Post by TearsOfNightfall on Dec 21, 2009 3:34:26 GMT -5
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"You call me a sinner, I call myself a saint - that's merely a difference in point of view, isn't it?"
NAME,
Josephine Lock (formerly known as Tanya Taylorie)
GENDER,
Female
AGE,
20
"...Why are you talking to me? I'm not interested."
APPEARANCE,
A girl with silverish, almost white, hair that hangs loose to her waist. She has cold, icy blue eyes that are light in color but very intense. She has pale skin, an elegant figure, and is very tall. Despite being very feminine in appearance, she is a lot stronger than she looks and overall well-built. However, her left ear is missing, with only a grisly scar remaining where it once was.
She usually wears a black, lacy blouse and black jeans, along with black boots and fingerless black lace gloves. She also usually wears a black beret-like hat tilted slightly to the left of her head, in order to hide the fact that her left ear is gone. Sometimes, when going out on "missions", she wears a simple white dress and a white theater mask, to hide her identity.
"We are the chosen ones - the ones who will one day return prosperity to this world humans have soiled."
PERSONALITY,
► Sweet to other +anima, cold to humans »
► Untrustworthy, unpredictable, and fickle »
► Highly intelligent, but eccentric »
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A girl who was once sweet and kind, but who's heart has been hardened by her past. She is very intelligent, but also very extreme and eccentric. She doesn't make friends easily and very rarely gets attached to people - she isn't the sort of person you can trust. She doesn't adopt loyalty for others, and only stays with others when she thinks it might be beneficial to her. If she decides that someone is no longer useful, or in her way, she wont hesitate to abandon them. She can change her mind or have an abrupt shift in emotion at any given moment, making her very unpredictable. She can actually be very charismatic and is good at attracting attention when she wants it, but is also very manipulative - due to her acting abilities, she can put on any kind of face at will and make it believable. She loves being around other +anima, though, and is very kind to them, whereas, when it comes to humans, she is very cold - to the point where she wont hesitate to kill (and has) if she believes that it is beneficial to her or another +anima.
Due to her past, she looks down on humans as "scum", and fears them deep down, though she would never admit it. She believes that +anima are a superior evolution to humans, and will one day be the race that will dominate the world.
+ANIMA,
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FAMILY,
► Father: Maturu Taylorie » Dead » Died of illness a few years after Josephine's departure ► Adoptive Mother (not blood related, but Josephine considered her family): Emilia Lock » Dead » Killed by Sailand officers after it was discovered that she was a +anima
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BACKGROUND,
She was born into a relatively poor Sailand family. Both of her parents were into show business, and helped organize performances backstage. Her mother sewed costumes and made props, while her father helped take care of the management aspects of plays. Neither one of them, though, had the talent to act themselves. However, when Tanya (as she was called then) was born, they quickly realized their daughter's unusual beauty, intelligence, and charisma, and decided to take advantage of it - proclaiming that she would be what brought them out of poverty. She was trained as an actress from a young age, and was in fact very successful and brought in a lot of money for her family, but her parents were always cold and treated her like hardly more than an monetary asset, never showing her real affection. It was her hope that if could become famous and bring in enough gillah, that her parents would grow to truly love her, but it never seemed to be enough, and so she was very lonely regardless of the fact that she became a very well-known actress.
When she was eleven, she saw an arctic fox pup (an animal that'd been captured and imported for use in a play she was involved in) being mistreated backstage. Taking pity on it, she snuck out and rescued it during the night. For roughly a year, she secretly kept it as her pet, being careful to make sure that her parents never saw it and realized that she was the one who stole it and got that play cancelled. She got very attached to the pup, and named it Cialu - it was the closest thing she'd had to a real friend. However, she wasn't able to hide it forever. Her parents found it hidden in her room one night, and in a fit of rage, beat it to death right in front of her while she screamed for them to stop. In the instant before Cialu's death, the girl's intense fear and horror caused her to become an arctic fox +anima. Realizing that she could never sustain her place as an actress and continue to bring in the money that she currently was, her parents were mortified. In blind anger, they started beating her instead, almost killing their own daughter before she escaped into an alleyway with them in pursuit. Her life was saved by a mysterious woman who happened to hear her crying and carried her away before her parents could reach her. Her parents simply claimed later that their famous daughter had wandered away and disappear. Eventually, they fell back into poverty - whereas Tanya Taylorie was simply known to have "vanished". They still did their low-key backstage jobs until her father got sick and died a few years later, leaving her mother to end up losing her employment and become a poor, struggling beggar.
For a few years - the happiest of her life - Tanya ended up by far better off than them. The woman who'd saved her was Emilia Lock, a woman who'd successfully hid the fact that she was a badger +anima for years and managed to become a teacher. Secretly, she took +anima children who had no families into her home and protected them, trying to teach them how to hide their +anima and live as normal of lives as they could. However, she also told them to be proud of what they were, and was a very kind, maternal woman whom gave Tanya the love she'd always longed for from her real mother and father. Claiming that 'Tanya Taylorie was no more', she adopted the last name 'Lock', like Emilia, and changed her first name to 'Josephine' - the name of a favorite character she'd played the role of in a play once. She also became very close to the other +anima children, and for first time in her life, felt like she had a real family.
However, that short-lived happiness was abruptly shattered when Emilia and all the children she'd adopted were found out to be +anima. They were branded as rebels, so instead of being taken as slaves, they were ordered to be slaughtered. Emilia tried to protect the children, but simply became the first to be killed. With her gone, the children were helpless. Being one of the last alive, Josephine watched unspeakable horrors as all of the people who'd been like brothers and sisters to her had their lives brutally taken by humans. When the officer who'd taken away what she'd considered her family finally got to her, she managed to narrowly avoid the knife thrust down at her, loosing only her left ear as she managed to grab the blade herself and thrust it fatally through the chest of her assailant in her burning hatred.
Escaping, she became the last survivor of the 'Lock' rebel +anima clan, but after soiling her own hands and having seen so much death, she was never the same again. Her heart closed off, turning the once warm, gentle girl cold and bitter.
Filled with absolute rage, she decided that humans - the creatures who'd taken away everything from her - were nothing but cruel scum. Having known kindness from +anima and nothing but cruelty from humans, she came to believe that +anima were different - the 'chosen ones', who were destined to eventually overtake normal humans and create a world far better than the cruel one constructed by normal humans that denied people like her happiness.
She made it her mission to see that that was the direction fate turned in. Normally, she is a simple, withdrawn wanderer who keeps moving to avoid being discovered, but she does whatever she can to help other +anima and gains her only happiness from it - even if it means injuring or killing slave-traders or those oppressing them.
"Don't cry now. They hate us not because of what we are, but because of what they aren't."
WEAPONS,
A long, expensive dagger she purchased and keeps at her belt.
► Bow and Arrow
Regular bow and arrows, used for sniping[/ul]
DO PEOPLE FEAR YOU?
Yes. She manages to keep her identity secret by using specific attire and wearing a mask when assaulting slave-traders or +anima haters, but she is wanted throughout Sailand for several accounts of murder and slave theft.
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR +ANIMA?
She got it from her tame artict fox pup, Cialu, just before it died. It was her intense fear and horror that drew the +anima to her, and because she got it just before her pet was killed, she thinks of it as a gift from Cialu and it is very precious to her.[/sup] [/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote]