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 Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:31 pm
*~  ~* The Butterfly Lady
Have you ever wanted to Fly?
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:34 pm
Contents:
1:; First post
2:; Contents
3:; Description
4:; Talents:;
5+:; C+C
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:45 pm
 Character name:;
Krisha {Kris-SH-a, To Be Found}
Nickname/Stage name:;
The Butterfly Lady {Off Stage: Kris{Chris} Kri {Cree}}
Age:;
18
Birthday:;
November 5
Hair color:;
A deep, near black Blue
Hair length;:
Mid Thigh
Eye Color:;
silvery blue grey
Height:;
5’4”
Body type:;
Slightly willowy, still hourglass-ish. Muscled over stomach, shoulders, upper, lower arms, and thighs
Appearance:;
Krisha is one of those people who can't help but be watched out of the corner of your eyes. She does consider herself an oddity in her world, not appearance wise, but height. Appearance wise she was fine, in her oppinion, but if she had only been a little TALLER....
Everything about her gives off a cool, cold look, till she smiles. Indeed, the girl smiles a lot. Her eyes, a deep grey-blue, tinted silver , are framed by thick dark lashes and lined with a coal black color. Her eye brows, above this, are full as well. Her lips are full, but at the same time slightly small, countered by high cheek bones and dimples that almost make her eyes disappear when she smiles. Her face is heart shaped, her pale skin contrasting nicely with her darker hair and{slightly full} eyebrows. Nose wise, it’s not big, but neither is it small. In fact it’s rather rounded, going nicely with her dimples. Her hair reaches down her thighs in long old English curls and waves and usually covers up half of one eye, if not all of it. Below this, her neck is somewhat long, leading down to sloping shoulders. Her body is slightly willowy, not obscenely tiny, or stick like, but neither big. In fact, just big enough to be small enough for her dances and still look a bit normal. The girls bust is a nicely rounded 38 C, usually bound down or pulled down by her strange costume. Her body beneath that is proportional, long legs that match the torso and make her seem taller than she is, only added to by her strange walking habit.
Race:;
Humanoid type species called Aeriuses
Their bones are thinner than most, making them seem somewhat frail.
However, the bones, unlike the thin bones of birds, have a flexibility to them, allowing the person to bend in ways normal people could not without endangering themselves breaking them.
However, these bones do not stand up well to
!:
Falling from heights
2:
Having something heavy dropped on them.
Because of these weaknesses, this race is born with somewhat higher tuned reflexes.
Dominant features include large eyes, blue/black/white hair shades, height, and long fingers.
World:;
World type B
Resembles our world in a good many ways, discounting the lack of mountains and difference in technology.
Architecture remains the same.
Vento
Description:;
It appears to be back in the old Arabian/Victorian times, as far as cultural Dress and actions. Both woman and men dress eccentrically, covering certain parts and bearing all in others. Shoulders, stomachs, and legs seem to be favorites. People are generally tall, but you have a few oddities that retain a small stature. The landscape is generally quite mundane; it’s plains and hills rolling out forever. Forests are sparse and greatly respected. All houses are made of Brick. People are generally at the eight foot range or taller. Night lasts longer than day, as the world is farther from its sun than most. Warmth is a commodity.
Personality:;
Krisha has a bit of Napoleonic attitude. She may be shorter than most of those around her, on her world, but she can do things just as well as them.Her stature has presented some problems in her world, but has also given way to an inventive personality that takes a certain joy at resolving said problems. Her attitude can neither be classified as Pessimistic or Optimistic, though she does believe that given a certain push and a bit of time, all problems can be resolved. Her one main personality quirk is quite interesting, really. She lacks the ability to really get angry {See Background}. It is both a gift and a bit of a hindrance. While she keeps a level head, she lacks the ability to receive the adrenaline rush that leads people to perform the death defying rescues and to take on five people at a time.
Interest:;
Music, her main obsession, and daydreaming. She can sit in a spot for hours, planning out new feats to go along with the songs. Dancing, obviously. Aerial acrobatics, both watching and doing. Three items that she collects:
Music Boxes:
She can’t help but love these, especially those rigged with the small dancers.
Keys:
It’s an old superstition of her people. They fear being locked either into eternal sleep, or wakefulness. Both would be worse than death for them, for they value their dreamers almost more than their nobles, for they are the ones that keep their world alive and colorful. She wears one around her neck both awake and sleeping.
Fans:
This one is quite simple. They’re one of the main props for her act and one of her main accessories in everyday wear.
Hobbies:;
Playing with cloth {From Sewing to simply running it through her fingers}
Ability: Slightly above average
Practicing with her fans {Cliché, but she really does enjoy doing this}
Ability: Not bad at all
Seeing what angles she can get her body to get into {And out, if possible}
Ability: Needs help getting out of said angles.
Reading {She is a big reader}
Ability: She's a speed reader, so she can finish a book, depending on pages and language, in a few hours. If she can get a few hours to do so.
From time to time, sketching {Mostly future costume designs}
Ability: So so. She has the ideas, she just needs to practice on sketching fold.
Stage Makeup {She generally would do her own}
Ability: Good enough to fool the butterflies
Talent:
Fan Dancing{To go along with insect taming}
Ribbon dancing, a bit of aerial acrobatics{Involving silk ropes}.
Insect{Butterfly} Taming.
A very special form of hand signals/perfume art
Background:;
Krisha is, was, the only child of a prominent artesian, until the woman suffered from a heart attack. The woman was paralyzed on half her body, and, unable to continue her trade, was forced to rely on old debts. Fortunately, there were many of them.
Krisha’s mother, a woman by the name of Fortuna, had been a glassblower, a candle maker, and a silk spinner. All of these three professions came together to create quite unique works. Her work was known far and wide on Vento, for a while, but sadly, as she stopped producing, people started to forget. People still had them in their homes, but when asked, they would reply “That, my dears, is a one of a kind Fortuna!” Unfortunately, the people who heard would only smile and nod, pretending that some memory was evoked by that name.
She was named correctly though, for as luck would have it, they still lived quite fairly after the heart attack. Fortuna had loaned out several pieces, letting people pay over time. That steady stream of small payments kept them fed, clothed, and with a roof over their heads for years.
Krisha grew up among her mothers work, her ideals, her dreams, and gradually shaped them into something of her own. She loved the cloth her mother made, and as she came to know the creatures that created it, she began to know what they turned into.
Butterflies fascinated her, the way lived, how they transformed from the worm to the beauty. Even how they died, after about a month, interested her. She watched, and she learned, she learned how they ‘talked’, even forming her own ‘conversations with them’ she learned how they fed, how they slept, how they flew.
She was so enamored with their flight, though, that she set out to find a way to duplicate it.
This, is what led her to dance. The fans resembled the wings, the silk helped her fly. Slowly but surely, she fashioned herself into a human butterfly, transforming from the child who wanted only to study them into the young woman who wanted to fly with them.
It was, all in all, a happy childhood and adolescence. Like all though, it didn’t last. Fortuna’s heart attacks came back, one a week for about a month. At the end of December, the last day of our year here, she died, leaving a grief stricken eighteen year old.
Where was the father in all this? That is a good question to ask. It’s not hard to answer though. Krisha doesn’t know.
She was conceived during the festival of the sun, a cultural event when anything is allowed.
Fortuna had arrived to sell her wears and ended the week with an three night fling. All Krisha knows about the man was that he had her eyes.
Truthfully, she has no want or need to seek him out. It’s not needed. Fortuna was both a mother and a father to her, not neglecting to have her daughter introduced to all of her clients in order to make sure Krisha received a well rounded view of humanity. This, in part, contributed to Krisha’s mental block against anger. At an early age, she saw what it did to people, how it ruined them or how it embittered them. She, as a five year old, made the decision not to let herself feel that. Once, on the eve of Fortunas second heart attack, she let it go. It was a highly simple thing that caused her to lose it, one that, looking back now, seems quite trivial. Perhaps it was this, coupled with many other trivial things that led to her outburst. The young woman, at this time, was a young girl, barely ten, and,at that time, in the four foot range where as those around here in her age group were in the six. The simple thing was, she couldn't reach the counter. She couldn't reach the window. She could barely reach the knob of the door. However, it was the counter that set it off. The young woman became so enraged by this, and all the other things, not being able to reach, being mistaken for a five year old, having the glances cast toward her mother, that she simply chunked whatever it was that was in her hand at the moment. Truth be told, she can't even remember what it was now.
This object, thrown with the burst of adreniline, burst one of her mothers pieces, this one filled with tiny candles, floating in oil. This, plus the wooden table, which she COULD NOT REACH, did not go well together. In fact, she was forced to run out, go to the nearest neighbor, beat on their door till they answered, run back, and have them put it out.
By this time, there was not much of a table left.
So, she pushed harder at attaining the ability to repress her anger. Eventually, it became an unconscious action, one even she herself can’t break.
As the Festival had played an important role in bringing her into this world, it would also take her out. It is there that she first preformed her act. It is there she grew to love the roar of the crowd.
She stayed there for half a year, working amongst the shops there after the Festival itself ended.
Mostly, she stayed among the theater district of Soille, a town that resembled Paris in a lot of ways.
Soille was, and still is, the main stop for the Festival.
Each year the main district, adjacent to Theater and the Market districts, is filled up with various performing groups, from all over the world, some even rumored to be from off of it.
The Theater district took her in for then, her room and board was in there, paid for by her talent with stage makeup.
She learned to form a face into a dragon, a cat, or a hideous malformation.
In the end though, it wasn't enough to stay there.
She practiced on the stage, after everyone had left, with the blessing of the owner.
She took her act, and even though it was technically a 'side show' tweaked it, making it bigger.
When the Festival opened, she took her act and went to find the owners of the Troupes, hoping to be allowed on as a lackey and work her way up.
Oddities:;
She walks on the front part of her foot, much like a canine would. Her solution to her height problem in an overly tall world.
This does not so much affect her act, but gives her slightly better balance and causing her to run tilted forward.
She hates shoes. Socks are fine though.
She generally dislikes most crawling insects.
Other Random Facts:;
She designed her entire outfit, both normal wear and stage costume.
She’s allergic to Hornets.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:46 pm
Act:;Butterflies communicate through special scents and wing motions. They also react to differences in their surrounding area. Krisha’s act consists of using her specially concocted scent, made to smell close enough to the female butterfly’s pheromone, to keep a group of male butterflies, in varying colors, around her. The woman’s hands are painted to match the wing pattern of a ‘ Blue’ Butterfly, ranging in colors of turquoise from the mid point of her hand and darkening as it reaches the intersection. It colors to a deep blue edged with black at the center and the edges. Placing her hands together and maneuvering them into specific signals during her dances and aerial acts, causing them to either fly fervently around or just float around. Her second act consists of Silk cloths, and fans. Both are doused in the scent, where as she is only lightly sprayed. Because of this, they seem to follow the props wherever they are thrown, flipped, or moved. Even the silk used for the aerial act is doused in it. The other section, the Dance itself, is a mixture of three types. It contains aspects of Arabian belly dancing, ballet, and even some contortionism. The costume that goes along with this act is fairly intricate. Several layers of linen like clothe lay over her legs, split at the sides to reveal bits of thigh as she moves. The skirt part starts right above the hips, dipping into a slight ‘v’ shape. Sock like boots, with the consistency of Ballet slippers are under this, going up to above the knee. Above the skirt, and this, is a top that seems to defy gravity itself. Its structure is held up by wire, elastic, and in some stunts, tape. ‘Wings’ come off the back, arching downward before coming back up and hooking to the long gloves on her arms. These hold their shape by a bit of thin wire, which happens to be both durable and flexible. The gloves that they attach to open up on the palms and hook on the middle finger, revealing her palm. The last bit of the costume in the head dress, made the same way the wings are and hooked both in front of and behind her slightly pointed ears. A steel blue gem adorns her forehead during the act and sometimes out of it. The rest of the costume is detailed in silver, but with a majority of white, black, and dark blue linen. Stage 1Krisha could go around handing out flyer's, and helping the performers to get ready for shows Stage 2Krisha will be doing the normal fan and silk dances, adding in the butterfly act. Stage 3She will go more into aerial acts involving the butterflies and silk ropes, along with her normal 'grounded' act. Talents:; Contortionist, Acrobatics, Dancing, Butterfly calling, and Stage Makeup.
Props:; Fans, Silk Ropes, Perfume, stage makeup, male butterflies
Questions:
Q: I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'hand signals/ perfume art' ... but I assume that you're refering to one of the dances where she paints her hands to look like a blue butterfly... maybe that could be made a little clearer? Also... the 'talked with' and 'conversations' with butterflies is entirely confusing to me... so she's also part inscet tamer? Does she actually 'talk' with them? Or just feel at home with them? Or maybe in better comparison, can tell what they want the same way you can tell a dog wants to go outside when it scratches at the door?
A:She basically, paints the palms and fingers of her hands to look like a Blue {That actually is the name} Butterfly. During the dance, she'll flutter her hands, and spread the special scent {Made to smell like a female butterflies pheromone, which is also why she only uses male butterflies in her act}. By fluttering her hands in special ways, she can send signals, such as, when folding her hands together and making it look like the 'wings' are opening and closing, she'll basically be telling them 'Don't land on me'. Butterflies communicate though different signals, like the wing flapping, and scents.
Of course, she can't always show her hands, hence the 'wings' on her costume. She'll even go so far in the future to paint her face and feet, but that's a long way away. The silk ropes she'll come to use are doused in the pheromone scent, as is her costume, and the fans.
She can't 'speak' with them, as we do at least. I explained how she communicates above. In a way, yes, you could call her an insect tamer, despite the fact that these are the only insects she works with.
Q:Why the aerial acrobatics? Just because Butterflies fly? Or maybe it has something more to do with not being able to achieve a natual adrenaline rush? Maybe flying through the air doing stunts is her way of feeling that rush?
A: Actually, it's mainly because she enjoys being higher up than people.
It does, however, give her a slight adrenaline rush. The butterflies are her 'edge' to the act though. Alot of her 'people' could do this if they tried hard enough. As she gets away from her 'world' though, it will lead more to an adrenaline rush once she figures out not many on other worlds can do this.
Q:How do the bones of her race being thinner help her in her dance? Does that mean that she's in some danger of injuring herself on other worlds? Also what does that do to her weight?
A:Her weight is not much affected by this, if you take out the normal weight for bone mass. It adds flexibility and helps her perform the majority of her stunts.
yes though, she is in danger of injuring herself in other worlds.
Kri is going to have to be very careful.
Q:You mention that the nights are longer and that warmth is a commodity on her world... also that the clothing that they wear is sort of a 'bare-all' effect. I assume this means that she's born in the colder world and her body is well suited to it/it doesn't bother her... but what does/will that do to her once she's on other worlds? will she always be hot?
A: Yes, her body is better suited for it. Actually, if you look close enough, you notice a light layer of clear peach fuzz...Everywhere. However, this is not noticeable unless you've grabbed her arm or are right up in her face.
It does however, help her retain heat.
She will be overly warm in other worlds, and will probably take to wearing less than usual.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:25 am
Back ground edited slightly.
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:48 pm
Sky, she seems to have a good base, and to be a really sweet character. I bet you'll have lots of fun playing her ^+^.
I like your concept... but here's som things I notice or that strike me stangely.
You say that she's not someone that we would consider pretty by normal standards, but almost everything except her height is something that agencys look for in models.
She has a 'strange walking habit', which you describe as walking on the balls of her feet all the time. I would like to know how that affects her dancing style, and more on why she felt the need to do that. You say that people are normally tall on her world... how tall is tall? How much taller than her is the average person, and what kind of stigma is put on being short? Maybe height is a prerequisite towards beauty? So people on her home world woudn't even consider her pretty because she's so short? Also... her calf muscles must be pretty well defined by now. ^_^
How do the bones of her race being thinner help her in her dance? Does that mean that she's in some danger of injuring herself on other worlds? Also what does that do to her weight?
You mention that the nights are longer and that warmth is a commodity on her world... also that the clothing that they wear is sort of a 'bare-all' effect. I assume this means that she's born in the colder world and her body is well suited to it/it doesn't bother her... but what does/will that do to her once she's on other worlds? wil she always be hot?
You explained the anger block a little, but I'd like to know more about the particular incident that made her so determined to never be angry... did she get angry once and if so what happend? Also, what happened to her in her younger life that made solving problems so gleeful/nessecary?
Why the aerial acrobatics? Just because Butterflies fly? Or maybe it has something more to do with not being able to achieve a natual adrenaline rush? Maybe flying through the air doing stunts is her way of feeling that rush?
She has lots of hobbies that she really seems to enjoy. That's cool and whatnot, but I'd like to see more on which one's she's good at and which she wishes she were better... etc. ^_^
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'hand signals/ perfume art' ... but I assume that you're refering to one of the dances where she paints her hands to look like a blue butterfly... maybe that could be made a little clearer? XD but that's just me being picky there XD
Also... the 'talked with' and 'conversations' with butterflies is entirely confusing to me... so she's also part inscet tamer? Does she actually 'talk' with them? Or just feel at home with them? Or maybe in better comparison, can tell what they want the same way you can tell a dog wants to go outside when it scratches at the door? ... I'm just confused XD that's all. heart
Good character though ^_^
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:18 pm
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