Post by OB on Jul 15, 2010 12:35:29 GMT -5
Canon Character Application
My name is OB and I am EIGHTEEN years old. I want to join this site because I'M AWESOME, AND ITALY SUGGESTED IT. I have been roleplaying for SIX and I normally post between the I WON'T DO LESS THAN 200 mark. Here is my application:
Character name: Natalia Arlovskaya
Age: Appears 19
Appearance: Natalia stands at a rather unimposing height at a mere height of 5'2". One would not be able to imagine the horrors she can cause by simply looking at her. Everything about her being pale, giving her a frail and sickly look. Her hair, adorned with a plain white ribbon, is a platinum blond that reaches her lower back. The most color on the girl would be her eyes, a piercing blue color. More often than not, she is wearing a dark blue 'lolita' dress. If it were not for that murderous look in her eyes, she'd be the epitome of innocent.
Personality: With a sharp tongue, and an even sharper gaze, Natalia is as cold and unappealing as the edge of those blades she adores. She comes off as rather cool and collected, the type to calculate her moves beforehand. Despite this fact, she will often lose herself in a blind rage when angered, having a rather short temper. Harsh to those she does not like, or is unfamiliar with (which is everyone outside of her family, and even then her family suffers), she seems to be considerably warmer towards her brother (and even to her sister).
Occupation: Necromancer; following after her brother (whether he is aware or not), Natalia travels often. She is skilled with curses, and can raise the dead. Preferring fresh corpses, is known to find able bodied men and slitting their throats for her use.
Strengths:
+Emotionally detached
While this can be considered, both a blessing and a curse, Natalia hardly seems to show any care for human life. Which allows her to kill her enemies without a care.
+Precise
When fighting, she feels precision is key. Whether it's with the aiming of her throwing knives, or using the correct curse. Mistakes will not be tolerated.
+Will not be deterred
Once her mind is set to something, nothing short of death can de-rail her. Whether it's winning a fight, or winning her brothers love.
+Strategic
As they say, all good chess players think several moves ahead.
+Agile
To make up for her lack of strength, she is quick and can often avoid physical attacks by dodging.
Weaknesses:
-Short temper
It's not hard to set her off, especially if it's an insult to her beloved brother, and once she's angered she goes off into a blind rage.
-Physically weak
Simply put, she can hardly bench her own weight.
-Unable to form functioning alliances
Lacking the trust in others to believe in what they say, when she forms alliances it is often weak due to her constant paranoia that she will be betrayed.
-Poor social skills
You'd have a better chance at having a successful conversation with a doorknob.
Backstory: If you were to ask what her parents were like, Natalia would be unable to answer you. It's not like she didn't have any, she just didn't remember them. Constantly drawing a blank when trying to recall their faces. Her only memories as a child, are those of her siblings. More specifically, her brother. Back when they were young, her siblings were the world. Back in the days when it was just brother, sister, and herself. These are actually her most precious memories.
She remembers faces. Her childhood memories are a blur of faces rushing by. Those deemed important enough, remained preserved in her memories. Those she could care less about, faceless beings just ghosting by.
The next face of her memory, was that of Toris Lorinaitis. After a painful separation from her beloved brother at the hands of Mongols, she somehow wound up finding herself in his presence. Along with her sister, and other ghosting forms. The constant thought that lingered in the back of her mind, was being reunited with brother... So great was this obsession of being with her brother again, she completely ignored the affections she had started to receive from Toris.
Even once she had gone off on her own, away from Toris, away from her sister... he persisted with trying to woo her, despite the fact that by this point, it would end with broken bones.
When she had been reunited with brother, she was ecstatic. Natalia could ignore the blurry and sharp faces that surrounded them. Since, in her mind, it was just her and brother. She had striven to make him happy, striven to satisfy him. He could ask anything of her, and she would obediently do it. After the falling apart of their household, once again separating her from her brother, she vowed to follow and protect him.
Sample Post:
A cloud of warm breath floated upwards and back, heating her face as she walked. The soft crunch of freshly fallen snow being tainted by footprints being the only noise to accompany the girl. Cold blue eyes were trained forward to the direction she was headed, causing the few people who were out to give her a wide berth. Which was fine with her. It was preferred even.
It was rather early in the morning, and just now starting to heat up from the cold of the night so only those who had an important meeting to get to, or couldn't dig out their car from the snow, were up and about. Nobody wanted to be in the cold if they could help it (which they could not most of the time), only those on a mission would dare brave the cold and biting winds. The snow that clung to them and piled up, dampening when they reached their destination, soaking them. Natalia, was on such a mission.
Abruptly she had left behind her breakfast of a slice of apple pie (made from her favorite sour apples of course) and tea, with an open news paper on the table. It was surprising that she had even remembered to grab her winter coat. Wearing her usual outfit, a blue dress (which many gave her wide eyed stares for, who in their right mind would wear a dress in this weather?) and white stockings with simple Mary Janes, a heavy black coat over top. Brother needed her, if what the papers say is true--!
Long, pale fingers tightly clasped a blade in her pocket. If what the papers say is true, then her brother needs her... and someone needs to be removed.
(Um, I'm not gonna lie, I was honestly confused as to what to do for the backstory;; So I just kind of, generalized it... S-sorry if this isn't that great.;;; )
