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 Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:56 pm
Name: Prala
Race: [leaf-shifter earthling]
Gender: Female
3 Base Traits: [Willful, Energetic, Sincere]
Personality:
[Prala has always been a bit withdrawn from others, even her own kind. She has never grown attached to any one person or let herself get too close to others of her kind for reasons even she herself can not entirely put into words. Prala socializes when the time calls for it, but she still comes off as very distant and uncaring more often than not. Cold, some would call her, heartless even. Others would say she was just incredibly shy. The truth is, no one can say for sure what's going on in the mind of Prala, not even herself.
Because she led a very sheltered childhood, Prala has a whimsical innocence about her and can sometimes comes off as rather naive. She takes great joy in learning new skills and gathering knowledge about the world around her, savoring the freedom and feeling that she is making up for her lost childhood. Prala can be difficult to get to know, not because she's unfriendly, but because she's usually so caught up in whatever has currently caught her interest that she simply won't take the time to slow down and carry out a full conversation, unless the person in question can keep up with her, and I do mean literally. She has a dancer's lithe gracefulness as well as their stamina, easily flitting through the treetops around her new home. This seeming indifference towards casual conversations often makes her come off aloof and unfriendly to those who don't know her well enough to understand her mannerisms. Her deeper nature is one of considerable selflessness and fierce loyalty. Prala, true to her upbringing as a leaf earthling, considers herself a protector of the world around her. Prala believes strongly in the necessity of balance between life and death in the natural world and will react with instant hostility towards anything or anyone she feels is offsetting that balance.
Prala can also be headstrong and uppity to the point of arrogance when it suits her, usually when she wants something taken care of in a hurry so she can get back to business as usual.]
Description:
[Hair: Long (perhaps lower back length), White with some wave to it and loose curls at the bottom, longer in back than in front ([X] [X]) Parted in the center, a braided leather thong helps keep it under control and out of her eyes [X]
Skin: Tan/Sand-colored
Eyes: Slightly overlarge and expressive ice blue eyes, white angled eyebrows
Crystals: light Pink, clusters curl across upper cheekbones and temples [X] with a small, single, teardrop shaped crystal in the center of her chin. Dusting of crystals across her collarbones, outer shoulders (spiky) and hips/lower stomach (wherever else)
Features: Ears are more like a leaf than a shifter earthling, her build is slim and fine boned with noticeable but modest curves. ]
Clothing:
[Prentice:
Thigh high stirrup legwarmers [X] with simple shorts that lace up the sides. A leather bustier [X](doesn't have to lace up)/[X] with buckled leather straps connecting to the legwarmers (to hold them up) [X]/[X] and a loose flowy half shirt with one sleeve [X]. Bare feet. Leather satchel strapped to her thigh [X]
Leather clothing is tan/light brown. Satchel is slightly darker leather for contrast. Any buckles/metal is bronze or gold, cloth is all cream colored.
(clothing coloring is meant to be consistent with that of the shifter tribe as she is living amongst them now)
Other stages clothing will be decided upon arrival and rp! ]
History:
[Prala was born and raised in Yera, Tale. The child of a shifter mother and a leaf father. She grew up in a very sheltered environment. Everything was done for her, even her thinking. She had no original opinions as a child. She was neither creative nor curious as most children are. Her father was a very controlling man by nature, liking all of his ducks in a row. Nothing was to be done with out his consent. Even his "beloved" wife was kept in line at all times. For him, it was a means of protecting himself and his family, for those around him, it was often suffocating.
To say the least, Prala's parents had their differences, although initially very physically attracted to one another, the excitement and allure of their whirlwind romance would not have lasted very long had their tryst not resulted in an unintentional pregnancy. They stayed together for their daughter but they fought constantly about every little decision, often in front of Prala. She was often the subject of their spats. Both thought they knew what was best for her. For her father, it was isolation and for her mother, it was freedom. Unfortunately, her father always won in the end. Prala's mother felt isolated and vulnerable living among the leaf tribesman, uncomfortable asserting herself amongst those who looked and acted so differently than she was used to. She felt alone and voiceless, powerless to stand up on behalf of herself and her daughter against her husbands wishes. The two muddled along, raising their daughter the best they knew how, both ended up taking lovers on the side and generally avoided contact with the other as much as possible, until the day Prala's father died. He had been sick for a long time so his death had not come as a surprise to anyone, but before he left he made one final decision on behalf of his now grown daughter, and arranged to marry her off to his wealthy friend's much older son. Prala's father had intended it as an act of love that would reach beyond his grave, ensuring that his daughter would be taken care of when he was gone, but for his wife and daughter, it was the final betrayal. They played along with the agreement until after his funeral and then fled together back to Prala's mother's homeland of Sol in Juahar, where Prala hopes for a new beginning. ]
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 8:49 am
Alright, thats all I can think of for now, officially LFC!! n_n
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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:28 am
She's very interesting, and I like her a lot already. I just have a few questions. How did somebody who was raised so impartial and sheltered from everything, not curious about anything as a child, become someone so passionately involved in the things she does? How did she make that switch? Was she always curious and wasn't able to do anything about it, or was it just a change in attitude as she grew up? And how did she feel personally as a child when her parents would fight and the family as a whole was so unhappy? How did she deal with the conflict?
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Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:28 am
Thank you! I had a lot of fun piecing her together <3 Suhuba How did somebody who was raised so impartial and sheltered from everything, not curious about anything as a child, become someone so passionately involved in the things she does? How did she make that switch? Was she always curious and wasn't able to do anything about it, or was it just a change in attitude as she grew up? Prala began to lose her childhood passivity when she became a teenager, she never actually acted out against her parents because she felt guilty doing anything to insert more turmoil into their family dynamic than was already present, but she no longer believed that her father was the all knowing, ever wise man that she had once trusted implicitly. She started becoming curious about the things she had missed so far in life and feeling cooped up and resentful of what was essentially her gilded cage. Her mother told her stories of her own childhood when her father wasn't around to stop her and did everything she could to fuel that curiosity and reverse the damage her father had done to her daughter's spirit. By the time Prala reached adulthood, she was still well behaved but bursting at the seams with a desperate thirst for something more out of life. Her father was sick, and although she was sad to think of him dying, a small, guilt ridden part of her mind looked foreword to being able to live her life as she chose without having her father around to disapprove of her choices. When he died she felt a terrible mix of despair and relief that left her emotionally exhausted and bedridden for days after his passing. When she finally began to function again, the arranged marriage was revealed and it was as though her entire future was being crushed before her eyes. She didn't like the man she was to marry. He was almost old enough to be her father himself and he was a vain, incurious, and mean spirited man, often singling out those who were weaker than he. He had put his best foot foreword whenever he was around Prala's father to be able to win her hand, he was a wealthy, seemingly well adjusted man, but the fact that her father had seen fit to make such a personal decision for her finally broke the ties he had forged so carefully to control her all her life. Running away with her mother and settling in an entirely new place has stirred up all this adrenaline and nervous energy that has her hooked. She may settle down into a happy medium as she matures but for now she's entirely caught up in the heady excitement of her freedom and is bound and determined to make the most of it. Suhuba And how did she feel personally as a child when her parents would fight and the family as a whole was so unhappy? How did she deal with the conflict? She would retreat inward. It was one of the reasons she was so quiet and well behaved as a child, it wounded her emotionally to see her parents so unhappy with each other and she took it personally when they would fight about her. She could see they didn't love each other and knew the reason they tried to make it work was because of her. She felt an enormous guilt and sense of responsibility for that. She tried to be as obedient and perfect as possible to make up for what she felt was her debt to her parents for making them so stressed and upset all the time. She didn't want to actively do anything to distress them as, in her eyes, her very existence had caused enough problems and pain as it was. Her parents never thought of her as the problem, they loved her intensely and didn't mean for her to take their fighting so personally, but they never got around to explaining that to Prala, thinking that it was simply something that should be assumed.
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Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:54 am
Alrighty then :] I have no more questions.  Journal
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