Post by Karlee Aurora Spencer on Oct 27, 2009 20:31:18 GMT -5
;;Nicola Crystal Farr;;
Is Entering Sins of Impunity
Is Entering Sins of Impunity
It’s All About You
Behind the Puppet Master
::NAME::[/blockquote]
Kayla
::AGE:
19
::GENDER::
Girl
::RP EXPERIENCE::
Forever
::CONTACTING YOU::
PM or MSN
::ACTIVITY::
I’m on all the time and live in the mountain zone.
::THE PUPPETS::
Accounts Anastasia, Mara, and Pandora
The Identification Tag
Character Basics
::ALIAS::
Cola
::NAME::
Nicola Crystal Farr
::AGE::
18
::GENDER::
Female
::ORIENTATION::
Straight
::SPECIES::
Human
::JOB::
Works at a coffee shop
::RELIGIOUS AFFILATION::
Agnostic
Where Your Abilities Fall
The Character Talents
::STRENGTHS::
1. Dancing
2. Cooking
3. Multi-tasking
4. Courage
::SUMMARY::
She is a very human. . . human. She doesn’t have any great abilities like fighting or weapon use. . . she’s just a girl. Despite what her parents have told her and what the doctors have told her, she’s taken up dancing and cooking. Both are quite dangerous for her because she can’t tell when she’s getting hurt. She could fall while dancing or set her hand on the burner and seriously injure herself and she would never know. However she took quite a liking to both and is fairly good at dancing. She knows a couple forms of ballroom dancing—they were less dangerous than learning to break dance and whatever else the kids are doing now a days—and she can make a proper meal out of almost anything.
Cola is pretty good at doing two things at once. She can study and cook at the same time, talk to someone on the phone and in person while typing up a report, and this really helps her at her job, where she’s picked this up. A lot of people like coffee, and she gets several orders at once and finds herself hard-pressed to not only remember it all, but to keep track of who ordered what. In busy times she can’t really write down everything, so she has to stay focused. Nicola is very good in the face of pressure and can make herself calm down. She’s very good at facing her fears, and she can suck it up and be a man every now and again. Well, all the time, really. She doesn’t let anyone know she’s afraid.
::WEAKNESSES::
1. CIPA
2. Reckless
3. Bad memory
4. Physically weak
::SUMMARY::
Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is a rare disease. Cola is the one in 125 million people to get it. Patients with this disorder are very likely to injure themselves in ways that would normally be prevented by feeling pain. The main features of the disorder are lack of pain sensation, painless injuries of the arms, legs and oral structures, and fever during hot weather because of inability to sweat. Blessing? Hardly. Without knowing, she could break her bones. If she doesn’t know, infection could follow. Blood clots. She could easily die from something that was easy to fix because she just didn’t know she had gotten hurt. Pain is necessary. If she set her hand on a burning stove, she could easily burn herself to the bone. If she can’t feel cold, there is a good chance she could die of hypothermia. It’s definitely more of a curse.
Because she doesn’t feel pain, she can tend to be quite reckless. She thinks because she can’t feel pain she’s invincible, but that’s far from the truth. She winds up getting hurt a lot, and has spent a lot of time in the hospital because she just doesn’t seem to get that just because she doesn’t feel anything doesn’t mean there’s not anything wrong with her. In fact, she’s fallen a couple hundred times and hit her head many times over. Because of this, her memory has taken quite the toll. Cola doesn’t necessarily suffer from short-term memory loss, but a lot of times she can just have giant holes where memories used to be. Sometimes they come back, but sometimes she has blackouts. Because she doesn’t do sports or anything besides her dancing, she isn’t that strong.
The More Human Side of Things
Human Appearance
::HAIR::[/size]
Dark brown
::EYES::
Chocolate brown
::HEIGHT::
Five foot two
::WEIGHT::
One hundred fifteen pounds
:MARKS::
She’s covered in scars and sometimes bruises.
::SKIN TONE::
Tanned
::BODY TYPE::
Slim, but not sickly thin.
::CLOTHES::
Mostly preppy clothes, stylish
::SUMMARY::
She’s pretty much your average girl. She has a bunch of different ethnicities piled into her, some of which being Filipina, Chinese, Spanish, Irish, and American Indian. Looking at her, you can pretty much see bits of all of it. She has rather tan skin, dark brown hair that she always wears long—she hardly ever cuts it—and she has dark, chocolate brown eyes. They’re not hazel, they’re truly brown. You can’t peg her for one or the other out of her ethnicities, but there are subtle hints that would make you think it was true. She’s a few inches shorter than average, but she has a good weight. She’s got a slim figure, but she’s not sickly thin. She has enough meat on her bones to keep her padded and insulated. Her clothing style is pretty much whatever’s in fashion that month. Or week.
Nicola has scars all over her body. The most noticeable are the scars around her lips from chewing on herself when she was little. A lot of the time she has a lot of bruises, too. Mostly they’re from not paying attention and walking into stuff or from tripping. She’s had to have surgery several times for broken bones and clots that went unnoticed. Therefore, a lot of the scars on her body are from the different medical procedures she’d had to go through. However, Cola has fun making up excuses for the scars. She hates telling people what’s wrong with her because she gets very different reactions, people wanting to poke at her to see if she’s telling the truth or purposefully try to trip her or whatever, and then there are the people who just constantly watch her and tell her to watch out for this or that. . . . So whenever people ask about the scars, she just tells them she fell through a window when she was little, or she got hit by a car. . . . The window lie is her favorite, though.
Personality is Everything
How They Might Act
::LIKES::[/size]
1. Reading
2. Hanging with friends
3. Video Games
4. Art
::DISLIKES::
1. Being fussed over
2. Animals
3. Politics
4. History
::FLAWS::
1. Sharp Tongue
2. Careless
3. Impatient
4. Stubborn
::BLESSINGS::
1. Independent
2. Organized
3. Polite
4. Selfless
::SUMMARY::
Cola is a very independent person. She likes her alone time, but she also likes to hang out with her friends. Her parents get extremely protective of her because they have no way of telling when she’s hurt and because she often injured herself as a baby, so they sometimes don’t let her go out with her friends because Cola refuses to tell anyone but her family and her doctor about her condition. She hates it when people fuss over her and won’t leave her alone. All she wants is to be treated like a normal girl, have fun like a normal person. She plays video games and reads and likes to look at art—mostly modern art. She doesn’t like getting involved in politics and absolutely hates her history class and animals.
Because she can’t feel pain, Cola often does things for people normal people wouldn’t ever do. She extremely selfless and would do anything for anyone, even a complete stranger. Even though she has been known to have a very sharp tongue, she tries to remain polite around people she doesn’t know very well because she doesn’t know how they’ll take her insults. When she gets to know a person a bit better, that’s when that barbed tongue comes out. She is a pretty impatient person, as well. She hates waiting for anything and is all about instant gratification. Her stubbornness comes from being so sheltered because of her condition. She prefers to be left alone, and when she sets her mind to something she will be absolutely livid if anyone tries to keep that from happening.
Checking Out the Background
Historical Stuff
::FAMILY MEMBERS::[/size]
Mom: Jordan
Dad: Pierce
::SCHOOL::
Washington Irving High School. Borough of Manhattan Community College.
::GRADE LEVEL::
Freshman in College.
::GRADUATION YEAR::
Graduated in 2008. Graduation from college: 2010
::HISTORY::
From birth her family knew something wasn’t right with her. She often had problems with fevers and colds that no one knew she had because she just wouldn’t cry. Unless she was hungry and needed to be changed and all the other reasons babies cry. It wasn’t until she started getting her teeth that they really noticed something was wrong with her. Because she couldn’t feel the pain that told her to quit doing something, she chewed on her lips and tongue a lot. When her parents found her bleeding from her mouth, yet she wasn’t crying, they rushed her to the hospital and, several tests later, she was diagnosed with CIPA. There was only one known treatment for it, but for the most part there wasn’t a whole lot they could do but watch her closely.
The rest of her young life was spent being constantly watched. As she grew up, her parents grew more and more protective of her. She learned to walk, there was always someone watching her in case she fell. Her parents were only 21 when they had her, and she was their first and only daughter. They knew that a couple falls wouldn’t kill her or even give her bruises, but the two of them couldn’t help but look her over every time she tripped and ran into the wall. Nearly every time she cried her parents would try to figure out what was wrong with her, but usually she just needed to eat something or was tired of being held and fussed over. When she learned to talk, the crying stopped unless she was upset at something.
When school started, that was hard for her parents. They had to decide if they wanted her to go to a public school or be home schooled, and they decided on being home schooled. That is, however, until she became old enough to learn what her condition meant. When she reached the middle school age, she told her parents that she wanted to go to a normal school. She told them that she knew she couldn’t play sports, and her physical education teacher was informed of her condition, as was the rest of her teachers. They watched her like a hawk, and most of the time in her gym class she was allowed to participate for the most part, but she got scolded whenever she did something too carelessly.
Nicola spends a lot of time in the hospital. Whenever she has a bad fall, she’s always dragged to the hospital by her parents to get her tests for all sorts of things. After the first few years of this, Nicola got sick and tired of the false alarms—which seemed to happen more often than the case that she really was injured—and started to become more and more irritated. One would think she would be more careful so she wouldn’t have to get sent to the emergency room so often, but she got more and more rebellious, trying to convince her parents that just because she couldn’t feel pain didn’t mean she was fragile and easily broken. Bruises were nothing and everyone got them, so she didn’t know what the big deal was when she ran into something or fell. Everyone fell!
Through high school this continued. She missed classes and ended up having to go to credit recovery and night school throughout her high school career because she had to go to the hospital at least once of month because of her over protective parents. However, a couple times it was actually necessary. She’d had a bad collision in one of her gym classes and in her home economics class she had burned herself pretty bad when she hadn’t realized that a burner was still on. She’d kept her hand on it for nearly a minute before someone realized what was going on and told her that she was burning her hand. The rumors started to get passed around by then, but the teachers who knew Nicola usually tried to end them. Through some patience and perseverance, Nicola finally did graduated with her class, and Nicola got a scholarship to a local community college.
She recently got a job at a local coffee shop and has already gotten a few close calls, but she didn’t tell her boss or coworkers about her CIPA. She started going to school a couple months after she graduated high school. Nicola wasn’t exactly sure what she wanted to do, so she’s just taking a couple math classes, some business classes and other prerequisites to get those credits taken care of until she can figure out what she wants to do with her life. Because she’s lived so sheltered, she hasn’t come across any vampire or werewolves except for the ones she’s met in books and movies. She only a couple months into her year in college, but she should graduation in 2010 from the community college, when she would start looking at bigger college—or perhaps just figure out what she wants to do with her life.
Your Own Mad Skills
How Good Are You?
::CODE WORD::[/size]
Do the mashed potatoe, do the twiste
::APPLICATION STATUS::
Complete
::RP EXAMPLE::
Guhh do I have to?
