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Name: Aleissa Gavron
Alias: Mercury
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Occupation: Gymnastics Instructor / Editor
Personality: Word around school and her work place is that Aleissa is rather hard to approach. With confidence that nearly borders arrogance, people have often mistaken her to be stuck up and has been through rough times because of this. Aleissa, as a result, became far too guarded to let people in easily. Most of her relationships, whether platonic or romantic, end up being superficial. Her only focus is doing her best in what she's good at and try her best on those she's bad at. Aleissa has mastered the art of brushing people's opinion of her off. While it still does hurt, she knows how to keep her head up high and keep moving forward. She is highly competitive in her craft and failure often leads her to train more regardless of how tired she becomes.
Past the guarded exterior is a caring and vulnerable girl. In need of emotional support from people she could risk to trust. To her friends, she is as kind as she can be. She is still rather hesitant in letting them see her in her more vulnerable state but she's working on that. Aleissa is generally a helpful person if people allow her, but sometimes she can be a bit too blunt about it. Even when she's instructing aspiring gymnasts, she can be strict but people don't deny that she knows the most effective way to teach people.
Backstory: Ever since she was a child, Aleissa has always been a gymnast. Her mother wanted for her child to do something with her life and had forced the hobby into the young girl - but she appreciated it anyway because she began to love the art quickly. And she was talented, her teachers told her as much. But as much as she was talented, she lacked the proper social skills to befriend children her age. This has led her to be practically friendless for a majority of her childhood, among other factors.
She generally kept to herself for the majority of her life. She tried to keep out of trouble. She tried to keep up with her studies. And yet, as much as Aleissa had grown a cold exterior, there were still people who would approach her. Befriend her. Sometimes even rope her into a relationship. And she allowed them. She got into superficial friend groups and even more superficial relationships. But when she had entered highschool, she fell into a group that was actually decent. They were all different in their own way but that was what made it genuine.
When she was nineteen years old, she was involved in a hostage situation at a local bank. The older man who was behind her in the line had taken it upon himself to keep her safe and she was thankful for it. When they were forced to the side and sit down, he kept himself close to her side. However, when one of the robbers had turned to her in an attempt to use her as the hostage to get out, the man had jumped to stop him. He hadn't made it out. The police soon managed to outsmart and bring the criminals to justice but that stuck with Aleissa. That man was a good man. She started to train in parkour as well after that, after one of her fellow gymnasts had suggested taking it up.
Skills/Weapons: Among her mundane skills of ballet and gymnastics, Aleissa has been learning parkour for the past three years and has gotten good at it. Her teachers have brought her to more advanced courses and they've been trying for rooftop courses. Lately, she has started to take up Tae Kwon Do when the group decided to go vigilante. She typically carries a pepper spray can and a taser with her.
Other: Aleissa is a rather well-known gymnastics competitor and has advanced to nationals multiple times.
