Hale, Aoife
Oct 4, 2011 18:07:27 GMT -8
Post by Aoife Hale on Oct 4, 2011 18:07:27 GMT -8
Name: Elaine
Age: 18
CBox Name: Sumashira
RP Experience: 10 years
Activity Level: almost daily
Name: Aoife Lowee Hale
Age: 16
Birthdate: May 30th, 2206
Gender: female
Place of Residence: New York District, Zone 2 / Britannia (Residential Zone)
Affiliation: Heaven
Member Group: Transfigured Human
Appearance:
Aoife is very average in appearance, despite being a transfigured human. She has a sort of punk-ish look to her, while still maintaining slightly innocent features. She is tall and skinny with a nice well-rounded athletic build and fair skin. She has blonde hair which varies in length depending on its placement on the head; she usually wears it down, though if she's out and about she will wear it in a high ponytail. She doesn't wear makeup, so her face looks very fragile. She has very bright eyes that could best be described as silver and almost bug-like in that the black pupils are so greatly contrasted that they could easily haunt someone. If angered or upset, these eyes can turn a dark gray.
Aoife always tries to wear modest clothes, or if she doesn't succeed in that, she wears undershirts or leggings to cover whatever the main articles don't. Large baggy sweaters, sweatshirts, and hoodies are the norm for her, as well as t-shirts. She's rather light, and she looks even smaller with this style of dress. She tries to travel as light as possible, carrying very little with her. Something nearly always found on or around her, however, is her essentially sentient sock monkey, Moki-mo, who she can animate and unanimate at will. He is linked to her subconscious, however, and can remain awake and alive at nearly all times.
Face Claim: AnnaSophia Robb
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Personality:
Aoife is very much a Christian girl; she prays every night before she goes to bed, every day when she wakes up, before lunch, and before dinner, and she reads the Bible before she goes to bed as well. She's probably read through the Bible at least five time and can quote it, partially in memory of the priest who raised her and partially just for all the times she's read it. She knows the dangers of being part of any faith in this society, however, and doesn't go flaunting it. She knows it could get her killed; however, it doesn't mean she hides it or denies it if someone asks.
She can be a bit forgetful: she's not great at remembering any of the math, history, or languages she's learned from church school. She can be a bit clumsy, and overly trusting, but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for with street-smarts and a surprisingly effective ability to tinker with all things electrical and mechanical in order to learn about them or improve them. She can be very playful, almost always sporting a smile or a grin, and she's playful with a lot of energy to spare. She can get moody at times, as she's in the teenage years and has to go through that whole deal, which can lead her usually sweet and innocent behavior to go out the window and be replaced by a feistiness that could get her in trouble.
She often prefers flight to fight; she's not exactly a fighter. She can bring any inanimate object to life, and has become quite proficient at it. Her sock monkey, Moki-mo, is tied to her subconscious and can be awake, alive, and sentient even when she's asleep. She can multi-task with her life abilities; however, she still gets tired after awakening many things or doing it for a long period of time. She is good at loving and befriending people.
History:
Aoife was born five years after the barrier had been put up as a result of the Arrangement; her mother and father had been suspicious of it immediately after it had appeared and had opted to move further away from it to avoid whatever catastrophe it would cause. Their caution was justified after other humans began to change and transfigure due to the effects of the Hellmouth and the barrier. They lived a relatively normal life - as normal a one as they could live being Christians living in the most wicked city on Earth - moving from place to place and church to church because many were constantly under siege by gangs or satanic believers.
After a little over three years of moving around, they settled into one of the safer districts of New Jersey and had themselves a perfectly healthy baby girl. Aoife was raised by the two loving parents, a father who was an owner of one of the smaller security firms and a mother who had gone through many different occupations before settling as an agricultural worker local to New Jersey. Aoife never went to a regular school; instead, her parents had her go to a small underground church school that was run in secret in order to avoid attention from any of the gangs who resided in other more dangerous parts of New Jersey. In a way, Aoife was very spoiled and sheltered. She was a good Christian girl, always very modest in her attire, obedient, and good about praying and reading the Bible.
Her father was killed when she was about four years old. He was sent on a wild goose chase right into gang territory; although he had died, his death brought with it the safe return of about twenty girls who had been kidnapped and tortured by that particular gang. A blessing in disguise, Aoife's mother had said. Aoife hadn't seen it that way, but life went on. She continued to pray and follow God and be a "good" girl. Unfortunately, the pastor of the church school died of old age, leaving her with an incomplete education and without guidance to follow God the way both she and her mother wanted her to. Aoife still strived to do God's work, and it was this path of life that convinced the tiny Hale family to move a bit closer to the heavenly barrier, if only to escape the gangs that surrounded them.
It took five years for them to really feel the effects of the Barrier; they'd never really seen any Transfigured or come into real contact with them. When Aoife was ten years of age, her mother died at the claws of a very disgusting and horrible creature who the girl could only assume was a Transfigured. Though she loathed the creatures, her own fear of the unknown was made even greater when, in her terror, she caused her one and only stuffed animal, a sock monkey, to literally come to life and bring her a box of tissues to clean up her tears. As soon as she realized it was her that was causing it and she had really come to terms with it, it fell back into lifelessness. She began to try to do it more, if only to satisfy her own curiosity. She continued to read the Bible and try to follow God. This had to be part of the plan he had for her.
She found a pastor to live with so that she could continue her search for God as well as to have a guardian watching over her since she was by herself. She didn't try to keep her odd new power to herself, since that would be lying (or not being entirely truthful), though she was slightly ashamed of it, thinking that he, perhaps, wouldn't see it as a gift from God and instead a curse or a punishment. On the contrary, he found it a great help and a blessing and encouraged her to try to train that power. Unfortunately, for every time she brought a new thing to life, her dark brown eyes lost a bit of their color and eventually became silver because of the effort she had to put forth to give life to entirely lifeless objects.
When she was 15, she returned home to find the house she and the pastor lived in ransacked and destroyed, and the pastor missing, kidnapped by several members of the anti-Transfigured gang. Upon trying to find him, she was attacked and saved by a man named Bezaliel - who is, unbeknownst to her, a demon - and taken in under his care.
Roleplay Example:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.
That had been Aoife's favorite prayer since her father had been killed. She'd gotten better at accepting what she couldn't change - her parents' murders, the death of her church school teacher, her seemingly sudden acquirement of the ability to bring things to life - and she'd gotten more courageous in changing what she could. She'd helped to make life a little bit easier for her pastor. She'd been practicing bringing larger things to life: the coffee machine, the curtains, the doors, and more. She could make the coffee make itself, even when she was sitting halfway across the room. Of course, she had only gotten it to work so well since she'd taken the machine apart, discovered how it worked, what its "heart" was, and then put it back together.
It was odd, how her powers worked. Everything had something inside of it - one tiny thing - that made it work. At least, that was the case with electronics. Aoife liked to take things apart to find the heart of it, the one thing that allowed it to live when she touched it and willed it to move and work on its own. Machines were easiest to bring to life because they had an easily discernable heart, but the same was not so for solid objects or stuffed animals or furniture. Moki-mo's heart was in his head; Aoife had brought him to life so many times that she didn't even have to be within a block of him for him to come to life and begin moving about on his own. He liked to clean, so that made less work for the pastor.
That was what Aoife liked to do with her powers. She liked to do what she could for him to thank him for taking her in after her parents had died. All she wanted to do was find Jesus and, through him, God and eternal life, and the pastor was always there to help her do just that. He'd encouraged her powers - a gift from God, he said - and she'd repaid him a thousand times over for taking her under his wing. She had no intention of stopping until the day death took one or both of them, and then they'd still get to be together with their Heavenly Father.
Laying on her bed in footy pajamas (which, admittedly, she was too old to be wearing), she let out a sigh as she petted Moki-Mo's head. She would be happy to meet God as soon as her purpose on earth had been fulfilled. A voice rang out from the living room. "Aoife, dear, it's shopping day. Would you mind getting dressed and heading out to the grocery store around the corner while I go and get the other stuff?" Aoife sat up, her pretty blonde bangs falling into her silver eyes as she called back, excitement in her voice, "Sure!" She grabbed Moki-mo beneath his arms and he wriggled in protest. She set him against the slate gray sheets of her bed and looked at him, hands on her hips, giggling, "Moki, you have to stay home. Everyone will look at me funny."
The silent creature slumped over sadly, and Aoife kissed his head before half-skipping to her dresser and pulling out her "shopping clothes" which consisted of a camo-print hankerchief dress, dark gray leggings, knee-high black army boots, and a cute white undershirt. She dressed quickly before shuffling out of her room, leaning back to wave goodbye to Moki-mo and then shutting the door. She wandered into the living room; the pastor had already left, and on the coffee table in the center of the room was the shopping list. She snatched it up, as well as the money beside it, and shoved it into her boots before grabbing a key and exiting the small, quaint little home, locking the door behind her.
The walk to the grocery store was short and uneventful. She and the pastor lived in just about the safest part of Chorazin - funny that she could think to use the words "safe" and "Chorazin" in the same sentence. Aoife didn't mind a little excitement every once in a while, especially since life became so calm after she moved in with the pastor. She was something like his daughter; he'd never married, so he didn't have children of his own. He said God had just never sent the right woman in his direction. Aoife found that sad, but she was happy she could be so important to him; she was happy God had sent her his way. She couldn't think of anyone else she'd rather have around. Well, except her parents, but there was a reason for everything.
Aoife entered the store and instantly scampered off to the side, reaching into her boot to pull out the list: eggs, milk, butter, cheese, bread, bagels, lunch meats, orange juice, cereal... There was nothing on the list that wasn't normally there and nothing missing that should've been there. She practically had the list memorized by now, so she just went on her merry way with a cart, up and down and up and down the aisles until she'd gathered everything she needed. As she wandered through the freezer section, she looked for ice cream. Hm... I wonder what flavor I could get...
