Mythology 101 Character Profiles

[piñata]

Okay, here's what we need to know about your character going in.

Name:
Race/Species:
Gender:
Age:
Weapon(s) of choice: (Note that since part of this RP does take place in the modern world, you can have guns or other things that an American civilian would conceivably have; no high explosives, but other than that you can bring pretty much anything into the World of Myth with you if it fits your character. There's gotta be a valid reason why you're packing heat at school, though. )
Previous paranormal experience: (If your character has had something weird happen to them before, or displayed a strange talent or supernatural ability at some point in their lives, post it here. But keep in mind not to make superpowers too... superpowered, because your character will be untrained in how to use them at first and won't be very good at doing anything useful with them. Also, limit of one superpower per character please.)
Skills: (Just put any skill your character has, even if it doesn't seem useful at first. For example, if you're a cheerleader, mention it... their acrobatic/gymnastic training helps with running, jumping and climbing.)
Appearance: (What your character looks like, with as much or as little detail as you want.)
History: (Note that history is optional, since many of the characters being posted are in their late teens or early twenties and haven't had much opportunity to do anything important. If you can think of a good backstory for your character then bring it on, but you don't have to put anything here.)
Personality: (What your character is like to be around, how they think, what makes them tick... basically just describe what kind of person they are on the inside. Will probably be the longest portion of your character's profile.)

And now, to provide some examples, my characters (I'll be playing some villains as well, but I'll put their profiles in another post).

Name: Professor Geoffrey Banks
Race: Caucasian Human
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Weapons of choice: Very improvisational, using whatever heavy object is available. But if there's a sword handy, he'll rely primarily on that.
Previous paranormal experience: None, which might explain why, even though he teaches a mythology class, he's a skeptic.
Skills: Took fencing classes in grade school, and still remembers some of the moves. Also learned how to ride a horse as a child. And, of course, he's a mythology teacher and therefore knows the strengths and weaknesses of many of the creatures he'll be fighting.
Appearance: Handsome for his age, but hides it well behind unkempt hair, spectacles and massive amounts of tweed. Brown hair and eyes, very pale skin. Speaks with a British accent.
Personality: A bit socially awkward, with a tendency to be long-winded and pedantic once you do draw him out and get him talking. Not as hardcore a disciplinarian as his accent would suggest, but won't take any crap from students who want to be the class clown or are trying to coast through an "easy" class for a quick A. Can be very protective of his students, especially the ones he thinks will go far. Even though he comes off as a geek most of the time, there is some steel in him.

Name: Princess Alira Rainlily
Race: Elf
Gender: Female
Age: 600 (looks about 19 in human years)
Weapons of choice: Two long-bladed daggers that she conjures using magic, and dual wields. She will use a bow or sword situationally, however, and does know how to kill with her bare hands.
Previous paranormal experience: She's a very powerful sorceress who has seen many strange and unusual things since coming to the "Real World". Cars, for example. Those things confuse the hell out of her.
Skills: Has been trained in both magical and non-magical combat since she was in her early forties. Is also very well-versed in all things relating to horses, including but not limited to riding.
Appearance: Jawdroppingly beautiful, but doesn't appear to realize it. Perfect skin with just a slight hint of a tan, luxurious caramel-brown hair, pretty almond-shaped brown eyes and a well-sculpted, athletic body from all her combat training. Speaks with a slight, indefinable (in other words, not of this world) accent that gives her an exotic flair.
History: After the Prophecy was given that strangers from another world would come to the aid of her own, Alira volunteered to be the one to seek them out. For the past hundred years she has been traveling between universes trying to find the right world, and now that she has she has infiltrated the school that the Chosen Ones attend by impersonating a new student.
Personality: A fighter by nature due to her many centuries of military training, Alira is sometimes a bit too quick to solve problems using violence. However, she's also very much a lover... like most other Elves, Alira has a very high sex drive and is always up for it, with members of either gender. Between these traits and her general confusion about the advanced technology and bizarre cultural quirks of our world, she can come off as a bit weird. Once she finds a Chosen One, she is extremely protective of them.

I'll add my fairy to this post later, gotta go for now.

[Rosy]

If #1 on Ape's wishlist for this rp is for his character to sack a centaur, my #1 is to have my character be mistaken for a vampire by a mentally-retarded vampire named Edward. And #2 is to have a drinking contest against a dwarf (LoTR anyone?)

Name: Barbara "Beebs/BB" O'Connor
Race/Species: Human/ 50% Irish, 50% German
Gender: Female
Age: 19 (college sophomore)
Weapon of Choice: pocket knife
Previous Paranormal Experience: n/a. She refuses to believe any fantasy/mythological crap.
Skills: BB was at one point in her life obsessed with theater and is a half-decent actress. She can sing well too, but good luck trying to get her to. No real fighting experience, but one of her deepest darkest secrets is she knows how to knit and crochet.

Appearance: She's stereotypical Irish. She's very pale, burns very easily, and avoids being in the sun whenever possible. Slightly shorter than average height, but not really noticeable until she stands next to someone significantly taller than herself. She's attractive; guys would call her cute, not hot or sexy. She has shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair (except for her bangs, which she dyes pink) and almost always in french braids. Her eyes are a creepy shade of pale blue, amplified when she gives someone an evil glare. Her day-to-day outfit usually consists of crocs, jeans, and a t-shirt underneath an over-sized hoodie.

Personality: Beebs tends to keep to herself. It's not that she's shy, she just doesn't really care. She usually looks like she's uninterested or about to fall asleep and never pays attention or initiates conversation; she sleeps through a lot of her classes. Because of this, her grades are lousy, even though she's actually pretty smart; her high school teachers used to hound her about her lost potential. She used to be very religious (she was raised in a very small, religious town), but now stubbornly refuses to believe anything, religious or mythological.

Other: She really likes her alcohol. She's not stupid enough to show up to class drunk, but she usually has a bottle of something in her bookbag; most days she starts drinking right after her classes are over. Her grumpiness and anti-social behavior during the day is largely on part of her hangover.

History: As mentioned earlier, BB grew up in a small religious town. For as long as she can remember, her parents have been preaching to her about God and being a good Catholic girl. Up until her junior year in high school, she was a straight-A student. The summer before her junior year, her family suffered a horrible tragedy; she decided God didn't exist because He wouldn't allow such things to happen . When school started again, she stopped trying to do well and quit all her extra-curricular activities, such as drama and band. Her parents eventually got divorced and Beebs started drinking. If it wasn't for a very dedicated teacher, she never would have made it into college. The only reason she's in college is her mother's constant b****ing that she needs to continue her education.

((Will finish later. It's really late where I am and I should probably go to bed now. I haven't looked this over, so consider it a roughdraft lol. THINGS WILL CHANGE!!!))

[Ape]

Name: Rick Waddell
Gender/Race: White male
Age: 21
Weapon of choice: Switchblade. He owns a colt revolver from the mid-1800's he bought because he thought it was cool, but he doesn't carry ammo for it.
Paranormal experience: None, Rick is a fierce skeptic.
Skills: He fought a lot in high school, so he's good with his fists.

Appearance: Rick was born 60 years after his time. He walks around looking like a prototypical "greaser" from the 50's. He has slicked back hair and can always be found wearing a leather jacket, dark blue jeans, and a pair of combat boots. Beneath the leather jacket he almost always wear a plain black shirt, half of which have their sleeves torn off. He has a tattoo on his right arm that he usually keeps hidden.

Personality: Rick is, well, a jerk. He's rude to almost everyone and he has a tendency to think he is better than everyone else. Despite his outer "tough guy" appearance, he's an avid reader and academic and he thinks he is smarter than everyone around him. He thinks he's smarter than all his teachers and, to be honest, it's not always untrue. He's usually very quiet because he thinks conversing with the idiots around him is a waste of his time, but it's rare that he won't seize an opportunity to prove someone wrong or make someone look stupid. Maybe this arrogance is what got him in so many fights in high school. Maybe he's just a victim of his own out-of-control wit, and maybe he was always just defending himself. Or, maybe he's just a jerk and a bully.

History: He was a promising child, perfectly obedient and always the top of his class in his childhood. Most likely, all this attention started getting to his head, and by the time he was in high school he had a reputation of being an obnoxious smart aleck. The teachers grew irritated when he would prove them wrong in class and his classmates quickly grew tired of making them all look bad, Rick got the idea and began distancing himself from all of them. His parents also grew weary of his antics and Rick quickly began to distance himself from them as well. Without friends, it wasn't long before he started getting suspended from school for fighting all the time. By the time he somehow managed to graduate (near the top of the class, despite missing more school days than attending) he could be found walking around in his leather jackets and greased-back hair, with a sneer on his face a bad attitude.

[Da Pwny]

*ehh... what the hell >.> as long as it's mostly the same, right?*

Name: Maria Clavinakas
~Nickname: Mari, Ice Queen (from high school)
Race/Species: Human; Caucasian (1/2th Russian, 1/2th Native-American)
Gender: Female
Age: 18 (and a half)

Weapon(s) of choice: pair of highly illegal steel knuckles, kept in her backpack most of the time (she avoids metal detectors anyways), or up her sleeves, if she thinks a fight is inevitable at some point. Aside from that, she'll grab whatever sharp objects that she can wield with measurable ease that she can get her hands on.

Non-combative Equipment: backpack, several classical horror collaborative collections (at least one is nearby at any point during the day, whether in class or on the toilet, often comprised of H.P. Lovecraft short stories), a dried hemp leaf in a plastic baggie (not for recreational use, but a strange gift from a friend she knew), and various papers, writing utensils, a cellphone, a waterbottle, set of keys, a dildo, and a netbook

Previous paranormal experience: Has believed that her old house was (and still is) haunted since she was about seven years old; swears that she's heard unexplainable noises, seen things move on their own, and other ghostly stuff like that since she was young. As well, she is slightly paranoid about very specific people, including the local occult bookstore owner. (mild sensitivity to a 'sixth-sense', which mostly comes as a tingle down her back and an uneasy feeling when something/someone "supernatural" is nearby for the time being)

Skills: Was on the female track team in high school up until her junior year, genius-level IQ with no initiative to compete against the material she's currently in. When it comes to fighting, she's generally able to outwit most twits with her reflexes; however, she isn't competent with any particular style. Decent throwing arm.

Appearance: The first thing people will notice (immediately following the half-washed Goth makeup and various piercings) would be her pale, almost crystal-clear skin, covered in mythical-looking tattoos around most exposed areas, brick-red hair with platinum blond highlights, fathoms-deep blue eyes, tall-medium build... and her chest - or rather, the lack thereof. They aren't invisible or anything - she's just cursed with a rather dull set of headlights. Anyone seeking to comment upon this feature of hers would do wise in knowing some decent self-defense before doing so, due namely to the fact that it is a rather sensitive subject for her.

Aside from that, her apparel is rather surprisingly the total opposite from what one would expect of a goth-girl; instead of the usual black all over, Maria likes dressing in white as well, adding extreme contrast to her look. This usually consists of a black T-shirt over a white long-sleeved undershirt (no bra), ankle-length black skirt with black patches at seemingly-random locations (though the one over her private area just below the waistline could be considered intentional), black combat boots with white laces, braided bracelets, and a choke collar with a white jade emblem carved into the image of a sitting black widow resting around her neck. Most everything is tattered, having been worn to death, and stitched back together quite often.

Personality: If only one word could be used to describe her, it would be "sadistic". If there were three more, they would be "cold", "calculating", and "sarcastic". Difficult to irritate, but prone to violence when she is, very little gets by Maria's gaze, and when a weakness is noticed, she latches onto it like a pit bull to a freshly-grilled T-bone steak. Personality flaws, physical defects, and strange mannerisms are just a few of the things that she takes pride in poking at, and not getting any reaction just fuels her need to irritate someone. Snap back, and she'll return fire; tell her to shove off, and she'll pester you until you either scream at her and make a scene out of it (even then, its up in the air about whether she leaves or makes things), or start getting physical about aggressiveness.

If there's one thing that she doesn't go after, however, that would be little kids - basically, any children below the age of ten. Possibly because she was picked on a lot when she was younger, or maybe due to her having had a younger sister, she becomes strangely defensive around children; some of the local elementary school kids have come to call her "Big Scary Sister", even though she at least acts very much like she hates the title quite a bit.

Her voice is possibly the most off-setting thing about her, comparable to gravel on a chalkboard. A cheap target, but one nevertheless. As well, although she tends to cling to someone until they start raging, ignoring her long enough will make Mari go away. However, waiting it out is a test of patience, and an epic one at that; only a few people have been able to tolerate her long enough to shrug her off. One might be surprised to know that she likes comedies (such as Abbot and Costello movies and Mystery Science Theatre 3000) more than horror movies, as well as genuine Westerns (especially Silverado and The Magnificent Seven). Barely stands modern country music, but still prefers heavy/death metal over soft rock more often than not, although "oldies" (50's/60's music) is among her repertoire of tolerance.

History: Nothing much happened for most of Maria's life. She grew up in a moderately-sized town, was the first girl in her neighborhood who skipped seventh grade and made it into high school before she was 12, one of her aunts had a miraculously close call on 9/11 (she would have boarded one of the planes, but ran late and missed her flight), and in her early teenage years, she dabbled in the occult and practices thereof. This was mostly out of childish curiosity, however, and never moved on to anything more serious than that. But things were about to change for the worse.

Three years prior to the present time, Maria's seven-years-younger sister, Kaeela, was caught in the middle of a gunfight between police and a gang, and fell into a coma after stabilizing at the hospital. Six months later, the girl recovered, but was never the same; instead of the bright child she remembered, Maria only saw a husk of that smiling little girl, who was constantly being serviced by someone, learning again how to walk, talk, and even just to use the bathroom. She was diagnosed with moderate brain damage, and nothing could be done.

Several days before she was going to be fully released, though, an accident - supposedly happening during a therapy session - proved fatal to her, and she passed away two and a half years after the incident that nearly killed her the first time from complications. Just as Kaeela was never the same after that up until her untimely death, Maria wasn't either. She became pretentious, constantly angry, and eventually lost whatever faith she had. After her sister's passing, she packed up and left, garnering a lousy part-time job that paid well enough for her to live off of, and found scholarships to fund her schooling... even though she doesn't show up half the time, for one reason or another. Even so, as long as she maintains a B average (which she does with ease) between all her classes, Maria still keeps her scholarships no matter how many days she misses, which is amazing since she pretty much only shows up when tests are being handed out.

Recently, however, the campus stated that unless Maria began showing up for at least 75% of the allotted class days, she would be flunked and lose the scholarships that she has currently.

Few important notes about interacting with Maria:
~Firstly, if you want to survive any encounter with her, avoid the obvious put-down of talking about her chest. She has been known to beat students unconscious before for such commentary, even a few with some "real karate training".
~Second, feel free to make fun of how she dresses and looks, because the most you'll get out of her is a sneer and maybe a snarky comment about how you look, possibly making one regret ever conversing with her at all.
~As well, whatever you do, absolutely do not make fun of, rudely comment about, or name-call, her deceased younger sister. Period. Just don't go there.