Post by Ibur on Nov 17, 2010 17:06:36 GMT -5
Name: Eva Rauer
Sex: Female
Age: 15
Race: Noctra
Height: 4'07"
Weight: 70 lbs.
Date of Birth: June 29th, 4325
Dominant Hand: Right
Appearance:
While most noctras aren't that buff to begin with, Eva is on the very low end of the muscle spectrum. Frail-looking and almost unhealthily thin, she has very thin limbs, but it's often difficult to see just how thin, as she almost always wears baggy clothing that fits her about as well as it'd fit an actual rat. This clothing is usually tattered and torn in several places, as though she just pulled it out of the nearest garbage dumpster and called it her own. However, her clothes are largely free of stains or other indications of being a slob.
On account of never using her legs, they are practically devoid of anything resembling muscle; even if Eva were capable of walking, her legs certainly don't look like they could support even her meager weight. She is paralyzed from the waist down; that much is obvious, as she cannot move her legs or her pink, hairless tail in the slightest. Eva's wheelchair is decidedly low-tech. It is not a powerchair, which is to say that she has to either be pushed or manually push herself by maneuvering the chair's wheels. This wheelchair's tires are a dark, greenish gray shade. The metal parts of the wheelchair are primarily black, but the paint has come off on some areas, thus leaving the silvery base exposed.
Aside from being handicapped, something people notice very quickly about Eva is that she is an albino. Her entire body is devoid of coloration pigment; her eyes are bright pink-red, her short, often coarse fur is completely white, and her skin (which can be seen on the undersides of her hands and feet, which is where her fur ends) is a nice healthy pink color. The inside of her ears is also pink, as fur does not grow there aside from a few stray strands here and there. Around her also-pink little nose, she has rather short whiskers on her tapered snout, and her front teeth (the characteristic "rodent teeth" of her race) are exposed even when her mouth is closed; Eva, like everyone in her family, has a terrible overbite, and because her teeth are almost always growing, she frequently gnaws on things to keep them filed to a manageable size. Unlike her fur, though, her teeth aren't pure white; they're actually noticeably yellowed, a fact that Eva is actually very self-conscious of. For this reason, she might often curl her lower lip over her front teeth, even though doing so is very uncomfortable and awkward-looking at best.
Personality:
Suspicious and usually cynical, Eva doesn't trust others easily -- or, at least, she tries not to. Even if there's a little voice in the back of her head telling her not to believe or get emotionally attached to someone, she feels inclined to trust that person, anyway. Her thoughts usually don't match up with her actions, to say the least. While she might be thinking of all the possible ulterior motives somebody could have for trying to help her, Eva is probably quietly accepting their aid and smiling all the way while trying to make civil conversation. Naturally, she berates herself for it, but the problem is that it's practically a reflex for her to be polite and friendly, and being mean-spirited, while it's something she'd like to do, is something she has to learn. Even then, Eva is likely only going to act even remotely cruel when somebody else is doing the same to her. She'll make jokes (usually at her own expense and not others') and act friendly towards people she's just met, and may the Fantasticas help you if she gets a crush on you; Eva will flip between "there's no way anyone would like me" and "this action clearly means there's some romantic subtext" like crazy, which can lead to her dropping some mixed messages of her own and confusing the situation even further. She's not exactly picky about who to form crushes on, either -- she usually stays within her own age group, but racial barriers may as well not exist with Eva. It might be because the notion of a sexual relationship is totally alien to her (on account of living a sheltered life) or it could be due to how she inwardly thinks that love is love and it doesn't matter who you fall in love with as long as they love you back, but the end result is still the same: it could be a zaurus, it could be a kannar, it could be a cabarus alpha, and Eva could fall in love with that Kylian if the circumstances allow it.
She gets flustered and embarrassed easily, especially when it's clear somebody feels sorry for her. While Eva doesn't hate being pitied, it makes her feel very uncomfortable. Being self-conscious, she tries to keep a low profile, usually, and doesn't really like drawing attention to herself. Unfortunately, being a sickly-looking albino noctra in a wheelchair means that she gets a lot of side glances at the very least. When Eva feels like she's under pressure (usually social pressure, as she doesn't always do so well in social interactions) she's prone to awkwardly stammering or saying something stupid or obvious, even if in her mind she's voicing a coherent response or forming a sensible plan of action. When she gets too embarrassed, she's likely to come up with a bad excuse to get out of the situation and then book it out of there. She tends to leave her problems for "another day" -- someday, when she's "better," she'll change things, but not right now.
Eva doesn't believe she currently has the ability to change her circumstances. After all, she's a tiny noctra in a wheelchair. What can she do? For that reason, she seeks to obtain some sort of power that will impress people and give her an opportunity to make her own way in the world. The goal sometimes changes (she might strive to become an owner of an influential company one day and then actually think becoming a politician is a better move the next) but the end result is still the same: she craves respect, awe and approval. And she will do anything to help her attain this end result. Most commonly, Eva will steal things (of course, if she knows someone, she'll feel bad about stealing from them, so she mostly tries to rob people she doesn't know) to fund whatever crazy project she's come up with that will somehow lead her to becoming the strongest and most powerful noctra in the galaxy. That's how she was able to afford getting on a spaceship to Arplakoon, after all. Nobody seemed to ever suspect that the missing objects were being stolen from the frail little girl in the wheelchair.
Despite this kleptomania and how illegal it is, Eva thinks that her thievery is completely justified. She's handicapped; she's a minor, and on top of that, she's a runaway. How else is she going to earn money? Besides, that storekeeper isn't going to miss a measly book or Scroll or whatever it is she has just stolen. Eva rarely keeps stolen objects for herself -- she usually sells them or, in the case of consumables, eats them. She thinks of herself as "above" other criminals. The "real" criminals are the sorts of people she looks down upon, and Eva would think nothing of turning in, say, a thief to the police. She doesn't associate with criminals simply because she doesn't think of herself as one. After all, those criminals are just "bad" or "stupid". Eva has a reason for stealing, and she doesn't even do it in an evil way, in her mind.
Though Eva is naturally kind-hearted, at her core she is selfish and greedy. Certainly, she'll lend a hand to someone... as long as it doesn't involve her losing anything like money or significant amounts of time and energy. She's less prone to helping strangers, but she still can end up lending aid to somebody. Emotional support? Sure. Moral support? Absolutely. Actually going out and doing a service project of some sort? Probably not, unless she feels like she has to or has some sort of ulterior motive for going (such as trying to "coincidentally" meet up with somebody she likes). Eva will only lend money when she is certain the debt will be repaid. Otherwise, the best anyone could get out of her, barring an unusual circumstance of some sort, is a few coins, even if that someone is somebody that she loves. After all, Eva has to conserve money for her big project, whatever it may be.
History:
Born Najii Orielld, Eva grew up in the city of Fol Atzo, where her large family of twenty-four total children (some had children of their own, even!) and extended family comfortably lived in wealth on account of the Orielld family's connections to numerous wealthy businessmen. In fact, Eva's older brother, Welrain, had just married the only daughter of a particularly rich businessman when Eva was born, and the Orielld family was raking in money like they had never before. Their huge fortune led to more than a few of the members of the family becoming increasingly greedy, and this led to a few budget cuts around the household. One of these cuts was health insurance. Cockily, the Oriellds assumed that there would never be a need for such things. And even if someone did get injured, they could easily pay the hospital bills. This was why their little albino family member's accident came as such a shock.
Eva took a rather nasty fall out of a window when she was just three years old. Miraculously, the fall didn't kill her -- she had landed on the most non-critical part of her body possible: her feet. However, the shock of the impact did horrendous damage to her spine, particularly her lower spine, and it soon became clear that some serious surgery would be required to let her walk again. Just as soon as Eva was hospitalized, several of the Orielld family's connections went out of business due to their corrupt business practices being exposed to the police. As their business partners, the Oriellds were also faced with a few lawsuits, and these costly lawsuits did very little to help matters. At the end of it all, the Oriellds were left with significantly less money and no health insurance. The surgery to fix Eva's spine would leave them almost bankrupt, and what would they do, then? Their entire lifestyle would collapse on themselves to fix a not life-threatening injury. So, they had no choice but to bide their time and hope that, someday, they would be able to fix Eva's spine.
As the years went on, Eva grew used to life in a wheelchair, but she also grew more reclusive. Most of the other kids in school liked to run around and play sports of some kind, which she couldn't do without them writing in numerous rules and clauses that only applied to her. She hated that. So, she sat out of their games and isolated herself with books and dreams, where she could forget that she was "the kid in the wheelchair". At home, Eva was much more active. She'd play with her siblings and cousins enough that her parents never even considered that she was lonely at school.
Time continued marching. When Eva was thirteen, she heard the story of how she ended up in a wheelchair, and of the corrupt business practices her family had participated in before then. More than a little curious, she looked up information on the lawsuits her family had been in, and the revelation of all the terrible things those businesses had been in horrified her. Monster abuse. Overworking employees. Monopolizing markets. Leaving hundreds of people unemployed as they assimilated tiny companies into their fold. Unaware they the Orielld family had since moved onto more honorable business practices, Eva started to quietly loathe being dependent on what she perceived to be a corrupt family. After graduating from middle school at the age of fourteen, she figured she would be able to make it on her own without her "evil" family's help. So, after packing up her things, Eva ran away, and got far away from Fol Atzo by hopping from train to train until she didn't even know where she was anymore. She changed her name (not legally, mind you) from Najii Orielld to Eva Rauer, a combination of names from two different books that she particularly liked.
Eva quickly discovered that life was not easy for a fourteen-year-old fresh out of middle school. Nobody would employ her, even when she lied about her age to evade labor laws about employing minors. But Eva refused to go back. She would be independent. She'd get out of this wheelchair on her own; she'd become the greatest noctra to ever live without her family's help. Slowly but surely, Eva started to sink into a life of small-time thievery, and managed to get by like that. Even if it was embarrassing to plead for money, some of her best income came from begging on the streets as a crippled "orphan". Months went by without much incident; she turned fifteen, and her circumstances had hardly changed. Then, when she was looking through books at a library, she got a brilliant idea: in this one story, the protagonist went to Arplakoon to get a Chrono Ring and live life as a bounty hunter. Determined to do the same, Eva scrounged up all the money she had and bought a ticket for a spaceship headed to Arplakoon in three months. Anxiously, she waited for that day to come until, finally, she was boarding that spaceship and en route to the center of the galaxy.
Other Notes: DERP
Sex: Female
Age: 15
Race: Noctra
Height: 4'07"
Weight: 70 lbs.
Date of Birth: June 29th, 4325
Dominant Hand: Right
Appearance:
While most noctras aren't that buff to begin with, Eva is on the very low end of the muscle spectrum. Frail-looking and almost unhealthily thin, she has very thin limbs, but it's often difficult to see just how thin, as she almost always wears baggy clothing that fits her about as well as it'd fit an actual rat. This clothing is usually tattered and torn in several places, as though she just pulled it out of the nearest garbage dumpster and called it her own. However, her clothes are largely free of stains or other indications of being a slob.
On account of never using her legs, they are practically devoid of anything resembling muscle; even if Eva were capable of walking, her legs certainly don't look like they could support even her meager weight. She is paralyzed from the waist down; that much is obvious, as she cannot move her legs or her pink, hairless tail in the slightest. Eva's wheelchair is decidedly low-tech. It is not a powerchair, which is to say that she has to either be pushed or manually push herself by maneuvering the chair's wheels. This wheelchair's tires are a dark, greenish gray shade. The metal parts of the wheelchair are primarily black, but the paint has come off on some areas, thus leaving the silvery base exposed.
Aside from being handicapped, something people notice very quickly about Eva is that she is an albino. Her entire body is devoid of coloration pigment; her eyes are bright pink-red, her short, often coarse fur is completely white, and her skin (which can be seen on the undersides of her hands and feet, which is where her fur ends) is a nice healthy pink color. The inside of her ears is also pink, as fur does not grow there aside from a few stray strands here and there. Around her also-pink little nose, she has rather short whiskers on her tapered snout, and her front teeth (the characteristic "rodent teeth" of her race) are exposed even when her mouth is closed; Eva, like everyone in her family, has a terrible overbite, and because her teeth are almost always growing, she frequently gnaws on things to keep them filed to a manageable size. Unlike her fur, though, her teeth aren't pure white; they're actually noticeably yellowed, a fact that Eva is actually very self-conscious of. For this reason, she might often curl her lower lip over her front teeth, even though doing so is very uncomfortable and awkward-looking at best.
Personality:
Suspicious and usually cynical, Eva doesn't trust others easily -- or, at least, she tries not to. Even if there's a little voice in the back of her head telling her not to believe or get emotionally attached to someone, she feels inclined to trust that person, anyway. Her thoughts usually don't match up with her actions, to say the least. While she might be thinking of all the possible ulterior motives somebody could have for trying to help her, Eva is probably quietly accepting their aid and smiling all the way while trying to make civil conversation. Naturally, she berates herself for it, but the problem is that it's practically a reflex for her to be polite and friendly, and being mean-spirited, while it's something she'd like to do, is something she has to learn. Even then, Eva is likely only going to act even remotely cruel when somebody else is doing the same to her. She'll make jokes (usually at her own expense and not others') and act friendly towards people she's just met, and may the Fantasticas help you if she gets a crush on you; Eva will flip between "there's no way anyone would like me" and "this action clearly means there's some romantic subtext" like crazy, which can lead to her dropping some mixed messages of her own and confusing the situation even further. She's not exactly picky about who to form crushes on, either -- she usually stays within her own age group, but racial barriers may as well not exist with Eva. It might be because the notion of a sexual relationship is totally alien to her (on account of living a sheltered life) or it could be due to how she inwardly thinks that love is love and it doesn't matter who you fall in love with as long as they love you back, but the end result is still the same: it could be a zaurus, it could be a kannar, it could be a cabarus alpha, and Eva could fall in love with that Kylian if the circumstances allow it.
She gets flustered and embarrassed easily, especially when it's clear somebody feels sorry for her. While Eva doesn't hate being pitied, it makes her feel very uncomfortable. Being self-conscious, she tries to keep a low profile, usually, and doesn't really like drawing attention to herself. Unfortunately, being a sickly-looking albino noctra in a wheelchair means that she gets a lot of side glances at the very least. When Eva feels like she's under pressure (usually social pressure, as she doesn't always do so well in social interactions) she's prone to awkwardly stammering or saying something stupid or obvious, even if in her mind she's voicing a coherent response or forming a sensible plan of action. When she gets too embarrassed, she's likely to come up with a bad excuse to get out of the situation and then book it out of there. She tends to leave her problems for "another day" -- someday, when she's "better," she'll change things, but not right now.
Eva doesn't believe she currently has the ability to change her circumstances. After all, she's a tiny noctra in a wheelchair. What can she do? For that reason, she seeks to obtain some sort of power that will impress people and give her an opportunity to make her own way in the world. The goal sometimes changes (she might strive to become an owner of an influential company one day and then actually think becoming a politician is a better move the next) but the end result is still the same: she craves respect, awe and approval. And she will do anything to help her attain this end result. Most commonly, Eva will steal things (of course, if she knows someone, she'll feel bad about stealing from them, so she mostly tries to rob people she doesn't know) to fund whatever crazy project she's come up with that will somehow lead her to becoming the strongest and most powerful noctra in the galaxy. That's how she was able to afford getting on a spaceship to Arplakoon, after all. Nobody seemed to ever suspect that the missing objects were being stolen from the frail little girl in the wheelchair.
Despite this kleptomania and how illegal it is, Eva thinks that her thievery is completely justified. She's handicapped; she's a minor, and on top of that, she's a runaway. How else is she going to earn money? Besides, that storekeeper isn't going to miss a measly book or Scroll or whatever it is she has just stolen. Eva rarely keeps stolen objects for herself -- she usually sells them or, in the case of consumables, eats them. She thinks of herself as "above" other criminals. The "real" criminals are the sorts of people she looks down upon, and Eva would think nothing of turning in, say, a thief to the police. She doesn't associate with criminals simply because she doesn't think of herself as one. After all, those criminals are just "bad" or "stupid". Eva has a reason for stealing, and she doesn't even do it in an evil way, in her mind.
Though Eva is naturally kind-hearted, at her core she is selfish and greedy. Certainly, she'll lend a hand to someone... as long as it doesn't involve her losing anything like money or significant amounts of time and energy. She's less prone to helping strangers, but she still can end up lending aid to somebody. Emotional support? Sure. Moral support? Absolutely. Actually going out and doing a service project of some sort? Probably not, unless she feels like she has to or has some sort of ulterior motive for going (such as trying to "coincidentally" meet up with somebody she likes). Eva will only lend money when she is certain the debt will be repaid. Otherwise, the best anyone could get out of her, barring an unusual circumstance of some sort, is a few coins, even if that someone is somebody that she loves. After all, Eva has to conserve money for her big project, whatever it may be.
History:
Born Najii Orielld, Eva grew up in the city of Fol Atzo, where her large family of twenty-four total children (some had children of their own, even!) and extended family comfortably lived in wealth on account of the Orielld family's connections to numerous wealthy businessmen. In fact, Eva's older brother, Welrain, had just married the only daughter of a particularly rich businessman when Eva was born, and the Orielld family was raking in money like they had never before. Their huge fortune led to more than a few of the members of the family becoming increasingly greedy, and this led to a few budget cuts around the household. One of these cuts was health insurance. Cockily, the Oriellds assumed that there would never be a need for such things. And even if someone did get injured, they could easily pay the hospital bills. This was why their little albino family member's accident came as such a shock.
Eva took a rather nasty fall out of a window when she was just three years old. Miraculously, the fall didn't kill her -- she had landed on the most non-critical part of her body possible: her feet. However, the shock of the impact did horrendous damage to her spine, particularly her lower spine, and it soon became clear that some serious surgery would be required to let her walk again. Just as soon as Eva was hospitalized, several of the Orielld family's connections went out of business due to their corrupt business practices being exposed to the police. As their business partners, the Oriellds were also faced with a few lawsuits, and these costly lawsuits did very little to help matters. At the end of it all, the Oriellds were left with significantly less money and no health insurance. The surgery to fix Eva's spine would leave them almost bankrupt, and what would they do, then? Their entire lifestyle would collapse on themselves to fix a not life-threatening injury. So, they had no choice but to bide their time and hope that, someday, they would be able to fix Eva's spine.
As the years went on, Eva grew used to life in a wheelchair, but she also grew more reclusive. Most of the other kids in school liked to run around and play sports of some kind, which she couldn't do without them writing in numerous rules and clauses that only applied to her. She hated that. So, she sat out of their games and isolated herself with books and dreams, where she could forget that she was "the kid in the wheelchair". At home, Eva was much more active. She'd play with her siblings and cousins enough that her parents never even considered that she was lonely at school.
Time continued marching. When Eva was thirteen, she heard the story of how she ended up in a wheelchair, and of the corrupt business practices her family had participated in before then. More than a little curious, she looked up information on the lawsuits her family had been in, and the revelation of all the terrible things those businesses had been in horrified her. Monster abuse. Overworking employees. Monopolizing markets. Leaving hundreds of people unemployed as they assimilated tiny companies into their fold. Unaware they the Orielld family had since moved onto more honorable business practices, Eva started to quietly loathe being dependent on what she perceived to be a corrupt family. After graduating from middle school at the age of fourteen, she figured she would be able to make it on her own without her "evil" family's help. So, after packing up her things, Eva ran away, and got far away from Fol Atzo by hopping from train to train until she didn't even know where she was anymore. She changed her name (not legally, mind you) from Najii Orielld to Eva Rauer, a combination of names from two different books that she particularly liked.
Eva quickly discovered that life was not easy for a fourteen-year-old fresh out of middle school. Nobody would employ her, even when she lied about her age to evade labor laws about employing minors. But Eva refused to go back. She would be independent. She'd get out of this wheelchair on her own; she'd become the greatest noctra to ever live without her family's help. Slowly but surely, Eva started to sink into a life of small-time thievery, and managed to get by like that. Even if it was embarrassing to plead for money, some of her best income came from begging on the streets as a crippled "orphan". Months went by without much incident; she turned fifteen, and her circumstances had hardly changed. Then, when she was looking through books at a library, she got a brilliant idea: in this one story, the protagonist went to Arplakoon to get a Chrono Ring and live life as a bounty hunter. Determined to do the same, Eva scrounged up all the money she had and bought a ticket for a spaceship headed to Arplakoon in three months. Anxiously, she waited for that day to come until, finally, she was boarding that spaceship and en route to the center of the galaxy.
Other Notes: DERP
