslow to attend Olympus Academy. Winslow’s upcoming year at the academy will be her second year, having first attended when she was seventeen.

E X T R A:
my favorite god is my ass.
        
G O D L Y  P A R E N T:
Athena.

R E L A T I O N S H I P  W I T H  G O D L Y  P A R E N T:
Winslow and Athena have an amicable relationship. Though they only recently have gotten to know each other, Athena is making an effort in getting to know Winslow. Despite Athena's interest in becoming Winslow's legal guardian, Winslow believes it is too late for them to be a family and instead wishes to stay with her foster family.

G O D L Y  A B I L I T I E S:
Gravity:
Due to Athena's prowess in architecture and knowledge in physics, Winslow demonstrates slight ability in manipulating gravity. It is nothing extremely powerful, only that she is able to control the balance of objects. For instance, Winslow could use her powers to walk across a tightrope, but she could not use her powers to stop something in midair or to make someone float.

All-Seeing Vision:
Like owls, Winslow is able to have a total 360 degree sight. However, she typically doesn't like to use this power as it can give her a headache after a while.

Aegis Summon:
Winslow can summon Aegis, the goat skinned shield with the head of a gorgon on it. However, Winslow can only obtain Aegis for an hour and even then the abilities of the gorgon head are temporary. If she were to turn someone to stone, it would only last for around thirty minutes.

@Apokalipse

From Davi and myself, we accept Winnie. She's adorable, and love her entire presence. Feel free to post her in the chars tab whenever. :)

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