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Username: FangleJangles
Name: Elfriede Fluer Cross. Call her Elfi or Fluer if you'd like, if you call her Ms. Cross, she will laugh at you.
Age:16
Gender: Female
Race: Fairy/Naiad
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Position: Student
Attitude: Mischevious, Calculating and Observationally sharp. Strange, and sometimes awkward in social situations. Not easily ruffled.
Personality: Elfriede has a very lax personality that was obtained from her training when she was taking Wing-Chun martial arts classes. Rarely will she ever show anger, or resentment toward someone. She considers any ‘wrong’ doings on either of two people’s confrontations a ‘trial of life’, so she never holds grudges, even if she’s destroying someone else’s life and vice versa. Elfriede is the type of person that would withhold information just to see what happens. She prefers watching things happening from afar than having actual confrontations and will do just about anything to avoid a physical fight, even though she is very dangerous when she fights because she never loses her cool, even if she’s losing pretty badly, she can just laugh it off. Elfriede also has a very intelligent artistic side, as seen with her observational abilities, and when she builds landscapes and buildings out of food, and was a very talented dancer, as seen through her swift and nimble movements, these traits she seemed to have developed through her lineage as a mix two very nimble and artistic creatures that enjoy beauty. She has a desire to learn or complete just about anything that she thinks is interesting, giving her a jack-of-all trades feel, but also solidified her enjoyment of hacking to get the information she wants, but can be lazy and uncooperative when something is boring. She lives in a morally gray area, where she isn't afraid to do something good, but is equally likely to do something bad, and any skills she learns she uses for her own benefit.
Likes:
>Building settings out of snack foods
> Information Gathering/Hacking
>Swimming
>Books
>Naps
>Games
Dislikes:
>Asparagus
>Extreme Activity
>Make-up (on herself)
>Accidentally losing her human shell in public places
>Uncomfortable Clothes
Defining Features: When she moves her whole body seems to float on in the air even if she is still after the movement. Her hair stays in motion the longer
Strengths:
>Very Intelligent
>Nimble
>Calm
>Excellent Hacker
Weaknesses:
>Can't take too many hits, in other words, she's fragile
>Not physically powerful, hits about as hard as a average human in good condition.
>Would rather escape the situation than throw a punch, so often her heart isn't in it
>She only recently found out about her lineage, and isn't too versatile with her abilities.

Bio: Elfriede has always lived with her grandparents on her mother’s side for as long as she could remember. A quiet, driven, inquisitive, and rather shy girl with a calm personality was who Elfriede was for most of her life. She never met her mother or father physically; she just knew they were there and that they were alive through the yearly phone calls she would receive from them on her birthday. During her younger years, her grandparents were adamant in getting her interested in hobbies like arts, things like painting or sculpting, and crafts like string tricks, simple martial arts, or dancing. While she excelled at all, she never really enjoyed them like she thought she should, some days they just became to repetitive for her to fully enjoy, and other days it was all she wanted to do. One day when she was helping to clean the house, she saw some strange books with her mother’s name and documents on her father’s old computer, whose password she merely guessed at, after exploring the storage room her grandparents said she wasn’t allowed in. After taking the books to her room and emailing herself the documents, she started reading them, going over the information over and over in her head until finally her curiosity took over. Later in the night when her grandparents were asleep, she logged onto her father’s old computer, and using the information in the book and some intelligence on her part, was able to hack into one of the computer games that she liked playing. For the first time, she felt an overwhelming thrill that she didn’t feel with arts or dancing. The joy she felt from those things was nowhere near the joy she felt from her first time breaking into a game she had. It wasn’t long before she immersed herself into the world of coding, and hacking. She started making her own games and breaking into ones that she bought, when she wanted to go further, she hacked into her grandmother and grandfather’s laptops, and would play with their settings before restoring them, or sifting through the information on them. The histories, pictures, and passwords, anything she could get her hands on. She wanted to know everything, to improve and get better and better. This need started to consume her life. It wasn’t long before spent all her time on that need, and her already mediocre social life shriveled up, but her academic life flourished, pushing her up a grade ahead of most students her age. At school and at home, she was working on her hacking and coding, creating viruses and destroying them, creating blocks and protections on her own personal computer, sometimes even breaking into other students accounts just to see if she could by finding out their passwords without asking them. It was thrilling to her, even more so now that she knew that her mother and father could do it too. Deep down inside, to her this was her connection to them, it made them seem a great deal closer than ever, and that only added to her growing skills. A month before she was heading to middle school, she waited to eagerly receive a call from her parents, to tell them that she could do it too. However, there was no call. There was no call, there was only black. There were only black dresses and suits standing under the rain as they watched two coffins lowered into the ground. At first, Elfriede couldn’t wrap her head around the situation; her mind was still in a sense of denial. The first time she saw her parents in person, was whatever was left of them when they were found, placed on a mannequin dressed to look like them. She never even got to tell them about their connection, her hard work to be great at what she liked. It wasn’t long before she started having outburst of anger at other people. Many days she would lock herself in her room without eating or speaking to anyone. She just spent her time doing what she felt had connected her to the parents the most. She started avoiding her home after hearing that her parents were killed at their home. She would sleep anywhere else but in her bed, and she would only build twisted buildings and paintings out of food whenever her grandparents tried to make her eat. She lost extreme amounts of weight, and her personality grew stranger and stranger, further and further from the norms of children her age. After running out of ideas, her grandparents enrolled her in a personal class with a martial arts master who taught a fighting style that dealt with peace and calm, a kind of therapy for Elfriede. At first she rejected the idea fiercely, causing an outburst that was immediately put down by her soon to be instructor. That instructor soon became Elfriede’s closest companion. She calmed and healed Elfriede’s wounded spirit though her teachings in not only Wing-Chun, but in pressure points and philosophies. Elfriede's personal favorite philosophy being; ‘No one can truly live their life, without hurting another, whether you know it or not. Every bump in the road is just another trial of life, if you flatten the bump in front of you, another bump will rise in front of the person behind you.’ However, the scars on her heart never fully faded away. Her personality reverting back to its original self with just a few tweaks. She wasn’t that shy anymore openly, but she still would rather watch things happen from a distance. She didn’t hold much hatred in her heart anymore toward her circumstances, seeing it as just her own trial of life, but she also came to believe that whether you do something ‘bad’ or ‘good’, someone is still being affected negatively, so why does it matter which one you do? Her curiosity coupled with her need to know and learn, lack of social interaction, and moral grayness gave her a rather experimental quality that led her to enjoy watching others going through their own lives as a form of entertainment, or in other words a game. Due to her earlier issues, she still finds it hard to sleep in an actual bed, though she can get through it most nights, and her habit of building with snacks and food still remained, however, she mostly builds things that please her aesthetic sense instead of something to voice her inner pain, and her mental fortitude has created thick enough walls to keep her calm even in the worst of situations. After a few years of training and learning with her teacher, when she turned fifteen, she started noticing changes dealing with her body and outside of it, her reflexes became faster and her body seemed much lighter than normal, often making it seem as if she was floating while she walked because the boards of the floors didn't creak under her weight anymore, and she suddenly appeared more attractive to other kids at her school, despite her not changing anything about her, nature just seemed to be attracted to her, with the occasional bird or squirrel sitting on her windowsill in the mornings, trees and flowers seemed to reach out to her whenever she walked by, and she could hear more and see farther than she could before. One day, one of the kids invited her to a pool party, and she went because it seemed interesting to go to a party, so she got her trainer to take her despite her grandparents misgivings, because they started to notice the changes that were happening to her. When she got there, everything seemed normal and she observed everyone having their fun. When one of the kids asked her to join them in he pool she didn't see much of a problem so she slipped in. When she resurfaced that's when she realized that something was wrong. All of the people were staring at her, both male and female alike, before she knew it, the males in the pool started pulling at her swimsuit, coddling her and touching on her, she fought back despite being outnumbered, but was able to escape out of the pool with the help of some of the girls in the pool and the kids parents who yanked her out before the boys could pull off her one piece, however, the kids father started advancing on her as well and she ended up having to run. Escaping into the house to get her things while the commotion and disarray outside heightened. As she was running out the door, she caught her reflection in the mirror. Her hair seemed longer and wavier, and despite the water she was just in, she was pretty much dry without even using her towel. Her skin seemed clearer, like porcelain, and her eyes, though they looked the same, seemed to just pull you in. The strangest part was that her white one piece, was no longer a one piece, but a white bikini with leggings and an arm bad, which felt more like skin than clothing. It was strange seeing herself like this, so she dug in her bag and yanked on a hoodie before she made her escape and ran back home. When she reluctantly showed herself to her grandparents and told them what happened, they sat her down and finally told her what she was. She wasn't human, like she believed, but a mix between fairy and naiad, or a water maiden. Hearing this, Elfriede called her trainer, whom she told about her situation. Her trainer would come over everyday to join in with her grandparents to help her control her abilities until she was able to create a human shell that shielded her from other people so that they could act normally around her. When she mastered the technique, her grandparents and her trainer announced that they found a new school for her that she could go to after her school year ended at the one she was currently attending. Looking over the information about it made it seem pretty interesting, however, what really pulled her in, was when her grandmother said that people like 'us' go there to learn about ourselves and abilities. Which just happened to be what Elfriede wanted.
Abilities:
Water Affinity:Can breathe underwater and move faster underwater or in rainy conditions. She can also control small amounts, but loses control when it comes to larger amounts, often resulting in someone getting drenched.
Levitation/Floating: Elfriede can float or levitate off the ground, though she is relatively bad at controlling this ability when it's windy or when she's moving too fast or high and has been known to be carried off by the occasional gust while floating around.
Increased Senses: Elfriede has much better hearing and sight than most people, as well as faster reflexes
True Form: In her true form Elfriede gains an enormous boost in sex appeal, from her voice to her body, and can occasionally cause little patches of flowers to pop up when she walks. She is able to create a shell over this form to cover it. She is for some reason always barefoot and half naked in this form, so she carries around a hoodie or jacket.


Extra:
>Elfriede doesn't need glasses, she just wears them to keep strain off of her eyes when she's on the computer, and to hide her baby deer eyes, which she is self conscious of, they always end up missing when she's in her real form
>She has huge stashes of snacks so she almost never runs out
>Her parents were military hackers stationed in a different country, they were eradicated by supernatural nuts who hunted them down and burned their bodies.
>She drops her glasses on the ground about six times a week
>If she were to fall in love with someone, they have to be entertaining at least
>The boots she normally wears make her about 5'1 and some change because she wanted to seem taller so people wouldn't use her head as a arm prop, it doesn't work.
>She is a master at Wing-Chun



Classes:
Year: 3rd

Semester: 1

1st period- Chemistry
2nd period- Oceanography and Water Basics
-lunch-
3rd period- History of Augustine
4th period- Music/Choir
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Semester: 2

1st period- Pre-Calculus
2nd period-Art Basics and Pottery
-lunch-
3rd period-Poetry
4th period- Elemental 101