Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 1:21:41 GMT -6
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[attr="class","appname"]ASHELIA DE LIS
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| TWENTY-FIVE 5’2”/118 LBS | FEMALE FACULTY – PHYSICAL FITNESS |
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[attr="class","appbold"]PERSONALITY:
- sensitive but strong
thanks to her primary power, ashelia is highly sensitive to the emotional states of others. however, this can leave her feeling like a raw nerve and out of necessity she has developed a quiet strength in the ability to juggle her emotions and those of others.
temperamental but patient
at times, ashe can be a little trigger-happy with her emotion and reactions, leading to her being slightly temperamental. she tries her best, in spite of this emotionality, to be patient with those around her instead of just punching them in the face.
defensive but gentle
ashelia is naturally protective and may lash out against people she feels are bullies or otherwise acting unkindly. the flipside to this is that she is also quite gentle, both in her reproaches and in her usual manner of speech and action.
caring but selfish
in her utter sensitivity to others, ashelia adopts a sweet, caring nature, and she often acts in the best interest of those around her. unfortunately, this desire to put a smile on everyone’s face may arise from a selfish desire not to be sent to the er by their negativity.
challenging but fun
ashe likes to challenge others and push her students to their best, but at the same time, she has a big heart and an even bigger sense of fun, loving to have it and to participate in it. she often loves to challenge her fiancé, and it is one of the strongest points of their relationship that they have learned and loved how to have fun with each other.
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[attr="class","appbold"]HISTORY:
- born in a temperate region of southern france, ashelia spent her childhood in a quaint little cottage by the sea. her father, a botanist, often took her out to nearby fields and down the coast collecting specimens and racing among the hardy sea grasses. while her father worked from home, her mother worked as a nurse in the nearest hospital, several hours’ drive away. though she often returned home tired and weary, she never failed to teach ashelia useful things such as how to make homemade teas and bread, or how to wrap her wings on her own. not wanting their daughter to miss out on normal life because of her “special needs,” ashelia’s parents enrolled her in primary schooling and did their best to help her deal with her sensitivity. her mother would wrap her wings every night after her bath, and her father took up tai chi to help her with discipline and breath control. with her almost diagnosable social-anxiety as a child, it is no wonder that ashelia never became a public hero. her gifts, she kept quietly to herself as much as she could, though she could hardly help herself reaching out to injured souls. that, really, was how it all started…
at age eighteen, ashelia left home to attend a university in paris. her first night, a terrible storm struck, leaving her drenched and bewildered as she attempted to find her apartment. she ducked into the first pub she found, trembling, cold, and lost, but it was perhaps the best accident of her life. there, she met the man who would later become her fiancé: leon maximillion. apart from his spatial distance from those around him, sitting in the corner watching the rain, the handsome redhead didn’t seem to be anything less than composed and casually confident. the moment ashelia laid eyes on him, however, something resonated, and to this day she is not sure if it was his feelings or hers. shy, she approached and began a conversation, which began a whirlwind romance. never before had she met someone around whom she could feel comfortable in her own skin! it was not until their first intimate night together, when he touched her wings, that she understood just how pleasant her gift could be. years passed as leon traveled for work, time apart kept in letters and emails while ashelia jogged out her worries and jokingly planned their zombie apocalypse escape plan with him. just last year, leon took her to the louvre and proposed to her beneath the inverted pyramid. shortly thereafter, they relocated to settle down in new york city, close to leon’s new teaching position at vireximus university, and where ashelia would soon come to teach as a physical fitness instructor (specifically brought on to teach tai chi and the various other martial arts that she had grown up learning as a coping mechanism for her abilities).
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[attr="class","appbold"]POWERS:
- HYPER-EMPATHY: ashelia has been gifted (or cursed, some may say) with the ability to physically sense the emotions of others. that is, for every emotional reaction a person has, ashelia has a physical reaction. for example, a person experiencing a high level of anxiety, stress, or fear would give her chest pains, and many negative emotions give her headaches. positive emotions are, necessarily, more pleasant to experience, but even intense positive emotions can fill her with an uncomfortable sense of energy. in some cases (only one noted to date: that of her fiancé), she might also have a physical reaction to the physical state of another person. there have been times when she has paced restlessly about, experiencing a tight, painful pull in her chest, only to later find that her fiancé has been terribly sick. the most plausible hypothesis is that in order to experience this additional level of hyper-empathy, she must have already established a clear and strong emotional bond with a person. psychic wavelengths associated with certain physical states may then travel along this “emotional superhighway” and reach her. for the rest of the population, she can merely sense (literally feel) their emotional states, and only if they are within a range of 30 feet of her person.
- ANGEL’S WINGS: sprouting from her shoulder blades, ashelia sports a pair of feathered white wings, each less than a foot and a half in length. they are incapable of flight (though if she flaps reeeeeally hard, she might hover a few inches off the ground), but rather serve a purpose similar to antennae for her hyper-empathy. moreover, if they are touched (skin-to-feathers), they open up a direct empathic pathway between ashelia and whosoever has touched the feathers. doing so almost guarantees that she will be overwhelmed by the emotions of another person, feeling them and their physical sensations at ten-fold; if she can maintain her breathing, this empathic pathway flows in two ways and may allow the second person to understand ashelia’s feelings as well. under no circumstances can ashelia maintain contact with more than one person at once, and often she binds her wings with cloth bandages so that no such contact can occur.
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[attr="class","appbold"]OOC:
- OOC NAME: siilph
- how did you find us? magic!
- FACE CLAIM: [b]dogs: bullets & carnage, nill[/b] - [i]ashelia de lis[/i]
[attr="class","appcred"]MADE BY HABBUE
