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 Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:07 pm
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NAME ❧__ Tsetsiliya Pavlova
NICKNAMES ❧__ Słoneczka ( "little sun", by her grandmother ), Siliya, Tset, Tsets, Tse, Liya, Setty, etc.
TRUE NAME ❧__ Teseliel
GENDER ❧__ Female
AGE ❧__ Appears 15 ( real age is somewhere in the neighborhood of 130 years )
FACTION / RACE ❧__ Demon ( Południca )
PERSONALITY ❧__ A shy ghoul by nature, Tsetsiliya has begun the long, slow trek towards being proud of who she is. She still struggles with the pressure that her parents lay on her, eager for her to become one of the most popular ghouls in Amityville, active in all of the highest circles, passing all of her classes with flying colors. Tsetsiliya is very aware that she's not living up to her name nor her family pride, but she is trying very hard to surmount her nervous disposition. But years of ingrained habit make that difficult - bullying will do that to you. In this respect, she's a pushover. She is naturally intimidated by larger characters or those with strong personalities, but is drawn to them at the same time. For now, her efforts in trying to become more sociable seem to be working. Where she would have continued to drown in private school, public school has done wonders for her, strengthening both her desire to make her own life choices and her need to connect to others, no matter the race. She still retains clinginess towards friends, especially if the friendship is still solidifying, only because she is overeager. Deep inside, the worry about annoying them gnaws at her, but she's gotten better at pushing that notion away.
While still very stubborn about solving her own problems, Tsetsiliya has eased up in just the slightest since her arrival at Amityville. She has a small clutch of people close to her that she opens up to, but even then she does not divulge all the way. The wall is still too thick and too highly built for that; slowly but surely, however, it is coming down. Social anxieties are still an issue with her, and she is initially shy around newcomers or those who are loud and rowdy, but get her going on a common subject and she will brighten considerably. Granted she won't be the chattiest ghoul in the bunch and will likely apologize for talking too much, but you will have won a brownie point with this poludnica. Any show of emotion gives a glimpse at the ghoul within, rather than what she was taught to present to others, and it is quite a sight to see the normally-controlled poludnica go into a fit of anger. When she is especially intimidated by something, she'll fluster around trying to find a solution, and snap at those who try to fix the issue themself. She's independent and believes that if something is her problem, then it is exclusively hers to deal with - another resulting behavior from bullying. It's probably the only thing she is adamantly stubborn about ( well, that and proving herself ). If anything can be said about her, it is that she is determined to do her best, even if something intimidates her. Tsetsiliya still loves praise and will take any kind of praise she can get, glowing with pride when she does receive it and constantly stumbling over herself to continue to impress. The results can vary from good to horrendous. She also loves wheat and bread ( as well as most other vegetables and fruits, being a staunch vegetarian ), thanks to the natural affinity poludnica have towards grain. Any kind of bread-like product is her favorite treat, and she will consume it shamelessly until every last crumb is gone, although she is working on her control and now shares extras among her friends.
She loves being active and is in constant need of keeping her mind occupied; an idle mind is wasted, she believes. She enjoys taking walks or runs, doing well on a track team, being a fairly decent sprinter ( have to run through those big grain fields, after all! ). She also has a fondness for most any kind of game, and is eager to learn about them - since arriving at Amityville, she has been introduced to video games, and needless to say she her interest is very much piqued. Gardening is her main passion however and the thing that brings her the most happiness - this is probably related to the fact that poludnica tend to hang around grain fields and silos a lot. Despite the pristine condition of her clothing, Tsetsiliya is not afraid to get her dress dirty, and enjoys growing a number of odd plants on her dorm room window sill planter.
WHY AMITYVILLE? ❧__ The fact that she is just not scary enough. Her parents are concerned she is not coming into her abilities fast enough, and hope that by placing her with boas and ghouls her own age, she'll finally grow in a way that Ruining School did not allow. She wants to be scary, she really does! Especially if it'll make her parents not look at her with such disdain. One can expect a hard working student from this timid girl. She aims to please!
NATURAL ABILITY ❧__ Shapeshifting__Tsetsiliya has three main forms: her default form ( which makes her look like a girl of twelve ), a beautiful young woman in her twenties, and an old hag. Normally she sticks in the child form, but any surge of emotion can cause her to shift, depending on the mood. The problem is she has issues reverting to her normal state when in high distress, and certain features will stick on her until she calms down ( such as the hag's nose on a child's face ). As of late, she has gotten better about her control, but there are still problems from time to time, especially in moments of high stress.
FEAR ❧__ High Noon__Poludnica are also known as "noon demons", so it's natural that Tsetsiliya's FEAR would harness the powerful heat of a noontime sun. She has the ability to raise the temperature gradually in a battle, making her opponent lethargic and confused, before the temperature becomes stifling. When raised high enough, the opponent might pass out from disorientation.
All of this is ideally speaking, of course. Just as with her shapeshifting, her heat attack has a long way to go. She cannot properly zone in on a specific target just yet, and as a result the heat can encompass the immediate area around her ( i.e. the entire classroom ), but her range is expected ( hopefully ) to grow with time and practice. It is just as in-tune to her emotions as her shapeshifting is, and when pushed to a certain emotional extreme, it can either fizzle or become an inferno. Paired with her inability to contain it to a certain area, sometimes practice rounds do not end very well. She hasn't quite mastered detaching herself emotionally when it comes to attacking and can be easily overwhelmed or distracted, causing her attack to miss or not work in the first place. Those who are tuned well to heat or fire would be unaffected by the attack.
APPEARANCE ❧__ Tsetsiliya is a traditional ghoul at heart, taking after her grandmother in this respect. For years, she resisted her parents' attempts to modernize her wardrobe and get her to socialize with other ghouls through fashion. Given some time at Amityville, she has finally found the happy medium between "traditional" and "modern", blending the best of both worlds into something she was comfortable with. White and harvest colors remain key colors in most day-to-day outfits she wears, and the golden braided-chain belt with the sickle charm ( her family heirloom ) now rests differently on her hips than it did before, awaiting the new charms she has ordered for it. Her skull-shaped pin is now tacked to her sash, close to the chain belt. Her headscarf now sits a little further back, allowing the world to see her horns now that they have grown a little. This was something done at her cousin's insistence, merely by saying she should be proud of how she has grown.
TRIVIA ❧__
Upsetting Tsetsiliya is easy; making her cry is extremely difficult. Her mother knows how to make it happen, though.
She has a total old hag crush on singer Johnny Crash's music. This is something she also developed thanks to her grandmother.
The reason she wears loose, flowing clothing is mainly because of her shape/ageshifting. Her twenty-something form is very voluptuous.
She may be shy, but she is not whimsical in the least. She's actually quite rational ( breakdowns from traumatic events, however, need not apply ).
Tsetsiliya speaks Polish naturally, along with a smattering of Russian. She struggles with proper common tongue sentence structure.
She has always felt her mother and father were more in love with each other than with her.
Love with the women of her family seems to skip a generation: she gets along best with her grandmother, her mother with her grandmother, etc. |
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:09 pm
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TSETSILIYA'S FAMILY is old money, with a father - Sergei - who was known for terrorizing royalty ( a pride demon who's dwelled in the Russian palaces during the time of the tsars - a fact he is very proud of and apt to bring up in conversation ) and a mother - Katya - who did not discriminate on who she scared ( a poludnica known to haunt areas near the Poland-Russia border, and while much more demure than her husband she is much more demanding from her daughter ). As such, when she was born, her mother insisted that the girl would be schooled in the same proud institution she attended: Madam Morrigan's Ruining School for Ghouls. Needless to say, her parents had doubts about their timid child, who cowered at the overbearing responsibility on her shoulders. Carrying the family name proudly, her race, being a poludnica her parents would be proud of! Being sequestered away and tutored privately kept her from meeting others of her own age group, which perhaps stunted her emotional growth a little, and her parents are likely the ones to blame for her shyness. When she came of proper age, she was ready to be enrolled at Ruining School. Madam Morrigan assured her parents that all would be well ( anything to keep the hefty donation the missus gave yearly ). She would make Tsetsiliya just as frightening a poludnica as her mother was.
Neither parent accounted for bullying, however. Bigger, stronger ghouls latched onto the weak Tsetsiliya and teased her without mercy. Her parents only told her to bear through it, or to channel those feelings into accessing her true potential. But the years passed, and their daughter only receded further into herself. Madam Morrigan insisted that she needed only a little more time, and indeed private lessons were given to the ghoul, but nothing did any good. She was encouraged to divulge the names of the bullies, but the stubborn child would not say a word. It was her problem. The bullying at Madam Morrigan's only worsened, and the timid Tsetsiliya was not coming into her abilities as quickly as either parent would have hoped. In order to strengthen their daughter, they decided to pull her from private school entirely and send her to a public institution. Perhaps this way, she'd finally bring pride to the Pavlov demon family. Perhaps interacting with boils as well as ghouls would trigger a change. Not that Tsetsiliya feels that way. Looking at the Amityville Academy building is enough to make her want to run and hide. She wants to be scary, and she wants her parents to understand that, but a school full of ghouls -and- boils? What if she fails? She's not quite sure she can handle it, but might as well give it a try, right? With parents that have high expectations for her, she finds a steadying point in her grandmother Nadya, who is pretty much the antithesis to their controlling nature. She also spends a good amount of time with a glass of liquor nearby, but that may or may not be relevant. Also well-known in the Pavlov manor are Jozef the head butler ( a leshy ), Sonja the head maid ( a swamp kikimora, Jozef's wife and Katya's personal maid ), and Ursula, a chamber maid ( a vesna and Tsetsiliya's personal maid ).
Tsetsiliya has a large extended family, but her Uncle Feliks ( an ala, which, given the matching of a crop-destroying demon and a poludnica, arguments were common in their home ) and Aunt Halina's family are those most often seen in the main Pavlov manor. Feliks and Halina's son Pawel ( an ala as well, for whom Tsetsiliya's doomed nightshade was named ) was the shepherd to the ghoul's sheep. By this time, he has long since married - an elegant poludnica from another family by the name of Lena. They have since produced two scarelings, a poludnica named Marta ( of equivocal toddler age ) and an ala named Tomasz ( a young boil getting ready to start his middle school days ). |
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:10 pm
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 THE POLUDNICA is a noon demon in Slavic mythology. Referred to as Południca in Polish, Полудница (Poludnica) in Serbian, Polednice in Czech, Poludnica in Slovak, Полудница (Poludnitsa) in Bulgarian, and Полудница (Poludnitsa) in Russian, she can be referred to in English as "Lady Midday".
Poludnica are usually pictured as young women dressed in white that roam field bounds. She assails folk working at noon causing heatstrokes and aches in the neck. Sometimes she even causes madness. She makes herself more evident in the middle of hot summer days, takes the form of whirling dust clouds and carries a scythe or shears, but it's likely that the shears would be of an older style, and not akin to modern scissors. She will stop people in the field to ask them difficult questions or engage them in conversation. If anyone fails to answer a question or tries to change the subject, she will cut off their head or strike them with illness. She may appear as an old hag or beautiful woman, or a 12-year-old girl; and she was useful in scaring children away from valuable crops.
She is only seen on the hottest part of the day and is a personification of a sun-stroke.
Poludnica, in context to the world of Halloween, stay in close social circles with one another, as well as other demons ( although if they had to pick, they generally socialize with other Slavic demons ). Harvest balls are common and often among their societies, and every season a young poludnica has her debut, a grand deghoultant ball is thrown in honor. "The Season," as it is called, is the high point of the year for most of these young ghouls. In Tsetsiliya's case, it's the high point of the year whether she likes it or not. |
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:13 pm
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dislike ~ acquaintance ~ like ~ friend/admiration ~ love/??
_____ALESSA __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is being very nice to me, but she is seeming very shy as well, secretive?
_____ALWINE __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is nice, if being scattered, a little bit. I lend to her my sash since her clothing is ruined in Christmas Town.
_____BARTH __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____He is sluggish, but surprising at times. He is seeming very much popular with girls.
_____BELLADONNA __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is very kind to me and talkative - she is approaching me right away when we meet.
_____CARTHUSIA __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____Very much strong and beautiful - I am being happy to know one like her and hoping to be as confident someday.
_____CHRISTOF __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____He speaks not a lot, but seems very much like me. I am hoping he is doing okay.
_____COLETTE __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is still being very much stoic, in a way, but I am thinking I am seeing a new side to her since Prom. She is very much nice.
_____DANNY __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is.. very much hyper. Her moods are changing very easily. She is introducing me to maceball!
_____GABRIAN __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____He is being very kind to me, and we are.. similar in some ways, I am thinking.
_____HOLLY __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____I am not knowing much about her yet, but she is seeming polite. She is being a friend of West.
_____ICKY __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____I do not like him, not in the very least. He is making me uncomfortable.
_____JARETH __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____He is never knowing that what he has done for me is helping me very much. I am hoping to tell him that someday.
_____JERICHO __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____He is seeming a little rough, but overall he is not so bad. I am forgetting something important, I am feeling ..
_____JOACHIM __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____I am not knowing much of him yet. He is being Taryn's date to Prom - quiet, although not in a rude way.
_____LW __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is very much, how you say, vibrant. Her energy is giving me energy.
_____PETRO __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____A very polite boil who is being a great date to Prom. I am hoping we meet again, as I am wanting to know more of him!
_____RAIN __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is our student council president, and does this well. Very much dependable.
_____REN __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____A very much relaxed, nice boil, who is also enjoying gardening. I am only being sorry I failed him ..
_____RILEY __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____We are not meeting face to face as of yet, but she is seeming nice. She is very much confident? Organized, also.
_____SAVIOR __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is .. very much peculiar. I am not knowing how to describe her, really ..
_____TARYN __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____She is really very sweet, and a nice ghoul. I am hoping we are hanging out again soon!
_____TEMES __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____A very much kind-hearted ghoul, I am thinking she is timid also, a little bit. She is helping me out of a tight spot.
_____WEST __ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂ ❂
_____While he is being rough around the edges, I am thinking he is not as rough as he seems. |
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:14 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:17 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:30 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:32 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:33 pm
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 LUCJA, SABINA, CASIMIR
JERZY, MALINA
LUCJA THE PURPLE FAE DRAGON was found when Tsetsiliya first arrived on campus. She had settled underneath the floorboards of the dorm room and nearly bit her hand when she pulled her out. Now she takes this nippy nature towards any unknown visitors ( re: everyone ). Lucja means "light."
SABINA THE HUMMINGBIRD SPRITE was drawn by Tsetsiliya's window box nursery. This busy-body is noisy and likes being the center of attention at all times. Sabina comes from Sabinus, a group of ancient Halloween citizens whose women, legend says, were able to bring peace between two warring groups.
CASIMIR THE CELESTIAL WOLF was adopted when Shehk posted a Groanspring update about free puppies. Tsetsiliya seized the opportunity immediately - she's never had a dog. Casmir means "keeping the peace."
JERZY THE LUCKY TREAT was sent to her by her grandmother as a cheer-up present. The Treat is a curious, loving minipet who carouses with all of the others Tsetsiliya owns. Jerzy means "earth dweller."
MALINA THE VALENTINES TREAT was sent to her by her grandmother as a cheer-up present. The Treat, compared to Jerzy, is much shyer around the other pets but is more apt to snuggle up with Tsetsiliya. Malina means "raspberry." |
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 7:34 pm
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 YEAR TWO ﹥ ﹥ YEAR THREE
_____0 / 50 points collected
_____One point each for the following :
__________❧ One complete regular roleplay ( 800 words minimum )
__________❧ One full solo roleplay ( 800 words minimum )
__________❧ One GM-modded event with point prizes ( to be linked ), where you included your character
__________❧ One complete classroom roleplay ( 800 words minimum )
__________❧ One complete homework assignment
__________❧ One complete battle, with just rolls
_____Two points each for the following :
__________❧ One complete 'battle' roleplay with filled out roleplay actions
__________❧ Character 'plot assistance' ( i.e. for events )
__________❧ Student is awarded a Pumpkin Seed by staff for outstanding work/achievements
__________❧ One exam
__________❧ One teacher battle
YEAR ONE ﹥ ﹥ YEAR TWO
_____50 / 50 points collected
_____One point each for the following :
__________❧ One piece of fanart drawn by you for anything related to shop ( 05 / 05 ) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
__________❧ One complete regular roleplay ( 800 words minimum ):
_______________❧__ PRP__ A Helping Hand ( + 1 point, 2710 words )
_______________❧__ PRP__ That`s Not A Fire Flower! ( + 1 point, 5083 words )
_______________❧__ PRP__ The Devil is in the Details ( + 1 point, 3599 words )
_______________❧__ ORP__ Spin The Bottle ( + 1 point, 3849 words )
_______________❧__ ORP__ Student Scarentine Auction ( + 1 point, 2035 words )
_______________❧__ ORP__ Student Scarentine Party ( + 1 point, 950 words )
_______________❧__ ORP__ Amityville Prom ( + 1 point, 3584 words )
__________❧ One full solo roleplay ( 800 words minimum ):
_______________❧__ SOLO__ A Red-Letter Occasion ( + 1 point, 984 words )
_______________❧__ SOLO__ Coming Into Your Own ( + 1 point, 879 words )
_______________❧__ SOLO__ The Art of Self-Improvement ( + 1 point, 831 words )
_______________❧__ SOLO__ Interweb Blues ( + 1 point, 816 words )
_______________❧__ SOLO__ A Little Behind ( + 1 point, 832 words )
_______________❧__ SOLO__ The Runt of the Litter ( + 1 point, 952 words )
_______________❧__ SOLO__ The Fall ( + 1 point, 945 words )
__________❧ One GM-modded event with point prizes ( to be linked ), where you included your character:
_______________❧__ Christmas Town event ( + 16 )
_______________❧__ The Island metaplot event ( + 8 )
__________❧ One complete classroom roleplay ( 800 words minimum ):
_______________❧__ ORP__ Botany Basics: Herbs & You ( + 1 )
__________❧ One complete homework assignment:
_______________❧__ ORP__ Literature Homework ( + 1 )
__________❧ One complete battle, with just rolls
__________❧ Five minipets grown to their final stage ( 05 / 05 ) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
_____Two points each for the following :
__________❧ One complete 'battle' roleplay with filled out roleplay actions
__________❧ Character 'plot assistance' ( i.e. for events )
__________❧ Student is awarded a Pumpkin Seed by staff for outstanding work/achievements
__________❧ One exam:
_______________❧__ ORP__ Seal Scavenger Hunt with Prof. Cadmus |
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