Willow Meadows

TOGAtogaTOGA wrote:Name: Iris Dupage
   Gender: Female
   Age: 18
   Birthday: 04/13
   Sexuality: Bi
   Special Characteristics: Blind, also has synesthesia triggered by audio and color, where audio is perceived as colors she can't see, which triggers a sense of touch to her body she reacts to.

   Personality: Iris is first and foremost a clumsy girl, stemming from her combination synesthesia and her blindness, she normally resorts to wearing contacts that grant just a little bit of vision, though because she is so unused to them, and they aren't natural, it exacerbates her clumsiness after a while. Though she's an earnest girl who can get the job done when need be. She's someone who is generally sweet with the nature of being easily spooked by things that sneak up on her. Though she is blind she doesn't let it stop her from trying all sorts of menial labor jobs, some of her favorite have been service jobs with working with other people!

Iris can be a bit of a miser, coming from a line of people that work for valuables, with valuables, steal valuables, use valuables as war racketeering...you get the idea, she knows the worth of things, and for her own personal reasons she doesn't like to divulge, she keeps more money in her pocket than she should be spending, even going as far as to trying to complete jobs to get free food, or forgoing buying meals if it means having spare change in the pocket.

Most importantly, Iris is loyal to people she can trust, but has issues developing trust out of concern of her past being a barrier to entry. She often struggles balancing the act of being friendly, without showing she mistrusts most people around her, though deep down, she punishes herself mentally for not trusting people that should be trusted, and fearing the ones that need not be feared. Her past seems to bother her a lot, so much so that she does not talk much about it, those that do get to hear about it should count themselves among the few she would throw herself on a sword for.

In the heat of battle though, she tends to show her clumsiness at times when there is nothing life threatening going on, becoming a beacon for those nearby to recognize just how great a threat is, if the blind girl that feels colors as tastes starts to get serious and doesn't fall over, you best get serious too!

   Likes:

• Food: just, in general, her synesthesia let's her experience food on a different level as a new wave of sensations dance across her from the simplest of tastes even tofu, which is one of her favorites "It's like a rumbled bed mattress you can enjoy chewing on the pillow of."
  
• Fireworks: Is there anything more beautiful? SHe can sense them, perceive them, feel them, regardless of how far away they are.  For Iris, a firework show is something she sees in her own way. "I just love the spicy crackling across the sky, it reminds me of enjoying cinnamon candy."
  
• Train rides: the rhythmic thrumming of the wheels across the tracks and how it feels as it rumbles along, it is just the most relaxing feeling you can imagine.
  

   Dislikes:

• Books: Well, she doesn't hate them, she just finds them hard to read. "Books and I never really got along, probably because I can't see what I'm reading."
  
• Big cities: Too many noises, too many people, too many senses, she often gets blurred, almost fully blind and overwhelmed easily here. "Have you ever listened to an army of ants hitting your roof? No, I mean, a monsoon of rain, yeah, that."
  
• Opera: It's nothing more than a cacophony of noise, and it bothers her, just talk or sing, do one or the other!
  

   Motivations:

• Autonomy: Iris wants to be free from those that hold her, and she wants to be her own person despite her lack of sight, to that end, it is her goal to run her own shop one day.
  
• Restoring vision: There has to be a magic out there that she can discover that can heal her eyes, there just has to, it's her hopes that she will be able to see the world in its true beauty one day.
  
• Make some lasting friends: She just deep down, wants to trust and enjoy people, but, she has trouble figuring out who truly likes her, and who works for the people that watch over her.
  

   Fears:

• Deadlines: just something about them, probably something she doesn't like to talk about, upsets her and stresses her out. Being given a time limit on anything causes her clumsiness to shine through for all to see.
  
• The dark: It's hard to say why, you know, considering she's blind, why she is afraid of the dark exactly. But Iris doesn't like it when there's little light, or few things going on. Alone, in the dark, it's scary for someone who senses the world differently.
  
• Her homeland: It brings back many embarrassing, painful, terrifying memories. SHe tries to avoid the subject mostly all together.
  

   General Appearance

   Height: 5'3
   Weight: 131 Lbs
   Hair: Purple
   Eyes: Grey
   Skin Tone: Pale
   Appearance:

Appearance:

   Guild: Silver Wolf
   Tattoo: Base of her neck, gold in color

TOGAtogaTOGA wrote:Name: Willow Meadows
   Gender: Female
   Age: 17
   Birthday: 04/13
   Sexuality: Lesbian
   Special Characteristics:

   Personality: Plucky, adventurous, sardonic, whimsical, irritable, and clumsy. These are the core pieces that make up Willow. And each of them has been shaped since she was a young girl.
No matter what has happened to her, even through all of the primordial fear inducing events, and nay sayers brushing her ideas and hopes under the rugs, she's remained stalwart that one day she will see to end what she intends to finish. Her goals will not be stopped, and that plucky attitude of hers has garnered an aura of stubbornness and stoicism.
Despite everything that has happened, she's still got an adventurous spirit, something that yearns for the next big event, even though she may be a little frightful of any dark places, she will always be ready to give a new place a try, just as long as she can have her safety lantern close by!
Though this comes at no surprise, Willow has a knack for biting back at any sort of perceived threat or put down to her desires, ideas, or anything she has said.  This sarcastic manner of speaking has developed a long time since her village disappeared and she learned to bite back at anyone who thought her insane.
She's prone to flights of whimsy, choosing to leave on a moment's notice and go to whatever next thing catches her fancy. When this happen or what causes it is anyone's guess, Willow herself doesn't know.
She can be irritable at times, anyone would be if they were constantly put down for trying to justify the existence of a town that no one believes is around. Even though there are some people that believe her, she still shows animosity toward them out of disbelief of their belief.
Lastly, she is chronically clumsy, unless it's with her camera. Stemming from a long lasting case of vertigo.

   Likes:

• Taking photos: A hobby, a passion, a calling. Willow's always got her camera at the ready to take cinematic views of every town she visits!
  
• New places: Willow loves to visit any new location she hasn't been to before, even visiting an old place from a new angle can prove to be just as exciting for her!
  
• Bread: Yes, she likes bread this much. She even keeps a journal of the various types of bread she has eaten with drawings and blurbs about each.
  

   Dislikes:

• Hand-operated travel devices: She cannot seem to get the hang of these. Whether it's a buggy, a skateboard, anything where she is in control of it, she just cannot get the hang of it!
  
• Photo bombs: Nothing is more annoying than trying to take a good photo and have someone jump in front of it the moment you press the button.
  
• Her clumsiness: Cursing her clumsiness and vertigo, Willow desires to avoid it at all costs due to the strife it brings her on a day to day basis.
  

   Motivations:

• Photographing the world: SHe wants to take one photo of every big location in the world, and get the best angle she can. She keeps a scrap book of all of the cinematic photos she has taken and developed by hand
  
• Join Sorcerer Magazine: One day, Willow wants to join Sorcerer Magazine as a photographer, nothing grandiose, just a dream job to do what she loves.
  
• Find out what happened to her village: She wants to discover the mystery of whatever happened to her village, especially to wipe it off the map, and every map in publication. There's magic afoot here.
  

   Fears:

• Nyctophobia: Ever since the fateful night where her village was swallowed up in penultimate darkness, Willow has been terrified of the dark. Going as far as to invest in a personal lantern to never sleep in the dark.
  
• Falling from heights: Despite her magic involving getting up high in the air, Willow has always had a fear of falling from heights, a deep rooted thought of 'what if my gear doesn't activate'
  
• Superstitions: No matter what it is, if there's a superstition surrounding it, Willow will adhere to it religiously. She's just terrified of causing any sort of ill stroke of fate!
  

   General Appearance

   Height: 5'4
   Weight: 129 Lbs
   Hair: Taupe
   Eyes: Cerise
   Skin Tone: Dark
   Appearance:

Appearance:

   Guild: Silver Wolf
   Tattoo: Right shoulder, orange