Post by ress4 on Jan 18, 2012 22:55:57 GMT -5
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LET THE WHOLE THING BLOW
B A S I C I N F O
★ NAME: Angeline le Blanc
★ NICKNAME: Angel
★ MEMBER GROUP: Human
★ POKEMON: Snivy
★ AGE: Twenty-Four
★ HEIGHT: 5'8"
★ WEIGHT: 110lb
★ FACE CLAIM: Belarus from Hetalia
★ APPEARANCE:
Angeline stands about 5'8", average for a girl her age. She's extremely thin, with almost no muscle mass. She's unused to running, and has been largely confined to her house for the past year, giving her an extremely sickly appearance. Her skin is particularly pale. She wears her platinum blond hair long, and occasionally puts it up in a ribbon, clip, or whatever she has handy. It's mostly for decoration, however, as keeping it out of her eyes isn't an actual concern. She opts for dresses, if only for ease of comfort, and cares little for fashion she cannot see.
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P E R S O N A L I T Y
★ POSITIVE:
- Mature
- Independent
- Intelligent
- Determined
- Friendly
★ NEGATIVE:
- Snippy
- Sheltered
- Fussy
- Excessively Organized
- Stubborn
★ HABITS, QUIRKS:
- Angeline is legally blind, and is unable to distinguish anything beyond the general direction of light sources. This has caused her parents a great deal of worry, and her parents fret over her constantly. Even so, Angeline refuses to use a cane or seeing eye dog, and will repeatedly insist that she’s just fine. She is, too, when she’s at home, but when she goes out, things become far more difficult. Mostly, she stayed at home, or only goes out with a friend or two.
- Angeline’s passion, and her only true hobby, is chess. Chess is one of the few hobbies (sports, as she’ll point out) where blindness is less of a hindrance and more of an asset. Most high level players produce mental maps of the board in the minds eye, and that skill takes quite a bit to accomplish. Angeline, on the other hand, does that naturally, and when each move is called, adjusts her mental map. It’s a sign of her dedication that most opponents don’t even realize she’s blind.
- Angeline is one of the top chess players in the world, and spends the vast majority of her time doing so. The fact that chess requires little physical exertion is useful, and for a long while she was the top ranked junior. She's still in the top ten, but has been unable to travel to tournaments as her health deteriorated.
- Angeline is a rare case in the present day, as she's currently living with a rare variant with the virus. While the virus is extremely rare in the present day, Angeline has been living with it since she was four. She lost the use of her optic nerve when she was six, rendering her completely blind. There's little doubt that if Angeline was just some random citizen, she'd be dead by now - instead, her parents are both absurdly wealthy businessmen, and she's gone through every treatment, save one, in an attempt to drag it out. The simple truth is that she could have been cured at any moment, if her parents had simply gone to Epispect. They haven't, however, simply due to the social stigma of being a Gijinka in this day and age. In the past year, though, her health has started to decline faster, and it's coming to a point where there will soon be no other option.
★ OVERALL PERSONALITY:
Angeline considers herself a very mature person. While she's grown into it, even when she was in her teens, she was enjoying her time with adults far more then with friends of her age group. Really, she had very few friends her own age, and inevitably ended up throwing herself into her hobbies, far more then social relationships. That isn't to say that she's a social outcast, as she does have a few friends who visit occasionally - she simply prefers to spend time on her own, with more 'worthwhile pursuits'.
Angeline is a very independent person - she utterly despises having to depend on anyone. Unfortunately, this is a bit of an issue, as Angeline is completely blind. She refuses to use a cane, but did have a seeing eye dog, used mostly when she went out. Anyone who treats her like an invalid for it is likely going to be on the pointed end of her snark, because she's managed to do just fine for herself, thank you very much. She's extremely good at mentally mapping things, and often gets annoyed if things are moved around for no reason.
Angeline is a very intelligent person, although one could argue it's less from natural intelligence, and more from spending almost every waking moment having to mentally map things out. She's also fairly tactical, and her hobby (and job, technically) is chess. Blindfolded chess has always been a major variant of the sport (and don't you call it anything but), and Angeline takes it to new heights. As long as the moves are called out, as they are in all professional matches, Angeline has no trouble playing the game, something she credits her father for, since he taught her to play when she was very young. She's also an avid reader, utterly despising standard braille in favor of a braile e-reader.
Despite her independent streak, Angeline is still fairly sheltered. Her family is well off, wealthy enough that even if she didn't play chess on a professional level, she wouldn't ever have to get an actual job. Most of her 'friends' are more of play dates, set up by her parents. She has little understanding of how proper social interaction is supposed to work, and is often clueless about things that most people would take for granted. Something as easy as picking up the milk from the corner store is beyond her, and she no doubt would need help (as much as she doesn't want it) in order to manage.
Angeline is also very snippy. She's used to being treated by a porcelain doll by her parent's friends - that poor blind girl who will never amount to anything. While she's certainly shown them on the 'never amount to anything' front, she's yet to prove that she won't break if she's left alone. The unfortunate thing is that she can't actually be snippy to the people she would like to - so she inevitably takes it out one those around her.
No doubt because of her attempts to cling to independence, Angeline is very, very stubborn. In the real world, she would often know people for days or even weeks without them even realizing she's blind. In her home, it's extremely hard to tell, and she's fairly good at picking up vocal queues to help her get by. In fact, until she has to, she won't tell anyone she's blind - she'll always come up with some other excuse or reason for needing help. She's far too used to people treating her differently the moment they find out.
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H I S T O R Y
- Angeline was the only child of her parents, a wealthy pair of business owners. Her parents lavished her with attention, clearly worried that spending too much time at home would lead to their only daughter becoming a 'bad egg'. She was a much wished for child, and extremely happy in her early years. She does not remember those few years of being with sight, but sometimes when she dreams she can see once more, even if she can no longer remember it come morning.
- When Angeline was four, she was diagnosed with having been infected with the virus. The general cure was simply to convert her to a Gijinka, but her parents wouldn't hear of it. Instead, they sought out any other possible cure, desperate to avoid having a half-pokemon child. It was not out of concern for their own social standing, so much as it was the fact that they didn't want to put their only daughter through that sort of social ostracization. The progress was significantly slowed by the treatments, but nothing could actually cure it, and when Angeline was six, she became legally blind.
- She got along well enough with other children, and it was only in her later years that she began to realize that anything was really 'different' about her. While being blind was something she was used to, she was not used to when people would treat her like a child - and her parents did. Neatly passing through the 'I'm not a kid, mom!' stage, her parent kept on treating her like a child, unable to take care of herself. Even in her teens, they insisted on having everything done for her. Angeline is unable to cook for herself, not because she cannot actually do so, but because her parents forbid it. Similarly, she has few friends that are not the children of her parents friends, simply because going out was considered too 'dangerous'. The vast majority of her friends and their parents are simply not aware she's infected, since her variant of the virus is not contagious.
- The one place Angeline truly excelled was Chess. Taught to play by her father as a child, she rapidly learned to match, and then to beat him. Going to the local chess club, she advanced there, soon managing to surpass even the best the club had to offer. Playing blind proved to be an advantage, allowing her to hold the board in her mind at all times, and allowing for far better concentration. After little over a year at the club, one of the organizers suggested she go pro, and after a whole lot of begging, her father opted to let her try.
- She did well, excelling through sheer practice and hard work. Chess became her life, and she spent every single waking moment practicing or planning. She learned every play, every counter play, and practiced with absolutely anyone who could lift a pawn. It wasn't long before she ranked, climbing steadily as she dedicated more and more of her time to chess.
- Despite her skill at chess, Angeline has been playing less and less in public. While her health has always been terrible, the past year it's taken a definite slide. She's lost weight, gotten even paler, and her parents are scrambling to find a solution. Soon, though, they're aware that there won't be any other option.
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P L A Y E R I N F O
★ OOC NAME: Ress
★ AGE: 21
★ OTHER CHARACTERS: Ludwig Fleischer, Aumakua, Johan Mikhaylichenko-Molotov
★ RP SAMPLE:
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★ template was made for wretches and kings, do not steal ★
★ template was made for wretches and kings, do not steal ★
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