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Nicknames: If you...
1) are a close friend of hers,
2) are family or
3) need to use her real first name for whatever LEGAL reason (teachers in roll call, for example), she is Esen. She usually introduces herself to strangers in more social situations as Quinn, though - it's a bit more normal sounding than Esen - and will then reveal her true first name when she gets to know you better on the positive end.
((Throughout this profile, 'Esen' is used to refer to the character.))

Gender: Female

Age: 16 17

School: Unaware of the horrors she went through in Barren Pines College, Esen is re-starting from scratch being a sophomore in Crystal Academy with a partial scholarship for the same skills Barren Pines took her for.
Esen dorms at Crystal, but the new cell phone she owns can - and will - ring any time of day, barring school hours. Rica Saylor believed herself underprotective of her daughter, almost not allowing her to dorm at the new school. What would happen there, when at the Winter break museum trip from a time ago, Esen was abducted for her organs?

Birthday: February 13th. Yes, it's the day before Valentine's Day, and that fact gives her mixed feelings: She receives gifts on the 13th, sometimes quite a bit of them, but the one gift she has always thought about around that time of year has never came into existence for her, not even the unrequited sort.

Sign: Aquarius

Blood Type: AB

Gemstone: Agate (Sun Sign Stone for Aquarius)

Fav. Food: Chocolate chip pancakes. The brand of pancake mix and chocolate chips used are very important, though, since she has a medical condition. Due to that, they are rarely made - these two items alone are almost $10, not including taxes.

Hated Food: Anything made with gluten or wheat. Celiac disease ((a.k.a. Celiac Sprue, the medical condition referred to above)) is not fun - she has had to give up many favorite foods due to her diagnosis. Take5 bars aren't made with gluten-free pretzels, unfortunately - they were her most liked candy before the diagnosis, and gluten-free chocolate wafer bars just aren't the same.


Hobbies:
- Geology/Astronomy/General Science Trivia
To be honest, she might know more about the Negaverse Agents' names and Senshi names than most of the actual Negaverse Agents or Senshi would. For example, obsidian - it's not really a mineral, because it lacks crystalline structure. It's more like a piece of volcanic glass. Most people know what a nova is or that the star Polaris is what is called the "North Star," but Mu Cephei, a red supergiant, is about to die, and will eventually become a supernova.
Long story short, Esen is a science geek, who is at her best with astronomy and the Earth sciences.
- Rock collecting
Esen only collected rocks while at Barren Pines; even if she did remember the collecting as a nice pursuit, her collection was left behind when most of her items were packed up post-death and therefore unrecognizable from being burnt or ashed over.
- Some form of RPG or video gaming
While not a really brain-boosting pastime, Esen fancies herself a few video games here and there. Most of them, however, are the type where a bit of strategy will actually help you get further, and not so much the hack-and-slash fighters or mindless FPS genre. (Just don't tell anyone about that DS she plays Pokemon on, or that she has a separate computer desktop just for her MMORPGs and the Sims. Esen doesn't like being pointed out as childish very much.)
- Fantasy and sci-fi media, such as books, television and movies
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." That could be said for some people she'll meet, but even a person who learns how to do at least five new things each day (which is not Esen, although at least learning one a day is cool) needs to relax sometime. That is why Esen indulges herself into video games and the impossible events people can think of making into a story. In this aspect, she's a bit more open-minded at least once.

Virtues:
Efficient -- Esen has entrepreneur parents - Koray Reis, her father (a man of Turkish ethnicity, the one who named her 'Esen,' and is usually out on business), is a freelance professional organizer, sometimes seen on television shows or magazine articles - making it a good thing she didn't start out as Esen Reis. Rica Saylor (who gave her the middle name 'Quinn' as well as her surname) used to dance as a teenager, and, after an injury took her off the stage, now sells dance wear. The two live together above the dance wear store, but never married since A) it could potentially cause too much limelight for their daughter, depending on how famous he would become in the home improvement world, and B) it's not really interesting to them to go to some ceremony just to say 'I love you' in front of many people only there to give you cheesy gifts that you'll never use.
This is significant for Esen in that the responsibilities of being an entrepreneur include hard work and a lot of organization - and regarding her father's career, the responsibilities there are obvious. Her home away from Barren Pines is as organized as it can get. The majority of the place is impeccable, with the worst-sorted being Esen's room. Even then, the room is more organized than that of most teenagers. To a lesser extent, her efficiency skills also work when she's solving problems that do not involve where to put the latest lunar calendar on the desk.

Holds true to beliefs -- Esen, if she really cared to, could probably do well in the field of politics. Some people might think her stubborn, but in reality, she won't often waver from her beliefs and views. If she were to change her mind on something, she's probably thought about it for a good period before doing so. However, this does not always apply to every situation. In an interpersonal aspect, her beliefs can change pretty quickly. She's not the type to backstab, however; she may not seem trustworthy, but Esen can be counted on not to spill secrets or talk behind you without just cause. If one of your parents fell very ill recently and you don't want her to tell anyone, that's okay. If you want to hurt yourself because your parents fell very ill recently, she'll try to be discreet about it, but her mouth will not stay zipped.

Personable -- She is more than willing to get along with people. Of course, they do have to respect her beliefs (to a certain extent) and the fact that she can't eat a lot of food that the majority of the population could otherwise enjoy without ill effects. Esen can seem a bit distant due to her superifical lack of emotion, but she's actually rather warm, compared to your typical scientist stereotype.

Flaws:
'Lack' of positive emotion-- Some of what Esen says has a poker face attached in public areas, usually the positive things. If she is angry or having negative emotion, that usually shows. Neutral emotion - and facial expression - would be her default setting if she were a robot, but if she's in a really good mood, the poker face becomes only subtly cheerier in public. Her voice is not affected, so Esen's physical expressions tend to be misleading from what her voice says. She is not as pessimistic as she seems, she just doesn't want attention overload. Some attention is fine, but before Barren Pines, her happy-go-lucky brainy self was often bullied at worst (for the fact she was often euphoric, with a brain to boot) to shunned at best (most girls thought of her only for the sake of their science grades, and as she was still in the Age of Cooties back then, males who noticed her grades were usually also terrified of cooties) in 'normal' elementary and middle school. Even though she's never been in a 'normal' high school, she figured that masking her emotions was best to prevent the events of the past. In a more private area with few people, she is more emotive.

Argumentative -- To see things happen you'd like, one must state their opinion, although with Esen, she'll put too much of her heart into it at times. Actually, scratch that, she puts too much heart into her normal life too, although she doesn't usually go into an instant outrage. Tell her that the sky is white with blue spots, and she will politely correct you... the first time. If you somehow really think that the clouds are the sky itself and the blue spots are actually clouds, she's all too happy to get into a debate with you over it if she has a different opinion. Much of the time, they are short-lived arguments, but Esen, if she was part of the debate team, would win the award for 'Longest-lived argument.' That said, the Barren Pine Debate Club was always after her - she has been known to snap like this during classes (How about the teaching of Evolution in schools? The teacher would've likely given her extra credit for her impassioned, pro-evolutionary speech, if the guest speaker didn't force the teacher to take disciplinary action, eventually lessened from a day of suspension to an ungraded, non-countable essay on her point of view.), giving her a sort of reputation as being a temperamental brain.

Contradictory -- Once upon a time, Esen was very cheerful, happy-go-lucky, and seemed on top of the world. Childhood naivete was killed a long time ago by bullies and cliques in school, and when that died, so did the majority of her previous attitude, and she became a bit cold. There is still a part inside of Esen, however, that seeks joy, the company of people, the ability to express yourself and trust it won't have a negative outcome. This internal debate is not severe to the point where she would have to attend therapy, but this mindset could be detrimental to any non-business, non-familial relationships. Say Esen was telling you one day that giving her a hug was okay, but the next two days she shies away from such contact, or that she doesn't want to talk in-depth about her past with you, yet tells you about why she hadn't been in regular high school for her freshman year and what caused it. And the positive emotions she hides for her better friends and family? There are certainly no static rules in her head saying that she must show you her feelings.

It happens to appear twice -- the original "disallowed" list is to prevent overlap with the canon senshi, but since the parallel senshi are, well, parallel to the canon senshi, their elements are supposed to have some extent of overlap. All is well. <3